Barrington Womble

I think the 777 loans are completely unsecured. If Everton go into administration, they're fucked. And there's plenty in front of them to get their money back, MSP, media and rights, HMRC. That doesn't really make sense does it? Are they trying to say Everton are seeking funds to 777 are able to buy them? Shouldn't 777 find that? Or are they saying the 100% of take over might be off the table so 777 only take a slice changing their loans into equity?

What's all this shit he coaches like arteta? He was a manager before arteta was. It would be better to say arteta coaches like him. Fucking Legohead cocksuckers.

We should if we.dont want him. Yeah, but when they say they've analysed 800 right backs, they mean they've got data on 800. And why wouldn't they analyse all of that data, because even if you make wrong choices in the end, there's something to learn from the process to refine the models going forward? It's not like they ask all the match day catering staff to come in and take 2 right backs each, it'll just be an algo. Check 8 or 800, it probably costs you another 50p on AWS.

You can't see the ball being played in the same shot there though.

Fuck him the manc cunt.

Maybe I misunderstand what you're saying, but you think forest are wrong here?

What does he mean by "keep" though? Didn't he just go half a season with someone else's team, they sold a few and started again? He must know when he joined Brighton they can't turn down 110m+ for players. And Mac Allister was a clause. This hasn't been a multi year journey, he's barely started.

That is a worry of mine. And he'd probably do it for free or a pure bonus deal. Or maybe he's flying for an interview to get his photo taken to try and force other people's hands. Although I don't really see that as something that'll make fsg jump.

New York is brilliant too, but I prefer drinking and eating in Chicago.

It's a brilliant city for boozing. In fact maybe my favourite.

Webb introduced it as far as I know, because he brags about it. He thinks it's a good thing.

I think i know that place, pulled a bird in there once if it's the same one. Just the South side of the river at the loop isn't it?

I do recall Michael Oliver getting involved in the Manchester derby for hojlund brushing someone with his arm on a set piece. Weird that. I don't recall these conflict of interests being an issue before Howard Webb presided over PGMOL. Refs weren't on the payroll of states which own clubs in this country - something he not only promoted, he also subsequently said it wasn't an issue when it was raised and said will continue. The idea of refs not refereeing their clubs or rivals existed in the entirety of football in my life. It was relaxed during COVID for obvious reasons. But since Webb has taken over, it has been completely disregarded, except when it's not. Standards of refereeing and VAR have dropped significantly in his time as head of PGMOL. And he followed mike fucking Riley, who had been widely seen as a disaster. Of course he should be fired, as would happen in any other walk of life after such abject failure.

Are you still in Chicago for it Stig? AJ Hudson's should be good for it if you are. It can be mental in there of a weekend, but manageable through the week. And if you want something quieter and more central, the Kerryman is decent too.

He always does something like that. I hate a celebration where you think you're too cool to actually celebrate it.

And of course collymore like loads of them completely missed the point. There doesn't have to be corruption. There only needs to be a conflict of interests. I feel like getting out there and shaking them all till they understand this basic principle, that applies across every industry. We can't assume at all times there is no impropriety, the question really is why we think referees in PGMOL would be different to say referees in other countries or for instance the police or politicians, who are people who've had the same (if not more) trust put in them, but there have always been bad apples. And which industry in the world is free from corruption? Corruption is a global problem, which is why it is absolutely crucial that any impression of a conflict of interests should be eradicated from the game. It's frankly absolutely mental to make your starting point that there can't possibly be bias from referees and everything should be done to remove accusations of corruption. It's essential conflicts of interests are removed. It's essential that they don't "mark their own homework" in the way they run var. The appointment system should be transparent, including firm restrictions on club and regional conflicts, applies equally to all teams and regions. They shouldn't be on the payroll of any organisation that is connected to owners of clubs in this country. And most of all, the bald copper who's dragged PGMOL this low should be fired.

I don't think I've seen quansah play that badly yet.

I think Trent has had a few games where he was splitting the centre backs like that and wanders off to find space from there before his injury. It's just when Gomez has been playing that role, he does it like I think most players who do it, just a full back who kind of comes inside, rather than outside in the traditional way as the ball progresses, so it's really noticeable just how different Trent is. Trent is showing he can play an almost Alonso style role from full back. When you consider Trent played this role for the first time against arsenal a year ago with just one days training and did it well, with the time he's had out, he's probably had plenty of time to think about how he can improve what he's done before and really take his game on. I wasn't too shocked by the lineup, although I don't like so much the gakpo/grav/Elliot combo as I think they're all a bit too easily dominated physically. But it worked out. I expect more changes in the front 6 on Wednesday..

He's been much improved. He needs to get much, much better.

We could do with some of this. Turkey appoint foreign VAR officials after 'bias' claims - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68797201

To be honest, I'm not thinking about amorim or anyone else. When klopp arrived, he did so with a background of 4231, landed with 442 here and aimed for 433, which took him 18 months to get to. When Amorim has gone for his 343, I'm sure it's because it was something different to disrupt rather than it being some type of way style he'll never move from. If/when he comes here, he's hopefully got new plans and if they don't work with the squad we have, he'll evolve to it and make something else work till he does. He might stick with similar to what we're doing now. But the reality is before all that shit of a new manager, we have 5 to win and I'm not looking beyond that. Trent is one we've got back into some form. Jota has got a goal, so hopefully more stems from there. Macca will have had a bit of a breather today, so I expect to see him bounce back. Get one of Nunez, Dom or Salah back into form and we might actually win the 5 games.

Absolutely twat these cunts redmen.

I thought Trent did well there, for the first 40 mins at least..I just don't think often enough there were passes on to him, so he's forced to play a little too slowly. I also thought we lacked width, so he didn't have too many passes into wide areas available to him. For Trent to excel there, I think we need to make the pitch as wide as we can, that enables both the passes out there, but also the space between for him to exploit.

Or we just tell them to fuck off.