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Oh my word, mate. I'll just have a half then.

Drinks on Pilko! What did you have, BTTS/wins?

He litterally gets booked every second game http://i.imgur.com/Jr0ZDLj.jpg When you put it like that. Only 2 in 11 in the league though.

It's pretty damn good actually, 9/2, though he has been keeping his nose a bit cleaner this season.

Ah yeah duh, was already looking at potential bets for tomorrow night when I read that.

Man United Arsenal I'm guessing.

The format's almost identical to the Champions League, it just has far more teams in it. I agree that they should think about ditching the groups, not because there are mismatched games but because you can whittle down the field much faster in a round robin.

It’s pretty obvious isn’t it? Not really. Are you claiming other cup competitions don't have any mismatches? Qarabag played in the CL groups last season and took points off Atletico Madrid home and away. Weird that you think they're enough of a minnow to need their own competition.

How's that any different to any cup competition?

Not still arguing with that geezer on Facebook are you KI?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/oct/03/the-knowledge-players-sent-off

Fair play to those who made sure they were there for kick off and then left early. Takes guts to expose yourself publicly as that much of a complete arsehole.

More Than A Manager is now on UK Netflix.

Eintracht Frankfurt are absolutely ridiculous at the minute.

Near the bottom, 5/1

Very surprised that red card from Saturday has been rescinded. No way is that overturned in the PL.

1-0 Atleti

Like fuck is anyone getting that.

Had the same as Pilko and Montenegro missed a fucking penalty when every other game was already in. I put far too much faith in Brazil in a shitty friendly as well which cost me big time.

The back to back wins have put paid to even the slightest hope of a boycott.

Five

The Swiss lead Belgium 4-2 having been 2-0 down.

Of course it's not.

Saw that stat earlier, certainly did not feel like they had more of the ball. They must have counted the 8 minutes or so when their player was down and they were passing a ball around. I'm sure I read on here that possession is measured by how many passes are made by each team rather than time in possession of the ball, which seems a weird metric. So I wouldn't say it's massively indicative of actual possession of the ball, it just means we made less passes in our possession. Yeah I read that too, but when I've checked it on Flashscores during a game it didn't seem to match up. From Flashscores now, total passes 827, 322 is 39% of that. Weird, maybe when it's live the data comes through at different rates. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/nov/11/manchester-city-david-silva-sergio-aguero-manchester-united It seems to be done on total passes rather than completed passes, don't ask me why. It's definitely done that way though, a guy from Opta was on the Totally Football Show.

Zidane, like many older players, probably benefits from most people not being able to watch every second of his career, like they do with Messi and Ronaldo. Maybe he was sensational every week against Valladolid and Piacenza, but since he only won three league titles and one European trophy in ten years with Real Madrid and Juventus, I have my doubts. Consistency counts.