Stifler

It was a home tie though, the concourse was decorated in NUFC stuff, and the ground was full of people who are fully invested in what happens with NUFC.

I remember before we got our takeover that people were on about him buying us, imagine him cutting more than what Ashley did. It does seem to be that he’s cutting more and more just for the sake of it. I don’t see how it ends well. I honestly think he’s came in with the intent to get a new NFL stadium built using public money, so that he and possibly the Glazers can sell the club for more than they put in. That works with INEOS, where the government will give him grants to create jobs. It’s going to be a much tougher sell to get the government to pay for a new stadium to create jobs that are harder to pin down, just so Manchester can have a new world class venue when it already has the Etihad, and the COOP live centre across the city. Not to mention that despite the state it’s in, Old Trafford is still a pretty big stadium in capacity numbers, and still hosts events outside of football. It also doesn’t help that he’s a Tory donor, and he’s going to a Labour PM who is a massive Arse, I mean Arsenal fan. The only way he gets it down is if Burnham gets it done for him, and the higher ups at Labour hate him because of how well he’s done with social mandates that they are walking away from. I’m not convinced he’s a Man Utd fan either. He has had access to a private jet when living in Nice, and even beforehand, yet he travels to London and has a season ticket for Chelsea. His INEOS has signed a big sponsorship with Spurs as well. Nothing so far suggests that his tenure is going to be a success, on the pitch in anyway. After publicly spitting his dummy out because we wouldn’t just give them Ashworth, he’s then sacked him just to blame someone after a poor result. He wanted to replace the manager in the summer, and realised that he couldn’t really afford too, and when he has been forced too, he’s now appointed a man purely to just try and spite Man City, after reports said he maybe lined up as their next manager. He hasn’t hit the ground running, and has quickly dismissed winning trophies as an objective. This after a summer of also publicly telling everyone that every player was for sale, and not being to sell anyone they needed too.

At the time of him coming in, anyone outside of the top 6 would just have players in midfield with no real consistent end product as well as the ability to offer an outlet and track back. If they did, the big clubs snapped them up. Miggy offered us an outlet, and off the ball work, which considering we were a club fighting relegation, without having much of the ball, it was probably more needed. Now of course scouting and statistical analysis has came on so much, that more teams can get more rounded players. Ourselves, with the takeover releasing new funds, and aims for the club, we are also in a position where we need to get that more rounded player. Just because Miggy isn’t what we need going forward, doesn’t mean he hasn’t been an asset for us, and it doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be an asset for someone else. We can’t confuse were we are today as a club, to the club we were 3 years ago, and judge the players from 3 years ago, on todays standards.

Honestly think £50 for a ticket to Cambridge on the day isn’t bad.

A months gap between the 2 legs is excessive like.

Written in the stars for us now. Spurs have knocked out Man City, and Man Utd, they’ll knock out Liverpool, get us who should be the most winnable final they could have, and Spurs it up.

See how long that took. Why take so fucking long to do it? Fucking cunts.

Fuck same man, how many adverts do they want to put on?

Sick of Sky doing this. Just do a fucking draw tree from the 1st round. First game is going to be ready to KO by the time the draw is made.

We play Spurs the weekend before the 1st leg. Draws have a funny habit of repeating league fixtures next to it’s schedule.

Spurs would be our most realistic chance of getting to the final. I think whoever we get, we will be 2nd favourites. I don’t think we could beat Liverpool, or Arsenal over 2 legs.

Fuck sake. Why do they have to wait so long. I honestly wish they would just do a big draw tree instead.

No chance you give it to him. Was a header by the Spurs player to his own goal.

It’s an own goal.

Super Man Utd fan Ratcliffe has a season ticket at Chelsea (desire living in Monaco and having access to a private jet), and sponsors Spurs through INEOS.

Not having a foul for that like.

It is, their full motto is actually ‘Audere est facere est invenire viam perdere‘.

If Spurs lose this, is it the end for Ange?

Crowd has gone now as well.

If you are being told that in 10 years time, a month long event hosted half way around the world won’t have alcohol being served, and you think that’s a problem, then I’d say alcohol has some sort of hold over your life. Again though, I’m not advocating for a complete ban on alcohol in the U.K., all I’m saying is that we need to start looking at it and see how alcohol centric everything is. Even by western nations we are bad. In the majority of Canada, you can’t buy alcohol to take home without going to a government ran store, which has much tighter opening times than off licenses here in the majority of the U.K. Thats a country that has legalised marijuana in recent years. In the USA you can’t buy alcohol until you are 21, 3 years after you can vote, join the military, and buy a gun. In many parts you can’t go into a supermarket and buy alcohol. Australia has a coffee/café culture similar to our pub drinking culture. Alcohol consumption is on the decrease, and win has overtaken both beer, and spirits as the most consumed alcohol. Like Canada, you usually have to go to a government ran off licence to buy your alcohol if you want to take it home with you.

They absolutely do though, it’s called being a fully functioning alcoholic. I’m not saying that it should be banned though, I’m saying our relationship with it, particularly in the U.K. should be looked at. Hosting a World Cup in a nation that doesn’t allow alcohol shouldn't be the controversy it’s being made out to be.

We aren’t getting Cherki, everyone is after him. My guess is PSG will snap him up.

We got what we paid for. £20m was at best an average fee for a Premier League player at the time. He doesn’t have an end product, but if he did he would have cost more, or certainly have been sold on for much more once he was proven in the Premier League.

Man City are owned by Abu Dhabi, PSG are owned by Qatar.

The points made isn’t about liberty though. It’s all about how we live in a society where not drinking is frowned upon. My fiancée has had issues with alcohol in the past, so now she avoids it. Without actually fucking telling people about it, everyone pressures her to drink. Go to my dads where I have said she’s had issues without saying what they were, and they always offer her alcohol, even behind my back thinking it’s me disapproving of it because I’m not a drinker. Go to her foster mams who is incredibly left wing, has fostered children, dealt with mental health issues and fought for mental health issue related rights/help/access, and she’s always offering her drink and trying to get her drink. Go with her bosses at work who run a children’s mental health charity, and they are offering her drink. Without explicitly going into details of her issues, and just saying she has an issue with it and is avoiding alcohol, everyone still pressures. Go for a meal, go visit someone, it’s always about alcohol. We are going to the Christmas market tomorrow, and half the stalls will be selling craft beer, others will be selling Prosecco, and others mulled wine or Baileys. Name an activity people can do casually where alcohol isn’t a major part of it. Aside from McDonalds, anywhere you sit down to have a meal there is alcohol on the go. Go to football and people want you to go for pre-drinks, have a drink when you get in the stadium, and at half time, then have drinks afterwards. Coffee shops are closed after work hours, and those that aren’t are selling alcohol now. It’s everywhere, and unless you don’t drink, then you don’t understand how much it is the focus of any kind of social culture we have. I don’t have an issue with alcohol, I’m just not a drinker, I don’t enjoy large amounts of it, and I can take it or leave it. Seeing how it affects my lass means we have to avoid it, and it turns you into a social pariah. Fuck knows how people who have had bigger issues with alcohol function. Honestly it’s about time someone turned around and said ‘Hold on, this is out of hand now’. The very fact people are getting pissed about not being able to drink at a World Cup in 10 years time is telling.