Stifler

I don’t think we will be to be honest. Everyone is after him. I think we’ll be playing it smarter. We’ll likely have an unknown or two scouted, with the possibility of getting someone like Kubo from Sociedad who have no European football next year at a more affordable rate. I can’t see us getting any players in the Premier League unless we are exploiting PSR requirements, or contract clauses.

Still got losses from recent years though. The debt is paid off, but the year on year losses still exist. Also I’d struggle to see how much they are getting considering they are resorting to having Castore as a kit manufacturer, a betting company, and a loan for their new stadium. Their commercial income would be like us under Ashley, absolutely gimped. They aren’t getting any better until they have had a few years in their new stadium and their main commercial deals are renewed.

Fucking off as soon as he could then?

Yeah, I’d go along the lines of saying that it’s not against the rules of the game, but against the spirit of the game.

It’s not even howler according to the laws of the game. There is no requirement for the keeper to be touching the ball.

I saw Paul Mitchell outside of SJP last week, and he said that theirs not long until we find out who are targets/signings will be. I fully expect them to try and get some signings in for the initial 10 days of the transfer window opening.

Bad enough to seriously fuck up Englands coefficient next year.

They were going too regardless, they are getting £100m for playing in a pre-season friendly.

Like when we played Sporting Lisbon in the UEFA Cup. Played them in a pre-season friendly, played them in the league phase of the UEFA Cup, then played them in the quarter finals.

It would be a decent away fixture though. Plenty of people will be able to make the journey a few hours north over going abroad.

I entirely agree with this. No doubt there are situations that we can point to where we were done by. In fact the Liverpool game at home was a similar situation where the referee blew the whistle too soon. My point is others are not going to let it go.

Aye Keith, we paid a referee in a game that didn’t involve us to give an incorrect decision in a situation that couldn’t have been predicted to happen in a scenario where so long as we did what we needed to do, the result wouldn’t have mattered in anyway.

Aside from just wanting to win every game regardless, I really wished we’d won this game just because no one is ever going to let go of the decision in the Villa match.

No it hasn’t. Having the bye for a round has been, having partial seeding so you don’t can’t play other teams in Europe in the round that you enter hasn’t been until last season.

Not home, but it gives us bye for simply being in Europe, and the stage we enter at is partly seeded so that we don’t draw any other team in Europe.

We really lack ideas of breaking teams down who sit with a low block. For as much as our midfield can be a beast, they can be incredibly lacking in creativity. It also doesn’t help that we just play the ball on the wings and keep passing it between our wingers and WB’s instead of just crossing the fucking ball into the box.

So just to confirm my overall selections. Pot A: Real Madrid, Bayern Munich Pot B: Villarreal, Club Brugge Pot C: Sporting Lisbon, Marseille Pot D: Farencváros, Celtic

I was only 15 when we lost that game against Sporting Lisbon. It was supposed to be our cup. One of the pre-tournement favourites, getting to the semi-finals the season before, the same cup we won in 1969. We won the first leg 1-0, even went a goal up early in the 2nd leg. Had some good chances after that as well. They came back and beat us 4-1. I cried myself to sleep that night. I want revenge, I want us to fucking better them. There needs to be Sporting Lisbon kids crying, asking their fathers why, and the answer is us, you angered us those years ago, and now we came back a beast to destroy them. Ally McCoist will be on the commentary telling the kid to cheer up, things will be ok. But it won’t be ok, because it’s 9-0 and it’s not even half time, and the Portuguese TV coverage is issuing warnings for distressing scenes.

All of the final day fixtures will be shown on TV from next season as part of the new deal.

This is it. They can keep the 3pm black out for residential premises, if they allowed games to be shown locally. It would be a great way of helping pubs survive, even if only a small number of them were selected to show the games. Heck, the Premier League could have their own chain of pubs across the nation, charge £10 a pint on a matchday and they would fucking rake it in.

I’m going to go to Shearers’ for this, but I think I need to go up early. Anyone else going up?

Haha, FUCK!

It looked like the referee was going to disallow that.

About to be shown up for what he is, just a clogger who goes around trying to snap players. It will be a bit like Southampton last season, once they realised that the didn’t have the quality to keep up with others, they just went out to try and snap everyone.