Stifler

Fuck me, the referee is blowing for a foul before they have even hit the floor now.

Fuck sake, throw yourself at it.

Referee is falling for every fall they make.

Why isn’t Bruno passing when he has a free man to play it too and a man on his back?

Burn is ineffective and Willock isn’t pressing, we are being overrun in midfield.

Honestly the 09 banner, I’m more annoyed at the guy who did it than anything else. He keeps trying to push a rivalry, he was in the paper a few years back saying that it was only banter and that fans should take the piss out of other fans, then proceeded to complain that our fans took the piss out of them. For the Villa fans who did take it too far that day, I guess they got what they deserved when they went down. Villa as a club I don’t mind anymore, they are no more nor less important than others.

It’s a voluntary ban between 3 betting groups and only applies to adverts between the start of the match, and full time. So basically 3 veering companies have agreed not to show an advert during Half Time.

Has drink ever been banned? I thought it was just in some European countries, like France.

No.

That’s got to be Gateshead safe now? Just need York to get that final win that’s required now.

The atmosphere has seemed shit.

You can’t have both SJP and the SOS hosting international matches. There isn’t enough hotels, the public transport would crumble, and the police force would be on their knees begging for mercy before KO.

It’s not worth the political fall out to give Celtic or Rangers the right to host over the other.

You’d hope so, but 5 years is tight if they still need to do some planning, getting through the planning process, demolition, and then construction.

I mean, they likely have Real Madrid in the next round.

He’s only having a go because we currently occupy the Champions League spot his Liverpool have left spare.

Woodgate at his best was immense. He was always injured though, never really played for teams challenging for the title, and spent time at Madrid where everyone forgot about his existence.

Whatever happened to the photographer dugouts they had at the Etihad?

In his 1st season we were well in a relegation battle, no one could say that we weren’t going for certain. The league then stopped play and the remainder was played over 2-3 months behind closed doors. A lot of teams came back half arsed, heck a Liverpool team who were running away with the title came back slowly. It worked well for us, but you have to remember that before that the atmosphere was turning. 10,000 people packed their season tickets in and day trippers were not taking them up, hence why Ashley had only just given away 10,000 half season tickets. Aside from 1 match, the following season was behind closed doors as well. Again that benefited Bruce as he never had that poisonous atmosphere in home matches, and capitalised on away fixtures where there was no home crowd for him to work against either. It’s no coincidence that as soon as the crowds came back he was taking us down. The crowd knew it, and so did the players. How the fuck we never got relegated last season is down too both a lot of luck, and some great management from Howe. There was absolutely fuck all from Bruce to suggest that he was any good for us, he got lucky that circumstances meant he got away with it here. In fact WBA found that out when he took them from fighting for promotion, to on the verge of going to League One, possibly never to return.

You got a tattoo of the EFL Cup ahead of the final didn’t you?

Amanda’s bus, probably got bricks of coke in the overhead lockers.

This is Simon Jordon levels or rewriting of his time/ending at us. He was out of contract, he had been fucked about under Ashley time and time again and had no faith in him being backed again. As it happens Ashley backed Bruce the summer he left to counter balance how shit Bruce would be and to hope that sheer quality of 2 players which he took backhanders on would counterbalance Bruce’s shitness and lift us above Rafa’s finishes. Even considering that, Bruce only managed to finish as high as he did and not get is relegated because we played 1 and half seasons behind closed doors, and in one of those season most clubs couldn’t have given a fuck and were running the games out. It is no coincidence that as soon as fans were allowed back, Bruce was taking us down. As for not enjoying the football when he was here. I hear that all the time from the those who never liked him, they forget that fact that our previous managers who allegedly played more attacking football fucked us. Pardew after his usual good start had us fighting relegation for 2-3 years. Carver took us from mid table security in January, to a final day relegation showdown with Hull fucking City. McClaren finished the relegation job Carver and Pardew couldn’t finish. Whilst you lot were complaining about Rafa’s inability to be attacking front footed, Conte won Chelsea a title, and Mourinho got one of Man Utd’s shittest ever sides since they were relegated in the 70’s a 2nd place finish playing in a similar way Rafa’s pragmatic approach.

Staveley tried to buy Liverpool year and years ago, I think it was the late 2000’s. She failed in her attempts and the current owners went in to buy Liverpool. At the time she met and got on with Rafa. It has been rumoured and not dismissed that Rafa actually contacted her about investing in Newcastle, knowing that he would never get enough backing from Ashley.

Leicester are down, if he goes there he gets tagged with taking them down much like he did here, no matter how unfair that viewpoint maybe.

He’s a massive West Ham fan isn’t he? I would find it hard to believe that a West Ham would recommend a decent manager if they had any influence at Chelsea.