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  1. Falastur

    NYCFC Digital - Hello & NYC TBTs

    I mean...he actually only interviewed you, but that was because I tactically did not remove my fleece covering my NYCFC shirt whereas you did ;) I did, however, watch him interviewing you once I'd realised where on earth you'd gone. I also spent a few minutes chatting to Sharon Latham (MCFC's...
  2. Falastur

    Sportswashing and CFG

    I just looked at some of the other images on their instagram. They have one "analysing" a RB shirt (granted not actually "cleansing" it of the logos, but anyway. It selects the instances of the bulls on the shirt, then...associates them with the Pamplona Bull Run and flags them as "error"...
  3. Falastur

    Domènec Torrent Appointed NYCFC Head Coach (June '18) / Mutually Agree to Part Ways (November '19)

    Well I have to admit that I was sceptical when I started hearing the rumours so I clearly don't have a clue what I'm talking about. I find myself wondering what has motivated this. I had heard stories that Girona were planning to sack their manager and wanted him to come to them, which may have...
  4. Falastur

    NYCFC eSports

    I know that pro FIFA players have training partners they regularly play against, the same as pro tennis players have coaches and tend to work with one or two other locally-based pros to play competitively against each other. All the same, I suspect there's only so much you can learn from playing...
  5. Falastur

    Domènec Torrent Appointed NYCFC Head Coach (June '18) / Mutually Agree to Part Ways (November '19)

    I mean, short of anyone here actually working for CFG we can't be 100% sure. Time will tell I guess.
  6. Falastur

    Domènec Torrent Appointed NYCFC Head Coach (June '18) / Mutually Agree to Part Ways (November '19)

    Oh, it showed up originally because van Bronkhorst himself told a Dutch paper back at the start of September that he'd been spending time coaching with CFG teams. A whole load of British papers and websites then took up the story (some of them using sources to verify that he had in fact spent...
  7. Falastur

    Domènec Torrent Appointed NYCFC Head Coach (June '18) / Mutually Agree to Part Ways (November '19)

    *cough* https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/van-bronckhorst-man-city-feyenoord-16888566 Sadly this story refuses to go away, partly because goal.com love repeating rumours they hear as fact without verifying them. Note that the above article was released...
  8. Falastur

    2020 CCL

    I mean, that's the point surely? If the MLS Cup champion continues to underperform then in a future season they may not be Pot 1 at all...
  9. Falastur

    2020 CCL

    Yeah, it's nuts. I thought CONCACAF had UEFA-style club coefficients?
  10. Falastur

    New England (Away) - Postmatch

    Annoyingly I've not been able to catch a number of games recently so have missed several of our better performances recently, so it was typical that when I tuned in this time, it was to a frustrating game that saw us hog the ball but get no joy out of it. We're clearly turning into a very good...
  11. Falastur

    New England (Home) - Postmatch

    The way I saw it was it got looked at because it was close to being a penalty (or at least, a potential one, if he had actually used his hand). The ref got involved because of that possibility. By the time they realised that it was clearly not in the box, they had got distracted with the wider...
  12. Falastur

    New England (Home) - Postmatch

    So we win 2-1 and play most of the match with an extra player yet I think we can all agree that the ref almost ruined that match. 75% possession but that was due to the red card, obviously. We made a ton of chances but no-one had any eye for goal all day, aside from Medina's cute flick and...
  13. Falastur

    Stadium Discussion

    I'm going to have to say that if an account exec had been told about stadium news (thus implying that ALL of them knew) then there's a 100% chance the news would've leaked as a result - and I mean more than just one of those execs saying "we're close to an announcement". Heck, I don't even have...
  14. Falastur

    Man City Discussion

    I get what you're saying but I struggle with where I stand on this, because to me intention IS everything. There is a planet-sized gulf between someone sticking his hand out intentionally to block a shot and the ball accidentally hitting it, and if the rule is "any contact at all between ball...
  15. Falastur

    2020 & 2021 Season Ticket Thread

    It's worth saying that Melbourne City are in a precarious position where they are by far the smaller club in their city in terms of support, and the A-League has just added a third Melbourne side, who could potentially steal a large portion of what remains of their fans, many of whom are still...
  16. Falastur

    Stadium Discussion

    Not sure I'd want to sit in the upper level of the main stand, where you appear to be literally dangling over the edge of the pitch because of the crazy forward incline. I can only presume that the seating there works like a rollercoaster.
  17. Falastur

    MLS Announces New Playoff Format for 2019

    Oh I don't disagree. I've come to accept the US system for what it is. I was just playing Devil's Advocate to the claim that the play-off system made MLS more unpredictable than the top European leagues. MLS IS more unpredictable, but I reckon it's for other reasons.
  18. Falastur

    MLS Announces New Playoff Format for 2019

    (Playing Devil's Advocate here) From what I can see, though, the betting odds are just as stacked in favour of those clubs for the domestic cup competitions of those 5 countries as the league betting odds are, too. I'd honestly say it's more about how MLS doesn't have teams dominating...
  19. Falastur

    Stadium Discussion

    Is this kind of stuff not exactly what under-soil heating is for?
  20. Falastur

    UEFA Champions League 19/20

    You're right that this used to be a thing, but it died out long before the Champions League came about. Bear in mind, for instance, that Inter Milan split off from AC in 1908 over an argument over whether to sign foreign players (hence the name "Internazionale").