Smiley Culture

The NRL is a goldmine for bellends but the Super League is a second chance for the bigger of the Antipodean knobs.

I don’t think Southgate’s comments are that bad. TAA’s form did drop (as did Liverpool’s as a collective) and he has taken steps in the right direction and is/has regained form. He has also picked players on form in the past and he’s done so here again.

TAA has played 89 (EIGHTY NINE) games since the start of 19/20 and 46 since football resumed in June. I know he’s a young lad but it’s San Marino, Albania and Poland. We can get by without him, we know what he’s about and how he plays and while he’s in good form, we’ve got options in that position elsewhere.

Apples and oranges stuff, this.

It was a random attack, which is all the more frightening given he was a police officer. Silly dick has rented a car in his own name and using his own mobile number and been caught on CCTV of a bus, apparently, talking to her and her then getting in the car. Exposed himself twice the same day, too, over in Kent.

I think it will ultimately happen. I didn’t think 2016 was particularly bad. I didn’t think it was one of the better Euros we’ve had, mind.

I think the Conference one is unnecessary, I agree there. I was hoping it was going to see European Football turned slightly into the Nations League in the sense that the Conference would be for teams with a lower co-efficient or from a country with a lower co-efficient and then the winner of that gets into the Europa League, which would stay roughly where it is (I’d like to see it drop to 32 teams and no “second bite” for Champions League teams) and the winner of that qualifies for the Champions League. I quite like the Europa League. It often has a better spread of clubs than the Champions League and puts some teams on a pedestal that they wouldn’t ordinarily get.

That, sadly, doesn’t surprise me.

The really disappointing and upsetting thing is, this woman did all the right things. Stuck to well lit main roads and wore bright colours, perhaps unintentionally, but nevertheless this seemingly isn’t enough of a deterrent and there’s been some really open exchanges on social media of women’s experiences with men intimidating them or much worse.

It saddens me that plenty of football fans see European Football as some sort of hindrance and treat the Europa League and soon, the Conference League, with contempt.

Body parts found in the hunt for this woman. Terribly sad.

They must have found a body or he’s admitted killing her.

It’s a proper basket case at that level and the National League. I’ll be surprised if someone doesn’t go bust in that National League. Much further down, the Essex Senior League is going to run a competition during April and May for clubs, so I may have football to watch live, should crowds be allowed.

As great as it would be, it should be held (even partly) in Uruguay.

Remember when we were going to change the forum up and you would have had an allocation of coins to “spend”?

National League North and South have voted null and void on their season. Can see everything else below it going the same way.

We won’t get a complete breakaway. Though I think we will get a revamped Champions League, quite possibly this ten game one with Swiss chess style fixtures. We’re already moving towards a closed shop elite tournament anyway, IMO. With this third European competition starting next season you could have the elite competition for the handpicked elite and still have two European competitions for the paupers of football.

Part of me would really like to see what would happen in a “European Super League”. It would be so interesting to see how teams faired across a 38 game season, ala the Premier League.

Anthony Martial, again (I think?). United will condemn it but they’ll continue to use social media and they’ll lob Martial out there on Thursday night.

And the unlucky winner today is...Yan Dhanda.

Yet more racism this weekend, it seems. I’ve seen the statements, we’ll see the condemnation and we’ll brush it under the carpet and forget it for a few days, expecting the victims to get back out there in a few days to play again and put themselves at risk of more abuse. Tiresome now.

No idea. The BBC article doesn’t suggest who it come from.

The young lad sent-off for Southampton, the latest target, I see.

Rashford the latest target. The Merry-go-round continues.