The Fish

Is the rules against betting on competitions they can impact, or any football? Like would anyone care if Toney dropped half his wages on Serie A games?

Especially a club that isn't competing in Europe, and is light years from competing for the title. How much did they spend on Mudryk? Fofana? Cucurella? €215m? More than we spent in total to get Champions League, by a healthy $30m. What wages will those three likely be on? Shipping out Mount, Gallagher, Madueke surely won't fill that financial void?

I don't even know how good of a coach MP is any more. At least he's got some advice from the outgoing 'manager'; I particularly like the last bit. It reads like he's been sat in the Soccer Saturday studio, watching it all unfold from afar. Instead of, y'know, being in a position to affect these changes directly. Or it being his fucking responsibility.

If you swapped out any of the other teams travelling to a relegation threatened side I'd be more confident of Everton finally being flushed, I just think Bournemouth with nothing to play for, won't have the nastiness to put their foot on the throat of the boys in blue. Mind you, if Leicester or Bournemouth can get an early goal, Goodison Park could rapidly turn toxic.

How long did Pochettino take to get his ideas across at Spurs? Somewhere he was starting with a clean(er) slate, lower expectations, greater flexibility in the market. I've no idea if Mudryk, Fofana or Enzo are good players, they've been badly let down by the coaches who have, in turn, been badly let down by the owner. They've now got a bloated squad, full of players on massive wages who aren't even shining individually. If the targets weren't so high you could make an argument for cutting your losses and reducing the squad as much as possible. But Chelsea need European competition, and the cheaper, local, young lads aren't likely to be able to deliver it. They can't afford for Mudryk to be farmed out on loan while still covering his wages, he and those like them will have to play, which kind of ties Pochettino's hands together. I don't know how much of an immediate impact MP will have on them, but I don't think we should worry that they're going to be in the conversation for the Champions League spots, even though it's expanding to 5 spots next season. Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Newcastle United and after them you're looking at Liverpool, Brighton, maybe Aston Villa in the mix too? Spurs might get the right manager, keep Kane and all that but I think there are many problems there too.

Stick that line to the same three fucking chords and you've got yourself a smash hit there baby.

No, yeah, I get that. But honestly, I've not seen you have a good word to say about anyone... or any thing. Cheer up Wykiki man, it's all just theatre until you're dead.

Hard to believe that the Schar thunderbastard against Forest, ASM's against Wolves, or Bruno's header against Brentford were all in this season.

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Which is very on brand for me, so we all got out of this what we expected. WHERE ARE THE FUCKING GIFS?!

I'm sure one of their arguments is that the only reason we have more fans is because we have a larger catchment area, but now they're saying they pull from all of County Durham all the way up to the south bank of the Tyne, and parts of Northumberland too?

It was less than that '2 x Monthly Wage' rule anyway.

Like this, for example. I do not understand. Michael Owen is the devil's turd. Any quality he may or may not have had is hidden under the mountain of satanic poop.

Mate, your English is great. The only potential problem comes when you're talking about something that requires a higher degree of accuracy of language. But even in that, native English speakers can stumble. Semantic arguments have reigned supreme on here for the past 2 decades. So I wouldn't worry. I speak to non-native English speakers in my job every day and I'd argue your written English is on a par, or better than many of them. All it takes is a little understanding on the part of the reader, if ever I need clarity I ask for it. Same is true with you, if you write something in your second language that doesn't scan or doesn't make sense I'll ask you to clarify. Don't think I've needed to yet.

Instead of a tiny car delivering the match ball to the centre spot, it should be nestled beside a dog in a buggy?

Do you like anybody?

Wasn't too bad to be honest. We bought an antique ring with the size and shape sapphire she wanted, used some other stones from family jewellery. So really only paid Jeweller for the metal and the work. Even got mates rates from the Jeweller cos she'd done stuff for Mrs Fish and her family, but it was still a lot.

Similar to what I did, used a family ring to propose, then had a ring made to her taste.

Less of a Dick than expected? Gotta be the only time anyone's suggested that with regards to Gemmil.

I bet you don't trust NFC either.

Is that why you broke up?

A glory much of the North East can look forward to.

This is like a Bat Signal for me.

Yeah, the language barrier is a hurdle that is especially difficult to get over without stumbling. For example, you said you like Michael Owen, so I'm convinced something must have been lost in translation.