Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

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The tour was a hype ting though. :banderas: Stage was uneventful until RIGHT at the end there was this ridiculously steep but short climb and out of fukking nowhere shyt turned up. Berto hit the front like a stormtrooper and then it was basically a real nikka roll call after that. EVERYONE with GC aspirations hit the front with him. Froome, Talansky, Nibbles, Kwit, Fulsang, Valverde the whole gang. He put the hammer down, a little bit then Froome counterattacked just to let him know what time it was.

Then the ending was hot, all the top GC contenders attacking off the front looking for the stage win, Nibbles eventually got away for the W. All the GC contenders put time on everyone else. The best though was that Sagan hung with them but had no help and couldn't take the stage.

This is how the tour should start :banderas:
3 days in England tho :beli:
But yeah good start, hope it will be an all out war instead of a locked down race as we had the last couple of years.
 

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3 days in England tho :beli:
But yeah good start, hope it will be an all out war instead of a locked down race as we had the last couple of years.
The best thing is the Sky Train looks depleted. It's nowhere near as strong as it was in 2012 when you had Rogers, Froome, and Porte, leading Wiggo up the mountain, or even last year with an in-form Porte. Froome looks like he'll be isolated just as often as the other contenders.

Deffo will be a war, I think the Dauphine set the stage of what it will look like. Froome and Contador marking each other, maybe even too much, and others using that to go on the offensive.
 
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