The Europa League with just 32 teams (from 48 this season) looks a half-decent competition as presume it directly mirrors the CL structure. Europa Conference League will include a collection of rag-tag teams from places no one has heard of, along with a few better-known sides who have seriously fall...

Top brass must be sweating buckets over Europe qualification as then they can just about guarantee we'll have the seven home cup-ties which are included in the price of the Gold membership renewal. If we don't, they might have the gall to include Carabao cup games. Interestingly, they're giving Gold...

Appalling beyond belief. Personally I thought the starting line-up was wrong, but even so.....it was Villareal, not Barcelona. And it is embarrassing to hear Smith Rowe described in the commentary as the 'Croydon De Bruyne', I bet he cringes when he hears that. He's a good player but probably would ...

My understanding with Bayern and Dortmund is that under Bundesliga rules, fans must own at least 51% of the clubs, so it's partly the fans' decision too, I think. But no way are these clubs going to miss out playing Europe's elite..... Must have already been stated on this thread, but if we can't be...

No guitarist's thread is complete without this tour de force by Mountain, first played back at Woodstock, 1970. (Yasgur's Farm was actually the site of Woodstock.) Both Felix P and Leslie W are sadly gone, but this song is a rocking ballad with few equals, trust me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...

That's a pretty odd team. How can you have Odegard, Smith Rowe and Saka all playing? Either he thinks Benfica are not very good and will just roll over, or.................. ............he's doing another Southampton in the FA Cup and happy to get knocked out to concentrate on the League. There's no...

Just as well we chucked away the FA Cup so we could concentrate on the league.

Not sure if I had ever seen a side massacred 1-0 before today, but I have now.

Absolutely pathetic and hopeless performance (apart from Tierney), and if anybody disagrees with that summation, then I give up!

Surprised no one posted about Leslie West, died 23rd December 2020. Co-founder of Mountain and songwriter/guitarist extraordinaire. Influenced many of the the heavy metal / rock bands from the 70s forward. Check out 'Mississippi Queen', 'Don't look around', 'Nantucket Sleighride' and 'Theme from an ...

Pome

Suspended tonight are Hector and Xhaka,
Dropped cos they're shit are Willian and Laca.
So playing out wide will be Bukayo Saka.
My forecast's 0-1, so it won't be a cracker.




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However you defend last night, we should not have got near West Ham, and Sheffield United should have got at least a draw, so it's not just one match we're talking about. What Partey and Gabriel are now thinking is anyone's guess. Saka will be a good and hopefully great player, but no way should his...

Fuck off Leicester. Fucking horrible team that have always somehow been media luvvies. Team of absolute fucking tramps in the late 90s, with that four-eyed cűnt O'Neill leaping around on the touchline, sticking 11 men behind the ball for 85 minutes then desperately trying to pinch an equaliser in t...

Partey is a terrific signing, could have easily gone to a CL club, so a real coup. Just wondered if it means that Ozil can possibly get back in the squad, as Partey really sorts the defensive side of midfield out. Personally I hope so. as there is very little genuine creativity in the side and somet...

Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin to Sky Sports: "I think with the chances we were creating I felt we had chances of drawing or winning the game. "When you come to Liverpool away you have to score your chances and not commit the mistakes we made. "The difference is very fine margins. ...

(This is really old, so apols if it appears earlier in this thread...) Tracey is out on a hot date that evening, so she goes to an expensive perfume shop in preparation. "Madame may like this one", says the posh assistant. Tracey looks at the name. ''Veen-a-moy", she says,' "that...

I have seen zip on season ticket renewals ,they must be struggling on just how to ask for cash whilst not offering refunds for last season without getting attacked in the street ,or perhaps their picking the personal body guards,or perhaps waiting for a few keynote signings b4 selling the silverwar...