TheBrownBottle

Yep, it definitely is - the tickets are non-transferable. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act (1994) is what they’ll cite for convictions. How likely you are to be prosecuted is another matter, like. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/166/enacted#:~:text=166Sale of tickets by,business%2C in any other place.

Women like Warnock should fuck off back to women’s football is what I have to say about that

Can’t be arsed to look it up, maybe someone knows the answer to this: The game is in injury time, and the ref misses a penalty call. VAR is reviewing it, and spots that there should be a pen - but the ball doesn’t go out of play at any point and the ref blows the final whistle. Can the final whistle be cancelled to go back and review the VAR?

It would sum this game up if Brighton’s pen is hammered into the top corner and De Gea still saves it

Christ, that interview. You’d need to be a qualified psychologist to know if there is something wrong him, but I think any bouncer would be turning him away from their bar if they asked him how many libations he’d had.

Count me not in on the unanimity. It always looked like a daft move to me.

I think Fat Sam will earn everything he gets in keeping a club - who are out of the relegation zone - out of the relegation zone. It would be miraculous I reckon.

They don’t have to do us any favours nor Kuol - they have a responsibility to do what’s best for their club. They’ve judged that he’s not good enough at present to play. That doesn’t mean that they signed him with that expectation - they see the lad in training every day.

What a proper head of players loans would ask of a potential loanee’s club: Is it in a suitable location for the player in question? What’s their training ground and facilities like? What is the current atmosphere like around the club & on a match day? What’s their manager’s personality? How secure is his job? What’s his footballing philosophy? Does he blood youngsters? Does he have a track record of doing that successfully? Which players play in the player’s position and how likely is our youngster to get ahead of them? What is the standard of the league they’re in? Have they given assurances on game time? Shola’s questions: Is their ground less than two hours drive back yerm? … and that’s it.

Closer to 25 years than 30 They are unarguably a big club now. But they never managed this under their own steam - Harding & later Abramovich’s money was needed. PS for anyone too young to remember mediocre Chelsea - everyone ALWAYS hated them, even when they were London’s fourth club. Combat 18, the headhunters, the shed. Cunts, all of them.

No-one does with FFP Emery will have wanted the guy, and English clubs will now offer a lot more money to DoF positions than even the continent's biggest clubs.

Three of those Chelsea trophies came in a two year spell - four in a four year spell - at the end of the century. For the vast, vast majority of football history Leeds and Man City were bigger clubs than Chelsea. Chelsea were just another London club until the late 90s - Arsenal and Spurs were the big London clubs. Plenty of us saw West Ham as London's third club

Kinnear’s Wimbledon were definitely second best London team when we came back under Keegan - I think they finished 6th from memory

Ugly football and Leeds goes hand-in-glove to me - but what a comedown from Bielsa-ball

Before 1997, West Ham had won more major trophies than Chelsea - and Leeds comfortably had won more. As Wolfcastle pointed out above, pre-Harding Chelsea were a club who had a glamours side in the early 70s and that was pretty much it for the entirety of football history.

Leeds were definitely considered bigger than Chelsea for the vast majority of the 20th Century

I want Arsenal to be made to work hard here. There’s comedy value to Chelsea getting beat, but Arsenal strolling to victory is less likely to have a negative effective on their performance this weekend

Lampard’s PPG average over his last half a season of PL games is worse than that Derby side from 07/08. That’s impressive going Tory boy

The only position of difference for me is when a co-commentator or pundit is expected to talk about the pressure of the situation etc and how that feels - and there’s a massive difference between the pressure levels of playing in front of a packed, baying stadium with millions more watching on TV and playing in front of a couple of thousand where the game will have little to no throughput elsewhere. Otherwise I don’t think there is any difference - Carney is full of shite, but then the vast majority of the male pundits are just as shite.

‘The Winston Bogarde of the Carpathians’

On that basis our history post-WWII doesn’t sound great tbh. I know where you’re saying in the original post, and there are some elements of what I wrote which are disputable in terms of how big they are (e.g. their ‘one club one city’ thing - always cited by Leeds supporters - isn’t the same as NUFC’s; we aren’t a rugby league city, but Leeds is a huge RL place). They’re a big club by my reckoning, in the same way that Villa, Everton and Sheff Wed are too - there’s around a dozen clubs in England that are ‘big clubs’ in my mind.

‘Don’t sign players off of World Cups’ has always been a truism, but Boehly is a grade A clown. Unproven players being signed for ludicrous fees - Mudryk was another. They might well come good, but there is enormous risk to signing players like that for the sort of money you pay for the proven finished article.

Most of the clubs on that list had around 30 years head start on them - they didn’t exist pre-WWI. They’ve spent the majority of seasons in the top division since then. For anyone my dad’s age, they were the biggest side in the country for several years. They get big crowds and are the only club in a (relatively) huge northern city. The list above should give some indication. They’ve played 500 fewer top flight games than West Ham but only got 150 fewer points. Look at their all-time GD. Traditionally when Leeds are in the top flight they’re a powerful side - football has changed so much in the past couple of decades that big crowds no longer mean much, though. Their relegation in 2004 saw them become a phrase - ‘doing a Leeds’. No-one talks about ‘doing a Stoke’ or ‘doing a Boro’. It’s the warning that even a massive club - if mismanaged as badly as Leeds were - can fall to pieces. I still hate the fuckers and tbf anyone under 30-ish will likely wonder what the fuss is about. But Leeds to me are a much bigger club than half the current clubs in the top flight.

Anyone who has been to a Leeds vs Newcastle match will confirm that the crowd are unlikely to be quiet Agree on everything else though

It’s probably absolute last chance for Southampton too - I know they’ve been written off but their GD isn’t that worse than anyone around them (and it’s the same as Forest’s) and a win would leave them three points from the drop. It’s obviously a forlorn hope for them but you never know