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We shouldn't be wanting the likes of Mbappe anyway I've stayed away from most of the pundit coverage but I can imagine the gist of it. At the end of the day it would take a monumental fuck up on the part of the owners for us to not be at least challenging with the top 4 within a few years. We obviously need a good DOF and a top manager then spend the next few windows building the backbone of a competitive side alongside the rewards of a hopefully improved academy. Spunking our FFP allocated budget on 1 player would be insane. The main focus of spending within the next few years should be with improvements in infastructure and staff as well as building up the NUFC brand overseas.

It seems the point of the protest is to 'embarrass' the owners by putting pictures of that murdered journalist around the ground. It's all a bit pointless but as long as they're not trying to attack the fans then let them crack on. If they're serious about this then their efforts would probably be better served prolonged protesting of Downing Street as I'm not sure how a bunch of blokes taking their bairns to see us get spanked off Tottenham are going to in any way improve the rights of people in Saudi Arabia.

There's a difference between understanding and recognising something and being uncomfortable or conflicted with it though. If I was uncomfortable with eating meat then I wouldn't eat meat. I understand the damage it causes but ultimately I love meat. There's no conflict or discomfort there, as there isn't with the vast majority of meat eaters. Those who are genuinely uncomfortable with it will ultimately become vegetarian. The Nike example is a good one, because not wearing Nike is an easy thing to do. Like would you seriously take anyone seriously who was sported head to toe in Nike gear whilst claiming they're uncomfortable or conflicted with the slave labour it came from? I suppose posturing is probably a bit much, but over the past couple of days I've seen so many hot takes from people trying to take some kind of moral high ground, when in reality they will take no actions themselves.

As much as I love Rafa he would never be the long term solution.

I mean if people actually take action (I assume a small amount will) and walk away from the club (or campaign against the owners or something) then fair play to them, they aren't posturing. The vast majority of it is though, I just cannot wrap my brain around how anyone could be 'conflicted' about something as legitimately serious as human rights, and human rights abusers purchasing their club, and still come to the conclusion that it's okay to support said club. Like personally I'm perfectly fine in admitting that I couldn't give a shit who owns us as long as I can enjoy watching football again. Adolf Hitler could have rose from the grave to buy out Ashley and I'd have shook the blokes hand.

Nobody is truly conflicted man The violation of human rights is so insane that anybody who was truly conflicted would struggle with following the club. I'm not going to go as far as claiming faux outrage, as highlighting this stuff is important (even if the ones shouting about it tend to be annoying as fuck), but the vast majority of it is probably posturing (Newcastle fans) or jelousy (other fans). The latter is pretty simple, it generally isn't a great feeling to see your rivals doing well, so trying to find easy comfort helps. There isn't a single group of fans in the prem that wouldn't be wanking themselves in the streets if this had happened to them. Like are we truly meant to believe that hammers fans would be out in droves with banners in hand telling the PLC to fuck off back to saudi if West Ham randomly became the ritchest club on the planet overnight No, they would be exactly the same as us, East London would be absolutely stinking of jizz. The amount of damage we collectively cause is fucking astronomical, I'm not drawing the line at my club turing into PSG like

It's time to fall back in love with the beautiful game.

This offsides business is absolutely wank. No advantage gained whatsoever. If it’s offside, it’s offside, should there be an advantage? Would be like goal line technology just deciding it’s a goal if 90% of the ball crosses the line. The whole of the ball over the whole of the line. Offside should be the same. That’s not the law though. You're comparing chalk and cheese anyway. Not really? Offside law was used correctly. Can’t just ignore it if it’s ‘marginal’ the same way you couldn’t just give a goal if the vast majority of the ball was in. Sometimes these incidents can be both onside and offside when the limbs of several players are moving at once, depending on which frame is chosen. It really is total nonsense. I know you've stuck your flag passionately in the VAR camp but I firmly believe at this point anyone who says that the system as it stands is a benefit and is improving football as a spectacle is being deliberately dishonest out of stubbornness. Aye, both decitions today nobody would complain about if they weren’t changed through VAR. The also both (as you say) showed that at that level it’s probably not 100%. The penalty especially the ref was visibly baffled as to what to give If the pen doesn’t get awarded then England complain, had the offside not been given then USA would rightfully been aggrieved. The technology is there to give the correct decisions and they got it right both times. Nobody could realistically complain about either of those decisions man, howay. The referee was literally scratching her head with the penalty even after watching it dozens of times And Wullie’s point is right. It’s impossible to get it correct to the millimeter with current tech, especially in an acceptable timeframe. Finding the exact moment the ball leaves the foot and the exact moment the offensive player passes the defender would require far better cameras than the ones they’re using, as well as high FPS monitors and more angles. VAR will still be more accurate than not but both decitions today showed how tight it can get. Regardless of any of this the main point is that this in no way made the game any more entertaining. The exact opposite tbh.

This offsides business is absolutely wank. No advantage gained whatsoever. If it’s offside, it’s offside, should there be an advantage? Would be like goal line technology just deciding it’s a goal if 90% of the ball crosses the line. The whole of the ball over the whole of the line. Offside should be the same. That’s not the law though. You're comparing chalk and cheese anyway. Not really? Offside law was used correctly. Can’t just ignore it if it’s ‘marginal’ the same way you couldn’t just give a goal if the vast majority of the ball was in. Sometimes these incidents can be both onside and offside when the limbs of several players are moving at once, depending on which frame is chosen. It really is total nonsense. I know you've stuck your flag passionately in the VAR camp but I firmly believe at this point anyone who says that the system as it stands is a benefit and is improving football as a spectacle is being deliberately dishonest out of stubbornness. Aye, both decitions today nobody would complain about if they weren’t changed through VAR. The also both (as you say) showed that at that level it’s probably not 100%. The penalty especially the ref was visibly baffled as to what to give

Absolutely blitzed the passing

If you’re watching 40 different replays to verify minimal contact then things fucked like

Think offsides are a bit different as you can actually verify them. There’s no debate to be had over them like there is some other things where the ‘clear and obvious’ rule is meant to apply. I still don’t see how getting everything to the milimeter improves the game from a spectators point of view like.

football isn't american soccer, we shouldn't be using VAR to analyse whether a keepers heel us 1 inch off the line or not Keepers should have no advantage in penalties at all. It’s supposed to penalise the defending team. If the keeper wants to take a step forward to dive further, start a couple of feet behind the line so that step into the line when they dive. pft, what i'm saying is we shouldn't be looking at encroachment down to the inch...and if we are then the exact same should apply to attacker encroaching into the box as yesterday there were 2-3 players in the box when the ball was kicked if the intent of VAR is the drill the game down to the nth degree it is fucked, it is not american football this was my issue with VAR. If they could jeep it as minimal as possible it would be fine. The game is made any better to watch by micromanaging every little thing.

It’s not abuse of a child by either Luke or the people telling Luke that he’s a gimp like Fucking howay man.

My mates bairn told me I was naughty for swearing yesterday, the times are changing.

It probably happened, but people posting deep philosophical insight from todlers is one of the worst things on twitter. “The times are changing”

I think the problem with Gazza’s videos is it’s nationwide attention though. Your average alcoholic doesn’t have their face plastered all over the sun when they relapse. People say he’s lucky because he’s had all of this support but we’ve never really been in that situation. Regarding gambling addiction one of my best mates is a gambling addict like (I’ve got like 3 best mates and another is an alky lol). What do you think of stuff like gamstop, do they help or not? I keep trying to sign him uo to them behind his back but I fail the security questions I’m not 100% sure what it does but all of his gambling is through his phone so any block on that would probably stop him from gambling his wages every week.

They both have likeable managers. Tottenham are the Tory choice though.

I would rim Llorente.

What if he broke someone’s nose

Seriously fella, did you not read my initial post and the one to LV? To say someone likes being addicted to something is just utter madness. No it's not mate. To think all addicts are somehow 'fighting an internal battle against demons' is madness and to be frank, utter crap. A myth. Some are but he's not one of them. I know you said you've had experience of such addiction but I am struggling with some of what you've said. Of course there are different levels of addiction, but addiction is a psychological and physical inability to stop consuming drink (or drugs in other cases etc.). So yes, if you are an addict, you are fighting those psychological demons, addiction and misuse are different. What I'm saying mate, is sometimes there is no 'fighting'. It's fully possible to be an alcoholic and not be in constant turmoil about it. Aye, being an alcoholic in many cases makes people cunts. And Gasgoine is maybe beyond saving. But your original post is still pointlessly combative. Like I just don’t get the point, the majority of people already couldn’t give a shit about addicts (including Gazza), I don’t see why we need to be telling people to care even less about them. The average opinion of gazza will probably be that he’s a ‘disgrace’ and it’s probably been that way for about 2 decades.

If someone likes being an alchoholic then they deserve more sympathy if anything You would have to be severerly unwell to like being cripplingly addicted to something which has ruined your life.

I wish Klopp was my fatha.

Absolute madness things like this still happen at the highest level like

Could have just stuck a right on his chin.