benjii

Most of our ball boys are bang average.

“SunSport visited the home Oppitz shares with his wife, who refused to comment and turned our reporter away. But hanging from the washing line in the back garden was a blue T-shirt and grey tracksuit bottoms identical to those worn by the fan who attacked O’Nien” https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9097995/portsmouth-fan-kicked-sunderlands-luke-onien-named/

Maybe put some chavs in Stone Island jackets in the background to complete the picture?

I was right!

Is it? You found it "very" funny? So, like, nearer Doug Stanhope than Lenny Henry?

I think UA just paste the chosen colour schemes into their standard templates and then we choose one. I don't think there is any actual "design" as far as our particular kit goes.

What the **** are you talking about? Fans are entitled to more than two sentences of public statement from the owner in over a year. This is an owner with no apparent redeeming qualities and about whom plenty of valid concerns exist. People like you are part of the problem.

The whole thing is complete trash.

That kit is too disgusting, even for our muppets to think it's OK. That said, if it is that kit, anyone who buys it needs treatment.

What's that girl doing in there? She must have been in town for the day and went by mistake.

WAYNK

Mental

Surely you just go with Everton and West Ham? Obviously Everton doesn't work here so the best rumour is West Ham. You could also add a bit of intrigue by saying that Villa are preparing a "warchest" and want to spaff some of it on Bolasie if they win the play off final. Where do I get my agent's licence?

NB. "Director" includes shadow director and people exercising control so you can't simply side-step the rule by appointing patsies as directors.

Coukd have been F.1.6, I guess: "A Person shall be disqualified from acting as a Director and no Club shall be permitted to have any Person acting as a Director of that Club if I'm the reasonable opinion of the Board, he has engaged in conduct outside the United Kingdom that would constitute an offence of the sort described in Rules F.1.5.2 or F.1.5.3, if such conduct had taken place in the United Kingdom, whether or not such conduct resulted in a Conviction." F.1.5.2 says: "he has a Conviction (which is not a Spent Conviction) imposed by a court of the United Kingdom or a competent court of foreign jurisdiction in respect of any offence involving any act which could reasonably be considered to be dishonest (and, for the avoidance of doubt, irrespective of the actual sentence imposed)". Obviously, I have no idea or evidence suggesting whether any offence was ever committed. Just speculating over the rules.

Don't rate Mings. He was no good for the Cherries. Ideally, we need a CB with an experienced head and some leadership. We then have two of those (new guy, plus Yoshi) to help bring Bednarek and Vestergaard along. There's go to be someone knocking around the Bundesliga that Ralph could identify?

That makes no sense.

Really? I'd rather see Poch and his man-boobs win it than Klopp and Virgil.

Who exactly do you think is "at the top of the club"? Apart from Ralph H and the football staff, they are mostly unremarkable salary-men. None of them has a stellar CV. Ralph K and Reed have gone and not been replaced. Who's in charge of overall football strategy? Wee Ross? Goa is silent and doesn't seem to have any money. Nelly is the only director of the ultimate UK holding company. The rest of our board are accountants and compliance officers. I think you'd be surprised how sparse the non-footballing side of things is. To be honest, this is the most worried I've been about the club since Mickey Fialka and Tommac.

Yes.

I finally did! Got a 2015 GT Sport yesterday. Haven't really had a chance to take it for a proper drive yet but it seems to have a bit of a split personality. Keep it in standard Auto mode and you need to rev it pretty hard for it to feel fast or particularly lively. It just feels like an exec saloon when you're driving in traffic. Stick it in sport or manual sport and it gets pretty feisty though and if you floor it, it throws you back into your seat big time and it ROARS! I've only really been on boring straight roads so need to take it out on a more interesting route.

****ing morons. Hope Spurs **** them. Never thought I'd say that!

I’ve always found it amusing that, after Goa took over, we voted in favour of the PL rule change that would have prevented Goa from buying the club if it had been implemented sooner.

That's nice.

Depends what you think a football club should be, I guess. But either way, the lack of transparency, the weird websites, the silence over strategy, the initial failing of the owner's test.... Imagine if Ralph hadn't worked out and we'd been relegated. The club would be in an absolutely awful mess and these issues would be in the spotlight. Just because we got a manager who worked well doesn't mean these concerns aren't valid.