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[titch juicy]

Also gutted I wasn't at the Lane yesterday. I didn't have enough membership loyalty points and gave myself a budget of ?400 to get a ticket online. In the end that would've paid for about half a ticket.

Still, some great memories from the 35 years i've been going and seen some amazing players in that time (Hoddle- the greatest, Ardiles, Mabbutt, Lineker, Gazza, Waddle, Ginola, Klinsmann, Sheringham, Ledley King, Bale, Modric, Peter Crouch, Eriksen, Kane, Alli).

[JohnL]

Swansea stay up :) :) commiserations to Hull, Boro and Sunderland.

[Mick Mac]

A few predictors seemed to be heart over head. We are all filled with hope at the beginning of a new season I guess.

[titch juicy]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> A few predictors seemed to be heart over head. We

> are all filled with hope at the beginning of a new

> season I guess.

I dunno. The bookies pre-season odds were like a lot of the predictions. They had Spurs as 6th favourites for the league, behind the rest of the top 6. They assumed that City and United would both improve under Pep and Maureen as we all probably did. They probably thought that Klopp, in his second season, would impress more particularly with no european football as a distraction.

[Mick Mac]

titch juicy Wrote:

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> Mick Mac Wrote:

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> > A few predictors seemed to be heart over head.

> We

> > are all filled with hope at the beginning of a

> new

> > season I guess.

>

> I dunno.

To win the league the predictions were:

RD: Man United

Otta: Liverpool

Jah: Spurs

PD: Arsenal

[????]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> titch juicy Wrote:

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> > Mick Mac Wrote:

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> > > A few predictors seemed to be heart over

> head.

> > We

> > > are all filled with hope at the beginning of

> a

> > new

> > > season I guess.

> >

> > I dunno.

>

> To win the league the predictions were:

>

> RD: Man United

> Otta: Liverpool

> Jah: Spurs

> PD: Arsenal

????: Chelsea - no sentiment from me with those tossers

[Mick Mac]

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> ????: Chelsea - no sentiment from me with those

> tossers

I left you off the list. You had the sense to ignore your teams title credentials.

[red devil]

JohnL Wrote:

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> Swansea stay up :) :) commiserations to Hull,

> Boro and Sunderland.

That'll teach the fookers for voting Brexit...:)

[titch juicy]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> titch juicy Wrote:

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> > Mick Mac Wrote:

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> > -----

> > > A few predictors seemed to be heart over

> head.

> > We

> > > are all filled with hope at the beginning of

> a

> > new

> > > season I guess.

> >

> > I dunno.

>

> To win the league the predictions were:

>

> RD: Man United

> Otta: Liverpool

> Jah: Spurs

> PD: Arsenal

Ah, apologies. I get you.

[Otta]

I usually wouldn't pick Liverpool, and won't this coming season. Last summer I genuinely thought we'd do better than we have.

Need a defence.

Need a lot of things.

NEED to keep Coultinho!!!!

[????]

You'll be in Europe next year too!

I think next season Man U will be competitive again, Chelsea clearly,Spuds if they keep Ponch and key players...Arsenal may well not be in Champions League which could help; Guardiola should turn City round - can't see Liverpool being Champs. Sorry Otts

[Alan Medic]

Ajax fielded the youngest ever side in the Dutch league at the week-end. They still had the title to play for. Average age 20 years 139 days. That's pretty incredible in any day or age.

[Mick Mac]

I think Ajax might beat MU ....

[Jah Lush]

Ronaldo has finally beaten my all-time footballing hero Jimmy Greaves European goalscoring record of 366 league goals.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39884344

http://www.jimmygreaves.net/factfile/

And I never tire of watching this one.

 

[red devil]

Retrospective bans next season for simulation... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39962886

[JohnL]

David Moyes has resigned.

I keep hearing the Stormzy lyric "I come to your team and I f*ck sh*t up, I'm David Moyes".

[Mick Mac]

red devil Wrote:

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> Retrospective bans next season for simulation...

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39962886

Will be interesting to see how this is interpreted - probably it will have to be very obvious, but imo should include "anticipating a challenge" where people fall into a goalkeeper's arm etc, which they could easily have avoided ...its becoming ridiculous

I blame Anders Limpar for the whole thing.

[Mick Mac]

Anders: 3.40 and 5.08 of this video. I remember as I was there.

 

[????]

your second team not has not done that well this year Mick...

[red devil]

JohnL Wrote:

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> David Moyes has resigned.

>

> I keep hearing the Stormzy lyric "I come to your

> team and I f*ck sh*t up, I'm David Moyes".

A Sunderland fan writes...

?Moyes couldn?t show any respect to the fans & clap them after a season of s***e, but agrees to putting the ball out for John Terry. F**k off.? :)

[Mick Mac]

Apparently Moyes has resigned without request for compensation, which if true, is a very decent thing to do in the greedy world of football.

[titch juicy]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Apparently Moyes has resigned without request for

> compensation, which if true, is a very decent

> thing to do in the greedy world of football.

Agreed.

Also, apparently Mr Redknapp told the Birmingham powers that be that he didn't want paying if he didn't keep them up.

[red devil]

That's because the useless fooker is in effect still being paid by Utd. He's a shit manager and I doubt very much he'll be managing in the PL anytime soon...

[Mick Mac]

Jose Mourinho would never have been 'Special One' without Europa League's most epic night

http://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/europa-league/2016-2017/_sto6170833/story.shtml

[Otta]

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> That's because the useless fooker is in effect

> still being paid by Utd. He's a shit manager and I

> doubt very much he'll be managing in the PL

> anytime soon...

Agreed. He earned a rep at Everton, but when you look at them since he left you have to wonder if he wasn't holding them back a bit.