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Recent content by speirz

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    **Official** English Football Season 2025/26

    Oh I'm sure he'd love to, and if things are going alright in the league they're definitely a good shout. They'll cruise into the knockout stages for sure, but I can't see him abandoning the league to focus on Europe like Postecoglu did with Spurs. I think in general they'll have a little dip...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2025/26

    I think Grealish fully reviving his career might be a stretch. I doubt he ever ends up back at a Champions League club, but he'll still have moments of great quality and people will wonder how he's ended up where he has. And then he'll get injured at Christmas and we won't see him play 90...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2025/26

    Fair points, it may just be because the rights over here are now with a new broadcaster and the amount of advertising vs analysis/replays across the whole coverage has increased significantly. It's only a small thing but at 2 or 3 in the morning it definitely feels like a harder watch when...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2025/26

    I was about to agree but then realised the alternative is likely more advertisements, so it's slightly better than that for me. Will arguably be more interesting if they happen in games where one side is getting battered or if something controversial has actually happened in the first half, but...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2025/26

    Former part-owner of Palace (he sold his share after the UEFA deadline) also owns a significant chunk of Lyon, and they both qualified for the Europa League. Lyon finished higher in their league so they get the Europa League spot, Palace go into the Conference. General idea behind the rule being...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I get it to an extent if it's a club that has a particular political or religious stance or something like that, but even then I think it's only something for fans of that club to protect if they feel like it's a key part of the identity of the team they associate with. Like if a St. Pauli fan...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    If you've spent your life deciding how much you can care about something based on how far it is from where you were born or where you live then I feel sorry for you.
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    2026 World Cup Qualifiers

    Europe just needs to restructure their qualifiers IMO. If sides like San Marino, Lichtenstein etc. from Europe were in qualifying anywhere else but South America they'd be knocking each other out first rather than heading straight into groups with qualifying spots on offer. Something I've just...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I know it's not quite the point you're making, but I'd be interested to know which Liverpool player has won the most Premier League titles. Sterling? Milner? Or someone I'm forgetting altogether?
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    To me those irrelevant games seem to be a largely European problem though, rather than a global one. It's why I asked the initial question in the first place of what people would prefer to see over the Nations League, because these breaks and windows look to be set in stone so that every other...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I think it'd be 10x more though if their European team mates weren't playing at all in that same break though. The pressure is certainly there, especially on African and Asian players every time their continental competitions roll around in January and fall outside the windows, but I fear it'd...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Perfectly fine with that as well, but it just feels odd to have a rest period for the Europeans while everyone else flies to all parts of the world and back to play a couple of games. I feel like the result would be you'd have even more pressure on those non-European players from their clubs to...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Genuine question, what would those of you who don't care for the Nations League rather have in it's place for European countries in those international windows? More Euros and World Cup qualifiers? A straight cup style competition? Or back to the days of friendly matches so teams can experiment...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Yeah that similar incident with Joao Pedro came to my mind immediately as well, although was it from a throw rather than a free kick? Not that it matters a great deal. That said, I've never particularly been fond of the idea that just because a referee makes a ruling earlier in the game that is...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    They've started trialling this in the A-League already, if it's anything like most VAR implementation and changes they’ve trialled here you'll see it in the big leagues in a couple of years.
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