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Such a weird world we live in these days when Tom Brady, David Beckham, Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds are in the stands to watch Birmingham - Wrexham play out a League One fixture

Newly dubbed "Hollywood Derby" (Brady vs McElhenney/Reynolds) tonight, Wrexham 4.20 to win - I'll have some of that, hoyed £60 on it.

Barnes

Broken nose apparently.

The Swedish press should be ashamed of themselves, they created absolute chaos during Svennis' funeral to get pictures/comments from David Beckham during the procession to the degree his lifeguards had to physically push photographers and journalists away. It was a fucking funeral, have some fucking respect for those there to say their goodbyes, Beckham included. Sure, mob up on him like the celebrity obsessed fucktards you are at any other point in time during his stay in Sweden, but during the fucking funeral?! The press absolutely disgusts me at times.

Who else do you mean should have won that? As much as they're degenerate scum, the guy was the only manager with a perfect win record for that period Pardew will forever be a self-serving soy boy beta cuck, but one can't argue with his Manager of the Year award given our final position on the table when taking into account we were odds on to be relegated before the season and our shit-to-mediocre resources and squad compared to other teams.

£475, but not the same days so probably the explanation for the £10 difference.

Only $9 more per night according to hotels.com, might take your word for it and get to booking

Motel One Newcastle or The Grainger Hotel? Prices are identical so would love to hear some thoughts on which is better.

According to HITC you mean, there's nothing about that in the Norwegian media at all.

I hate that IFAB removed the chance to see a player perform a seal dribble again when they altered the laws of the game before the 2019/20 season, making them a yellow/red card offense by labeling the act as "playing in a dangerous manner" Halcyon Days

I might not have bothered to stay on here if it wasn't for the constant shenanigans happening in chat, the football section has been a dire place for almost all the 18 years I've been a member on here. Been some great times taking place in football as well though, but the total amount of greatness vs total amount of anguish is so big it's almost unfathomable

The following book is apparently going to get released in English sometime over the next few months: The title is "Let the Right Ones in" and chronicles how Bodø/Glimt went from being bailed out by the city government to avoid insolvency and ceasing to exist - to completely re-structuring how to run the club, implement a club-specific footballing philosophy and to only hire staff that would continually develop and follow the new ethos of the club. Today, Bodø/Glimt is in a league of it's own in the Norwegian league, never plays dull football and has done so well in European competetions that Norway for the first time since the 00/01 season has two CL spots (for 25/56), which means that Norway is guaranteed a team in the CL starting that season. That team will be Bodø/Glimt, as it should be, given how they currently have a 10 point lead at the top of the table with nine games to go.

Whilst I know that as an NUFC supporter I'm supposed to hate the guy with intense passion due to that tackle, I'm also a Norwegian, which means I can't help defending the fact that OGS isn't a bad manager. He's perhaps not an elite manager capable of managing a massive club in a massive league, but the job he did completely restructuring Molde from the bottom up to take them to their first league title in their history and to perform well in Europe is just something that can't be denied was well done. Especially if you look at how Molde, whilst still one of the "big" teams in Norway, have started to fall apart, season by season, after he left them. Now, if Molde's decline comes as a result of OGS leaving them or Kjetil Knudsen re-inventing the way a football club is meant to be run up in Bodø is another discussion entirely

Norway is playing Austria in the Nations League today and Ralf Ragnick, now manager of Austria, was asked how he thought his words when he left Man United had aged: "This club doesn't need cosmetic surgery, it needs open heart surgery." to which he replied: "If you take a look the state that club is in today, even just compared to when I left it, would you say I was incorrect? No, you wouldn't. I was hired in an attempt by the club ownership to paper over the cracks, and I followed a more competent and knowledgeable football manager than the one they hired to follow me." Love me a bit of snark

To be fair, the fact a lot of professional athletes put on a ton of weight after they retire is actually something that makes a bit of sense. When they were full time professional athletes, their daily intake of calories will have been a fair bit higher than the average, which over the course of a full career you'd imagine would turn into both a habit and a way of life. Then, almost overnight, they're now no longer following the same daily schedule and diet they'd been following pretty much every day the past 15-20 years. Whilst I have no problem believing a person who've dedicated up to two decades of their life to their athletic craft would, in most cases, feel a newfound sense of freedom in their lives and therefore not have too many issues with having called it quits - I have a much harder time believing they can completely alter their lifestyle and diet overnight, meaning they'll most likely end up taking in a similar amount of calories that they did when they were a professional athlete. Don't have to be a math genius to understand that an equation where the calorie intake remain at a similar level as it's always been minus the training routine of a professional athlete eventually will equal the person starting to gain weight That said, I feel ex-footballers that'd been out of the public eye for a while after retiring proceeding to turn up again as a fat mess used to be much more prevalent a decade or so ago, which if I'm correct is a good thing for everyone involved. Seeing someone like Wayne Rooney having lost his way physically that bad after just a few years as a retired footballer in the 2020s actually annoys me, as even just 10-20 years ago nutritional science was a completely different ballgame than it is today - as well as how even mediocre footballers will have made more than enough money during their career to pay a private trainer and/or nutritionist to assist them during the transitionary period from full-time athlete to "normal" person.

7 caps away from becoming the all-time most capped player for the Faraoe Islands, he'll manage that as he's apparently "only" 33 years old (feels like a lifetime ago since he was on our books). Him and his 10 year younger brother, Andrias, are (if I'm not mistaken) the most recent addition to the fun fact statistic/pub quiz question for "brothers who've represented their national team together".

"The official announcement of Mauricio Pochettino is expected within the next 48 hours" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13821765/us-soccer-mauricio-pochettino-coach.html Meanwhile, in England: "England's new interim manager says he won't be singing national anthem before Republic of Ireland clash"

Love these, thanks for keeping up with making (and posting) them!

N-O's Halcyon Days

I'm in unfathomable horrid physical shape these days, but if I manage to find some not abhorrently priced plane tickets and/or hotel, I'll try to make it over and likely give the worst five minute on-field cameo to ever grace this cup