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It fills a void. City cannot celebrate what they have because what they have is built on an empty foundation of money and false accounting. What we have they will never have. So they celebrate what they see that do not have. It's beneath embarrassing.

Newcastle's shithouse fans, sheesh. Championship club with small-time gobshite supporters. I thought Chelsea was as bad as it can get but somehow these knobheads were worse. A black and white Everton. It's been a long while since I was at a game that I enjoyed less, or more.

Isn't that because nobody really gives a toss about John Terry or Chelsea? Envy is the root of all the antipathy.

I quite enjoyed George's melodramatic (if erratic) VAR announcements. 'VAR Check - Penalty. VAR Check - Penalty.' (Men stare helplessly at the pitch. Confused children look up to anxious parents. Nervous pets whine and pace.) 'CHECK OVER. CHECK OVER.'

Why is taking your shirt off a bookable offence? Is there a reason?

Ah.

I'm loathe to be tiresome but if Dortmund win 4-1 Spurs go through on away goals.

Solksjaer. Ferguson pulling his strings out of shot.

Southampton's manager post win

No, there was no dispute about that whatsoever from anyone.

Painful as it is, I do not think Ramos did 'fail a drug test'. He was given a glucocorticosteroid (a 'GCC'), which are not permitted in competition unless (a) they are administered in a certain way or (b) the player has a special permission (a TUE) to use them. It sounds like he was given a GCC but that it was administered in a permitted way (GCCs are often given in conjunction with painkillers to reduce inflammation caused by a painkilling injection). There are a number of different GCCs and it appears that the club doctor recorded one type on the relevant forms, when in fact he was given another. He did not break any rules, and WADA has confirmed this.

There was a Cardiff fan with a wig and fake tash pretending to be Vincent Tan, the club’s owner. Why was he dressed up as Hitler in that case? Although I don't think Hitler wore aviators.

Yes, you wonder whether Bookies are above being involved in slipping out 'information' and cashing in as gullible people place what they perecive to be clever bets. In that vein I did read that Trump weighed in quite heavily on the Beckhams getting divorced, obvioulsy got burned and has had it in for 'fake news' ever since.

I watched that game with the same sense that (as Bill Bryson puts it) you might have if you were sent compromising photographs of a loved one.