Fantail Breeze

Fantastic game so far.

Chelsea fans are fucking embarrassing.

Went for a fairly basic: 10+ corners, 3+ cards, Werner 1+ SOT 19/10

What are your thoughts (based on the tiny info we know) about the club’s case? Do you think it has a chance?

Was that a one off poor performance or has it been the case across the season? Considering the importance of the fixture you were completely toothless. Was really surprised.

Would being disqualified from the league be a bad thing? Prevents us from having to watch Bruceball and gives us an easy way of not caring anymore

I’d assume they left it open to evidence how much opportunity they tried to give the consortium to comply. No idea though. I’m at the stage now where I’d quite like them to just do the deal and see if the PL have the bottle to disqualify us from the league Especially after no punishment was handed out to the top 6.

Standard haven’t got an answer so can’t give a proper response.

That’s insane. Goes to show how utterly shit we’ve been.

You’ve got such an odd take on everything. The takeover is currently off, PIF pulled out. That’s the definition of being off. And I do think it is is unlikely to go through, based on what we’ve heard to date. I’m not sure what your point is. There is no ‘shameless transition’. What about those who have moved from ‘the takeover is happening’ to ‘it’s looking unlikely’. Have they had a shameless transition? Is it not possible for people to change their viewpoint based on the information in front of them? The opposite is the problem. Some people are unwilling to change their viewpoints, even with overwhelming noise of the deal being in bother. I’d argue it’s more of an issue for those people, rather than those who are happy to assess what is in front of them.

An 11 year old article about a bizarre sabotage of an interview = Ben Jacobs can’t be right about anything. Keith didn’t “challenge” him at all. He asked the same question (“Who is your PL source?”) over and over again in about 30 different ways of asking. The questions he put to Jacobs were really poor. Keith was content on (and failed) trying to discredit Jacobs rather than asking relevant and good questions to tease out information about the current goings on. Whitley has failed to find any positive spin for last night so it’s back into defence mode and immediately jump to trying to discredit Jacobs.

He was getting close to sounding silly at points. Claiming O’Donoghue reckons the BeIN letter could win the case on its own was scarcely believable and appeared to be a massive exaggeration. Especially when Jacobs claims there is evidence it was sent to all 19 clubs and not just the top 6.

But there’s no evidence to say he’d be a total flop too? Spending money doesn’t equal success. You still need to be talented to achieve success, even with an open chequebook: OGS spent £200m at Man Utd a couple of seasons ago to finish 4th. The mackems outspent all of their 23 opponents combined to lose in the playoffs. Aston Villa spent a record sum in the Championship to finish in the bottom half. There are three examples just off the top of my head, there are plenty more.

What a random appointment that is. Reeks of desperation like.

He’s an journalist predominantly focusing on Middle East and sport, it’s a major news story crossing over his two fields. It’d be like Laura Kuennsberg not reporting on a political news story. That’s also why his opinion is a good one to listen to. His contact book is far greater (and balanced) than people like Liam Kennedy.

I don’t think anyone is ‘beating away at their gavels’. There is a weird perception that any post which isn’t entirely positive means people either hope or expect the takeover to fail entirely or are making judgements. I’m certainly not making judgements on what will or won’t happen. I don’t know what will happen to the takeover. I certainly don’t want it to fail. All I am saying is that my expectations on what will happen is built around the fact that the negative press around the takeover seems to have more substance than the positive. An example tonight was Keith’s whole argument for the last hour was “disclosure will reveal something damming for the PL”. He doesn’t know that. It’s impossible to know that. It’s speculative. Whereas Jacobs was explaining how he has seen evidence to support his knowledge that there are two imminent stories that will be disruptive for the takeover. There will be two stories coming out that are going to be negative. It’s not guaranteed disclosure will support our case at all. I don’t think I’ve seen a single post from ‘me and the gang’ where someone has tried to tell everyone what will definitely happen. I’ve just seen people posting their own opinions. Well, apart from Manorpark and Whitley who are constantly telling us the takeover definitely will happen.

Always thought ET should happen but each team removes a player every five minutes, like we used to at school Extra time is largely bollocks tbf. Should just go straight to pens. Always disliked away goals, so not bothered by that going at all. Always found it weird different competitions had different rules. Another reason I dislike VAR as it’s not universal across all competitions and levels.

Yeah. Well, that depends on which tubes account you’re talking about Browsed the forum for many years. On and off at times though. There was a period where I didn’t come on at all for about a year. But apart from that, probably 6+ years before I joined.

van Dijk was a literal nobody until Klopp signed him IIRC.

Shameful self-advertisement That t-shirt is dreadfully tight on you too. Look like you’ve just been kicked through Topman. Apart from that, I do remember the collection book and I enjoyed your video - and I don’t often watching stuff like that.

I get this, but Tuchel has that endearing ‘crazy German’ personality, similar to Klopp and Muller. Really want him to be successful.

Every player from Benitez’s reign has regressed under Bruce. You can’t write off anyone playing under that tosser. Maybe Murphy the only exception, but that’s probably only due to getting a run of games.

It is fairly unbelievable, until you realise @Tubestationatmidnightposted it.

But the mud slung by one side tends to have facts behind it, whereas the other is speculative. For example - Jacobs’ dismissing claims the BeIN letter only went to the top 6 (and claiming to have evidence of that), immediately throwing Keith’s ‘big reveal’ from last week in the bin.

Well, I mean it’s his job? He’s a journalist. He was very balanced again tonight. He’s by far the best journalist covering this story, but as he said himself - unfortunately, he puts out both sides of the story and certain sections of the fan base can’t accept that. He again made it clear the only pathway to this takeover is NUFC winning arbitration. Let us hope they do. But based on what I’ve heard tonight, my confidence on that is low. Will be intrigued to hear these two stories; one proving Saudi money was involved in the ESL and the other making separation difficult to prove. Clearly two stories leaked by PL sources (or those not wanting the takeover) ahead of the imminent arbitration, but potentially two damaging stories. Just got to sit back and hope we get the right result. But the amount of shit Jacobs has taken for doing his job is absurd. Along with all of this shit everyone gets who dares not blindly believe the ‘positives’.