With most of the big teams out, and Man United a basket case, I have backed Aston Villa to win the FA Cup, with a saver on Bournemouth.
I know. As soon as I announced I had lost interest in Charlton this season they go and win 8 out of 10 games I'm obviously a curse. I'm hoping that if I pretend I don't give a fart for the next 18 months we'll be back in the Premier League In the meantime I'll laugh at Man City and Newcastle, whose sports-washing owners turn my stomach. Come on Liverpool in the League Cup Final Viva Real Madrid
Not much class from the Liverpool dugout at Goodison Park at full time. Furious because a last-kick equaliser for Everton was NOT ruled out by VAR VAR is sucking all the heart out of football. If that equaliser had been disallowed it would have been absolutely disgraceful. Goodison erupted when that goal went in. Massive raw emotions. Wild celebrations. Then the fans had to wait nearly 4 minutes while those VAR tossers stole the show and killed the moment. As the commentator said on SSN; "VAR is checking it of course, they try to disallow every goal". He said it in the heat of the moment, but he is absolutely right. VAR geeks won't be happy until every Premier League match ends 0-0 on a weekend. VAR has to be the star of the show.
This day in 1999 we beat Liverpool at The Valley in front of 20,043 spectators. Keith Jones scored the only goal of the game.
What a mess at Man United. £300m in debt, in their lowest league position in decades, and now making 450 back room staff redundant on the back of negative forecasts for next season, including no European football. Jim Radcliffe has been a disaster so far for United, but the real villains of the piece are the money sucking Glazers, who have taken a fortune out of the club.
During over a decade of constant decline, the Glazers have taken out £1 billion in dividends, while not actually owning the club- they just leveraged against it. Sounds vaguely familiar in many ways.
I won't lie - i'm quite enjoying the downfall of United. I hope it continues and the likes of Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford continue to prosper.
Good to hear from you Ponders. I don’t disagree - they are a club who have become a shambles. Sacking staff earning an average of £20,000 a year, while paying Marcus Rashfraud £375,000 a week.
Spending a fortune hiring and firing managers, signing crap players, sacking staff, removing disabled parking bays. They are lucky there are 4 teams at the bottom fighting for 4th bottom.
Cheers, bud. Yep, sickening amounts of money frittered away on average players. Mass redundancies for the lowest paid. That whole club stinks.
The odious Glazers tried to buy off the fanbase, or at least distract them from what they were doing, by sanctioning a near £1 billion spend on players - the vast majority of which have turned out to be useless. Take Onana as an example - £43m. He’s made more individual errors than any other PL keeper this season. He’s a liability - and yet he mysteriously replaced David de Gea.
Bottom line: You should not be allowed to buy a football club, with all of the wider responsibilities that go with it, using heavily leveraged debt. It should either be your own money you are risking, else f uck off.
