Jordan Gibson and Paul Simpson made it into the team of the week for the whole EFL.
Lets not talk about yesterday’s EFL Trophy game.
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I’ve been watching highlights of some of the MLB playoffs, and I’m convinced the postseason baseballs are juiced again. Ridiculously lopsided scores, 6 runs scored in one inning, 4 homers in one inning…lotsa stuff that’s never happened before.
This is why I keep my boots polished
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Ireland can still qualify, but only if they LOSE against the Netherlands next month! Weird qualifying rules are hard to understand.
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https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/aldine-isd-votes-to-cancel-eminent-domain-plan/
HOUSTON — For months, Travis Upchurch has been fighting to save his family’s land from being taken by Aldine ISD, and on Tuesday he received the victory he’s been longing for.
In a unanimous vote, the school board decided to rescind its plans of using eminent domain to seize Upchurch’s land to build more parking spaces for its football stadium that’s under construction.
Can they be disqualified for throwing the match?
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Yes. FIFA and UEFA already know about that particular tactic.
In the 1994 Caribbean Cup, the tournament organisers implemented a variant of the golden goal rule: the first goal scored in extra-time not only won the match, but was also worth two goals. Barbados needed to win the match by a margin of at least two goals to qualify for the final tournament over Grenada. Barbados led the game 2–0 until Grenada scored at the 83rd minute, bringing the score to 2–1. Barbados then deliberately scored an own goal, tying the game at 2–2, to force extra-time so that they could take advantage of the golden goal rule to achieve their needed two-goal margin.[1] This resulted in an unusual situation: for the last three minutes of the match, Grenada tried to score in both goals. Either outcome (3–2 on points, or 2–3 via goal difference) would have advanced them to the finals, while Barbados had to defend both goals. Ultimately, Barbados was able to prevent Grenada from scoring, forcing extra-time. Barbados then scored the golden goal to win the match.
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Wet difficult to argue that Republic of Ireland 1 threw a match, they are pretty bad.
1 Not Ireland, that’s the name of the country and the name of the various other teams representing the country, but the FAI who run soccer in Ireland are legendarily incompetent and named the team after the British military intelligence advice to the BBC on how to refer to the state they didn’t recognise.
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I forgot that Northern Ireland are technically the successor to the original Irish football team, although both IRL and NIR have played as Ireland over the years.
I’m still very much not amused about this one.
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I’m not a huge fan of American football (handegg), so did not watch all of this, but others might find it interesting, as he deals with some of the problems in the NFL…
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Heh, ‘TU Dortmouth’ …
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It’s not a proper college ball game without Fun Hitler Facts
The guy who was TIME Magazine’s 1938 ‘Man of the Year’? What about him?
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However, by the final round of matches in the mini-league a scenario had emerged where a goalless draw between Stoke City and Burnley at the Victoria Ground would see both clubs promoted to the First Division regardless of the result in the parallel contest between Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers. In effect, the players and officials from both teams recognised that it was in the interest of everyone present in ‘The Potteries’ that day that neither side won the game.
Only 3,000 spectators attended the match and soon after the game had commenced a heavy storm occurred that restricted the quality of play. The Sportsman reported that ‘it was impossible for the men to play well at all … the wind blew strongly, and the ground becoming sodden and slippery frequent mistakes were made’. There were no shots at goal during the first half and there was little to enthuse those in the stands. Although this could be partly blamed on the weather the same excuse could not be used following the change of ends.
Newspaper reports indicate that the weather began to clear during the second period, but neither team appeared interested in attempting to score a goal or produce any form of attacking play. The London Evening Standard noted that ‘the play fell off considerably after the changing of ends, neither side apparently exerting themselves’ whilst the Newcastle Journal commented that ‘play was of a poor description, neither side appearing to show any great keenness [to score]’. The Sheffield Daily Telegraph were much more robust in their description of proceedings:
‘There was evidently no inclination of playing to a definitive issue at Stoke. Reporters combine to describe the game as one of deadly dullness, one in which the players seemed utterly careless as to the scoring of goals. Why should they otherwise? They knew full well that a place in the First Division was certain for next season if no goals were scored … [the] test match became a farce’.
It was also noted that players from both teams resorted to kicking the ball out of play on a regular basis, although this had some unexpected repercussions. Frustrated supporters began to refuse to return any balls that came into the stand, partly as a method of demonstrating their discontent with the game and also to entertain themselves, by hiding them under their coats or throwing them outside the ground. Some reports suggest that one ball was thrown onto the roof of a stand and that another ended in the River Trent whilst up to five different balls had to procured during the contest. However, the actions of supporters did provide one stand-out moment of amusement for onlookers. The Sportsman explains that:
‘During the second half the ball frequently went into touch on the paddock side and some youths kept it to entertain themselves … to prevent them from getting the ball again as it bounced over the touch-line, a policeman on duty and the Stoke trainer rushed for it. The result was that the ball passed between them into the crowd, while the trainer knocked the officer at full length on his back. The incident caused great merryment’.
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So, why is Ted Cruz here on this thread? Read on.
(Note, that regardless of how the Astros fans feel about Cruz jinking their WS hopes, baseball players are even more superstitious… something one can see in dugout behavior game after game after game. Ex: Following a big home run, certain players refusing to move from their lucky spot in the dugout… even down to how they stood at that spot. I wonder what they think of Cruz.)
