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Miles onside.

Ha, made exactly the same mistake. For me it was either Young, Shaw or Matic and both the others went in the book.

This Gary Neville shit is proper tedious. No wonder most pundits err on the side of bland nothingness when others are ready to wet themselves so easily. Don't even get me started on Jermaine Jenas taking umbrage at being called spineless. Pathetic little cunt.

Thread. Big fan of Rory Smith.

I don't ever see it happening, the concept is fundamentally flawed and goes against what all these clubs want, i.e. to be the best. If they all go off together and play each other every week, and now your club is finishing 8th every year, suddenly you're not a super club any more and you've become a European version of Southampton.

I had Insigne and Haller. Had to cut my stakes down drastically though after losing so much recently so it wasn't worth much, and I would have had the majority of it back if Brest had managed one more goal in what looked like an absolute home banker.

God I hope that's true.

Dragging what I assume are his kids into it reminds me of this guy:

Had an article about Lascelles with a picture of Hayden.

It's funny that the Caulkin/Bobby Robson quote of what 'the club' is tends to get applied to NUFC when our fans are the worst possible representation of it. For a huge number of our supporters, the club is the players, the manager, the owner and they won't have a word said against them. They see loyalty to those people and loyalty to the club as being indistinguishable. Tends to be more on the continent where the sentiment in that quote actually manifests itself.

So odd.

Starting with the tough questions - should we play 2 up front? Is Fernandez a good player? This is like Frost/Nixon.

Those comments. I assume he was saying the same in the summer when Nice Guy Mike wouldn't agree his bonus.

They could always try and suggest what they would do then? I don't see anyone doing that. They want a change at the top but aren't willing to do anything to achieve it? Maybe they think that it's ultimately going to take someone with enough money to sway the thick skinned, hard nosed businessman who currently holds the power? However an outsider's view of the club may not make it such an attractive proposition right now. If you feel that shouting at shops and boycotting home games (assuming you actually go) is the way forward then hey that's great, carry on doing it. suppose Ashley had an offer for the club that was around what he wanted but hadn't made his mind up. Do you think he would be more or less likely to accept and sell if there were protests and boycotts, or more likely to sell if there were no protests and the money was guaranteed to keep pouring in? Interesting question and the assumption would probably be the first scenario. I guess that's what must motivate the regular protesters. However in the case of Ashley I reckon it's only the filthy lucre which will count at the end of the day, he's always seemed pretty impervious to insults and protests to date. So stop giving him money maybe?

Major Sports Direct shareholders literally advised other shareholders to vote against Ashley as CEO at the last AGM because "negative media stories about Ashley have damaged the company's public image." Does that include huge protests outside their stores? Nah probably not.

They could always try and suggest what they would do then? I don't see anyone doing that. They want a change at the top but aren't willing to do anything to achieve it? Maybe they think that it's ultimately going to take someone with enough money to sway the thick skinned, hard nosed businessman who currently holds the power? However an outsider's view of the club may not make it such an attractive proposition right now. If you feel that shouting at shops and boycotting home games (assuming you actually go) is the way forward then hey that's great, carry on doing it. No idea what will/can/might work but your solution of filling his pockets year on year on year, regardless of what he does or how funny he finds you, is really going brilliantly so far.

I used to get annoyed by Ronaldo telling me on here I was a fucking idiot for continuing to attend, until one day I realised he was right.

Is that all profit? That's amazing. I've lost a fucking fortune.

I know there's only so much you can say but I found it a bit weird that every club's message is almost identical. They put loads of them in an article on the BBC website and it's just the same tweet ten times with a different club badge next to it.

You should never feel sick about wishing this on Ashley lets be honest all of our Christmas's would have come at once if the fat cunt was a victim of something like this Are there really people like this? Fucking hell man I hate him but I’m done with people in general if fucktards like this are for real. Sadly once i saw the news i knew i'd see people saying this Oh so now youd be concerned about someones well being after being in an accident that you absolutely despised and had no attachment to you or your family?? Its like people being concerned and shedding a tear when Thatcher died Give over man I don't disagree with you but can we leave it out of this thread entirely please?

Snodgrass has 4 yellows this season (most in the PL is 5, which only one player has), despite the fact he usually only gets 15 minutes off the bench. He starts today and 365 have him 9/2.

What's his argument? Don't know if you know who Vickery is, journalist based in South America, i.e. the home of time-wasting and niggly shithousery. Basically his view is that all the stuff we call time-wasting in football, most of it isn't designed to actually waste time, that's just an added bonus which the referee ultimately has power over by adding the time on and handing out cards, and that the primary function of players lying down pretending to be injured late on or taking thirty seconds to walk fifteen yards is to kill the game's momentum and relieve pressure. They make the game stop-start, and he's right, I've seen tons of games (usually when I've got a bet on the attacking team) where a goal looks completely inevitable late on, but then the defending team will get the physio on for the goalkeeper hurting himself catching a cross and the players all stand around for three minutes, and when it starts up again with plenty of time added for the stoppage, the game just fizzles out without them mounting another attack as all that momentum has gone. Stopping the clock just takes away the power of the referee to control piss-taking with cards and added time, and gives the players carte blanche to do it even more.

Tim Vickery makes a pretty good argument for how that would actually make things worse.