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[Мастер]

Ever since the Great Cunt moved to the US . . .

Who would that be?

A Canadian I used to work for. For an extremely short time. The moment they announced the GC was coming, I knew I was out of there, it just took some time to implement . . .

BTW, Elon Musk is a Canadian who left Canada.

[g-one]

BTW, Elon Musk is a Canadian who left Canada.

Elron is South African.

[Lianachan]

WWIII on ice coming Thursday. Though probably less than 3 fights in the first 10 seconds this time.
With all the annexation talk I think there might be guys who would be ready to pay the ultimate price out there.
Certainly will be the biggest hockey game this country has played since the Canada - Russia Summit final in '72. Maybe bigger.

Get intae they burger munching war monkeys!

[g-one]

Well played, and a hearty 'sorry aboot that' to the Premier of the great Province of America.

I get this cognitive dissonance where on the one hand, Canadians have this reputation for being very, very polite people (to the point of constantly apologizing for their own existence), on the other hand, this seems to be completely suspendended when it comes to ice hockey.

You'll probably enjoy this article, I certainly did: Canada Just Beat the United States in Hockey. What the NHL Players Did Afterward Was Inspiring

[Arneb]

Excellent article indeed. Still, you thrashed the Imperialists, that's what counts.

Closer to home, and on a much, much lower level,

Hertha 0 - 0 Deä Glubb

Ends our string of defeats and is good for the peace in the extended Arnebfamily.


Played 127, won 55, drawn 28, lost 44.

[Lianachan]

Ross County 3 - 1 Dundee

Our first home win in ages, and the only match I've been to this season. Coincidence? Yes. Yes it is.

Played 128, won 56, drawn 28, lost 44.

[Lianachan]

My esteemed countryman is probably still stamping around the house, kicking things and punching cushions.

Suffice to say the updated count is:

Played 129, won 56, drawn 28, lost 45.

[Arneb]

SpVgg Greuther Fürth 3 - 0 SG Eintracht Braunschweig

It's something.



Played 130, won 57, drawn 28, lost 45.

[Lianachan]

It is! With an RCFC win too we've certainly had worse weeks.

[Lianachan]

St Johnstone 1 - 0 Ross County

Fuck sake.

Played 131, won 57, drawn 28, lost 46.

[Arneb]

Fortuna Düsseldorf 1 - 2 SpVgg Gruether Fürth

"By concentrating on defending, Greuther pulled the plug on the home team. In this very uncoordinated, scatterbrained match, which didn't merit a winner, the decision came about by a curious penalty call, etc., etc." Getting a penalty becauese the goalie moved idiotically, and a second chance after pathetically squandering it because someone from the defending team moved too quickly. Yes, sometimes the heavenly forces call it for the underdog, exactly what we needed here after a few "scatterbrained" weeks. In 11th, six points above Hertha and 11 above the relegation playoff spot. Midtable mediocrity is the goal here, and we might yet reach it.


Played 132, won 58, drawn 28, lost 46.

[Lianachan]

Ross County 1 - 0 Kilmarnock

Played 133, won 59, drawn 28, lost 46.

[Arneb]

Glorious RCC!

Hertha aaway to Elversberg tomorrow, bound to be a lot less glorious...

[Lianachan]

Pressing thumbs!

My countryman will be punching cushions again, so.....

Played 134, won 59, drawn 28, lost 47.

[Arneb]

It does appear he is getting into a habit here.

[Heid the Ba]

Sadly I was ski-ing in the Dolomites with limited internet. Enough to see the results but posting was a pain in the flaps. I can only assume our new manager is a comedy appointment given that he is a fucking idiot with no management experience.

[Arneb]

If it is any consolation,

SV Elversberg 4 - 0 Hertha BSC

Played 135, won 59, drawn 28, lost 48

[Arneb]

In-depth article about Auld Auntie's misery in Germany's somewhat more intelligent football magazine, 11Freunde. The TLDR is, the club has the second most expensive bunch of players in the league (let's not call them a team), we wrote a negative balance of 22 million last year, on top of 60 million of debt left over from the Big City Big Club Big Big years. We are four points above the relegation playoff spot, and the players are acting like, aw shucks, will be a bit difficult getting promoted to the Bundesliga this year, as really we should be. No worries, let's just have a chill time and trundle down the last 12 games, and then it's off to a nice three weeks off on some expensive island. We can always play for promotion next season. We'll just travel to those godforsaken provincial shitholes, pick up the points, and fly back home where it's more comfy. Where is this Elversberg again? Never mind, we'll make two in the first half and call it a ... oops.

With that kind of 'tude, we know how it'll end. And this time getting relegated to League Three will probably be the end of the club. League Three is still a professional league, but it is borderline financially untenable even for well-run clubs, let alone one with red ink worth 80 million and monstrous running expenses. If that happens, there will only be Union, and sympathetic as I am towards them, this is not the kind of club to assume the role of challenger to the big guns, bringing back top-level football to a region with 4 million potential fans. It's actually quite scary.

[Heid the Ba]

Yes, our lot managed to take four years to get three promotions despite all our advantages.

[Heid the Ba]

Pissy Wee European Competition for Pissy Wee Teams tonight. We're away to Turkostanbul. Let's hope Souness is there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht7hDlxLgM4

[Heid the Ba]

The despair I can take, it's the hope I can't stand. One - nil up after six minutes.

[Arneb]

Aw, come ON!

Fenerbahce 1 - 3 Rangers


Played 136, won 60, drawn 28, lost 48

[Heid the Ba]

Not the funniest Rangers related thing to happen at Fenerbahce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht7hDlxLgM4

[Arneb]

Ooh-oh...

Hertha BSC 1- 2 FC Schalke 04

Ever closer, and a away to a direct relegation competitor next week.

SpVgg Greuther Fürth 1 - 1 FC Magdeburg.

Yawn. It'll do for something between 8th and 12th.

Played 138, won 60, drawn 29, lost 49

[Arneb]

Schalke is perhaps the only club symbolizing fuck-up artistry event better than Hertha. So I was cautiously optimistic this time. But it wasn't to be. As Der Spiegel writes, "Schalke deal Hertha the next low blow". Auntie was downright asleep in the first half, caught the first goal after an avoidable corner that the goalie didn't catch although he should have. Then came back for the interval energized, scored the equalizer only to cause a penalty that wasn't one while getting one that was, and you probably know the rest.

The 13th and 14th team in the German Second League played before an Olympic Stadium packed with 70,000 spectators, 20,000 of them from Gelsenkirchen. Now if that isn't amazing.