| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... 16:56 - Feb 12 with 5741 views | Philothesuperhoop |
...because I can see us dropping drop three or four places tomorrow as Forest, Huddersfield and Coventry could all get results that push them above us!
Then it is very likely that we will lose to Brentford next Wednesday, with another tricky fixture against Bournemouth to come.
After those two games we could be right back in trouble...but nothing much will have changed.
So please remember how we are feeling now as I don't think I can stand another round of "Warbs out" and "we are doomed" posts. Let's see where we are after the Preston and Birmingham games?!
Just saying, we are a very fickle bunch. |  | | |  |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:39 - Feb 12 with 3102 views | PinnerPaul |
That's what I posted on the 60 points thread!
Well the first bit in any case. |  | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:41 - Feb 12 with 3095 views | Northernr |
Called this on the 60 Points thread. Didn't particularly fancy us to win tomorrow, Brentford and Bournemouth obviously tough. Really looking forward to saying hello to some old friends on here over the next week or so. |  | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:46 - Feb 12 with 3077 views | Superhoop83 |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:41 - Feb 12 by Northernr |
Called this on the 60 Points thread. Didn't particularly fancy us to win tomorrow, Brentford and Bournemouth obviously tough. Really looking forward to saying hello to some old friends on here over the next week or so. |
I think you may be pleasantly surprised over the coming week or so.
Then again, that could well be the first Friday beer talking... |  |
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| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:48 - Feb 12 with 3069 views | PinnerPaul |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:41 - Feb 12 by Northernr |
Called this on the 60 Points thread. Didn't particularly fancy us to win tomorrow, Brentford and Bournemouth obviously tough. Really looking forward to saying hello to some old friends on here over the next week or so. |
Interesting listening to Paul Warne on their offy.
Shares the same 'confusion' as us, and evidently many others, at being both 6 points away from a decent position and the bottom 3.
Key is how clubs cope with the inevitable bad runs - or even just the 1/2 points from 3/4 games runs, which most have. | | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 18:43 - Feb 12 with 3016 views | Paddyhoops |
Regardless of what happens tomorrow. We will still be 4 clear of the bottom three.
I expect us to put up a decent show against Brentford and Bournemouth.
Defence wise we're in a much better place and with more options in midfield plus King Charles up front I expect us to get 20 points on board before the end of the season.
We don't deserve to survive if we can't manage that!! | | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 20:31 - Feb 12 with 2910 views | Myke |
I Know the game tomorrow is off now, but I had factored in just one point (at Preston) from the next four games. Obviously our position was going to deteriorate in that scenario, but we then have a run of very winnable games, which will lift us well clear. As the original post says, keep calm, keep the faith and we'll be grand | | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 09:08 - Feb 13 with 2783 views | stevec |
Glass half full/empty test...
Bournemouth to beat Forest, us a point above Forest with two games in hand
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Forest to beat Bournemouth, us twelve points behind Bournemouth with two games in hand ? |  | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 10:22 - Feb 13 with 2706 views | R_from_afar |
I just checked the weather forecast and it said there is a good chance of a massive sh1tstorm breaking out over blue and white hooped parts of the country in the early evening  |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 11:00 - Feb 13 with 2676 views | enfieldargh |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 09:08 - Feb 13 by stevec |
Glass half full/empty test...
Bournemouth to beat Forest, us a point above Forest with two games in hand
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Forest to beat Bournemouth, us twelve points behind Bournemouth with two games in hand ? |
Florists and FC Rednapp could draw?
Then we be neither up nor down |  |
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| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:08 - Feb 13 with 2550 views | terryb |
Just dropped the one place with Forest going above us on goal difference. We do have two games in hand on them though! Cardiff are now seventh, just seven points above us & also have played two more.
Not a bad day's work with Brum, Coventry & Huddersfield all losing. | | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:33 - Feb 13 with 2466 views | ManinBlack |
I would have preferred Luton and Millwall drawing today to keep them in range for potentially overhauling. The higher we can get the better. |  | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:35 - Feb 13 with 2455 views | paulparker |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:33 - Feb 13 by ManinBlack |
I would have preferred Luton and Millwall drawing today to keep them in range for potentially overhauling. The higher we can get the better. |
Barnsley could get caught up in it also |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
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| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:42 - Feb 13 with 2424 views | TGRRRSSS |
Overall a decent set of results for us, no perfect but better than you'd hope for. |  | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 18:14 - Feb 13 with 2349 views | Boston |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 17:42 - Feb 13 by TGRRRSSS |
Overall a decent set of results for us, no perfect but better than you'd hope for. |
Bloody happy with those results myself. | |
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| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 19:14 - Feb 13 with 2253 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Cracking day for the R's. |  |
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| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 19:43 - Feb 13 with 2199 views | Northernr |
Well I sat through three games today, Forest v Bournemouth, Brum v Luton and Derby v Boro.
The big thing for me, apart from most of the results going as we'd have liked, is just what a rotten league this is this year. We've still got to play five of those teams, we're playing two of them imminently, and they were all varying degrees of fcking dreadful today.
Forest, we are still to visit, are a depressing watch. They're basically trying to draw their way out of it. It's like watching Geoffrey Boycott on a flat track on a baking hot day, three days into a five day test. Straight bat, get past that, zero ambition, zero creativity, zero fcks given about what you might think watching them. Bournemouth, today, a perfect opponent. Ambling through the motions, disillusioned and distinterested. David Brooks came on for the last 25 minutes and honestly if there's anybody less interested in what they're doing with their life than he is with his atm anywhere in this country I'll be amazed. They, and he, will of course suddenly break free of the mental shackles and let rip on us next week but if they play like they played today we'll beat them. Bournemouth were there for the taking, Forest were delighted with their 0-0. They made zero subs out of five. Loyal Taylor and Lewis Grabban, £50k a week between them, unused subs, giggling and fcking about in the main stand.
Derby actually started well. They, unusually under Rooney, suddenly started all their strikers - CKR, Waghorn and Gregory - rather than one up front and really rather went for Boro to start with. That seemed to catch Boro completely unawares, which is fair enough even the Derby accounts I follow weren't expecting it. They were 2-0 up early off a very clever corner routine, and a piledriver from Richards. These were the only two moments of genuine quality I saw all day across three games. Boro got one back against the run of play before half time and the second half descended into an arm wrestle on a dreadful pitch.
None of it, but none of it, was as bad as Birmingham. My fcking God. One win in 13 for them now. They conceded a Sunday League goal off a long throw, a trick they almost repeated in the second half, and never looked like doing anything other than see out a 1-0 defeat from the moment it went in. Collins and KDH were good for Luton as they often are, and they won far more comfortably than the scoreline suggests. If I didn't know better I'd say Birmingham were actually happy to protect their one goal defeat. They didn't pose a single goal threat all afternoon, which is just as well because whenever he had to field a tame long ranger of a speculative cross that clown Sluga needed two attempts at it every time. If karanka is still in charge when we get there next week I'll be very surprised, and again I think we'll go there and win if that is the case.
Every team I watched today looked tired. I wonder how much of our recent uptick has actually been caused by the three postponements giving us decent gaps between games - of course this could come back to haunt us with a crowded fixture list later. The three pitches the games were played on were in varying degrees of disrepair. It looks and feels like three quarters of the division is just in the mode of getting through this season without any big disasters, getting away for the summer and forgetting all about it. Some - Huddersfield, Bristol City, Birmingham - seem to have just clocked off altogether.
Every post match interview was the same, talking about consistency and blaming referees and moaning about fixtures and trotting out trite nonsense about 'going again' and 'looking for a response'.
There's plenty here for us if we can keep stringing results together. Cardiff, six defeats in a row when we won there, have now won three in a week and are seventh!
Just such a dreadful league though. Basics. Things like ball control, completing passes, showing ambition in attack. Awful, awful football across all three games. I actually feel pretty good about us tonight, we're better than every team I've watched today.
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| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 19:52 - Feb 13 with 2171 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 19:43 - Feb 13 by Northernr |
Well I sat through three games today, Forest v Bournemouth, Brum v Luton and Derby v Boro.
The big thing for me, apart from most of the results going as we'd have liked, is just what a rotten league this is this year. We've still got to play five of those teams, we're playing two of them imminently, and they were all varying degrees of fcking dreadful today.
Forest, we are still to visit, are a depressing watch. They're basically trying to draw their way out of it. It's like watching Geoffrey Boycott on a flat track on a baking hot day, three days into a five day test. Straight bat, get past that, zero ambition, zero creativity, zero fcks given about what you might think watching them. Bournemouth, today, a perfect opponent. Ambling through the motions, disillusioned and distinterested. David Brooks came on for the last 25 minutes and honestly if there's anybody less interested in what they're doing with their life than he is with his atm anywhere in this country I'll be amazed. They, and he, will of course suddenly break free of the mental shackles and let rip on us next week but if they play like they played today we'll beat them. Bournemouth were there for the taking, Forest were delighted with their 0-0. They made zero subs out of five. Loyal Taylor and Lewis Grabban, £50k a week between them, unused subs, giggling and fcking about in the main stand.
Derby actually started well. They, unusually under Rooney, suddenly started all their strikers - CKR, Waghorn and Gregory - rather than one up front and really rather went for Boro to start with. That seemed to catch Boro completely unawares, which is fair enough even the Derby accounts I follow weren't expecting it. They were 2-0 up early off a very clever corner routine, and a piledriver from Richards. These were the only two moments of genuine quality I saw all day across three games. Boro got one back against the run of play before half time and the second half descended into an arm wrestle on a dreadful pitch.
None of it, but none of it, was as bad as Birmingham. My fcking God. One win in 13 for them now. They conceded a Sunday League goal off a long throw, a trick they almost repeated in the second half, and never looked like doing anything other than see out a 1-0 defeat from the moment it went in. Collins and KDH were good for Luton as they often are, and they won far more comfortably than the scoreline suggests. If I didn't know better I'd say Birmingham were actually happy to protect their one goal defeat. They didn't pose a single goal threat all afternoon, which is just as well because whenever he had to field a tame long ranger of a speculative cross that clown Sluga needed two attempts at it every time. If karanka is still in charge when we get there next week I'll be very surprised, and again I think we'll go there and win if that is the case.
Every team I watched today looked tired. I wonder how much of our recent uptick has actually been caused by the three postponements giving us decent gaps between games - of course this could come back to haunt us with a crowded fixture list later. The three pitches the games were played on were in varying degrees of disrepair. It looks and feels like three quarters of the division is just in the mode of getting through this season without any big disasters, getting away for the summer and forgetting all about it. Some - Huddersfield, Bristol City, Birmingham - seem to have just clocked off altogether.
Every post match interview was the same, talking about consistency and blaming referees and moaning about fixtures and trotting out trite nonsense about 'going again' and 'looking for a response'.
There's plenty here for us if we can keep stringing results together. Cardiff, six defeats in a row when we won there, have now won three in a week and are seventh!
Just such a dreadful league though. Basics. Things like ball control, completing passes, showing ambition in attack. Awful, awful football across all three games. I actually feel pretty good about us tonight, we're better than every team I've watched today.
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I swear Birmingham have been on a run of one win in 19, no goals scored at home for 12 hours etc. for the last five years. | | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 20:16 - Feb 13 with 2109 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 19:52 - Feb 13 by Watford_Ranger |
I swear Birmingham have been on a run of one win in 19, no goals scored at home for 12 hours etc. for the last five years. |
I have no idea what freakish change of the footballing laws or the laws of nature has resulted in Brum not being relegated in the last few years. | |
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| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 20:19 - Feb 13 with 2107 views | MoonshineSteve |
Da-da da-da-da Dah ... HOOPS! |  |
| I am still Steve but no longer in Dagenham. |
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| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 20:57 - Feb 13 with 2039 views | Myke |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 19:43 - Feb 13 by Northernr |
Well I sat through three games today, Forest v Bournemouth, Brum v Luton and Derby v Boro.
The big thing for me, apart from most of the results going as we'd have liked, is just what a rotten league this is this year. We've still got to play five of those teams, we're playing two of them imminently, and they were all varying degrees of fcking dreadful today.
Forest, we are still to visit, are a depressing watch. They're basically trying to draw their way out of it. It's like watching Geoffrey Boycott on a flat track on a baking hot day, three days into a five day test. Straight bat, get past that, zero ambition, zero creativity, zero fcks given about what you might think watching them. Bournemouth, today, a perfect opponent. Ambling through the motions, disillusioned and distinterested. David Brooks came on for the last 25 minutes and honestly if there's anybody less interested in what they're doing with their life than he is with his atm anywhere in this country I'll be amazed. They, and he, will of course suddenly break free of the mental shackles and let rip on us next week but if they play like they played today we'll beat them. Bournemouth were there for the taking, Forest were delighted with their 0-0. They made zero subs out of five. Loyal Taylor and Lewis Grabban, £50k a week between them, unused subs, giggling and fcking about in the main stand.
Derby actually started well. They, unusually under Rooney, suddenly started all their strikers - CKR, Waghorn and Gregory - rather than one up front and really rather went for Boro to start with. That seemed to catch Boro completely unawares, which is fair enough even the Derby accounts I follow weren't expecting it. They were 2-0 up early off a very clever corner routine, and a piledriver from Richards. These were the only two moments of genuine quality I saw all day across three games. Boro got one back against the run of play before half time and the second half descended into an arm wrestle on a dreadful pitch.
None of it, but none of it, was as bad as Birmingham. My fcking God. One win in 13 for them now. They conceded a Sunday League goal off a long throw, a trick they almost repeated in the second half, and never looked like doing anything other than see out a 1-0 defeat from the moment it went in. Collins and KDH were good for Luton as they often are, and they won far more comfortably than the scoreline suggests. If I didn't know better I'd say Birmingham were actually happy to protect their one goal defeat. They didn't pose a single goal threat all afternoon, which is just as well because whenever he had to field a tame long ranger of a speculative cross that clown Sluga needed two attempts at it every time. If karanka is still in charge when we get there next week I'll be very surprised, and again I think we'll go there and win if that is the case.
Every team I watched today looked tired. I wonder how much of our recent uptick has actually been caused by the three postponements giving us decent gaps between games - of course this could come back to haunt us with a crowded fixture list later. The three pitches the games were played on were in varying degrees of disrepair. It looks and feels like three quarters of the division is just in the mode of getting through this season without any big disasters, getting away for the summer and forgetting all about it. Some - Huddersfield, Bristol City, Birmingham - seem to have just clocked off altogether.
Every post match interview was the same, talking about consistency and blaming referees and moaning about fixtures and trotting out trite nonsense about 'going again' and 'looking for a response'.
There's plenty here for us if we can keep stringing results together. Cardiff, six defeats in a row when we won there, have now won three in a week and are seventh!
Just such a dreadful league though. Basics. Things like ball control, completing passes, showing ambition in attack. Awful, awful football across all three games. I actually feel pretty good about us tonight, we're better than every team I've watched today.
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It is without doubt one of the worst ever Championship standards ever, which if one was a pessimist, would make our '16th' position seem even more depressing. But trust me, you don't want to get promoted this year. Only Brentford, after years of careful management, will have any chance of surviving next year.
Despite many clubs being on abysmal runs (Huddersfield/Bristol City/Birmingham etc), for the most part, managers are not going to be sacked for a number of reasons.
(A) Many clubs just going through the motions
(B) Too expensive to pay lump-sum compensation
(C) A genuine understanding of the ridiculous circumstances managers are working in
'Big' clubs like Derby, NF and SW had to, to ensure they maintained Championship status and 'Wealthy' clubs like Bournemouth and Watford all did, but apart from that, who has? Cardiff? For the most part people just want to write off the whole sorry mess and press the 'reset' button in September.
* You can be sure now that Bristol City/Huddersfield/Birmingham will all have new manager bounce by the time we play them. | | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 21:05 - Feb 13 with 2022 views | TacticalR |
Three reports in one there from Northernr.
'If I didn't know better I'd say Birmingham were actually happy to protect their one goal defeat.' 
Btw, I always get a little bit nervous when we start agreeing how terrible all the other teams are. |  |
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| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 21:10 - Feb 13 with 2015 views | terryb |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 19:43 - Feb 13 by Northernr |
Well I sat through three games today, Forest v Bournemouth, Brum v Luton and Derby v Boro.
The big thing for me, apart from most of the results going as we'd have liked, is just what a rotten league this is this year. We've still got to play five of those teams, we're playing two of them imminently, and they were all varying degrees of fcking dreadful today.
Forest, we are still to visit, are a depressing watch. They're basically trying to draw their way out of it. It's like watching Geoffrey Boycott on a flat track on a baking hot day, three days into a five day test. Straight bat, get past that, zero ambition, zero creativity, zero fcks given about what you might think watching them. Bournemouth, today, a perfect opponent. Ambling through the motions, disillusioned and distinterested. David Brooks came on for the last 25 minutes and honestly if there's anybody less interested in what they're doing with their life than he is with his atm anywhere in this country I'll be amazed. They, and he, will of course suddenly break free of the mental shackles and let rip on us next week but if they play like they played today we'll beat them. Bournemouth were there for the taking, Forest were delighted with their 0-0. They made zero subs out of five. Loyal Taylor and Lewis Grabban, £50k a week between them, unused subs, giggling and fcking about in the main stand.
Derby actually started well. They, unusually under Rooney, suddenly started all their strikers - CKR, Waghorn and Gregory - rather than one up front and really rather went for Boro to start with. That seemed to catch Boro completely unawares, which is fair enough even the Derby accounts I follow weren't expecting it. They were 2-0 up early off a very clever corner routine, and a piledriver from Richards. These were the only two moments of genuine quality I saw all day across three games. Boro got one back against the run of play before half time and the second half descended into an arm wrestle on a dreadful pitch.
None of it, but none of it, was as bad as Birmingham. My fcking God. One win in 13 for them now. They conceded a Sunday League goal off a long throw, a trick they almost repeated in the second half, and never looked like doing anything other than see out a 1-0 defeat from the moment it went in. Collins and KDH were good for Luton as they often are, and they won far more comfortably than the scoreline suggests. If I didn't know better I'd say Birmingham were actually happy to protect their one goal defeat. They didn't pose a single goal threat all afternoon, which is just as well because whenever he had to field a tame long ranger of a speculative cross that clown Sluga needed two attempts at it every time. If karanka is still in charge when we get there next week I'll be very surprised, and again I think we'll go there and win if that is the case.
Every team I watched today looked tired. I wonder how much of our recent uptick has actually been caused by the three postponements giving us decent gaps between games - of course this could come back to haunt us with a crowded fixture list later. The three pitches the games were played on were in varying degrees of disrepair. It looks and feels like three quarters of the division is just in the mode of getting through this season without any big disasters, getting away for the summer and forgetting all about it. Some - Huddersfield, Bristol City, Birmingham - seem to have just clocked off altogether.
Every post match interview was the same, talking about consistency and blaming referees and moaning about fixtures and trotting out trite nonsense about 'going again' and 'looking for a response'.
There's plenty here for us if we can keep stringing results together. Cardiff, six defeats in a row when we won there, have now won three in a week and are seventh!
Just such a dreadful league though. Basics. Things like ball control, completing passes, showing ambition in attack. Awful, awful football across all three games. I actually feel pretty good about us tonight, we're better than every team I've watched today.
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Surely Forest can't be that bad. I recall quite a few posters on this site informing us that they would make the play offs when Hughton was employed as manager!
Seriously, I'm sure their cast of thousands care even less about Forest than our mercenaries did for us between 2011 & 2016.
Mind you, I can't imagine what pocessed you to pay to watch Birmingham play Luton! | | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 21:44 - Feb 13 with 1957 views | Northernr |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 21:10 - Feb 13 by terryb |
Surely Forest can't be that bad. I recall quite a few posters on this site informing us that they would make the play offs when Hughton was employed as manager!
Seriously, I'm sure their cast of thousands care even less about Forest than our mercenaries did for us between 2011 & 2016.
Mind you, I can't imagine what pocessed you to pay to watch Birmingham play Luton! |
Well I don’t think you can write about it unless you watch it so I try and do as much Championship as I can, and we’ve got Birmingham shortly so it felt like an obvious pick.
Also I stuck Soccer Saturday on after the Forest game and candleface was on so I quickly shelled out £20 to make sure I had other things to watch instead. | | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 21:50 - Feb 13 with 1939 views | terryb |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 21:44 - Feb 13 by Northernr |
Well I don’t think you can write about it unless you watch it so I try and do as much Championship as I can, and we’ve got Birmingham shortly so it felt like an obvious pick.
Also I stuck Soccer Saturday on after the Forest game and candleface was on so I quickly shelled out £20 to make sure I had other things to watch instead. |
I heard his voice when my wife flicked over to Soccer Saturday & was mightily relieved that I was playing Bridge online! She did know better than to leave him on in the background though!
I did watch a few minutes of the Friday night game & can report that Preston are still far better playing away from home! Their record between home & away is quite exceptional! | | | |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 22:05 - Feb 13 with 1914 views | Northernr |
| Please remember how positive everyone is feeling now.... on 21:50 - Feb 13 by terryb |
I heard his voice when my wife flicked over to Soccer Saturday & was mightily relieved that I was playing Bridge online! She did know better than to leave him on in the background though!
I did watch a few minutes of the Friday night game & can report that Preston are still far better playing away from home! Their record between home & away is quite exceptional! |
That’s no surprise watching them, but I do find it weird that teams are still playing home and away games like they’re home and away games even though there’s no fcker there. | | | |
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