Whitey Grandad

That is a lot of people. Who is paying for them? Or are they all being put up in your spare rooms?

Totally meaningless. There are ten other players in front of any goalkeeper. Don't they have an influence on the goals conceded?

Out of contract, wasn’t he?

Let’s start with the population of the UK. What is your best estimate?

Constructive Dismissal

They go for the headlines to try to convince their voters that they are doing something.

Yep. It’s a lot easier to try and hit an arm than it is to score a goal.

That happened when they evicted us from the central Kingsland. Nothing particularly special about our current ones. Except the price perhaps.

Don’t try to patronise me young man, I’ve been doing it for a lot longer than you and I do it better. Neither of us knows what their supporters think of modern football.

That’s the ones you know about.

If we are heading down then others are heading up.

We are more than full up already. Don't you understand this? It's not 100,000 migramnt is it. It's 500,000 a year, every year. Where are thy going to live? I'll tell you now that I am not going to put them up in my house nor pay for them to live somewhere else.

Do you see it ever happening again soon?

The coverage these days is awful. You can't just sit and immerse yourself in a game any more. Interminable replays of something that was meaningless whilst the ball is actually in play. Multiple camera angles so that one moment you're watching from the middle of the stand and the next you're down at the corner flag for a couple of seconds. Brainless commentators who think that they have to be talking all the time. Shots of the managers or the crowd whilst the game is going on. I just want to concentrate on the ebb and flow of the game. I go to the game live because that is the only way that I can take part in what is going on. This thread is about starting to hate football. It has sold its soul to big money and the result is not for the better.

No mention of Bednarek there. Was that significant?

All very true. But surely the voters have to take some responsibility?

It sounds more like hockey or basketball than football.

That result would be the best medicine for you.

Fair enough. The Europa League games may distract them though.

I understand it all right. It’s just that it has nothing to do with football. In its essence the game can be a thing of beauty. It can have a spirit that transcends ordinary mortal life. Yet some people want to analyse it to death. It’s like doing a post mortem in the goose that used to lay golden eggs. When was the last time that we saw two teams really going at it hammer and tongs? When all caution was thrown to the winds and the crowd was buzzing on the edge of its seats? Whatever happened to one touch football, to ‘tip and run’? Games of football never used to be tactical battles. They are more boring than watching snooker on the radio. We ‘old men’ know what football used to be like. What we have now is soccerball.

Encroachment by both teams means retake the penalty. It is rarely enforced.

How can you judge how good he is if he hasn’t played for quite a while?

When was the last time you saw McCarthy play in a league game?

Have you thought of leaving the police?

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