Featured: That was the week that was (Aug 23-27 2021)

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Monday Aug 23:

 

Shaq leaves. Good for him, he deserves to play. I’ll miss him though. I’ll miss his happy little face. I love Shaq, always will. And despite the fact he hardly played he still made a big impact and left us with some boss memories. Scoring twice against the Mancs at Anfield, he scored in an Anfield derby and he was part of the Barcelona comeback. He’s left behind a pretty decent legacy, the little fucking legend. Best of luck wee man.

 

The U23s spanked Everton at Hague Avenue tonight. For a minute when I heard that I got excited and thought the lads were back playing at Southport, like in the good old days when I covered the Nessie’s for the Echo and Post. That would be great for me as it’s only 10 minutes from mine now. Sadly not though. It was Everton’s home game. I don’t actually know where our lads play their home games The Academy I assume.

 

Gordon and Ojo both scored, which was kind of interesting as there’s 8 years between them. Ojo was Gordon back in the day but his career has stood still for about five years now. There’s interest in him but I can’t see us getting much of a fee for him in this market.

 

Meanwhile, there’s so much bollocks being spoken about what Klopp said about Burnley and wrestling. Every news outlet is waffling on about it but none of them are actually showing the videos of the incidents he was referring to. “I didn’t see anything in the game” said Jermaine Jenas. “He’s playing mind games” said Lineker.

 

On Talksport today Danny Murphy was “flabbergasted” by what Klopp said. Simon Jordan said Klopp was talking rubbish. The problem here is he’s being lumped in with Solskjaer who was complaining about tackles not being given as fouls as that it’s going to cause injuries. Klopp wasn’t referring to that, he was talking about specific incidents in the Burnley game when players were grabbing our players and throwing them to the ground, or Barnes and Wood barging into the defenders when they were off the ground.

 

 

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[suzy]

I said the same thing to Mr Suzy about Ole trying to tell Ronaldo what to do! Could be hilarious.

[Rushies tash]

Pundits are massive shitbags who follow the crowd. It's them who perpetuate the "Mane and Salah go down easily" crap despite evidence to the contrary. And how the fuck they could have watched that Burnley game (with Jota literally being thrown to the floor - a 'highlight' missed by Match of the Day) and concluded that they didn't see any industrial challenges reeks of pandering to popular opinion. See also the shite they came out with regarding the ESL.

[alles ist gut]

Top, top “have Arsenal earned the right to celebrate putting their boots on the right feet?” analysis there, Dave.