Carvalho Diablo

The greatest football manager alive. Absofuckinglutely love the fella. He's conquered all of Europe. CHAMPION OF EUROPE. OUR MANAGER.

No turning back lads, Cortez the killer.

Wondering whether any of you cool cats might be up for putting together a small club to share and review music ? Keeping the expense to a minimum, we could use Spotify or Youtube to review free online albums (pm me if you'd like a link to a free Spotify Premium acccount for Android devices). Was thinking of around 10 of us, where 1 person would choose a record of the week to review / comment upon / debate and argue about, a different person choosing weekly. Favourite records, new stuff always good, something topical, anything really. The GF is also really good in so much that there are a load of us with really diverse musical tastes, and it would be interesting to see others' reactions to an album which falls outside of their norm. What say you ? If you fancy giving it a go then let it be known.

And I said "Hobo".

Good to see you back NV. You're like the forum's very own Littlest Hobo.

European Super League - where the special becomes the mundane. Proof positive that you CAN have too much of a good thing.

And he was trying his damnedest last night to make sure this would be the case.

The entire world of football would be in a far, far better state of health and be in incredibly safe hands if it just placed Jurgen Klopp in charge. Klopp is the embodiment of everything which is, or which has ever been good in the game. I hope he batters the Yanks.

Binned (again) before he could get his grubby hands on Spurs' £350m ESL budget.

It's a no from me Clive.

He is the best manager we could possibly have.

Fuck the Baltimore Rats. Go Browns. #woofwoof

I read that the ESL chosen broadcaster is DAZN?

I remember up in Scotland years ago when it seemed like every summer that both Celtic and Rangers were threatening to bin off the Scottish laegue and go it alone. Every time they'd win some concession, often money based, and the threat was staved off for another year or so. I loved it when the other teams had finally had enough and called the Old Firm's bluff, every other team resigning from the league thus leaving Celtic and Rangers in a league of two. Genius, those 2 Glasgow giants soon came crawling back to the table, tails between their legs.

Again, to his credit Carragher said that as a matter of principle he could not be involved in the proposed ESL. Neville did not. If Neville (and most of his Sky tv cronies) were offered cushy gigs by the ESL broadcasters the they'd be up there like rats up a drainpipe.

He held his hand up and recognised it. Fair play to him. Neville did not.

Neville had the cheek to say after the match that it'd all be artificial and made up from scratch, adding that they wouldn't even have a trophy to play for, that they'd need to construct a brand new one. Exactly like the Premiership then.

I've seen it mentioned that FIFA are prepared to ban any player who's participated in it from playing for their national team. A lot like the Kerrie Packer cricket circus.

If I was Chief Exec of this potential ESL, item no 1 would be a charm offensive to try and get the media and the fans onboard. To attempt that... 1. Competitively price the product. Undercut Sky and BT by at least a £10er a month if at all possible 2. Bin VAR 3. No English officials 4. No international football

A potential angle to this which I've not seen mentioned before... If FIFA goes ahead and bans any player who's played in the ESL from competing in international football, as has been reported. Hypothetically, say Van Dyke refuses to retire from captaining Holland, what's to say he won't sue our club for breach of contract?

Sky started this ball rolling. When Sky annexed the old 1st Division and rebranded it as the Premiership, making a fortune from subscriptions and PPV's it set a precedent, it released the genie from the bottle. Over in sunny Madrid and Barcelona, their eyes were turned westwards and they grew green with envy when they saw the money that English clubs were making from this new tv deal. The ESL is wrong on so many levels and I really hope that it fails but make no mistake, the outburst and the bitterness being shown by Sky is down to one thing: jealousy. If Sky have the opportunity to bid for rights to broadcast the ESL then they'll be at it like a rat up a drainpipe. At least Carragher acknowledged his and the Sky hypocrisy. Neville did not. Sky had a monopoly on EPL broadcast rights for many years until games were packaged up and put out for tender, competition was allowed to enter the fray. Earlier this season, during lockdown, those same Sky hypocrites dared to charge £14.95 PPV fee to watch fucking Burnley vs fucking Newcastle! I take any Sky criticisms of this ESL with a large and spiteful pinch of salt. Armchair fans too; those who choose to allow themselves to be ripped off by subscribing to Sky and BT and their scandalous fees have each contributed to this state of affairs. Fuck Sky off, get an IPTV sub instead. I hate this ESL already, but I hate the Sky hypocrisy just as much.

Thought it might prove interesting to put a few things out there and just see where it takes us. Like I said, random. Sugar's Copper Blue is one of the best pop albums ever recorded. Karate are one of my favourite bands and they should have been massive. As much as I love Radiohead, I still find Kid A unlistenable. Dave Gilmour's 2nd solo in Comfortably Numb (from Floyd's live Pulse album) is the greatest guitar solo ever. The Police's best song is The Bed's Too Big Without You. Shane MacGowan is a brilliant singer. Metallica would be a far better band without both Kirk and Lars.

I miss Saturday 3 o'clock kick offs, I miss 1 to 11, "linesmen", understanding the offside rule, George Sefton, Littlewoods Pools, European Cup, home and away legs, I miss MOTD and The Big Match. Rupert fucking Murdoch can shove his Sky telly right up his shitter and he can ram it's bastard parasitic offspring, the ESL right up there with it.

Ben Hur Vertigo 12 Angry Men Moby Dick The Scarlet Claw

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