TheBrownBottle

Happily you didn’t have a pint - because who wants to be whipped in a public square?

Leo Sayer would chin the cunts if they tried propping up the bar

He does. But this type of ‘whatabouttery’ is easy when you’re not actually living in a dictatorship. Try walking down the streets of Washington DC, shouting ‘fuck Biden’ and calling for him to be expelled from office. Then try that in Riyadh with MBS. Which one do you think is more likely to result in your execution?

They’ve had their fair share of toppling democratic govts in the Americas, I can’t argue that

I mean, it’s pretty easy to imagine better owners.

Yep. The country has no formal penal code, yet executes people like it’s going out of fashion. Imagine backing a dictator who kills people who want democracy?

No, the point is that dictators tend not to be convicted for their crimes - certainly not without being toppled. The idea that ‘hey, the CIA reckoned he did but there were no charges’ is a joke. The CIA can’t charge him ffs

Yeah, always R&W aaal owa the Percy. Used to be one of my regular post-match pubs - the ‘Toon disco’ upstairs was notable for its Mackem-heavy clientele.

I’m sympathetic to Man Utd on this one. We heard enough shite re ‘Ashley has spent millions’. He didn’t personally - it was the club’s money

He’ll be lucky to play for anyone if he’s done for spot fixing.

He’d need to be put on trial - and given it isn’t a crime against humanity, it would need to be a trial in KSA, not The Hague. What do you think the chances are of the Crown Prince being brought up on accessory to murder charges in KSA? Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao etc - not a conviction between them. Innocent, I take it?

Yep. He’s a right cunt.

Excellent - it’s on everyone’s favourite international free streaming service. Time to re download utorrent

Anything in this one is still a massive bonus - I wouldn’t be downhearted by a loss here.

Depends how much he’s sold for, but he’ll only have amortised £3m of the original £15m so far. I think it’s premature to think he’s going - and I don’t think we’ll sell. If Hall is to be eased in at LB, then Burn is likely to be moved back to CB with Targett still competing for a LB role. Squad is still too thin to consider letting a solid PL LB like Targett go (unless the lad wants to go). I hope he stays, personally.

Only the Super Cup would I hold in contempt tbf - I don’t like seeing the other European tournaments undermined. But the Super Cup? UEFA don’t recognise it as a major tournament - so we shouldn’t either

Tbf the ‘Madders’ love-in was just fucking bizarre to me. Looked completely unsuited to us - whereas Barnes looked like a Howe player. I completely take your point, though - plenty may not have been happy. It would have sounded like a cracking window to me.

Don’t play your strongest side in a midweek glorified friendly then, you daft cunt.

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It’s like waiting for bad debt to drop off your credit file

NB I’m aware that Streatham Rovers is a parody account

Yep. ‘Ho ho ho they execute advocates for democracy’ isn’t fantastically funny like.

I can’t blame him for sitting on his contract mind. I blame the previous regime.

Yep, Faustian pacts and all that.

Hemp is such a good footballer mind. She’s like a female Beardsley - she has that ability to just nick the ball off a player with her toe and then cause chaos. Russo one of those players who seems to do absolutely nowt but finishes first time shots like no-ones business. Looking forward to the final now. I think Bronze is the only player left from that semi final sickener in 2015 - hope Northumberland’s finest goes all the way.