@John_THFC1993 @jimmynodge1902 @FootyAccums Sevilla did it in 22/23 and won the thing, that was the penultimate season before the change. Why lie?
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@jimmynodge1902 @FootyAccums Crazy because it's been nearly 10 years since the last time a team dropped out of the CL and won the EL
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The Europa League might end up having an issue with Premier League clubs being too strong for the competition...
Relegation battling Forest haven't even prioritised it and they've just casually knocked out Porto to reach the semis.
And then a 17th placed Spurs beat a 15th placed Man Utd to win the whole thing last season 😂
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@DecafFour86 @GGBreakingPoint Exposure has a glitch, it's not worth having it in.
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@GGBreakingPoint Exposure out but Colossus in? CLIFF TOWN??? This maybe the worst HP map pool update of all time
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Thoughts on the new maps for stage 3?
HP: Blackheart and Exposure ➡️ Sake, Cliff Town, and Gridlock
SND: Colossus and Exposure ➡️ Plaza, Gridlock, and Fringe
Overload is unchanged 👀
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@rgatward7 @jordmarley @mickyh01 @KieranMaguire You got promoted from the championship with a 175% wage, what are you on about?
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@jordmarley @mickyh01 @KieranMaguire Yeah i realised it’s wage to revenue which is 107% which is awful
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Aston Villa submit 24/25 accounts 🔑 figures
⚽️Revenue £378m ⬆️37%
⚽️Wages £273m ⬆️8%
⚽️Profit on sale of women’s team £78m
⚽️Profit on sale of warehouse £36m
⚽️Underlying loss £140m
⚽️Player sale profits £52m
⚽️Pre tax profit £17m
⚽️Total losses over the years £882m
⚽️Player purchases £162m
⚽️Player sales £131m
⚽️Total cost of squad £540m
⚽️Borrowings in year £109m
⚽️Share issue in year ££94m
⚽️Transfer fee payables £159m
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@fc_travel_ @1895cg Birmingham played 2 Monday night and 2 Thursday night league one games last season. By all means, please do a Leicester and go b2b relegations if it pleases you!
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@1895cg I don’t think league one has Monday night 8pm games and the ticket prices are affordable..
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I wonder if Coventry fans realise this is the best part, and it goes pretty down hill from here…
Getting to the Premier League is 10 times better than being in it!
Football Tweet ⚽@Footballtweet
🚨 If Coventry City beat Sheffield Wednesday this weekend, they will mathematically secure qualification and be promoted to the Premier League. 🐘
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@JerryThe_Berry @blues_clues_kro Kyogo, Dusksch are on their last chances to reach the prem and Roberts, Wagner, Paik, Iwata and Gray are all 29, they'll turn 30 next season. This is an aging team primed for success right now. It is very obvious we wanted promotion this season or next season.
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@shaun3_ @blues_clues_kro I’d disagree with that. Klarer had just 24 turned 24, Cochrane 23, Leonard 22 all of whom played a lot last season. This season, the loans we brought in were all early 20’s. Sure we’ve added some experience too, but only 3 of the players brought in this season were 30+.
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GK has been an issue for #BCFC this season
Goals Prevented - shows how many goals a keeper should have been expected to concede but saved anyway vs the shots on target they faced
Ryan Allsop last season +7.1
James Beadle this season -1.6
Add in distribution - crazy decision...
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@JerryThe_Berry @blues_clues_kro Beadle goes against everything we've done. We bought older (30yrsold+) experienced forward players (aside Stansfield), immediate vocal aims of the Prem, yet Beadle needs time to grow. He's 12th for save %, 14th for xG prevented. I'm sure he'll grow good but not enough right now.
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@shaun3_ @blues_clues_kro Brighton really weren’t going to sell an asset like Beadle after a successful summer. A loan was a good move for both clubs and the player. They’re not gonna play him in the PL, they stockpile talent to sell on to clubs our size later. We’d do a lot worse than buying Beadle
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@Simmo_bcfc @Kieranbcfc2 Winning the game isn't giving momentum to next season for the January recruits sitting on the bench. This is effectively our pre season now and all we're doing is preparing other club's players.
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@Kieranbcfc2 Call me a happy clapper but people are just moaning for the sake of it
He’s put out a team to win the game, if he made 5-6 changes and lost people would still moan
I’d rather us go and win the game rather than experimenting with things
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It’s a decent team but with nothing to play for I fundamentally don’t know why Doyle or Osman are playing. Or why Priske, Neumann, Solis aren’t.
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𝙏𝙀𝘼𝙈 𝙉𝙀𝙒𝙎 🔵 Two changes from Derby. Tommy Doyle and Pat Roberts come into the starting XI.
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No, the current women's marathon WR of 2:09:56 was set by Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich at the 2024 Chicago Marathon (mixed field). She admitted an anti-doping violation (HCTZ, a masking agent) from a March 2025 test and got a 3-year ban in Oct 2025, but AIU rules keep all her pre-March 2025 results—including this WR—valid. No positive test tied to the record race.
Fotyen Tesfay's 2:10:53 debut today is legit insane (2nd all-time).
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🤯NO ONE SAW THIS COMING…
Ethiopia’s Fotyen Tesfay runs 2:10:53 for the 2nd-fastest time women’s marathon time ever…in her marathon debut to win the Barcelona Marathon‼️
That’s 4:59/mile for 26.2 miles.💥
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The price of the Pizza and Pasta buffet has gone up to £23.25 for adults, up from £22.50 last season.
Fizzy soft drinks have now been removed, and replaced by fruit juices.
Despite the poster suggesting Corona is included in the buffet, this is a paid extra.
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@Goulding_23 If the season started Jan 1st, we’d be 5th.
So that suggests the current squad is playoff capable, and indeed, a promotion chaser.
It’s a brutal league. Every team suffers at some point. Cov have, boro have, Ipswich have.
And of course, we have.
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I think without the investment we had in Jan it would’ve been a yes. If we play like we have against Millwall and Boro last night for the rest of the season - no chance.
For me it’s less about position and more about how we look. We need to look like a promotion chaser. We dont.
RefIections 🪩@nxReflection
If we finish 10th or around that, does Davies get another season That’s the question
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@AdamBrandon84 And then failed to add a second on when their player went down in injury time. One of those “injuries” in the second half stopped play for 4 minutes on its own 🤷🏻
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Just 6 minutes is a joke. Should be around 9 or 10. #ncfc
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This idiot ref better be adding all this time on. Disgrace. #ncfc
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@PaulSmi71851275 @secondtierpod He got the PPG you'd have thought we required. He also stopped us leaking goals, something Leicester need to do. Ironically Mowbray fell ill with 14 games to go (like Leicester rn) but we waited another 6 games (6 losses) before appointing him.
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@secondtierpod He came in to try and keep us up season before last and failed miserably
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Gary Rowett's record when taking over a club is incredibly consistent.
👉 Birmingham - won 5 of his first 8.
👉 Derby - Won 4 of his first 8.
👉 Millwall - Lost 2 in first 16.
👉 Oxford - Won 5 of his first 8.
Exactly what Leicester need 👏🦊
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@BcfcJordan99 We spent in January, because we decided to go for it. We used the loophole to facilitate this. It was a lever Knighthead pulled. It wasn't a panic to stay within the financials. We just choose to go down that path. If we didn't spend in Jan we wouldn't have needed to do it.
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@ExpectedBham Dusksch played 13 minutes of football before the first int' break and has played 1,000 less minutes than Stanno this season lmao
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Birmingham have ONE elite finisher: Stansfield (7.9 xGOT, 20th in Championship).
Everyone else?
Ducksch: 6.2 (competent, not elite)
Gray: 4.7
Paik: 2.1 (147th)
Kyogo: 1.7 (179th) - 1 league goal, 12 big chances missed
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🔵NEW: #BCFC's Penalty Box Problem
Blues rank 4th for big chances created but 3rd WORST for big chances missed.
Nearly identical creation to 2nd-place Coventry (79 vs 77 big chances).
But 20 fewer goals scored.
Here's why Birmingham are stuck in 11th... 🧵
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@TrailsAndAlesUK @equality111111 Who ever heard of a 1 year doping ban in athletics? Go on.
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@equality111111 Oh I can’t remember who it was on here who was on to her…some kind of shadow ban, went off for months with a “injury”, came back first race match fit.
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@Ha35403511Ha @c8nnorr Your squad players are struggling to score against a team in the relegation zone of League One. Be worried.
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Some poor folks have been for a night out in Digbeth and will be returning to this. Absolute scumbags.
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@wolvesbradders I park in that car park for work. Always get it out of there before it gets dark, and I still worry.
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@SwissRamble And the one that did, got relegated, so lost themselves millions in TV rights deals for 25/26. What a fantastic business decision to not invest in the team.
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18 clubs in top four English divisions have published accounts for 2024/25 season. All but one of them have made a pre-tax loss. Average losses by division:
⚽️ Premier League £31.5m
⚽️ Championship £13.0m
⚽️ League One £4.2m
⚽️ League Two £3.3m
Operating losses even higher.
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