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  • Sadio Mane has now scored as many PL goals as Ryan Giggs, but in 374 fewer games
  • We could still finish top-half.
  • Sadio Mane has now scored as many PL goals as Ryan Giggs, but in 374 fewer games
    Mane has been a fantastic player, but the comparison isn't that like for like.  Playing left wing in a 442 in the 90s/00s etc (and then in a midfield 3 later) was very different to playing left of a 3 up top like Mane.  Especially when Liverpool have deliberately played for Mane and Salah to get forward more than Firmino.

    As evidenced by the assists pet game for Giggs v the goals per game for Mane:


  • Middlesbrough played every game in every competition they entered in 1996/97, given they reached both Cup finals, but still got relegated because of a game that they originally didn't play.
  • Sadio Mane has now scored as many PL goals as Ryan Giggs, but in 374 fewer games
    Mane has been a fantastic player, but the comparison isn't that like for like.  Playing left wing in a 442 in the 90s/00s etc (and then in a midfield 3 later) was very different to playing left of a 3 up top like Mane.  Especially when Liverpool have deliberately played for Mane and Salah to get forward more than Firmino.

    As evidenced by the assists pet game for Giggs v the goals per game for Mane:


    Clean sheets stats for a winger? hahaha
  • Carlo Ancelotti is about to become the first manager to win the league title in all of Europe’s top 5 leagues. 
  • Carlo Ancelotti is about to become the first manager to win the league title in all of Europe’s top 5 leagues. 
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  • Carlo Ancelotti is about to become the first manager to win the league title in all of Europe’s top 5 leagues. 
    AC Milan 2004
    Chelsea 2010
    PSG 2013
    Bayern Munich 2017
    Real Madrid 2022
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  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Sage said:
    Carlo Ancelotti is about to become the first manager to win the league title in all of Europe’s top 5 leagues. 
    AC Milan 2004
    Chelsea 2010
    PSG 2013
    Bayern Munich 2017
    Real Madrid 2022
    Think we should go for him if we can't get Dyche? 
    No thanks, we need an experienced up and coming manager who’s been promoted from League 1 several times before.
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Sage said:
    Carlo Ancelotti is about to become the first manager to win the league title in all of Europe’s top 5 leagues. 
    AC Milan 2004
    Chelsea 2010
    PSG 2013
    Bayern Munich 2017
    Real Madrid 2022
    Think we should go for him if we can't get Dyche? 
    he'll be doing porridge with big dunc
  • The late American musician Gil Scott-Heron's father was the Jamaican footballer Gil Heron, the first black player to play for Celtic
  • Yes but Port Vale have not beaten themselves yet. 
    We manage to on a regular basis.
  • 11 countries get at least one club qualifying direct into next season's UEFA Champions League group stage. One of those places was reserved for Russia, which is the 8th ranked country, but which has just been kicked out. So the countries below them all shuffle up one, and a place in the group stage goes to the 12th ranked country. Which happens to be Ukraine.
  • Charlton once had a manager for 15 years, not 30 games
  • Sunderland are the only English club to win a major domestic trophy during the reign of every single monarch since football started in this country.

    Watford have only been relegated once since we got relegated from the premier league. 
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Sunderland are the only English club to win a major domestic trophy during the reign of every single monarch since football started in this country.

    Watford have only been relegated once since we got relegated from the premier league. 
    That second one isn't true anymore 
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Sunderland are the only English club to win a major domestic trophy during the reign of every single monarch since football started in this country.

    Watford have only been relegated once since we got relegated from the premier league. 
    That second one isn't true anymore 
    True but everyone calls them a yo yo club.
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  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Sunderland are the only English club to win a major domestic trophy during the reign of every single monarch since football started in this country.

    Watford have only been relegated once since we got relegated from the premier league. 
    That second one isn't true anymore 
    True but everyone calls them a yo yo club.
    Aye, have to admit I had a Google as was sure this was their third relegation. Admittedly they did also get relegated same season as us too 
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Only Raul Jimenez (4) has scored more Premier League goals at Molineux this season than Kevin de Bruyne.
    Wasn't true for long, equal now!
  • Don’t know if this has been mentioned.
    Zlatan Ibrahimovic once failed a trail at QPR in 2002 for telling the coach to F**k off.!
  • Don’t know if this has been mentioned.
    Zlatan Ibrahimovic once failed a trail at QPR in 2002 for telling the coach to F**k off.!
    I know he refused a trial at Arsenal saying he "didn't do auditions".
  • Watford have now beaten PSG's record of 62 nutmegs in a single season and are now on 66 nutmegs for the season. 🥜

  • Charlton intend to appoint the next manager before October 2022
    This isn’t fantasy football.
  • Mason Mount has now played in six major finals at Wembley in the space of three years... and lost all six.

    2019 Championship playoff final
    2020 FA Cup final
    Euro 2020 final
    2021 FA Cup final
    2022 EFL Cup final
    2022 FA Cup final
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