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Reply | Corrupt as f***
at 07:50 16 Jan 2025
Sadly i think most clubs in the top division are iffy, but Chelsea were off the scale.
I understand current owners saying they should not be penalised for past owners doings so simply strip the club of titles it ‘won’ during that time. It happened to Juventus. |
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Reply | New Match of the Day Presenters...
at 17:29 15 Jan 2025
Three of them probably cost less than Lineker, nice reduction on our TV License fee I'm sure.....
I think the choices are OK for the same reasons as above but I haven't watched MoTD in years. Endless waffle about the ref or, now, VAR.
I just watch the highlights/goals on my SkySports app (free to view), not really interested in 10 mins of the game and 15 mins of waffle afterwards. |
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Reply | Clive meeting with Nourry
at 17:19 15 Jan 2025
I think I should have chosen an example other than a cucumber......
A hoover maybe. |
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Reply | Clive meeting with Nourry
at 10:35 15 Jan 2025
Football is a business and football clubs are business. Unless we have fan ownership there's not a lot more we can do any more than I can do anything about the fact my local supermarket charges 89p for a cucumber when a couple of years ago it was 50p.
Where it gets blurred is football is emotional and a cucumber is not (well, not for me anyway) so not quite sure what we can do other than turn our backs on it completely (and I know those who have) or carry on.
The closest I think we came to any kind of revolution was the centre pitch sit-in (I was there!) against Man City during the time of the whole Fulham Park Rangers debacle.
One option is to buy-out the owners and take over ownership, with all the costs that go with it, and run the club in a way they see fit.
Other than that, I don't see what other options there are? |
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Reply | Wycombe manager...
at 17:42 14 Jan 2025
Wayne Wooney's Wycombe.
www.www.co.uk
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Reply | Welsh clubs having their cake and eating it
at 15:25 14 Jan 2025
Football really is dead if we have companies like Disney wanting to dictate how things are done. The Welsh FA should tell them to fark orf but money talks and has controlled football for the last few decades. |
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Reply | Welsh clubs having their cake and eating it
at 12:21 14 Jan 2025
I have no problem with Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham, Newport etc playing in the EFL/EPL but when in that affiliation, that's it, you play the same competitions as everyone else in the same affiliation.
What next... Shrewsbury, Hereford or even Bristol City/Rovers wanting to join too on the basis that if the Welsh clubs can competing in the EFL/PL they should be able to compete in the Welsh Cup?
Carlisle might ask to participate in the Scottish League & SFA Cup?
Where does it end?
As said, I thought all this was put to bed years ago, not sure who/why it's now deemed a possibility again. |
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Reply | Fog - FA guidance for pitch inspection
at 08:31 14 Jan 2025
“responsibility to paying spectators” - PMSL, whenever have they given a schit about the very people they inconvenience at every possible turn. |
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Reply | How do you feel about Marti post-Leicester?
at 23:51 13 Jan 2025
“ Scapegoating is the act of unfairly blaming someone or a group for problems, and then treating them negatively”.
Nope, none of that going on here, quite the opposite. You are, as always, the architect of your own problems.
Over to you for the last word as i know you’ll want to. Night. |
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Reply | How do you feel about Marti post-Leicester?
at 23:23 13 Jan 2025
Another poll (after your post match poll) wasn’t needed though.
“Quite a number of people have voted” - 37 votes is hardly an earth shattering amount of data capture or an accurate reflection of the spectrum of the entire fan base. You should be in Marketing.
There’s enough comments on the match tread and various ‘just back’ type of messages to garner the same result, which people are capable of drawing their own conclusions from without the need of a poll, and there wasn’t a ‘wide spectrum of answers’ as most of the options available steered towards your own narrative.
You really do contradict yourself at times. What part of that are you not receiving? [Post edited 13 Jan 23:29]
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Reply | Welsh clubs having their cake and eating it
at 21:42 13 Jan 2025
I thought that it was finally established a while back that if the play in the EFL/PL that they relinquished affiliation to the Welsh FA (or whatever it was all about). How can it now change back, one or the other surely and as said, if they choose this route then they can no longer participate in the FA and League Cups…… or, we’re all allowed to join in the Welsh Cup too. |
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Reply | Identity Crisis
at 20:21 13 Jan 2025
I avoided including a location as I was moving every couple of years at the time until I settled when I bought my flat.
A friend of a girl I worked with called me Juzzie and it just kinda stuck.
Most people tend to move outwards so moving inwards is an interesting move. Good luck, hope it all goes well. BTW - trivial bit of info….. Pimlico is the only station on the Victoria line that doesn’t interchange with another line/rail link.
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Reply | How do you feel about Marti post-Leicester?
at 15:52 13 Jan 2025
oh come on......
Sorry, but it's not 'an interesting question'. You clearly have a dislike of the guy, which is fine, but are trying all you can to get everyone to feel the same way. it's obvious, repetitive & tedious.
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Reply | A bit of perspective please!
at 14:00 13 Jan 2025
Conversely, don't tell (not you BTW, I'm generalising here) those who are not angry that they should be or at least can't understand why they are not.
Seen a lot of comments (not just this game but many others over time) where people can't believe that others aren't angry, it works both ways.
For my tuppence worth I've become a bit meh about the result. Not happy, of course, but trying to muster the energy to become all angry about a 'sport' that has been going down the pan for years is difficult.
Maybe if I'd been at the game I might feel different but that's why people can't be telling others or not understanding why others feel a different way to themselves, everyones situation & experience of the game is different.
Once I saw both team sheets I thought "oh well". Then at 1-1 I thought "oooh, hang on" then when I checked again not long after it was "3-1" and that was that. It seemed a really bizarre game and a rare occurrence where one team had 6 shots on target and they all went in.
I agree entirely with the whole premise of respecting the FA Cup but football is a mahoosive business these days and everything that goes with that has to be taken on board by the clubs. It's why they have reams of people employed with all sorts of data analytics etc. It's why VAR is such a mess, they are schit sacred of goals being given that shouldn't have it's almost better to wrongly not give a goal than wrongly give a goal.
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Reply | A bit of perspective please!
at 13:11 13 Jan 2025
I think that needs editing due to duplication!
Wigan were a PL team when they won it. They became the first team to win the FA Cup and get relegated from the top flight in the same season.
Last side to win it from outside the top flight was West Ham in 1980.
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Reply | A bit of perspective please!
at 11:43 13 Jan 2025
It's a multi-billion pound business. 'Sport' went out of the window a long time ago  |
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