there's always a game on somewhere

was just joking with friends that the safest way to finish the season would be for the managers to play out the remaining games thru an MMO Football Manager.

2019 iteration has a supremely aggravating "play one of the big dogs off the park for 89 minutes only to concede a 30 yard screamer at the last minute" thing going on

there's a piece on the Zanzibar Premier League on the World Service right now!

by the way i don't know if it's still on All 4 but the Diego Maradona documentary is really good stuff

Australia has finally shut down the A-League, bringing a close to Adam le Fondre's brief run as the world's best currently-active striker.

Transferring all my football allegiances to Shakhtyor Soligorsk in these difficult times.

Damn. Expect the next best currently-active stiker to be in Belarus then? xp

Hell of a tussle at the top of the Burundi Premier League. Musongati 4pts behind Le Messager Ngozi but with a game in hand.

by the way i don't know if it's still on All 4 but the Diego Maradona documentary is really good stuff

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thx for this noodle. watched it today, cracking stuff, tho in a time of social distancing some of the diego being mobbed in the streets wobbly hand cam footage freaked me out a little. know it's not an original thought but oh to see a peak maradona playing on 2020 pitches under 2020 rules. the number of terrible tackles he just rode and stumbled onward from was amazing.

i know! it's a really well put together film. watching the clogging he routinely got, and you think about cliches about Italian defending but imagine how much worse the average shitkicker was in England at the time. tbh i'd never spent so much time just watching how incredible his movement and control was

it's really good at opening a window into the ways football is seen and played and thought about outside the anglo bubble as well i think, which i'm as guilty of as any lazy tv fan

i spent a lot of it thinking how much my old man wouldn't have got it, the entire culture would be so alien and bad to him and all of that belied by those clips of him playing

i actually found it quite frightening, just impossible to imagine how anyone could deal with that level of adulation and expectation and of course he didn't deal with it. but yeah it was a level of fandom that i am not really familiar with tbh.

also stuff that is either badly translated or more likely i am not understanding culturally re argentina in that i think more than one contributor possibly his trainer plus a journalist refers to diego as "that little black kid"

yeah there are ilxors who'll understand that much better than me but my understanding is that South America has a lot of this kinda racial subdivision expressed thru the language, and then put that thru a translation into English and it won't be clear

https://youtu.be/xRIaHZvjipo

Korean league kicks off in just over 40mins lads.

League winners Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors vs cup winners Suwon Samsung Bluewings.

The BBC showed this live on iPlayer, don't know how many more Korean games they'll show.

Kohlenpott derby today at 15.30!

Heard Sky is giving viewers in Germany the option to add crowd noise to the broadcast lol

Wonder who’ll be the first player to be sent off for spitting