Kaizero

This is a match-up for the ages. In one corner, NUFC, battling against maths and probability chasing their seventh straight league win and the chance to make it a club record breaking ten wins i a row across all competitions! In the other corner, Bournemouth are also fighting maths and probability, looking to make it ten PL matches in a row without a loss and eleven without a loss across all competitions! No matter who wins, or if it ends in a draw, this match will surely etch itself into the annals of footballing history as one of the sides playing will be forced to tell maths and probability to fuck the fuck off as they’ll extend their current run by one additional match. Will it be Newcastle or will it be Bournemouth that gets the honor of fucking math and probability straight up the bum? We’ll all, inevitably, find out on Saturday!

Cheers good to know some people actually know their stuff As for me not knowing my stuff, please refer to the part of my post in parenthesis as the excuse for me being an ignorant know-nothing whe it comes to PSR-fuckery and amortisation fuck-abouting by clubs

Long contracts will become the norm for players on high salaries as it allows for amortisation and gaming PSR long-term (I think Only read bits and bobs here and there in articles about why long contracts are in vogue these days, turns out Mike Ashley was ahead of his time )

The fact John Green, for some reason, ended up becoming an AFC Wimbledon fan - out of all possible teams for that specific guy* to end up falling for such a random club in the English league system, to the degree he's now put up the money to buy a them a new player because he wanted to watch them win more often Credit where credit's due, he's truly been living life as a devout Dons fan over the last few years *as in him having a fair few quirks whilst at the same time having had severe OCD his entire life, which in most avenues of life has led him to not really form any major attachments outside the people closest to him as his "issues", according to himself, almost without fail eventually make him sour on things he once cared for and/or liked. Committing to one specific "soccer" team for life feels very out of character for him based on his public persona Granted, we only know his public persona, he may be dealing better with things nowadays than he's willing to let on in public. Good on him, either way. Love me some John (and Hank) Green

To be fair to myself, I hadn't noticed there was an entire extra page full of people's answers before I gave mine, quoting joeyt's post whilst still on page 73 - before magically appearing far down page 74 to find that all the players had been answered already

Kelland Watts? Fairly certain about Watts, but not certain about my next guess as it's Jamie Sterry... I distinctly recall seeing him on the pitch for us at least twice, though I think the additional appearances came for us in the Champo and not in the PL? I may have a thing for ex-academy players, to be fair Been trying to get a fair few of them on the roster at my agency and offer them to Scandinavian clubs. Running an agency is genuinely as close to playing FM in real life it's possible to get without being an actual manager, I'm on course to have managed to get 5 first teamers signed to a Norwegian club this window, meaning that once the season begins - if all 5 start - the reason for 5 out of 6 players being on that very pitch will be down to me having done some wheeling and dealing behind the scenes What a world we live in, eh?

Genuinely don't understand why people keep posting pics/vids online of what, truthfully, is just vermin - existing... Places where loads of people congregate to spill food and drink all over the place are exactly the places I'd expect to see a mouse, rat or dirty pigeon turn up 🤷🏼‍♂️ It's hard enough to keep those fuckers out of a normal house or even just backyard sheds. All that those people do by posting their horrible quality content online is providing evidence that rats and mice, do indeed, exist among us - and that they are fond of places where they can easily find sustenance to remain among us for a little while longer. Rats and mice exist, thank you for letting us know. That said, an actual infestation of vermin would be something else entirely. I've yet to see any kind of photographic evidence of that being the case though, just a few random animals here and there 🫡 God how I hate what the Internet has become, fuck modern society.

Had another fairly horrid week, so managed to somehow forget this even existed Glad to see people enjoying themselves, though! May the luckiest best fucker out of the lot of you end up the last man standing 🙏🏼

Only three more impossible wins to go

Apparently because it's nigh mathematically impossible, you know

Khusanov is fucking amazing. Genuine steal at that price given the years they'll get out of him.

He had taken his last club before Brighton from the third tier in Sweden to the knock-outs in the EL where they beat Arsenal at the Emirates, but being knocked out on aggregate. That was done with a club that was semi-pro when he arrived. Not Potter's biggest fan myself, but that achievement is pretty much unheard of in European football.

The break in logical thinking among humans when it comes to the fact "higher price = higher demand" in certain sectors has always baffled me. If they priced the shirt at a reasonable price, the demand would likely be lower due to the actual lack of quality. However, because it's priced high, it creates a false feeling in the buyer that they're getting something "more exclusive", which they view as more important than lack of quality - and thus the cycle keeps repeating.

Retro interest comes in 30 year cycles when the generation that "grew up" with something has gotten kids of their own and want their kids to experience what they liked when they were young. It'd have been too close to do a revival/reboot at the time from a sales/marketing perspective.

Because Adidas wasn't our shirt sponser then? We released "retro remakes" under Ashley, but without the Adidas logo and all the other Copyrighted Adidas stuff.

Beating Arsenal has just made it even harder for us to win our next game you know...

Don't understand this tbh, I never watch the CL because it's boring as fuck. The EL and Conference League always entertain. That said, I'd much prefer NUFC in the CL, of course It'd be different if we were in it, but all matches not involving us would be just as boring as they always have been.

Petition to change the thread title to “Hatem Ben Arfa (Now a World Class Padel Player)” guy won 70 tournaments last year and is ranked as one of the best pro Padel players in the world

That model is the gift that keeps on giving

Also, given it's football related there might be better luck finding competitors by airing this in the football section

Could perhaps even do it as a semi-fundraiser for the forum; £10 buy-in, £7.50 go to the winner takes all pot and £2.50 go to the running of the forum.

In. Should run one for money and one for honor at the same time IMO. Meaning the ones that want to waste their money can do so and the ones that are clever and don't waste money can do so as well, yet both can compete together at the same time. The £ winner is the last man standing of the ones that put £ on, but the "true" victor is the last man standing even if they didn't put any money on.