Football

Liverpool have tied up Nabil Fekir transfer before the WC. Smart move if you think about the level of press that Liverpool apply their signing makes total sense. Keita, Fabinho and Fekir are all upgrades or equal to existing players.

The image of defensive actions I think highlights why Liverpool have gone for him

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And statsbomb have now released a nice detailed analysis of the whys of the transfer: https://statsbomb.com/2018/05/is-nabil-fekir-good-enough-for-liverpool/

A year ago Andy Caroll was Libpool's most spendy signing

I love some infographic.
But that turns me off.

With the increase in games being televised, are there any 3pm Saturday games left in the prem?

Won't be long before it's like La Liga where it seems rare for two games to ever overlap.

Fekir should be a good signing. Was under a lot of pressure at Lyon his season and did the business.

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So now, if you want to follow football, you must have Sky BT Sport and Amazon and then find dodgy feeds for 3pm Saturday away games.

Breaking the monopoly has only benefited the televsion companies and football clubs and not the consumer.

You sound surprised?

You can toggle each group of actions on/off but was using it to show similarity in work rates.

I'll look at that later, but can you compare two players in the same window?
To overlay them?

Yawn

I hope they're banned. It's impressive that they're the most annoying thing about international football, possibly even all football, when you consider the competition.

I hope that one of the modules in the Russian hooligan training camp was shoving brass instruments up arses.

And drums

Jim Ratcliffe, who is apparently worth £21 billion and is currently Britain's richest man has offered to buy Chelsea for £2 billion. Abramovich rejected his offer.

£2 billion? Roman has spent more on sacking managers surely?

It's got to this stage of Chelsea.
New owners.

"Group of death"

Stan collymore on racism in british football/football management, and the Rooney rule.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/10/stan-collymore-the-thing-white-men-hate-the-most-is-outspoken-black-men?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Just read that - don't think you can argue with anything he says, the lack of black players moving into management is clearly due to something, and racism, sadly, is the most likely cause.

Lopetegui new Real Madrid manager

That's bonkers

Also banter for Chelsea and Sarri.

Looking forward to the world cup now, Facebook has just reminded me how quiet the roads are when Ingurlund are on the telly...

The follow up to that with Ian Wright hasn't been too pleasant

https://twitter.com/StanCollymore/status/1005817624348053509