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(1) ASDA prawn crackers, a finer example of oriental foodstuff is not to be found this side of Macau. Fact.

As a veteran of the Evans, Houllier and Rafa era of mid/high seven figure 'punt' signings of next Zidanes and what not and of the countless pub and forum conversations of trying to decide whether they would come good and tying to figure out why a good performance wasn't followed up with more good performances, and how maybe it was a positioning thing. I've learned the hard way to embrace the occam's razor approach to these situations as in, I think he might just be shite.

Nah not just yet, but I wouldn't be horrified if we did, or at least sold one. I dunno if there's anything behind the Salah and Mane feud talk or not, Bobby doesn't score many either, let's be honest. If you gave me Jota, Mane, and Haaland I could say no, but I won't.

Swaziland? Who the fuck wrote that, Jacob Rees-Mogg?

There'll come a time one day very soon where you're not allowed to laugh about Tourettes, and if you post something about it on Twitter people with 'be kind' in their bio will tell you that you're heartless because it can be a debilitating condition, and that they hope you die.

Deserves his own thread, does a tremendous job with the goal and highlights gifs. Thanks fella. Caramac on any given match thread.

I don't really want to stop the show, But I thought you might like to know Donald took a bullet to the head Now someone else is there instead So let me introduce to you The one and only Billy Shears

Fucking genius this show, some of the stuff you don't notice first time round. Just watching the bit after Jackie Jnr has robbed the card game. Ralphie and Tony have a meeting about it where they both try and make out the other should be more embarrassed by it all than the other one. Then in the next couple of episodes, they both start laying the foundations with their wives for him being killed. Ralphie tells Ro he thinks he's mixed up with dealers, and Tony is reading a newspaper and goes to Carm 'seen this, kid, only 19, dead - because of drugs'. It's just genius.

Really pisses me off the way Neville can't shorten words. 'Good result for ole gunnar solskjaer, manager of Manchester United'. Does he get paid by the word like Charles Dickens? The tit.

It's like I said earlier on the match thread, their PR has always been top drawer, seeing them at the top again has been a bad reminder of how many of their fanboys are always foaming at the mouth ready to come out and talk them up. I don't watch the Mancs at all so only saw them yesterday, and I was astonished at how everage they were, not just on the day but in their personnel, I wouldn't take a single one of their players, maybe their goalie for backup and Rashford because he's a nice lad, he could sit on the bench. They're selling themselves now as plucky underdogs going about things the right way with a carefully considered, longterm plan, not like these other clubs who've bought success. And yet I think they've spent something like a quarter of a billion quid in recent years.

Nah he's deffo racist IMO. I agree he's not a fascist or political in that sense but just does whatever serves him (I doubt he understands the term) but he's got form for saying stuff like 'only black people could live like this', and he was also notorious for the way he behaved during that central park five incident, calling for a return of the death penalty. I don't know if he's racist like Steve Bannon racist, as in he wants a full blown race war, but I think he's swallowed a lot of the stuff that I think quite a few middle class white americans have swallowed, that white America is picket fences and lemonade and that they're surrounded by black and mexican areas which are dangerous because that's how they roll.

I think one of the issues we've had for a while is we don't have anyone who can nick a goal. Jota is the closest thing we've had to a natural finisher since Suarez left. Salah, Mane and Firminho are all boss at what they do but they have to be firing on all cylinders to do maximum damage. Their neat play has to come off perfectly or their runs behind have to be timed to perfection for us to get a chance, and the nature of their finishing ability means they're probably gonna only find the net once in every three chances. Our midfield virtually never chips in with goals either and there's no penalty box predator to produce a goal from nothing. That's the way we play though and to be fair it works. jota was bought in part to try and light a fire under the front three but that was scuppered by injury. Fuck knows what the answer is.

The Comey Rule on sky (really worth a watch) makes out that he got them to piss on a bed that the Obamas slept in. I actually think Obama inadvertently created Trump. Trump clearly doesn't like him anyway because he's black and he's got some kind of inbuilt sense of white superiority, which is hilarious when you place both men side by side in literally any context. But when he was spewing all that birther shite Obama quite rightly humiliated him at that official dinner, but you could see Trump stewing in the insults. I think that was the point he decided not only to whatever he could to attack Obama's legacy, but also destroy the machinery that gave Obama his power and influence, the people all around him that night who were laughing.

Sad to say but this is why managers like Paisley and Ferguson ripped up winning teams, they get stale and certain players lose their desire. That was fucking tepid that, if you've just won the league for the first time in 30 years and you find you greatest club rivals in world football above you, and they're shit, and you don't lay siege for 90+ minutes, then you're fucked.

Fuck it, it was fun while it lasted.

Is that what he said? If so, as with the team selections, that could be a bit of a fuck you for FSG. Wouldn't be surprised if their plan was to win the CL/league and then offload, pump and dump, and covid scuppered it.

You forget what a slick PR operation the mancs are, all of a sudden they're Bayern Munich on a shoestring, even though they are in fact total shite. Wimbledon with three decent players and a simpleton for a manager.

Tried to get away with it on a shoestring and couldn't, reluctantly started spending money and it worked, stop spending money now it doesn't. Deffo something in this spending cash idea.

23D for me.

No gini contract and no centre back is pure football sabotage.

'Yeah' and the ball comes straight back at us because there's nobody to win it back and keep the tempo up. 'So there'.

He's good but he's a cherry on the cake, Henderson and Fabinho are the cake.

The problem with having no defensive cover is that Henderson and Fabinho are our best midfielders, they're the engine room for our entire style of play and now they're spectators, it's a joke if we don't buy someone. Wait 30 years for something then lose it straight away. That would be very modern liverpool.