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The entirety of European football is engaged in a conspiracy to keep Scott McTominay from being the best midfielder in the history of football. And /r/soccer is on it. We still haven't got a replay of his disallowed goal in /new.

True but you’d imagine ward prowse comes in then.

I'd love to see what he can do with the seniors. Some of the football played in the u21 Euros was special.

Get your popcorn out for the Spain - Scotland post match thread

CMV: players like Lukaku and Morata are only successful because we've had an absolute dearth of strikers for their generation.

If they were playing in the 2000s-2010s, there's zero chance they'd have clubs fighting over them.

Scotland not having quality players like Croatia and Uruguay will always remain a mystery to me.

Going invincible is no more impressive than the teams that have scored the most goals in a season or conceded the least in a season. They’re all just trivial achievements. Man City getting 100 points is so much more impressive than just not losing.

Everyone's talking about the next Messi or Ronaldo, I want the next Neymar or Hazard. Extremely talented dribbler, fantastic pace, and an eye for end product. Think the only one that comes close to that is Vinicius. Where are all the exciting wingers? I miss you. Come back. And please, if possible, sign for Manchester United.

Henderson in RCM

Maybe allocate more minutes for teams in comps, or limited to just the league rather than cup comps too.

What are some negatives about a cap on minutes per player even if it's just in domestic football?

Reasons why I think it would be a good idea:
-Player fitness

-Young players and squad players get more game time which is a positive for them (especially for a Bissouma/Conte situation)

-Big teams will rotate more often leading to more opportunities for smaller clubs to cause an upset

There's probably some downsides I can't think of ????

Proud of Scotland tonight. Few things go our way there and we get a better result. Played 6 games, won 5 and performed well in all 6. Mental stuff. Hopefully Haaland does us a favour on Sunday, secures a point for Norway and then we qualify on Sunday + have a chance to win the group. Mon eh fucking Scotland.

I swear people focus way too much on wingers and their decline. Maybe it's selection bias but I'm starting to notice when midfielders decline, THEY FALL OFF CLIFF WITHIN MONTHS. Like I've seen it Matic, Fabinho, Brozovic, and Casemiro. One more they're good and 3 games later they're shit and never recover.

TIL Houssem Aouar is balling for the Algerian NT now

I'm so gutted I can't celebrate us qualifying first.

I personally think the statement from the Premier League is very solid. It acknowledges the sacrifices suffered by Palestinians and Israelis throughout this tragic Shitshow.

How have Gabriel Pirani and Calegari been doing at the MLS?

Far better than any statement our government would come up with, which is depressing.

People are really mad because goal was disallowed for wrong reason. Like it is a dumb mistake, but it doesn't really matter as it would be disallowed anyways. Better than letting goal stand.

Wake up to the beautiful sunlight. Today's the national day of my country.

Enjoy a delicious meal with my family.

Have great time with friends.

Watch as the National Team wins by two goals thanks to the two best strikers on the planet.

Enjoy as the Scottish choke on their own bile (despite being fundamental in the creation of the sport, they don't fully understand the offside rule yet).

What a fabulous day.

Bielsa in the mud? You love to see it.

James Rodriguez with a 2014-2015 throwback performance.

Tears in my eyes!

Yeah there is a chance that would be the case.

I think it would prevent big 250k contracts and a more level wage structure which isn't a massive issue imo, but could mean big teams abroad could offer contracts if it's only a rule in England

Gotta blast propaganda about him being good for five days before hating him again.

Scotland have a good all round time right now don’t get me wrong but since the turn of the 21st century the quality of Scottish player has definitely dropped somewhat.

How do I know for what team I am applying for tickets in the UEFA app? I chose E1 vs E2 but I’ve no clue what that means… any help would be appreciated.

I do love the history lessons that come out in a vibrant match thread.

I didn’t say it wasn’t impressive nor did I say it was easy. But only, City have done more impressive and harder things.

Because like most things everything apart from England and the English is an afterthought in the ‘United’ Kingdom

For the love of fucking god just let have open discussions on this sub

I just remembered about Patrick Schick’s existence, where has he been for the past year? Feel like I haven’t heard anything about him in forever

I hate 1230 kick offs and now they're moving another liverpool game to a 1230 kick off

Why can't other teams get them as regularly as we do, we have 13 more 1230 kick offs than the next two combined over the past season.

Rugby is mostly played by private school kids or in certain areas like the borders. It's not really a detriment to football. Football's problem is primarily a coaching issue which is something that Rugby also suffers from.

James Rodriguez had so much talent to be the clear greatest Colombian footballer of all time, yet his lazy ass makes it so people put Radamel Falcao over him when it shouldn't be like that.

What a waste of talent.

Nah, City's 100 points is much more impressive

In arsenal's invincible season, they only got 90 points. They could afford to go easy in a few games and not risk counters but because points tallies needed are higher nowadays, City need to go for the win a lot more can't really have days off until they've won the league

Honestly the more points the more impressive you are

so apparently Brentford - Arsenal on the 26th November (Saturday) can't be played at 12:30 pm so they'll move Man City - Liverpool to the early kick off

This would mean Liverpool would have the early game away on TNT/BT in all 3 of this season's early kick offs after the intl break

I'm not sure what even would be the conspiracy here, but what exactly is this record?

Do you think that the variety in the Morrocan diaspora is a reason for their success?

Other than Morroco itself, players come from Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Spain. Most other African countries don’t have as great of a reach.

Morata now has 33 goals in 66 games for Spain, that’s honestly a much better ratio than I expected.

It's ridiculous that all home nations games don't have to be shown on Freeview

The Israel/Palestine topic being banned is great. Those threads are pointless and impossible to moderate

I think any team out of the group stage in cup competitions get 0 restrictions on minutes for that competition, and also it shouldn’t be a full season cap I would probably break it up into 2 halves or maybe even quarters like 900 minutes per 12 games for example

There was loads of support for them as well though. With Beckham the Tabloids smelt blood and it was all very one sided.

Before the attack, any thread involving those country is bad enough, imagine how worse it is now that all the attention is back to it. I stayed out of couple other subs that didn't restrict the topic for couple of days just because how insane it has been