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Sevco held to a 0-0 at Livi If you get a chance have a look at the Livi Goalies save from a free kick with about 5 mins to go. Wondering it he ended up losing some teeth in the aftermath

The Bundesliga champions head into the match as favourites after smashing Chelsea, but Vidal was quick to point out that he believes Barca are the best team in the world and can cause Hansi Flick's side problems. "I heard something but did not pay much attention, I know the Bayern players and what is being said outside is not what they think, tomorrow they are not playing against the Bundesliga teams but against Barcelona, the best team in the world," Vidal said. "I understand the fans' doubt, in the league we did not reflect our level and that is why we lost, but we have Leo and other great players, that is why I say that we are the best team in the world and tomorrow we want to show it. "I don't know if I deserve to be a starter, I think we all want to play and it is the coach who must choose who starts." On Bayern, Vidal added: "They are champions in the Bundesliga and won the Cup but we are Barcelona and if we do what we know how to do, we will surely progress, we will try to leave everything on the field."

Very enjoyable evening of champions league football Vidal's words coming back to haunt him

When did hibs become the yardstick to beat McInnes over the head with?

Macclesfield relegated and Stevenage back in league 2 after the EFL win their appeal. I wouldnt be surprised if Macclesfield went the same way as Bury now.

What, like last time?

Is it a case of thinking its sensible to store the equivalent of 500 Oklahoma city bombs (minimum) in a single place in your captital city, or that the sort of people who seem to run so many countries round the world are so stupid they just heard it refered to as an ingredient in fertiliser and thought it was something you could buy in sacks at your local garden centre, or just saw it would be expensive to shift so belittled/ discredited any 'experts' who told them it was a disaster waiting to happen and went back to lining their pockets? Anyone who thinks something like that couldnt happen in the UK

Sumgayit CC: 3.750 Lokomotiv Plovdiv CC: 3.475 Slavia Sofia CC: 3.475 Botoșani CC: 3.340 Piast Gliwice CC: 3.325 Cracovia CC: 3.325 FCI Levadia CC: 3.250 Hibernians CC: 3.250 DAC Dunajská Streda CC: 3.175 Ružomberok CC: 3.175 Žilina CC: 3.175 Winners of match involving La Fiorita CC: 3.000 Željezničar CC: 3.000 Laçi CC: 2.750 Mura CC: 2.600 Puskás Akadémia CC: 2.575 Winners of match involving Tre Penne CC: 2.250 Winners of match involving NSÍ Runavík CC: 2.250 Saburtalo Tbilisi CC: 2.000 Winners of match involving HB Tórshavn CC: 2.000 Shkupi CC: 2.000 Petrocub Hîncești CC: 2.000 Winners of match involving Engordany CC: 2.000 Differdange 03 CC: 1.600 Union Titus Pétange CC: 1.600 Kauno Žalgiris CC: 1.575 RFS CC: 1.525 Shirak CC: 1.525 Valmiera CC: 1.525 Noah CC: 1.525 Teuta CC: 1.475 Renova CC: 1.475 Borac Banja Luka CC: 1.375 Sfântul Gheorghe CC: 1.350 Dinamo-Auto CC: 1.350 Derry City CC: 1.340 Bohemians CC: 1.340 Inter Turku CC: 1.300 Ilves CC: 1.300 Honka CC: 1.300 Breiðablik CC: 1.250 Bala Town CC: 1.250 Dinamo Batumi CC: 1.150 Sirens CC: 1.150 Locomotive Tbilisi CC: 1.150 Víkingur Reykjavík CC: 1.075 Paide Linnameeskond CC: 0.875 For the games marked as 'winners of these are the potential opponents from the prelim round Seeded teams: Lincoln Red Imps CC: 5.250 FC Santa Coloma CC: 4.500 B36 Tórshavn CC: 3.750 La Fiorita CC: 3.000 Tre Penne CC: 2.250 NSÍ Runavík CC: 2.250 HB Tórshavn CC: 2.000 Engordany CC: 2.000 Unseeded teams: St Joseph's CC: 1.750 Prishtina CC: 1.750 Zeta CC: 1.250 Coleraine CC: 1.250 Barry Town United CC: 1.000 Glentoran CC: 0.975 Iskra Danilovgrad CC: 0.875 Gjilani CC: 0.800

Statement from the players involved just read out on sportsound Jonny Hayes, Dylan McGeoch, Bruce Anderson, Scott McKenna, Craig Bryson, Matty Kennedy, Sam Cosgrove, Michael Devlin

I think this has to be looked at from a 'common sense' point of view I am working from home because my employer has deemed it is safer than having everyone back in the office. Site visits are restricted and risk assessed and any meetings with Clients are done over skype etc Technology allows me to do this. On the front line of my industry, building sites are (or at least are meant to be) restricted to specific numbers of workers with strict protocols, and given so many people in the construction trade are self employed it is in their interest to minimise their risk of catching the virus as if they do get it, they wont be allowed anywhere near a building site, so will lose their income, and potentially even lose their subcontractor role. The phrase 'don't fuck with your livelihood' springs to mind. Professional footballers much like construction workers, can't work from home and to allow to them to continue working there are specific protocols they have to follow to prevent them spreading the virus not just amongst their colleagues but also against others they come into contact with IE opposition players & club officials. Its not a coincidence only the SPL has been allowed to start again. For all we know both players in question could have actually caught it from a neighbour, a relative or even a trip to the supermarket which can be classed as 'acceptable risks' and given the clubs apparent testing protocol they would have just been told to go home on the assumption the only time they had been near a fellow player was at the Sevco match and/or training ground. However they chose to go to a packed city centre pub where social distancing was effectivelly impossible especially given their local celebrity status, eveyone's friend alcohol and how shocking their performance was against the clubs biggest rivals (angry fans wanting a word). That is not an acceptable risk and as I see it could potentially be argued constitutes gross professional misconduct. I seriously doubt my employer would accept it if 7 colleagues and I all went out boozing, caught the virus and couldn't to our job for 14 days, embarassed the company, inconvenienced clients and so on. They might not be able to sack us all but it would certainly be an official warning and should redundancies be required our names would move to the top of the list.

Wolves just been hit with a sanction from UEFA for breaching the Financial Fair Pay rules Should they win the Europa League they will only be allowed to register 23 players for their champions league games instead of 25. Have also agreed to some sort of 'break even' financial thing which I personally don't understand. Seems a fairly typical limp wristed response from UEFA

The question I have is at what point in your life are stupid actions not excused by your age? I personally will give most people under 20 a break as I did some fairly stupid things back then but when it came to work (even temp summer jobs) I never did anything that would potentially jeopardise my employment or risk fines to my employer. Several teachers I know use the phrase 'Children being raised by children' which some will assume is just about teenage pregancy but mostly it is about dealing with parents who are supposed to be old enough to know better but don't see the fact they have created a life as a reason for them to starting taking responsibility for their own actions, or that of their own kids. It may not happen now but should Covid 19 eventually becomes something the human race just has to deal with like the winter flu season, will it perhaps become grounds for dismisal if it is found you deliberetly exposed yourself to an environment where the virus was active, and then passed it onto several of your colleagues, thereby putting your employer at risk?

I'm actuallly interested now Out Probably stuck knee deep in Autocad See above maybe out for a run 0-0 (its a St Johnstone game after all)

It seems to me that Brentford suffered the Arsene Wenger Arsenal curse of thinking you had to pass the ball into the net. Got a soft spot for them so have watched a few of their games since the season restarted and tonight,as with the Barnsley game which cost them automatic promotion in the first place, it was genuinelly frustrating that not one of their players ever seemed to get 25 yards from goal and just think 'fuck it, I'm hitting this as hard as possible' Fulham's second goal was even more sickening when they showed Brentford's strikers how it was meant to be done. Would have been nice to have someone different from the usual shower in the joke league. Might even have made time to occasionally watch match of the day again.

Question for those who were actively interested/ involved during the Ferguson era. When Ferguson turned up was there any press/ rumours that whilst he had taken the Aberdeen job his dream was to manage another one, and everytime that particular club were looking for a new manager, he was linked to the point it was assumed he just biding his time at the Dons? My impressions of Ferguson was that once he got his teeth into a team his only goal was to make them the best and speculation about him moving to Liverpool, Manchester United, Sevco or anyone weren't an issue. I know this was a different time ie no social media, 24hr news and it was even difficult on occasions for National UK press to get a story from far flung corners of Scotland. Now jump forward to 2 of our last 3 managers Mark McGhee I can't say I was enamoured with his appointment at the time but there were a fair few people salivating at the prospect for his Gothenburg connection, his performance at Motherwell or whatever. My expectations were lowered further when it was made clear he really wanted the celtic job and the dons were effectively the booby prize, perhaps just something for him to pick up a wage until Tony Mowbray was punted. Derek McInnes After the Mark McGhee fiasco I kept an open mind about his appointment but from the moment he showed up there was a rumour he was just waiting for the West Brom job to come up. This rumour has continued throughout his tenure and then there was the potential deathnail on his career which was the Sevco management. The Scotland job has also been brought up several times. My point being 2 of our last 3 managers have both potentially taken the job with one eye firmly on another from Day 1 and would be ready to jump ship at a moments notice. This potentially hinders their ability/ interest to continue developing their skills as in the back of their mind they are just waiting for what they see as a better job to be given to them. If you have ambition to climb the ladder the proper way (for me anyway) is you have to excel at your current job ie show creativity, adaptability, that you can handle a crisis well and be willing to change something if it isnt working, to the point that should your dream job actually become available there wouldnt even be any question of you needing to interview for it as they would be begging you to come to them, almost like they were trying to sign a Ronaldo, Messi etc. I just can't imagine McInnes winning the Scottish Cup and then publicly slate the teams performace in a post match interview.

American History's Biggest Fibs on BBC 2, BBC 4 and Iplayer. Episode 2 was on BBC 2 last night with the final one supposedly being shown next saturday however a quick scan of certain news outlets has people up in arms over the host Lucy Worsley reading out a historical quote from John Wilks Booth which contained a certain word beginning win 'N', so I wouldn't be surprised if it was pulled. The revelations Lincoln didn't actually give a fuck about slavery, the celebrated abolition of it actually meant little or nothing changed other than it was no longer called slavery, or that the 13th Amendment which allowed it to carry on is still used by Starbucks and several other big names to get free labour from prisons apparently means fuck all because the BBC didnt bleep out a word attributed to a historial racist murderer. Reminds me of Billy Connolly's bit about finding out Fred West didn't approve of him because of his use of bad langauge

Am I the only person who thinks Arsenal's second goal should have been disallowed for a foul on the chelsea defender after his slide tackle? The amount of powder puff, pathetic (and so on) incidents VAR will chop goals off for and yet getting a studs up challenge in the small of your back after you get to the ball first is OK?

To reduce the chance of any future arguments here is the full updated list Rules: 1. One name per points tally for the season, first come first served! 2. Only allowed to change prediction until closure of January transfer window as along as it is to an empty tally. 78 77 76 75 74 - MBT 73 72 71 70 69 68 - danthedon 67 - RicoS321 66 - Manc_don 65 64 - Wee Toon Red 63 62 - BigAl 61 60 - Jute 59 58 - Elgindon 57 56 55 54 - Tom_Widdows 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 ------- Previous Champions: 2009-10: Dave_min (41 points) 2010-11: BigAl (38 points) 2011-12: Snapper (41 points) 2012-13: Tyrant (48 points) 2013-14: 2014-15: Dandy (75 points) 2015-16: Dandy (retained due to no correct scorer) 2016-17: Rico (76 points - Flawless Victory. Nothing questionable about it at all) 2017-18: Tom (73 points) 2018-19: DantheDon (67points) 2019-20: No winner - DantheDon retains title following an independent inquiry

More evidence to throw back at an english football fan who criticises any other league. Remains to be seen if Charlton lodge a legal challenge. In fact given how precarious clubs finances are every team who finished below them could club together to sue the EFL for prize money they missed out on. If for some reason Derby get the maximum 21 penalty I reckon the lawyers will be in feeding frenzy

Sheffield Wednesday given a 12 point penalty for the start of next season. Perhaps the EFL decided they had enough headaches sorting out the relegation from this season without adding Wednesday to it (they would have finished bottom of the league had the penalty been applied for the most recent season) Remains to be seen if Derby get the same treatment

Alan Parker - 76 Think the first film of his I saw was 'Mississipi Burning' then a few weeks later my English Teacher showed us this which was probably more appropriate for my age at the time

Just knew the band as a part of an Austin Powers joke but this randomly came up in my Youtube recommended videos feed. Chicago bulls fans will probably recognise it.

More 'leaked' emails published by Der Speigel which seemingly undermine the CAS verdict. I would laugh so hard if the CAS verdict was thrown out especially watching how those City officials who demanded an apology back track. 7th August is possibly the first time I've wanted Real Madrid to win a game

What's happening with Scott Wright? Did he ever recover from that cruciate ligament injury?

Maybe it was another Fletcher?