Wullie

i was honestly shocked by the standard and consistency of the goals during the highlights i watched, was incredible Hartlepool and Harrogate both quite close to you aren't they?

Probably the same fucking whoppers who send racist abuse to every black player who misses/scores/wins/gives away a penalty.

I think your numbers are somewhat off. 99%? Come on.

Icardi's already been told to fuck off, he's just not budging.

How do you prove motive or intention ? You can't. Which is why football clubs should have some form of protection against being run into the ground by rogue owners. I don't believe football clubs should be able to be bought and sold like any other business, unfortunately this is the road English football has chosen to go down. Where the Spanish have their club membership model and the Germans have 50%+1 (and those models I'm sure aren't without their own issues), we have sold out. That has worked in the sense that the PL has become a financial behemoth but it leaves a significant chance of clubs like Bury, Blackpool and us ending up entirely subject to the whims of vindictive owners.

Liquidation I think.

David Conn wrote this in the Guardian today: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/26/bury-britain-gigg-lane-brexit This paragraph had me shaking my head in disbelief:

Who'd have thought that a membership organisation would fail to enforce significant regulation of its own members?

Of course "they've" brought it on "themselves" - but the question English football now faces is: who are "they"? Bury FC and the rogue who happens to own them should not be one and the same but because the FA have taken their eye off the ball, they now are, just like Newcastle United and Mike Ashley are one and the same. Instead of ensuring that football clubs are protected organisations, valuable to communities, the game in this country has been sold to the highest bidder. Anyone who wants a club and has enough money can have one, regardless of motive or intention. We'll likely see a lot more of this as the Chinese conglomerates that own half the Championship get bored of finishing 14th and the Del Boy businessmen who own clubs further down the pyramid realise there's less and less money in it as more kids grow up interested only in the Premier League and the Champions League.

What are you buying it with?

Interpolic spending hours trawling through ancient posts, the fucking geek.

Yeah, everyone's fucked https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steve-bruce-six-players-struggling-16820413 Those are some convenient injuries right there considering our next game is in the cup. My favourite is Schär (knock) Yep. Exactly what Mike and Lee would want. He's no puppet though. Tbf a few of them looked fucked, I was expecting a lot missing , Rafa did it so why the fuck on at Bruce? You'll have your season ticket back before the month is out.

Griezmann opens his account.

They make themselves look totally ridiculous by holding different standards to different incidents. They've apparently been told to apply a very high bar to overturn a penalty decision, so Lascelles/Lerma/Lamela in the last two weekends are not considered enough of a howler to overturn. That would be all well and good, "clear and obvious" in action, if they weren't examining offsides to the nearest atom and don't get me started on handball.

Now Mertens takes a clear dive for a penalty and the VAR says nowt.

Fucking preposterous VAR decision in the Fiorentina game. This handball shit is killing the game. Attacker knees the ball off the defender's arm from about 2 inches - penalty.

Need the same.

Can't believe they kept him after the end of last season.

Lovely pass that.

Pissed off that Serie A is on Premier Sports behind an extra paywall, the one league I really want to see this year.

He's so rattled. Two games.

Sweet Caroline The anthem of pensioners having it large in Benidorm.

I quite like the manager of Newcastle United to be someone I can feel proud of as a representative of the city and the club. Keegan, Robson, Benitez, even Hughton, all had an air of class and gravitas about them. http://img.skysports.com/08/01/496x259/SteveBruce_621103.jpg

Wow, I thought he was retiring.