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Completely reversed my opinion of him. He was interviewed for GSS and was saying he'd always liked animals. Good lad.?

Sqad! Present..........

Abigail Davies on SSN looks like an expensive geisha today.

I love the lack of a space between 'acceptable' and 'at'. ?

Another Fletch special - Cassie Miro.

The sport's heading back to the '60s, when many clubs' squads would be almost unchanged for years. Edit. Perhaps I should say teams, rather than squads.

Wolves lad who's come on looks about 11.

Yeah, I don't think television has helped, mind. Cup day was such an occasion because all the games were at 3 o'clock Saturday, barring weather postponements. Then the draw was at 5:30 IIRC, so you'd be listening to it in the car after the game. It was conducted by those stuffed shirts who gave the impression that the plebs should be grateful to be allowed to hear it. It was like listening in on great events, like pressing your ear against the door of the Cabinet War Room in 1942. And you didn't know your number, so if 21 or 25 or similar came out you were on tenterhooks. Now for years it's been real lowest common denominator stuff, with comedy, audiences, drunks in pubs, and characters like Don Goodman looking like he's fiddling it. It's no wonder clubs don't take it seriously when the FA themselves don't seem to. Mind, 3 points for a win, 3 relegation spots, the playoffs and all the European places don't help. Almost everyone has something to play for in the league these days.

There's a lot that's been ruined about the FA Cup since the old days. Much of it surrounding the draw.

We should have a Dogawful Commentating thread. I mean the way they kept prattling about the handball in the second half. Why didn't they spend 2 minutes at half time checking the law? I can't understand how they can be content to waffle on in ignorance. They're being paid FFS!

No, I think they've each got their own.

The fucking idiots have got it the wrong way round! It would have been ok in Europe a couple of years ago when we were disallowing them!

Has that in common with a lot of them.

One of Longstaff's traits in possession is that he never seems to suspect that anyone might try to get the ball off him.

Parents Billy Joe Bobb and Bobbi Jo Bobb?

I'd love some high profile pundit to come on Sky and say, 'I'm not a Liverpool fan, so why should I give a fuck?'.

Slightly unfortunate choice of words, perhaps. ?

Slightly OT, but I found it hilarious that Ridsdale was subsequently taken on by Cardiff City in a financial advisory role. I mean what advice could he give them apart from, 'For fuck's sake don't do what I did'?

The least we should demand is a name change. A system whereby some clubs are specifically barred from spending as much on players as others in the same competition is anything but fair. Calling it FFP is like 'People's Democratic Republic'.

Having brushed over the professional foul on Gordon when he was breaking away.

Fucking ref deserves lynching for that, like.

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I'll be surprised if Sky doesn't eventually get fed up with FFP. They love their record breaking windows. They're already saying this is going to be a quiet window and a number of clubs are affected by FFP. At this rate it won't be long before the Transfer Show is down to 15 minutes twice a week.

Mandy should invite some gullible cunt to a dinner party or something and casually chat about how awfully silly it is that a rich owner can't even spend his own money, and it couldn't possibly stand up in court, and will you have another Mouton Rothschild? Wear a dress with lots of tit hanging out so the message is somewhat subliminal. Hopefully the dipstick would be on the 'phone to his lawyers on the way home. There's a guy called Todd who'd seem the ideal candidate.

Exactly right. Checks were being called for because a significant number of decisions were wildly wrong, not because the telly revealed that someone's knee was slightly beyond the defender's heel. What we have now is a classic example of technology being used because it's available, rather than needed or wanted. It's like when instant replays were first introduced, the BBC used to waste about 30 seconds of GP highlights showing a Renault turbo cruising past a Cosworth on the straight in slo-mo! But at least that didn't affect the actual racing. Personally I'm not too bothered what the actual law is, although I would very much favour a simplification as you say. We still need checks to cut out egregious errors, but they must be really quick. That would inevitably reintroduce an element of doubt, which is absolutely fine with me as long as the benefit of it is given to the attacker.