Wullie

I feel so relieved I could cry seeing that photo, hope it's as reassuring as it looks.

I feel absolutely shell shocked.

Fucking hell Savage is unbearable

I've got Freuler/Moore card double at 33/1, what the fuck was Turpin playing at there not booking Freuler, Jesus Christ.

Didn't know that, cheers. What a stupid thing to do.

Was out in town last night sitting near Paul Dummett, who looked pretty miserable tbh. What's the story with him, why doesn't he ever get near this Welsh squad? He's more than good enough looking at some of the Luton reserves taking up squad places.

Sick of these snowflakes, offended by everything.

I like betting using bet builders but I expect plenty of low scoring games so it's trickier to create them than normal (well you can, and I will, try unders but it's not that satisfying) so I've made a spreadsheet from the Nations League games with some stats on that you can use on 365, might help some people (@Ben): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fdpTKb-MOoJsRbh0ZNVK4Nq2dGZBmwFXvJHdaK639t0/edit?usp=drivesdk If you open it in Excel/Google Sheets you can sort each column in order. It's only from 6 games each team so not a great sample size but better than nowt. I didn't use the WC qualifiers for extra games as I found e.g. Switzerland having 40 shots vs Liechtenstein was skewing the figures.

Loew is standing down anyway, Hansi Flick's taking over.

Agreed. Don't post it on here. Plenty of other places on the internet to watch nasty far right propaganda.

"International level" is just a meaningless phrase.

The more people boo, the less likely they are to bring it to an end, and rightly so. Fuck giving those Neanderthals any satisfaction.

Wait until he finds out about the views of the Conservative Party.

Saw another stat elsewhere - 46 of the 51 games at the last Euros saw at least 2 cards.

https://makeyourstats.com/blog/euro-2020/ The full list of referees who have been selected (in alphabetical order): Felix Brych (Germany) - 33 Apps / 3.18 Yellow per game / 24.91 Fouls per game Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey) - 31 Apps / 3.42 Yellow per game / 27.39 Fouls per game Carlos Del Cerro Grande (Spain) - 34 Apps / 4.59 Yellow per game / 26.24 Fouls per game Andreas Ekberg (Sweden) - 10 Apps / 3.10 Yellow per game / 24.70 Fouls per game Orel Grinfeeld (Israel) - 9 Apps / 4.22 Yellow per game / 27.89 Fouls per game Ovidiu Alin Hategan (Romania) - 30 Apps / 3.97 Yellow per game / 26.10 Fouls per game (based on 10 apps) Sergei Karasev (Russia) - 25 Apps / 4.84 Yellow per game / 22.75 Fouls per game Istvan Kovacs (Romania) - 32 Apps / 5.15 Yellow per game / 24 Fouls per game (based on 10 apps) Bjorn Kuipers (Netherlands) - 32 Apps / 2.34 Yellow per game / 21.56 Fouls per game Danny Makkelie (Netherlands) - 35 Apps / 3.34 Yellow per game / 23.63 Fouls per game Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz (Spain) - 27 Apps / 4.59 Yellow per game / 25.30 Fouls per game Michael Oliver (England) - 36 Apps / 3.14 Yellow per game / 22.97 Fouls per game Daniele Orsato (Italy) - 23 Apps / 4.65 Yellow per game / 27.78 Fouls per game Artur Manuel Ribeiro Soares Dias (Portugal) - 29 Apps / 4.66 Yellow per game / 27.14 Fouls per game Daniel Siebert (Germany) - 31 Apps / 3.77 Yellow per game / 21.39 Fouls per game Anthony Taylor (England) - 36 Apps / 3.08 Yellow per game / 21.42 Fouls per game Clément Turpin (France) - 27 Apps / 3.11 Yellow per game / 25.59 Fouls per game Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia) - 12 Apps / 3.16 Yellow per game / 25.22 Fouls per game (based on 9 apps) Fernando Rapallini (Argentina) - part of an exchange programme between UEFA and the South American Football Confederation CONMEBOL - 16 Apps / 6.81 Yellow per game / 31.44 Fouls per game * All stats for referees are based on all games from current season (domestic leagues and international competitions).

It couldn't be less intrusive as well. Kneeling down for as long as it takes for the ball to be retrieved to take a throw in. "Booooooo! They're shoving this down my throat!"

Candi Hills must be fucking fuming.

This is just utter bollocks though. Disingenuous crap. Kick It Out have worked with the Premier League since 1993. Here's Shola Ameobi wearing a "political" shirt in the warm up and he's been retired five years. Anti-racism is only "political" if you disagree with it.

The players and Gareth Southgate couldn't have been clearer on what their message stands for, and yet you still deliberately mischaracterise it and complain about millionaire celebrities trying to explain it. "Keep politics out of football!" is such a vapid statement. It means nothing. Sport is expressly political, even moreso at international level. They sing the fucking national anthem before kick off! England fans have been travelling across the world singing "2 World Wars and 1 World Cup" and "No Surrender to the IRA" for the last 40 years, and now these people think football should remain apolitical. Marcus Rashford receives thousands of racist messages every time he puts a shot wide but he's the one forcing his politics on another people. Give me a fucking break. It just translates directly as "Keep the politics I dislike out of football". They/you disagree with their generic anti-racism stance, that's fine, quite grim but whatever. But don't weasely try to dress it up as anything else.

One thing to keep an eye on is that there's an Argentinean ref been invited (I think a Spanish ref is going to do the Copa America, a swap thing) and he averages an incredible 6.81 cards per game. Makes even the Spanish and Italian refs look lenient. Interesting to see how the bookies will price his games up.

What the fuck did I just see?

Couple of hugely concerning warm up performances like. We've been absolutely shit here.