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At their level, Burnley look cagier than a budgie shop. Horrible game.

 

Pretty sure his lawyer will advise him to wear a turtleneck in court.

 

Scott Parker can loan him one.

 

Tom Schmooze

 

The Everton-Brighton fixtures just about always go to the away team. They always win at Goodison. We always win at The Amex.

 

In related news, Everton's Ndiaye received a yellow card for pretending to be a seagull after scoring against the seagulls.

 

By pretending to be a seagull do you mean he took a shit on the field? If so I can understand the card.

 

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/OxJ3qDCKRlc

 

He did it in front of the Brighton fans because in the reverse fixture, Brighton players celebrated their goal in front of The Gwladys Street stand. No yellow card there though.

 

A prime case of a great natural talent undermined by the dominant scumbag gene, obviously more accomplished than the likes of Ravel Morrison or Anthony Stokes, but you get a sense that they'd always end up there regardless of opportunities available to them

 

Barton about to be added to that list, if he isn't already on it. McGregor too if he doesn't buck up his extra-curricular habits.

Franck Ribery and Benzema too.

 

Whose chips did he rob?

 

He's such a fucking unctuous self-absorbed smoothie.

 

With our two most important players (Maeda & Vickers) out & Kyogo gone we're in for a fucking world of hurt tonight. I'm not even gonna watch, fingers in ears lalalala

Shame b/c villa fans really seem to be hunnish scumbags, wish we'd drawn them back when we could've done them

 

In happier news, Tierney signing confirmed. Not whether he comes this week or in June yet, but the pre-contract is signed. Fabrizio Romano claiming he kbd Juventus & Leverkuson which is Paul McStay level jungle love, if true

 

Kbd?

 

Sorry maybe a glasgowism- knocked back

 

I remember a time when the teams who finished top and 2nd in their group went through, and those that didn't, fucking didn't.

Champions League: who’s through, who’s out and who needs what in final fixtures?

 

It basically allows the big teams to screw up a couple of times and still get through, just look at tonight's fixtures....it's the illusion of jeopardy, but ultimately it's just a few extra games and more revenue....happy for Celtic given their previous problems negotiating group stages - it probably suits teams like that who will not now have to face two big teams in a group of four both home and away, which usually better suits the biggest teams

 

Yeah but with most of it pretty much settled by match day four. More teams go in with something to play for now, I like it. Also good playing 8 sides rather than 3

 

I usually follow the European tournaments but I haven't even checked the scores, tables, anything. I knew some major changes were going to happen..

I'll catch the knockout rounds later on.

 

Yeah agreed, this is way better.

 

Ultimately, look at the table, we've had how many games in total so far and ultimately we got rid of 12 teams, about 8 of whom you could have picked out before a ball was kicked:

Champions League table | Football | The Guardian

Basically the competition doesn't start properly until the next round. I don't think it's either better or worse than what went before, it's just more of it.

 

Huge effort by Celtic. Just always getting themselves into fucking holes they can't quite get out of. Avoid that next time out.

 

I've seen numerous examples of "big name" sides either "crash out" or nearly "crash out" each with a corresponding instance of a little side "gatecrashing" or nearly "gatecrashing" the KO stages.

Liverpool needed to win 3 group games on the spin to do it in 07/08. They needed to do it at home in '05 Vs Olympiakos (who went out). Man United DID go out of the group stages in one of Ferguson's final years. City spent YEARS trying to get out of the groups.

I've seen teams like Deportivo, Porto, Benfica, Napoli, Leverkusen, Valencia, go on great runs, get to finals, win it.

So it's more of the same, just more, as you say.

 

We need better players; much better than we fielded last night. Im happy to escape with our dignity

 

Real or Bayern in the next round. My only aspiration for that is we get the home leg first so it's not a defacto deadrubber

 

Summarising the last week of interactions both online and on the cobbles. Commemorative tea set owning weirdos

 

Honestly don't get it. Villa fans and City fans both living off fumes. Fucking behave.