Victor

Yes I do. I want the Champions League to be about more than the same 3-4 clubs every year.

The Bosman ruling affects teams across all of Europe since it effectively allows players to move freely and negotiate on their own terms, not the clubs'. It was the EU which decided the old way was undemocratic and impeded freedom of movement. Equally, so did the old limitations where I believe 3 non-native players could be on the pitch at the same time for a club. Football today, where any big club (Real, Bayern, Juventus, anyone in PL) has only a handful of Spanish, Germany, Italian, English players at best, let alone their starting XI, is largely the result of that EU ruling.

Tragic. I presume the Simtop was also the home of all those MSN conversations?

Scotland's not that big. UK has always been split into two. You have the professionals in finance, accounting, marketing, IT, whatever other lucrative jobs there are, probably well educated (graduates or at least 13 years in school), who read quality news, actually understand politics even if they don't partake, etc etc. Then you have the mob - the racist uneducated racist fucktard alcoholics who live off benefits and complain about immigrants stealing their jobs they never would have applied for. If in the past the working class actually you know, worked, these days half of them don't since most warehouse and factory and whatever else jobs are taken by Poles, Romanians, anyone who actually puts effort in. As for the English mob, well, anyone watch Kingsman? They reside in the neighborhoods that the main character got out of. Even if you're a decent human being you'll struggle to get out of that environment its a vicious cycle. And if they read anything, it's the Sun, Star, Daily Mail, all these attention grabbing racist, mysoginistic, right-wing tabloids. The divide has always been clear but I was hoping most of the retards wouldn't vote (I knew the old people would come in their droves, they've got nothing better to do but wish for the good ol days before the EU). Turns out there's enough of them and here we are. I'm an EU citizen in the UK so do I really want to stay now? Not particularly. I've long had thoughts of moving elsewhere in Europe and learning a new language and I think that will be accelerated now. There's dumb people everywhere but I've traveled a lot and didn't just stick to the tourist attractions but I've never seen such a clear divide as in the UK. Or England to be more specific, Scotland actually is more European too.

Happy trails Hans!

That one meant so much to me.

Close enough.

Pound is still worth more than euro and dollar. Will have to pay more for players but that doesn't seem to be an issue. We won't see effects for at least two years. Watford point is accurate, I imagine the Pozzi model won't work as effectively outside the EU (they own Udinese and Granada too who do the same thing). Even though Watford is lucrative to them I imagine they might invest more again in the other two since they simply won't be able to buy so many players from so many different nationalities. I know in Italy there are only two non-EU slots per club. I don't know if that's the same elsewhere but if that had to be applied to all non-UK then that would be a dramatic change for sure. Probably not though, I imagine UK and EU will still be closer than UK or EU and everyone else. That is, until the EU collapses. Now if this leads to the end of the EU that would change a lot. The Bosman ruling is basically the result of the EU, if that went football would (probably for the better) step back into the 90s. Maybe.

Draper is a pussy

I'm not arguing that, I'm arguing the plausibility of that in the eyes of the rest of the north.

Happy that Toronto is closer to facing NY in first round. Less happy that NY will still make it to the conference final.

Doing that Wingate thing of almost shutouts but it could be worse.

We used to have a thread but it's not really spoilery any more. In fact, this is kinda what does the show spoil in the books thread. That's something which I've been thinking about this season. So how far do you guys think Season 6 has deviated from what GRRM will eventually publish? I think some elements will be very similar to the books, namely how Hodor died, the siege of Meereen (more drawn out but resolved by dragons). I don't think Dany will make a deal with Victarion though like she did with the Greyjoys in the show. I think Winterfell will go very differently in the books though. No Sansa and I suspect Jon won't get out of the Watch so easily ("oh I died so I'm free of my vows" "Proof?" "uhhhhh"). Ramsay still kills Roose which confirms northern lords' revolt? Stannis wins? I think that's quite likely. I also wonder what certain deaths/omissions mean to the book storylines. Are Griff and Stoneheart not important? Does Blackfish do anything after getting out of Riverrun? Is Davos' quest to find Rickon unsuccessful? And finally (well, not really, but for this post anyway), does Benjen come back in the books or was that just fan service?

Great team to demolish

you trippin

To be fair Portugal have three semifinals in the last four Euros. Including a final.

Yay we beat em

Only a special type of person commishes a sim league. VHLM included.

Actually agree with Jason's predictions for a change. Except hopefully France lose in the semis. David, Croatia are probably the 3rd best team I've watched so far. And they beat one of the ones I thought was top two. I think they might just win it noe, provided Portugal don't finally wake up.

There is no paranoia, only slight work.

I just keep it in my bookmarks on Chrome. Always there on the left.

Yes, please start COL G against Quebec. Quebec and STHS don't hold hands, that's gay.

thank fuck it was QUE G

This is not the one.