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I'm in your have-nots group too.

Early yet Did it when I was messing round a couple of weeks back. Wasn't really thinking it through, but I still feel stupid .

Going for Rashford and Martial instead of Greenwood and Fernandes has really not worked out .

Absolutely no idea that there was an early game today .

Dunk and Ings on the bench. Still a chance one of them gets a game, at least.

Just had to be ha Vice-captain De Bruyne, so you know Aguero will be coming on sometime soon. Like the 88th minute. Still got one more game though I guess.

Just took a little bit of the piss out of my wife (Villa supporter) and she did not appreciate it. I’d be quite happy if we knocked the season on its head, more trouble than it’s worth .

Cleaning the house with Sol Campbell. Of course.

Was quite looking forward to burning this season down and pretending it never existed.

Auto sub Lundstrom in too. I mean, only takes me to average from shite, but I’ll take it.

Lundstrom first sub. I think De Bruyne needs to rest up.

Captain Aguero going down like a ton of bricks. De Bruyne was vice too.

He's got to be close to the top overall, even with all those dullards setting up a new team each week. Anyone on the bench?

Fuck me, not exactly the best use of a Free Hit there’s ever been .

No Vardy FFS

Well quite. I mean, I get that it's shit, but giving an exception to Leganes doesn't solve the problem. Where are they going to get someone? And are they then going to give the same exception to that team? The original rule is the problem. I mean, unless your team is wiped out in a horrible accident, just play a guy out of position for a couple of months. They had Messi and Griezmann the other day FFS.

Would actually quite like Man City to win this year and be banned for the next two.

The turnaround in that tie is umbelievable.

I worried that I’d accidentally left Aguero as captain. Thankfully I remembered to change him to Salah. Getting the captain right is so much of the game.

Going to get gubbed. They’re great going forward, and we have been a bit shaky at the back, and now we’re running out of people to score. Wouldn’t be sure, like nearly all German teams they’ll be susceptible on the break. Well I hope so. That’s what we would count on Son for usually though .

Going to get gubbed. They’re great going forward, and we have been a bit shaky at the back, and now we’re running out of people to score.

Not sure who the "you" is? I do think that many Newcastle fans are primarily disillusioned because you've been run in a slipshod fashion for years. What I find interesting is that I'm disillusioned despite my club being run better than almost any other club out there for over a decade. You seemed happy enough the last couple of seasons when Spurs were making the CL with a great brand of football under a dynamic young manager. I’m sure I did, but I wasn’t. I mean, I’m a born and bred Spurs fan so it feels good when we win and feels bad when we lose - that won’t ever go away - but the whole thing just feels more empty than it used to. Personally I think moving to the US was the nail in the coffin, it took me away from physical and virtual communities that were a huge part of my feeling for and connection to the game.

I feel like at least 20 mins of each Atletico Madrid match should be added on given the general shithousery .

Not sure who the "you" is? I do think that many Newcastle fans are primarily disillusioned because you've been run in a slipshod fashion for years. What I find interesting is that I'm disillusioned despite my club being run better than almost any other club out there for over a decade.

Segun Oluwaniyi[/member] Think you're right about the getting old bit tbh; although there are many reasons to detest the game nowadays they are mostly variations on old ones. Maybe a few scales have fallen from our eyes. I used to enjoy the banter, but the one thing that always got me was "glory-hunters". I had no choice in the matter, grew up in Spurs-land with a father who'd been going since the 50s. Many friends at school simply chose Liverpool to support, and feel batter about themselves. Well done you. I also grew up watching football at a time when it seemed like society was against us, at a point where we were literally put in cages. It was appalling, but did foster a certain togetherness among supporters. Now the advent of the Internet, extensive TV coverage of football and changes to the matchday experience have made football supporting more socially acceptable and more diverse. Good in many ways, but primarily just different. Do I want the old days back? Not entirely. Was it more exciting and fun? Absolutely. Those "glory-hunters" are now more prevalent partly because there are just more supporters in general, and maybe we're more aware of the global "glory-hunters" because of the internet. All those Liverpool or Arsenal keyboard warriors from faraway lands on forums and in internet polls. You can still hit the pub before a game, but otherwise the matchday experience is much changed, for me at least. And, of course, I moved away, which is probably my main driver. Being a Spurs fan has always been an integral part of my identity, in many ways. My heart's just not in the banter in quite the same way it was. A mate's son out here is a City fan - as plastic as you can get, but that comes with the territory here anyway. I try my damnedest not to talk about football with him. A doc at my work is a Barca fan - lived there for a while. We have some banter but I feel like it's just performative on my part. Yesterday I met a nurse in my hospital who has relatives in Hertfordshire - she visits them often and like them is a Spurs fan, she's been to a couple of games this year, toured the stadium etc. We had a nice chat, but I just felt a bit less engaged than I used to be. All this HTT-ing is to say that I can point to hundreds of billions of reasons why football sucks right now, but probably the main reason is that we've just grown apart. It's partly football, but mainly me.