European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

[Winston Biscuit]

Harry Kane officially in his best goalscoring season of his career

Just think of what he could have achieved had he stayed at Spurs…

Play off runner up 26/27 medal

[Sanguine]

I like reading about clubs with interesting history. Red Star Club Francais are currently in fourth place in Ligue 2 and fighting for promotion through an end of season play-off place. Red Star was founded by Jules Rimet (of the naming of the original World Cup trophy) in 1897 and is one of the oldest clubs in France. It was one of the founding members of Ligue 1, but hasn't played in the top flight for over 50 years. They were playing as low down the pyramid as the sixth tier in 2005.

Red Star's ground, 'Stade Bauer', was once the national stadium in France, but fell into disrepair. It is currently being rebuilt, and holds just 5,000 fans, increasing to a planned 10,000 on completion.

[Winston Biscuit]

Amazing relegation fight going on in Serie B.

Bottom 3 go down automatically, 4th from bottom plays 5th from bottom in a 2 legged 'relegation play out' to determine who joins the relegated trio down in Serie C. The relegation play out only takes place if the gap between 4th from bottom and 5th from bottom is 4 points or less. any more than that and the 4th from bottom club is just relegated. in similar scenes to the play offs, if the play out ends in a draw then the team 5th from bottom wins and retains their Serie B status.

[Winston Biscuit]

Bari looked dead and buried just a couple of weeks back but have now won 3 of the last 4 games

[Sanguine]

Serie B very top-heavy this season. Juve Stabia, in 7th, are closer to the bottom of the table than the top.

[Winston Biscuit]

Was just reading that Bayern played their 4th choice goalkeeper at the weekend as their first 3 are all out injured, and this 4th choice keeper then got injured, so unless one of the injured 4 can recover by midweek (they are hoping the concussed one is passed fit by a doctor) then they'll be playing someone from the youth team in goal for the Champions League

[Sutekh]

Was just reading that Bayern played their 4th choice goalkeeper at the weekend as their first 3 are all out injured, and this 4th choice keeper then got injured, so unless one of the injured 4 can recover by midweek (they are hoping the concussed one is passed fit by a doctor) then they'll be playing someone from the youth team in goal for the Champions League

Go Atalanta!

[Stranded]

Was just reading that Bayern played their 4th choice goalkeeper at the weekend as their first 3 are all out injured, and this 4th choice keeper then got injured, so unless one of the injured 4 can recover by midweek (they are hoping the concussed one is passed fit by a doctor) then they'll be playing someone from the youth team in goal for the Champions League

Yes they look likely to play a 16 yo.

Under German rules, a 16 yo can't work past 8pm except for athletes who can work until 10. They will need an exemption to play him - which they will get.