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Took until the third paragraph of that article to confirm he'd signed as a footballer (or with that intention, at least). Still had to check, obviously.

He was but she has since seen sense.

Matterface also said it was Harry Kane's first England hat-trick since 2019 but he said it as two thousand and nineteen, rather than twenty nineteen. Always the hallmark of a wrong 'un and someone eligible for an on the spot laptop check. His impregnation of Natalie Sawyer will forever remain one of life's great mysteries/achievements.

The one and only time I have ever placed a bet on a football match was Norwich against Newcastle, Carrow Road, 2011. Even watched the game with a few mates at the Victory on whatever moderately legit Albanian coverage they had at the time. I thought, why the hell not, we can do this, Grant Holt may very well be in good form but we've got a manager who knows a thing or two about full backs. Aye, who better than to man mark man-mountain (and future wrestler) Grant Holt in central defence than non other than Danny chuffing Simpson. I think we all know what happened next. Fuck you, Alan Pardew, fuck you. A phrase that can never, ever be said enough.

Eurgh. Of course England are wearing blue at home against a team who normally wear red but who are now wearing white.

Sky Sports News just put on some snippets of that MNF interview from last year and it's just mint. Spoke about how he's representing the town/city as much as the football club and then spends five minutes analysing his corner routine (ironically enough against us) and I'm enthralled! It's like going from John Logie Baird's rough prototype to an 8K OLED in an instant, whilst being half aware that colour televisions do actually exist. I can't believe Eddie Howe and Steve Bruce do the same job (thereoretically) and one was free whereas the other cost £6million.

Yeah, I'm fairly sure some, or maybe all, went on eBay or alternative. Don't know if that was the official policy in terms of auction but I do recall them being purposefully sold off.

What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.

Nice of the commentator on the Arsenal v Watford game, just after a period of reflection and sombre silence to remember those who died in war, to seemlessly segway into mentioning the average lifespan... of a Watford manager under their current ownership. Obviously the same sort of sacrifice.

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Out of all the retired referees they could get, it's amazingly tragic that Dermot Gallagher, Peter Walton and Mark Clattenburg are the public mouthpieces of an entire profession. Although, having said that, the Soccer Saturday lot are hardly a glowing endorsement of retired footballers. Anyway, back on topic: fuck you, Luis Suarez.

Yeah, I agree about the consistency and I hope this is the start. Perhaps a Champions League match at Anfield is a good opportunity to showcase this kind of thing, not that you should have to "showcase" correct behaviour.

I know I'm probably in the minority here but I fully support the referee sending that Atletico Madrid player off. I watch a lot of cricket and rugby too and I've always been bewildered by how little regard and often open hostility there is towards referees in football from players. I don't know if it's an education thing (footballers can barely spell GCSE let alone possess one), maybe it's plain ignorance or arrogance but it's got nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with the referee's decision, they're never going to change their mind (unless VAR steps in) so why can't footballers just walk away instead of being so aggressive? The referee is in charge, they're far from perfect of course, they'll get decisions wrong but you'd never treat someone who works in a shop like that or some other job because you disagree. Surely it's basic human decency. Maybe this will be a watershed moment? Players would soon stop being dicks if more red cards are dished out, you'd have thought.

The way this is going, Alicia Scholes is going to have to cut her own toenails tonight. Daddy is in no mood for a papa pedicure.

Totally agree. Jimmy Nail as an actor: yes Jimmy Nail as a musician: no In terms of our new managerial appointment, I really can't wait to have pride in a cloob and a manager again and actually be able to watch an interview/press conference.

Steve Bruce isn't even the worst thing in his own thread any more if baseball being better than cricket is the situation we find ourselves in.

It's difficult to be understood when you've got your daughter's foot in your mouth.

Give him credit though, it's some effort to be more annoying than Adele.

Even if the club had to pay him ten times his annual salary to get rid, that's still only ten Sports Direct mugs and five pairs of Lonsdale socks. Shouldn't impact FFP too much.

Finally has a use for all those England caps to mop up the tears. Oh, wait...

His reaction would be like Doc Brown's in Back to the Future when he sees the camcorder Marty brought with him to 1955.

Our current, and hopefully soon to be former, manger spent twenty years as a professional central defender, a bulk of that time in one of the most successful sides in British football history. You'd have thought he'd have been able to organise a defence but no. I'm not worried the next manager would be worse at that particular element.

It's always those little things that make such a huge difference, like not having a dead pigeon stuck in the roof for a couple of years.