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He is, but that shot going in was a bit of a joke. Edit: as was that corner.

The answer is always Arsenal.

The stats from the Middlesbrough Plymouth game are bonkers. Just started the second half. Boro have 63% possession and 5 (off target) shots. Plymouth have had 17 shots with 9 on target.

Gentlemen, if I may make a polite request. I would like you to: 1. Get into them. 2. Fuck them up. 3. Return to 1.

I’m definitely at the ABA stage now. We need another year or two to mount a sustained challenge, or no injuries. If we get CL this year I’ll be ecstatic.

Players should be allowed to just go straight through him when he pulls his bullshit on the touchline.

Endo seems to have inherited Fabinho’s magic yellow card force field too. He’s left it at the one-yellow-card-allowed setting though.

Is it? Genuine question. Is it more green-washing in a particular way, or is it just that football is the biggest sport?

I think this plays a role too though. The Arnesen stuff certainly highlighted Levy’s willingness to fight, later shown in other off-field areas such as West Ham trying to get a stadium for peanuts. I did find this contemporary article interesting: https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2005/jun/25/newsstory.sport1 A possible 3-point penalty . Pathetic.

It’s partly a function of just coming back to the UK, but I feel like I’ve watched more “lower league” football than ever. There’s just so much of it on the box.

Loving this season, although the last couple of weeks have been ropey. They’re a properly good footballing side, which is how is should be. I wore my Dad’s Rovers shirt to the gym on Thursday. They’ll be dancing in the streets of Raith.

I feel like I’ve heard this a fair bit, and although I’ve not really been paying attention it didn’t make sense. Have the Hall and Livramento signings been a failure? I presumed they were brought in as young players to develop as part of the squad going forward, and I really rate Livramento.

you’ve been watching football for hundreds of years, you know European refs are at best as bad as ours.

It really doesn’t. It’s shit everywhere, just a bit more demonstrative on the continent. In other news, really enjoying the Europa League goals show. First time I’ve come across it. Like a more civilised and less amphetamine-fuelled Redzone. And on cue, an absolutely pathetic red card bought by Galatasaray. Quintessential ref evening up the game (now 10v10) and being generous to the home team.

It was just such fun that first year - loads of cheap young players coming in, building an identity, a manager we all loved (once Santini got binned). Thinking we could challenge the hegemony. Then Russia Abramovich crushed us again.

Yeah, was all very similar to Arnesen - even more so as his role was relatively rare in English football at the time. We called him Funtime Franky . Was actually an integral part of why I hated what Chelsea/Abramovich did so much.

Yeah, we ended up getting 5-8M from Chelsea after those photos came out. Still feels like it should be more.

Laporta hilariously lied about the Bergvall deal to make him and/or his fans feel better . Got called out by Djurgarden for it. It’s so transparent.

Nearly 20 years after Chelsea poached Arnesen. Lots of pretendy bullshit from Chelsea exposed when someone actually had pictures of Arnesen on Abramovich’s yacht. Take Man U to the fucking cleaners. How much did you pay Brighton for him?

Rafalove linked with utter bullshit from Barcelona.

Quite enjoying having three interesting fames I don’t really give a shit who wins on. Ipswich look far too good for Millwall, Bayern and Lazio look uninspired, PSG has been fun. Refs have clearly decided to fuck off yellows for timewasting and cynicism though.

It’s genuinely hard to tell if Chris Sutton is playing an incredibly long trick on us all with his commentary. It just so often seems to be utter nonsense delivered in a peculiar way.

Well yeah, that’s why he did it like that. Just saw the Carvajal tackle. I mean, that ref’s just straight-up cheating.