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It aint that hard, just a case of guessing loads of clubs from Germany, Italy, France, Spain, USA, Ireland and then knowing a load of recent ones

Got to be called up when playing for said club, I think.

Brits abroad http://www.sporcle.com/games/Cestrian/adventurous_brits Got 40

New San Mames looks great, has it retained the atmosphere of the old one?

How good is Aymeric Laporte VI? Also, is he Basque or are Bilbao stretching their rules?

I got 167.

That is a recipe for disaster

http://www.sporcle.com/games/pbysr/starting11 This ones good as well.

182 on dat quiz Sporcle

It's a shite crop definitely compared to 10 years ago.

Thiago Silva Kompany Chiellini Hummels Then struggling, maybe Ramos.

Klose breaking Ronaldo's record

I'd have given poor odds like.

Owt to do with having B teams in the regular football pyramid though. B teams are really a great platform to give young players experience at a professional level, and big and small teams have benefited from them alike. In Spain it sorta works (I would bar them from playing in our Second Division though), because of our football pyramid being an actual pyramid, so Segunda B is made up of 80 teams and B teams end up being a small % of the division. I believe it would be a terrible idea in England as eventually a bunch of B teams would take spots at the top of the Football League. In Spain, B teams emerged naturally as initially they were just regular teams with whom the "A" teams entered loaning agreements with. It's at least in part to do with having B teams in the regular football pyramid (although individual TV contracts are a more obvious factor). B teams are a good platform to give young players professional football...of course they are, but the teams that benefit are the ones they play for. The bigger sides. If a big team can keep all those players and give them regular football then that gives them an advantage - an inequality - over a team that does not have that opportunity. You can't pretend otherwise. With no B teams many of those players would be getting games for other teams. It might well result in better training for more youngsters and a better national team - that's what you'd expect at least. We just have to decide whether it's a price worth paying. I don't think it is. Even if this is the case, it's obviously not the most crucial factor behind Spain and Germany being better than England. Clearly the number and quality of coaches at grassroots level is far more important.

Aye I was referring to the level of support and quality of the clubs more than anything. The football was still a very watchable standard, from both sides. Xisco was still awful.

I was at Barca B vs Cordoba at the weekend VI, a Barca socio let us in and we went and sat in the away end It was great fun but the Segunda simply doesn't compare to the Championship and nor do the rest of the lower leagues in Spain to ours. Spain is a nation of glory hunters basically.

Exactly this, there really is zero positives and a raft of negatives.

Not planning on selling mine anyway tbh.

There's so many things wrong with it I don't even know where to start, like.

Probably a big enough thing to be worthy of discussion. Personally I think it's an abhorrent idea but I'd be interested if anybody actually agrees with it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27327502

Arsenal should be trying to keep him, few better RBs out there imo.

I don't respect the decision like, absolute cunts move. Still a big fan of Costa though, blokes off his nut. Great fun to watch.

It's a phenomenal call like, absolutely spot and never once breaks stride.

Gutted he's left out Lucas tbqh. Hope somebody gets injured.