TheBrownBottle

We’re not learning to play with the conditions in mind. We’re still attempting to play in the same style of play as normal.

Honestly, I don’t think Joelinton is ever at his best in LCM. Always looks better wide left for me

I think I hate drums more than vuvuzelas

I know what you mean, but plenty of us will have been to more NUFC matches than many of those there tonight - but I’m not flying back from Sydney for every home game.

You’d have hoped Trippier and our coaching staff would be aware of that too

Yep. Just poor play, nothing wrong with the tackle

Yep. Can’t stand drums - they do my head in. They’re not even in-rhythm - just mindless banging

Better side deservedly ahead, Isak going off took the fizz out of us Worth remembering who we’re playing against, too - Dortmund was always likely to be the hardest game. PSG aren’t any great shakes

Always been the case, or at least as far back as I can remember. No other big crowd in England turns so quickly - we’re flappers

Good finish, acres of space mind.

The conditions are so terrible you’d think you’d want to shoot on sight of goal. It’s a keeper’s nightmare out there - the ball will be slippery as fuck

Almiron dived there like - was absolutely looking for it

Better side than PSG these. Also unlikely to get a fright from the atmosphere - Dortmund are very much used to it.

The majority of the team now on the pitch were her under Bruce - the ones he’d instruct to sit back because they weren’t good enough …

Just one on Stan here in Oz. Must be the international feed. I prefer it tbh - even better if it was one fewer

Great game this

Fantastic by Pope, came from brainless play by Longstaff. You can’t faf about with the ball at this level

Didn’t even see either of FKs there because of TV companies and their love of unnecessary zoom-ins of fans, bench, players etc. Just show us the fucking match

HTL

I think that’s why they didn’t celebrate when Man City won the title, when the Mackems played Man Utd at the SOS. Principles.

They must work with some right football anoraks, if they’re at work talking about lower league football

They always felt like the most successful one back then - but Man Utd always pulled the crowds and had the glamour feel to them (despite OT being in the middle of one of the biggest shit tips in the country)

Simply not the case. The KSA govt settled with Qatar & BEIN with a ten-figure sum changing hands. Two days later the takeover block ended. But was everything to do with piracy - once the piracy issue was settled (not pirating anymore is not a settlement) that was it. The idea that the PL were scared of disclosure is laughable. There is nothing in the rules re state ownership etc - it was because of KSA’s failure to settle / admit culpability that it remained an issue. The block of the takeover wasn’t ‘illegal’, either - they were within their rights to apply the O&D test to anyone with controlling interest. Of course the PIF didn’t want MBS sitting it - 1) because of the embarrassment caused generally of their HoS having to be tested and 2) because the tie to piracy (and potentially HR abuses) will likely see the takeover be failed (conviction of a crime isn’t a requirement to fail the O&D test - you can fail if you would likely have been convicted elsewhere. MBS is unlikely to face a jury in Riyadh any time soon). With the BeIN roadblock gone, the PL no longer gave a shite. This is why the ‘separation’ horseshit followed quickly - they no longer needed to threaten to have MBS sit the O&D test. Some of the clubs did give a shite, of course.

Man Utd were the biggest club in the country before they had sustained success. They haven’t averaged less than 35k on the gate since before WWII

Do both, if you like. But I’m in full agreement with extensive bans for breaching gambling regs.