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I have a piece of code that works well, but when I put a semicolon after a plotting statement, the semicolon appears in red. What's the error?
It's not a syntax mistake. Consider it a suggestion,
Of course it may have sense, it's just a suggestion.
If you take a closer look you will find that storing such
A bit of historic background
Before Mathematica version 6 graphics were produced as a side-effect much as
Now you get this behavior:
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In version 6 syntax highlighting of that trailing semicolon was added to remind people that with it no output at all would be produced, since the

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I have heard a lot of "abuse" about automated testing, especially UI bases automated tests. As UI is very fragile and prone to change (especially in agile shops). Personally my automated tests have given more confidence about working system than finding defects. What is your success ratio with automated UI tests? Or maybe how you define success with automated UI test?
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My real world experience of running test suites of 1000+ tests every day on large web systems is that your hunch is right and that they don't find that many bugs.
But what they do do is two key things:
The previous posters are correct - automation can never find new bugs, that can only be done by sapient testing - however automation will find regression faults, and often not the ones you are looking for. However, sapient analysis of the results of automation tests can find significant issues.
I cite an example for my last project where we had close to 1000 automated tests running through the UI every day. We had an occasion where some of the tests were failing intermittently and without any clear reason (the code around that area was stable and hadn't been touched for some time).
So when I looked at the test results, I couldn't see anything immediately. One of the test criteria was that the page title was "foo", and when I looked at where the assert had failed I could see that the actual page title contained "http 403".
Just by looking at that failed assertion, I immediately had a rough timescale for the failure, and could more quickly isolate the completely unrelated problem that was unintentionally bringing down the site for a few hours perhaps once a week.
I can't say if our test team would have found that bug or not without the regression suite, but it would have taken much longer for sure.
You have to understand the following...
Automation will never find NEW bugs.
It will find bugs if your system is updated. It will find bugs if the system is down for whatever reason and you are sleeping in your bed and you have automation enabled overnight. It will send you an urgent email that you will read in the morning that the site was down for an hour or so.
It won't find bugs that humans find through bug regression. It won't find bugs in the system that require analysis and constant pounding. It won't find hidden bugs. It will only find bugs that it is programmed to find.
That said... Automation is something that will help you concentrate on those hidden bugs. It will get a LOT of testing off your shoulder. Like multy browser, endless input of various combinations of data. Tidies tasks like create test data, companies, users, etc. Stress test, Load test, functionality. All that can be covered.
So success for an automated test would be the assurance that if a developer checks in code, you can be sure that a major part of the application is regressed at night when you are sound asleep. And you can be sure that it will find changes, defects which that update produced and nothing will be unnoticed unless you didn't write a test for it.
I find that automated tests in general can be very useful for ensuring that older functionality isn't getting broken by new code, and I have seen new bugs in new code uncovered by old regressions tests. I try to test as much functionality as I can without the UI, and then do some additional integration tests to make sure the UI is calling the right functionality after the functionality itself has been verified. This practice results in far more maintainable tests.
I prefer to avoid UI testing whenever it is not necessary to get the information I want from that test due to the maintainability costs. In my experience, UI automation does less to reduce technical debt compared to other forms of automation because of this ongoing maintenance debt. I prefer to write more maintainable functional tests first, and then test the UI manually if I run out of time (all else being equal, that is). Of course, some projects have a higher UI test maintenance debt than others, and automation efforts should be prioritized accordingly. The two main sources of maintenance issues in the projects I worked on were UI changes and timing changes. UI tests tend to timeout if they don't see expected behavior, so one failed test doesn't block execution of the remaining tests, but there is often noise that can also lead to timeouts and false failures.
When I do finally get to the point where UI testing is the highest priority automated testing remaining, I find that some issues with UI testing can be greatly mitigated by good design. All timeout values and CSS / XPath / accessibility navigation / etc. strings should be in one place, where they can be easily configured. Although I hadn't heard the name, I've learned with trial and error to use the "Page Object" technique, and it helped a lot with our UI test design. Good communication with developers is also a must, to avoid investing a lot of time writing tests that will immediately be broken due to a UI change. Developers can also often design their code to be as testable as possible by other automated tests, so you can minimize the surface area you are targeting with UI tests to just examining the GUI logic and the interaction with the rest of the code, and not functionality testing.
One thing to consider is that in many cases your regression suites are working off of a static set of regression data or criteria. One way that regression suites can be of higher value is trying to develop heuristic oracles vs. static ones. In a talk I went to at Seaspin on 3/1 Harry Robinson talked about moving from the static test automation to a more dynamic variety. In one slide he gave an example:
From his presentations slides which are available on the seaspin site above. The idea behide this being if you can test a much broder series of values in this sort of manner.
Yes, our automated test suite can and does find critical bugs. Not very often but just off the top of my head I can think of two occasions when it did.
I agree with the answers above that the main benefit of automated tests is freeing up your human testers from performing repetitive tasks and so allowing them to concentrate on the really intelligent testing they're good at. I would add though that the regression tests we automated were among the most important areas of the application (most frequently used by our end users) so when the automated tests did catch bugs they were really, really important ones.
As a developer, automated regression tests have certainly saved my day several times. But a QA professional may not be aware of this. Here is the reason:
A deterministic test can find a bug only once: When I (the developer) run the test suite and see that I made a stupid mistake, I fix this bug immediately --- and no tester is going to see it. Without the test suite, the bug would make it into the repository.
From my experience, I most benefited from simple integration tests: When an apparently benefitial change in one component had an undesired effect in another component.


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WELLSBURG - "Leading Ladies" will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Brooke Hills Playhouse.
"The actors have to make the audience believe that two men who look like men can dress like women and make others believe that they're women when they put on wigs and dresses," said Russ Welch of Wellsburg, director of the Brooke Hills Playhouse production of Ken Ludwig's comic farce.
"Leading Ladies" tells the story of Jack and Leo, two down-and-out British actors who find themselves performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" at a Moose Lodge in Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in a nearby town is about to die and leave her fortune to two long-lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her relatives to get the cash.
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Rob DeSantis, left, Crystal Sharma and Tess Kowalski rehearse for the Brooke Hills Playhouse production of Ken Ludwig's comic farce "Leading Ladies," to be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. For reservations and information, call (304) 737-3344..
But Jack and Leo don't find out until they get to the woman's home town that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces, so they become Maxine and Stephanie to make their scheme work.
Welch admitted the challenge of telling such an outlandish tale can be daunting.
"It requires more of a suspension of belief on the part of the audience, kind of like believing that nobody recognizes Superman when he puts on a suit and glasses as Clark Kent," Welch said.
Welch came to the play with experience in working with Ludwig's writing, as a director on "Lend Me a Tenor" and as an actor in "Moon over Buffalo." Welch said he feels comfortable with Ludwig's style.
"I understand his thinking patterns, and it helps that his works are very popular," Welch said. "Ludwig seems to specialize in period pieces -'Leading Ladies' is set in 1958 - but his works aren't dated."
Welch noted the title characters, played by Cliff Welch (Leo) and Nick Oliveira (Jack), both of Wellsburg, had two major goals to meet as they prepared to perform the play.
"Cliff and Nick have to think British and maintain consistent British accents, while tapping into their inner feminine side when they're dressed as women," he said.
The whole cast, some of whom never have done farce before, had to adjust to a different pace than they'd experienced acting in conventional comedies, and "with farce, everything has to move faster," Welch said.
"Leading Ladies" also presented some technical challenges for Welch, who designed and built much of the set. "The set design that comes with the script couldn't be used on the playhouse stage, because of our limited space," Welch said. "We can't do a real two-level set here, so the second level is a couple of feet off the ground, a hallway becomes a 3-foot flat with a doorway and the garden is a wall painted on a flat," he said. "The challenge is to make the set look believable despite the physical limitations."
Tickets for "Leading Ladies" are $10 for adults; $8 for students, senior citizens and groups; and $6 for children younger than 12. For reservations and information, call (304) 737-3344.
While the playhouse summer season will end with "Leading Ladies," preparations are under way for a fall production of Richard O'Brien's musical comedy, "The Rocky Horror Show," to be presented at 8 p.m. Oct. 19-20 and 26-27 and midnight Oct. 20 and 27. That show will be directed by Pete Fernbaugh of Weirton.
Because of "The Rocky Horror Show's" dialogue and subject matter, no one under 17 will be admitted unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Tickets for "The Rocky Horror Show" will be $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and students and $11 for children younger than 12. Patrons may purchase tickets for the musical at early bird prices at the playhouse box office Sept. 7-9 during the Brooke County Fair. Early bird tickets will cost $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and students and $8 for children younger than 12.


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Joetta Adler was a part-time nurse at Logan County Memorial Hospital and worked for them on an as needed basis. On August 2, 2004 she gave a birth to a 4lb., 12oz. baby boy.
"The hospital notified social services about the baby. And the mother tested positive for methamphetamine," says Jim Devashur, of the Logan County Drug Task Force.
Social service notified the Logan county Sheriff's Department.
Devashur says, "Through this, the south central Kentucky drug task force became involved, assisting social services with the home visits. Following the home visits, of course, the child was removed from the mother."
Adler's older son was also removed from her custody. The following day Adler was arrested. Her estranged husband Rodney Adler says he can't believe it.
He says, "She's a professional. This doesn't seem like something she would do. It is completely out of character."
Logan Memorial Hospital tells WBKO Adler had not worked at the hospital in more than six months. She had been employed with Air Evac Lifeteam since 1999, and began her maternity leave on June 4th.
In a statement released to WBKO Air Evac says, "We were surprised to learn of the allegations against Adler. Air Evac Lifeteam does not condone any type of illegal drug use among it's employees. We had no reason to suspect Joetta may have been involved in any type of drug-related activity during the time she was actively employed with us."
Rodney Adler agreed saying, "She has dedicated her life to saving people. I don't know how she could be involved in something like this."
But officers say meth users do not fit a profile and that it is sometimes hard to tell just by looking at a person.
Devashur says, "All I know is methamphetamine is a plague to our society. And it's so addictive that the individual that's addicted to it, has to be taken out of the atmosphere where it's at."
Adler's boyfriend, 35-year-old Timothy Brooks, was also arrested. Brooks was charged with trafficking a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.
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Would really appreciate help on the following as I've hit a bit of a dead end.
I setup Google Apps @domain.ie and wanted to add Gmail to setup email addresses.
It looked a straightforward process to do once you do all this in the one session. However, I just registered the domain and then logged out to come back and add the various email addresses on Gmail later.
When I went to go back in I get the error message below and having looked at various videos in Google help, I still can't see how to get the task completed. I can't delete the email and start again either. So I just need some guidance at this stage. Thanks in advance
Gmail has not been enabled by the administrator of the domain @festivals.ie. You can sign into another account to use Gmail.
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SUNRISE, Fla. – Florida Panthers Executive VP & General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that C Drew Shore has been recalled from the San Antonio Rampage (AHL).
Shore, 21, sits second on the Rampage in scoring with 30 points (10-20-30) in 41 games. Playing in his first professional season, Shore was recently selected to play for the Western Conference in the AHL All-Star Game to be held in Providence, R.I. on Monday, Jan. 28.
The Denver, CO native, who would make his NHL debut in the first game he plays, played in three seasons at the University of Denver. The 6-foot-3, 190-pound forward totaled 118 points (50-68-118) and 101 PIM in 123 games, leading Denver in scoring in each of the last two seasons prior to turning pro. Shore was selected in the second round (44th overall) in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft by the Panthers.


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Can anybody cast some physical insight into this? I've been studying differential equations on my own and don't understand how you can have a whole host of general solutions. It seems like a rather curious situation which we don't come across in other areas of mathematics. Is there anything more to the discussion that I'm missing?
The solutions of a homogeneous linear ordinary differential equation form a vector space, ie $0$ is always a valid solution and arbitrary linear combinations of solutions will yield another valid solution. Finding the general solution of such an equation means finding a basis for that vector space.
In contrast, solutions to an inhomogeneous linear ordinary differential equation form an affine space over the space of homogeneous solutions. This means that $0$ is in general not a solution, and the difference between two solutions of the inhomogeneous equation will be a solution of the homogeneous one.
Thus, you only need to find a single inhomogeneous solution: The general solution of the inhomogeneous equation can be expressed of the sum of that particular solution and the general solution of the homogeneous one.
In case of non-linear differential equations, the integration constants (or equivalently, the choice of initial conditions) still parametrize the space of general solutions, and choosing values for these parameters will get you a particular one. However, the simple relation between the general solution of an inhomogeneous equation and the general solution of the corresponding homogeneous one does not hold for arbitrary differential equations.
The differential equation needs initial conditions to simulate on a computer (which you should do once, if you want to understand what they are). A differential equation is a rule on a time-grid of size $\epsilon$ for $x(t+\epsilon)$, given $x(t)$. For example;
$$ {dx\over dt}= x + x^2 + x^3 $$
$$ x(t+\epsilon) = x(t) + \epsilon ( x(t) + x(t)^2 + x(t)^3) $$
in the limit $\epsilon\rightarrow 0$.
You can use the equation above to step forward in time, but you need to give the value of $x(0)$. Then from this value, you calculate $x(\epsilon)$, then $x(2\epsilon)$, then $x(3\epsilon)$ and so on into the future. A special solution is one for a given initial value, while the general solution is expressed in terms of $x(0)$ or some equivalent arbitrary constant that can be used to find $x(0)$.
The theorem you want is the uniqueness theorem for the initial value problem of ordinary differential equations. The mathematical proof tends to use a less useful approximation technique than lattice stepping, but people who do computer simulations or computer games always use some sort of lattice for ODE's.
To answer your remark about the host of solutions for an ode: try to solve for (x,y) the equation: x+y=1. There is an infinity of solutions, (x,y)=(x, 1-x). But you can write them as follow: (x,y)=(0,1)+x*(1,-1)
(0,1) is a peculiar solution of the full equation.
(1,-1) is solution of the homogenous equation: x+y=0 and x in the expression x*(1,-1) plays the role of the constant C you introduce in the solution of an ode.
For linear ode, the situation is quite similar. If you want a physical meaning, one can say that the homogeneous equation (without rhs) is used to study instabilities, if any of its solutions are an increasing function of time, then the system is instable. Any perturbation will blow out with time. Once you know the system is stable, it is worth studying the full equation with a rhs that describes the driving external force. Mathematically the full solution is the sum of the solutions of the homogeneous equation (general solution) plus the solution of the non homogeneous one (peculiar solution) exactly as in the exemple above. Why do we need the general solution if for time long enough they become negligeable in the stable case? Mathematicians were assigned the task to solve the ode, not to discuss their interest, but even in physics, sometimes the transiants (homogenous solutions) are important, especialy when you have to deal with the boundary conditions. For instance, if you study the flow in a pipe, you must impose a zero velocity at the wall. This can be achieved with a proper choice of the constants which appears in the solution of the homogeneous equation.


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Today I've read that the center of the earth is in Ecuador. Is this true? Obviously the equator goes through Ecuador, but how can the surface of a sphere have a center? Besides this mathematical problem: IS there a monument that I can visit?
There is actually a monument called 'Mitad del Mundo' (Middle of the World) in Ecuador. However they claim this is based on being on the equator (it turned out later they were off by 240 meters when choosing the spot).
Why the place is more special (middle, centered) than any other place on the equator I don't know.
It is a bit of a cheesy place but makes a fun day trip from Quito.
A 45 min bus ride from Quito (any local can tell you which bus) will get you to the Equator monument. However as Peter mentioned, it's a bit of a cheesy place. On arrival, there's a huge monument which costs to see, and costs more to go up. However, you can take photos and jump back and forth between "Spring" and "Autumn" or "Winter" and "Summer" as you cross the line. For example, here is me, at the equator:
However, it's NOT the equator. They measured it at the time, and took their point of reference. Then later on the army came and did more measuring, and decided it was a couple of hundred metres further north. Conveniently, a little museum and garden was there, so now the line runs directly through them as the 'proper one'. However, since then, more have claimed it's even further north, and that some tribe in the region once built some marker and they were even closer back then!
As it happens, I had my GPS Smartphone on me, and that claimed it was further north still - a couple of hundred metres ;)
In the end it totally depends on what mathematics you use, how you calculate the 'spherical' nature of the earth, and how obsessed you are.
The tour guides at the Intiñan Solar Museum, however, will tell you that you're on the equator and as such can flush toilets on different sides to see the water go down the wrong way, balance an egg on its end, and so on. However, this has ZERO relevance - the latitude has no effect on these at all (yes, the Simpsons were wrong too). The Coriolis effect, normally cited for this, doesn't have that much effect in small, localised situations.
The only other reference Ecuador has to the 'center' of the planet, is that it has Mount Chimborazo (6,310 m above sea level), the top of which is considered to be the most distant point from the centre of the earth, given the ovoid shape of the planet.


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I have a very deal of trouble filtering visual information and so have problems working with lists, digital or analog. When I realized that the inherent visual nature of lists was the source of most of the anxiety I felt when working with the early versions of my productivity system, I switched to index cards.
For the most part, that set-up is lovely. Each "list" is a stack of cards and the card (usually a task) I'm working goes on top, with the rest easily accessible but out of sight. The downsides are portability and searchability (or, rather, the lack thereof). It hasn't taken very many misfiled cards to give me doubts about the long-term viability of the method. There's not much in the way of back-ups, either.
So, what are the digital alternatives? They needn't be a literal interpretation; the key functionality is just having items grouped in collections, being able to view either a single item or the whole collection, and having an easy way to switch between the two views. I'd prefer a desktop solution, but will consider web applications. In either case, it needs to work on Linux.
(Just to head off what is likely to be the first suggestion: I know about Trello and am considering it. It looks lovely and Fog Creek is trustworthy enough overcome my suspicion of web apps. However, I did want to still check for a desktop option and it's good to have backup options.)


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What would you do with the Stanley Cup if you had it for a day?
Teammates of the Boston Bruins each get to bring the Stanley Cup home for one day. There are crazy stories of what some people have done with it, from letting their dog eat from it to having their baby baptized in it. If you had it for a day, what would you do with it?
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set it on fire in the middle of downtown Vancouver then run like hell
Pawn it.
Greatest cereal bowl ever.
poop in it.
Do my best to wash the stench of Boston Bruins off of it.
figure out a way to get my name engraved on it as a member of one of the teams that won it in the past
Stip club. Free everything.
I would take it to the local rinks while the kids are practicing. And then when they get all excited and want to touch it, I'll tell them that a hockey player would never touch the Stanley Cup unless they've won it.
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Wash the filthy thing.
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What exactly does $\text{Aff}(2) = \mathbb{R}^2 \rtimes SL_{2}(\mathbb{R})$ mean? I know that it is the group of area preserving affine transformations of (oriented) $\mathbb{R}^2$. But how would you interpret the $\rtimes$ symbol?
The symbol $\rtimes$ means "semidirect product". Look up up on wikipedia.
Basically, it is a generalisation of direct product. In a direct product you have two subgroups $H, K\lhd G$, $G=HK$ and $H\cap K=1$. In a semidirect product, only one of $H$ and $K$ is necessarily normal. It is helpful to know what a group action is, as the non-normal group acts on the normal one via a non-trivial action.
In a direct product, the two subgroups acts on each other trivially - this means that they commute with one another, that $k^{-1}hk=h$ for all $h\in H$ and $K\in k$. In a semidirect product, assuming $H$ is normal then $k^{-1}hk=h^{\prime}\in H$ and it is not necessary that $h=h^{\prime}$.
In the case you give here, $G=\operatorname{Aff}(2)$ contains two subgroups $H$ and $K$ with $H\cong \mathbb{R}^2$ and $K\cong SL_2(\mathbb{R})$, $H\cap K=1$, $G=HK$ and $H\lhd G$. They symbol $\ltimes$ would mean $K$ was normal rather than $H$.
For example, there are two groups of order $6$. One is a direct product, $C_6=C_2\times C_3$, whilst the other is a semidirect-product of $C_3=\{1, a, a^{-1}\}$ with $C_2=\{1, b\}$ where $b^{-1}ab=a^{-1}$ (note that $b=b^{-1}$). This is $D_3$.
Helpful Tip: When you do not know what a symbol means then pick up your favourite text on the subject and find the "Notation" section. This gives you all the notation used in the book, and if the book is general enough, used in the subject. For example, my favourite general group theory book is "A Course in the Theory of Groups" by Derek J. S. Robinson. The notation section here is at the beginning, starting on page xv. Half-way down page xvi I see the symbol we are after - "Semidirect products" it says. I go to the index and find that semidirect products are discussed on page 27. Score!
Let $G$ be a group with identity element $e$, $N$ a normal subgroup of $G$ and $H$ a subgroup of $G$. The following statements are equivalent:
If any (and hence every) statement above is true, then $G$ is a semidirect product of $N \lhd G$ and $H$, it is usually written: $G = N \rtimes H$, and one can say: "$G$ splits over $N$". Or one can say: "$G$ is a semidirect product of $H$ acting on $N$."
Relation to direct product: Suppose $G$ is a semidirect product of the normal subgroup $N$ and the subgroup $H$. If $H$ is also normal in $G$, or equivalently, if there exists a homomorphism $G \to N$ which is the identity on $N$, then $G$ is the direct product of $N$ and $H$.
The direct product of two groups $N$ and $H$ can be thought of as the outer semidirect product of $N$ and $H$ with respect to $\phi(h) = id_N \;\;\forall h \in H$.
So, for example, in your specific example, $G=\text{Aff}(2)$ is the semidirect product of two of its subgroups: $N$ and $H$ where we have $N\cong \mathbb{R}^2$ and $H\cong SL_2(\mathbb{R})$, and such that $N\cap H=1$, $G =\text{Aff}(2)=NH$ and $N = \mathbb{R^2} \lhd G$.
TIPS for notation-related questions:
You might find Wikipedia's List of Mathematical Symbols helpful, when the occasion requires it. But user1729's suggestion to look at a text's "Notation" section, if it has one, is probably the first course of action to take, since some symbols mean different things, in different contexts, and occasionally may vary from author to author.
Also see Detexify, which allows you to "draw" a symbol, then churns out various possible matches, their "names", AND the $TeX$ code you can use for formatting.
The particular semidirect product that motivated your question is actually a very good example to see what's "really" involved in general semidirect products. The group Aff(2) of affine transformations of the plane contains the subgroup $T$ of rigid translations and the subgroup $F$ of affine transformations that fix the origin; the former is isomorphic to $\mathbb R^2$ and the latter to $SL_2(\mathbb R)$. Furthermore, any affine transformation can be uniquely expressed as the composition of a member of $F$ followed by a member of $T$. The idea here is that, given an affine transformation $\alpha$, you can first find a member $\phi$ of $F$ that has the same effect as $\alpha$ on directions and on lengths in any direction; then $\alpha=\tau\circ\phi$, where $\tau\in T$ translates the origin to the same place where $\alpha$ moves the origin. The fact that any $\alpha\in\text{Aff}(2)$ is given by a member of $F$ and a member of $T$, suggests that we're dealing with a direct product, $T\times F$, but that's only correct in terms of the sets, not in terms of the group structure. To see why the group structure is more complicated, consider what happens when we follow the $\alpha$ above with another affine transformation $\alpha'=\tau'\circ\phi'$ (where $\tau'\in T$ and $\phi'\in F$ as before). The effect of $\alpha'\circ\alpha=\tau'\circ\phi'\circ\tau\circ\phi$ on directions and on lengths is given nicely by $\phi'\circ\phi$, but where $\alpha'\circ\alpha$ moves the origin is not given simply by $\tau'\circ\tau$. The reason is that, once the origin has been moved to a new position by $\tau$, it will be moved again by $\phi'$ before $\tau'$ acts on it. Specifically, if $\tau$ was translation by a vector $\vec v$ and $\tau'$ by $\vec v'$, then $\alpha'\circ\alpha=\tau'\circ\phi'\circ\tau\circ\phi$ moves the origin not to $\vec v+\vec v'$ but to $\phi'(\vec v)+\vec v'$. So the multiplication differs from what you'd have in a direct product; the difference is that the $F$ component of the left factor modifies the $T$ component of the right factor before the $T$ components are combined.
In general, then, a semidirect product of groups $A$ and $B$ consists of pairs $(a,b)$ but the product $(a',b')\cdot(a,b)$ is not $(a'\cdot a,b'\cdot b)$ but $(a'\cdot\xi(b')(a),b'\cdot b)$. Here $\xi(b')$ tells how the presence of $b'$ modifies the $a$ factor before it gets multiplied by $a'$. In the example, $\xi$ of an element of $F$ modifies translations by acting on the associated vector $\vec v$. In general, $\xi(b')$ needs to be an automorphism of the group $A$, and the map $\xi$ from $B$ into the group of automorphisms of $A$ needs to be a homomorphism, in order for the semidirect product to be a group. To specify a semidirect product, one needs to specify not only the two groups $A$ and $B$ but also the homomorphism $\xi$.
Most everything is covered in the previous answers, but I want to emphasize something that confused me for a long time about the semidirect product notation.
Every semidirect product $N\rtimes H$ is formed using a specified homomorphism $\varphi:H\rightarrow \operatorname{Aut}(N)$. Different $\varphi$ can produce radically different groups, so strictly speaking the correct way to write a semidirect product is $N\rtimes_\varphi H$ to indicate which homomorphism is being used. When you see $N\rtimes H$ with the $\varphi$ omitted, the writer is implicitly assuming that the homomorphism being used is obvious or that context should make it unambiguous.
The hardest thing about the notation $N \rtimes H$ is remembering which of the groups is the normal subgroup and which is the group acting. There are two good mnemonics for this. The first is that $\rtimes$ contains the symbol $\vartriangleleft$ for a normal subgroup and the normal subgroup is on the correct side of the symbol. The other mnemonic is to hold your arms in front of you and move them up and down. In profile you will make a $\rtimes$ and then you just remember that you are acting on something so the hands go on the side with $N$ which is being acted on while $H$ goes on the side that you're on doing the acting.


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For the first time ever, Detroit iron dominated a 24 Hours Of LeMons event, with American-built machinery taking four of the top five positions (if you consider a California-built Corolla to be American-built, that is).
We saw plenty of the usual LeMons suspects at MSR in Houston last weekend, with 10 Mustangs, 6 RX-7s, 6 E30s, 4 CRXs, 4 Neons, and 4 Miatas showing up, but we also had our first-ever Infiniti Q45, a pair of Toyota pickups, an Opel GT, and an MGB-GT (which managed to get around the track startlingly quickly, in between lengthy jail sentences in the Penalty Box). In addition to Mustangs coming in first and second, we saw some other world-turned-topsy-turvy events. How about a LeMons race in which four Saabs enter… and all four are still running at the end? Sure, all the Saabs earned the new-for-Houston punishment for hitting tire walls and/or cones (old tires bolted to the car's roof), but they didn't throw rods or send major suspension components skittering off into the weeds in the first 30 minutes of the race! A four-banger Mustang finished second, a Saturn came in third, an 80s Dodge Daytona managed to contend, and the majority of BMW E30s raced for two solid days without exhibiting the usual maddeningly undiagnosable electrical woes (blown head gaskets and axle failures, certainly, but we didn't see the all-too-common cruel drama of E30 crew members weeping over multimeters and wiring diagrams).
This time I'm going to include each team's best lap time, so y'all can see for yourselves how "fast" does not equal "win" in the 24 Hours Of LeMons. Those of you contemplating horsepower-enhancing cheats would do well to note that the four-cylinder Mustangs performed just as well as their V8 siblings, and you Miata and E30 guys can go ahead and keep thumping your chests about those absurdly quick lap times… but remember, your favorite cars got stomped by a Saturn! Those of you wanting obsessively complete lap info can go here; keep in mind that a few cars may be showing too-low best lap times due to having taken what the corner workers dubbed the "Neon Bypass" (in honor of the oft-penalized Blueballs Neons) off-road shortcut around the chicanes.
Before you go check out our 95 Texas racin' machines, I've got a video that true 24 Hours Of LeMons fans ought to find quite entertaining. First, we've got one of the hairiest Integra-jumps-BMW-wheel bits ever caught on film, courtesy of the Unintended Acceleration Audi's in-car camera:
Zerin Dube, editor of Speed:Sport:Life volunteered for judging duties at the race, and he also did a good job covering the goings-on at his site. You'll enjoy the Penalty Box Punishments and the rest of the SSL race coverage.
Thanks to Zerin Dube, TheEastBayKid, Myke Toman, and a whole bunch of race team members for many of the photographs below.
When you're done here, be sure to check out the participants of previous LeMons events, including Arse Freeze '08, Texas '08, Toledo '08, New England '08, South '08, San Francisco '08, Arse Freeze '07, and San Francisco '07. I'll put up some more LeMons stuff when I get back to my normal weekend schedule, too. And now, the racers of the 2009 Gator-O-Rama:


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I've been remembering parts of an older scifi movie for awhile now but can't remember the name or find it. It's been driving me crazy today. It's an older movie, I remember it from TV and that was many years ago.
The movie is about a spaceship that's on some kind of exploration and they encounter an enemy fleet (might have been a longstanding enemy race that went disappeared off the scene for awhile). After or during the encounter their communications system/antenna/array gets damaged from a collision with an asteroid. The enemy fleet is heading for a spacegate/warpgate that ships use to jump galaxies (built by the humans). Because the human's access to the gate is impossible and their communication is out, they have to find another way of contacting the human space fleet. One of the people on the crew is descended from a group of people who can make spacejumps by heart/instinct without the calculations of the spacegate (might have been nomads/smugglers idk). Outside of this group everyone relies on the gates because the jumps are either to hard to make or to calculate. The man is reluctant at first to make the jump.


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Amazon Appstore Matching Android Market Prices For '10 Billion Promo' Sale for $0.10
For users who cannot purchase via Android Market.
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I was wondering if they'd do this.
Personally, I'd much rather buy directly from the "real" Android Market.
There have been a couple of apps so far (none today, though) that the Android Market won't allow me to purchase because they are "incompatible with my device". I'd like to go ahead and buy them while they're cheap and use them on a future device (hopefully a Galaxy Nexus, if they ever release it).
The Amazon App Store doesn't have any such restrictions and will allow me to purchase any app I want.
Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't carry all of the apps, including the one I missed yesterday, NFL Rivals.
Also worth noting: the article states that Amazon "maintaining those prices for an extended amount of time," but that is no longer the case.
The only $0.10 apps on Amazon right now are the same 10 that Google is featuring today. Bummer.
Amazon is very slow at releasing updates (i.e. - still haven't released the Cut The Rope update that was released 2 weeks ago) so I would rather get these from Android Marketplace.
@anotherhiggins: By the by, if you've a hacked Nook Color or similar device, you can change the identifier for that device, and it'll show up in the Android market (market.android.com) where you can purchase it. I had several incompatible apps that I purchased using this method, knowing I'll at some point in the future have a device that'll work with it.
@kingu: I have a rooted HTC Incredible.
I think I could edit the build.prop file, but I'm not sure what I'd change it to.
I want to down vote this because who wants to install the Amazon app to install other apps? I have it myself but I'm slowly transitioning away from it.
There are RARELY ever any updates either. Dumb if you ask me.
But I won't down vote.. nor will I up vote. :)
The URL below should find all the 10c deals if it isn't mangled too much. Not as many as the android store...
(Wow. One of the apps actually disappeared during the 10 minutes it took me to work out how to avoid getting the URL mangled by woot...)
Hey, this is nice for my kindle fire. Thanks!
@gtoal: Tetris for 10 cents? Yes please.
I'm seeing 4 apps for $.10....
Glad I picked a couple up earlier because they are gone now at the .10 price point.
Not sure why everybody is talking about the "real" Android market. The beauty of Android is the fact that it is open, and that Amazon can have its own market and offer a free app of the day, and SlideMe and a variety of others can have their own too. If you don't take advantage of this fact and limit yourself to only the Google Android Market, you are giving up one of the single biggest advantages of the Android platform, basically turning your Android device into an iOS device as far as limitations on installing apps. Also, some really solid apps and games have started as Amazon exclusives for Android (Plants vs. Zombies comes to mind). My $.02
@idiotwind13: "Also, some really solid apps and games have started as Amazon exclusives for Android (Plants vs. Zombies comes to mind). My $.02"
Well, give us your opinion 4 more times so I can buy and app :)
I have to agree with the Amazon App Store slow updates...Ridiculously slow. I only have that on my phone for the free app/day deal. If I have a choice I'll always buy from the Android Market due to the seamless integration with my devices.
We still got 9 more days of these as they said that they were doing this next week as well, right?
SWEET!!! This will let me work around and let buy some of the apps Google won't let me buy because of compatibility issues some of the times.
For example, Google will not let me have GasBuddy, but Amazon will let me have it. It runs perfectly.
Crossing my fingers for Tetris
The beauty of Amazon market is twofold.
First, if you've got a device that Google won't let on their market, Amazon will. (ie. gTablet, before it's modded)
Second, Google likes to tell you that a lot of apps are incompatible when they are not. Time and again I have sideloaded "incompatible" apps and they work just fine on every device. Sometimes Amazon will make a claim that an app is incompatible and they'll warn you, but from the web site, you can still buy it and then download it to your device to see if it really works or not. (Sometimes not, but you have to try it yourself to really believe an incompatible claim these days.)
Third, there was a deal posted on woot a while back for a $2 credit for the Amazon app store and I haven't spent it yet.
The downside is that I only see five apps for $.10 right now, and when I first saw this article before it was on woot, there were also only about five, though some were different.
@idiotwind13: Shouldn't that be "my 0.10"?
@klacour: Well, maybe my 10 cents.
That one is for all the binary speakers in the room.
I agree with you, i also prefer to buy directly from the Market, however, there is another but, if you have a Kindle Fire, you can ONLY buy from the Amazon Appstore, so this is a great opportunity for those that have the Fire tablet.
I like to buy on the amazon market because I can load up my login info on all of my family's devices and get all the free apps of the on their devices without having to plug in my Google account and messing their phones up.
Also, Google market remembers your device, but Amazon market remembers your apps. You get a new device and all your apps are there from Amazon. From Google, you have to go searching for them again.


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I am a part of a group which all has the same boards. However, there is not a "button" or "link" on my boards that allows me to add a card to it. What could be wrong with my account? Our person considered the admin on the account wants everyone to be able to add a card to their boards so that everyone can see each other's boards and cards. Please explain what might be wrong. thanks
You may be a member of the 'Organisation' but not explicitly a member of the 'Board'. You can probably browse to the Board, but not make any changes, add cards, etc.
Once you are a 'member' or 'admin' of the Board, you'll be able to do all these things.
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20 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 11)
It's time again for our most popular feature, in which we take photos that have made millions of Internet users scream "FAKE!" and prove that they are, in fact, real. In case you missed the previous episodes, here's Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, the gritty reboot that doesn't acknowledge the previous editions, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 and Part 10.
#20. Oakley Taps into a New Market
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"Deal with it."
Even though it looks like a still from some goofy CGI ad they'd show during the Super Bowl (maybe the cool fly is about to drink a tiny bottle of Pepsi), this is an actual photograph of a set of 2-millimeter-wide sunglasses being worn by a common housefly. Because sometimes scientists just get incredibly bored and/or high.
The picture was submitted to a science photo competition back in 2005 to promote advances in laser machining (you can make things ridiculously tiny now!). It seems a little lazy that they didn't also make him a tiny little hat to wear, but whatever.
#19. On the Set of Jurassic Pork 2: The Lost Bone
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A rule 365 million years in the making.
This looks like an entry to one of our own Photoshopping contests, something like, "If 13-Year-Olds Were Put in Charge of Museums." Though, let's be honest, if we had two dinosaur skeletons in our possession, this is what we'd do with them.
This is, however, a real display on dinosaur reproduction at the Jurassic Museum of Asturias in Spain. And while technically there's nothing wrong with showing museum visitors how dinosaurs porked each other (don't say you've never wondered), what makes it magical is the facial expressions they chose to give the lovers. It looks like the male is pumping his tiny T-Rex arms and shouting "WOOHOO, I'M GONNA TYRANNOSAURUS WRECK THAT ASS" while the female seems to be expressing, "I just bent over to eat some grass!" surprise.
#18. Two-Face's Cat
Our favorite entries in these articles are always the ones that don't just look like Photoshop, but look like shitty Photoshop. It appears some lazy hoaxer spent about 10 minutes cropping and pasting the face of a black cat onto this orange tabby. They didn't even bother to make the eyes match!
But this is an unaltered photo of a cat named Venus. (There are videos embedded there, if you still think it's fake.)
Both sides get pissed if you interrupt their nap.
She has her own Facebook fan page (with 100,000 fans, because of course she does). It's the two different colored eyes that make you realize this isn't just an unusual fur pattern -- experts think she's a chimera, a merger of cells from two different zygotes (i.e., the thing that sometimes results in horrific, two-headed freak show animals). This appears to just be a one in a billion case where the two halves lined up perfectly to create something that would clearly be a supervillain in the kitty world.
#17. Polite Giant Clears Snow, Kills Thousands on Street Below
This would look exactly like one of those "Tourist stands in the foreground pretending to hold up the Leaning Tower of Pisa" photos if his legs weren't behind the snow-covered trees there. But this photo from the U.K. Telegraph was taken at Legoland in Windsor, and, yes, those are Lego skyscrapers there. How much would you pay to get to go on a Godzilla rampage through that shit?
No, we don't know why that building is shaped like a dick. To be frank, we're a little ashamed that you even noticed.
#16. No Matter How You Look at It, This Animal Would Have Terrible Breath
As much as we wish we had a similar explanation to the chimera cat up there and could thus tell you that this is the world's only double rhino, we cannot. It's just a convenient shot of a rhino standing in front of another one. Still, if you look away from the picture, then look back, your brain will tell you it's a two-headed rhino again. We just want it to be true so badly, even though deep down we know that if a zoo had such a creature, it would be world famous by now.
If you're worried that this is going to be the tragic story of a tiny little foot-tall man with a rare genetic disorder, don't be. But it's not fakery, either -- it's a scene by artist Jean-Francois Fourtou, who also creates scenes of giant people in tiny situations. In both cases, it's done by laboriously building everything in the room to the completely wrong scale.
Though he'll apparently observe the "five-second rule," regardless.
In fact, the artist has an entire house that he's built with everything on a giant scale and then another entire house where it's all shrunken down to a fifth of its normal size. Why? Come on, don't you understand that the entire point of being an artist is never having to answer that question?
#14. Mirror Man is Impervious to Lasers
Shake too hard and you can end up with 1,792 years of bad luck.
Now here's one that just screams "album cover." That's the advantage of owning a kick-ass mirrored suit that makes every photo of you look like one:
The suit is worn by an anonymous street performer who has been spotted in both L.A. and Seattle, and we're guessing if you see him crossing the street at night, hitting him with your headlights will make you feel like you're having a stroke. We know nothing else about the man (woman?) or exactly how much of a pain in the ass it was to make it. We do know that it took 200 hours for a performer in New Zealand to make a similar one and that you'd have to do it all over if you trip and fall down the stairs just once.
#13. Building an Intimidating Military by Dragging the Clone Brush
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It's like human Magic Eye.
It doesn't matter how many times you tell us this is just soldiers marching perfectly in formation, it still messes with our eyes. It looks like they just clicked one soldier with the clone tool and dragged it across the screen.
But, of course, it isn't China using trickery to make their army look bigger than it is, it's just very disciplined troops marching in ridiculously well-drilled ranks. It's pretty difficult to spot the irregularities, even when you know it's a real picture -- they're not just in the same pose, they're all exactly the same height and body type, as well. It looks more like one of the too-perfect, computer-generated clone armies from one of the Star Wars prequels. Look at the feet in the middle row -- you can lay a ruler across them.
#12. And Then They Spent Millions Wallpapering the Beach
There is no non-ridiculous explanation for why this beach suddenly bears a gaudy star pattern, but here's a hint: You can blame that tractor back there.
This is the work of the comic-book-heroine-named Gunilla Klingberg, who built this sand pattern machine out of old truck tires:
Why she chose to do this instead of creating thousands of huge sea monster footprints to scare off tourists, we'll never know.
#11. No, Mr. Snail, I Expect You to Die ...
On top this looks like a real mountain landscape. On bottom it looks like either a Photoshopped pattern or a very long day's work on the part of a guy with a snowplow. But all of it is actually a piece of art by Motoi Yamamoto, created entirely out of salt. Yes, the mountains, too. And yes, we were also hoping it would turn out to be cocaine.


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I'd have taken the Werder Bremen job - perhaps on paper there's nothing more currently but they're historically one of the big German clubs, certainly bigger than Fulham.
I'd have taken the Werder Bremen job - perhaps on paper there's nothing more currently but they're historically one of the big German clubs, certainly bigger than Fulham.
Thanks for all the comments I'm hoping to push for the top six again next season, and without any European distractions, I hoping we can replicate (or better!) our fifth position from two seasons ago.
Hope you're all having an enjoyable festive period! I've managed to wrangle an hour of free time, so thought I'd use it to catch up on the forums, as unfortunately, I probably won't get enough time to get a decent FM session going today.
Just to give you a bit more of an insight to why I turned Werden Bremen down; I know on paper, Werder are a bigger club side than Fulham, and that financially they are in a slightly better position too, however, there was no big attraction for me. Firstly, I don't really have any affiliation with the club in real life; I've never really followed them and there is nothing in their history that interests or intrigues me. Secondly, their squad is in a worse state than what I've already got at Fulham. Fair enough, I'd probably have a bit of money to rectify this, but I doubt we'd achieve Champions League qualification in the first season. Also, if I'd left Fulham, it's unlikely I'd be able to take my star players with me; I really want to follow the development of John Itubu and the two Egyptians, so I think I owe it to them to have another season developing them at Fulham before moving on. That being said, if a 'too good to refuse offer' came in from one of my favoured clubs, I would definitely consider it.
On a side note, I was fortunate enough to get a couple of PS3 games (FIFA 12 and F1, if you're interested) as gifts yesterday, so even though I had some FM time planned over the forthcoming days, it looks like my attention may be split somewhat before I go back to work on the 3rd. I may need to pull in a FM all-nighter to keep my hand in!
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Unlucky on the end of season form. Looked like you were on for a good season. Disappointed not to be seeing Amer at the cottage next year too.
European Championship 2020
Hosts: Belgium
Holders: France
Group Stages
Knockout Rounds
Netherlands 2-3 Germany
In what was a fairly routine tournament, the trophy was finally won by Germany in a thrilling final against The Netherlands, where all five goals where scored in 27 minutes either side of half time. 'The Special One' stepped down from his England coaching role after failing to get past the Quarter-Final, and has now been replaced by former Manchester United defender, Henning Berg!
Fulham F.C.
Pre-Season Summary 2020/21
Wage: £19750 per week | Contract Length Remaining: 2 years
After much speculation over my future throughout the course of the summer, I will definitely start the season still as the manager of Fulham.
Board Expectations
Barclays Premier League: Respectable Position
FA Cup: Sixth Round | Carling Cup: Not Important
Transfer Budget: £7.78m
Wage Budget: £675k per week | Current Player Wage Total: £605k per week
Media Prediction: 8th | Title Odds: 100/1
It's pretty obvious that we won't be troubling the major teams in the title race this season, but my main objective will be to try and get us back into the Europa League. Outside of the top four (Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal and Chelsea), there's a group of four/five sides all capable of fighting for a Europa League place; we're one of these teams, but will face competition from Liverpool, Blackburn, Stoke and Tottenham. Alternatively, a good cup run would suffice, but I'd much rather have a steady league performance, but without the post-Xmas horror shows that have plagued us in the previous two seasons.
Transfer Activity
Transfer Summary
Club Signing of the Window: Francisco Jose
Total Amount Spent: £5.5m | Total Amount Received: £6m
As much as I would have liked to bring in some big names over the summer, I had to make do with who I could afford. Top of my shopping list was a new striker, someone I hoped would be able to support John Itubu, and share the goalscoring burden. In fact, I ended up signing two strikers; Francisco Jose should turn out a bargain at only £1m, after Inter Milan offloaded him to us, and Andy Carroll should still offer a aerial threat despite being the wrong side of 30 now. Raymond Gardiner will also be in consideration for a starting place, as he's a midfielder who has to creativity to fashion plenty of chances for us.
Tactical Outlook
This is my initial formation and team instructions:
I'm going to persevere with the formation I used last season. There's been a few tweaks to the individual player roles, but the impetus is still the same. I'm hoping we'll still be difficult to beat, but hopefully, the new signings will make us slightly more prolific in front of goal.
Francisco Jose looks a top player and a bargain at £1m!
Good luck this season AK
Agree with HotChocolate - £1m is a steal for a player with that talent!
How did you get him for 1 Million?
Im useless at getting bargain tranfer fees :/
1 million for a guy like that is impressive. Did you have sensitive information on the club's owners?
After the window shut, I also signed another striker on the cheap. I'm not sure if you've heard of Wayne Rooney?
Not too bad for someone who's just about to turn 35. He's still in the England picture too, so there's a chance he may add to the record breaking number of caps and goals for his country.
Also in the news ticker...
Two great offers from two clubs I admire. The Roma job would definitely be a big step-up from Fulham, and it would be a great opportunity to manage outside of England, however, the Liverpool offer is even more impressive. That, and the fact that they are the club I support in real life, can only mean one thing; pack your bags, we're all off to the North-West (and I can afford to take my Egyptians with me ).
That's not the same Wayne Rooney, he only has aggression of 14.
Great move to Liverpool, good luck
Have they made the top 4 in the game at any point?
Good luck with Liverpool
I'm off to wash my mouth out with soap
Normally I wouldn't manage them either, simply because it would distress me if I couldn't achieve any success with them. However, Man Utd have now won 25 league titles in my game (Liverpool did win the 2012/13 title though), and someone needs to put a stop to that!! I've signed a five year deal with them, and for the sake of keeping my interest in the save going, it's unlikely I will outstay my welcome at Anfield, so it's going to be a case of trying to upset United's apple-cart, build some strong foundations, then pass the baton on to someone else. Well, that's the plan anyway, it could all go horribly wrong, and I'll turn out to be the 'New Roy Hodgson'.
Oh, hang-on, I was the 'New Roy Hodgson' at Fulham. I hope that's not an omen
Here's my career history at Fulham:
Congrats on the big move, hope you have some great success at your favourite club!
Good move,hopefully you can shake off the new Roy Hodgson tag off otherwise you'll be out of a job come January
This is the juggernaut I'm trying to stop:
Congrats on the Liverpool job. I always love managing my hometown team especially now that I can!
Liverpool F.C.
Wage: £30.5k per week
Contract Length: 5 years
Transfer Budget: £44.5m
Wage Budget: £2.1m per week
Current Player Wage Total: £1.28m per week
Year Founded: 1892
Nickname: The Reds
Rivals: Everton, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal
Stadium: Anfield
Capacity: 45362 all-seater
Media Prediction: 5th
Title Odds: N/A
As it stands 13th November 2020: 13th
Table | Fixtures
Board Expectations
Barclays Premier League: Qualify for the Champions League (Won't be judged at the moment)
UEFA Europa League: Reach the Final (Won't be judged at the moment)
FA Cup: Semi Final
Carling Cup: Not important (Knocked out already)
Initial Impressions
Squad Overview | Past Managers | Finances | Facilities
I'm really up for the task of making Liverpool the biggest club in England again, but it certainly won't be an overnight transition. Even though the squad is a lot better than the 13th league place suggests, there are a lot of golden-oldies coming to the end of their careers. From the players left behind from the Alex McLeish regime, I've inherited a 38 year-old Pepe Reina, a couple of 34 year-olds in Cristian Ansaldi and João Moutinho, and Luis Suarez, who is 33. Aaron Ramsey and Rafinha are probably the pick of the bunch at the moment, and my initial task will be to set up a tactic that gets the best out of these two quality midfielders, and push us back the table towards the top six. Looking at the youth team, there does seem to be some potential with Sam van der Meulen being the brightest spark, but none of which are ready for immediate first team action. For now, it will be a case of making do, and seeing who's available in January. I've got the money to spend, but do not want to overpay unless absolutely necessary.
Welcome to Anfield. At least you'll know you're at the right place.
Sorry to see you move to Liverpool just when things were clicking in Fulham.
Strange to see only average Junior Coaching...
van der Meulen is going to be a star for sure - I can sense your excitement to get your Liverpool career started Good luck!
All the best with Liverpool. I see McLeish was working his usual "magic"!
I've just realised we don't have one defensively minded midfielder in the squad, so this may be the stem of the problems at the club. I've got no-one who can play as a ball-winner, let alone someone who can play the 'Makelele role', so roll on January. Until then, we'll have to ride it out with a 'we'll score one more than you do' approach!
Good luck with Liverpool!
As an Evertonian, it's through gritted teeth I wish you good luck at Liverpool
Good luck! Worth looking at a 5-man defence until you can pick up the defensive midfielder? Means you can have suicidally attacking fullbacks, which I absolutely love
I've actually started with a 4-2-3-1 formation, with a deep-lying playmaker (defend) and central midfielder (support) as the two men in the middle of the park. I did consider going with three centre-backs, but would have had to sacrifice my wingers to keep some kind of coherency to the formation, so decided against it in the end. I will be aiming to go 4-5-1 (with a winger and inside forward on the flanks) once I've got the squad to be able to do so.
Liverpool F.C.
Mid-Season Update 2020/21
Barclays Premier League: 10th
Europa League Group I: 1st
In all honesty, not the start I was hoping for. I obviously underestimated the task in hand, as no way did I think it would take six games to register my first win as Liverpool boss. The draws at home to Leicester and Cardiff were both pitiful displays, but nowhere near as bad as the performances we put in away to West Ham and Chelsea. Thankfully, the win against Espanyol was the tonic we needed to turn the tide, and we followed this up by beating our rivals, Man Utd, to secure my first league win at the club, and put a huge dent in their title hunt.
Generally, things are now on an upwards track, with the team gaining confidence, and putting some points on the board. It did look a bit scary at one stage, when we slipped down to 17th and were only outside the relegation zone on goal difference. With £44.5m to spend, a few new faces will be joining in the January window as I look to freshen up the squad. A solid holding midfielder will be the main target, but I wouldn't mind another striker and another wide-man which will give me a stronger bench to play with when things aren't going our way.
Sixth place and another foray into Europe should be your target?
I hate the Boston Red Sox, which means I hate Liverpool. On top of that, one of my favourite English teams is Everton! (who I don't see on the table... )
Good luck! (*Washes mouth*)
Wow, it's all happened in here! Don't blame you for moving especially as it's the team you support. Still more than enough time to qualify for a European place although not much chance of a title challenge I think. Disappointed to see Forest in the relegation zone .
The Toffees are doing spectacularly well... in the Championship, where they currently sit 21st!!
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Forest are yo-yoing a bit at the moment, but there's plenty of time for a rescue job. I've just beat them 2-0 though, sorry :o
Ooof, thats a rough start to your Liverpool career - still, it looks like you've righted the ship. Topping your Europa League is also a plus!
Steady progress, as abu said, well done topping the Euro group. Could be a chance of silverware?
Yikes! Tottenham's having a bit of trouble!!!
Still can turn it around a bit.
Big move to Liverpool, good luck! Looks like a bit of work is needed with the squad.
By the looks of things, there's life in the old girl yet...
No new stadium on the horizon though
Liverpool F.C.
Season Review 2020/21
Barclays Premier League: 6th
Position Graph | Fixtures 1 | Fixtures 2
UEFA Europa League: 1st Knockout Round | FA Cup: 5th Round | Carling Cup: 4th Round (Knocked out prior to my arrival)
Season Summary
Match of the Season Highlights: Liverpool 2-1 Man Utd
The recovery job was easily done, but I'm fairly disappointed to finish seven points my former club.
A run of twelve games unbeaten in the league pushed us back up the table and in contention for Europa League qualification, but the season soon fizzled out, as we only managed to win one of our final nine games, leaving us well behind Fulham in fifth place. This is the third season in a row that the team I've managed have had a shocking end to the season; I seriously need to review how to keep the momentum right up to the very last day, as this is, quite simply, not good enough. As a team, it looks like we have some serious motivational issues, with the players able to up their game and put in great performances against teams such as Man Utd and Chelsea, but don't seem to turn up against the likes of Wigan and West Ham. Too many big egos, who may find themselves in the reserves soon enough!
The Europa League and FA Cup performances were nothing to write home about either. Drawing the Russian champions, Zenit St Petersburg, in the First Knockout Round of the Europa League was pretty bad luck, but I still expected us to go through. We played out a solid 0-0 in Russia, before allowing them to score an 88th minute away goal at Anfield to knock us out. Very frustrating! Our defeat to Cardiff in the FA Cup was nothing short of dismal, and completely what we deserved.
Bank Balance: £76.6m
Average Attendance: 43522 | Season Ticket Holders: 35004
There's loads of money in the bank, helped mostly by the chairman's frequent cash injections. His latest investment of £53m means that I will have a decent transfer kitty to play with over the summer. The improvements to Anfield should be completed over the summer, so we should start the season with a 50k capacity too.
Squad Overview | Transfer Summary
Team of the Year | Overall Best Eleven
Fan's Player of the Year: Angel Di María
Manager's Player of the Year: Angel Di María
Top Goalscorer: Abel Hernández (17 goals)
This squad is too old, too slow and too complacent. It's disturbing that our best player, Angel Di María, is 33, so we mustn't rely on him for much longer, as he surely must be coming to the end of his career. Even though I signed two new midfielders in January, major reinforcements will still be required in the summer. A replacement for Reina in goal will be a high priority, as will another pacy striker. Hernández certainly still has the ability to bang in 20 goals a season, but when he got injured, the back-ups in the squad didn't cut the mustard at all.
Other News
Kingstonian - Missed out on the BSP playoffs by two points, finishing 6th in the table.
Hull - 10th in The Championship, five points off the playoffs.
Fulham - Finished 5th, and seven points above us. The ********!
Career Summary
Code:Season Team League Finish Cups ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12 Unemployed 2012/13 Kingstonian Blue Square Bet South 3rd FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round, FA Trophy 2nd Round 2013/14 Kingstonian Blue Square Bet Premier 3rd FA Cup 1st Round, FA Trophy 1st Round 2014/15 Kingstonian npower League Two 16th FA Cup 1st Round, Carling Cup 1st Round, JPT 1st Round 2015/16 Kingstonian npower League Two 17th** **Resigned 19/12/2015 Hull City npower League One 6th FA Cup 4th Round 2016/17 Hull City npower League One 1st FA Cup 1st Round, Carling Cup 1st Round, JPT Winner 2017/18 Hull City npower Championship 2nd FA Cup 5th Round, Carling Cup 2nd Round 2018/19 Fulham Barclays Premier League 5th FA Cup Semi-Final, Carling Cup Semi-Final 2019/20 Fulham Barclays Premier League 7th Europa League 2nd KO Rd, FA Cup 6th Rd, Carling Cup 3rd Rd 2020/21 Fulham Barclays Premier League 8th** **Resigned 13/11/2020 Liverpool Barclays Premier League 6th Europa League 1st KO Rd, FA Cup 5th Rd
Picked up well there.
Nice finish 5th
Oh wait, you moved didn't you? Down the table I see
Congrats on qualifying for the Europa League.
Good recovery there
World Ranking: 50th
2020/21 AFC World Cup Qualifiers Final Round
Fixtures 1 | Fixtures 2
What a total shambles! We managed to beat the top seeds, South Korea, both home and away, but still conspired to finish third in the group behind a surprisingly good Iranian side. In hindsight, it was the two draws against Iraq that cost us the most, as with those extra four points, we would have finished second in the group. The fact that those two games were the only matches that Iraq took some points from, makes it even more of a bitter pill to swallow.
So that means we have to face the UAE in the playoff. This really is a do or die affair; win, and we qualify for the World Cup. Lose, and it will disappointment all round, and most likely the sack for me too. September will be a huge month, for both me, and the Australian national side!
Team of the Year 2020 | Overall Best XI
Horrible going in the group stages, hopefully you will save yourself in the playoffs.
Probably deserve the sack if you end up losing to the UAE, but I'm sure you'll go through without any real problems.
I'm surprised - Abel Hernandez looks quite poor compared to how he was on my game at 32/33 (he was at Leverkusen when I was managing in Germany). I guess if he's still doing the business it doesn't matter!
Good recovery job with Liverpool although your cup performances seem a bit concerning but you should turn that around seeing as it's you
Good luck with Australia in the playoffs in which I do expect you to go through
A decent recovery with Liverpool, but as you say you should probably be looking to head on up the table next year. With that financial backing though, I'm putting money on comfortable top four next season!
Nicely turned around but I'm sure the Fulham fans loved seeing you finish below them . Not next season though, as EvilDave said, with that kind of money a spot in the top four should be possible.
Arsenal were a bit good. 116 goals. Damn!
Back into Europe. Well done.
Good recovery, but looks like tough going for Australia - you should be able to win the play-off, though
hope you fail with loserpoo hahha
Dele Martins, who single-handedly won them to the Premier League title. Last season, he scored 43 goals in 30 matches, winning the Ballon d'Or too.
Can we get a career shot and Biography shot of Dele Martins?
Right, I'm going to do a review now of how the footballing world has evolved (or not!) over the past ten seasons:
World Overview - 10 years on
World Rankings - 01/07/2021
A few surprises here; Ghana in 6th place, Spain down to 10th and Peru in 12th are probably the biggest shocks.
World Cup Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place Hosts ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2014 Germany Russia Brazil Brazil 2018 Italy Uruguay Cameroon Russia
U20s World Cup Winners
The future's looking good for Argentina.Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place Hosts ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2013 Denmark Germany Argentina Turkey 2015 Italy Argentina Sweden France 2017 Mexico Argentina Brazil Switzerland 2019 Argentina France Spain Spain
Confederation Cup Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place Hosts ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2013 Spain Brazil Portugal Brazil 2017 France Germany Argentina Russia 2021 South Africa Italy Mexico Qatar
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Richest Clubs
Marseille are flying the flag for France here.
Club Reputations
AC Milan are the biggest team in the world at the moment.
Leading Transfers
Notable Players
Erik Lamela
Zvonko Mihaljevic
Javier Llama
Dele Martins
Thomas Müller
André Schürrle
Javier Pastore
Surprisingly, not all the best talent is at Barcelona or Real Madrid.
Ballon d'Or Winners
And the latest winner... isn't Messi!
Club World Cup Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Barcelona Corinthians Al-Ahly 2013 Marseille Cruzeiro Cruz Azul 2014 Barcelona São Paulo Seoul 2015 Man City Al-Ahli (KSA) Vélez 2016 Corinthians R.Madrid Al-Hilal (KSA) 2017 Cruzeiro Lyon Pumas 2018 Man Utd Corinthians Seoul 2019 Corinthians AC Milan América (MEX) 2020 R.Madrid Corinthians Pumas
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Peru 12th!
Fanastic read on your career, really like the way you structure your updates. Congratulations on getting the Liverpool job. A job you thoroughly deserved with your great management of your previous teams. The back-to-back promotion.
It's really interesting seeing how the game changes in-game. Modric to Man City! Also, Liverpool can't get rid of Glen Johnson on my save and on your save he sold for 27million!
Europe - Overview
European Competitions
Not that much movement here.
UEFA European Championship Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up Hosts ---------------------------------------------------- 2012 Spain Portugal Ukraine/Poland 2016 France Norway France 2020 Germany Netherlands Belgium
UEFA Champions League Winners
Man Utd runners-up five times in six years!Code:Year Winners Runner-Up Final Venue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012 Barcelona R.Madrid Allianz-Arena 2013 Marseille Villarreal Wembley 2014 Barcelona Man Utd Amsterdam ArenA 2015 Man City Man Utd Estádio da Luz 2016 R.Madrid Man Utd Ibrox 2017 Lyon Man Utd Stade Roi Baudouin 2018 Man Utd Liverpool Swedbank Arena 2019 AC Milan Man Utd Ali Sami Yen Spor Kompleksi Türk Telekom Arena 2020 R.Madrid Arsenal Stadion Slaski 2021 AC Milan R.Madrid Atatürk Olympic Stadium
La Liga Winners
All fairly routine, except for Villarreal in 2015.Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Barcelona R.Madrid Villarreal 2013 Barcelona R.Madrid Sevilla 2014 Barcelona R.Madrid Sevilla 2015 Villarreal R.Madrid Sevilla 2016 R.Madrid Sevilla Barcelona 2017 Barcelona At.Madrid R.Madrid 2018 Barcelona Sevilla At.Madrid 2019 At.Madrid R.Madrid Barcelona 2020 R.Madrid Barcelona Sevilla 2021 R.Madrid Barcelona At.Madrid
Premier League Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Man Utd Liverpool Man City 2013 Liverpool Man Utd Chelsea 2014 Man Utd Chelsea Man City 2015 Chelsea Man Utd Man City 2016 Man Utd Liverpool Arsenal 2017 Man Utd Chelsea Arsenal 2018 Arsenal Man City Man Utd 2019 Man Utd Arsenal Chelsea 2020 Man Utd Arsenal Man City 2021 Arsenal Man City Man Utd
Serie A Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Inter AC Milan Juventus 2013 Inter Napoli Udinese 2014 AC Milan Fiorentina Inter 2015 Napoli Fiorentina AC Milan 2016 AC Milan Fiorentina Sampdoria 2017 Napoli Fiorentina AC Milan 2018 Fiorentina AC Milan Roma 2019 AC Milan Fiorentina Inter 2020 AC Milan Fiorentina Sampdoria 2021 AC Milan Fiorentina Sampdoria
Fiorentina runners-up seven times!
Bundesliga Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 FC Bayern Schalke Dortmund 2013 FC Bayern Dortmund Schalke 2014 Stuttgart FC Bayern Dortmund 2015 Schalke Leverkusen FC Bayern 2016 FC Bayern Leverkusen Schalke 2017 FC Bayern Schalke Leverkusen 2018 FC Bayern Dortmund Leverkusen 2019 FC Bayern Leverkusen Dortmund 2020 FC Bayern Leverkusen Dortmund 2021 Leverkusen FC Bayern Stuttgart
Bayern as dominant as ever.
Ligue 1 Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place ---------------------------------------------------- 2012 Lyon Marseille PSG 2013 PSG Lyon Marseille 2014 Lyon PSG Marseille 2015 Marseille Lyon PSG 2016 Marseille Lyon PSG 2017 PSG Lyon Marseille 2018 Marseille PSG Lille 2019 Saint-Etienne Lyon Marseille 2020 Marseille Lyon Lille 2021 Marseille PSG Lyon
Liga ZON SAGRES Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Porto Sporting CP Benfica 2013 Porto Sporting CP Benfica 2014 Sporting CP Porto Vit Guimarãres 2015 Benfica Sporting CP Porto 2016 Sporting CP Porto Benfica 2017 Porto Sporting CP Benfica 2018 Benfica Porto Sporting CP 2019 Sporting CP Porto Benfica 2020 Braga Porto Sporting CP 2021 Porto Benfica Sporting CP
Braga shock winners in 2020.
SOGAZ Prem'er Liga Winners
I'm surprised it took until 2021 for mega-rich Anji to appear on the radar.Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Zenit CSKA Moscow Dinamo Moscow 2013 CSKA Moscow Zenit Dinamo Moscow 2014 CSKA Moscow Zenit Rubin 2015 Zenit CSKA Moscow Rubin 2016 Zenit CSKA Moscow Rubin 2017 CSKA Moscow Zenit Spartak Moscow 2018 CSKA Moscow Zenit Dinamo Moscow 2019 CSKA Moscow Zenit Spartak Moscow 2020 CSKA Moscow Rubin Zenit 2021 Zenit Anji CSKA Moscow
Eredivisie Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Ajax AZ Feyenoord 2013 PSV Feyenoord FC Twente 2014 AZ PSV FC Twente 2015 Feyenoord FC Twente PSV 2016 Feyenoord Ajax FC Twente 2017 PSV Heerenveen FC Twente 2018 Feyenoord Ajax PSV 2019 AZ Feyenoord PSV 2020 Feyenoord FC Twente Ajax 2021 Ajax Vitesse AZ
Spor Toto Süper Lig Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Galatasaray Besiktas Fenerbahçe 2013 Galatasaray Fenerbahçe Besiktas 2014 Besiktas Fenerbahçe Galatasaray 2015 Galatasaray Fenerbahçe Besiktas 2016 Galatasaray Fenerbahçe Besiktas 2017 Galatasaray Besiktas Fenerbahçe 2018 Fenerbahçe Besiktas Galatasaray 2019 Besiktas Trabzonspor Bursaspor 2020 Besiktas Fenerbahçe Galatasaray 2021 Besiktas Gaziantepspor Galatasaray
EpiCentre Premyer-Liha Winners
Dominant Donetsk!Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Shakhtar Dynamo Kyiv Metalist 2013 Shakhtar Dynamo Kyiv Metalist 2014 Shakhtar Dynamo Kyiv Metalist 2015 Shakhtar Metalist Dynamo Kyiv 2016 Shakhtar Dynamo Kyiv Metalist 2017 Shakhtar Metalist Dnipro 2018 Shakhtar Dynamo Kyiv Metalist 2019 Shakhtar Metalist Dynamo Kyiv 2020 Shakhtar Metalist Dynamo Kyiv 2021 Shakhtar Dynamo Kyiv Dnipro
SPL Winners
What the heck happened in 2019?!Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Rangers Celtic Dundee Utd 2013 Celtic Rangers Hibernian 2014 Celtic Rangers Dundee Utd 2015 Rangers Celtic Hibernian 2016 Celtic Rangers Hibernian 2017 Rangers Celtic Morton 2018 Rangers Celtic Motherwell 2019 Aberdeen Hibernian Celtic 2020 Rangers Celtic Hamilton 2021 Rangers Celtic St.Mirren
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North America - Overview
North America - Competitions
Gold Cup Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up Hosts ------------------------------------------------------ 2013 Mexico United States United States 2015 Mexico United States United States 2015 Mexico United States United States 2017 United States Mexico United States 2019 Mexico El Salvador United States
CONCACAF Champions League Winners
Unusual to see Saprissa from Costa Rica making the 2019 final.Code:Year Winners Runner-Up ------------------------------------ 2012 Monterrey Pumas 2013 Cruz Azul San Jose 2014 Monterrey Cruz Azul 2015 Pachuca Los Angeles 2016 Monterrey Santos Laguna 2017 Pumas Cruz Azul 2018 América Pumas 2019 América Saprissa 2020 Pumas New York 2021 Chivas Columbus
Primera Division de Mexico Winners
Code:Year Stage Winners Runner-Up ----------------------------------------------------- 2012 Closing Morelia Monterrey 2012 Opening Monterrey Cruz Azul 2013 Closing Pumas Monterrey 2013 Opening América Jaguares 2014 Closing Chivas América 2014 Opening Atlas Monterrey 2015 Closing Pumas Santos Laguna 2015 Opening América Cruz Azul 2016 Closing Pumas Morelia 2016 Opening Monterrey Pumas 2017 Closing América Chivas 2017 Opening Pumas América 2018 Closing Chivas Pumas 2018 Opening América Pumas 2019 Closing Tigres Pumas 2019 Opening Morelia Chivas 2020 Closing Chivas Necaxa 2020 Opening Monterrey Toluca 2021 Closing Chivas Pumas
MLS Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up ---------------------------------------------- 2012 CD Chivas USA Los Angeles 2013 Seattle New York 2014 New York Los Angeles 2015 Real Salt Lake New York 2016 New York Chicago 2017 Sporting Kansas City Real Salt Lake 2018 New York FC Dallas 2019 Columbus DC United 2020 CD Chivas USA Columbus
South America - Overview
South America - Competitions
Copa America Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place Hosts ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2015 Argentina Uruguay Brazil Brazil 2019 Argentina Peru Columbia Chile
Copa Libertadores Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up ------------------------------------ 2012 Corinthians Santos 2013 Cruzeiro Estudiantes 2014 São Paulo Independiente 2015 Vélez Internacional 2016 Corinthians Atlético Mineiro 2017 Cruzeiro River 2018 Corinthians Cruzeiro 2019 Corinthians Boca 2020 Corinthians Boca 2021 Botafogo Independiente
Primera Division de Argentina Winners
Code:Year Stage Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012 Closing Independiente Estudiantes Arsenal de Sarandí 2012 Opening River Estudiantes Boca 2013 Closing Boca Vélez Belgrano 2013 Opening River Vélez Banfield 2014 Closing River Lanús Independiente 2014 Opening Boca Independiente Belgrano 2015 Closing Boca River Racing Club 2015 Opening Boca River Huracán 2016 Closing Boca Racing Club Independiente 2016 Opening River Vélez Newell's 2017 Closing Boca Racing Club Vélez 2017 Opening Vélez River Independiente 2018 Closing Newell's Vélez Independiente 2018 Opening Independiente Colón Newell's 2019 Closing Vélez Boca Independiente 2019 Opening Lanús Vélez Boca 2020 Closing Vélez Independiente Tigre 2020 Opening Independiente Boca Vélez 2021 Closing Independiente Boca Argentinos
Campeonato Brasileiro Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------------- 2012 Corinthians São Paulo Cruzeiro 2013 São Paulo Cruzeiro Internacional 2014 Internacional São Paulo Atlético Mineiro 2015 Cruzeiro Corinthians São Paulo 2016 Botafogo São Paulo Palmeiras 2017 Corinthians Flamengo Cruzeiro 2018 Cruzeiro Flamengo Corinthians 2019 Cruzeiro São Paulo Atlético Mineiro 2020 Corinthians Botafogo Cruzeiro
I am not surprised with the amount of sheer talent Argentina has produced in your save. In mine, my four best players are all Argentinian - they are all NewGens and are all world superstars.
Asia - Overview
Asia - Competitions
Asian Cup Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place Hosts ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2015 South Korea Australia Japan Australia 2019 China Australia South Korea India
AFC Champions League Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up Final Venue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012 Al-Hilal Jeonbuk Jeonju World Cup Stadium 2013 Al-Hilal Melbourne Victory King Fahd International Stadium 2014 Seoul Frontale Todoroki Athletics Stadium 2015 Al-Ahli Al-Ittihad Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium 2016 Frontale Al-Hilal King Fahd International Stadium 2017 Al-Ittihad Al-Hilal King Fahd International Stadium 2018 Seoul Al-Hilal Seoul World Cup Stadium 2019 Al-Ain Antlers Tahnoon bin Mohammed Stadium 2020 Al-Hilal Al-Ittihad King Fahd International Stadium
K-League Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place -------------------------------------------------- 2012 Seongnam Seoul Pohang 2013 Ulsan Jeonbuk Seoul 2014 Suwon Seongnam Ulsan 2015 Pohang Seoul Sangju 2016 Seoul Suwon Ulsan 2017 Suwon Seoul Ulsan 2018 Seoul Incheon Suwon 2019 Seoul Ulsan Suwon 2020 Gangwon Suwon Seoul
A-League Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012 Sydney Melbourne Victory Adelaide Utd 2013 Melbourne Victory Melbourne Heart Newcastle Utd Jets 2014 Adelaide Utd Sydney Melbourne Victory 2015 Melbourne Victory Sydney Brisbane Roar 2016 Melbourne Heart Central Coast Mariners Melbourne Victory 2017 Newcastle Utd Jets Melbourne Heart Melbourne Victory 2018 Perth Glory Sydney Newcastle Utd Jets 2019 Melbourne Victory Brisbane Roar Perth Glory 2020 Perth Glory Central Coast Mariners Brisbane Roar 2021 Perth Glory Melbourne Heart Brisbane Roar
Africa - Overview
Africa - Competitions
African Cup of Nations Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up 3rd Place Hosts ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012 Cameroon Togo Nigeria Equatorial Guinea/Gabon 2013 Ivory Coast Morocco Cameroon South Africa 2015 Senegal Mali Cameroon Morocco 2017 Senegal Cameroon Morocco Libya 2019 South Africa Ghana Togo Tunisia 2021 Ghana Ivory Coast Egypt Ghana
CAF Champions League Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up -------------------------------------------- 2012 Al-Ahly Al-Ittihad 2013 Al-Ahly ASO Chief 2014 Club Africain Raja Casablanca 2015 Zamalek ASO Chief 2016 Etoile du Sahel FAR Rabat 2017 Zamalek Wydad Casablanca 2018 Wydad Casablanca Ismaily 2019 Etoile du Sahel ES Tunis 2020 Heartland Zamalek
Oceania - Overview
Oceania - Competitions
OFC Nations Cup Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up Hosts ------------------------------------------------------ 2012 New Zealand Solomon Islands Fiji 2016 New Zealand Solomon Islands New Zealand 2020 New Zealand New Caledonia Fiji
OFC Champions League Winners
Code:Year Winners Runner-Up ------------------------------------- 2012 Auckland City Waitakere Utd 2013 Waitakere Utd Auckland City 2014 Waitakere Utd Auckland City 2015 Auckland City Waitakere Utd 2016 Auckland City Ba 2017 Waitakere Utd Auckland City 2018 Waitakere Utd Auckland City 2019 Waitakere Utd Auckland City 2020 Auckland City Waitakere Utd 2021 Auckland City Waitakere Utd
And after that rather heavy stat overload, this is where I leave you for 2011.
Thanks for all your comments in the thread so far. See you all next year!
Exceptional overview - I thoroughly enjoyed that! Great, great work
Glad you enjoyed the summaries; it kept me out of mischief for a couple of hours
Liverpool F.C.
Pre-Season Summary 2021/22
Wage: £30.5k per week | Contract Length Remaining: 4 years
Plenty of time to run on my existing deal, and plenty of time to get this club back up the league.
Board Expectations
Barclays Premier League: Qualify for Champions League
Europa League: Reach The Final | FA Cup: Semi-Final | Carling Cup: Not Important
Transfer Budget: £40.95m
Wage Budget: £2.1m per week | Current Player Wage Total: £1.37m per week
Media Prediction: 5th | Title Odds: 20/1
With the amount of money I've got at my disposal, it would be disappointing if we don't finish in the top four this season. Even though we're not that far behind Arsenal, Man Utd or Man City talent-wise, I think it's unlikely we'll challenge for the title this season, using this term to build for a main title push next year. I'm not that bothered about the Europa League, and I'll be using the opportunity to give the reserves some game time. As long as we reach the knockout rounds, I'm sure that will be enough to pacify the board.
Transfer Activity
Transfer Summary
Club Signing of the Window: Eric Diallo
Total Amount Spent: £45m | Total Amount Received: £7.5m
The bulk of the money spent was on three players; Eric Diallo is the strong, pacy striker that we need to spearhead our attack, Roberto Poison has all the attributes required to play the Inside Forward role on the left wing, and I went back to Fulham to sign my former-Egyptian 'keeper, Mohamed Ismail. I'm hoping these signings will all add some much needed pace, vigour and quality that the side was lacking last season. In addition to these three marquee signings, I signed four other youngsters who should come to fruition over the next couple of years.
Tactical Outlook
This is my initial formation and team instructions:
After the signing of Poison, I can now finally set the team up in a way that I think we bring the best results for us. A fluid 4-5-1 should get the most out of the attacking talent I have available to me, but with the inclusion of an anchorman, we should be pretty sound at the back too. I may also decide to push the defensive line up further, to contain the opposition in their own half, allowing us to dictate the pace of the game.
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Good luck this season mate!
I quite like the look of Erica Diallo, Drogba-esque. Should be a fine player to lead the line.
Some excellent buys there with the future ahead of them. Good luck.
Slim chance, but the Diallos aren't brothers, are they?
Zonal marking. You're doomed. Best of luck
The Diallos aren't brothers, unfortunately. The defender's from Guinea, and the striker's from Ivory Coast. Actually, thinking about it, I'm not sure I've ever seen regen siblings before; perhaps this should be something that is introduced in the future.
Now, I know we like a lot of football over the Christmas period in England, but this is just ridiculous...
Full Premier League fixtures three days in a row!
That is horrible, I'm surprised the Man City game hasn't been moved.
Ah, that's good then! I wouldn't have been pleased if you were one of a select few that had it.
Talking about weird fixtures, in my game, the last game of the season was moved from Saturday to the Wednesday before (everyones game) reason: Wrexham (who were in my league) were in the Welsh FA Cup Final which was to be played on the Saturday, so let me get this right, they moved a whole entire league of fixtures for the FA Welsh Cup final? Seriously? It made me laugh when I realized.