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remember when their reserves got to the dutch cup semi finals when kluivert , van der sar ? , seedorf and them were all kids. [o maybe it was a few years later] pretty weird. although i *know* some eastern euro league had a reserve team win the league in front of the first team at least once. but i forget when where and who. and i'm pretty sure west ham played against (and beat) a team's Bteam in europe (probably in the cup winners cup, but maybe uefa cup) Steau Bucarest (the armys team) cannot play in the top flight anymore but that Commercial team with the now funny fcsb name does. because i think state owned teams are now forbidden from it (like in spain) so be even rarer now, even though its only happened about 3 times before. half remembered facts, i'll have to check.

theyve got some kinda 'no relegation' from the 2nd division rule in at the mo (a la gartside), so if it falls to pieces they probably cant do a Wolves.

who sent the first email about it ? wheres the video ?

"human resources dept drama"

yeah, not getting involved at all seems the winning strategy. "womans footballs on" "best turn it off before we get arrested"

if they pick the camo one the newspapers can use- "The White Death" or "SBS - Special Bolton Service" when we win. "Heroes of Television" if we are on sky.

blue shoulders suits it better if theyre going after the normid away look.

the red one doesnt need the white shoulder pads

lol at the camo one with the sponsor. think the viet cong used it

looks like digital camo for artic or alpine missions. dunno if itll make the eyes sken and result in missplaced passes and the like.. but it looks less like a team with a striped or hooped jersey intentionally going after that "at least the numbers are visible" look teams like sheffield wednesday sometimes do (eg, i dont think southamptons current home kit is striped). so i dunno, maybe that one for fashion reasons, but the hooped one for anti-strabismus reasons.

the League Cup is sponsored by that bootleg RedBull pop.

ooof, i think they might be able sign players for big money to fix that. i think.

the irish radio one dj presents countdown now as well. this always makes me laugh from a football tv theme music eye. even though its not from a football show.

pretty sure oliver bierhoff scored against us when with ascoli . bet thats lost too. ... i still cant believe the james trafford penalty save. serves that diving cheating flat bread eating bastard right. yeah !

fucking wow

that were fucking amazing

haha. "corrupt money ? in my football ? its more likely than you think"

i forgot this, but they (afcb) got bought a bit back by the dude that owns the las vegas ice hockey nhl team and iirc they got to the stanley cup in their first season, and they won it last week about 7 years after being formed. think its one of the quickest new team to champions runs in established sport. the arizona diamondbacks baseball team did it faster iirc. dunno what it means for these, but in a way abramovich did it like that too. i think because its soccer itll be harder to do. you can see newcastle NOT doing it (winning the league), like how Fulham didnt.

i still cant get over this.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournemouth_F.C. makes it seem like some kinda fall out or breakaway that never really happened.

he were probably just "ok" , but he won 10 games.. bournemouth afc remind me a bit of watford with their chopping and changing. eventually they might get stuck were they dont wanna be.

look at italian serie b "if the third placed team is fourteen points infront of 4th place the playoffs are abandoned and the third placed team is automatically promoted"

think the italian leagues do it, they probably have two 'rounds' of them anyway, but they forgo at least some of them if points gaps become overly big.

in some countries , they modify or abandon the play offs if some team finishes far in front of the rest of chasing pack. for instance notts county wouldve been automatically promoted. or sheff wednesday wouldve got a bye to the final or summat.

yeah.

this might keep him sweet.