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Sorry, I'm too thick to work out which way round this is - do you mean buying Chelsea would be seen as buying a second-hand car because someone else has already made them big, or buying a smaller club is like buying a second hand car because if you were minted you'd have bought Chelsea?

Blimey, they're crazier than I thought, those things are terrifying.

Why buy Chelsea? They don't even have the decent sized ground of most big clubs.. Rather than spending 2bn on Chelsea, why just pull a club out of a hat and buy *rummage* Bradford for nowt and plow £2bn into it, instantly making them much better than Chelsea? I mean if you want a London club pop down the road and buy Fulham.

I'm a bit fucked off for pundits to go "Oh, we need to look at this now and stop this happening, poor Chelsea, reverse the Newcastle takeover". Now it's gone to shit for a London club you think it should change? Are they going to give back their titles? No. They went from being sold to Ken fucking Bates for a quid to league titles, cups and champions league, they get to keep all their titles and memories, get bailed out from the fallout and then nobody else is allowed to get a leg-up to the top six in the same way? They shouldn't be punished for what their owner did? We were punished for what Ashley did for a decade and a half, that's not our fault. Same with "Oh, we don't think owners should be able to sponsor the clubs" now it might give us some money, was fine when Sports Direct was plastered everywhere for fucking nowt. Assuming Chelsea don't go out of business and become a mid-lower table premier league club, or even a championship club, I'd have fucking loved us to have been them. I'm 40 now and I'd have loved to have spent my years from 25-now following us in Europe and winning titles, even if it came crashing down in the end.

Has anyone checked if the VAR official's wife and kids are OK, or if they're duct-taped in a basement somewhere?

You see, I wouldn't mind if the mackems came up with something like this instead of "ISIS United"

Is it possible to be fairly executed for witchcraft? For the death penalty you need a few male witnesses (presumably two male witnesses saying you did it outrank 20 female witnesses who say you didn't as their testimony isn't allowed) Saudi Arabia's War on Witchcraft A special unit of the religious police pursues magical crime aggressively, and the convicted face death sentences. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/saudi-arabias-war-on-witchcraft/278701/

I think the debate around the death penalty for child murderers is a bit of a separate one to that around capital punishment in Saudi Arabia, where you can be put to death for adultery or witchcraft.

Chelsea should of course be protected from ceasing to exist, but I don't see why their status as a top 6 club in the Premier League shou;d be protected.

A fanbase full of Tories getting their club nationalised is a little bit funny.

Good set of replies

Haven't really been following him but was delighted to see the headline of "West Brom fans fume as Steve Bruce blames own players after another defeat" in the Times today.

Keep spotting half-and-half scarves in the crowd, I mean I think they're daft even for cup finals but who the fuck cares enough about this fixture to get one for that?

Brentford: Raya, Janelt, Jansson, Ajer, Pinnock, Henry, Nørgaard, Jensen, Dasilva, Janelt, Mbuemo, Wissa. Subs: Baptiste, Zanka, Ghoddos, Roerslev, Toney, Eriksen, Canós, Lössl, Onyeka NUFC: Dubravka, Krafth, Schar, Burn, Targett, Willock, Shelvey, Joelinton, Fraser, Wood, Murphy Subs: Darlow, Dummett, Lascelles, Fernandez, Manquillo, Longstaff, Guimaraes, Almiron, Gayle Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral) Attendance: - Current score: 0-2 33' Joelinton 44' Willock Booked: Sent off: Dasilva Television coverage: None. Radio coverage: BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Newcastle. Online radio coverage in the UK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_five_live/ Online radio coverage outside the UK: https://www.nufc.co.uk/liveaudio.html PLEASE DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DISCUSS, REQUEST OR PROVIDE LINKS TO ILLEGAL MATCH STREAMS. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL BE BANNED. .

Not in the best of taste

It's fine when there's no match on. It's just that there's 50,000 people in one space and the only towers in range are all overloaded.

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/the-clubs-at-its-lowest-ever-point.1572559/ Lowest point so far

Currently going on about how we unveiled a "north East Top Dogs" banner at half time one season when leading against West Brom only to end up finishing below them, even though anyone with two eyes at the time cou;d tell it was a shit photoshop of an anti-Ashley banner https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/nufc-sportswashing-2022-part-3.1570531/page-99#post-35565447

Recently matched with someone who taught him on Tinder, now there's a weak claim to fame.

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/organised-protest.1572011/ Letting your own club die to own the Mags. Maybe they can rename the SoL to the Magesquey Stadium.