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Thing is this is gonna be rammed down our throats for the next three weeks just like the build up to sell tickets. Although I am looking forward to the really tight shots of players to avoid empty seats, and tight shots of KPFCers in the stands where they're most densely populated

Probs don't need a team tbh, just get Top doing laps of the pitch with the PL trophy for 90 mins. That should appease most of those in attendance.

You almost wish the final games had been reserved. West Ham at home to this useless lot and Spurs at home to Leeds.

Everton have done the exact opposite of what we've wanted them to do on the final day for years. Pathetic nothing club

Probably late to this but interesting to see Bobby Madley back on PL reffing duties as fourth official at Spurs

Miss 4pm kicks offs. Never got used to 4:30pm Super Sunday games.

Both Hull and Boro choosing the great LFE services as their stop today. Queue to get into the car park on the slip and absolutely rammed

Any updates on how this is doing ticket sale wise? A week to go so not sure if the last minute rush is on, or if they've stagnated massively.

Because the jury are still our deliberating on a really complex mass murder case, my fraud case shouldn't be tried. If they haven't been found guilty yet then neither should I!!!!

Well anyone who thought Soton had any rationality or hope in their appeal can just read the weak statement from their CEO. Maybe a statement of a man who should be scrambling for his own job. This was on his watch. It's a failure and as a business executive the failure of his staff has cost them hundreds of millions of pounds. Pathetic all round and the more you read the worse it gets. Not only that but the more pathetic scrambling from their CEO and own fans to think they deserve any less from this only embeds the view further. I bet Le Tiss never thought he'd be toppled as the most embarrassing thing about Southampton FC, and yet here we are.

I'm fascinated to know what people who are advocating for Soton on here would've wanted if we were Boro, and one of our training sessions had been spied on in advance of a playoff semi. Genuinely interested as to whether people would think them being thrown out of playoffs was "overly harsh" or unjust?

It's not the worst example of a post-Olympic white elephant ever, but boy is the Olympic Stadium a big old white elephant. The insistence of retaining public ownership of it and that it keeps an athletics track whilst becoming a football stadium was ridiculous - even more so now they're mooting the Olympics in the north. But bleeding the taxpayer dry and giving a PL team turning over £150m+ a year a steal of a rent is worse. It's not like London is short of stadiums capable of hosting large scale money-making events, either. There's nothing special or unique about this stadium that means it was going to make tonnes of money for its public ownership. And only another 91 years left on the lease, too.

Doesn't his autobiography dedicate a ridiculously small amount of space to us? I seem to remember being excited for it but we're almost an afterthought in there. He also can't seem to get over those protests after Sheff Utd in '96. I listened to that short lived podcast he did with Clive Tyldesley. It was good but he couldn't help but keep talking about how we wanted him out and proved us all wrong. Got quite tedious. Also a massive hypocrite on VAR. On record as absolutely hating it, but was delighted with it intervening in the final minutes last week. Anyway after all that moaning I still love what he did for this club and wish we hadn't deconstructed all his work in 10 months under Taylor, but let's not pretend he pines for us.

Agree. Can forgive him for taking on basket case Real, but to take on basket case Chelsea is risking your reputation early into your managerial career. Suspect he has enough credit in the bank to get a good job when he's unemployed in 10 month's time, but he needs to pick wisely after he's sacked from Chelsea next season.

Looks like a precedence has been set now. Hope it's remembered in future for any team in Scottish football in a similar scenario.

Let's hope Bloom's project helps to boost Hearts even more. If not, I suppose I'll see you all in 2066 when there's another decent Scottish football title race.

They won all of the seats they stood for in the elections just gone in Norfolk. Most of them absolutely battered the Reform candidates, as well. Nine county councillors and one district councillor. The county council has an interactive map: https://elections.norfolk.gov.uk/ but as an example a couple of them basically got double the votes of Reform in second place. It's a bit of an outlier tbh as they were branded as "Great Yarmouth First" which is under the Restore Britain banner, and they were all in and around Great Yarmouth, so it's not a true example of how they'll do really. There's also the fact that these elections weren't even close, it wasn't about taking votes away from Reform, it's just that Great Yarmouth seem to want what went on in 1939-1945 to have been an abject failure on our part. EDIT: Just browsing neighbouring divisions on that map, looks like Reform won seats by 31 and 122 votes as an example. I'm sure if Restore were standing in those, Reform would have two fewer seats now.

Just like us in 2015/16*, this season has bought more eyes on, and talk about the top tier of Scottish football in years and years. I can't see why rigging it in favour of Celtic would be beneficial, even the excuse of taking it to the final day - Hearts winning it even last night would've been the cap off to an injection of life into the league it's been screaming out for. You kill all momentum, at least temporarily, by having the risk of Celtic winning it on the final day. *I am not comparing Hearts' achievement to us, just to be clear

Had been to bout 90% of games from 2009 to 2019. Cut to October 2019 and really couldn't stomach a Friday night game away to Southampton for some reason. Got some beers and settled down to watch the game. Saw the sideways rain on TV as the teams came out and felt sorry for the poor lot that had travelled down, glad it wasn't me for once. Southampton 0 Leicester City 9 Superb.

So bored of this narrative. Championship standard in the playoffs is inevitably going to be bad compared to the elite Prem and European football we watch usually. We are significantly worse than the bad football at the top of the championship. That's reflective of us in every way we've discussed on here numerous times. Let's stop dressing up like sixth v third in the second tier is going to be elite standard compared to the teams who finished in the relegation zone of the same division.

We beg of you. Answer the questions. State the case. Don't come across like someone on Twitter crossed with a politician. Let us in to what we're all missing and why we shouldn't be so angry. Some of us a genuinely interested in what you're all thinking.

Anyone less lazy than me able to scan and see how this is selling so far after the first 24hrs?

Wider argument than UCL but the sheer hypocrisy of football players, managers, pundits and fans makes me chuckle. Swap every penalty incident/moment in the game yesterday and both teams reactions would of course do a complete 180. It's a nonsense of no objectivity.

Just for an alternative, I've not listened to it yet but the brilliant It Was What It Was podcast has done a special on our title win. Jonathan Northcroft the special guest as well as Rob Draper/Jonathan Wilson. It's an excellent listen normally so hoping this follows suit.

I'm sure three players on the King Power alumni payroll will give objective and reasoned nuance to the disgraceful fall of this club. I'm sure.