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25 minutes ago, FestiveJack said:

Do you ever see a bit of news that just makes you tilt your head like a confused dog?

 

Surely this is only worth pursuing if De Zerbi gets poached by a bigger club first?

Very interesting that so many English clubs are paying homage to the national team by getting knocked out in the quarter finals. There's still time for Aston Villa to join them!

Surely the penalty for not complying with the UEFA cap will just be "sorry, you can't come in" and the slot goes to a team that does?

So do those charts mean that Chelsea need to sell £71.5m worth of players to avoid a points reduction and £153m worth of players to play in Europe (even if they managed to qualify)?

11 minutes ago, stokeriño said:

If Chelsea replaced their manager with some kind of Random Number Generator, I'm not sure it would necessarily produce worse results.

It was nice of Pochettino to send Badiashile and Casadei on just in time for them to both contribute to Sheffield Utd's late equaliser

6 minutes ago, stokeriño said:

We're going to get the familiar line about individual errors - and yes we've had some corkers, but when every MU attack is something like 3-on-2 or 4-on-2, this shit is inevitable and I refuse to believe a less-Spursy coach couldn't mitigate it.

Scoring in every game since January 26th (except the League Cup final) doesn't sound as impressive when you realise that we haven't kept a clean sheet since then either (including the League Cup final).

29 minutes ago, gunnar hendershow said:

I don't know what's hard to believe about London elite Lineker and London elite Metalman holding secret meetings about how they can make life worse for the hard-working, regular folks out there.

Candid pics of the aforementioned secret meeting:

Quite an EDM heavy month as it helps me get stay focused at work. Last month I think I had Alestorm at #1 artist because I was refamiliarising myself with their newer albums.

That's Marshmello, Hollywood Undead, Sebastian Ingrosso, Avicii, and Fall Out Boy represented in the top tracks. Spotify kept serving me Bullet (Hollywood Undead) on basically every mix playlist possible, including both happy and moody!

@stokeriño I did recently see a LinkedIn post that Chelsea are looking for a new Head of Performance Medicine, so hopefully they'll finally sort it out.

They inducted Ashley Cole without a vote so I wouldn't be surprised if they do that again, particularly if anyone hangs around on the shortlist without ever getting voted in.

37 minutes ago, Lineker said:

Not because it's West Ham but because it would mean Man Utd would be the only English team in the top 7 not in it 

I fully expect that draw to result in a Liverpool vs. Leverkusen or Milan final, but pulling for West Ham to go back to back in Europe and into the Champion's League!

What does Ben Chilwell's knee have to say about his inclusion in the squad?

Just spotted this on an FM14 save:

Hopefully it means we don't have to sell Gallagher just to balance the FFP books now.

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The older you get the more you pay!

Unless eligible by 2024/25 you'll never get an OAP ST discount. Ever. Doesn't matter if you live til 100.

This bit is disingenuous (if not entirely false) because the linked statement clearly explains that Seniors will still get a 25% discount on season tickets, phased down by 5% a year until 2030 to bring it in line with the same discount Young Adults currently get.

Men in Black II

Has anyone played Marvel's Midnight Suns? It's currently on sale as part of the 2K sale and I'm intrigued by the concept. Turn based strategy using Marvel characters sounds like Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, which was an awesome game.

Just now, stokeriño said:

Well then.

May quit anyway because the sound of the commentators orgasming over Liverpool may not stop until June.

I turned it off after Gary Neville's "blue billion pound bottle jobs" comment. Absolutely unnecessary stuff in a game where I'd already had to have the volume on low to avoid the ~3 hours of Liverpool love stories the broadcast has been.

"Is he a good guy or not" No, there's recorded evidence that he isn't... what a silly statement.

31 minutes ago, gunnar hendershow said:

Klopp has the whole aura for TV, that's for sure.

Maybe he's eyeing up the Klinsmann role of reasonably well-liked/sympathetic to English tendencies studio pundit.

Those would be fine if they were market stall counterfeits for Man City and Chelsea that cost £5.

As well as what @Baddar mentions above (although 20 years ago is more accurate), there was also a 2004 remake of Alfie starring Jude Law.

I did my work experience with a Reception class who were born in 2004/05 and there were four boys called Alfie in a class of 30ish kids. Pretty sure we only had a max of four, maybe five, with a shared name (Oliver) in an entire high school year group that was 8x bigger.

It's what PL officials will say to Man City when they finally get around to assessing those 115 charges.

This is unexpectedly really good.