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OS Soccer Blog - Man Utd, Suarez, Mighty Germans, and Some Football Manager Tips 
Posted on April 25, 2013 at 08:35 PM.
Well, that was an interesting few days.
One of the Most Uninteresting Title Races In Recent Memory
With four games to go, Manchester United clinches the title. This one was in the bag pretty much by the end of January.
- A take on the on the whole Guard of Honour for van Persie will-they-won't-they thing, and the state of Arsenal as a whole.
- Speaking of RvP, some interesting stats on the PFA Player of the Year candidates.
- Meanwhile, Blackburn still can't catch a break.
Biting Punishment
So, Suarez gets ten games for biting Ivanovic.
The word context gets thrown around a lot, and this is one of those times where it still doesn't make anything clearer. Yes, the suspension has to be taken in context, but depending on which side of the fence you're on, the context you choose can be totally different:
"Good for the FA": Suarez has priors-- he accepted a seven match ban from the Dutch FA when he bit Otman Bakkal while playing for Ajax, and was also warned by the FA after the Evra incident to watch his behavior. So in that sense, ten games look reasonable.
"Witchhunt!": Defoe got a yellow card for biting Mascherano, and everybody laughed it off afterwards. Roy Keane effectively got eight games (three initially, then another five after admitting it was premeditated) for effectively ending Alf-Inge Haaland's career. Ivanovic, as far as we know, did not contract any disease from Suarez that will cause him to miss any games.
Meanwhile, it wouldn't be the British press if they didn't immediately start the Suarez looking to leave rumors.
FIFA (the organization, not the video game) Teaches Political Science, Part I
"I will say something which is crazy, but less democracy is sometimes better for organizing a World Cup," says Jerome Valcke, Sepp Blatter's henchman
"When you have a very strong head of state who can decide, as maybe Putin can do in 2018...that is easier for us organizers than a country such as Germany....where you have to negotiate at different levels."
Stop Me if You Heard This One
Mourinho is "almost certain" to return to Stamford Bridge, and Falcao is coming with him.
Gute Nacht, Spanien
Bayern and Dortmund destroyed Barcelona and Real Madrid on their respective Champions League first legs. End of an era, asks Jonathan Wilson? Not so fast, answers Andres Iniesta.
Mario Götze will join Bayern from BVB this summer. This is almost unfair, the firepower Bayern will have going forward. But my, will they be fun to watch. Who exits? One tabloid thinks it's none other than Arjen Robben.
Is Lewandowski next? After his four goal night against Real, his agent has revealed that a mysterious club has. allegedly, agreed terms with both Dortmund and the player himself. Of course, Dortmund denies this, and says they'd rather him instead play out the last year of his contract out and leave for nothing. The team in question is rumored to be Manchester United. It surely couldn't be Bayern again... could it?
Meanwhile, Blackburn still can't catch a break.
FIFA Teaches Political Science, Part II
"We are conservative, like the Catholics, when it comes to the laws of the game and referees. Then we are liberal when we go to the market." Yup, this time it's Sepp Blatter.
"We are Marx and Engels when it comes to the distribution of the money, 70 percent of all income is distributed to the national associations for development programs."
The whole article here, if you feel like rolling your eyes.
Some Football Manager stuff
I was browsing the game's official tactics forum since I'm not having the best of seasons in my FM 13 save. Here are some interesting tidbits that some may not know, from forum member Cleon, who was part of the team in designing the new tactics creator.
- Ideally you should sign like-minded backroom staff, with similar preferred playing style and formations.
- The preferred formation of your Head of Youth Development can influence the positions of your yearly youth intakes.
- "Dwells on Ball" may not always be a negative preferred move for a player. If he's playing in a position (say, as a deep lying playmaker in DM) where he has the time with the ball, then he's more likely to take that time and assess all his options. Of course, this is based on the caveat that the player in question has the other right attributes to pull it off, and also the composure needed to make a decision if the opponent does choose to close him down.
Finally, the "goal of the century", according to Fergie:
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about Lewandowski: word is that he agreed to join Bayern months ago. It's just about WHEN he's joining them. Of course we don't know if it's true but I'm pretty sure he and Götze will be teammates again in a not too distant future
btw: what is wrong with Suarez? Seems like he's a big Mike Tyson fan