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  1. Just now, velo army said:

    Look up "operacion Puerto". A doping investigation in 2006 involving a Spanish doctor called Fuentes. It brought down a lot of major figures in cycling, but he said during the investigation that cyclists were a small fraction of his clientele. The judge ordered that only the cyclists be investigated despite Fuentes saying that Spain should give back their WC and Euros trophies (it went to court in, I think, 2012). It was pretty clear that the cyclists were being thrown to the wolves to cover for footballers and tennis players who were part of a systematic doping program.

    Yep. Used to be some laugh when Nadal would be running about like a demented whippet 6 hours into a tennis match deep in a tournament whilst carrying an injury. See also - City sending players to Barcelona for ‘treatment’ in the early Pep days and them returning a month ahead of schedule 

  2. If multiple journos are going with the same thing it hasn’t been pulled from thin air, or invented to make the story more exciting. Wishful thinking to suggest otherwise. The stuff about him not coming back that is.

  3. I know it’s Pie n Bovril and we’re all meant to pretend Engurland!!! *shudders* are shite and overrated but they’re a level above anyone we’ve played in a long time. A right schooling that tonight.

    Can only hope this doesn’t derail the momentum and that we’re able to get qualification sorted.

    I will say though, as good as they were, I’m not quite having the ‘ah well, they’re the better side’ stuff - they clearly were and are always going to be better than us, but we were fucking shite tonight and have a terrible account of ourselves.

  4. 4 minutes ago, Gaz said:

    Steady on.

    We haven't played particularly badly. They are a better team than us, but we've done alright bar the two minute spell they scored twice.

    They’re a top side and levels above but we haven’t turned up. Until a minute ago. Panicking on the ball, passing it into touch and just generally not doing basic things we know we’re capable of.

  5. Just now, jamamafegan said:

    I find the Maguire stuff utterly tedious now, it was mildly amusing initially but the amount of shite I see on the socials now with your EPL fan boys coming out with Maguire “bants” is insufferable. It’s even more of a minter given that we are 2-0 down. 

    Aye that’s the bigger point. We’re two nil down and they’re fucking schooling us. Our captain has had an absolute howler leading to a goal. But wheeey Maguire. That’s the real quiz.

  6. 2 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:

    Don't know if they believed their own hype a bit (you'd think Clarke wouldn't allow that) or if they just can't cope with the occasion (which partly explains Euro 2021 but weirdly not the England game) but this looks like an FA Cup tie where some National League side has rocked up to Old Trafford or somewhere and are totally overawed and overrun.

    There is a bit of a theme with some of these games - Czech at the Euros, Ukraine in the play off come to mind. Massive occasion, atmosphere expectation then they seem to play like they’re too aware of it.

  7. 4 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:

    This is the weirdest experience.  

    Scotland have a vital qualifier, the sort of away game that's a total banana skin.  It's going so well that it's almost a bit boring.  It's become a background presence as we blether about other stuff.  I think we might have just hit the post...

    Yep. I don't really know what's going on. I've been mostly tuned out of this game for the last half hour, mostly spent in group chats and online talking about how good we are. There has never been a second of doubt tonight. The 'this really doesn't feel like Scotland' vibe, and the whole thing feeling a bit strange has been a recurring theme of this campaign.

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