Smiley Culture

Difficult to watch that Joe emotionally bully that Lucie. He’s a horrible little shit. None of the women are all that. Lucie’s a 5/10 in a sea of 2’s and 3’s and people are losing their heads over her. That Callum fella has the personality of a brick wall.

There’s literally a very, very small chance any League One or Two club would be in the latter stages of the League Cup if it were ending in November/December. We’ve had one third tier finalist in however many years and not many semi-finalists from that tier. It wouldn’t be an issue at all.

Take out the sides that are competing in Europe, for a start. That way, you won’t get the same cycle of clubs winning it every year or two and you’ll also offer the chance of European Football and a trophy to a side that doesn’t regularly compete in Europe or win trophies regularly. I think you’d then generate some interest from fans of some clubs, knowing they have a genuine chance of a trophy and European Football. I’d probably start the competition earlier too, in a similar way to the Scottish League Cup, which has replaced friendlies and offers competitive games to sides earlier on in their season. I’d have Round One (which is between Championship, League One and Two sides) taking place in mid-July on a Saturday afternoon. I think that would generate a little more interest than normal First Round games. You’re probably going to get people who are bored without football turning up and hopefully, the weather will be good and you can’t really beat sitting in the sun watching Football. I’d like to do the same with Round Two but there’s no way you’re gunna get the Premier League allowing their sides to play in the League Cup as their first game of the season, which is a shame but you’re also getting into logistics when there’s International tournaments, because that’s a shorter turnaround. By starting the competition earlier, I’d hope that you could get the competition finished earlier, preferably before Christmas, so you could have the League Cup as the pre-Christmas tournament and then the FA Cup as the post-Christmas cup competition.

Come on, who’s been watching?

Never really picked a Spanish team to follow, in all honesty. I loved watching La Liga on Sky when they had it, in some ways, I enjoyed watching it more than the Premier League and quite enjoyed watching the “lesser” teams that weren’t your Real Madrid’s, Barca’s and more recently, Atletico’s. You can’t look past Bilbao as a special club, really. The fact they still insist on a Basque only side in this day and age is quite crazy and they more than hold their own, more often than not. Throw in Real Betis, Sociedad, Valencia, Eibar and Villarreal and you’ve got some good clubs there with good values and traditions (this may change if Valencia turn out to be match fixing).

Five clubs in two years. That’s some doing. Bet he’s done some miles in the car.

No idea if you can get them but if I were a Barca fan, I’d have the cotton one in a shot, much better than the re-make.

Can’t believe they’ve gone through with it. Should be sacrilege to change Barca from stripes and more so for turning them from stripes to this. The looks on Messi’s and Coutinho’s faces sum up the shirt.

West Ham v Atletic Bilbao - Saturday 3rd August.

They’ve claimed Tuesday now? Is nothing sacred? Bloody Muslamics, up Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

This. I think they’ll sanitise the character of Smithy to preserve Corden’s reputation.

Lecce. Home in the middle, no idea what the other two shirts are.

Takes place on Friday 15th June.

Walsall home and away. Massive fan of the away shirt.

When’s the draw?