maybe_next_year

Why does the lettering on Swansea's socks look like a child wrote it?

And Riviere

Studs up, head hight, red card. don't see how thats a wrong decision.

Funniest thing is that Balliu reportedly had no idea of his Albanian ancestry and was scouted by the Albanian FA, because his surname "sounded Albanian" (his father isn't Albanian as the article says, rather he descends from Albanians) and fast-tracked for citizenship Bloody hell, never thought I'd see someone post a link from the Tirana times on here Albania's scouting system spends a lot of its time looking abroad to find young talent that may have some sort of link to Albania, more in terms of ethnicity than the actual place. Which makes sense given that something stupid like 20% of the country left when communism fell, then you've got all the kosovans (who are ethnically Albanian) who fled that war, so there's a few members of the squad who had never even been to Albania before they got called up, like Xhaka for example. Albanian nationalism is bonkers in general though, for example, Mustafi was all over the news and was celebrated country wide when he posted this picture of himself, the hand gesture is an Albanian nationalistic symbol (double headed eagle), despite the fact he's just won a trophy for Germany and his family is from Macedonia.

Well it was better than ours and thats their whole clubs aim.

He'll be especially dissapointed given that he's moved there for footballing reasons...

He's still obviously a good player, just not fitted to English league. Good signing by them, won't be missed by us.

Love this Mitro is perfectly good back up, hate the fact there seems to be no middle ground with opinions on him. And PartizanFc, good luck for the rest of the season, glad to see you've got a relatively easy draw in the europa league, might try and watch you play Skanderbeu, who you should be beating comfortably... just gotta watch out for drones in the home game

https://twitter.com/eplnews_com/status/901560496976945153

canny

we've lost all sense of positioning since half time.

That was a terrible tackle, what was Shelvey thinking

Terry Hibbert on the wing getting an airing now

Is that a flag with both ours and schalke's badge on it?

"Just seen a video of Darron Gibson staggering about aimlessly with no co-ordination. Not sure why SAFC brought him on with 15 minutes to go."

A midfield without Colback? I'll go Greek at the knees.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Murphy Someone's been editing his wiki

He's not just 'above average' though. He's one of the best no.10s in the league.

What else is he going to say? Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? The lack of signings here so far is really quite atrocious.

Surprised he can see his nob , let alone use it

Yes, if temperatures reach above 32 degrees C then the referee can call them at 30 mins and 75 mins. There was a few during the 2014 World Cup. Cheers. Seems sensible, although 32 seems a very random choice.

So the other day I went to the great spectacle that is the first Europa league qualifying round, UEFA being the incredibly intelligent organisation that they are saw the tie kick off at 5pm, in temperatures way above 30c. About half way through each half the ref stopped the game for a drinks break lasting a few minutes. Are these drinks breaks part of the official rules? Are they a new thing? Don't think I've ever seen one before, presumably the plan is to enforce this rule in Qatar if this a genuine rule?

Is it possible that our transfer kitty is so high it's left the atmosphere?

Colback fucking useless at basic life skills, as well as football.