Wullie

You mean @ponsaelius

Wait until they hear about the Saudi Arabia thread.

Fucking come on Hinteregger, 40/1

Yeah I've got a few small stakes trebles on. I always like Wass for a card when he's playing for Valencia (9/2).

Of course it does. If they're using the good name of Newcastle United to try and improve their international reputation, that's not the same as investing in a company to make a few quid.

Go back to the first pages of this thread and there's some really brilliant ones without using text at all.

For me, no matter who the owners are, it should very much be a case of "once bitten, twice shy". We went mad for Ashley, and ended up looking foolish, none more so than me. Now I think one should always treat the owners of the club with a degree of cynicism, unless you're one of the very few clubs to have an owner with the club truly at heart (even that isn't foolproof, as we found out with Shepherd). We know these people aren't here because their granny was a canny Walker lass. It's a business decision and we'll both hope to do well out of that. But don't revere them, at least not until they've earned it.

The idea that a single person on this forum would think "ooh dear, he's got this one wrong" if he'd penned the exact same strip about another club is absolutely risible. In fact he's made similar points about Man City dozens of times over the years, basically every time they win something he raises it. People really need to stop taking entirely valid criticism of Saudi Arabia as a personal slight. "I want these murderous dictators to own us because they're very rich but can nobody in the press mention it please?" is a very silly stance indeed to take (and not one anyone would condone for any other football club).

Decent discussion of the takeover on the latest Anfield Wrap podcast ("Liverpool's contracts..."), from 37:15: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdWRpb2Jvb20uY29tL2NoYW5uZWxzLzI0MDIyMjcucnNz/episode/dGFnOmF1ZGlvYm9vbS5jb20sMjAyMS0xMC0xMTovcG9zdHMvNzk1ODIwNQ%3D%3D

Ref in Denmark tomorrow averages nearly 6 cards a game. And Martin Hinteregger is far too big at 11/2 with 365.

Couple of Lucky 15s on and I can't resist some of the prices in the Latvia-Turkey game. Ref's not the best but still worth a few swings, reverse fixture saw 3 cards each. Jurkovskis/Celik 50/1 Kokcu/Dubra 60/1 Gutkowski/Soyuncu/Emsis 85/1 Chernomordy/Yilmaz/Calhanoglu 180/1

Lampard needs to be looking for another mid-table Championship job. No credentials whatsoever.

The following is not aimed at anyone in particular. Bringing up Uber and Disney as justification for why you don't care about who owns the club is basically you admitting that you think the club is entirely just a business like any other, and that you don't care any more about it or what it represents than Starbucks or Tesco or Unilever. If you do think that, then that's fine and your case is solid. If you don't think that, then you should probably stop citing them, because you look ridiculous.

Same for me Ian, site doesn't work at all.

That is absolutely ludicrous. That is 100% offside.

Two nights running absolutely robbed by the ref.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFS

Eh, that was offside, what the hell?

Ludicrous refereeing.

Fuck off Taylor, that's a yellow

Not expecting a ton of cards tbh with Anthony Taylor in charge.

Azpi/Tchouameni cards, Benzema/Torres SOT 50/1 Laporte/Pogba/Gavi 85/1 Busquets/Hernandez/Kimpembe 50/1

I read somewhere that dismembering a critical journalist with a bonesaw is an Arabian folk tradition.