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The 2015-2016 Football Thread

Gladbach delayed Bayern's men's "Meister"-title with a 1:1 draw.

But... Bayern's Women are "Meister" of the League three match days before season ends 12 points ahead of the 2nd rank (though 2nd rank Wolfsburg has one match more to play, to be fair). Last year Bayern ended the season as first (first time after 37 years) with 1 point ahead of rank 2.
Bayern however got beat by FC Twente 2:2 via away rule in CL in the last round before 1/8 final.
They also lost 1:2 against SC Sand (6th of league) in the half final of the DFB-Cup.

I tried to find the summary I saw on the public news, but there is only the whole match (might be boring though). Two of the goals were pin-ball goals. Leverkusen has a severe problem trying not to be an unorganised crowd in front of the own box and being pins, Wolfburg made a flipper goal against them, too.
http://www.br.de/radio/b5-aktuell/sendungen/b5-sport/fc-bayern-damen-gegen-leverkusen-100.html
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Leicester might not have had many injuries over the course of the season, but now - as the season draws to a close, they are shedding players almost weekly as red cards are flashed.
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Having watched Match of the Day, I'd be surprised if they haven't now lost HOOF!!! for the remainder of the season.

But... I can't see them falling short now. Chelsea will be desperate to prevent Spurs from winning the league, and I think Leicester are 18 hours away from the title.
 
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mojolicious said:
Having watched Match of the Day, I'd be surprised if they haven't now lost HOOF!!! for the remainder of the season.

But... I can't see them falling short now. Chelsea will be desperate to prevent Spurs from winning the league, and I think Leicester are 18 hours away from the title.
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A really rather lovely story has been reported about Claudio Ranieri; it seems that he has made arrangements (probably from quite some time ago) to head off to Italy today to take his 96 year old mother to lunch, and will be in the sky - en route back to the UK - when the Spurs v Chelsea match is on - and thus, as he charmingly remarked "I will be the last person to know the result." Terrific.

In a piece over the week-end the Guardian described him as 'a principled and gentle man', and it seems too, that - professionally - he is about to be vindicated.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
A really rather story has been reported about Claudio Ranieri; it seems that he has made arrangements (probably from quite some time ago) to head off to Italy today to take his 96 year old mother to lunch, and will be in the sky - en route back to the UK - when the Spurs v Chelsea match is on - and thus, as he charmingly remarked "I will be the last person to know the result." Terrific.

In a piece over the week-end the Guardian described him as 'a principled and gentle man', and it seems too, that - professionally - he is about to be vindicated.
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He has his priorities in order, taking Mom to lunch is a good thing. Getting ready to watch the match today, cheering for Chelsea.
 
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JamesMike said:
He has his priorities in order, taking Mom to lunch is a good thing. Getting ready to watch the match today, cheering for Chelsea.
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Agreed.

And - as a mentoring manager, who instructs by encouragement and example rather than by bullying (the Guardian also referred to his 'small ego') - this is also an interesting lesson (a lesson taught, not by talking, but quite simply and naturally, by doing) to the players on the team he manages.

Priorities, such as building and maintaining close and affectionate ties with your family, - and offering an elegant and thoughtful example of how to defuse tension on what must be an exciting - yet stressful - night, are all lessons well worth learning.
 
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I can't wait to see the reaction in Leicester when tot fail to beat Chelsea. I have my computer watching a live feed of a webcam in Leicester shopping center.
 
Leicester City are champions, after an astonishing (and wildly - insanely - dramatic) 2-2 draw between Spurs and Chelsea.

This is wonderful - a triumph for stuff such as hope and optimism and romance. Yes, I'm delighted.
 
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Didn't see that final scoreline coming at half-time. Hard lines, Spurs, after playing some tremendous football throughout the season, but the answer to the question is still no, thank Dennis.
 
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Any chance that nine bookings might result in a points deduction?

EDIT: Previous record was eight bookings for West Ham vs QPR in 2012; no points deduction there. Seemingly requires a proper punch-up between multiple players, rather than individual fouls, for lack of discipline to cost a team anything more than a fine.
 
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Unbelievable
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If Leicester can win the title, I can win the Powerball.
 
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Irrespective of what happens in the rest of their careers, - or whatever else they may win - those players are legends in Leicester, and Claudio Ranieri will be venerated in the city until his dying day.

Indeed, in half a century, there will be people who will recall where they were and what they were doing when they learned this. As will the players themselves.

Congrats indeed to Leicester - nice to see a fairy tale come true.
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Apple fanboy said:
Well done Leicester. A well deserved leauge win now Chelsea have held (dirty) Spurs to a draw. Spurs had 9 players booked.

Premier leauge.
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Indeed. Premier League, or, the old First Division, in more prosaic (and less greedy) times.

Didn't wish to be too pedantic (I'd be equally illiterate and magisterially uninformed on US terms to describe their respective competitions and whatever titles are borne by those who have won them.)
 
dogslobber said:
Good luck to Leicester in the post-season play offs!
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There are no 'play offs'. Not in the Premier League. Leicester have won.

They have two more matches to play, - as have everyone else in the Premiership - but - no matter what the results are, nobody can catch them.

The remaining matches will decide who will take third, fourth and fifth place - Tottenham should take second. And the FA Cup Final has also yet to be played - a place in Europe will await the victors.

And, at the bottom, there will be a savage fight for survival as two out of three teams languishing at the foot of the table will inevitably relegate.

Now, in the lower divisions, yes, there are play offs as the top placed teams fight for promotion. The first and second placed teams are promoted automatically to the next (higher) division for the following season.

The next four teams - those placed from third to sixth - must play a (complicated) series of play offs to decide which of them gains the single promotion spot that remains.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
There are no 'play offs'. Leicester have won.

They have two more matches to play, - as have everyone else in the Premiership - but - no matter what the results are, nobody can catch them.

The remaining matches will decide who will take third, fourth and fifth place - Tottenham should take second. And the FA Cup Final has also yet to be played - a place in Europe will await the victors.

And, at the bottom, there will be a savage fight for survival as two out of three teams languishing at the foot of the table will inevitably relegate.
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This is confusing. Your post-season "FA Cup Final" is different from your regular season and can end up with TWO different winners. That's insane and is it any wonder Americans could care less about soccer?
 
dogslobber said:
This is confusing. Your post-season "FA Cup Final" is different from your regular season and can end up with TWO different winners. That's insane and is it any wonder Americans could care less about soccer?
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Says a person from a country where the people can vote for one person but the electoral college can decide to go with another lol at you.

Lol at hand egg or frooty rugby as we say
 
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Ironduke said:
Says a person from a country where the people can vote for one person but the electoral college can decide to go with another lol at you.
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Where's the sense in a soccer season made up of multiple World Champions? The team that wins that post-season FA Final has the same prestige as the regular season divisional group winners. It would make more sense if the winners of the 4 divisions were the post season playoffs. Then the fans might understand it.

Lol at hand egg or frooty rugby as we say
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I've no idea what you mean here.
 
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This is confusing. Your post-season "FA Cup Final" is different from your regular season and can end up with TWO different winners. That's insane and is it any wonder Americans could care less about soccer?
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These are two different competitions. One is the League and the other is the Cup.

What is insane about it? They both go back to the nineteenth century - the FA Cup is the oldest cup competition in the world.

And, with respect, - thank you for such a graceless and patronising post - I couldn't give two hoots if you, (or those you claim to speak for on your landmass continent) didn't care about soccer.

Anyway, it is possible to have a single team winning both in the one year but it is very unusual……(Preston North End and Aston Villa managed it in the 19th century, - 1889 and 1897 - and Spurs (1961), and Arsenal (1971, 1998, 2002), Liverpool (1986) and Manchester United (1994, 1996, 1999) have all done it.

However, the teams that succeed in doing this are usually at a (rare and brief) peak of extraordinary dominance of the domestic game.

Nevertheless, it is far more usual to have two different teams win each of the competitions each year.
 
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