Probably biggest surprise in this qualifying round that Celtic were eliminated by Ferencvaros. Can't call it as sensation, but still, unexpected. Celtic completely dominated, especially in 2nd half, but it wasn't enough.
There was some drama in AZ Alkmar - Plzen game. AZ equalised score on 95th minute and won game in extra time.
Legia were favorites on paper against Omonia, but they lost game in extra time.

I don't know, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I can't post emojis from my phone. I use dafault Google keyboard and when I try to post it, it simply doesn't shows after I publish post. Can't say that I need it much, but it would be interesting to know how to post it.

In recent months, Polish Ekstraklasa is one of rare leagues where you can enjoy real football atmosphere because fans are allowed to attend stadium. If I'm not mistaken, they can fill up to 30% of stadium capacity.
I watched Rakov - Legia game last weekend and Rakow gave good fight despite red card in first half. Legia managed to win only in last minutes.
But I can't understand one thing. Polish clubs get big money from TV contract, they have great stadiums and fans, and in general,I think level of tjis league isn't bad. But their clubs almost never qualify to Champions and Europa league.

I can't say that I'm waiting for upcoming international window. Nations League is really strange tournament which is made to replace friendly games. I don't think that in current situation there is big need to stop national leagues to play in tournament which have almost zero importance. Other case would be qualifiers. And I still didn't even figured how exactly teams can qualify to EURO to this tournament .
But there is at least one good thing made by global pandemic. My national team now haven't lost in 10 months .
@tyKiwanuka, as far as I remember, there was general thread dedicated for national teams where all competitions like qualifiers, Nations League and friendly games were discussed.

IMO, it's one of best tracks that weren't used by F1 in recent years.

Payment made, PM sent.
Yeah, not that many people sent money, but probably they aren't in hurry, there is enough time until season start. I'm sure that we will get at least not less participants than last season.
BTW, I just realized that there is Southanpton players with Sportsbet logo on their shirt in the OP. If somebody aren't aware, Southampton signed one year sponsorship deal with Sportsbet.io:
https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2020-08-25/southampton-football-club-sportsbetio-main-club-partner

Unfortunately, it's nothing new for Russia. It's not first time when they are trying to remove their opponents in similar way. Litvinenko - tea with polonium, Skripal - Novichok gas. I'm not even talking about opponents killed in other ways, like Nemtsov who was shot.
Navalny probably is biggest critic of Putin in Russia. Previously there already was attempts to harm his health, they also send him to jail on regular basis. And fact that they didn't allowed Navalny to be moved to hospital in Germany for so long says a lot about this situation. I hope that he will recover.

@Lucius, I know you for a long time already and can't say any bad word about you. You're definitely not signature spammer. From what I saw in all these years here, you're helpful user who make good posts, I'm not really sure why dkbit98 called you spammer.
I don't know him very well, but I don't think he is bad guy. I follow that topic and got involved in discussion too. He have completely different opinion than most users there and he defends his possion in very passionate way. It's ok - that's the point of discussion forum. But it's not a reason to call someone signature spammer just because you don't agree with him. And if you don't agree with him - you're part of Ledger cult .

I'm really happy to see Istanbul added to calendar, I really missed this track. I remember people's comments that 2020 season should be cancelled because it's affected by pandemy too much with many races cancelled. But what we have now - 17 races, I think it's great number in current circumstances. And we get boring tracks like Singapore, Monaco or France replaced by Istanbul, Nurburgring or Imola.

We hear similar rumours about Messi leaving Barca, but now everything looks very serious. Now whole Spanish press is talking about it. I really don't know how to react to it. Barca had to prepare to live without Messi, but I expected that we will be able to enjoy to see him playing there for few more years and that he will retire here. I'm just angry to see what Barca board did that even Messi want to leave.
If this thing will really happen, I don't see any other choice for him than City where he will be able to reunite with Pep again.

I don't think it's scam. Covid-19 is dangerous thing, but I don't think it's as dangerous as they want to show. I remember all this panic caused by media initially when it looked like plague is approaching, people started to buy food, sanitizers and masks like crazy.
Some countries like Sweden or Belarus didn't had lockdown and what we have now? Worst case scenario didn't happened, situation there is stable and pretty much normal. So, I think it's possible to live normal life now without too much restrictions. Just some basic things like distancing, hygiene and etc is needed.
And I think that current situation opened hands for governments to control people, track their every step without leaving much freedom. And some of their restrictions is just so stupid. I heard that in some countries, like Spain you have to wear mask even when youwalk alone in forest. Why!?

I think it's not bad thing that BitPay don't work in your country . From my experiebce their service is really shitty.
There is good advices above given. BTCPayServer is great decentralized option, but you would need to run a node to use it. Coingate and Coinpayments csn be a good option, but I don't know, do they operate in your country.
BTW, why stablecoin? Fiat wouldn't be better option?

I want to extend your suggestions. Don't download apps from unofficial websites. If you don't afford official version, usually there is many free alternatives, which is often open source.
If you have desktop wallet where you keep your BTC, be extremely careful on that devices. If you have significant amount of BTC, hardware wallet is must have thing IMO.
And offcourse, 2FA is must have thing. I'm shocked to see people putting a lot of time and efforts into their Youtube channels and then it lose it in easy way just because they didn't had even basic account protection.

Finally we know all 20 teams who will play in next season La Liga. Last team is Elche - they won promotional playoffs yesterday after beating Girona. Well, Elche isn't team which I preferred to see in La Liga. Their pitch quality is terrible and I expect to see them in the bottom of table next season. I really wanted to see Girona and their leader Stuani in La Liga again. He is just too good to play in Segunda - 31 goals this season. Unfortunately he got red card yesterday.

I don't believe that big changes is going to happen before new season. First, season is going to start just after few weeks, so it's not much time for serious rebuild of squad. Another problem - now Barca simply don't enough money available for it.

I'm going to send payment tomorrow. Already can't wait for next season. This year our pool are going to be very interesting. I'm already after I saw prizes. Besides whole pot, $50 free bet for yellow cap winners, free Watford shirt. And chance to win ticket to selected football game - it's something incredible!

Well after all, Bayern was strongest team this year. They won all 11 Champions league games this season and most was won very easy, like Spurs 2:7 Bayern, Crvena Zvezda 0:6 Bayern, Barca 2:8 Bayern, two big wins against Chelsea. Though, not everything was easy, remember how they were struggling under Kovac in first half of season. It's only unfair that Lewandowski will not get Golden Ball this year...

It was interesting, but I would prefer everything back to normal. As said above, in such case games would be held in neutral stadium, it's not good for fans who lose chance to support their team at home pitch. Also, less games is not good for TV and UEFA because it's less revenue. One game gives advantage to underdogs, but I think better tema should win.

Bayern are the champions! This very long and very strange season is finally over.
I expected more goals in the final, but it was great match. Neuer - what a wall! And it was really bad game for Neymar.
Congrats to Bayern fans there!
IMO, it's not penalty.

Under Williams family management this team were going only backwards in recent years and their future weren't bright. It's good that new owners aren't planning to change team name - it has big historic value. Though, it doesn't means that they aren't going to change it after few years.

Well, personally, I have no doubts about Bayern win tonight. I know that I shouldn't understimate PSG, they are really good team and it's just 1 game and everything can happen. But current Bayern is just so good and I don't see any team who can stop them. I hope to see nice attacking football tonight, something similar like we saw in Europa league final.

Simply great match, one of the best Europa league finals in recent years. Completely opposite what I expected before the game. Beautiful attacking football, lot of dangerous moments. Lukaku - from hero to zero. Lopetegui - after he left Spanish national team and failed completely in Real Madrid, finally he got chance to rebuild his reputation.
6th trophy for Sevilla - time to rename it to UEFA Sevilla league.
I know there is many Inter fans here - I just feel sorry for you guys. But current Inter is going in right direction and I'm sure you'll get your chance soon.