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Saudi Arabia look like they're taking a step back somewhat from their sportswashing policy. They claim the war in Iran has forced them to reevaluate their priorities. I did think when they took over Newcastle it was only a matter of time before they won something. But they don't seem mega bothered.

**** me do we have to start taking @spacemunky seriously as an away fan?

Everton are the absolute worst. ****ing ruin everything. What a shit club.

As an aside, just been in the Old Ball in Horsforth and they've got a ****ing Leicester flag behind the bar. Apparently belongs to the shift manager, poor bastard.

Come on KDH do it for football

No.

Anyone wanting Ashley should be round up and shot. End of.

I'll believe it when I see it. It'll take a lot to crowbar the club from Top and I don't see why anyone would invest without getting a controlling stake.

Such a straight up braindead take.

They're not anything to do with him really are they. He just coaches the squad he's given and, to be honest, it's not even like they spend disproportionately ridiculous amounts, constantly breaking transfer records is it? Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United are allowed to spend what Man City have and it's fine because they sell a load of shirts and credit cards and whatever else in Asia, Africa and America. Man City apparently can't because they don't. I get being annoyed at the Premier League if they get away with everything when we've been hounded to the hells with points deductions. Fair point. But I don't actually have any issue with Man City and their titles and the other members of the Big Six trying to paint them as cheats. Until there's proper salary caps or fair spending limits achievable by mid table clubs in the sport then none of them have the right to moan. Man City are just better than them all on genuine sporting merit. Pep is a better coach than his rivals, Txiki is a better DOF than his rivals and Al Mubarak is a much smarter operator than pretty much any other chairman at the top of the league. Of Big Six owners, only really John Henry and Liverpool's brain trust really have any common sense.

Anything less than expulsion would have been a bit of a disgrace tbh. At first my reaction was very much looking at it from Boro's point of view. Like, realistically I don't think it'll have made much difference and Boro lost pretty much on merit. They weren't good enough on the day. I don't think they frankly deserve to be in the final. But when you take them out of it and you look at it as Southampton vs the framework of the law, this isn't something they've accidentally fallen foul of. They've actively gone out of their way to willingly and willfully ignore the rules. They know they're cheating in the most literal terms and they've done it anyway and not just once. When you frame it like that, I'm sorry, but they need to be punished and quite strongly.

They also haven't won in their last 5 games, I'm not for one moment suggesting Spurs can't or won't win. Just standing by what I said the other day that saying they were "only a point from safety" was underplaying they danger they're in with only two tough games to go.

They're down there for a reason. It's always the same story. They're in big trouble. It's completely believable that they could lose to Everton and West Ham could beat Leeds.

Fair play, didn't realise he hadn't had a cap in 5 years. That said, some people just - for whatever reason - don't particularly take to international football and/or only really thrive in particular teams.

See, some good things did happen this season. Just seen that Ollie McBurnie (who is still shit, lets be honest here) has never scored in 16 Scotland appearances. Can sort of understand not wanting to pick him.

lmao imagine not going to a World Cup because Lyndon ****ing Dykes is picked ahead of you as a striker haha.

Yeah I keep reading "Spurs are only a point from safety" but that's not saying that much when there's only two games left and they're very tough. I could see Spurs picking up no more points.

Err hello, he's going to leave, so he's obviously shit, thus over rated. If he'd come out publicly and said he's never leaving Leicester then he'd be the next Messi.

My favourite bit of the Lineker interview is Vards saying he had to sit on the floor out the way watching the Spurs Chelsea 15/16 game because he had a brand new tattoo done that day and Wasyl kept slapping it for a laugh

Why would anyone want to manage Chelsea under this ownership

Story of our season.

Yeah that sounds like a healthy approach to managing our assets.

He just panicked and put his flag up to make sure VAR checked it because he didn't want to be responsible on the occasion. You could argue that's what it's there for I suppose even though it takes a shine off the occasion. It was definitely a goal.

?? What?

Not all of it.