Not a good round for the Premier League teams. Two lucky draws and three devastating rubdowns.
ETA: and Bodo/Glimt doing their thing again!
I wouldn’t say Newcastle were lucky to draw. If anything Barca were lucky to tie it up, IMO.
Now Arsenal? That was pretty lucky. But they will certainly fancy their chances against Leverkusen at home.
City, Spurs, and Chelsea? Those were ugly.
Liverpool will probably turn it around at Anfield against Galatasaray.
2 months after Senegal won the Africa Cup of Nations, CAF has awarded it to Morroco instead due to Senegal’s poor behaviour.
Odd:
Why three?
That’s just the standard scoreline for forfeits
After a 3-0 loss to Nottingham, the Spurs are now at risk of being relegated for the first time since 1977.
*Forest, or Nottingham Forest. Never just Nottingham.
**Spurs, not the Spurs.
An annoying Englishman
Nothing more annoying that foreigners using improper terms to call your clubs.
Spanish people adding articles to the names of Argentinian clubs make us grind our teeth too.
“It’s not El River and El Boca, it’s River and Boca! 
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In Germany, they are called “River Plate” and “Boca Juniors”. Is that ok?
That’s the right way yes 
It drives me berserk when German TV announcers (the worst in the World, but that is rather Pit material for another thread) refer to Real Madrid as das weisse Ballett, or the white ballet. First, the players don’t wear tutus. Would be fun, but they don`t. Second, ballet blanc is an already established term. Shows their ignorance. Third, it’s ridiculous. And I am not even a Madrid fan, rather the opposite.
Idiots, them all.
And when Americans say Real Madrid and Fake Madrid….
They also almost always get the names of English clubs wrong. Saw a match the other day with a former pro as co-commentator (don’t remember who), and the main sportscaster mentioned “Arsenal London” when the ex-pro vehemently protested "What did you just say? They’re Arsenal! Nobody calls them “Arsenal London!”. The guy was very embarrassed. I giggled in my sofa.
I hear London Arsenal in the states, but not Arsenal London. Is that because the modifier comes before the city name in German clubs (Werder Brenen, Hertha Berlin)?
That may be one of the reasons, but the point is that in the UK, they’re just “Arsenal”, no “London” before or after. Everybody knows they’re from London, but so are countless other clubs.
We have Arsenal at home…
Arsenal at home: Arsenal de Sarandí - Wikipedia
(Sarandí is three train stations from me, I pass through there every time I go to work)
Back in the 70’s this know-nothing kid mentioned the Glasgow Rangers, to which my 'gers-fan older brother - who liked to get his eventual kids to wear blue - quickly admonished me with a “Rangers!”
Might be my turn to look a little silly, but I thiiiiiink that is a bit more acceptable than ‘London Arsenal’, although Rangers fans are unlikely to use it? I could be very wrong though.
That reminds me of one of the most unintentionally funny OPs I’ve ever read on the Dope, at least ten years ago. It was called something like “Why do European soccer clubs have such weird names?”, and their examples were Real Madrid (“is there also a Fake Madrid?”) and Chelsea (“Chelsea is a girl’s name”). Hilarity ensued.
US is playing Belgium in over of their final games before roster selection. The jersey’s look waaay to similar, especially from the back. Interestingly they’re also taking water breaks even though it’s not how and they’re in a dome. I guess just simulating WC conditions.