Liverpool are awful

One of them showing his eye for goal again, honed at the Reebok under Dougie's expert tutelage

This is one hell of a game!

Great game. Had my £100 of free bets on Chelsea 2-1 though. The cunts!

Great game. Had my £100 of free bets on Chelsea 2-1 though. The cunts!

Had £25 free bet on 2-2. I’ve always been a fan of that Bellerin lad...

3 ex Bolton defenders on the pitch tonight arsenal v Chelsea and we got a combined fee of around 8 million yet Southampton sell one average centre half for 75 million. Our club really has been mismanaged over the years

 

we know

Had £25 free bet on 2-2. I’ve always been a fan of that Bellerin lad...

 

Nice, 12/1?

 

I part laid when it went 2-1 so I've made a decent profit but nowt like if it had come in! 

Nice, 12/1?

 

I part laid when it went 2-1 so I've made a decent profit but nowt like if it had come in!

Only 10/1. I’ll put it all in ripple and lose the lot.

Only 10/1. I’ll put it all in ripple and lose the lot.

Wait till Friday then you'll make loads

3 ex Bolton defenders on the pitch tonight arsenal v Chelsea and we got a combined fee of around 8 million yet Southampton sell one average centre half for 75 million. Our club really has been mismanaged over the years

Cahill and Alonso ran down their contracts and were never going to sign another. Van Dijk had a 4 year contract.

 

If you want to show our mis-management at its best you need to talk about Keith Andrews and Ben Amos (3 and 4 year contracts for a has been and a never has been!!).

and, while we know coyle is full of shit ( and not just about turning down 16 million for cahill) the pitch forks would've been out had we sold him

 

in fact we have performed badly re player sales but it has generally been due to holding on to players for too long

 

proper lack of ambition

Was a great game that. Both sides trying to score goals and competitive without being over the top and spoiling the game.

Was a great game that. Both sides trying to score goals and competitive without being over the top and spoiling the game.

One of the commentators made a good point - games between the ‘big 6’ v the rest this year have been as poor as ever, but generally when the big 6 have played each other they have been some of the best games for years (United parking the bus excluded)

One of the commentators made a good point - games between the ‘big 6’ v the rest this year have been as poor as ever, but generally when the big 6 have played each other they have been some of the best games for years (United parking the bus excluded)

Yeah. A bit of a concern, in that being in the prem is almost a poisoned chalice. Have to make huge investment in players and wages to try and stay in, and risk doing a Bolton if it goes wrong.

 

The top few rich teams are still going to lead the way, but it seams teams not willing to have a go; just try to avoid a thralling and concentrate on each other.

 

Shame.

One of the commentators made a good point - games between the ‘big 6’ v the rest this year have been as poor as ever, but generally when the big 6 have played each other they have been some of the best games for years (United parking the bus excluded)

 

 

Perhaps they'll start talking about a breakaway European (or even world) super league again, Champions League is a dead rubber until the quarter finals, domestic leagues are becoming more polarised than ever. I'm well against it though. No matter how far ahead the elite are in each league, as soon as you start permanently taking clubs out of domestic competition you devalue it, for me. And for those super super elites that would break away, who's to say they wouldnt become franchises, swapped from city to city/country to country at the first sign of struggle?

 

Bit of a drastic view of things sure, but you never know.

Thin end of the wedge?

 

There's got to be a point surely where the money in the top flight stops going up and even starts to drop.

 

I agree marc- wouldn't want any break away leagues.

Perhaps they'll start talking about a breakaway European (or even world) super league again, Champions League is a dead rubber until the quarter finals, domestic leagues are becoming more polarised than ever. I'm well against it though. No matter how far ahead the elite are in each league, as soon as you start permanently taking clubs out of domestic competition you devalue it, for me. And for those super super elites that would break away, who's to say they wouldnt become franchises, swapped from city to city/country to country at the first sign of struggle?

 

Bit of a drastic view of things sure, but you never know.

The champions league is as close to a European super league as you will get for now. Various teams put the idea out of a European super league but the threat of being booted out off tfreir own countries leagues put them off

 

You only have to look at UEFA treat FFP these days. Let the likes of PSG and Man City off as they need them in the tournament. Even further back Real Madrid were let off the hook

 

A few years back that Apoel Nicosia did well and got out of the group stages. In their next match commentators were saying they didn’t belong there amongst the best teams in Europe

 

If that was a non league club getting to the quarter finals of the fa cup they would be lapping it up

remember Schalke getting to the semis of the CL and getting dicked 6-1 by Utd, and were regarded as one of the worst teams to get to that stage in the CL by some pundits

 

despite the fact they got to the semis

 

seemed harsh

What a fookin goal that was.

Wet spam a goal up with a thunderbolt.

What a fookin goal that was.

Wet spam a goal up with a thunderbolt.

not a bad equaliser either.

how the fuck as Holgate got away with that without a booking or off even

Everton are poor nothing up front.

Soft that. No pen for me

Danny won a penalty Murphy bottling his usual line there.. must be scared of shearer

No pen and Rooney will get 2nd yellow he’s pumped up

Soft that. No pen for me

no pen for me either, was on about him chucking Firminho into the crowd