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Football 2024 Discussion Thread


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On 1/7/2024 at 2:32 PM, LDOG said:

 

Watch out, it's not just very questionable, it's very very :lol: now i'm convinced, heywoodu. 

In case it matters, I actually am aware of my tendency to overreact quite often in the moment and regret it a few days later :p 

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36 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

In case it matters, I actually am aware of my tendency to overreact quite often in the moment and regret it a few days later :p 

 

I think that's a common feeling in a good number of people. 

 

Sometimes I'm happy the old forum is gone because I'd cringe at anything I posted back then.

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31 minutes ago, LDOG said:

 

I think that's a common feeling in a good number of people. 

 

Sometimes I'm happy the old forum is gone because I'd cringe at anything I posted back then.

Don't they say wisdom comes with age? At least the lack of it still makes me feel young for now I guess :p 

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Former Dynamo Kiev player and Belarus NT coach :BLR Aleksandr Khatskevich became the coach of Polish second-tier Zagłębie Sosnowiec. It so happens they are dead last in the league, eight points off the safe zone ;)  Former BATE sporting director also became a sporting director there. Both are apparently anti-Lukashenka and fled the country some years ago.

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He sent inappropriate messages to women colleagues. Now soccer great Marc Overmars has been banned from world football

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/10/sport/marc-overmars-global-ban-football-intl-spt/index.html

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  • 2 weeks later...

 

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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Classic old school FA Cup upset as non-League Maidstone United beat Ipswich Town, currently challenging for promotion to the Premier League, live on national television.  First non-League team to reach the Fifth Round since the legendary Blyth Spartans in 1978.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68110763

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The super exciting Nations League is back (insert sarcasm emoji). Today is the draw for the 2024-25 edition.

 

Slovakia, who completelly flopped in the previous edition is only in Pot 3 of League C :lol:

 

Remember :SVK is the lowest ranked country to qualify for the EURO and only which ever qualified from pot 5. So yeah you all fellas in League C ! You just been warned ! :p

 

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2 hours ago, hckošice said:

The super exciting Nations League is back (insert sarcasm emoji). Today is the draw for the 2024-25 edition.

 

Slovakia, who completelly flopped in the previous edition is only in Pot 3 of League C :lol:

 

Remember :SVK is the lowest ranked country to qualify for the EURO and only which ever qualified from pot 5. So yeah you all fellas in League C ! You just been warned ! :p

 

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and it´s :SWE :AZE :SVK :EST 

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