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"Let's play!" Hmm, still need 1498 more words. "Let us start playing!" Much better, only 1496 now . . . .

Don't forget the floated set penises!! Assuming we ever get a free kick or a corner.

Agree. It just draws more attention to it, but don't think I've heard a commentator call a player out repeatedly by name to this extent. Hoping for a bit more diversity in the vocabulary second half - there's so many good swears he hasn't touched, and he's used fuck as noun, verb, adjective and adverb already.

Damn, does Kasper Schmeichel have a potty mouth. Braga have been all over them, but wow. Commentator apologized 3-4 times during the first half before he finally started calling Schmeichel out by name as the f-bomb dropper.

Not picking on Stifler (much), but I do wish the whole "getting the ball before the player = no foul" misconception would finally fucking die. It's simply not in the Laws of the Game. Determining whether a foul occurred or not is all about evaluating whether the contact between the players is one of the types of contact the Laws prohibit and, if so, whether it was done in a manner that was "careless" (in which case it's a foul), "reckless" (foul and a yellow card) or using "excessive force" (foul and a red card). See Law 12 As a ref (mostly youth, but up to U19), parents, coaches and players baying "but he got the ball" while another kid is left writhing on the ground due to ham-handed way the tackle was done, is one of the most frustrating things we have to deal with.

Dicks or fingers? #LoserEitherWay

Golf-tastic (no offense, Golfmag[/member] )

Yep! Just finished watching Chelsea/Sheff. Utd., remembered we'd "played" in the early timeslot and came in here to see if it was worth watching. Looks like my afternoon is free. Too bad it's 96F outside.

Looks like a kids' pajama top. Wouldn't be surprised if you zoom in and discover the pattern is actually choo-choo trains or dinosaurs.

Would love his hair here.

Better than discussing Keys' latest secretions. Anyway, long time Tidal subscriber. If you are moderately geeky about audio, Tidal Hi-Fi is the way to roll - lossless streams and access to a nice and growing selection of master recordings - worlds different in sound quality. Oh, and here's a nice relatively recent comparison of what services pay out. Tidal currently pays out about 3 times as much per stream as Spotify does.

Let Bacon Boi finish the season at this point, and then give him the golden parachute. Take time over the next couple of weeks to pick the new boss to oversee the re-imagining of the whole operation. IF the takeover goes through, don't think compo to another Club will be a serious consideration.

We just need 100+ days between matches to prepare properly.

Definitely. Here's a company selling it. http://www.andre-champagne.com/ (Although technically I think it might be sparkling wine, despite the URL) You can't call is champagne unless it's made in the champagne region and it follows the correct process of which part is the bottling process and turning the bottles etc. Andre is the scourge of "free toast at midnight" New Year's Eve bar promotions and "unlimited mimosa" brunches. It's also as likely to give you diabetes as get you drunk.

That is hideous. Anything other than an all-black sponsor is probably going to make it even worse. Epitomizes almost everything that's wrong with Puma's design department (jagged! different! futuristic! bright! whimsical!). Only thing missing is an iron-on badge.

Love Poch as a first team PL manager, and wouldn't be totally against letting him rebuild the whole show, but there's a significant nagging doubt that he could fix the infrastructure. I am 100% confident that Rafa could fix the infrastructure and set us up for decades of success (assuming no change in ownership). I am also comfortable with him managing and fixing the first team. For first team improvement I'm Poch > Rafa, but for fixing the whole clusterfuck, I'm Rafa >>> Poch.

All updates are in the clique's WhatsApp group as always. PM Dave or DM Caulkin for an invite.

BvB here as well. Have been following them for a few years now after ramping up my Bundesliga viewing. Initially picked them because a good friend is a long time Bayern fan and just wanted the banter. Have stuck with them because of their approach to bringing youth players through and their tendency to just fucking go for it on the offensive end. Like the way the Club seems to be run too, though I'm sure there's probably plenty of minutiae that I'm not aware of, but I've consciously decided to have just a "fun" (imagine that!) experience with the Bundesliga, rather than opening myself up to any more sports-related suffering. Anywho, been watching more Bundesliga than anything else for the last several years. In the US, FS1 and FS2 (Fox Sports 1 and 2) have been showing lots of games so I'm able to see quite a bit each Matchday - even more than the Prem. Hoping that they truly due have the safety angle covered and, if there's a glimmer that they don't, that they shut it down for the year.

New post on Rafa's blog this morning: http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/in/blog/difficult-times/135/ An update and insights on preseason training - half of which he did in China and half in Spain as the pandemic was hitting its stride. As you'd expect from Rafa, he is ever-inquisitive and, as a result, has thoughtful insights on how different places are handling the pandemic. Argh, I miss him being part of the Club so much. The idea of Brucey even thinking to pay attention to the things Rafa talks about in depth (in a second language!), let alone learning from them, or, Hell, even cobbling together one coherent sentence on the subject . . . .

Would look a treat with these:

The big TV has been replaced by a gigantic club crest?

I'm going to go with not very. So you're saying it is connected to some degree? It’s a site run from Texas. Dell Computers is based in Texas . . . .

That's an interesting choice. I'll never forget the friend in high school who called me in a panic because her then-boyfriend had called in a dedication of that song to her on a local radio station. She thought he was going to dump her or kill her, but it turns out he just never listened to the lyrics (then she dumped him).

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