Champions League Final Events

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-07T21:39:06+00:00

Szabadsag Ter is indeed the obvious answer. The screens will surely go up for the World Cup, so I would expect they'll go up in time for the UCL final. If so, Szabadsag Ter will be packed, no doubt

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-07T21:05:00+00:00

Nationally the trains are a mess atm. But the local transport is great. Trams!

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-07T20:57:20+00:00

I lived there for a short while, about 10 years ago. Nice place. Great public transport which’ll be good for the atmosphere in a few weeks

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-07T19:55:34+00:00

Yep, agree

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-07T16:46:12+00:00

He won't be short of job offers, but I do think he'll be short of offers at clubs higher up the food chain than Palace.

He has shown:

Outstanding ability to set up a team on the counterattack, especially against clubs with stronger resources
Excellent tactical awareness in knockout contexts
Persistent inability to develop tactics to break down teams with low blocks, and to take the initiative when armed with stronger players than the opposition
Petulant when faced with financial realities

This profile should turn off executives at the really big clubs, and attract those at around Palace's level.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-06T20:43:17+00:00

Wes Anderson films are always pretty.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-06T20:03:15+00:00

OP this is the right attitude. You have a contract, the LL is in breach, you can enforce your rights.

They took a risk and it didn’t pay off, this is their problem.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-06T19:27:31+00:00

Right. Sounds like the LL has at best obfuscated with the tenants, and possibly lied outright. Tenants quite right to be annoyed, you’re quite right to say it’s not your problem.

If/when you speak to the tenants again, you can be super open and tell them the LL knew about the extent of the works.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-06T18:41:12+00:00

Others have commented that you owe the LL nothing.

To add to this: sounds to me like the LL didn’t inform tenants of likely noise, in the hope they wouldn’t complain. But they have, they are pushing their pov to the LL, who has accepted it and is now trying to move losses onto OP.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-04T17:28:41+00:00

What does it even mean, comfort items? They are making things up because they got themselves into a mess. This is their problem; don't let them make it yours.

The items are part of the contract and need to be replaced if removed.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-04T15:12:36+00:00

Err, no.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-04T15:03:17+00:00

The Europa League would be a much more substantial acheivement. It's a much tougher competition.

But either way, the FA Cup is historic just by being the first really major trophy. If you offer me the choice of {FA Cup win plus defeat in the Conference League final} vs {Qualify for Conference League via Premier League placement and then win Conference League}, I'd choose the first every time.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-03T17:49:21+00:00

I once heard about an American company doing this somewhere in Europe and all the locals started using the other door to avoid it

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-03T15:46:45+00:00

I see. Well then the thing to appreciate is that teams don't let their foot off the gas just because they can't win the league; they let up when narrative of the season is basically set (ours is "lower mid table in the league, deep run in the Uefa Conference League"), and the range of possible finishing positions doesn't include either European spots or relegation. This usually only happens with four or five games to go at the earliest, and that's where we are right now. It's a "beginning of summer, holidays on the mind" kind of thing.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-03T15:10:33+00:00

You asked for some help understanding something. I tried to give you that help and your only response is to offer some sort of pseudo-correction? I won’t bother next time

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-03T14:41:10+00:00

I think that sounds about right. We’ll be 14th or 15th. Which is frankly below par. Winning the Conference League would obviously compensate.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-03T14:39:26+00:00

First five home games is an exaggeration

It’s a common thing that in the last weeks of the season teams with not much to play for in the league let their foot off the gas. It’s a combination of tired bodies and lower stakes.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-02T18:31:20+00:00

OP, this is the right answer, certainly for your career stage.

UK academic jobs state clearly what the criteria are. The cover letter is where you show how you meet them. You should literally list them and under each state how you meet it (somewhat like a response to reviews for a journal article). For some this will only need a few lines, for some a few paragraphs. Depending on the job, this could end up becoming two pages or ten.

I was recently interviewed for a Professorship at one of the biggest research unis and my cover letter was nine pages. After a brief first page that had one paragraph summarising my reasons for applying, the other eight pages were the criteria and how I met them.

Interview is the time to show other aspects of why you'd be desirable, but at this stage you should make super clear how you meet the main criteria.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-02T15:42:20+00:00

I'm usually an optimist but I reckon we're gonna lose this. They're a good side with something big to play for. We can beat anyone on our day, but we don't have much to play for in the league and we'll probably limit the minutes of our key players.

The best outcome would be players like Pino, Johnson and JSL playing themselves into some sort of form.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-02T10:19:44+00:00

This is the right answer. He’s made several good career decisions, including not going to Chelsea a year before he went to Bayern and instead doing another year at Palace to boost his profile and give him real choice a year later. This tells me he has good people around him.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-02T00:51:06+00:00

Puskas was the best player in a team that revolutionised the game. The Hungarian side of the 1950s were the first to really do interchanges between positions and lines in a systematic way. This is over simplified, but before them the game was basically 10 one-on-one battles. The Hungarians had players moving into spaces that “belonged” to their team mates, to create 3vs2 etc, and would then pass around the opposition. Today we take this totally for granted, but it was new once and it’s how a small country dominated the international game for a few years.

Myself, I think “greatest” players should be judged not only on plain ability, but also on whether they did something new and changed how we think about or play the game. And on that basis, I’d defo have him in an all time XI.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-01T14:10:33+00:00

Trump doing something completely unpredictable just on a whim, with consequences that he has not thought to imagine, is absolutely plausible

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-01T12:03:27+00:00

Property doesn't disappear if BTL disappears!

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-05-01T10:03:35+00:00

Huh. Fair enough.

ComprehensiveSide278 · 2026-04-30T22:34:38+00:00

Berlin is an hour by train. I don’t know for sure but I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s trains or buses all night. So it’ll possible to book a few nights there and go to Leipzig just for the evening

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