The Lusophone

The link to the google drive is now out in the wild but I'm not going to share it because I don't want to get banned for linking to something that contains a picture of what may or may not be Christian Horner's dick. There's also a video of him singing karaoke. The screenshots themselves look pretty damning.

Yes, but this is what they want. You should've seen what Rick Parry revealed about what the Prem wanted in terms of % spending allowed for relegated clubs vs clubs not receiving parachute payments.

I'm reminded of a story from, of all places, Graham Poll's book. He tells a story of a UEFA refereeing conference where Collini, recently made head of UEFA refereeing at the time, did a presentation where he showed a clip of two players in an aeriel challenge and one elbowed the other in the face. He asked the assembled refs what card should be shown to the offending player. To a man, the 25-30 refs in the room all said a red card. Collina disagreed, saying that a yellow should be awarded as the player didn't clench his fist as he went up to challenge for the ball and so wasn't intending to do it, as if he intended it he'd have tried to put power into it, and to do that you need to clench your fist, in Collina's view. Is Collina right there? Or were the other refs? Ask a dozen refs about an incident and you'll likely get differing (relatively) opinions on it, and I feel like expecting 'consistency' to the degree that fans demand is rather missing the point about these being subjective decisions.

Steven Gerrard update: still 8th. Behind the 4 PIF clubs and 3 others: Al Taawoun, Damac FC and Al Fateh, who are managed by Slavan Bilic. Al Taawoun are managed by a guy named Péricles Chamusca. Pericles has been a managed for 30 years and has managed 32 clubs, which is impressive.

How is this not tapping up?

Average age of Chelsea team at final whistle: 22.6 Average age of Liverpool team at final whistle: 24.1 Just silly commentary by Neville tbh.

Based on how some of their fans complain about it, injuries only happen to Newcastle.

The Injury final.

11 goals, just shy of 1 every 2 games. Obviously Morgan Whittaker is the start of our team but he's been really good for us. Concussed himself earlier in the season and had a massive black eye for a bit. He's not helped by our other strikers being Mustapha Bundu who joined injured, got fit and got injured again immediately, Ben Waine, who is a bit shit, and Freddie Issaka who is 16.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha get fucked Stoke.

Scumacher dodges the sack... for now.

Mick Beale is such a clown:

Ole Gunnar win Kane the Bundesliga.

When you have to apologise to the fans after losing your first game 3-0, at home, you know it's probably not going to end well.

Hope Mowbray is back as soon as his heallth allows - he's one of the most underrated and insightful managers in the league. As for Beale, fucking lol.

The power of N A R R A T I V E.

Incredible content though.

Sheffield Wednesday are a mess. Lee Gregory has been a bit part player for them this season, only appearing 12 times - they had offers for him from league one in January and Gregory was keen to move, so was Wednesday's manager, but their owner said no, so he stayed. The problem here is that Wednesday haven't registered him in their squad for the rest of the season. They have the space to, they just haven't. So they're paying him pretty substantial wages - he was on Championship wages like most of their squad despite them being in League One last season and they extended that deal using a clause. And by some sources they're paying him over £500k to train for the rest of the season.

Plus side, John Eustace might be in place by tomorrow to smash Birmingham.

I like to think that Warnock keeps houses up and down the UK just so it's easy to settle into whichever job he has next.

What on earth has happened to Wales.

We won! 272 days since our last away win. 476 days since our last Saturday 3pm kickoff away win. 5054 days since our last away win in the Championship!

Morgan Whittaker - he scores against his old club, Swansea, from a corner, which Plymouth don't do, away from home, when we've not won away from home all season. Today is the best day

Wolves problems are much more "we gave lots of money to Jorge Mendes" and "Fosun International, despite profits of $1.2 billion in 2021 and $1.6 billion in 2022, won't put more money into the club" than anything else, though.