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The FA Cup started again this evening. 184 ties this weekend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–19_FA_Cup_qualifying_rounds Some great names in there with the likes of Billingham Synthonia, Bemerton Heath Harlequins, Roman Glass St George, K Sports, Penistone Church, Odd Down and Baffins Milton Rovers.

Name them...

I’d call him a lot worse than that. The old “start an argument and pass it off as banter when you get ridiculed” card here from Brian. His favourite move.

The gift that keeps on giving is Brian. Crying over people’s rep levels

Gunna be one of those arseholes and say my bets post-match. Brentford (v Rotherham Utd) and Peterborough United (v Bristol Rovers) @ 2/1 Over 1.5 Goals in the games Brentford v Rotherham United, Burton Albion v Rochdale and Braintree Town v Halifax Town @ just over 1.19/1 A Goal in each half treble at Wigan Athletic v Sheffield Wednesday, Exeter City v Carlisle United and Stenhousemuir v Brechin City. 2/3 is an alright start, will keep up the Goal in Each Half betting I think, maybe dropping it to a double because you can get odds of over Evens for a double so I can see that being profitable.

I think it’s poor research from the BBC tbh, you can pay that, but I’m sure at most clubs you could pay more than a standard match ticket to watch a game and those figures aren’t included in their survey.

That’s not strictly true. Yes, you can pay £30+ quid for an Orient ticket but that’s in “The Gallery” which is the posh seats where you get injured players, players’ family etc and you get a padded seat on the halfway line. Normal tickets are about £20-22.

What? For a League game? That’s one of the better prices, if so.

The top 8 over there is done and dusted it’s just what order they come in that needs sorting. With four points separating eight teams, I’m hoping the play-off’s throw up some surprises. Go the Storm!

Children making the most of the few seconds they get on TV and enjoying themselves. How dare they? Who’s the miserable one?

Finished Keane’s audiobook. I really enjoyed it and it portrays Keane completely differently from how he comes across on television. He holds his hands up and admits his mistakes, something Johan Cruyff just simply didn’t do at all in his book (nothing was ever Cruyff’s fault, it seemed) and he speaks well about his time in management at Sunderland and Ipswich. I’m now on “Fifty Years it Hurt” by Henry Winter, about why England have been crap since ‘66. It’s a very, very good listen and I’d recommend.

Been thinking of doing something a bit different for the upcoming Football season in regards to betting, mainly for a bit of fun but also as an experiment to see if it actually works. Basically, I’ve wondered whether it’s actually profitable to place bets centred around the actions of one team. I’m not saying I’d bet on that team to win every week because that’s daft and likely to end in a monetary loss but pick a side, study them and place bets according to that studying, so one week I might bet on them to lose, the next I might back them to score over 1.5 goals. I’ve thought about the criteria and would likely pick a side that have had a manager for the past two seasons and have remained in the same league for the same period. I’ve not actually checked to see how many teams qualify under that criteria but I know a few do. I’m thinking placing a £2 bet per game. Nothing too much and an amount I’m not fussed about losing.

Got a lot of time for players having a dig at each other. It’s not as though James, 15, from Somerset who goes by the Twitter name of SalahKingMane, is calling a professional footballer shit.

Clean sheet against a Conference North side, he’s turned a corner. That said, he looks very concussed in that video and Sergio Ramos should be ashamed of himself.

Nah, it’s just fannies wasting beer. I get “limbs” when a goal is scored but after a penalty in normal time? Nah, that’s not “limbs”, that’s just people being bellends and throwing beer around.

No need tbh. It’s not a natural reaction.

Kid at work thinks all these videos of people launching pints in pubs when England score a goal are hilarious. Is it just me, or is it just videos of fanny's who are chucking beer they should be drinking?

We’re due a good Brian meltdown and Peru going out the World Cup could tip him over the edge. I’m just going to sit back and wait for him to go bat shit crazy.

Ferguson? Or Keane? I think, though I might be wrong, Ferguson has released three and ‘Leading’ is his most recent one and that’s Keane’s second.

Just finished “Leading” by Sir Alex Ferguson. I could listen to that man talk Football management all day. Such a legend. Now on Roy Keane “The Second Half”.

At what point was that made clear? Was just the £10 and £20 guff over and over again.

Which itself is fucking wrong. They shouldn’t be the ones deciding what they’re willing to accept. It should free to give as much or as little as possible, especially given how much they’re requesting, which happens to be nearly three hours of pay for those on the national minimum wage. Imagine homeless fellas now saying they only accept anything in excess of a fiver, it’s just wrong.

Yeah, fuck off Soccer Aid, begging for £20 donations, that’s equivalent to just shy of three hours work for somebody on the national minimum wage.

Soccer Aid can fuck off. The cheeky twats wanting £20 donations, I remember when they’d ask for £2.

Boxing needs to be liquidated by 15.30 after that little blert ‘The Wealdstone dick splash’ turned up at Tyson Fury’s press conference.