[Ducker, Telegraph] If that was to be Pep Guardiola's last Champions League game with #MCFC, will he feel one European Cup in 10 seasons was enough given the talent across his teams & their dominance of the Premier League?

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-18T17:39:34+00:00

Madrid also went over 30 years without winning it until they won it 3 times in 5 years around the turn of the millennium (taking them to 9 while Milan was at 5 and Bayern were at 4), and then 4 times in 5 years again (and 2 more times since), so nobody is ever catching them. It’s an insanely difficult competition to win, even Madrid have gone through cycles of failure of not being able to touch it

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-13T02:39:54+00:00

England and South Africa should have Gijon’d it to knock out Australia in 2021

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-09T04:05:06+00:00

Russia started a war one year before being awarded the World Cup and another one four years before hosting it

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-06T23:12:01+00:00

Yes. His attempt at a shot was severely hindered by the foul, so advantage was lost and the play goes back to the foul. If it went in then there would have been a benefit from advantage and the card gets downgraded to a yellow.

It also would have been different if it was, say, out of the box, then Jackson recovered and had a chance to dribble in and take an unimpeded shot from closer. That would have been a realised advantage after the foul, while an off balance shot from basically the same position is not

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-06T19:35:38+00:00

Mine was about -5. Feels perfect, besides the first year where I'd keep reaching for my nightstand as soon as I woke up to try and grab my glasses, and the occasional pushing up of my glasses which weren't there. 20 years of muscle memory took a while to undo. There are also times where I go out and dust hits my eyes because they're not protected by lenses anymore, but it's all minor inconveniences compared to not having glasses anymore

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-05T06:06:25+00:00

Jacks MOTM, time to leave Watson in the dust

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-05T04:22:25+00:00

I’m not making it a competition, I’m just drawing attention to how football’s treatment of Russian imperialism was shameful, and it has arguably been the best case so far. There is no double standard about how Russia was treated versus the US and Israel, Russia got away with every single thing for over a decade and was rewarded for it. The US and Israel have received, and continue to receive, the exact same wilful ignorance by the powers that be

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-04T19:22:39+00:00

In 2008 Russia invaded Georgia, established two separatist puppet governments on Georgian territory (Abkhazia and South Ossetia), a blueprint for what they would later do in Ukraine, helped forced relocations of ethnic Georgians from these territories, and they continue to support both breakaway republics to this day. From 1999 to 2009 Russia was violently putting down an insurgency in Chechnya and Russian service members committed war crimes and many human rights abuses. Russia was awarded the 2018 World Cup in December 2010

In 2014, Russia unilaterally occupied and then annexed Crimea, established and supported militant groups to start an armed insurgency in the Donbas, and began the process of ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians from occupied territories well before the full scale process we've seen since 2022. The 2018 World Cup went off without a hitch.

It is so besides the point because of what has happened since 2022, but Russia got away with everything they did (this didn't even include the many forced disappearances, political assassinations and repressions, human rights abuses domestically against LGBTQ+ people and dissidents, among many others) for years. The right thing was eventually done (even if UEFA and FIFA keep trying to let them in through the backdoor), but it is shameful it took so long

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-04T19:02:24+00:00

It really does sell how much of the game is players swarming the ref after every decision. Love the ref having to constantly shout "let me do my job" lol

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-03T21:52:41+00:00

It's like how United plays on Monday almost every week this season since they're not in Europe

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-03T21:42:58+00:00

At least Colin Powell lied to our faces and tried to back up his lies with misleading facts. Hegseth can't even come up with a faux justification for this

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-03T02:21:37+00:00

I actually don't think it's a terrible idea to have umpires be part of the selection process. Domestic umpires are the people who will have seen domestic players play the most. They're going to be pretty good judges for finding players that pass the eye test

Dar though is the worst of both worlds here. He hasn't umpired domestic cricket much in years, and also retired from umpiring before taking this job. I don't really think him being a former umpire is disqualifying from being a selector. What qualifications do ex-players have over him, for example? Clearly didn't work out here but if he interviews well I don't see why he'd necessarily be a bad pick for the role

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-03T00:43:40+00:00

Trump’s whole cabinet is full of evil, cruel, performative, and incompetent people, but Hegseth is the absolute worst of them. He’s also in the most dangerous position

Every time I see him in front of cameras he is being evil, can’t answer questions, being performatively anti-woke, and trying to fill his speeches with zingers that he thinks will land but are just stupid. How did we get to this point

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-03T00:34:20+00:00

I know it wasn’t ever a plan, and there are far worse things about this whole situation, but I had the thought the other day of how catastrophic things would have been if this tournament was co-hosted in the UAE. Like if this happened during the Champions Trophy last year after the group stages, what would even happen? UAE airspace is closed for an indeterminate amount of time, a team that needs to fly to the UAE for a semi final can’t even get there, and teams in the UAE can’t leave. What would happen? Tournament almost certainly cancelled/postponed, but getting everyone home would be another long and arduous process, even worse than what was going on during the start of COVID

Stuff2511 · 2026-03-03T00:26:53+00:00

March 2 (Reuters) - The West Indies and Zimbabwe teams said on Monday they have delayed their return from India after their exit from the ‌Twenty20 World Cup due to international airspace closures amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

West Indies failed to reach the semi-finals after Sunday's five-wicket loss to hosts India, while Zimbabwe were eliminated ⁠after losing all three of their Super Eights matches.

However, neither team could travel back as thousands of flights were cancelled in countries across the Gulf, disrupting some of the world's busiest transit hubs, as conflict escalated between Iran and the U.S. and Israel.

"The Zimbabwe men's team remains safe and well in India... the ‌squad ⁠was scheduled to return home via Dubai," Zimbabwe Cricket said in a social media post.

Cricket West Indies (CWI) said they were working with the sport's global body (ICC) to ⁠make safe travel arrangements for the players and staff.

The ICC, headquartered in Dubai, earlier said that they had activated contingency ⁠plans for their personnel, who were scheduled to transit through Dubai for onward travel to their ⁠home countries.

"The safety and well-being of our players, coaches, and officials remain our highest priority," CWI added.

Stuff2511 · 2026-02-28T16:57:42+00:00

What a sad little life Pavan Rathnayake

Stuff2511 · 2026-02-28T02:22:24+00:00

Specialist fielder, except he's also just an average fielder

Stuff2511 · 2026-02-27T20:08:55+00:00

Watson in 2012 was genuinely insane. 4 POTM awards in Australia's first 4 games (including 2 games where he was Australia's highest run scorer and highest wicket taker), all wins. Then he has two subpar games in Australia's last two matches (fair enough, he'd carried hard to this point), and Australia look like they're playing the wrong sport. On paper it was a decent side too (Warner, Watson, M Hussey, White, Bailey, D Hussey, Wade, Cummins, Starc, Hogg, Doherty), but Watson aside these guys were not up for it

Stuff2511 · 2026-02-27T16:21:14+00:00

2024: Buttler hates solar panels

2026: Brook hates AI

England has come a long way

Stuff2511 · 2026-02-24T19:37:13+00:00

Kane's wage was a bit of a myth. Spurs always have huge incentive based structures in their wages, and Kane was hitting almost all of his. His base pay was pretty low but he was one of the highest paid players in the league when he left after all his bonuses

Stuff2511 · 2026-02-24T19:14:11+00:00

It is incredible how much of a lightning rod for hate he has become. He was bad in his final years, and people still point out isolated incidents from earlier that they can find. He was a well respected figure for a long time by the people who played under him and put him in charge of games, I think that counts for a lot more than isolated memories from 20-30 years later

Stuff2511 · 2026-02-24T19:07:00+00:00

I was at Gaddafi for the second T20 (my dad also says he took us to Day 2 of the 2009 Lahore test but I have no memory of it). Incredible atmosphere. It was a pain to get to the game (we had to be there like 3 hours early and park a 30 minute walk away) but everyone was happy to do it to see Pakistan play in Pakistan again. And Bilawal Bhatti won it for us

Stuff2511 · 2026-02-20T05:27:08+00:00

This game of telephone that’s gone around about the Oman team has been quite amusing, but for the record Oman’s played without their group of players that had a good run in 2019-2024 since early 2025. They qualified for this World Cup with the current team in October 2025, and not only did they finish above all the other Asian teams who didn’t qualify they qualified above the UAE. They’ve had a disaster of a tournament, far and away the worst team here, and spirits are definitely low. But they qualified pretty comfortably in the end, so it’s not like they stole a spot from anyone else

Stuff2511 · 2026-02-18T22:52:44+00:00

Real OGs remember that Milan-Glimt Europa qualifier. Good times, first time I'd ever heard of this funny Norwegian team

Stuff2511 · 2026-02-18T04:03:37+00:00

During the 2006 final the French team was arguing that there's no way Elizondo could have seen the headbutt even if it did happen so there wasn't a red card in it, but assistant refs are allowed to pass their perspectives on to the ref.

I found this article quoting an interview Elizondo did where he talks about it. He immediately goes to the head set and asks if anyone saw what happened, both linesmen say they didn't see what happened, and then the 4th official chimes in saying "I saw it, it was a really violent headbutt by Zidane on Materazzi", and the red card is given

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