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Tielemens/Acerbi 45/1 Alderweireld/Di Lorenzo 55/1

She's absolutely done me there, about £55 I think.

The players would do it more to kill momentum, knowing they couldn't be punished. Most "time wasting" isn't to actually kill the time, it's kill the game.

She's not keen on fouls this ref but she bloody loves handbags.

Beware, it's Xavier Vieira, not Marcio.

I'm hoping her numbers are a bit skewed because she does loads of women's games. She seems to dish out a decent amount outside of those. England have picked quite a few players who like to dribble which is a positive.

Double-trixie (England, Denmark, NI games) Jordi Rubio Vales Ionita Ginsari Mbabu McNair Jesus Rubio Rebes Rata Armas Saville Zakaria Then trebles on the England game but I'm waiting until Christian Garcia gets priced up.

James Montague on Second Captains was saying that one of the big benefits is that you instantly acquire tens of thousands of fans ready to go to bat for you online. I've seen it myself, Man City fans on Twitter who spend much more time defending Abu Dhabi than talking about football.

Tbf it's quite difficult to quantify what Ashley did to the club if you haven't lived it. Relegations and financial catastrophe are much more easily understandable than "he took the hope away"

Reed/Hendry 28/1 in the Forest Green game

Ref in the Lithuania Bulgaria game is a real card fiend. Like the look of Marinov and Turitsov for Bulgaria, and Baravykas/Utkus for Lithuania

Think we'll keep a thread about the owners of the football club in the football section if it's alright with you. If it's not then don't come in it.

As well as Hurst, the clip of some of the people they dredge up on Sky as fan representatives, honestly. I think the thing that annoys me most about it is that while these nuggets are on TV hanging around Jesmond Dene House like weird stalkers, people like @Rich @LFEE @ManDoon @Heron are completely anonymous. The effort that these lads put in over the years to make public the dissatisfaction of the support, most people wouldn't believe it (@Greg as well but he doesn't need any extra plugging). LFEE doesn't go anywhere without that fucking banner. The fucker's in Chilli Padi every night of the week, hanging around within 200 yards of the ground in case it's suddenly required. Genuine and completely unsung heroes.

I'll never forget the way Hurst went on over the SackPardew campaign. Just a complete arsehole. He gets his mush on 5Live (based entirely on being the person hanging around Michael Martin when he decided he couldn't be arsed anymore) to say things like, "Why are Newcastle fans being targeted about the Saudis, nothing to do with us!" which is a fair point but not when you then print a Saudi Mags t-shirt you fucking helmet. Just makes us all look a total bunch of gormless wankers. Spineless dickheads like him are the thing that makes me baulk most at jumping straight back in. He's hogged limelight for knocking on ten years about how badly the club was run, all the while shovelling money into Mike Ashley's pocket. Now he's all "We've done it!!!". If it had anything to do with you he'd have been here forever you fat Tory wank.

More than happy for club legends to have a role of sorts at the club but I think on the football side, we need a clean slate (and that includes Benitez).

Went from an obsessed 21 year old who wouldn't miss a home game under any circumstances to a 36 year old who doesn't watch most of the games and wouldn't have set foot in the ground if you paid me.

Good question, I've been wondering this as well. You'd think they'd have the money just to pay him off rather than have that baggage hanging around.

Get those fuck awful red and blue signs down.

Similar, hence I'm not really taking an interest and concentrating on yellow cards @midds I'll just see how I feel if/when it's done.

Early heads up for the weekend, the reverse of this fixture, and again 365 look to have the prices a bit big, nobody shorter than 9/4. Andorra's competitive team card record back to 2019: 4 6 2 4 2 3 7 2 4 3 3 5 3 4 2 3 1 4 1 2 4 4 No sign of a ref appointment yet but looks a good opportunity for some small stakes bingo.

Far too big, especially up against Insigne. Need 2 more Spain cards, hopefully some more needle second half but the game situation doesn't help.

Azpi/Di Lorenzo 55/1 Azpi/Busquets/Veratti 110/1 Gavi/Di Lorenzo/Barella 85/1

First half card each and 3 cards each in the Italy Spain game tomorrow, 14/1.

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