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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    Someone needs to call child services



    At least Adam slept with kids indoors and didnt poison them.
    Mwhahahahah

    Call the NSPCC! Forcing any kid to be a city fan in Manchester is gonna result in years of schoolyard abuse.

    On the plus side, they'll end up in lots of fights, get detention and be late for Chitty's cooking.

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    David Silva: "I’d like it [statue] at the entrance of the stadium... I’m kidding! A lot of people on social media mention that to me and that’s amazing. I can feel the gratitude from the people for what I’ve done for the club.."
    "This makes me feel very proud and means that I did things well on and off the pitch.."
    I have the perfect model for the statue.. ��





    700 days since anyone other than Man City have won a domestic trophy.. Let that sink in..
    Gotta be another record ticking on? ��







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    Famous for playing the 1956 FA cup final with a broken neck, Trautmann went from Nazi soldier to goalkeeping legend and symbol of truth and reconciliation. Now, his life is the subject of a new film



    Bert Trautmann playing for Manchester City against Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1951. Photograph: Action Images / ReutersFilm director Marcus H Rosenmüller looks out of the car window, a little spooked. “It is only one kilometre from the concentration camp,” he says. We are in a quiet, pretty, well-heeled town, a short drive from Munich. It is called Dachau.
    “It’s quite shocking to be coming to Dachau, isn’t it?” says the British producer Chris Curling. Both men agree there is something eerily appropriate about filming here. They are making a movie about the life of the legendary German Manchester City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann, who is still best known for his part in the 1956 FA Cup Final against Birmingham City. With 17 minutes of the match left, he dived at the feet of Birmingham City’s Peter Murphy, and sustained a nasty neck injury. But he continued to play, making two crucial saves as Manchester City won 3-1. Trautmann was a hero, particularly when, three days later, it was discovered that he had actually broken his neck.
    Although Trautmann never played for Germany (he was not allowed to because he played his club football in England), he was already regarded as a world-class keeper (two days before the 1956 final, the Football Writers’ Association named him footballer of the year, the first goalie to win the award). After breaking his neck, he recovered and went on to play for City for another eight years. By the time he retired in 1964, Trautmann had played 545 matches for the club.

    But Trautmann’s story is far more remarkable than his broken neck. He joined Manchester City in 1949, only four years after the end of the second world war. Hostility towards Germans was, understandably, still high. When I was growing up as a Manchester City fan, learning about Trautmann was a rite of passage. It was a good decade since he had retired, but he still represented everything that was great about City: bravery beyond the call of duty, tolerance, the new postwar world in which the German god in goal was embraced by one and all as “our Bert”. And yet, so close to the war, we could take our tolerance only so far. Bert, we were told, was different from the Nazis who had made it their mission to wipe out the Jews and the Slavs and the Gypsies and the gays; he was the good German.




    But the reality was very different. In fact, Trautmann was a high-achieving Nazi who fought on the eastern front, embraced Hitler wholeheartedly, and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class for bravery in battle. And it is this that makes the Trautmann story even more amazing than I was led to believe as a child.
    The production is on location at a big old house in Dachau that serves as the hospital where Trautmann discovers he has broken his neck. It is summer and the actor John Henshaw is wandering around in a three-piece tweed suit. He is a big man, not entirely comfortable in the heat. “It was 36C last week, and I had this on and a big overcoat on top of it. I was sweating like a cheese,” he says. Henshaw plays Jack Friar, the club secretary who signed Trautmann for St Helens (his club before City), and eventually became his father-in-law.



    Trautmann leaving the pitch after the final in 1956 with what he didn’t know was a broken neck until several days later. Photograph: PopperfotoHenshaw talks of the hostility towards Trautmann when he signed for City. “When he first started playing, he was getting death threats. God, what a brave man he must have been!”
    The Manchester public had good reason to be suspicious of Trautmann. City has always had a large Jewish following, and many felt betrayed by the club when they signed the goalkeeper. An estimated 20,000 fans stood outside the Maine Road stadium shouting “Nazi” and “war criminal” and threatening to boycott the club. The film-makers have recreated newspapers from the time with headlines such as “Send the Nazi home” and “Kraut goalkeeper with Iron Cross,” and “Man City’s goalkeeper doesn’t want to remember our pain”. One article quotes him as saying: “I did what all soldiers do. I had no choice!”
    Trautmann had been a tough, sporty boy, with little time for vulnerability. He despised his father’s weakness for drink and compromise, and venerated the Führer for rebuilding the economy, championing sport and marshalling a master race. He joined the Hitler Youth, and – aged 17 – volunteered for the army. In the early days, at least, Trautmann revelled in the war – and in the cause. Where better for a testosterone-fuelled Aryan idealist to express himself? In the book Trautmann’s Journey, written by Catrine Clay in collaboration with its subject, we learn that the young Bernhard was a model Nazi: blond, blue-eyed, bigoted and ruthless. In one memorable passage, he describes how he would simultaneously stock up on cigarettes and entertain himself during downtime in the war. This would involve going into town, beating up Italian soldiers (they might have been fighting on the same side, but he despised their weakness) and relieving them of their cigarettes.

    On having witnessed a mass extermination, Trautmann said: 'If I’d been a bit older, I’d probably have committed suicide'
    By all rights, he should have been dead before he even discovered his gift for goalkeeping. On the Russian front, as the Nazi forces retreated, Trautmann was blown up but survived. In France, he was buried in rubble for three days after being bombed again. He was captured by the Russians and the French but escaped both times. In 1944, he was one of the few survivors of the Allied bombing of Kleve, and was trying to get home to Bremen when he was caught by two American soldiers in a barn in France. The soldiers decided Trautmann had no useful information to give them so marched him out of the barn with his hands held up. He thought he was going to be shot, so he fled, jumping over a fence. However, he landed at the feet of a British soldier, who greeted him with the words: “Hello Fritz, fancy a cup of tea?” This time, he didn’t run.
    Trautmann was one of only 90 survivors from a regiment of 1,000 men. He became a prisoner of British forces and ended up in a PoW camp in Lancashire. At the camp, he played as a goalkeeper for the first time. He had been a centre half, but got injured in one match and typically refused to go off so they stuck him between the sticks, where he remained for ever after. There were three categories of prisoner at the camp: white for anti-Nazis, grey for unsure and black for unrepentant Nazis. Trautmann was one of around 10% classified as Nazis. All this, and he was still only 22. No wonder Rosenmüller thought he was a rich subject for a film.



    David Kross as Trautmann in The Keeper. Photograph: Aidan Monaghan/Zephyr Films Trutmann LtdThe German actor David Kross, who starred in the Oscar-winning film The Reader, is sitting in his goalkeeper’s kit reading Trautmann’s biography, waiting to be called. “He has got a very polite, friendly mask,” says Kross of Trautmann. “But he can get really angry.” Has he played anybody as angry before? “Not really, no. It is a big task for me. I am normally nice!” When I ask Kross what drives the goalkeeper, he immediately says guilt. “He’s seen some terrible things. It’s the guilt of not acting against it or not doing something to stop it.” Trautmann and fellow paratrooper Peter Kularz witnessed a mass extermination in a forest: men, women and children were herded into a trench and shot by an Einsatzgruppen, a Nazi paramilitary death squad. Trautmann and Kularz crawled away on their bellies, then ran for their lives. If they had been spotted, they would have been shot on the spot because the Einsatzgruppen wanted no witnesses. Years later, Trautmann admitted he was still haunted by what he saw. (“If I’d been a bit older, I’d probably have committed suicide,” he said.)
    It is the mix of guilt and anger that makes Trautmann fascinating. He had none of the humility you might expect from a man tortured by what he did and saw. As a prisoner of war, he could not understand why a Jewish officer might be abusive to him. “He had to drive the Jewish officer to different locations,” Kross says. “And the Jewish officer treated him badly, so he hit him. And yet this complex, contrary man unwittingly became a messenger of peace.”
    The astonishing thing is that so little is known about Trautmann in Germany. Kross admits he had never heard of him before being offered the part. The actor hopes that the film, which is largely funded with European money, will make the keeper famous in his home country.
    Rosenmüller, a Bavarian film-maker who played semi-professional football himself, has been working on the project for almost a decade. He was making a film with the producer Robert Marciniak, who told him about the German goalkeeper who broke his neck playing for an English team in the FA Cup final. Both men became obsessed with Trautmann – and turning his life into a movie. They first met him in Nuremberg, when he received a medal from the German FA. They then spent a week with him in 2010 at his home near Valencia in Spain.

    Maine Road legend … Trautmann at the old Man City ground. Photograph: ANL/REX/ShutterstockRosenmüller says he was a closed man who gradually opened up. “He first showed us a bit of himself, and then more. He told us he had not had enough courage to make things different in the war.” I ask Rosenmüller if he feels Trautmann was being honest – did he feel bad because he did not have the courage to stop things happening, or did he feel bad because of the things he did himself? Probably both, Rosenmüller says. “He went as a volunteer, and I’m sure he wanted to be a good soldier.”
    Even if he never fully addressed his war crimes, Rosenmüller says to go as far as he did was remarkable. Trautmann belonged to a generation that found it almost impossible to talk about what they had seen, whether as victims or as perpetrators. “He was honest to say he could not interfere because he lacked courage. It was not like: “I couldn’t do anything.’ It was: ‘Shit, I didn’t have the courage.’ For me, it was heroic to say: ‘I did wrong.’”
    There are lots of heroes in the Trautmann story – the Friar family, Manchester City football club, the supporters. But perhaps the biggest hero is Rabbi Alexander Altmann, whose parents were killed in the Holocaust. In an open letter to the Manchester Evening Chronicle, he wrote that Trautmann should not be punished “for the terrible cruelties we suffered at the hands of the Germans ... If this footballer is a decent fellow, I would say there is no harm in it. Each case must be judged on its own merits.” After Altmann’s letter, the protests stopped. Trautmann went on to win an OBE for his work for Anglo-German relations.
    For Rosenmüller, the story is a personal one. He has always wondered how he would have turned out if he had joined the Hitler Youth and been indoctrinated by nazism. Would he have had the strength to resist, or would he, like Trautmann, have volunteered for the army? But most of all, he says, it is the theme of reconciliation that inspires him. “I once made a documentary about a farmer because the farmer was fascinated with Bishop Tutu. Tutu’s Truth And Reconcilation Commission gave South Africans the opportunity to admit they had done terrible things, and people forgave them. That was such an incredible thing. And it’s a pity that we Germans never did that.” Rosenmüller says that the failure of the Nazi generation to address their crimes led to the student protest movement of 1968 – a generation of German youth revolting against their parents’ silence.
    And yet in Lancashire in the late 1940s, a formerly unquestioning Nazi loyalist was interned in a prisoner of war camp, and forced to address his crimes and prejudices. And the community, inspired by the words of Altmann, did forgive him. As far as Rosenmüller is concerned, that is the heart of his film. Yes, Trautmann was a great goalkeeper. Yes, he was ludicrously brave. But more important than anything, he became the living embodiment of truth and reconciliation.

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    Should erect a statue of Kyle Walker chucking dough at prostitutes. It would be a great analogy of that shit, success buying , soulless, fanless and historyless shitstain of a football club

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    Should erect a statue of Kyle Walker chucking dough at prostitutes. It would be a great analogy of that shit, success buying , soulless, fanless and historyless shitstain of a football club

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    Should erect a statue of Kyle Walker chucking dough at prostitutes. It would be a great analogy of that shit, success buying , soulless, fanless and historyless shitstain of a football club
    Fuck the statue, they should make him the club mascot. They might get more people attending if they throw money at them.

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    Looking back at this day – good or bad – in City’s history…
    What is it about the 94th-minute and City's last game of the season…?
    Sunday 13 May 2012
    A day no City fan will ever forget as the Premier League title is won, lost and then dramatically won again during an exhilarating 90 minutes of football. Facing Mark Hughes’ relegation-threatened QPR at the Etihad, City must win to bring home a first title in 44 years and Pablo Zabaleta’s first-half goal ensures everything is on track to do exactly that. But Djibril Cisse and Jamie Mackie put the visitors ahead – with Joey Barton sent off somewhere in-between – and the game moves into added time with City still 2-1 down. With United winning 2-0 at Sunderland, it’s an agonising end for City fans.
    SHOP | 93:20 Celebration jigsaw
    Then, two minutes into added time, Edin Dzeko heads home David Silva to make it 2-2 and allow a glimmer of hope. The seconds that follow are torture until Nigel De Jong plays a low pass to the feet of Mario Balotelli who holds the ball up before nudging into the path of Sergio Aguero who takes the ball to the right as he moves past one challenge and then drills a low shot past Paddy Kenny for an incredible winner. Cue pandemonium and, the title was City’s…
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    Sunday 13 May 2018
    City travelled to Southampton on the final day of the 2017/18 having already been crowned champions several games earlier, but with a determination to become the first Premier League side to accumulate 100 points in a Premier League season. In a tight game against a team once again managed by Mark Hughes (just as in 2012 with QPR), the contest moves into the dying embers of added time when Kevin De Bruyne’s long ball sets Gabriel Jesus free and the Brazilian striker lobs the onrushing keeper to secure a 1-0 win and ensure the class of 2017/18 are forever known as ‘The Centurions’.

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    Having missed the chance to win promotion against Bournemouth just a week earlier, City travelled to Bradford City knowing a point would be enough to win promotion to the First Division – but as ever, the Blues did things the hard way. Mark Leonard put the Bantams ahead early on and it wasn’t until the 86th minute that David White’s low cross was slid home by Trevor Morley to make it 1-1 and send the Blues back to the top flight.



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    Despite the lockdown nobody has forgotten that you've cheated your way to everything and NOTHING counts.

    Cheats! Cheats! Cheats!

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    We was.... They need to hire a better Arabic to English translator.

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    Former Manchester City defender Glyn Pardoe - the club's youngest ever debutant - has died at the age of 73.

    Pardoe made his City debut in April 1962 at the age of 15 years and 341 days old and spent his entire playing career with the club.

    He was part of the 1968 league-winning side and scored the winning goal in the 1970 League Cup final.

    "Everyone at City is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Glyn Pardoe," the club said on Twitter.

    "Our thoughts and condolences go out to his friends and family at this difficult time."

    In total, left-back Pardoe made 380 appearances for City between 1962-1976.

    His grandson, 18-year-old midfielder Tommy Doyle, made his City debut in October 2019 in the club's 3-1 League Cup win over Southampton.

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    Even Anderlecht reserves are turning down the chance to work for the cheats these days.

    Vincent Kompany turns down assistant coach job at Manchester City | Manchester City | The Guardian

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    How Manchester City helped Manchester United To Survive




    Eighty years ago, United were struggling, dying in fact, and City were dominant. Yet City did more than you’d expect to help United survive against a third club that threatened the Reds’ existence.

    Manchester football historian Gary James explains how football history in the north-west could have been very different had Central been given a League chance. This is an adapted version of a story first revealed in Gary’s excellent “Manchester A Football History.”

    In recent years much has been made of the growth of FC United of Manchester and their impact on support, community work and attitudes in Manchester. However, the United offshoot were not the first Mancunian side created following dissatisfaction among supporters. In fact FC United arrived 80 years after a bigger offshoot had seriously challenged the livelihood of Manchester’s two major sides. The difference being that in the Twenties it was Manchester City’s move to Maine Road that prompted the creation of a new forward-looking club – Manchester Central FC, who joined the semi-professional Lancashire Combination in 1928-29.

    One of the main figures behind Central was former City director John Ayrton, who that felt that Maine Road, in the south of Manchester, was too far from City’s old base in the east: “Ever since the City club left the Hyde Road district, I have thought of having a club on this side of Manchester. Our whole object is to develop local talent, and gradually to build up the club so that one day it may take its place in the Third Division of the Football League. Manchester has the biggest sporting community in the provinces. Surely then we have every reason to hope that there is plenty of room for our club.”

    Many well known figures in Manchester football were involved in the creation of Central, including the great Billy Meredith, plus Charlie Pringle and Charlie Roberts, former captains of City and United respectively. As with FC United, the side attracted significantly better players than many of their Combination rivals – who included Morecambe, Chorley and Darwen – simply because of who they were. Central was chosen as a name so that the club could use the initials MCFC, which were spelt out on the ironwork above the main entrance of their 40,000-capacity Belle Vue ground on Hyde Road, half a mile from City’s old stadium.

    After a couple of failed attempts, Central were on the verge of League football when Wigan Borough withdrew from Division Three (North) during October 1931. Central, now based in the Cheshire League, immediately offered to take over their fixtures. The existing Division Three sides supported Central’s application, including, significantly, Stockport County, who saw Central’s acceptance as being a positive development for local football.
    In the Daily Dispatch, journalist [at]“Adjutant” commented: “Manchester Central potentially are not merely a Second Division, but a First Division club of the future. There should be room in Manchester for three League clubs.” Second Division United and First Division City did not share the enthusiasm. Working together they complained to the League and, as they were classed as full members of the League while Division Three’s clubs had fewer rights, the League rejected Central.

    The local press was appalled, as were many City and United supporters. So why did the two clubs object? At first glance it would seem that Central’s aim to be “the new MCFC” simply upset City. However, the truth is that Central were actually more of a threat to United, who were struggling on and off the pitch. Crowds were small – United’s nearest home gate to Central’s bid was 6,694 (against Notts County) and that was almost double United’s crowd for the opening game of the season at Old Trafford (3,507). Central attracted several crowds higher than this despite being non-League.

    Respected journalist Ivan Sharpe of the Sunday Chronicle argued that Central should have been admitted because United were failing: “A third club in Manchester would not damage the City at all seriously. It would build up football interest. I don’t like the way Manchester is slipping back in football. Where are those 30,000 football followers who used to assemble at Old Trafford? The odd 25,000 are missing. It is time something was done about it.”
    Central were hugely disappointed and chairman George Hardman said: “We think there ought to be League football in the Belle Vue area, where there are 440,000 people within two miles, and a million people within four miles. This is surely enough for two League clubs in a place like Manchester. There seems to be a sad lack of enterprise so far as League football is concerned.”

    It seems Hardman deliberately ignored United when he talked of “two” clubs as he knew it was the threat to United that was the deciding factor. Ivan Sharpe: “In view of Manchester United’s sorry position I certainly think Manchester Central should have been admitted.” “Nomad”, writing in the Evening Chronicle, held a similar view: “Keen disappointment is expressed that Manchester is not to have a third Football League club, especially as there is a splendid ground available at Belle Vue, and that Manchester United are so signally failing to keep Manchester on the football map.”

    Within a year Central folded, feeling the close relationship of City and United would continue to severely restrict their progress. At City the 1930s proved to be a golden era with record crowds and significant success, while United struggled. Post-1945 it all changed, of course, but had Central been accepted into the League during 1931 then football in Manchester today might have been very different.

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    Why are you so obsessed with us?

    We're just bigger and better than you. Always have been and always will be.

    Get over it, Bertie.

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    The 1894 Group will unveil banners protesting against UEFA at a secret location in Manchester on Friday.⁣

    Banners will read: ‘POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES’, ‘UEFA MAFIA - CORRUPTING FOOTBALL SINCE 1954’, and ‘FFP - WHERE WERE YOU WHEN WE WERE SH*T’.⁣

    Dante Friend [1894Group]:⁣

    “The message we want to send to Uefa is that Financial Fair Play was just created to try and protect the elite and that we know they simply don’t want the new kids on the block, City, to be part of their club.”⁣


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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    The 1894 Group will unveil banners protesting against UEFA at a secret location in Manchester on Friday.⁣

    Banners will read: ‘POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES’, ‘UEFA MAFIA - CORRUPTING FOOTBALL SINCE 1954’, and ‘FFP - WHERE WERE YOU WHEN WE WERE SH*T’.⁣

    Dante Friend [1894Group]:⁣

    “The message we want to send to Uefa is that Financial Fair Play was just created to try and protect the elite and that we know they simply don’t want the new kids on the block, City, to be part of their club.”⁣

    What a load of bollox. You broke the rules and you're a bunch of cheats.

    Now stop fucking whingeing and do the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    ⁣The message we want to send to Uefa is that Financial Fair Play was just created to try and protect the elite and that we know they simply don’t want the new kids on the block, City, to be part of their club.⁣
    What a bunch of pathetic cry babies.

    I posted about the cosy relationship between Etihad and City's owners years ago when they were lining up this 'sponsorship'.

    It was so fuckin' obvious and now they're going to pay the price.

    To complete the karmic circle, the airline is financially shafted too btw.

    Som Num Naa Motherfuckers.

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    All of the plastics sponsorship comes from the same place, it's all been rigged since they started.

    Same with all those Qatari clubs, they're as bent as a 90 baht note.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
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    At least nothing questionable about the national team ever happened, such as playing in the Copa America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    At least nothing questionable about the national team ever happened, such as playing in the Copa America.
    To be fair, that happens because there are only 10 teams in CONMEBOL; two teams are invited each time to make up the numbers.

    I believe there was even talk of increasing the number of invitees to 6 after they did so for their centenary competition in 2016.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    To be fair, that happens because there are only 10 teams in CONMEBOL; two teams are invited each time to make up the numbers.

    I believe there was even talk of increasing the number of invitees to 6 after they did so for their centenary competition in 2016.
    They probably paid good money to get invited knowing them. They are a bunch of fucking crooks after all.

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    City v Arsenal
    Wednesday 17 June, 8.15pm BST
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    Sky Sports

    City v Burnley
    Monday 22 June, 8pm BST
    Etihad Stadium
    Sky Sports

    Chelsea v City
    Thursday 25 June, 8:15pm
    Stamford Bridge
    BT Sport

    City v Liverpool
    Thursday 2 July, 8:15pm BST
    Venue TBC
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
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    Do you think they could do the quadruple?

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    ^ You mean get banned from 4 competitions?

    They will be favourites

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