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Laurent Robert

All the best with it all, Renton. I don't have too much to add but I will say that, I was sceptical about any sort of therapy but after a wobble around Christmas time, I had a quick course of it and the way they help you compartmentalise and deal with a lot of overwhelming issues in your head can't be overstated. It wasn't a case of getting things fixed, it was about sorting them and coming to grips with each of them in a place that's removed from the day-to-day living of them, if that makes any sense. It gives you a sense of clarity that can only come from actually sitting down and being honest with someone who actually has experience in that sort of thing. I hope you end up with a good one because it honestly helped me a lot. Life is such a constant effort and we're all juggling so much inside our heads, it's a miracle that we don't all crumble. Just having the honesty to seek help is strength in itself, mate.

Fucking mentally ill by the look of that hat.

It’s just CT after 2 days of Keto.

Jamal Khasshogi is worth more at this point

Once we start winning stuff, all these questions will stop. The “writers” will all want access to stories about us so they won’t say anything out of turn. Like they didn’t about Chelsea for 19 years

In other news. Now that the run is over and hoodoo broken - I will be watching the next game.

#Texas

Tbf, he’d have to spend some of it on them first

It’s pretty mental that Man City aren’t even in the conversation. Also Tuchel has worked for both Abramovic & Qatar. Yet he’s the one the press are exalting

The only reason the KSA subject has ramped up so intently is because Chelsea, one of their media darlings are in trouble. Even a cursory bit of research would tell you that the situations aren’t comparable once you apply some basic critical thinking. Also the term “whataboutery” doesn’t instantly win a discussion & comparing + contrasting other situations does inform you further of your own. It’s better than solely working with absolutes where in which everyone looks pretty stupid, pretty quickly.

add one Russian beard

This has me in bits

He used to say that all the time. Was dance energy before your time btw, Gloom? I think he got that gig by shagging Janet Street Porter when she was head of yoof programming or whatever at the beeb. So you can’t say he didn’t earn it

no government links

FYP

Rare sighting of CT & Rents on manoeuvres….

Just picturing Renton stood in a field in the pissing rain, getting bombarded by seagulls, raging at the world as he digs up yet another rusty fucking spoon… ” YOU CUNTS SAID THIS WOULD MAKE ME FEEL BETTER!!!!!!”

#geography

Confirmed

Your gaff must reek of piss This has got the scouse mackems getting a fucking pasting written all over it.

I know you know this but there is no shame or weakness in medication. Look after yourself

Swear I saw one of them, I forget who, say something like 'of course I'll be there, it's my job!'

Speaking of Qatar, Holt and co will definitely boycott the World Cup and won’t forget about the human rights abuses for a month while they’re out there covering it

#watermachine #boxes #whiteboard

I'm happy for every story ever published reporting on the football people at the club and their perspective on the atrocities of Saudi Arabia's government to be some variation of 'No Comment'. I'm happy, also, for the questions to be asked as I would prefer that the Saudi's attempt to sportswash doesn't work and instead results in them getting more attention and scrutiny. However, I would also like that to be the case for everyone else. For the F1, for FIFA's tournaments, for the Olympics, for other football clubs owned by the representatives of vicious tyrants. In fact, I would prefer it, in general, if journalists did their job in holding authority figures and institutions to account on behalf of the broader society whom they're supposed to represent. We all know, of course, that journalists will never do that, and, in fact, for the vast majority of journalism, that has never been the case. The notion that journalists are some sort of guard against the abuses of power by the powerful is a complete fabrication. Journalists are, like most of us, and myself included, self-interested. I hope at least that I don't pretend to be some great servant of the people when I know it's a lie and I would certainly hope that I would avoid blowing myself up with a sense of moral superiority for a position taken in matters of personal expediency. Anyway, enough of that. I'm not interested so much in other clubs or sports or institutions, if journalists want to press the Saudi's to make them accountable, that can only be a good thing (motivations aside).

Classic twitter virtue signalling nonsense. Journalists being contradictory by attending, they're ultimately gaining employment by covering the league and the teams in the league (specifically Chelsea and Newcastle here) so some of their "ultimate bosses" are the same. If they felt so strongly about it they should boycott the league until it's full of humanitarian owners and the winner is the team who save the most rainforests.

Some fantastic responses here. All of them really. I've never got anniversaries before. Its a year later, so what, the rock we live on happens to be in the same place as it was when x event happened,.big deal. But the mind is a strange thing and from absolutely nowhere I feel the lowest I have ever felt. I feel so much worse than a year ago, it's not even close. Want to blast my cerebrum with whisky and drugs. I'm not going to, obviously, i know that will fuck me up even more.Going to try and sleep, talk to the shrink tomorrow, and plot a map out of this hell I'm feeling currently. Genuine thanks to all your words and advice. This place is amazing, nearly 20 years it's been going now and although I've only met a few of you it feels like I know you all. Probably going to take a break for a bit but I'll be back soon I'm sure.

Craig just posted that above, man.

81 can easily be 82.

Is it becoz I iz Team Sossidge?

Can only echo what everyone else has said, I hope this place can pick you up at times and obviously you get some help that works for you. I know you've had some iffy dealings with psychologists and the like but I know for a fact, (and I hope he doesn't mind me mentioning this?) But wykki spent some time with someone and it really helped get to the bottom of his issues. He reckons he was very thorough so maybe try this lad? (Take care, mate).

the mental gymnastics here should be good. When I say good I mean absolutely fucking incredible

Tbh the referee publicly implied bias himself

during me lunch break mate, however I now appreciate the pressure you were under!

#texan

Same. I spent last week thinking it would be awful, not fair on the fans etc, if they ended up in serious difficulty. But on reflection, fuck them.

I think the main sticking point with this for us at the moment is that it is SPORTS journalists trying to do it to Howe and the attempts to do it are laughable. A dozen wannabe Andrew Jennings' (but without all of the work involved) showing up to prematch pressers thinking that asking Eddie Howe about executions half a world away is really accomplishing anything, followed by still attending the match and reporting on it and being just as complicit in the trickle down of the blood money into the game (particularly delaney) as Howe or Trippier or anyone else, and a damn sight more complicit than the fans who don't profit from these owners and just want to see their team win games. The fact that the clubs backed down from the super league has undoubtedly got their peckers up and inflated their ideas of influence over the game even more than it already was.

No direct government links the chairman is the minister of culture. Bet this doesn’t take 18 months

A superb thread title sir

True Faith podcast opening bit absolutely nails it again. Well worth a listen. But Norman said looking at our bench blows the myth of us buying our way out of relegation.

#candle #condiments #Uhu

@thebrokendollh'way man, get the thread up

Exactly, that’s why you shouldn’t get drawn into the argument at all. It’s almost impossible to find the right words, especially if you are a mere football manager. You would find yourself quick enough in a discussion about whataboutism. Saudi Arabia is a state with a heinous record in regards of human rights. Their legal system is nothing that we would accept in the western legal culture. The merits of capital punishment are dubious regardless of one person getting executed or 81 and regardless of the crimes committed. All of this has got fuck all to do with how the club is run by the investment arm and especially not with the work of the manager.

It’s been made worse by the explanation that grabbing the shirt wasn’t enough to bring Murphy down totally ignoring that it stopped Murphy getting away from Chalobah… … so he could trip him. Honestly, the amount of bizarre decisions from VAR is absurd.