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I started a couple of general football ones but I think I’m just not all that interested any more, and simply don’t have the time. Started listening to The Fighting Cock while I was in the US as essentially I was missing talking about Spurs down the pub and that’s basically what it is. Only…under all the nob jokes it’s quietly incisive about football (on and off the pitch) and Flav keeps it together nicely. View From the Lane (the Athletic’s Spurs podcast) is simply - like Disco says - really good, although the best thing about it was Charlie Eccleshare and he’s just left. Danny Kelly can be a twat and is wrong so much of the time but he’s a pro and it shows. There‘s a podcast by a Spurs journalist called Gold and Guest that’s a bit dry but always has interesting info from behind the scenes. Like Yorkie, I’ll happily listen to anything when we win and avoid them for a few days when we lose. One podcast for the Spurs banter/pub vibes, one for Spurs club info, one for interesting analysis and a bit of reminiscing. That seems to be enough footy podcasts for me for the most part.

Been there, done that. Stones and all kinds of shit thrown at you before and after the game, cunts on and off the pitch and that fucking song. Not sure how happy you are with your feelings on humanity now, but they’re guaranteed to get worse.

That buy and loan deal they’re doing would work for you too.

I haven’t half read some nonsense in here about it. It was cynical and blatant, but obviously only a yellow card offense - there’s no need to make shit up though.

I feel like you’re delving a bit deep in making comparisons.

Leicester did it constantly in the first half against us which was driving me nuts, then Udogie did a blatant yellow card tackle and I was ready to flip…until the ref bottled that too They need to start dealing with it early on in games but it’s the same old story. Only way to deal with it is dole out tons of yellows and reds until teams get the message…but the FA doesn’t want that to happen so the initiative always peters out.

Watched our Leicester match in the pub with a few neighbors. For some reason you couldn’t hear the commentary at all from our TV and the whole thing was massively improved - to the point I think everyone commented on it. Tbf I do provide a running commentary on games when I watch. I’m one of those cunts, although naturally my commentary is more pithy and erudite than anyone else, especially after a few.

City have been doing it for years - Pep brought in from Spain its systematic use to break down opposing attacks. Like everything else, Arteta took it from Pep too.

Oof. I keep banging on about it but honestly some of the refs in Europe just make it up as they go along

He’d set himself up by doing nothing before then.

Udogie getting a booking there after not a single Leicester player has been booked would have been ridiculous. Only reason the ref didn’t book him tbh.

Bit of both. How is this only 1-0?

That and living in London while young and loaded must be mint. I would imagine.

They all have, it seems.

Defending his territory.

It’s healthy to be sceptical, they do seem to have a tendency to even things up in the highlights. I imagine we’ve all been at matches then got home for MOTD and thought “eh?” on more than one occasion.

I thought he’d buggered off tbh.

Rinse and repeat.

Presumably they would like to buy him for £34M then immediately loan him to Bournemouth for a year for £4M. The rules say you can’t do that. So they reckon that by having Bournemouth loan him from Valencia for a year then agreeing to buy him for £30M at that time they “get round” the rules. Plus presumably also distorting PSR by shunting that 30M outlay back a year.

The article mentions that clause and basically says Liverpool are going to pretend to not be loaning him: “Valencia will bank £34 million. Liverpool are due to pay £30 million, with that final £4 million a loan fee stumped up via Bournemouth.” if true surely that’s a blatant and transparent attempt to subvert the rule which should be knocked on the head.

Wasn’t everyone else, just the cartel four. Geordie_once_removed was referencing “lower” clubs getting involved in mega transfers which only really kicked in with the recent Prem TV deals. That coupled with more variation in clubs getting the CL money.

Maybe but it’s no longer five years ago . It’s been sinking in for a while.

I mean yeah, that’s been the case for a while now, but they did just sell someone for £65M or so.

A decent percentage I think.

Absolutely the quintessential Euro ref. That second yellow man.