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Newcastle, somehow, are 20-1 to beat Liverpool. I think that's very very wide

 

And I thought betting on a snooker or darts match was pointless.

 

Well I'd have look at Newcastle-Or-Draw tonight. Liverpool have scored two goals in their last two Pl games that is 1 per game. One came from a penalty after 70 minutes and the other in the 95th minute.

I know Wolves and Villa makeva frogs ass look loose but you never know.

Lester vs Spurs is off

 

I see only one winner. Liverpool will create too many chances and will have shots aplenty. I think they will win by three or more and won't concede.

Man Utd-Brighton also off this weekend and more to come I bet. The league could be postponed for a while.

 

I wouldn't back then with your money. It will be a massacre. We are abysmal.

MTF

 

Newcastle winning .

 

What I meant to say was...Newcastle will score but Liverpool will win...

 

A whole Jota love.

 

We just come here to have a good time and talk some footy. No need for this kind of advanced mathematics.

 

That would be an ecumenical matter.

 

Here's some maths... I had £2.50 on Newcastle to win the first half. Shoukd have cashed it out.

 

Careful now...

 

So far you are proven correct

 

Yeah but I knew there'd be Covidity in the Air tonight....Changes, uncertainty, a viral pall, you see.

There's always fucking something.

 

I was joking. My prediction was 4-0 Liverpool. Salah just can't stop being involved in the goals. He's been my captain in fantasy football since the league started! He's been so consistent and reliable.

 

Everton at it again....

 

His goal tonight was a bit meh, though.

More impressed by his wide play.

 

That went largely as expected. NUFC basically need ten players to stay up or they will have to build from Div.2 and put everything back three or four years.

MTF

 

2022/2023 Championship Winners with 120 points

 

I think it would be great if one day a trusted top scout working for one of the oil clubs went rogue. Really talk up the potential of some mediocre players as the next Messi/Ronaldo. Convince the club to spend a few hundred million on some total duds.

I guess in the end it would only be a short term setback but i think it would be quite funny.

 

Salah is the best player in the world right now.

 

They already exist. They're called Chelsea scouts. Except it works by making a small short term profit and a massive long term loss.

 

We weren't an "oil club", we were a "steel club" I guess, but QPR are basically the template of what NOT to do if you have rich owners. We went on a spending spree in January and EVERY SINGLE PLAYER we bought was a mercenary. Bang average players being offered fuckloads of money just to play for us.

 

Different levels of rich though. Also while i don't like mercenaries there are many who still get the job done.

A few bad contracts can sink an otherwise financially healthy team. The likes of City and PSG would need a slew of them for years to get them anywhere near relegation. For example Citeh could have purchased 'Arry Kane for a bajillion poonds and he could have shredded his ACL in his first match. Wouldn't make much of a difference this campaign so far.

 

Mittal was at one point in the 2000's the third-richest man in the world. I think he has a 20% stake or something in the club. The question was always how much is HE actually putting in, which it turns out wasn't much at all. In all honesty though I hate financial doping in football, it's completely ruined the game so I'm not really that mad our "project" went tits up.

 

I remember that.

As for Blackburn.... A CHICKEN CLUB

 

Just looking at Shelveys goal again. Bang average swipe that he took on cos he'd fuck all else going. Bound to be on GOTM now as it was OUTSIDE THE BOX MATE.

Not happy with Liverpool playing on for the equaliser.

 

People referring to Thiago as a Spaniard!! Stop it!!

Pickford played well tonight.

He was time wasting too. Some giant fat Chelsea bird got really angry with him and roared at him to get up.

Rafa was suited up on the sidelines giving it large So good to see him still in the big time with Bruce Le Fat and Sam Le Sham out of the picture

 

There's a difference between a rich businessman and being an oligarch with unimaginable wealth. The billionaire businessman might have purchased the club for vanity purposes but it still operates as a business. They won't keep sinking money (especially their own) into such things. The oligarch doesn't know much about business and has no concept of running out of money or balancing books. Their entire life is a vanity project.

The types of people who think a plumber who fixed their leaky faucet overcharged but at the same time believe they made a good "investment" having all of their pipes gold-plated.

 

We bought the likes of Wright-Phillips, Barton and Bosingwa and played them all in the first game. To be fair to you that match was against Newcastle, I remember it like it was yesterday and we absolutely battered them, yet somehow it finished 0-0. I was thinking we're on to something here, but that was legit the only good performance those lot put in the entire time they were there (with the exception of Barton who to be fair to him was class) It was only when we be brought back the old boys who got us promoted in the first place (Taarabt, Derry and Hill) that we suddenly started picking up points and stayed up by the skin of our teeth.