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As if to prove being thick is a BBC wide thing and not just confined to BBC Scotland Sport,

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47877796

Article on upcoming African Cup of Nations,

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The draw

Teams have been separated into four seeding pots based on the Fifa world rankings released on 4 April. They will then be drawn into six groups of four.

Afcon draw pots
Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
Egypt DR Congo South Africa Zimbabwe
Cameroon Ghana Uganda Namibia
Senegal Mali Benin Guinea-Bissau
Tunisia Ivory Coast Mauritania Angola
Nigeria Guinea Madagascar Tanzania
Morocco Algeria Kenya Burundi

The top two teams from each group, and four best third-placed teams, go into the quarter-finals.

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So 6 group winners, 6 group runners-up and 4 best 3rd placed teams - All 16 are into the Quarter-finals :thumsup2

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8 minutes ago, MEADOWXI said:

As if to prove being thick is a BBC wide thing and not just confined to BBC Scotland Sport,

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47877796

Article on upcoming African Cup of Nations,

___________

The draw

Teams have been separated into four seeding pots based on the Fifa world rankings released on 4 April. They will then be drawn into six groups of four.

Afcon draw pots
Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
Egypt DR Congo South Africa Zimbabwe
Cameroon Ghana Uganda Namibia
Senegal Mali Benin Guinea-Bissau
Tunisia Ivory Coast Mauritania Angola
Nigeria Guinea Madagascar Tanzania
Morocco Algeria Kenya Burundi

The top two teams from each group, and four best third-placed teams, go into the quarter-finals.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

So 6 group winners, 6 group runners-up and 4 best 3rd placed teams - All 16 are into the Quarter-finals :thumsup2

There are 24 teams in it.

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3 minutes ago, Rugster said:

There are 24 teams in it.

1st Round

24 - 6 groups of 4

2nd Round

Group winners - 6

Group runners up - 6

4 best 3rd Places - 4

Which the BBC state is the Quarter finals of 16 teams

 

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4 minutes ago, MEADOWXI said:

1st Round

24 - 6 groups of 4

2nd Round

Group winners - 6

Group runners up - 6

4 best 3rd Places - 4

Which the BBC state is the Quarter finals of 16 teams

 

Got it now, sorry!

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On 4/11/2019 at 08:42, BoydiesBelly said:

So sad to see what's happened to the Scotsman's online output. They were one of the early adopters of website content, but instead of moving with the times their site has descended into a clickbait minefield that as you said is choked full adverts. 

My adblocker picks up 38 ads on their sport homepage which is far too intrusive and IMO the wrong way to go about content monetisation in  2019.

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(For comparisons sake, the Daily Record's main football page has 21 ads; the Sun has 15; Guardian 12).

The Edinburgh Evening News isn't much better. Here's one of today's headlines on their site:

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/inspire-me/food-and-drink/11-best-places-for-fish-and-chips-in-edinburgh-according-to-tripadvisor-1-4905842

Desperate stuff.

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21 minutes ago, RiG said:

The Edinburgh Evening News isn't much better. Here's one of today's headlines on their site:

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/inspire-me/food-and-drink/11-best-places-for-fish-and-chips-in-edinburgh-according-to-tripadvisor-1-4905842

Desperate stuff.

Fucking hell. Four years at Uni to copy and paste off TripAdvisor and screenshot from Google Street View. Minter.

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41 minutes ago, wastecoatwilly said:

You are the only one that mentions conspiracy just negative stories another quiet week for the wee lambs.

No one, but it's what you're implying.

These are the same guys who continually write puff pieces about Celtic as well.

You're a cretin and a shitebag.

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10 hours ago, paulbrucerick said:

Today's Sun. If he has signed a pre contract agreement with Hearts why would playing against  Dundee United be an issue? 

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Its not as if they've just typed Hearts instead of United, as they expand on the move.

Very odd.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47836507

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Ross County edged a further point closer to the Scottish Championship title and Partick Thistle a point nearer safety after a draw in Dingwall.

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Despite the draw, Thistle slip to the bottom of the division but still move a point closer to 10th after Falkirk won and Queen of the South lost.

 

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The same story from the BBC's Scottish and English websites. 

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A story about how stupid McInnes was reacting to being abused.

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A story about sectarianism.

Use your skill and judgement to decide which site took which angle. 

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