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If the numbers align 10 teams from a league can get into Europe in 1 season

Spoiler

Hint: Switzerland

Spoiler: how this works

Switzerland would have to be a top 4 coefficient in Europe. 5 teams from an association can qualify for CL at once+2 EL+ECL winner to EL+ECL+Vaduz winning Lietchtenstein cup

 

Was watching Superman 2 and a scene where a kid slips and falls down Niagara Falls. Took Superman 25 seconds to get changed and save him. In them 25 seconds a person would fall 3,000 metres. Not sure how big the Falls are but safe to say they are not 3,000 metres in height.

Absolutely useless info I know.

 

If you race all the models from the Thomas the Tank Engine range in a straight line Gordon is quickest, followed by Henry. Out of the immediate characters, trains only, Percy is the slowest

 

Solid

 

To be fair getting changed in 25 seconds is pretty impressive given he was paralysed from the neck down.

 

Workmen were supposed to turn up 4,000 years ago. On an extended tea break they were.

 

At least the building contractor who suggested breeze block has now been buried alive with Scarabs.

 

A mural with some nice palm trees is what they need

 

During World War 2 America had over 100,000 Japanese Americans forcibly placed in what they called concentration camps after the attack on Pearl Harbour.

The actor who played Sulu in Star Trek was placed in one of these camps when he was 5 years old as was the actor who played Mister Miyagi in Karate Kid.

 

Vladimir Weiss is an active Slovakian international.
His father Vladimir Weiss played for both Czechoslovakia & Slovakia.
His grandfather Vladimir Weiss played for Czechoslovakia.

 

Bert Trautmann was kept as a prisoner of war (although I think he was an active pilot at the time) and was kept in a POW camp, in Huyton, that was actually just a few 100 yards away from where Im sitting now

 

Poor bugger. Imagine being stuck either in a Japanese camp or end up in Huyton. Dunno which is worse.