Wullie

Went off him after his gag about my old fiver. Prick.

Aye, and didn't get through qualifying.

He doesn't like his wife.

Yep. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45158878

Yeah I used to cancel then ring back immediately. The cancellation automatically activates at least 40% off on your account. If it's not enough, leave it a few days, the TV won't go off for 30 days anyway. You have to be a bit more careful with the broadband as OpenReach get involved if you cancel and leave it too long.

I see Sky Sports are now putting PL highlights on YouTube shortly after full time.

Can confirm. You've got to ring up every year and renegotiate or they'll rinse you. You can buy a Now TV pass for the entire Sky football season for £200.

:lol:

That's fair, took your point incorrectly there. I don't really care anymore myself (actively want us to lose now Bagpuss is here tbh) but certainly can't blame anyone who does, as long as they're not giving that fucker any money.

When Ashley has gone, (I know), will it become your club again? Our situation isn't exactly MK Dons level of utter shitness. No that is the big difference, it's not permanent but it might as well be. Tens of thousands of our fans are determined to keep him here by filling his pockets.

That's fine, as long as you know that's exactly what he's depending on and the reason he will stay here indefinitely. He's booked in for as long as so many people have vowed to give him money for nothing. He'd be fucking mad to leave that.

Depends how much you think it's your club I suppose. I don't consider it mine now much more than an original Wimbledon fan considers MK Dons theirs.

"The new manager has improved fitness" is the most tedious of softball footballing cliches. Just something for kiss arse players to say about the new guy that can't be obviously disproved. Unfortunately for Colback he's a bit thick and probably doesn't realise that claiming Steve Bruce has a better fitness regime for his players than Rafael Benitez does is laugh out loud funny. Like saying Dave Bassett has improved things tactically having taken over from Pep Guardiola.

Tbf I can name more journalists whose opinion I enjoy reading/listening to than I can ex-pros.

Mike Ashley has a big advantage as a businessman and that he is a complete cunt for whom no business practice is too low if it makes him an extra penny. Most of the competition that his company saw off were probably paying at least minimum wage and not forcing pregnant women to give birth in the bogs, on account of them having a single sliver of humanity that Mike Ashley just doesn't have to hinder him. Sure, plenty of big business people are ruthless but Ashley is on another level. In a low margin sector, that will have been the difference between survival and going bust, and Ashley has since cleaned up in an uncompetitive market.

Something doesn't sit right with me about a US company attempting to monopolise UK sports journalism. https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/english-soccer/us-upstart-the-athletic-sends-shockwaves-through-british-football-media-1.3974420?mode=amp Hmm yes this definitely appears to be a noble cause worthy of my money. No thanks.

Kean is a fucking amazing signing for Merseyside Blue.

Perez's stats for how much work (running, tackling, interceptions) he was doing were way way ahead of any other forward player in the league iirc.

Should be sectioned.

His all time favourite player is Shola, man. What a wassock. Well Bruce was the tactical mastermind boss of Sunderland that saw Shola blast a hattrick in our 5-1 win. I think you mean Kevin Nolan.

This is fascinating stuff.

Sure, it's just the only large scale football related boycott of a product I know of. It's similar though in the sense that Mike Ashley has been a horrendous scourge on the City of Newcastle upon Tyne and it's not a massive leap to expect the people of the city not to shop in his warehouse full of shite. Unfortunately we have shown even that is beyond us.

Do people in Liverpool who aren't interested in LFC buy The Sun?

Spot on.

I think location is the biggest factor. It's a long standing cultural tradition of the city, on Saturday you go into the city centre, fill the pubs and walk to the match. It's easy to forget that the majority of fans in this country can't do that, and certainly not in the PL. If the habit of leaving the pub at 5 to 3 and being back at the bar before 5pm suddenly became sit in the car for an hour trying to find a parking space, or stuff yourself into a packed train on the way out to a retail park, watching a Steve Bruce team instantly looks a lot less appealing.