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Wales played? :erm::D

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yeah extraordinary match report here..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34063010

:D

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The way your country is going you will be number one in the rankings soon.:)

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If we win on Sunday, and you have something to do that requires someone who is Welsh, it’s not going to get done :)

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No one would ever mention the world rankings in any seriousness

Well done to northern Ireland and to think some here would deny countries as small as them the chance to compete on a level playing field

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There are TWO big pointers to make regarding Arsenal and Tottenham.

I do generally feel for Gunners fans, All Wenger bought in the window was Cech, who was off loaded by Chelsea, as they felt they had a better keeper. The Gunners fans must be getting really fed up that Wenger wont buy in any window. If his main strike force gets injured, he will be in the same position as Tottenham

Levy, has always been the same. If anyone upsets him like - Adebeyor, then that's it. They are out as they are expsenive and will play with the academy.

Like Berbatov, he was offered a place at Villa. But his wage demands were too high. And he is now playing for a Greek side.

Spurs will always be tightfistedly, and must get rid of there scout who did the buying for Soldado etc.

Poch bought his own scout from Southampton - But Levy blocked a move that Pock was going for.

You wont change Levy, if Spurs are still in the lower part of the PL. Bet you that Levy will sack Poch. Spurs will never get into the CL until they get at least TWO strikers in

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I heard someone say today that the only way Arsenal will finally listen to fans if is the fans don't renew their season tickets for next season. If fans stop buying tickets, then surely that will be a massive clue to the owners?

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There ya go Art...

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The owners are quite happy for Arsene to remain in charge though and although most fans will have a moan they still generally still buy their season tickets as a lot of the Arsenal criticism in the end is media inspired in my opinion.

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England book place at Euro 2016.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/33946605

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and be on one of first planes home too

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Indeed Dave a dire set of donkeys.

As usual against proper opposition they will flunk.

So many players today were an embarrassment.

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Indeed.

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Only watched bits of it, and the cricket as well , both very poor. The best watch at the same time was the 'British' tennis player Jo Konta in the U.S. Open, :cool:

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The first half against San Marino was abysmal and we were not that much better in the second half.

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Pfft, 1 poxy FA Cup v 4 Premier League titles, 1 Champions League winners and 2 runners up, good choice Ramsey. :p:

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2. And he got game time at Arsenal something he wouldn't have got at MU. Also lets not forget Tom Cleverley was filtering through the ranks ;)

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Got to admire a player who goes somewhere for game time rather than money.

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If he was good enough he would have got game time, this is a team that actually did 'win things with kids' ;) And I don't know what the financial arrangements were at the time but they would have been little difference.

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Scotland are certainly putting Rod and Penny through the mixer.:)

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Do recount the team you had at the time...
And he wasn't good enough. He was nowhere near the player he is today to that of the year he moved from Cardiff or even years commencing.

Financials make a big difference as Wenger alluded to when Ronaldo opted for MU. Or was it purely down to Carlos Queiroz? :sleep:

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Sadly Scotland have a uphill task now to qualify.:(

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The cricket is a lot more exciting than the footy ATM.

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Yes that's what l thought old boy.

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Newcastle apparently made an offer of £10 million plus Rolando Aarons for Charlie Austin. There's silly made up stories then there's that.

A second source claims Newcastle were infact offered Charlie Austin for £12 million and Newcastle declined saying they were quite happy with we've got.

If the second is true it seems like Newcastle won the hardball game played out all summer then pulled a quick one and left QPR with a valueless player.

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Matilde Mourinho have you seen her recent photos?

Sad. I do not put a link here --it is so embarrassing, in particular for her father Jose....

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Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea has signed a new-four year contract with the club.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34220482

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:shocked::sleep:

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Footballs back :D

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Yes and my beloved home city won today.:D

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On the tram going home from Old Trafford, very enjoyable evening.��

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Well the sooner a certain manager gets his P45 the better as if he cannot beat a fraud of a manager then something seriously wrong.:(:td::bigcry:

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first half was a bit dire, almost entirely due to Liverpool looking as though the were under strict instructions not to cross the half way line. I have never seen a Liverpool side so timid. :shocked:

Great goal from Benteke all the same.:cool:

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Sadly we have spent another £100 million and yet he never bought one centre back.:(

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I reiterate what I've said all along, LVG is not the man for United. Ok he has reportedly backed down over a few things with the team but he has never felt to me like someone who feels the need to back down. I always said the main problem with Moyes was although he seemed a genuinely nice guy he always came across as being too timid - a United manager needs to have arrogance and swagger but in my opinion LVG is TOO arrogant. He has to be the boss of course but doesn't seem to accept United have done things a certain way for a LONG time and given how he says he'll retire in a few years he seems to be determined to change United far too much from the SAF era.

So I'm not too impressed with LVG.

But for 1 day who the hell cares :D

Not a classic by any means, the first half was awful and for an OT game United almost seemed scared. I'm not yet convinced this side will gel properly and dear Lord do we need another established striker.....however you can't argue with the result, beating the scousers any day is always going to be good for football :D

Liverpool's goal was pretty good but Martial's was better - all that pressure on a teenager but he took on the Scouse defence single handedly. Early days but I'm already feeling slightly better about his over-inflated price tag :)

I'm just hoping he doesn't turn out like Donkey Diego Forlan and Donkey Dimitar - couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo the rest of the time but banged them in for fun against Liverpool.

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I'd hardly call Diego Forlan a donkey over his career , more he just wasn't the player for United.

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Yes in my opinion he was never given a fair chance at United and to judge him on that is a bit unfair.

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Over the years his scoring record speaks for itself , the problem at United at the time was they had so much choice he was regularly played out of position.

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Yes l know what you mean when players are played out of position as that occurs on a regular basis with our incompetent tinkerman up here.

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yeah footballs definitely back. what a game. have that for some 'lower table' entertainment :LOL:

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Yes the best game of the season as yesterdays turgid rubbish.

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/09/13.jpg

:erm:

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Charlie Austin will finally make his Newcastle United move in January for a cut price of £6 million. Newcastle had the money, they still have £120 million to spend over the next year. Speculation increases this is Mike Ashley setting up a giant adboard for the sale of Newcastle United by investing massively and aiming high in hopes of a potential buyer. It's been made clear Mike Ashley would never offload Newcastle onto someone that didn't have the money to keep them going so it's not as easy as it sounds. Newcastle are currently valued at £222 million and a buyer would be expected to pay £350 million to secure the club unless a payment scheme for the £120 million 0 interest loan from Ashley is worked out.

West Ham tonight, TD, may the best 11, 10 or 9 players win :D

Newcastle will remain unchanged from Arsenal bar Mitrovic who is replaced by Cisse. (Prediction)

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l would never buy Austin as l am not sure he could cope with the full demands of a PL season now.

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Newcastle and West Ham have only failed to provide a goal twice in 20 years. Score draw, or a winner here.

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l think it will be a score draw but then again what does this dense membrane know.

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Anthony Taylor will will referee tonight's match, an enemy of both Newcastle and West Ham, notably this year already dishing out that red card that see's Adrian miss this game and those two dire penalty decisions against Liverpool last year have popped up with him in the build up. Great stuff then.

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There's the goal then, not too shabby

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West Ham only going up, Newcastle, just uninspiring, the manager, everything. After the first half you have to change things, he didn't and went with the same boring play from the first and lost miserably. McClaren won't be sacked but he's making a right mess of this. Perez looked brilliant when he came on and should be starting way ahead of Cisse. You know something stinks when your Right back is your best striker..

What's McClaren doing here?

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How many games has he missed in the last 3 seasons, demba ba had one leg pretty much and he coped just fine

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Congrats, Should've scored more but 2-0 is 2-0 at the end of the day. Payet is doing the business.

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Put your hand in your pocket and make it so


http://metro.co.uk/2015/09/14/liverp...dgers-5390374/

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Was a good night, only thing lacking was a brolly, that would've been the cherry on the cake if the wally came out of the tunnel in the rain with one

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Perhaps your team can buy him then because he has never convinced me.:)

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Because of a idiot called Ashley.

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Jack Wilshere set to be out until Christmas as Arsenal midfielder is told he needs surgery on leg fracture.

http://talksport.com/football/jack-w...ds-surgery-leg

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he's getting a metal plate screws and all put in his left fibula due to this hairline fracture which should bring joy to his well-being ! ignore the ankles :sleep:

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A very talented player but is he ever going to be fit?.

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hopefully. we'll see next year..

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He wouldn't get in our team, what is it that has failed to convince you, the amount of goals he scores or the lack of games he misses?

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That's not what you've said all along, I he said he wasn't the man for Utd when he was appointed and you wouldn't have it

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Looks like a broken leg/ankle for Luke Shaw. Horrific tackle that's somehow gone unpunished

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:(

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Do they have retrospective punishment in CL games?

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Photos looks like the bone was coming out of his shin. Horrific :( He made such a good start to the season too

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Looks like he could be out for a long long while.:(

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he's done his standing leg. thats got to be a mid tibia break. lets hope his fibula is ok.

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That was like the Ramsey one. Hopefully he won't be out as long. Some of those can ruin careers. :mad:

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Very disappointing that both Manchester clubs lost tonight.

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Wishing Luke Shaw a speedy recovery. :tu:

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Yeah very :rofl:

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Would you believe it, Uefa made Moreno MOM. :mad:

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What codswallop.

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What do you make of reports tonight of Cisses alleged conduct and the hindsight of Mitrovic over Austin ?

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Do we have to listen to Robbie Savage as the man is a dunderhead.:(

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Had to take the Mitrovic gamble and get Austin. I think Mitrovic will straighten out, Cisse has to be sold at cut price asap. McClaren had to start him? That's a loss of bottle right there, SAF would tear the head off anyone that took the p* like that. Perez could've started.

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Arsenal you have been a embarrassment tonight.:td:

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:woot: disaster of a match

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Players out of form , players over the hill , players who simply do not care and players who are overpaid sums up Arsenal.

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European attendance records last season:

Bold are the standout ones, Dortmund had a pretty dire year but kept the attendance up, Lewandowski, Goetze and co all gone yet the fans still turn out, Newcastle were fighting relegation all the way down to the last day. It's no wonder Mike won't leave.

Barca and Madrid is the confusing one if someone can interpret incase I'm thinking wrong. It appears they rarely sold out their stadiums last year :confused:

Edit: If anyone can explain what Liverpool's defence was doing there... Rodgers...

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No its been like that for about three years now bud.

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Dortmund is Dortmund. The football club or the way of life should I say sits alone in Dortmund, those attendances just reconfirms what you see on the tele. Bayern Munichs average is disappointing considering its supposed following and oh yeah cost of tickets being virtually nil vs PL tickets! That doesn't add up ! Hamburg owns the city. Schalke has its history, bit like Dortmund.

RM have the obvious threat of AM and the following they have. If you tune in to matches vs lower level opposition you will see a fair few empty seats at RM. RM don't own the city unlike Barcelona who seemingly do. Espanyol cannot compete. Having said that Barcelonas average is low if you compare it to RM, this being stadium capacity > average attendance..

rounding off the numbers..

Barca = 99k capacity with an average attendance of 78k
RM = 81k capacity with an average attendance of 73k

on average Barcelona have more empty seats than RM which throws out what I said above of Barca owning the city.

Man Utd is the impeccable average on the list. Everyone else has a big loss. Arsenal comes in second behind Man Utd. Hardly surprising. London is red after all :D it also has to be said the EPL has restrictions on broadcasting of games, 3pm kick offs etc. which helps getting stadiums filled.

Marseille isn't soo much of a surprise with them having a decent'ish season. Started well then fell off. PSG fail to make the top 10 with a bigger stadia capacity and well Lille with the biggest in Ligue 1 flop

It does have to be mentioned though that these could be ticket sold averages rather than bums on seats averages. I could be wrong, the Arsenal average makes me ponder tbh.. "and the attendance today is sixtythousandmillion"... no mate it isn't! nonetheless the city is still red :D

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I can understand the attendance records but where does that list get the 'total fans' number from?

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yeah good question. can you post the link please Adz

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Its the number of fans in total over the season. So for United 75,335 x 19 (home league games) = 1.431 million

Dortmunds is less because there are fewer teams in their league so fewer home games.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averag...football_clubs

https://i.imgur.com/fafsg3d.jpg

Updated list without the total fans figure.

I'm unsure who made the figure count, or whether it's completely accurate as it would take a pretty decent amount of time to complete that top 10 for last season. Might have done though before I discredit someone :D

If anyone fancies doing an attendance count of your own to verify, please do, the thought of going through 19 games is daunting.

Did it, 956,802 For Newcastle United, List is close enough.

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2 less which would account for

Dortmund 19 = 1,528,797 million
-2 = 160,926 > 17 = 1,367,871
Stadium capacity 81,359 average attendance 80,463

Man Utd 19 = 1,431,365 million
Stadium capacity 75,731 average attendance 75,335

still a fair few not attending on average for Dortmund

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Theres http://www.worldfootball.net/ that has those same figures

did you copy and paste today with the update to the list being made today too?

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Got it from Reddit which then provided Wiki as the source, second image was from the comments.

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Costa is some piece of work. How did that all end with Gabi being sent off lol nuts

Also Gabi on Hazard was not a pen. Defender uses strength to haul attacker away from ball but during tussle Hazard uses his own strength to make more of the situation, pulling Gabi towards him mid way through. Funny thing is had Hazard had a little more strength about him and pulled Gabi down Hazard would have most probably been called up as fouling an opponent. The defender gets the benefit of the doubt in those situations.

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They both should've been sent off, they're as pathetic as each other

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Yes as Shadow says its simply pathetic from them both.

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Gabi didn't do anywhere near as much as Costa did. How did he get away with what he done to Koscielny ?

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He was just as culpable as Costa in my opinion.

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Costa should've been sent off first, it doesn't excuse what Gabriel did afterwards though.

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Did you watch the replay Den? Koscielny done nothing but defend. Costa couldn't get his own way so he hit out. Thats a red. Gabi reacted afterwards, a lack of discipline admittedly but all due to the injustice on Koscielny.

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Costa should have been given a straight red for the 3 times he had his hand in an Arsenal face. That red card incident sounds like a joke. I would think Arsenal could win an appeal against that, and hopefully some retrospective action against Costa can be taken. Saying that, I am still slightly wanting a Chelsea win.

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The one thing you should not do is react to others.

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A straight red for Gabi for the little back kick which would be violent conduct so a 3 match ban? If Costa is called up by the FA then he too will get a 3 match ban for violent conduct which again is injustice. How Gabis action balance Costas is beyond imagination but both are violent conduct charges lol

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Santi had to go there as well after a second yellow card.

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yup.

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McClaren showing his colours again by starting Cisse. Forget about John Carver, Newcastle look worse and the crisis is real.

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Well if it keeps on going like this the wally with the brolly will soon receive his P45.

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St.Marys is fast becoming our second home ;)

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And hopefully Rodgers will have to find a new football home after yet another shambles today.:(:td: