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No Dybala. Greedy fucker wanted the universe. To hell with him if his head wasn't in it. They need players willing to play and fight for the shirt.

 

Sunny Day
Blowing These
Bums Away
On My Way
To Where The Pussys Sweet
Can You Tell Me How Rooney Drinks
Pints of Whiskey, Neat
Pints of Whiskey, Neat.

 

Jesus he looks pickled

 

He's an old man now. He has old man physique. wears those shoes that look like they could stop an armour piercing round, baggy pants rolled up at the hem, oversized T-shirt tucked into it......one half of his head was fried by Arguello and the other half turned into marmalade by booze. He shouts at people constantly....probably deaf too.

I saw a documentary about Turpin the other day, well worth watching, here it is in full.

The guy was totally finished.......at the age of 25.

 

This is a good article. Basically there is nothing between Liverpool and Man City, per se, as teams.

Liverpool actually beasted them in the 2nd half.

Recovery shows Liverpool remain chief threat to City’s home hegemony | Jonathan Wilson

It is the Community Shield. Both sides were very obviously rusty. Both sides were slack in ways one would not expect them to be. Even the spray of shiny streamers to greet the winners felt understated, a little half-hearted. It is probably unwise to draw too many conclusions from a sultry August afternoon at Wembley but, if there is a lesson to be drawn, it is that last season may not be a blip, that there really may not be much between Manchester City and Liverpool.

This has the potential to be one of the great rivalries, what Sunderland v Aston Villa was in the 1890s or Liverpool v Leeds in the late 1960s and early 70s or what Manchester United v Arsenal was around the turn of the millennium. These are two excellent sides – even if there was much that was not excellent here – and the jostling for honours is beginning to build an antipathy. There was even a brief spark in the buildup of the sort of mind games that were almost entirely absent last season as Jürgen Klopp chuntered about City’s spending. But if that rivalry is properly to develop, there is a need for Liverpool to win, to beat City either to the title or in a major final. Or even a minor final – or whatever the Community Shield is.

In truth, other than bolstering Pep Guardiola’s trophy count City’s penalty shootout victory does not much matter. Far more significant is that this was a relatively even game, one in fact that Liverpool will feel they might have won in the second half. And that is good news for the Premier League and English football more generally because the alternative, frankly, is a troubling prospect.

There is evidence that a dominant figure in individual sports is attractive, that Tiger Woods added millions to the viewership of golf tournaments even in his days of overwhelming superiority, long before his fall and redemption. The evidence for team sports is less clear. Perhaps there is a constituency that simply wants to watch a team playing football extremely well, that does not care too much about the opposition and places no great value on how hard‑earned that virtuosity is. It is the logic that continues to sustain the Harlem Globetrotters.

That, though, is entertainment while sport, as countless fans of Football League clubs were reminded on Saturday, is very often not entertainment. Struggle is integral to sport: excellence must be earned.

And the problem for City is that they are so good – thanks to the intensity and brilliance of their manager, to a talented and well‑balanced squad assembled with extraordinary efficiency and, yes, to the vast resources of a foreign government with a dubious human rights record – that there have been times when it did not feel as though they were having to try especially hard, that the machine was so well‑conceived and constructed that it just bore down inevitably to victory, crushing all before it.

There is something paradoxical in this, of course. Sheikh Mansour’s investment in the club in 2008 was an exercise in sportswashing, in familiarising a global audience with Abu Dhabi and making at least a proportion of them feel benignly disposed towards the emirate. But the better City have got, the more likely the prospect of a lengthy hegemony, the more troubling their ownership has come to seem. That came to a head in the FA Cup final and City’s 6-0 victory against Watford. For a mid‑table side who had had a decent season to be so comprehensively outplayed felt a desecration of one of football’s showpieces.

There was a spell, just after Raheem Sterling had given City the lead following the sort of defending that had characterised Liverpool in the pre-Virgil van Dijk days of the season before last, when it seemed Guardiola’s side might be on course for another straightforward victory, one that might have suggested a gulf between the sides, the sort of superiority that might have dampened the belief of Klopp’s side before the real business had even begun.

Liverpool, though, responded, found an equaliser and had the chances to have won, hitting the woodwork twice while Mohamed Salah squandered eight chances – a remarkable statistic given City on average ceded only 6.3 chances per game in the Premier League last season.

City, equally, had the chances to win the match without recourse to a shootout but Sterling was demonstrating the sort of indecision that so often seems to afflict him when playing for England.

Both sides, without question, will improve. Neither, surely, will be quite as open as this when the season begins for real. The sense of undercookedness about both sides will yield soon enough to fatigue. But the early sense, particularly if, as Klopp suggested, Liverpool were slightly less prepared than City, is that the champions will again have a proper race to run.

 

City looked a bit ropy without Kompany. Just watching the football here on BBC1. They have some wank commentators. Really poor fare.

 

Police probe damage to Kilmarnock's disabled section roof after Rangers fans celebrations

 

Obviously not good, but could they not use much stronger materials? The shelter looks really old.

 

Aye, kinda imclined to blame killie in this instance but any bad hun publicity is good publicity

 

Fucking animals. And they wouldn't give a shit if an innocent person or even child was in the way, they'd swing for them and the rest.

 

Celtic drawn against slavia prague in the last qualifying round - we'll be second favourites in that. Assuming we get by Cluj which is by no means a given. If we dont itll be malmo or some macedonian outfit to qualify for the europa league, which is probably the preferred option, frankly.

 

Possibly on his way to my original club, Derby County?

 

That's the rumour going round. Player-coach role. He still has a year or something left on his contract with DC United but if Derby really want him, they're gonna have to splash the cash in order to get him.

 

Rooney landed at Heathrow earlier. A deal could be finalised in the next 48 hours. He's 33 now so his legs are pretty shot but I think he could still do a job in the Championship. All respect to the MLS but the Championship is a level or 2 above it.

 

Heard Burnley are trying to 'hi-jack' the Derby move.

 

Throw West Brom in the mix too, but from the sounds of it he's off to Derby. Their Chairman is ''confident'' he'll join.

 

Mel Morris? o
Wonder where he's going to get the £50-60m to get around FFP and fund it?

Still, IF it happens, they get another new name: 'Wayne Rooney's Derby County'

 

£50m-£60m?! Think that's a bit of a stretch.

 

Yeah, but like you said he's not going to be cheap.

 

Lennon's back! A man capable of picking out decent players from beyond the youth ranks of oilclubs.

 

Think he went to D.C. for around £10m-£15m, £200,000 a week. Not too sure. But yeah, he won't be cheap. Just wonder if it will all be worth it.

 

Rooney deal could be done in the next hour. 18 months, option to extend another year.

 

Done, according to BBC

 

as long as he stays away from the grannies, he should do OK there.

 

Harry Wilson going on loan from Liverpool to Bournemouth...if he gets a lot of game time, he'll do great there.

 

Rooney's an old, fat little wankstain

He's got nothing left

Probably make 10 times what his production will be worth

 

Roooooooooou Rams!!

 

Yeah, he didn't exactly shine in his second spell at Everton. Found the going tough and there's a real possibility that he struggles in the Championship. I can see him scoring some quality goals though.