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Last Dance was great, I was big into basketball through the 90s so the nostalgia was strong....

Just where will this thrilling discussion take us next....

I had similar thoughts, then realised it could be tradies and the like who don't want to handle/remove the masks prematurely when they will need to put one back on again shortly. Looks fucking ridiculous though.

TBH this reeks of intentionally leaking the news before breaking it officially in order to soften the blow for the haters. As it's largely just self righteous wind bags championing the outrage it will likely work wonders and they'll simply march onwards to their next outrageous cause.

Just has to venmo the funds to Mike and job's done.

Not to pile on, but seriously, at least take a straight photo. Could this be the week that you get the hang of this technology lark? No, it could not.

Day 2? How did you avoid lockdown for so long?

Only needs to go one way because they're never going up.

This is exactly what they'll be wanting, people turning against each other as a distraction from the real questions that need to be asked of those accountable. To be clear I'm talking about the hall monitor gestapo and not you, you're free to bake until your heart's content.

Agreed, Man United is a poisoned chalice with their overpaid underperforming unbalanced squad. It seemed his biggest issue at Spurs was lack of say over personnel. You would imagine this would be different here, and he'd be able to have a much greater input into the signings. The premier league is a known entity for him as well.

With that voice and the way informatiom is presented by halfway through they could have introduced just about any random 'fact' and I would have believed it. "Steve Bruce, who had to this point done so well as manager of the team will be replaced by an autonomous sex robot, wanted on its own planet for crimes against the native Ewoks".

Probably as simple as us being in what is a reasonable place on the table, despite the very negative feeling from supporters. There's no chance they've watched much of us, let alone any amount of full matches, so they're taking a tiny bit of information and forming what they see as an 'educated' opinion that of course happens to be so far off the mark it's not even funny. Of course most who read it also won't have watched much/any of us either....

My Mrs has had a persistent sore throat and because of the industry she works in felt it necessary to get tested, she registered on a website and went and got the test done about 20 min drive from where we are (Sydney, Aus). She could have just rocked up and got it done too, without pre-booking. Video consult with a Dr, then they conducted the test. Two days later had the result (prognosis negative). They've since opened an additional drive-thru testing centre that's 10 minutes drive away. We've got fewer than 7,000 recorded cases and 95 deaths a bit under half the population (45%). I've been following this thread closely, the incompetence from your government is jaw-dropping and in many ways heart breaking. Many here feel like our government was slow to act and that they have made multiple mistakes along the way, but comparatively looking only at COVID-19 handling we've got it good.

It might not be the case but Lascelles has always come across as slightly thick to me. He's merely protecting his own.

To be honest it hasn't been talked about extensively on here until now (middle eastern ownership) as we've had more than our fair share of ownership problems much more front of mind. As far as Man City go we've been dudded by referees in matches against you guys in fairly recent times (Habib Beye being sent off comes to mind immediately) so I've enjoyed some of our more recent unexpected good results against you. Since you became the richest club in the country I've been happy for you to win because it nails home in a patent way that at the end of the day it's all about money. If you spend enough of it, you will become the best. Manchester United and Liverpool will try to make out that they don't spend like Man City and that there is some intrinsic power in the club that elevates them above others, but the truth once again is money and winning. Players want to be well paid (this is a big part of the motivation for wanting to play at a champion's league club, not just the prestige of the competition) and they want to win. So if this all goes through we will become a much more appealing destination for a higher calibre of player which could potentially lead to the return of champion's league football. TLDR; money has ruined the game, regardless of where it comes from. But, having suffered under Ashley's ham fisted tight arsed operations for an extended period I'm looking forward to the potential for us to show real ambition.

The selective sanctimonious claptrap spouting from all over the place is going to make the end of Ashley's reign even more sweet. At the end of the day their ownership of a sports team does nothing to reverse the history of the country, and there is absolutely no connection worth making to the club itself, much less the supporters of it. The new owners will want it to soften their image and change the focus of their international profile. You wouldn't expect that it is going to be a financial driven decision for them, in that if they invest significantly it will be quite a while before that is recouped. As a supporter of the club and the team I can very easily separate out the football operations from the owner, I've been doing it for years. It's not that I don't care who the owner is, it's that I have absolutely no say over who it is.

Rumour that Mike repurposed some Slazenger apparel into face masks to lessen the bill.

Like a dancing lesbian sex scene? Totally agree.

You've clearly got passion, so I've put my vote in. Some of those team names look like someone passed out on the keyboard.

Don't know about you lot but I want to know who is funding this mob before I put my support behind them.

Exactly. If they want to spunk their money on a football club to improve their public perception it's only successful if people actually start to think, hey these guys are great. Supporting the football team is completely independent of supporting the owner, it's what we've been doing under Mike Ashley. The difference is with Ashley at the helm we had very little to celebrate about the team, with this mob you would expect it will be a different story.

He's the last person you'd want in charge of crisps.

They should keep on Brucie as well. Just think of the ensuing odd couple hilarity.

That's a lot of fingers for some of them to count. Plus the more top rated teams you have the harder it becomes for them to be biased towards them all.

The Raygime has spoken.