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Started by Liep, March 11, 2009, 02:57:29 PM

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The Larch

#8475
May 20, 2021, 04:21:48 AM Last Edit: May 20, 2021, 04:25:22 AM by The Larch
Quite an amazing story took place in the Libertadores Cup last night. Argentina's River Plate played against Colombia's Independiente Santa Fe, but the game was in jeopardy as River Plate had 20 players out with Covid, including its 4 goalkeepers. They requested COMMEBOL for the game to be delayed but were refused, then they asked to be allowed emergency registration for their U18 team GK to be registered for the competition to be able to have a proper goalie for the match and were refused again.

So yesterday they played the game, with just 11 players, an empty bench and an injured 35 yo midfielder deputising as goalie for the match... and they won 2-1.

Edit: And the midfielder turned goalkeeper won the game's MVP award.  :lol:

Tamas

#8476
May 20, 2021, 06:38:04 AM
Quite certainly the most successful football-related Hungarian since Puskas (except for that coach in Romania but he wasn't a citizen), 4-times Best Referee and main official of the 1994 WC Final, Sandor Puhl has passed away, aged 65.

Syt

#8477
May 20, 2021, 06:40:35 AM
:( I liked him.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

celedhring

#8478
May 20, 2021, 07:17:03 AM
I didn't, he robbed us in 1994, scarring an entire generation of Spanish fooball fans  :P

RIP.  :(

Syt

#8479
May 20, 2021, 11:56:21 AM
Not sure of the source for this, but this map of stadiums for the Euro 2020 2021, among other things, reunites Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, gives the Kaliningrad area to Poland and it gave Moldova a bit of the Black Sea?

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

#8480
May 20, 2021, 11:59:24 AM
It will be a cold day in hell before they recognize Slovenia.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

FunkMonk

#8481
May 20, 2021, 12:08:01 PM
Keep politics out of football!!!!111233
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Josquius

#8482
May 20, 2021, 12:29:18 PM
Island crimea is convenient too.
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Syt

#8483
May 21, 2021, 02:06:33 AM
Someone found the likely original:



BeNeLux area looks ... off? :unsure:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Josquius

#8484
May 21, 2021, 03:17:40 AM
True. They've filled in the frisian sea and I think knocked down a few polders in West Friesland.
Zealand is not there of course.
I think they've given Belgium and NL some extra lands in the east too?
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Agelastus

#8485
May 21, 2021, 06:05:20 AM
I don't recall Denmark looking quite so much like an upraised fist either.
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Sheilbh

#8486
May 21, 2021, 08:01:59 AM
Nuno leaving Wolves at the end of the season :o :hmm:
Let's bomb Russia!

FunkMonk

#8487
May 21, 2021, 10:17:09 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on May 21, 2021, 08:01:59 AM
Nuno leaving Wolves at the end of the season :o :hmm:

Gotta be headed to Spurs I think.
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Valmy

#8488
May 21, 2021, 11:59:44 AM
Quote from: Syt on May 21, 2021, 02:06:33 AM
Someone found the likely original:



BeNeLux area looks ... off? :unsure:

I think that map was only accurate for about two months in 1992.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Josquius

#8489
May 22, 2021, 12:44:30 PM
Sigh. Double standards in emergency loans are Sunderlands undoing. We always get the raw end of everything.
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