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  1. This whole controversy over tweaking the colour of the flag really is baffling considering that nobody seemed to bat an eyelid when Adidas did this at the 2012 Olympics (and it wasn't just the football team, it was every sport):
  2. Starts tonight against France and scores after six minutes. Panic over.
  3. She's Zoe Webber professionally now: https://www.canaries.co.uk/club/board-and-executive She made the switch from Ward to Webber a year or so ago, I believe.
  4. Could've sworn I've read that he grew up in South London, but if you say he grew up in Milton Keynes, I'm happy to take your word on it.
  5. I'm guessing that he means, Lewis aside, they all grew up in rough areas of London? But yeah, claiming that five young black men could've ended up in jail if not for football could easily be seen as having racist undertones as mentioned in the opening post. Such comments are probably best avoided in 2024. Not like Webber to put his foot in it during an interview, is it?
  6. Isn't Wagner known for having the most punishing preseason training schedule out of all coaches at this level?
  7. At this rate, he is going to unite Norwich and Ipswich fans in thinking that he's total waste of oxygen. Which is a shame, because he was one of the least crap players in our last Premier League season.
  8. Canada should see off Trinidad quite easily at 1/10. For BTTS, the France-Germany friendly should have goals in it.
  9. So what is the connection between Ashley Barnes and Hillsin? The article doesn't say. Is Barnes a part-owner of the horse?
  10. Interesting. A little more information here: https://www.britishhorseracing.com/disqualified-excluded-persons/ It doesn't specify what the investigation was about, but presumably this John Higgins from Devon (probably not the snooker player) was involved as well.
  11. OK, not sure where to start with this, but here goes... Düsseldorf would surely have to be certain that there's a club out there willing to pay more than their option. A second tier German club is extremely unlikely to have €8m, give or take, to spend on a player and it'd be a stretch if they were to be promoted, which is possible but unlikely right now. Otherwise, they'd risk having to sell him on at a loss, or put their future at risk by making such a large investment, which they clearly wouldn't want to do. Unless there's that certainty of someone offering a quick profit, the deal almost certainly wouldn't happen. You also claim that Tzolis might not be happy at being moved on straight away, or might not have the commitment should he move. The clubs who are being linked with him, and who have the money to afford him, are amongst Germany's biggest. The chances of him saying 'nah mate, I don't fancy Bayern, Dortmund or Leipzig, I'd rather stay at Düsseldorf' are nil. The 'ridiculous suggestion' is that he'd turn down such a club to stay at Düsseldorf. Long story short, I'd be shocked if he plays for Düsseldorf next season. The only outside possibility of that happening would be if they got promoted and they wanted to be ambitious by spending big on Tzolis then keeping him. Realistically, the two options are that Düsseldorf sign him to flip him for a quick profit, or that Düsseldorf do not trigger the option and he returns here, in which case I'd say we're likely to sell him for a decent fee.
  12. In loans with options to buy, that's agreed as part of the initial deal. It's purely DĂĽsseldorf's option to trigger it. And as I said before, it's highly likely that DĂĽsseldorf will trigger the option to flip him at a profit, so Tzolis is unlikely to stay there anyway.
  13. At least we'll get our money back. The buy option in the loan deal is supposed to be roughly the price we paid for him, which I imagine will be triggered before Dusseldorf immediately sell him on for a quick profit.
  14. To be honest, we've done extremely well to get 80 posts in and still be this close to original topic.
  15. The size of the land is almost exactly the same size as Carrow Road: The zoom is the same for both images, and as you can see from the positions of Edward Street (top left), Botolph Street (bottom left) and the flyover (running down the right, which you can just see at the top right), the width is more-or-less identical (maybe slightly wider in the middle but narrower in the corners), although Anglia Square is probably marginally longer. Obviously we have to bear in mind that a football ground needs to be a precise length and width, and whilst I'd say that Anglia Square is a great location, it would be extremely difficult to accommodate a stadium larger than the one we presently have, although the architects who designed Brentford's new stadium in a very small, awkward space might be able to be creative enough with it. Like I said before, I'm not very familiar with the Carrow Works site, but isn't the large listed building right in the middle of it? Wouldn't that make it impossible to fit the pitch in with four stands around it? I'm quite interested in the debate though, as Norwich are moving into a new 48,000-seater stadium on my Football Manager save at the end of the season, and I've been wracking my brains figuring out where that could be!
  16. The problem is space. Are either of those sites big enough, and the right shape, to build a stadium bigger than what we already have? I think Anglia Square and the car parks next to it are roughly the same size of our current ground. I'm not as familiar with Carrow Works, but doesn't it have listed buildings on it?
  17. Norwich aside, the fact that more than half of the division have been going at one point-per-game or less over a 20+ game period is remarkable. I guess that's what happens when you have the top seven on over 1.8, but it's still an incredible stat.
  18. Onel demonstrating his strict diet which allows him to run like *** before twattlng the ball in any direction.
  19. I'd also argue that the kits for the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004 are also remembered for having their their own unique identity, but I do agree with your general point. Everything in the last 20 years has been so plain and generic.
  20. I remember looking at the Chelsea side which played in this final not too long ago and thinking what an achievement it was for our boys to win this. The Chelsea side contained Nathan Ake, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Andreas Christensen, all first team regulars for top European clubs, they had Jeremie Boga and Ola Aina, who both have around a couple of hundred appearances in Europe's 'big five' leagues plus plenty of international caps for Ivory Coast and Nigeria, as well as two good Championship players in John Swift and Lewis Baker. Chelsea were also very dominant in the FA Youth Cup around that time, winning it seven times between 2010 and 2020, so it was one hell of an achievement for a club of our size.
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