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JohnMcGreal

Good news for Spurs who can now sell an additional 1000 tickets at full price.

Poor do for Burnley fans who would easily have sold the 3000 allocation.

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This precisely echoes my own experience of X which I deleted from my phone and feel much better for having done so. Horrendous hate-filled content completely at odds with how I want to feel about life. On this basis , and my opinion that Musk is a truly weird and badly-intentioned individual, I don...

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Will Espanyol become everyone's favourite underdog?

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Not sure on the accuracy of this report around Espanyol being the parent club given we are far bigger than them in financial terms. But whether it’s true or not I’m still massively against the multi club ownership model irrespective of whether we are the parent club or the feeder club. If Espanyol ...

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Tbh i'd rather we loan fringe players to La Liga on say 50% salary contribution vs Championship on 100% I think the players will benefit, and i think it makes us a more attractive prospect for young development players Why would a club like Espanyol be interested in taking our fringe players on loan?

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Good booking for the pod and some nice bits of insight there, even if it is a bit rehashed at this stage. He could have done with a few more challenges. For example when he wheeled out his clever saying about a philosophy based on winning games, one of the podders should have said 'like Moyes at Eve...

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Hi Bordeaux, my source is Private Eye and that publication has been running with the Letby case for quite a while. The latest iteration is Part 23, and I quote from the that issue. Please be assured this is but an example. "Evans initially suggested babies had died from injected potassium chloride....

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CyrilEbokiPoh wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 22, 2025 9:03 pm
This is going to be emotional. Out the freezer for tomorrows dinner at work. The last ever corned beef pastie

Might have been worth a few quid if I left it a bit!

Has that been in your freezer for 20 years?!

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A Season with Verona by Tim Parks is still one of my favourites.

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Lol. "Russell Brand" indeed. Other posters might know who I've really copied with that post. It's a fairly famous passage. Clue: It isn't Russell Brand. It's George Orwell. A man who despised the nationalistic, far-right politics of the fascists so much he actually signed up to fight and kill them ...

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Not sure about Frank being better to stay put at Brentford. Lost Toney last year, looks like they’re about to lose Mbuemo to a team that finished five places below them. Tottenham massively underperformed in the league considering the players and budget they have. I think he's probably taken Brentf...

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The honours system is all a bit silly, really.

As for Beckham, he's spent a lot of money on crisis management and PR agencies over the years so it's nice that he's finally made a return on it.

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Claretitus wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 02, 2025 7:53 pm
Funny, they all take to the streets “ fighting “,and “ demonstrating “, against what? God only knows. Where was their show of force when the Nazis were around? Yet another meek surrender from the Gaels. Horrible people.

Christ almighty....

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There was only going to be one winner last night.

PSG have been the second best team throughout the competition after Arteta's Arsenal.

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There’s a pretty good chance we would not be one either if it were not for the play off system in which we finished 6th when we first got promoted to the PL. Pretty sure we finished 5th in 08/09 and Preston snuck into the play-offs in 6th place. I really thought that United would do it this time. M...

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Longsidebovril wrote: ↑
Sat May 24, 2025 8:09 pm
If you like factual books.. i highly recommend Killing Thatcher. A book about the Brighton bomb and the before and after. One of the best I’ve read.

I took this on holiday last year and finished it in a few days. Couldn't put it down. Fantastic read.

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Scott McTominey might just be the greatest player in Napoli's history.

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Usual reminder, it's nowhere near as filthy as the sport you follow, with it's human trafficking, racism and misogyny on and off the pitch, large scale violent disorder - remember Burnley fans have killed 2 people in the last 20 years or so and domestic abuse reports rise massively after a bad resu...

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Time moves on is a statement of the obvious. But things don’t have to change for the worse. Nor do clubs have to chase money for the expense of their soul, for a sum that doesn’t really shift the competitive dial. The “product” is an intangible glue that binds together that local community like a t...

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£10m a year can go towards our compensation I suppose :lol: But how dehumanising can it get? Goodison, like Anfield and Turf Moor, is so iconic that it could never be renamed for a few pieces of silver. Now, it feels soulless. Next they will be renaming the whole football club itself. So sad. But i...

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Your McManaman reference is very odd. Owen yes, but McManaman won more at Madrid than we would have at Liverpool, even getting MOTM in the CL final. Liverpool weren't even qualifying for the CL. His book 'El Macca' is a brilliant read about his time there. He really settled well there and enjoyed s...

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I think it's pretty shitty of Alexander-Arnold and don't think booing him is unfair. Don't think it's comparable to players leaving us because that's necessary to move upwards in your career, this isn't. I don't think it even matters if it's an upwards move or not. He's won everything at Liverpool ...

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Wasn't that new winner done for match fixing a while back? He won't be a popular winner in the British Isles, but I doubt he'll care having just won the trophy and half a million quid! I don't think he was involved in any match fixing himself but he was banned for having knowledge about it on the c...

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Say what you like about Virgo but he's still good for a classic 'where's the cue ball going?!' when the cue ball is clearly not going into a pocket.

Timeless.

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Cash? That's just another man-made concept designed to control people.

I use the bartering system.

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If he was as good as he claims there would have been other Premier League clubs ready to snap him up once the West Ham deal fell through, instead of him having to drop down to the Championship. He was great for us at the time but he's an absolute belter and I wouldn't want him anywhere near the club...

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First episode was good and I thought 'Plaything' was OK. The rest, meh.

I don't think it's ever hit the same level since it moved from Channel 4 to Netflix.

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There's still a way to go but I feel like we won't let this slip now. We've come good at the right time and don't look like dropping points, there's a real confidence about the team. Parker has been patient and it's paying dividends.

I think we'll go up as champions.

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We've been very fortunate to have 4 promotions to the PL and each one has given us something a bit different. But the first one in 2009 was so unexpected and dramatic. It has to be the best for me. That season, with the incredible cup runs, was phenomenal, at a time when it felt like we were destine...

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Although our old prudent ways made his job difficult at times, I get the impression that Dyche is less than impressed with the cavalier attitude shown to the club's long term financial security over the last few years.

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Life is strange sometimes. I hope he takes the time he needs to process what's taking place in his personal life.

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It's beyond belief to me that anyone can think deliberately biting someone isn't far worse than an accidental challenge I'm sure Mateta would prefer to have been deliberately bitten by the Millwall goalkeeper rather than have his head almost taken off. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one :)

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So on that basis, if someone suffers a career ending injury in a challenge then he gets a long, long ban. Never for me is a challenge ever going to be worse than biting or spitting. Not really. I think it would be very difficult to cause a fatal injury by going in for a normal tackle. Serious injur...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:16 pm
I think he’s a good keeper too. I was always impressed with him when he was in our under 21s.

And I think the extended ban is shocking. You only get that for biting someone.

I'd argue that nearly killing someone is a bit worse than biting them.

He's lucky it's only a 6 match ban.

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That'll do!

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What an excellent goal. That's the bit of individual quality we need!

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I'll be amazed if Brownhill isn't brought on for the start of the second half.

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We are allowed a poor opening 20 mins, ya know!! Most games we've dominated. Would be happy to play crap but win. Let's see how it pans out. We usually dominate and it's not enough; we're on the back front and it's not enough. STFU for once people and see what happens. We can judge at the end of th...

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Taffy on the wing wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:22 pm
This is awful........Flemming on his own doesn't work!...for the umpteenth time.
Just don't understand it.

Is he playing?!

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Guller Bull wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 20, 2025 9:45 am
Never tried it but I did love all three series of the Detectorists on iplayer. Easy watching and gentle laughs.

Gutted they never made any more.

What you got?!

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So Trump’s “peace deal” , from what we know so far involves : 1. Russia getting to keep some, or all, of the Ukrainian territory it has illegally taken 2. Ukraine to be unable to join NATO or to have any kind of security guarantee or peacekeeping force on the ground 3. Ukraine to have no say in the...

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There are some genuinely frightening comments on here.

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It’s clearly getting to that point of the season where Parker will have to take more risks. But going too far in that direction could actually have the opposite effect and leave us cut adrift. Sunderland may regret not having a more safety first approach in stoppage time today when they were reckle...

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Thank god Trump got a ‘sit down’ with Putin to try to get some sort of peace deal sorted. Leaving out all the useless and weak European leaders has forced them into a hastily arranged summit (Starmer should be embarrassed it was called by Macron). How they ‘spin’ being left out of the room I don’t ...

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That last paragraph I believe is the key. Leeds will be promoted automatically because they don’t settle for what they have. They gamble and take a point when it looks like they’re getting none, they take all three when it looks like they’re getting one. We look to have the players to do it, but sa...

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beddie wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 15, 2025 8:53 pm
I’ll be in the minority but I thought Flemming was bossed too easily today, Barnes for the last 15 minutes would have put their centre backs under more pressure.

I thought their CBs had him in their pocket today. He was non-existent.

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Trafford 6
Roberts 6
Egan Riley 7
Esteve 7
Humphreys 6
Cullen 7
Laurent 6
Anthony 5
Hannibal 6
Foster 4
Flemming 4

Edwards 7
Brownhill 6

This team simply doesn't have enough goals in it. Underwhelming display against a very limited side.

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Not good enough (as much as we'd all like him to be).

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Same old story. This team can't score goals. That's why it's not getting promoted (automatically at least).

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PNE 0 Burnley 1
Anthony 54 mins
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