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Leno's fucking shit.

Watford's dead cat bounce seems to have stopped.

Those JJ Abrams abominations called 'Star Trek' left me cold and wondering WTF was going on with the idea of Star Trek. Utter crap this Kelvin timeline bullshit. In my opinion of course especially when you've grown up with TOS, TNG, DSN, Voyager and Enterprise. Saw a lot of shit about the CBS All Access version of ST Discovery but as I dont subscribe to Netflix, never saw it. But E4 has been showing the episodes on Sunday evening although now have shunted it to about 11.45pm! I gather it's based on this Kelvin timeline shit and 10 years before TOS. The difference in technology between Discovery and TOS is just shit, again in my opinion. While Kirk and co had a clunky computer and loads of coloured buttons to press, Discovery era Federation ships have full on graphical interfaces and halo decks to put Voyager to shame. Still, the story lines seem good although why they decided to change the appearance of the Klingons and have them talk needing subtitles is a bit of a pain. Of course the big plot hole for me is Michael Burnham. What the fuck was Amanda thinking when she called her half Vulcan daughter with a male first name? Where's the logic in that? Sarek must have gone apopletic! Still, Burnham's in for a surprise when she finds out who or rather what her beau really is. Part 2 of the Terran Empire episode is on tonight so looking forward to that. I wonder if Hoshie is still Emporer?

For years and years and years, I always thought the lyrics for the BeeGees 'How deep is your love?' was 'and you come to me on a submarine' instead of 'on a summer breeze.' Always thought it was a fucking strange line, who's love would come by a submarine?!

Flattards dont believe in gravity so telling them if you dont understand it would get you nowhere. Example, flattards say 'down' is the opposite of up and if you are standing near the top of a globe, down is towards your feet. However, they say if the Earth was a globe and you were stood on the equator, down is no longer the opposite of up and down isnt towards your feet. Instead, down now become a motion at a 90 degree angle from your side. Likewise, if you were stood at the south pole, down wouldnt be towards your feet but from your feet to your head! They dont accept that gravity pulls everything 'down' towards the centre of the Earth. The reality is, it doesnt matter where on Earth you stand, down is always towards the centre of the planet and doesnt change as you move from the top of the globe, past the equator to the south pole.

Good article, thanks for sharing. Wouldnt it be funny as fuck if UEFA turned around to city and said 'You want to raise the issue with Liverpool from 2013. An issue you had settled and accepted £1m. So, we're also going to re open our 2014 settlement with you regarding the lower fines levied on you for serious breaches of FFP in that period.'

Didnt Ince do it with a united shirt before his transfer from west ham to them? But considering sterling's agent is that ward, Im not in the least bit surprised.

They just cant help themselves, can they? Their 'if we're going down, we're taking everyone else with us' mentality is utterly puerile and smacks of someone always wanting to have things their way. There again, when you live somewhere where absolute rule is the norm, I guess you would think that's the only way to act. That said, I cannot get my head around that pair ever thought it was a good idea to use their old logins to access their former employers database. You just dont go doing it especially if you want to appear professional. Oh and good luck trying to get UEFA to deal with something you accepted £1m in a 'settlement' between the club with no responsibility or liability. Even your 20 grand a day cunt Pannick will struggle to make that one work. Manchester City's bid to overturn their European ban could end with Liverpool in the dock over allegations that the Premier League champions-elect hacked into the Etihad’s scouting database. Sunday Mirror Sport has been told that City will “leave nothing off the table” when they attempt to beat the two-year suspension and £25million fine levied against them by UEFA over FFP violations. City will take a powerful legal team to the Court of Arbitration for Sport – and they will be armed with evidence that threatens to blow the lid off the murky work of football politics. A central tenet of City’s argument will be that UEFA’s decision to punish them is based on an illegally-obtained raft of emails written by senior club officials that were taken out of context to deliver a guilty verdict. The club’s servers were accessed by student Rui Pinto in 2015. Pinto is currently being held in prison in Portugal awaiting trial after being charged with 90 counts of hacking, sabotage and fraud. Details of how Pinto was able to break into City’s systems - and his motivations for doing so - are likely to lead to questions on how City ramped up computer security after discovering in 2013 that their scouting database had been hacked. A forensic investigation by an independent team of experts pointed the finger at some former City scouts who had left the club to join Liverpool. A complaint to Anfield led to Liverpool agreeing to pay a £1million compensation package and both clubs signing a confidentiality agreement. When details of the episode resurfaced last September, the Football Association decided not to take matters further due to the “age of the alleged concerns” and the fact that the clubs had agreed a financial settlement. The FA did, however, offer the caveat that they would look again if further evidence came to light. If full details of the Spygate matter are aired at the CAS hearing in Lausanne, it will put renewed pressure on Wembley bosses to act. It could also draw the attention of the police, with offences under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act punishable by a two-year prison sentence and £5,000 fine. It has not yet been decided whether City’s appeal will be opened up to media scrutiny. Both UEFA and City would have to agree to the proceedings being reported. City have appointed leading QC David Pannick to represent them. The 63-year-old, who became Baron Pannick of Radlett when he was awarded a life peerage in 2008, twice defeated the government in their bid to hurry through Brexit . First he successfully represented Gina Miller when she won her bid to prevent Theresa May from taking the UK out of the European Union without parliamentary consent two years ago. And he also prevailed when Mrs Miller took another case to the UK Supreme Court, claiming that prime minister Boris Johnson had given unlawful advice to the Queen in his bid to prorogue parliament last September. Baron Pannick will spearhead a daunting City legal team that also includes legal powerhouses Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer, Pinsent Masons and Monkton Chambers. City have also retained the services of Geneva-based Kellerhals Carrard if they are ultimately forced to take their case to the Swiss Federal Court. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/man-city-appeal-against-european-21554811

The boy loves talking about us and Jurgen, doesnt he? Timo Werner has hailed Jurgen Klopp as the best coach in the world and believes he would fit in well at Liverpool. The German has continuously been linked with a move to Anfield and the striker's comments have only added to the speculation. Werner spoke out after Red Bull Leipzig's Champions League victory over Spurs during the week but had more to say following today's win at Schalke. 'Jurgen Klopp is the best coach in the world,' he told Sky Germany. 'There is a lot to suggest that my style of play would suit there (Liverpool).' This comes after the 23-year-old said he was proud of the transfer links, claiming the Reds are the best team in the world. 'I know that Liverpool is the best team at the moment in the world and when you are linked with that team it makes me very proud,' he said after his goal against Spurs. It's a pleasure but I know that Liverpool play a lot of good players and I have to improve myself and I need to learn many more things to get to that level and to play there.' Werner has 27 goals in all competitions for Leipzig this season and is thought to have a release clause of £51million. However, reports have suggested that is due to expire in April meaning Liverpool and any other potential suitors would have to act quickly if they are to avoid paying a higher fee for the forward. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8033133/Timo-Werner-talks-Liverpool-striker-calls-Klopp-best-coach-world.html

Fuck me, the manc Echo doesnt half post some shite. city force Liverpool to wait for the title! Im only more surprised they didnt bleat on about city cutting the lead to 19 points and ignore the game in hand.

Bum. Knew vardy had to score that one in the 1st half.

Vardy should of scored with that 1st half chance. That clash with the keeper and Ianacheo or whatever he's called clearly accidental.

I remember in the 60s and 70s everton were said to be 'the' catholic club but honestly, I saw no evidence of it. Standing on the Kop when the Celtic Rangers chant went off was always even stevens to me. In the 60s and 70s united were said to be a catholic club but again, I think it was bullshit.

Mason Mount needs smacking in the gob. Hard, the little shitweasel.

Unfortunately FFP isnt like a Proceeds Of Crime Act. If they sell players, the fees can be used to buy replacements, settle fines, returned to Abu Dhabi etc.

I fucking hate chelsea and fat fwank.

Yeah and it was at least 3000 of them at the derby at Anfield.

You can just hear aidy ward's brain ticking over staging that interview, cant you? 'We cant have you posing with just a Real shirt while you're giving Zidane and them large, Raheem. We'll have to have you with a Real shirt on one shoulder and that blue rag over the other. Talk up what a great club they are but dont forget to say you're also playing for a great club at the moment.' I wonder if city fans are livid yet or thinking he's doing to us what he did to QPR and Liverpool?

Those pitch lighting contraptions are collapsable so they take up little space when stored.

I suppose this cunt think that banner the everton fans carry around about the 39 fans is ok 'banter' then? And how any everton fan can like a post calling anyone from Liverpool a 'dipper' not once but twice is beyond me.

I think the lad will be a big miss, virtually single handedly he's driven the team on this season. Im hoping Jurgen will bit the bullet and if he's going to bring Milner in, plays a midfield of Milner, Fab and Naby.

Seriously, since when has the Community Shield been considered a trophy and part of a domestic quadruple? It's a pre season curtail raiser, nothing more no matter how you want to dress it up. I accept winning the 3 domestic trophies is an achievement but a couple of things, luck of the draw maybe but they had the easiest of runs of any team in the last 50 years to BOTH domestic cup finals. They played more lower league teams than Premier league teams. And we wont go into a couple of dodgey decisions they got, either. All the time we were winning the League Cup, fans of other clubs were telling us it wasnt worth winning. Now, it and the Community Shield are up there with the title or European trophy. People dont like sterling, not because of the club he plays for or the colour of his skin but, because his agent is one of the biggest twats leeching a living of a player and he comes across as a bit of a twat you'd love to gob outside a pub.

Basically this. Games dont need lengthening or shortening, it just needs the officials to get a grip with game management. Last I heard, refs were not supposed to stop games for injuries unless it's a clear head injury. Yet in our last two games, Norwich and Atletico, both refs stopped the game while we were in possession when an oppo went down injured. Both were injuries to the leg and foot. Since when has a player's head been on their lower fucking body? In the norwich game, the player actually pulled up off the pitch then walked back on to waste more time because the sub wasnt ready to come on. Neither are subbed players leaving by the nearest touchline and instead, they are all walking over the pitch as before. Goalkeepers seem to be allowed to waste as much time as they want in the first half especially at Anfield with impunity. How often do you see a player go to take a throw in then drop the ball and wait for a team mate to come over and take it? Either make the nearest player have to take the throw in or, once a player touches the ball after it goes out they have to take the throw. In a 45 minute half, roughly 20+ minutes the ball isnt in play. You'll never get that down to zero because teams have to be allowed to organise for corners, free kicks etc but a lot of th eblatant time wasting could be cut out quite easily, I think.

Fans might not be aware of it but every goal in the Premier League is checked by VAR before the oppos take their kick off. This is the reason fans of some other clubs think VAR benefits us when we score, the goal is reviewed and allowed to stand. They think because VAR is involved there's an infringement and if the goal stands, the VAR official has 'sided' with us.

Nothing to stop them, us or anyone else reporting the number of tickets sold rather than through the turnstiles. If people dont turn up, that's their loss. Premier League and FA are ok with the practise. If I remember right as far back as the 90s we used to report turnstile clicks but whichever way a club does it would result in inconsistencies ie fewer people but more ticket money.