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Eesh. Didn't know that

Urgh. 3

Napoli haven't half regressed since Spalletti left

Sunday's final is going to be a tough watch. Fooking hate both of the cunts.

Hope this judas pricks himself on bamble thorns

You'll be telling us Emery is better than Wor Eddie next

Won't be watching.

Easy to say given the context and circumstances, but when City were making a play to sit at the top table, they employed Txiki Begiristain. Manure are pinching Dan Ashworth.

Aye - busted flush manager for a busted flush club

I think the big progress factor at any football club is the owner. Everyone else - probably bar the manager - is pretty auxiliary to long term, lasting, progress that'll push your club on. 'Sir Jim' and his investment in a Glazer-owned club is only going to go one way eventually. A director of football will only be as influential as the owner allows them to be.

Encouraged by this

Beale is some kind of chancer, like. For the supposed 'brains' behind Gerrard, which admittedly doesn't say a lot, the fact he's rocked up at all at Rangers and other Champo jobs is some doing. Perfect for the Mackems mind

He's worked half a century, he's getting his golden handshake. Let's hope he has a chance to rest a couple of years.

Absolutely shitty they had this cunt there at their last game.

What's his record like at Getafe this season?

Fatty fatty Beale boy doing a job then

Gattuso sacked at Marseilles. How the fuck does this guy keep getting jobs, man, he seems to stink out every place he goes to

Absolutely spot on. Detailed my arse.

What a fucking wanker

Just relegate this lot now man

Fucking hell, Sheffield United

A routine 4-0 win to those cunts. Fuck that whining bastard Arteta too

Used to know someone that worked for the FA as some sort of inspector for the football academies, and I remember him saying that a lot of smaller clubs just don't bother with academies until players are at a certain age (if at all) now. He said the likes of Chelsea and City are effective monopolies in this regard. Have thought about this recently - especially in light of FFP and the obvious advantage that City/Chelsea now have by virtue of playing the system and hoovering up top talent, but one of the solutions could essentially be a centralised pool of players until, say, 16, who are registered with the FA/a central body with a number of locations across the UK. There's then some sort of 'draft' system, similar to some US sports, which is dependent on league position to then move those players on to clubs. Essentially, from what I can see, the horse has already bolted with regards to FFP. These larger clubs now have sufficiently large academies to keep generating revenue which means there'll always be a route around the restrictions that other clubs with smaller academies will come up against.

I couldn't see us winning the cup against the likes of Arsenal and City anyway tbh

Sometimes heroes gan radge.