deiseach

All Together Bitter

Getting this in minutes before he gets the sack:

Now I understand why Everton and Newcastle have such beef. They each fancy themselves to be the best at demanding people involved in their football club 'just talk to us'.

Yeah, but I just ignore it. My biggest LFC headache is whether I'm going to the ground tomorrow. Living local problems, eh?

Is #boycottthebbc trending yet?

I fear for them, I really do.

Neil Atkinson put it very well a while back when he was a guest on the Second Captains podcast. Any manager has only one task: win now. They laughed at Klopp over the notorious West Brom 'celebration', and they were right to laugh because, by their standards, they'd have booed the fuck out of the team for that performance. And that is why they will always lose.

I can see the second-last one being relevant in a few years. "You built a stadium WHERE?!"

Might as well cancel my membership then, you putting the boot into Everton is the main reason to have it.

You know, my heart agrees with all this. But seeing Newcastle sliming their way up the table means the head wins. Man Utd's reversion to the mean post-Ferguson shows that there is some competitive balance to a football world without oil cheats corrupting everything. The more honest clubs that win, the better. Of course, if Arsenal fuck up I'll be there to put the boot in.

Never believe the rumour until it's been officially denied by Melanie Prentice.

I've seen this episode before as well.

I've seen this episode before.

In general, the reverence with which FIFA treat the World Cup trophy is pathetic. What is it, it can only be touched by heads of state and those who have won it on the pitch? One for the shitness of modern football thread.

Okay, you said it was his best post as opposed to being a good post. Point taken.

It's a shit post. Diego yields the crown to nobody. NOBODY.

You didn't think it was a penalty? I was watching...I was going to compare them to the Three Stooges but I've too much respect for Ian Wright, so no...the pundits at half-time losing their shit over it and I was utterly gobsmacked. This goalkeeper lark is a lot easier than I thought if all you have to do is stand in front of the onrushing striker and claim you had nowhere to go. Thankfully Ally McCoist, who is the boss analyst at the moment - the anti-Roy Keane - was on my side so I didn't have to rely on Peter Walton to be the voice of reason.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." That's all you need to know to understand modern Britain.

There are no unknown quantities any more, which has diminished the magic of the World Cup. It's still magical though. Where else, in any walk of life, would you have Cameroon and Serbia going at it hammer-and-tongs for everyone's enjoyment?

Going to say it now. Messi could score a match-winning hat-trick in the final and he'll still be in Diego's shadow. Yeah, I know I'm a brave men to have such thoughts on this website.

All these years I thought Toni Schumacher fouled Patrick Battiston. Now I realise Battiston had lost the ball and Schumacher had nowhere else to go. Fair play to that ref!

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