Guillem Balage refuses to accept that anyone who plays outside Spain is a truly exceptional player

And also: fuck Spurs

Happy happy birthday Marlene!

Musk is like a drug dealer whose brain has been rotted by over consumption of his own toxic product.

It’s their organ-music version of Coldplay between at bats though for which they should be condemned to the inner circle of hell

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I think United will play Liverpool back into form today. Fancy them to win by at least two.

Samesies

He really is. The journo asks him a softball question (‘Do you think you’ll turn it around if given time’), and he laughs at him and tries to make him look stupid. Nice guy.

What do you expect from someone who dresses like a pound-shop magician

Yes, or showing things they think the referee has missed but then leaving it up to the referee to make the decision. Instead you get a system in which the referee is being told that one of his fellow refs thinks he has made a clear and obvious error, and the VAR then argues him round.

Yeah- talk about patronising. Wasn’t even as if Boothroyd was going for him. He was just politely disagreeing with him. Sign of the mindset of referees.

Its fucking awful- I have to watch with the sound off, just to avoid throwing something at the TV

If my life is anything to go by, 100% yes

0.9 xg against Port Vale, with that lineup, seems less than encouraging.

According to my count, we’ve been passing the ball in a horseshoe pattern since just before the French revolution

And then (if your parents were still at work) a cheeky call to Teamtalk or Clubcall

I can still remember the day when I excitedly read that Ceefax headline! 😂🤓

This is great- thanks. You manage to put your finger on one of the things that I find so frustrating about a lot of modern football writing and online fandom: always forcing one to treat everything as a means to an end. Let me try to just enjoy the getting there, wherever it ends up being…