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Gary O’Neil sacked by Bournemouth despite keeping them up. Got to wonder what the boards expectations are when they sack him for keeping them up. Maybe they wanted relegated.

Home nations have gentleman’s agreement not to use the residency rule where the player was born in one of the other 4 nations. Clarkson would have to have Scottish parents or grandparents.

Nations league final is on channel 4 now. Rumour is might be Modric’s last game for Croatia.

I have watched highlights back 3 times and full game once.

We have to have 8 home grown players in our 25. 4 must have come through our own academy system and 4 can have come through another Scottish teams academy system or Scottish born. I think we may need to keep Bavidge until Christmas.

He did then deleted the post and put this up.

Al will be able to tell us about the last time we managed this.

I am stunned. Did not see that coming at all. Went mental when subs were made. Just shows why I am not a football manager. Fantastic result and we will now have to monumentally fuck up not to make Germany now.

Neither incidents were penalties. Haaland has spent most of game throwing himself to floor. Clarke looking to lose by bringing Cooper on.

0-0 at half time. Not created much. As TLG says moving the ball far too slowly when in possession. Set piece looks like only way we will score. Plus side we have only really given them the one opportunity. Going to be long 45 playing like this though. Might have to get another tin from the fridge.

This isn’t looking good so far. All Norway and probably should be 1 down.

3-5-2 set up?

Lad who gets first and 4th is on books of Columbus Crew. They allegedly paid $7m for him. Second lad has just moved from Bayerns second team to Borussia Monchengladbach on a free. Missed the boat there.

Serie A side Torino have reportedly stepped up their pursuit of Aberdeen attacker Duk. The 23-year-old was named Aberdeen’s player of the season after scoring 18 goals in 43 appearances. According to Tuttomercatoweb, Torino are keen to bring the Cape Verde international to Italian football. After a superb debut season with the Dons, the attacker has been linked with several clubs over the last few months, including Bologna, Burnley, Blackburn Rovers and Hull City. Duk is under contract wth the Dons until the summer of 2025 after moving to Pittodrie from Benfica. It is understood the Portuguese side would be due a sizeable percentage of any deal for the forward, although the Dons view Duk as a key player for next season when they will be playing in the group stages of European football for the first time since the 2007-8 season. Torino finished 10th in Serie A last season. The Dons bolstered their attacking options on Friday by signing Slovenian striker Ester Sokler on a three-year deal.

You cynic…..

All three lost. Northern Ireland were denied a draw with last minute goal chopped off after a lengthy VAR review.

Tribute Act withdraw their B team from lowland league in a spectacular toys out the pram reaction to the conference league not going ahead.

Not a great night for Wales, Northern Ireland or Ireland so far. All losing their Euro qualifiers currently.

Fucking don’t do that.

Charlton tickets on sale on the 26th June. Still no game announced for 22nd July.

Club have said before they estimate up to 25% of season tickets are unused at each game. Various reasons for that I would guess. Does deny others a chance to attend but does mean club have been paid for those seats. I heard club have been looking at way for season ticket holders to put back tickets for games they cannot attend so these can be resold but don’t know how far down the road they have got with that.

Was it. I hate VAR. Second game between Italy and Spain is on Viaplay tonight. Final is on Channel 4 this Sunday.

4 year deal is outstanding bit of business.

Always knew Rodgers was a cunt.

Game finished 5-2 to Croatia after extra time. Dutch had taken game to extra time with last kick of ball. In extra time Modric stepped up a gear and Croatia ran away with it. Hard to believe Modric is 37 when you watch him play. Seems to get better with age.