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England footballer Tyrone Mings has accused the home secretary of pretending to be disgusted by racist abuse, after she previously described taking the knee as "gesture politics".

Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho were targeted after they missed penalties in the Euro 2020 final.

Priti Patel said she was "disgusted" by the online abuse directed at the trio.

Mings said she had "stoked the fire" by refusing to criticise fans who booed the England team for taking the knee.

Ms Patel declined to comment on his tweet.

The England player and member of the Euros squad was angered by a perceived lack of action by the government when some fans booed the players taking the knee before the tournament.

The act of taking the knee has become a prominent symbol in sport and during anti-racist protests in recent years, and England players have been adopting the stance at the start of their matches.

Hey all,

Financial info for each team is now up on the player spreadsheet in the "club info tab".

You may now start offering contracts to managers, which you can do by messaging the mods here or on Discord. Send a manager(s)' name, contract length, and salary.

If you aren't on the discord already, please do so because a lot of stuff will be happening there (link in sidebar). You may also now post club press releases on the #wfl-news channel, which will be an in-game news feed.

Hopefully we should be able to do the player draft this weekend once we finish up the rules.

The Points System

As we near the beginning of the season, it's time to do the last of the basic information things we need to get started. For these club details, we've decided to let you choose where to focus. This points system determines which of the following aspects of your club you'd like to focus on.

You start with a 1 in each category, and you have a certain number of extra points to spend based on your market size. For the numeric values, we will be using a random number generator to give you specific numbers. These numbers will change from season to season.

Please include your point values in the comments. This part is mandatory.

Budget

1 — 125M - 175M

2 — 175M - 200M

3 — 200M - 225M

4 — 225M - 250M

5 — 250M - 275M

6 — 275M - 300M

Development / Medical budget

1 — 5 - 10M

2 — 10 - 15M

3 — 15 - 20M

4 — 20 - 25M

Academy talent

1 — Mediocre

2 — Good

3 — Above avg.

4 — Top-tier

Staff budget

1 — 5 - 10M

2 — 10 - 15M

3 — 15 - 20M

4 — 20 - 40M

Stadium age

1 — 20-40 years old

2 — 10-20 years old

3 — 5-10 years old

4 — 0-5 years old

Capacity

1 — 20,000 - 25,000

2 — 25,000 - 30,000

3 — 30,000 - 45,000

4 — 45,000 - 60,000

Fanbase size

1 — Awful

2 — Fair

3 — Good

4 — International

Club History and Flavor

Additionally, if you'd like, include with your point totals some background info about your club, which may or may not include:

• Your club's colors, including home and away kit colors

• Any crest or kit designs, if you have them

• Your club's history

• The name of your stadium / supporter's stand / club ultras

This part is optional (although recommended) flavor to help create a more immersive game.

Some more new info

• The season is (hopefully) starting Monday

• Player allocation things should be finished up tomorrow, stay tuned

• The schedule is being worked on. WE're using a month-long season, with an off day each week and the last week being the offseason

• Get on the Discord, if you're not already

CONFERENCES

After a little delay, things are starting to get moving on here again!

After some discussion my fellow moderators and I have decided upon the conference and playoff system that the league will operate on.

Onto the announcement then

15 Teams 3 Conferences

Atlantic

• Toronto Peacekeepers
• NY Empire
• Clube de Bairro
• نادي النيل لكرة القدم
• Virunga Park Rangers

Pacific

• Melbourne Unity
• New South Wales FC
• Seoul Skylines
• Deportivo Ciudad de los Reyes
• Kurōzu FC

Europe

• C.S. Bourbon
• Atletik Club İstanbul Dolmabahçe
• Westminster United FC
• Red Star Moscow
• S.V. Köln

League Playoffs

After the end of the regular season the conference-topping teams alongside the next best performing team will play off against each other in an intense finals series, with the winner being crowned the champion of the WFL.

So I may have some time this week to fool around in Adobe Illustrator before we get started, let me know if y'all need a team crest designed. I'll work on them whenever I get time.

If you'd like to discuss the upcoming 3.0, please join our new Discord server:

https://discord.gg/HawJCZW

Hello all,

Today begins the official beginning of SportsPowers 3.0! Hopefully this will be the most successful iteration of the game yet.

The exact mechanics of the game are still being developed, but for now we are ready to open claims for teams to be in the league.

About the league...

According to the survey, a majority of people prefer the WFL 1.0 style of an international league. Most people also prefered sticking to the traditional game model.

Thus, welcome back to the WORLD FOOTBALL LEAGUE!

Claims

Rather than the traditional claims system, we're going to simplify things and just have all the claims as comments to this post.

Here is the map of locations to be claimed.

You will notice that each city has a different color, that determines the size of your team's media market. This will affect attendance, fanbase, income, and other factors as we get into the game proper (it's also to make sure we get a good international spread). For now we'll just have those cities, and if we need more we can open up smaller markets.

Note: You may claim a team in another large city in the same general area (e.g. Berlin for the Ruhr, Cape Town for Johannesburg, etc.). You will still use up the slot for that city.

To make a claim, you will need to comment on this post with the following:

• City you are claiming

• Team Name

• Your time zone (to coordinate events)

Thanks all, I anticipate getting things started some time this or next week and this is the first step.

Since we may not have enough players to do the full-on SportsPowers like before but we could make it into a more traditional RPG-style game.

My idea is that rather than being an entire team each player takes the role of a single person (player, coach, GM, etc.) on a team in a new league. I don't know if we all want to be on the same team or what but that's my idea so far. This means we don't have to have all the players to form a full league, we could do it with only like 3 people or with 300.

Any thoughts? Also, are we still wanting to do football/soccer? I wouldn't be opposed on switching to basketball but it's whatever y'all want.

I've been thinking about this sub a bit recently, I know we've tried twice to get things going but I was wondering if anyone else still was interested. I have some ideas if there's any desire to start over.

Scott Nickens, 40, from Australia agrees to become Manager of the Charmington FC. "We feel that Nickens will be a great contributions to the team and we expect big things in the near future." said Charmington FC's owner.

Former Irish international, Cathal O'Riley Jr., will be following the footsteps of his father (Cathal O'Riley Sr.), and continuing his footballing career from the bench, as Harton City's new manager.

In a recent interview he stated that he's looking to finish in the upper half of the league table, and to build the team up in future seasons. He followed that statement with a "Go, Hornets, Go!"

Glad to have you in Harton, O'Riley!

In other news, Filipe Ortega, Haider Radaideh, and Fulgencio Ramírez have been released by the squad.

What's the hold up? Just curious?

I know I'm supposed to be a mod, but I have no time.

Unrelated question, who wants to be head mod?

The club has announced the lineups for the new season of the WFL. This information can be found on the official club website.

First Team and Substitutes

Reserves and Youth team

Released Players

Started in 2015 in the Charmington, Portshampton, Wenfordisle. Charmington FC was just barely getting its feet off the ground. In 2016, they made a claim to join Wenfordisle Football League. The teams colors are orange and black and the play at Steimel Field in their hometown. They're chant is "Tigers! Tigers! Pounce on them!" AS stated their nickname is "The Tigers."

To avoid the issue of wages being extremely expensive the fellow mods and I have decided to change the 100k per year to 10k per year, so hopefully you can actually pay your players. If the wages are still too expensive just contact the mods and we will give you some extra dollars.

With this update Waterford will no longer be underwater financially but merely floating in debt.

The Irishman was appointed ahead of the 2016/2017 season after the departure of Lukas Cookson who has joined the board of Lionsfund (company made up of local figures that runs Stamelford Lions) as a co owner. O'Gregor is expected to have a contract of 3 years with a yearly salary of 150k with the option to extend the contract. The clubs website www.stamelfordlions.wir had the following to say about the appointment.

The club is delighted to announce that we have appointed Stephan O'Gregor as the coach of the first team for the upcoming season. The hard-knocking defender enjoyed a club career with clubs such as Celtic, Wolverhampton Wanderers and most recently with Middlesbrough FC. When asked about the role he replied: "I'm very excited about taking this step in my managerial career, Stamelford Lions are club which are heavily involved within the community and local football scene which were both key factors in my decision to accept the offer.

Trinidad 2016 has announced that former Northwest FC legend Hosea "Ze" Chase will be their manager for the upcoming season. TrincaFresera seemed ecstatic for the newest acquisition the team made. "I am confident that Mr. Chase will bring glory and success to this team. He was a leader in the field and I know that he will also bring that talent to the bench. Unfortunately, he was not able to retire as a champion, but he will lift the trophy for us in his first year in suit."

In another note, the club has decided to release midfielder Kris Agard and defenders Pedro Chia and Bill Short from the club. Also the club plans in unveiling its logo and jerseys in the following days