yes

but first-- bayern-hoffenheim play in... let's see...

less than 2 hours!

very curious about new manager niko kovac

see: https://www.bavarianfootballworks.co...rentin-tolisso

This. Such a great book.

One of the funniest bits is Kompany talking to the kids about Mandela.

"Mandela was sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit"
Kid holds his hand up "what was his crime?"
"His crime was being black"

Had to do a double take at that one.

haaa haaa yes mandela

and watching the game at his in-laws? hahahahahaha

priceless

fucking hoffenheim keeps hatcheting down bayern's attackers

first lewandowski, then coman, then ribéry a couple of times, now coman again looking to be subbed out

coman crying in his hands and ribéry whispering in his ear. fucksakes. what a way to start the season.

4 yellow cards so far but a couple of them were straight reds for me

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now the ref went card-crazy and gave mueller a yellow

wtf lolol. chaos!

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shit, i missed a goal

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lotta VAR ha ha ha

really nice first half wolves v. man city

not a boring moment

a couple of kompany fuckups could have cost city goals (one happened and was disallowed)

rui patricio saved a glorious sterling shot

man city are great obviously but im really liking wolves

your austrian is paying...

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...old dortmund catches up. sorry about that.

Another red card for Everton and a ridiculous in my eyes. Unbelievable. At least West Ham are holding off Arsenal.

i saw a replay of the headbutt. would not wanna fight that guy lol

Everton that -_-

my condolences to demonyo for the table position. you can keep cool though cuz it’s early in the season and you had the tough matches upfront.

for anyone keeping an eye on bundesliga (cuz it’s still great), today’s dortmund-leipzig game should be a good one.

dortmund’s new manager is lucien favre, who is a habitual musical chair player in bundesliga teams and once took a struggling monchengladbach from the bottom of the table to the champions league. also went to france and took nice to the champions, and recently almost (lol) went to work at everton.

dortmund fans HATE leipzig and usually refuse to attend matches due to the astroturf nature of the red bull club. i’m sure there will be some kind of something.

what else. watch timo werner actually score goals today?

more curious about dortmund though. so many changes lately and sokratis gone to arsenal, schurrle to fulham, batshuayi back to chelse, and no incoming forwards...?

1-1 at 20’... pretty good match so far

belgian axel witsel joined dortmund this year & looks very much into it

also timo benched

4-3-3 vs 4-2-2-2

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3-1 dortmund ahead and halftime about to end. witsel! awesome goal

before it was reus goalkik that was defended wrong by a lepizig defender and og.

pulisic getting fouled tons fucksakes—

so, yeah—halftime! new trainsfers in doing great, e.g. denmark’s delaney who headbutted what ended bing witsel’s bicycle kick score

Gotta say WH deserved a point yesterday. The game was absolute crap: both teams competing for worst defence in the Prem divided only by a silly goal to give Arsenal the lead then a sucker punch as we had to come out looking for an equaliser.

I only saw that game so if anyone watched more and has seen a worst team yet in the Prem (or ideally 3) please let me know as it looks increasingly like it's gonna be one of those seasons again for WH. Right now I'm banking on at least Huddersfield.

dahoud -> sancho -> reus golazo to cap the game

& reus’ 100th bundesliga goal

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re: west ham, i saw a good contest in the first half but by the end of the game your team seemed to have lost the rudder

i dont know about “worst” teams. wolves is supposed to be a minow but i find them to be highly watchable. with bielsa in the championship, a relegation is not that disgraceful is it?

but anyway i dont know really. the game was a bit boring and i spaced a few swaths of it. but from what i saw arsenal was better, sorry, i think they earned it.

Wolves look better than I expected.

I agree about losing the rudder at the end but by then we were just going all out for the point. And WH's defence is a mess in the best of circumstances, force us to chase a game and it falls apart completely. But I was a bit more impressed with Anderson this week, after last week's car crash and you have to love Arnie.

I've no disrespect for the championship, and in some ways I even prefer it to the Prem, but the way things are at the club financially the consequences of relegation are just too horrific to even consider as an option.

wolves are awesome. their 5 man backline so well organized in defense. their passing and attacking great. that neves kid. joao moutinho. a+++ will buy again. wanted to se last week but the service didnt let me.

re: west ham, can guess the money situation —debt (including the stadium), plus a reduced revenue, would tank ya.

then again it could be a good thing— sell the stadium, pay back the debt, go back to boleyn or whatevers called (if it’s still standing) ( was it boleyn??) be able to afford the tickets again! get bielsa, even!

but no i get it ok. thats likely unrealistic.

so... anyway you’ve had tough matches— except for burned mouth which i did not see, ok, that was a wasted opportunity i guess, but have a little patience.

boleyn GROUND. o fuck, it was demolished!

but look, pellegrini is confident:

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...-a3920616.html

have some patience!

having said that—pellegrini’s 70s hairstyle does not inspire me confidence. o well, ha ha ha.

looked at the financial situation and it’s pretty good!

no doomsday scenario....

major lender is the owner himself!

Issues specific to the club relating to the stadium make the financial situation far worse than they should be. I don't pretend to understand all of it but there are some business accountants who post on some of the West Han sites I go on and they look at the financial statements the club has to publish each year and they say its murky as fuck. West Ham have been one long legal battle since pretty much the start of the millennium.

But back to the football. I suppose I agree with Pellegrini. I think we'll improve and I definitely want us to play in the style he's pushing. I think the alarm bells rang with the second half against Bournemouth, and again the 2nd half against Arsenal. But this is a horrible run in. for your 1st 7 games to include Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U, and Spurs, and also Everton away, which we just don't win ever. That's harsh, but then hopefully when we have the easier run around oct-nov, hopefully the likes of Anderson and Fredericks and Dioppe will have found their feet. It's arguably better to hit form in a relatively easy easy run, but the fear, with the run they'll have just come out of, is that their confidence might've completely gone by then.

Either way Wolves next saturday will be huge.