Chris_R

When Bon Accord played Arbroath in 1885, nobody can deny they 'gave them a game'. The records show the match was played. Got beat 36-0 mind.

Yeah he can't be banned before his ban, that's just silly.

Even Man U fans were 90% in favour of it and at the time of that poll they'd just come off 27 years of almost continuous success. If PIF came along and promised Sunderland untold millions, CL football and more importantly a chance to permanently leave the mags for dust in their wake, they'd have wanked their nobs clean off in delight.

Singling you out a bit unfairly perhaps, but I find this and many other takes on the potential punishment to be really odd. Loads of people having an opinion on what should happen, what's reasonable etc when we know absolutely NOTHING about what he's actually done. I've chosen your post out of loads because I found the "victimless" bit really odd, as if he's been betting on his own team to lose (again, we have absolutely no idea what he's done) it's far from victimless as he can influence those matches and that affects the integrity of the sport and directly affects other people's winnings if he's underperformed to cause a loss or whatever. We have absolutely no idea what he's done yet, so any claims of punishments being too harsh, about right, victimless, whatever, is all a load of bollocks at this stage.

You can't punish the player without punishing the club, though.

You got a choice? I didn't. When the club ownership changed, nobody asked me.

I mean I've literally just gone off league finishes there, I don't think I could've possibly made my post less sentimental/nostalgic

Yeah I noticed that, him bossing the captain about. I'm sure Lascelles won't have minded because he's a top bloke, but I'll admit it amused me slightly.

Keegan still well ahead for me. There's other factors of course, but just in terms of performance he saved us from relegation (and probable oblivion), won the First Division title, then finished 3rd in his first PL season, then 6th and 2nd with a genuine title challenge. Howe's got one save from relegation and one 4th place. It's not yet close, but I do adore him. I'd probably have Howe above SBR though, and definitely ahead of Benitez who I'll also always love and appreciate.

We're fucking mint.

Surely Jordan Henderson is the only correct answer here - The only one none of us would question being put in a combined top 10 modern day midfielders. After that, their list is just a bit sad really.

What exactly would you have them "answer"? There's nothing public. Nobody (probably including the owners) knows the facts until the facts are established at an investigation. And even if they did speak now, the owners speaking now would prejudice any such investigation. I get that you want news, we all do, but there's just none to give. Howe only spoke about it because he was forced to at the press conference, and even then he's just said Tonali will get lots of love and support. We still know nothing more, and nor should we.

Anything that was ok in that 14 years was despite Ashley, not because of him. Similarly, we sometimes won some matches under Bruce.

Frankly I'm hoping that after us he just retires due to old age.

He's an idiot if this is all true, but he's an excellent young player on a long contract. We'll save on his wages whilst he's out, and he'll have plenty of time with us when he comes back. Incredibly annoying and if he's been being on Milan games he's got shit for brains but he'll be back. We have good young midfielders in Anderson and Miley who can cover, and willock will be back soon.

If he's blown all his money on roulette, I guess it explains why he had to go eat in Wetherspoons.

Why have half the forum already got him banned for the next 12-18 months before we know anything at all? Hope you fuckers never get called up for jury service.

First bit, yeah fair enough I was just struggling to properly quote on my phone. I had directly quoted you so the original text was there in my post to see, but then used "s incorrectly to indicate a quote when I should probably have used 's as it was paraphrasing. I've edited my original post to better reflect this. As to your second point, social media is free. Sure kids being on social media all the time annoys old people who don't use or understand it, and you could argue it has negative mental health connotations if over-used to extreme, but nobody has ever lost their house through using Tik Tok too much.

'They've taken so much money off poor and vulnerable people that they're the UK's biggest tax payer' isn't the winning argument you think it is. And giving a small portion back that you've taken isn't 'doing good for the community'. Society would be far better off without gambling. And I say that as someone who has benefited enormously from gambling myself.

If he sticks money on Australia beating England at the weekend, he could get away with less than £5k.

Awesome, got them. Thanks. Download, got them coming down now. Middle of P95, so not far back. Must've missed them somehow as I thought I'd read everything!

Anyone know any sites where this game is available for download in full? Don't care about the legality, happy to take a PM.

They'd rather we were 1 place below us in the 3rd tier than we be one place above them in the top half of the PL. They've always been like this. The only thing they care about is being better than us. It's all they exist for.

I said he should have given a more careful view, but that was on the basis that what he's said isn't representative of how he actually feels. If he really just doesn't want women commentating or doing analysis, he's absolutely within his rights to say as much. But as I said earlier, free speech isn't freedom from the consequences of that speech, so he can and should be held to account for saying such things. Which is what's happening in this thread.

Well then you answer a bit smarter. "Do you like women pundits? "I want good pundits who have played the game to the highest level so they can provide the best analysis, and apart from that it doesn't matter to me" It isn't difficult. Unless actually, you just don't want women doing it.