Michael vs Michael. 🎯 What a great game.

[jstar]

Amazingly entertaining game between France and England .

Don’t go to the previous page if you still want to see the game and don’t want to know the score.

They will repeat it fully on TVRI and highlights on YT.

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[Balifrog]

I watch it in a bar this morning.
Left when I saw England leading 4 - 0 at midtime. France was not good, but luck helped England a bit.
Went back home, shower, prepare breakfast and WTH ? Score is 4 - 3 ..

I guess Didier Deschamps did some serious shouting in the changing room during the break.

Later 6 - 4

Tmrw's final is at 03:00 am, I stay in bed....

 

[jstar]

Besides these statistics the only thing stunning was the attack on Spanish players after the game. Ah yes and a Spanish player pushing Donald Trump to the side to celebrate.

 

[jstar]

The xG value you see is a statistical value which shows the goal scoring opportunity. The value between 0 and 1 stands for eXpected Goals. So if it’s 0.20 it means normally 20% would have been a goal. They add them up. Doesn’t mean a lot but becomes significant if you compare the value of the two teams.

 

[Helpful Herbert]

Finally someone beat the thuggish cheats from Argentina, despite FIFA doing absolutely everything in their power to rig the competition so that they would win.

 

[jstar]

The prize for the largest advertising stunt this year will probably go to German influencer Achraf Ait Bouzalim. Spanish football star Lamine Yamal (19) made his streetwear brand 6PM a global sensation during the last World Cup.

The Barça player occasionally lifted his shirt during the World Cup and then a 6PM boxer shorts could be seen by millions of TV viewers.

The result can be guessed. Immediately after the World Cup final against Argentina, thousands of fans wanted to buy boxer shorts through the brand's website. According to the German newspaper 'Bild', the servers could barely handle the huge demand and in no time the boxer shorts were sold out.

 

[jstar]

And Erling Haaland suddenly is also an internet phenomenon. With wearing cowboy hats and boots in Texas.

He also bought a stuffed raccoon. They’re sold out now.

 

[jstar]

One of the favorites, Jonas Vingegaard, had to leave the Tour de France. After a fall in stage 15 to Plateau de Solaison, he broke his collarbone. Several hours after he was woken up at two o'clock in the morning for a doping check. “There must be a limit somewhere on what you can do to an athlete” was a reaction in many press outlets.

There were nightly doping checks with certain cyclists: Tadej , Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard. Vingegaard was taken out of bed at 2 o'clock in the morning, Pogacar at 5 o'clock. The doping control was carried out by the French anti-doping agency AFLD (Agence Française de Lutte contre le Dopage) and therefore not by the UCI.

According to the French 'L'Équipe, those checks were carried out because there are “serious and consistent suspicions”. According to an insider: "There are doping products that are only in the blood for about three hours, and they're looking for growth hormones“.

It must be said the current achievements (read; watt that an athlete can generate per kilo of body weight) are out of the ordinary and thus suspect.

 

[Balifrog]

One of the favorites, Jonas Vingegaard, had to leave the Tour de France. After a fall in stage 15 to Plateau de Solaison, he broke his collarbone. Several hours after he was woken up at two o'clock in the morning for a doping check. “There must be a limit somewhere on what you can do to an athlete” was a reaction in many press outlets.

There were nightly doping checks with certain cyclists: Tadej , Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard. Vingegaard was taken out of bed at 2 o'clock in the morning, Pogacar at 5 o'clock. The doping control was carried out by the French anti-doping agency AFLD (Agence Française de Lutte contre le Dopage) and therefore not by the UCI.

According to the French 'L'Équipe, those checks were carried out because there are “serious and consistent suspicions”. According to an insider: "There are doping products that are only in the blood for about three hours, and they're looking for growth hormones“.

It must be said the current achievements (read; watt that an athlete can generate per kilo of body weight) are out of the ordinary and thus suspect.


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Sadly since many years doping has become generalized on the Tour de France.

 

[jstar]

Manchester United is going to move. In recent weeks, the plans for a new home have been presented, this week the English top club has bought the necessary piece of land. This brings the construction of the new football temple a little closer.

The new stadium, which will be called New Trafford, will be built 350 meters northwest of the current Old Trafford. The top club wants to play its home games in the Premier League as of the 2030/2031 season.

It will be the largest stadium in the United Kingdom. The plans show a capacity of 100,000 seats. Wembley Stadium is now the largest with 90,000 seats. Old Trafford can accommodate 74,197 supporters. The largest stadium in Europe is from FC Barcelona: the renewed Camp Nou has 105,000 seats.

The construction of the new mega stadium is expected to involve construction costs of around 2.3 billion euro. It could also make the region benefit economically and flourish, this ensures 15,000 new homes, 48,000 new jobs, better public transport connections and new shops and hotels.

 

[snpark]

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Manchester United is going to move. In recent weeks, the plans for a new home have been presented, this week the English top club has bought the necessary piece of land. This brings the construction of the new football temple a little closer.

The new stadium, which will be called New Trafford, will be built 350 meters northwest of the current Old Trafford. The top club wants to play its home games in the Premier League as of the 2030/2031 season.

It will be the largest stadium in the United Kingdom. The plans show a capacity of 100,000 seats. Wembley Stadium is now the largest with 90,000 seats. Old Trafford can accommodate 74,197 supporters. The largest stadium in Europe is from FC Barcelona: the renewed Camp Nou has 105,000 seats.

The construction of the new mega stadium is expected to involve construction costs of around 2.3 billion euro. It could also make the region benefit economically and flourish, this ensures 15,000 new homes, 48,000 new jobs, better public transport connections and new shops and hotels.

Source? All this was scrapped months ago when they said they will ask the government to pay for it and were swiftly told to eff off.

Plus everyone laughed at the plans saying it looked like a circus big tent

 

[Helpful Herbert]

It's not certain yet, because they may have bought the land but they don't yet have planning permission which may take a year or even be rejected. Secondly they want the government to help pay for it and this is not certain yet. Although considering the prime minister is the recent mayor of Manchester then the chances of that may now be higher.

 

[snpark]

Ironically OT is in Salford not Manchester. Manchester City is obviously home to the blue side who are likely to reject any idea of new stadium
And the people of Salford aren't going to want the traffic and noise etc

So I see this dragging on for a few more years. Chelsea also.