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Like most clubs, the neighbours have shown their respect in the past few days. They even held their own tribute. The mancs are a different story. They're not interested in peace talks or truces. You knew they would wait for their chance to strike. They did so, when the stadium was empty. When it comes to our dislikes, there is one club out there on it's own.

We're 16th going into the weekend's games. Our excellent defence is making amateur errors, and has a -3 goal difference. We could be further down by the time the weekend's game comes around. Lose that, and that fair wind you speak of, may need to be a hurricane. The club is all over the place, on and off the pitch. CL spots are just the stuff of pipe dreams atm.

Our club isn't run as a business. It's run as a franchise. A franchise that the last owners compared to Weetabix!! What we have seen here and at other clubs, is that Americans can't run EPL football clubs. Owning football clubs is a serious business, it's not running a ragball baseball/ice hockey team in a domestic "World Series". Ultimately, fan ownership is the only way to go, to ensure the club is run properly. Dalglish got the sack after winning our first trophy for 6 years and getting us back into Europe. That meant nothing to the owners. They only understand CL cash. And only 3 teams every year can guarantee it the following season. A rookie flavour of the month coach installed, a poor pre-season, and with no significant signings made, I have no expectations for the coming season, and a top half finish may be the best we can expect. Which obviously isn't good enough for anyone.

We won. Game was shit, and we were not much better, but we did the job we had to do in our last away game in pre-season. It's good to be back in Europe though. Better playing a contest, than a far flung kickaround with 11 subs each at half time, as other clubs are doing.

The only time top seed clubs are guaranteed to play at home second leg is the round after the group phase. When you have won your group.

At least they went. Other people didn't go to the tournament because either a tv show put them off, or a foreign political figure got some publicity. Sure some of them aren't exactly season ticket holders of a club, but there's more to attending international tournaments than football. They don't come along every week. Maybe they could have interfered with the penalty box, thrown bikes down the stands, beat seven bells out of innocent stewards, or rearranged city centres in reacting to getting pummelled by one of the best teams in the world. But that wouldn't be the Irish way.

Only 5 of those Saturday games were played at 3pm local time. One of the Sunday games was played then because an opponent had to play Thursday night. I don't care what day we're playing, it's great to be back in Europe.

Time for another post then.

It still is.

Yanks can't run English football clubs. They've shown that here and elsewhere. Over here we're a football club, over there we're a "franchise", which the last owners compared to Weetabix. When we get fan ownership, we'll get our club back to how it should be run.

Bayern would have had to collect it in the VIP Box as well. The practice was re-introduced in 2008. It's better that way. When Steve lifted that cup in 2005, you had barely see him 10 seconds later. Not as bad as 99. But still can't defend corners properly. Surely you've watched enough disasters for one evening.

Sounds familiar.

You should have stopped there. Bayern are one of the best-run, and most profitable clubs in the world. The mancs exist to pay back a bunch of yanks. There is no comparison.

They saved us from another gloomy summer. Mind you they left it about as late as they could in the end. The good news is that the trophy cabinets this year won't be opened at the Toilet. Their fans are decent skins, hate the mancs like we do, and would have been there for them when they were playing Blackpool in 1998, only 4 years ago they blew a two-goal lead at home to Fulham and got walloped at Middlesbrough at the end of the season, so let them have their moment in the sun.

He lost his job at Valencia because he whinged. He lost his job here because he whinged. He lost his job at Inter because he whinged. Now he has no coaching job at all, because chairmen and boardrooms don't want that level of whinging about the place.