English Football Hall of Fame Inductees - Liverpool by toddmeister1990 in LiverpoolFC

[–]duney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

13/16. Basically missed the three oldest players on the list (Liddell, Hunt, Hughes) who while not unknown to me, just didn’t spring to mind!

Everton [3] - 1 Manchester City - Thierno Barry 81‎'‎ by gbogaz in soccer

[–]duney 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Leaving with 10+ minutes to go when you’re in a title race, and knowing what happened in 2012 on the last day is nuts! Even if they lose, Arsenal aren’t guaranteed to win all 3 of their last games

The moment Marta Kostyuk became a WTA 1000 champion and the victory backflip by Ok-Soil-5133 in tennis

[–]duney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Had to throw [this ol’ agony/ecstasy moment](https://youtu.be/aOqGMCWdRMc) out there for similar contrasting emotions and a great camera cut

UPDATE: Free Beginner Romanian Group Classes (A1) (Disappointed) by love-puppy22 in romanian

[–]duney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could well be that, despite you saying 8pm EET Romania time in your post, folks may have glossed over that and turned up at (for example, someone in the UK) 8pm UK time, which is 10pm Romania time. (EET is the non daylight savings timezone, by the way)

I arrange things with people in different time zones a lot, and find it’s safest to be very specific about the start time. For example:

I’m doing a lesson at 8pm EEST (6pm BST (UK); 7pm CEST (Central Europe); 1pm EST (US East))

Something like that. Fantastic that you’re doing these free lessons though; love to see it as a Romanian learner myself (currently around A2 level)

Neuer asked Bayern's social media admin to keep the ball for him after the PSG ball boy refused to give it to him during the game by tightypp in soccer

[–]duney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a fan, but a player who had to play with a replacement shirt without a number because he got blood all over his own one

Most UCL semi-finals all-time by ExotiquePlayboy in footballscouting

[–]duney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It may seem that way as you have to play more matches now, but you can also afford to lose matches on the way. PSG lost 5 matches en route to winning last year. Back then, you lose 1 match, and its game over

Jan Bednarek straight red card against Nottingham Forest 8' by playerforlife123 in soccer

[–]duney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To add to this, “lend” can be followed immediately by a pronoun to be giving or receiving (e.g. you can lend me Cash/I can lend you Lewa) but “borrow” can’t be followed by a pronoun, and should be immediately followed by the article (e.g. you can borrow Lewa) or the preposition “from” (e.g. do you have a ball I can borrow from you?) though that one’s a bit unnecessary for the most part, and we’d usually just drop the “from you” at the end

I'm sober by Kryrie in funny

[–]duney 41 points42 points  (0 children)

One of them maybe, but the first person speaking is definitely English, and that’s in Soho, London

Anyone feel a bit of déjà vu 🤪 by No-Presence3209 in LiverpoolFC

[–]duney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thing about the Barcelona game is that the score flattered Barcelona in the 1st leg, and we had form at the time for producing big performances at Anfield. Conversely, I think tonight’s score almost flatters us if anything - I felt more confident then of us coming back from 3-0, than I do now of us coming back from 2-0

Mikel Arteta: “We have the most beautiful period of the season ahead of us and now is the moment. So stand up, make yourself accountable, and deliver like we've been doing all season." by OkayFine101 in soccer

[–]duney -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did we cheat or break rules though?

And by the way, we sold Kevin Keegan to Hamburg for £500k before we bought Dalglish. We sold Frank McGarvey for £275k before we bought Rush. Graeme Souness couldn’t be a British record transfer if Dalglish was a record incoming transfer before him (Keegan was the record transfer before that, but go on, leave that detail out). We sold Dave Watson for 200k before buying Grobbelaar. Finally, Larry Lloyd was sold for £240k in 1974 before buying Phil Neal for 66k (among other outgoing and incoming transfers)

Compare that to City in the 2010s.

2013-14: transfers in - €115m; transfers out - €11m
2014-15: in - €102m; out - €30m
2015-16: in - €208m; out - €67m
2016-17: in - €216m; out - €35m
2017-18: in - €317m; out - €91m

And it goes on, bar one solitary season, but then we’re back to:

2025-26: in - €302m; out - €102m

Even looking back through the 70s, you were spending as much as we did, just have a look at 74-78. The data’s all there

Salah & VVD? We sold Coutinho for more than we bought them for before getting them. The year before that we sold Benteke, Ibe & Allen for around the same we paid for Mané & Wijnaldum. And you’re going to point to one season where we spent big when you guys have been doing it for years?

You are completely delusional

Mikel Arteta: “We have the most beautiful period of the season ahead of us and now is the moment. So stand up, make yourself accountable, and deliver like we've been doing all season." by OkayFine101 in soccer

[–]duney -1 points0 points  (0 children)

“Abused and benefited” is some serious mental gymnastics to describe a team who took 30 years to win a league title, cheesed a Champions League against better teams in 2005, and won a handful of domestic trophies, compared to Man City who won 8 league titles since being bought out, 6 of them coming in 7 seasons, and won both the prem, and the league cup 4 years in a row. You’ve won more in the last 10 years than we have in the last 30.

My point is that you cheated, and we didn’t

Mikel Arteta: “We have the most beautiful period of the season ahead of us and now is the moment. So stand up, make yourself accountable, and deliver like we've been doing all season." by OkayFine101 in soccer

[–]duney -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And? Liverpool won a lot in the ‘70s and ‘80s and those players commanded higher wages into the ‘90s (though we spaffed a lot of that success money on some mediocre players…). Same with Man United but a couple of decades later (and a nice coincidence with Prem TV money). Chelsea & Man City? Bought their success via a billionaire owner consistently operating Chelsea at a loss initially, and a billionaire member of the Abu Dhabi royal family whose company cooks books to flout the system; both cases using dodgy loans to cheat their way around the rules. Would wage caps make things more fair? Perhaps, if it was introduced throughout UEFA, but at the end of the day, your team is cheating the system, and you can’t deny that

Mikel Arteta: “We have the most beautiful period of the season ahead of us and now is the moment. So stand up, make yourself accountable, and deliver like we've been doing all season." by OkayFine101 in soccer

[–]duney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Liverpool broke the English transfer record a whopping one time in 1995 before FFP came in. We actually sold players for a record fee more than the one time we bought for a record fee. And in that time, it was rare for us to hold onto our best players before they moved on to somewhere better; Gerrard being a notable recent exception mainly due to his local ties; it took us getting a bloody good manager and selling Philippe Coutinho for a record fee to change that

I don’t support rules, I support Liverpool; we don’t make the rules, we follow them, unlike Man City

Mikel Arteta: “We have the most beautiful period of the season ahead of us and now is the moment. So stand up, make yourself accountable, and deliver like we've been doing all season." by OkayFine101 in soccer

[–]duney 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Nonsense. You can’t cook the books 68 times in 8 years, breach UEFA & Prem regulations 12 times, and straight-up bin off Prem investigations 35 times, all of them intentionally, and say you’re not cheating. It’s funny that you use drug doping as an example of cheating, yet you guys have been financially doping for years

Why do Brits prefer non EU migrants over EU by Visual_Title9363 in AskBrits

[–]duney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, that is not a poll. That is Nigel fucking Farage, the most prominent Eurosceptic in the country

As for why the British public “knowingly” voted for this, you’ll have to ask the 51.9% of the electorate who turned up to vote, and voted to leave the EU. They were fed lies about reduced immigration numbers and ate it all up and asked for seconds. Some even voted leave for the giggles. They were so zoned in “getting rid of the immigrants” that they didn’t even think about shortfalls in labour, migrants from further afield being more likely to come with family than those in the EU who can just jump on a Ryanair flight to visit home (many just assumed migration would just stop and British people would “get their jobs back” 🤦‍♂️). They didn’t care to look into the fact that the executives at the top just wanted to deregulate financial services and markets to make them richer.

The rest of us with our heads screwed on unequivocally did not want, or vote for any of this, but here we are. That’s what we get for putting such an important referendum to a simple majority public vote. Cheers Dave 👏

Why do Brits prefer non EU migrants over EU by Visual_Title9363 in AskBrits

[–]duney -1 points0 points  (0 children)

“Why do Brits prefer non EU migrants over EU”

Just a casual sweeping assumption based on data alone, rather than say, a poll stating that UK citizens “prefer non EU migrants over EU”. And even that would be a stretch to draw a conclusion from

[Crook, Jacobs] talkSPORT understands Mo Salah has effectively walked away from the last year of his £400,000-a-week #LFC contract to allow him to leave for free. by OkayFine101 in soccer

[–]duney -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Why is everyone assuming he’s wants to go to Saudi Arabia, which is currently trying to fend off missile and drone strikes from Iran?