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You have to wonder, what's the point? What can he buy now that he couldnt already, a solid gold toilet?

 

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

Wait till he hears about THEIR gambling laws.

 

"I was abused in England"......

 

Maybe but how much has he banked from thos Brentford contracts? He might be you and me rich but relative to other international strikers?

 

Damn. You really went all over. I have been to many places south of Tokyo but just barely north of it.

Yeah, the first time I went was in August of '88. I was 15. I hadn't left California so that humidity there was the first I had dealt with that. It was hotter than hell. I was in Osaka as well, in the underground city and it was boiling.

The last two trips I took ('17 & '19) I have been lazy with traveling around and just stayed in the Kanto region. Yokohama is my place. My second favorite city (behind Liverpool.)

I would love to get up to Hokkaido one of these days though. I would drink some Sapporo in Sapporo.

 

Plus his Bet365 winnings......

 

I'm keen to check out Sapporo as well. Never got the chance to see Yokohama unfortunately.

I think next time we are going to do a week in Tokyo and then a week in Okinawa.

 

Jaysus

 

Can't see Dyche surviving now. Must be odds on to be first firing of the new season.

 

United are deluded.

Rangers came out hard and tried.

Spurs?

 

90 minutes,Tsimikas gets done in his own corner but Nuñez is back helping out. Great to see.

 

So easy. Without their Beaton ref/Dallas VAR dream team pulling out dodgy offside and penalty decisions it would've been 5. I actually fancy us to get to the playoffs of the champions league this year, we better drilled both in the press and playing out vs the press than ive ever seen a celtic team

 

Wasn't that easy ....until Celtic finally officially went 1-0 up. Rangers were threatening. Just needed to be reminded of their station.

 

Aye the first ten minutes or so were a bit up in the air

 

Hint of the Brendan's out of Ten Haag yesterday with his "nobody has won more than me in the last 2 years" stuff.

It shows you how pivotal Ferguson was. The culture of fear and respect he built up was probably worth 25 points per season.

 

Even after the first disallowed goal they went back down attacking. They were like that boxer who knows he's getting knocked out so he just attacks blindly and hopes,somehow, he doesn't. Then he does anyways.

 

Agreed

 

Teams didn't go to Old Trafford having decided to lose. But they'd be so respectful that the game would pass them by. Little moments where you might gather a half chance or force something just passed them by because teams were sat there waiting for the inevitable which wasn't inevitable but they'd have been lead to believe it was.

Now teams go there expecting to get something and because United aren't bossing the transfer market and there's borderline anarchy (Rashford,Sancho, Pogba) they can't bowl sides over like before.

It's what happens when your chin goes and everyone realises it's gone. Suddenly everyone is a puncher and they're all having a go.

They rolled out Ugarte yesterday like he was Cesar returning from Gaul. Yeah ok. Good luck. Spent fucking fortunes.

 

My perception was that after the first ten minutes Celtic took control, then scored, then scored again (with a couple of big chances plus a bullshit offside call in between)....then the second half became uneventful because Celtic didnt need to score. The odd half chance from set pieces for RFC but all in the context of celtic in 3rd gear. Had rangers clawed one back at 2-0 i felt like celtic would've just stepped it up again. Might've been wrong

 

What was the difference in the season they won the league under Gerrard? Were they genuinely just the better side? Were Celtic poor/in transition? It seems like everything either side of that season has been overwhelmingly all Celtic.

 

Rangers had better players at that point and grinded out some ungodly consistency, >100 points. But the whole season being behind closed doors can't be coincidence. Less pressure on Rangers, which they haven't seemed to handle well any other season. And Celtic looked like something went badly wrong in the dressing room and they started dialing it in half arsed in a way they'd never have gotten away with in full stadiums. Then there was a carcrash trip to dubai where half the squad ended up testing positive for covid and lennon had a meltdown and started showing up to media interviews drunkby january i was just like 'this doesn't count anyway lalalalala'

 

You could be making this all up but it sounds like a good synopsis within the context. Celtic gets that extra boost from the fan base which wasn't there. Rangers might have been going on a run, and if their main rivals took the foot off the pedal it was theirs if they stayed focused.

 

RFC definitely might've won it anyway because they were pretty decent at that point, i think they got europa semis that year and final next. And alan mcgregor was on fire, his pure hun-passion to stop the 10 added about 4" to his vert. And Celtic's recruitment had been totally dreadful...Shane Duffy for instance is a decent player but, on the ball, his style made no sense in a celtic spl context. I can't imagine it swinging so big without lockdowns tho, it was such an abberational season in every way

 

"the handbrake has come off".

Yeah. Against ....Ireland.....seen this movie before FFS

England 'take the handbrake off' to make positive start under Lee Carsley

 

Two boys who scored both played for Ireland before. You have to wonder where Ireland might be if we hadn't spent 200 years losing people. Cos the fucking imports ain't cutting it, on or off the field.

 

Crazy that it was those two who scored. I really don't like the switching of international players.

 

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 132 international goals, but has never scored against England or Italy. I reckon the reason he never scored against us is primarily down to Ashley Cole.

 

Mad to think that Rooney is a year younger than Ronaldo