dave u

That's hardened gambler talk! I have no idea about all that stuff, I'm pretty basic with my gambling. All that in play shit and laying off, it's all way over my head. Wish I'd have been able to last that last week with that bum Fowler though. -7 after round one and in the lead. Ends up -6 for the tournament three days later.

Speaking of bets, forgot to post mine. I have... To win Cam Smith Sungjai Im Si Woo Kim To be in the medal places Straka Bezuidenhout Leishman Badly need a result here. Checked through my history and I made £265 profit in my first month golf betting, and I'm over a hundred down since then. Si Woo Kim winning gets me the biggest payout so I'm rooting for him, with Straka and Bezuidenhout in the silver and bronze ideally.

I see what you did there. Wonder if he has a bracelet that says 'Rodney' on it?

The transfer grim reaper James Pearce will probably shoot that one down later.... Contrary to claims by a random Scotsman in a supermarket, the Athletic understands that Liverpool won't be signing players for £39m and £90m respectively and there are currently no plans to sign anybody.

I've heard that's good but I've avoided that because of his accent!

I watch loads of youtube golf but I don't think I've ever seen him. Will check it out. Stacked Golf is a guilty pleasure. I don't even know why I like it, I just do. If you haven't seen it, it's a young couple who live in Florida and they go around flea markets, garage sales and charity shops looking for old golf clubs. Then they go out and play with them. It sounds shit, and I can't really even explain to you why it isn't. I just like it. SAS Golf is another one.

Yeah he's hideous. Just doesn't look after himself at all and he's defo got a drink problem.

Gerrard and Barton back when they were kids in Huyton

I doubt he lost any sleep over it and it certainly didn't affect his performances. I don't blame him for calling it out though. He's playing his arse off, sacrificing his attacking play to do the job the team needs from him, he's available every single week without fail and then he logs onto his social media and there are loads of little nonces telling him to get out of their club because they want Keita in the team or Thiago to join us. He should have just responded to a few of them by telling them to fuck off and calling them FIFA virgins, or if he wanted to take a higher road post up pictures of the Barcelona game. The only thing I'd say to him if I had the chance is that for every one of those comments there will have been loads more supporting him. I'm not saying it was just a handful of knobs as it was more than that, but they're still only a tiny percentage of the overall fanbase. "The fans inside the stadium and those on social media are different". Yes and no. There are more clueless dickheads on social media than in the stadium but it's also about which comments stand out to you the most. Gini probably scrolled past loads of supportive messages and it will be the knobhead comments that caught his eye. In the stadium if you have a hundred people sitting there muttering "Fuck off Wijnaldum" and ten thousand singing his name, he's only going to be aware of the ones singing his name. He needs to look at it with a different perspective, but he wasn't wrong with what he said. He's just over-stated it.

Yep I remember it well. Fucking shameful business.

Considering I've been ripping those FIFA virgins in the diary for years, I'm not going to pull Gini up on doing the same. In fact, I'm glad he did it. The shit he'd get from them pricks was embarrassing, all because they wanted "Naby Lad" in the team instead. Hendo was getting it just as bad until he started lifting trophies and it died down a bit and they moved onto Gini instead. That had zero bearing on him leaving though, but then he didn't say it did, unless I've missed that?

Feel like negging this for the omission of Fabinho.

Matt Fryer seems a nice enough fella. I don't mind watching his videos. Ali Taylor has some decent stuff too. I don't watch any of them religiously, I just dip in and out depending on the content and whether it grabs my attention or not.

He's a good little golfer though. Some of his tips have been useful and he's more likeable than most. Shiels' videos are really good and if I hadn't listened to his podcast I'd probably not have anything negative to say about him. His video this week with the world's smallest blades was boss.

This week's round up https://bangaveragegolf.co.uk/?p=259 Feel free to share with any golfers you know.