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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/13/2018 5:11:10 PM

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Thank goodness that's over for another year (bar a very brief return when we stink the place out in Russia).... I hate football......

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/13/2018 5:50:19 PM

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I hate football......

Braintree aimed for a mid-table position...

Finished 6th...

... reaching the promotion play-offs...

... 17 points behind the 2nd placed team... (well... 16 points adrift but we had a point deducted because the FA are morons)...

... condemned to play all their games away from home...

... reached the final...

... played out their skin to get a 1-1 draw after extra time ...

... and then won it on penalties...

I hate football too ....

It's a funny old game....

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PS. Just imagine being a Chelmsford City supporter.

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/14/2018 1:08:41 PM

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Braintree aimed for a mid-table position

I don't know who these braintree guys you're always talking about are but I'm pretty sure they are no match for the mighty FC Ulaanbaatar.

https://youtu.be/FN7X9xHVTh0

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/15/2018 11:26:00 AM

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Braintree aimed for a mid-table position

I don't know who these braintree guys you're always talking about are but I'm pretty sure they are no match for the mighty FC Ulaanbaatar.

https://youtu.be/FN7X9xHVTh0

I wonder if we could arrange a pre-season friendly...

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/15/2018 6:35:30 PM

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I wonder if we could arrange a pre-season friendly...

It depends. Your pre-season is their almost end of the season [winter in Mongolia is from september

to may]. Players sipping caipirinhas vs a team at its peak. Now if you could get them during their pre-season (sipping kumis), your players at their peak (march / april) you might stand a chance.

Or not

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/15/2018 8:50:11 PM

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Kids playing pool in an Ulaanbaatar street. One of them, a Bar�a fan apparently. Photo taken by me in 2009, at the glorious peak of Guardiola's (El Baldie or Fraudiola to some funny people) Barcelona.

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/15/2018 8:57:40 PM

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Miss Mongolia. Not sure who won...

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/16/2018 9:23:15 AM

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I wonder if we could arrange a pre-season friendly...

...winter in Mongolia is from september to may].

Same as Braintree then...

Cool photos...

Best wishes,
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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/16/2018 12:15:11 PM

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I wonder if we could arrange a pre-season friendly...

...winter in Mongolia is from september to may].

Same as Braintree then...

Er, no, not even close

Winter in let's say Moscow starts in december. In Siberian Irkutsk in october. South of the Baikal you've got the high Mongolian plateau, even colder than northern Irkutsk. We're talking about normal - 30, - 35... -40 Celsius

Your island has got a nice shield ie the Gulf Stream = no real winters. Suffice to say there may be sub-tropical trees in Scotland.

Unless Braintree is somewhere in Canada, then I stand corrected.

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/16/2018 1:22:58 PM

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Look below 3 different photos taken at different places in Ulaanbaatar. No manhole cover

I could have thought this is an "accident" or that they were fixing the sewers or whatever. But I knew orphan, abandoned kids live below ground (from a sad Japanese documentary I had seen before), in the sewers. Sleeping outside is obviously a certain death

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/21/2018 3:04:42 PM

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Football is a fun game. And the ball is round. And yet a small thing can change my mood entirely.

Life is grand today.

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 2:13:50 PM

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Well...

It's time for the European Champions League Final.

Predictions anyone?

Best wishes,
Steve

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 2:29:23 PM

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Well...

It's time for the European Champions League Final.

Predictions anyone?

Best wishes,
Steve

Absolutely no idea. I hope herr Klopp's men bag the title but who knows.

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 2:35:31 PM

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Well...

It's time for the European Champions League Final.

Predictions anyone?

Best wishes,
Steve

warspite1

Simple.

I want Real Madrid to win so put all your money on Liverpool

I want Fulham to win so its welcome back to the Premiership Aston Villa

I really hate this stoopid game

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 3:50:27 PM

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Well...

It's time for the European Champions League Final.

Predictions anyone?

Best wishes,
Steve

I want neither team to win.

But, currently, I want RM to lose more than I want the opposition to lose.

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 4:00:33 PM

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Football is apparently unpredictable.

Best wishes,

Steve

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 4:10:42 PM

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Football is apparently unpredictable.

Best wishes,

Steve

And your prediction?

A final = anything is possible. Liverpool should know this better than anyone.

On paper, RM should bag it, but what RM will we see this evening? What Liverpool? The one that trashed City or the one that struggled (draws) with many minor sides?

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 4:18:37 PM

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Championship Play Off Final

Wembley

Aston Villa v Fulham

Winner will pocket at least �160m...

Fulham get the game under way.

Fulham have most of the early possession.

Chester booked for a foul on Mitrovic�.

15 minutes gone and still waiting for a shot on goal.

23 minutes GOAL!

Aston Villa 0 Fulham 1 Tom Cairney.

Fulham dominating possession.

Half Time: Aston Villa 0 Fulham 1.

Second Half: No changes for either team.

Many Villa fans are hoping that their team can't be as bad in second half as they were in the first.

Villa starting to get into the game and look much brighter in the early part of the second half.

The Villa fans are happier.

61 minutes... Bettinelli saves from a Grealish shot. That's the first shot on target from Villa.

Villa pressing for an equalizer.

70 minutes: Second yellow and a Red card for Fulham's Odoi...

Johansen off and Norwood on for Fulham...

78 minutes: Fulham: Kamara off for Kalas... Villa: Almohamady off for Kodjia and Jedinak off for Onomah, Hogan for Hourihane.

10 minutes to go...

Fulham Christie replaces Fredricks...

Fulham sitting very deep...

5 minutes plus stoppage time left... The Villa fans in the stands look desperate. The Fulham faithful don't know whether to sing or bite their nails. Some are trying both!

90 minutes are up, there will be 5 minutes of added time....

And Fulham are promoted to the promissed land.... The general consensus was they derseved it with the best chances 11 v 11 and handled Villa well when down to 10 men.

Congratulations to Fulham.

Best wishes,
Steve

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 4:19:56 PM

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Football is apparently unpredictable.

Best wishes,

Steve

And your prediction?

A final = anything is possible. Liverpool should know this better than anyone.

On paper, RM should bag it, but what RM will we see this evening? What Liverpool? The one that trashed City or the one that struggled (draws) with many minor sides?

Football is apparently unpredictable.

Best wishes,
Steve

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 6:03:53 PM

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FULHAM!!!!!!!!!

Come on you Cottagers!!!

Football - the beautiful game

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 6:56:00 PM

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More than �160m for winning the Championship Play Off Final ?!

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 6:57:57 PM

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Football - the beautiful game

I wish I could agree with you. And for a while today I actually thought so. But 15 minutes and 3 allowed goals and my sentiment changed. Football, is dumb.

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/26/2018 10:20:25 PM

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New Goalkeeper and some more depth in the squad please...

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/27/2018 4:43:16 AM

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Definitely a new goalkeeper

I hope they are on the phone to Roma already for another one of their players.

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/27/2018 5:40:49 AM

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More than �160m for winning the Championship Play Off Final ?!

warspite1

That's not a cash prize to the winner - they are talking about the money involved in the Premiership.

Now, no real interest in the League 1 play-off (although probably want Rotherham slightly more) BUT the big one on Monday:

Come on you Grecians!!!!!

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/27/2018 6:44:24 AM

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More than �160m for winning the Championship Play Off Final ?!

warspite1

That's not a cash prize to the winner - they are talking about the money involved in the Premiership.

Thank you.

Still, that is a scary amount of money. Might cause some people to go bananas and destroy a team.

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/27/2018 7:20:14 AM

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New Goalkeeper and some more depth in the squad please...

Since I am not allowed to speak about bought players, and foul play, I will refrain from doing so.

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RE: All things Football (soccer) related - 5/28/2018 3:19:02 PM

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More than �160m for winning the Championship Play Off Final ?!

warspite1

That's not a cash prize to the winner - they are talking about the money involved in the Premiership.

Now, no real interest in the League 1 play-off (although probably want Rotherham slightly more) BUT the big one on Monday:

Come on you Grecians!!!!!