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  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,518
    Sadio Mane has now scored as many PL goals as Ryan Giggs, but in 374 fewer games
  • Jonniesta
    Jonniesta Posts: 1,152
    We could still finish top-half.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    Rufus is a dogs name said:
    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:


  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    edited April 2022
    Also impressed Giggs kept 173 clean sheets.

    *Insert brother's wife joke here* (ah, hold on... wheres that Bold button....)
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    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.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,448
    North Lower Neil said:
    Rufus is a dogs name said:
    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
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
    Carlo Ancelotti is about to become the first manager to win the league title in all of Europe’s top 5 leagues. 
  • arny23394
    arny23394 Posts: 1,180
    stackitsteve said:
    Carlo Ancelotti is about to become the first manager to win the league title in all of Europe’s top 5 leagues. 
    🤨
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    stackitsteve 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
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Sage said:
    stackitsteve 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? 
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  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Sage said:
    stackitsteve 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.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Sage said:
    stackitsteve 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
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,518

  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    The late American musician Gil Scott-Heron's father was the Jamaican footballer Gil Heron, the first black player to play for Celtic
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    addick1956 said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    guinnessaddick said:
    Aren't there 92 teams in the Football League? 
    Yes but Port Vale have not beaten themselves yet. 
    We manage to on a regular basis.
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,639
    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.
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,884
    Charlton once had a manager for 15 years, not 30 games
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    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. 
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    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
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    cafcfan1990 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.
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  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Cafc43v3r said:
    cafcfan1990 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
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Only Raul Jimenez (4) has scored more Premier League goals at Molineux this season than Kevin de Bruyne.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    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!
  • SouthLondonisRed
    SouthLondonisRed Posts: 569
    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.!
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    SouthLondonisRed said:
    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".
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Watford have now beaten PSG's record of 62 nutmegs in a single season and are now on 66 nutmegs for the season. 🥜

  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    addick1956 said:
    Charlton intend to appoint the next manager before October 2022
    This isn’t fantasy football.
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,518
    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
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    We had the joint top scorer in the FA Cup.


  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,633
    North Lower Neil said:
    We had the joint top scorer in the FA Cup.



    Not true.

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