Month: May 2024
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Never good enough to be a winner, not even good enough to finish second… who are the managers who scrape third place the most often? Oh, shit, it’s me! (FIVE, if I manage it again this season.) Keeping me company,…
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You’ve got to be in it to win it, so there’s no disgrace at all in finishing second in the table (even if it might be a bitter pill at the time). It’s no surprise, therefore, to see that many…
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Unsurprisingly, Scott Mckenzie leads the way. His EIGHT D1 titles alone would be more than enough, but he’s since added two more with Sao Paulo as he’s taken them from the bottom of D5 to the brink of the top…
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83 points needed to guarantee the title… the maximum points both Chelsea or Hellas Verona can get is 83…. Of course, they meet at Stamford Bridge in the final game of the season! it would be a sixth title for…
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The bottom half of D1: 38 points needed to avoid the sack, 43 to avoid relegation…. Villa and Valencia are already down. The lowest points totals ever for 20th was Southampton’s 12 last season, while Schalke amassed a meagre 21…
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Ten teams are still plausibly in with a chance to go up from D2 with five games left to play: 57 points has been enough in recent seasons to guarantee a playoff place. Realistically, the final two playoff spots are…
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Thursday will mark Espanyol Manager Glen Mullan’s 300th game in charge. As the clubs longest serving Manager the days of the club being on “life support” are long gone with the brightest of futures secured with a conveyor belt of…
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46 points are usually required to guarantee avoiding the bottom three and the sack in D2, and this season I expect it will be a few points less. The table now, with five games to play: Werder Bremen are as…
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The top half of D3 with five games to go: With 60 points needed to be sure of a playoff place, the current top four look sure to have that covered. Zagreb looked to be running away with it at…
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Five games left, this is the bottom of D3: With 45 points needed to be 100% sure to avoid relegation, we can be sure that Gladbach are gone, and their manager Ken jumped two games ago before he was pushed.…
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