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Unpopular opinion: I think a good 80% of the stuff that goes on in Scotland about mental health 'awareness' is embarrassing rubbish. But this statement, that pretty much says "aye he's mental so we don't want him at our knees-up" is appalling. Unless they meant his physical health? But that would hardly make it better.
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Outside of a few heartlands, France just isn't a football country. Marseille will always get good attendances, PSG will for as long as they're as good as they are now, but otherwise you're looking at just a few industrial centres providing decent figures. These include the north-east, particularly Lens, and St. Etienne. Clubs from properly big cities like Bordeaux and Toulouse get shameful attendances unless they're challenging for the title. Lyon have a new stadium bump but how long will that last if they go five more years without a title challenge? And after tier 1 the attendances in France completely fall off a cliff. No club from outside the north-east breaks the five figures in Ligue 2 - only Lens, Metz, and Nancy get decent attendances. Former champions Auxerre get 7,000 on a good day. I would be very surprised if tier 3 had better figures than Scottish tier 2. Tiers 4 downwards are firmly into two-men-and-a-dug territory. They just aren't really football people, and I think the fact that rugby has such a big regional following in the south might have something to do with it.
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I've been to several matches in Spain and never seen segregation enforced, even when there is a decent away crowd. (One of these games involved Real Sociedad, in fact, away from home.) They have their own section of the ground but they're also dotted among the home supporters. The same is true in Mexico. It's a bit crap, really.
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Leaving his personality completely aside, I agree that he didn't spend enough time in Scottish football to merit such a place. Weird appointment. Brian Laudrup on the other hand merited his place, he spent longer in Scotland and exemplified what was, to be fair, an excellent Rangers side. Same with Larsson for Celtic.
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Comments indicate that the few Rapid fans posting there think they were mince and the match report was too generous: https://www.krone.at/1783158 vor 2 Stunden Ich weiß nicht, hat der Privat-Links-Funk (Puls 4) den Auftrag, die teure "SPÖ-Filiale" schön zu reden? Vor allem in der 2. Hälfte war das ja überhaupt nix. Fehlpassorgien, Mittelfeld und Sturm kann keinen einzigen Ball halten, von sinnvoll verteilen red ich gar nix - Und hinten das reinste "Schwimmkonzert" - nicht umsonst haben dann individuelle Fehler die beiden Tore eingeleitet. Von "der guten Leistung", die der Moderator sah, für mich keine Spur.
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Named for Friedrich Lugwig Jahn, who founded the Turn movement - a pan-German gymnastics/fitness movement that was instrumental in binding together the German peoples in preparation for nation-statehood. For obvious reasons it's less fashionable now than it was but there are still almost five million Turner in Germany, albeit it's no longer a German nationalist pastime. There were all manner of Turnspiel organizations in the US prior to WW1, when they all but died out, once again for obvious reasons. Same with newspapers - most folded around or just after WW1, a few limped on until after WW2, and now just one remains, in New York.
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Dr. Z said he was crap and wouldn't make it, remember that?
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Celtic fucked again, didn't watch it but apparently they were very lucky to take the lead and Killie, while leaving it late, won deservedly, and not with a smash-and-grab. There's a very real chance they blow the title this season and one of Rangers or even Hearts could capitalize. What a difference a few months can make.
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Thistle have their highlights up already, albeit filmed in potat-o-vision from an altitude of around -500 meters: Should also have mentioned that current loanee Ben Docherty scored one, while former Morton youths Kevin Struthers, Creag Little, and Martin Orr started as well. It's very possible some of the other first XIs were also at Cappielow but those were the names I recognized. 5:08 for Docherty's goal. Tap-in at the far post, easy as you like, but good positioning from him. 6:55 for Knowles' first. Almost a carbon-copy of Docherty's except it was at the near post, and a very nice clipped finish on the run. 7:29 for his second, and very similar to his first! The Medda left-back had an awful day but the rest of the team wasn't up to much either. A great number of ex-Ton have played for Theesel over the years. I remember going down there and watching them against Renfrew many years ago, and Neil Shearer was at centre-back for them. Although he was a big guy he absolutely dominated and was deceptively pacy, albeit at a low level of the game. A master of the last-ditch tackle. Perfectly suited for Junior football.
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Well, he has a UK passport. Maybe he's studying or working somewhere nearby.
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Not exactly an ex-player, but Joe Knowles - the Perth Glory striker who was in on trial - scored twice on his debut for Largs Thistle today as they SWORDED Irvine Meadow 7-0 at Barrfields. Two goals in two minutes right at the end of the game after coming on as a sub. In fairness Medda are having a rotten season, 1 point and -23 goals (!) from eight games. I guess the money has run out. Hurlford still utterly running away with the West Premier.
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Attendance down to 1,751 average, down 17% from last season. Salford City, one level above, seem to have more success, with 2,734. Maybe there's something about buying success that brings out the fans in Manchester - as with, oh, everywhere else in the world. I'll say this for "FCUM", at least they're doing better than the Liverpool equivalent, who are in Step 6 (i.e. level 10) in the Northwest Counties league, alongside AFC Blackpool, AFC Darwen, and indeed one level below an even newer club called City of Liverpool FC. One day hipsters will stop forming these silly little clubs and instead get behind their local team. Although it seems that one sometimes leads to the other: the "Clapton Ultras" stopped supporting Clapton FC and instead formed Clapton Community FC, who play at a level I'm not even going to bother looking up.