Pezo

People have more disposable income, I assume this means they are happy to dispose of it to watch football. Clubs aren't really clubs anymore, they don't have there members interests at heart unless they have reduced what it means to be a member to just playing staff, they are full on businesses designed to make as much money as possible through multiple means - e.g. the idea isn't the reduced prices for members it's to extract as much from customers as possible.

There's something in "France is ahead of the first world in all problems and behind in solving most of them". They always seem to surface social problems 5/10 years before anyone else. If you want to see what most first world countries will be like in 5/10 years just look at France. Obviously policy can be changed to preempt the challenges in most cases but sometimes you need the problem to solve to justify the policy change.

He did say he didn't like loans - he then went on to explain his reasons, he doesn't see them as providing value, he questions the commitment of loan players, he doesn't want outside influences while he is trying to build the correct mentality, he wants more equality within the squad. I'm sure if there were players available on loan that would improve us enough to get us to the prem then we would go for it but at the moment we would probably need 5 or 6 so what's the point wasting money. The way you're presenting it it's like he has made a decision without explanation and stubbornly refuses to change his mind, it's not that.

Yes because you can't get a Scouser who's bought a ticket off a tout or printed there own ticket 4 times and tried to sell the other 3 to take any responsibility what so ever.

But they will never see it like that, not that that matters. Watching on Robin's TV through COVID gave me a bit of a new perspective - if you're sat at home with a list of things to do but you can convince the misses that there is something on TV that's important to you then you might be able to string out doing chores, watching us was worse than doing the vacuuming - why would you watch a team that's worse than doing chores if all your going to do is watch the game. For me it's about the day, getting a couple drinks with friends, finding out how friends are getting on, guessing the lineup, figuring out how we're going to play ect, maybe having a drink after. For armchair supporters/plastics it's a lot more take it or leave it, they don't have anything else to keep them hooked. If there team isn't playing well then what's the point in watching them - might as well do something else. When they aren't playing well they naturally go quiet and don't really have anything to talk about because they aren't watching - then when they are playing well they are interested again and probably as full of it as the rest of us when we're doing well - it just happens a lot more regularly for them. There are certainly less man u and Chelsea shirts and more Liverpool shirts in pubs than there were 10 years ago.

At some point you have to wonder if it is luck or a quality game plan built to beat English sides.

Plus you can see the stadium is full and what looks like at least a few thousand outside. I retract this.

No that wasn't fans turning up without tickets, Liverpool fans were impeccably behaved that day!

Must be Madrid fans, Liverpool fans don't try to get in without tickets.

It's the same old thing he said when he was here, "we look at international markets", "we work hard" ect ect - it's all things fans want to hear. At no point is MA ever going to say I know the fans want me to do X but we're actually going to do Y, here is the reason why everyone else does X and here's why we think that's a worse idea than Y. The guy lacks depth of knowledge - or certainly doesn't show any in interviews.

Not a surprise, we had moments of flirting with the relegation places this season and with our financial situation we're likely to be weaker next season, or a potential points deduction. If we can get through next season without being relegated then things will start to get better. But guessing at this point when this year's competition hasn't even finished is a bit of a waste of time, you might as well be guessing on 2030 because a lot will change between now and the start of the season.

I don't know how someone becomes worth that, something is broken, how can a person that plays football be worth over 2000x what a person who saves lives is worth, although I guess the tax he pays on that at least pays for lot of nurses! I just about get it with SL being a billionaire because he built a business that employs a lot of people and has created a lot of wealth for a lot of people but football is employment.

No, we play at home to the promoted side for the first game of the season for the last 2 seasons.

No, it's something like "at the referees discretion".

When you say enforce it I don't believe it's a rule anymore.

Went to Vietnam a few years ago with someone who had been to Delhi and they said Hanoi was like Delhi with worse roads, less cars, more motorbikes and less breaks - not that you get much more than 10mph anywhere because of the sheer amount of people. I didn't even try and drive, walking anywhere was enough of an culture shock to me - the idea that you have to just walk out in the middle of rush hour traffic and trust everyone will go around you is mental!

And that's why it's probably the mix of the alcohol and coke that's the bigger problem. Sounds like you can just take more alcohol on board if you have coke. What alcohol does is just make you not care, if you stop a drunk driver they will usually know they are drunk driving they have just lost the ability to care about the consequences, take a really pissed up bloke being aggressive on the street they just don't care about anything other than their feelings of anger. Basically pissed up people don't take other people's perspectives into consideration, coke means that more people can be pissed up.

Of course no one's talking about racism or slavery - all the players are just about to go to a world cup that's built on it! It would look slightly duplicitous to stand against racism and then go and earn hundreds of thousands for a few weeks work on the back of racism and slavery.

How do you know there are 2 or 3 in a cubicle (I assume you can see the shoes) and then from there how do you know they are passing around keys? Why are they passing around keys?

I know it's a sample of 1 but I've never seen any. I also hear about it being on the rise but also people doing it on pub tables back in the 80s. These things don't add up to the conclusions some are coming to from what I can see but maybe I'm just sheltered.

Then it all depends on what we're paying him. He's played enough games for Oxford for them to form an opinion but they kept playing him. I'm sure whoever COD signs for some of our fans will be saying he's not very good.

I could see him rocking up at Burnley with Brownhill if Burnley get relegated.

That was how I heard it.

Glad COD has gone, had been here too long IMHO and gone stale - more than anything else he needed a new challenge if he is going to progress. I certainly hold no ill feelings towards the chap it was just the circumstance I didn't like but if we offer stupid contacts then players aren't going to turn them down so another MA master class IMHO. I expect him to turn up in a championship squad (and probably tear us a new one).