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Reply | Chelsea sell 2 hotels.....
at 23:20 19 Apr 2024
£100m? Weekly turnover of £2k, approx 25 games a season... actually, I'd go with £200m and see if anyone queries it. |
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Reply | New R Fan.
at 23:18 19 Apr 2024
Congratulations, mate. As others have said, grandparent definitely looks a cushier gig than parent. Also the point when your kids begin to realise everything you've done for them over the years. Have fun. |
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Reply | FA Cup Replays Scrapped
at 10:31 19 Apr 2024
If I ever get off my ar se and stage a coup to take over the FA, I'm going to introduce a rule, whereby any club with a turnover of more than £100m automatically has to play 6-legged ties in every round of the cup (3 at home - 3 away) with the games held in a single week, and if a player doesn't play at least 70 minutes of a cup game, they can't play in the next 50 PL games and they have to hand their passport into the police, meaning they can't play in European away games or go on holiday to Dubai either. Even players with broken legs have to play. Wan kers.
International football: Now that the WC and Euros have 132 countries qualifying for the finals, let's just get rid of all qualifying and everyone automatically qualifies. Pretty much there anyway. You can have a squad of 80 players, so no need for burn out. Get rid of the Nations League or whatever the fu ck it is.
European football: Champions League - get to fu ck. Bring back the European cup. I'll be releasing the rest of my manifesto once I've seized control of football. |
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Reply | FA Cup Replays Scrapped
at 10:18 19 Apr 2024
Everyone knows that the magic of the cup is the opportunity for non-league/lower division clubs to play against clubs from the higher divisions, either with the chance of a packed house and an upset or a visit to a ground you might not otherwise get a chance to see your team play at. I remember bunking off work to queue up for tickets when we drew Man Utd at Old Trafford in the cup in 1999, and 8,500 Fulham travelling up for the game. The majority of other lower division clubs have taken similar supports to the big clubs over the years. Equally, it’s an opportunity for regular away fans of Man Utd etc to see their club playing at a new ground in the lower divisions. So, with that in mind I’m proposing the following:
1) Scrap all the rounds up to the semi-finals.
2) Liverpool v Man Utd in the first semi. 8pm kick-off on a Saturday night. Venue: Doha.
3) Man City v Arsenal in the second semi. 7pm kick-off on a Sunday night. Venue: MetLife stadium, NJ.
4) 8pm kick-off for the final. Venue: Riyadh.
4,000 tickets to be made available to each club. 10% of tickets to cost no more than £60, with the rest going for upwards of £180. No concessions. True supporters will be happy to pay it. The rest going to sponsors, local dignitaries, and wealthy business people.
The semi-final draw would always involve the same 4 clubs but operate on a 3 year cycle to keep the cup fresh and exciting. I had considered scrapping the semi-finals too but think that might kill some of the magic.
This way, the most important and special clubs in England get the opportunity to give big match experience to the young players they have nicked off all the other clubs, but who otherwise wouldn’t get valuable minutes.
What an absolute bunch of cu nts, these clubs are. I absolutely loved watching them all crash out of Europe this week. Presumably Liverpool got smashed at home by Atalanta because even the knowledge that there was the possibility of having to have a replay in the FA cup this season, wore the poor twa ts out and meant they were unable to unable to focus fully on conquering Europe.
I’m on something of a boycott of Fulham because of our absolute piss-taking ticket prices, which is a proper shame as it’s my club and we have a really decent team at the moment, but the upside is that I’ve been watching quite a lot of random games at all levels. I’m not sure if I could watch non-league every week, but I go to a few non-league games every year with my dad, and it does restore your faith a bit. Volunteers keeping clubs ticking over, hardly any diving/cheating, no VAR, prices that don’t immediately convey to you that the owners hate you and think you’re an idiot, and a sense that the club is genuinely representing their community (even if most of the community would sooner watch Liverpool on the telly in the pub). I generally find the same at lower division clubs. I actually love the Championship.
On the subject of mid-ranking clubs resting players - does my absolute head in. Fulham are never going to win the PL, but with a bit of luck with the draw, it's not completely inconceivable that we could win one of the cups. And yet every year, even when we're completely safe from relegation, we still have fans insisting that it's critically important that we rest players in the cups, to strengthen our chances of finishing 11th rather than 14th. Who wants to look back on a cup final win when you could get all misty eyed about the time you finished 12th in the PL. We even had it the year we got to the Europa League final. |
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Reply | Rotherham
at 16:44 17 Apr 2024
I had the misfortune to be at Stevenage v Burton on Saturday - new ground and I was in the area. It was a truly sh it match with not even one player that caught the eye. Evans was either knackered or a reformed character because he barely made it out of his dugout, and when he did, he wasn't even really going for it. He got a lot of stick from the Burton fans - felt a bit sorry for him. |
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Reply | My Mum
at 14:25 15 Apr 2024
Really sorry to hear that, mate. I found it a very weird thing to be told that there's nothing more that can be done and to know that you only have a small time left with that person. I hope your Mum is not in too much discomfort and that you are able to spend some time with her. Take care. |
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Reply | Weekend Championship Games
at 23:20 12 Apr 2024
And Bristol City on the back of a terrible run of form. Leicester fans on the way back to the pub after that game were saying they've been sh it all season and didn't deserve to go up. I had presumed they must have been blitzing teams when they were miles clear a couple of months ago, but apparently not. Don't know who I want to miss out the most: them, Leeds, or Saints. |
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Reply | My Mum
at 09:02 12 Apr 2024
Really sorry to hear that, mate. She sounds like a great Mum. Hope your shared memories comfort you - I'm fully signed-up to the Mexican idea that someone's still with us, for as long as they're remembered. I hope the funeral is a great celebration of your Mum - sure you'll do her proud. |
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Reply | Tonight's Championship games
at 22:24 11 Apr 2024
Hyam(?) was so bad it was unbelievable. Gotta be up there with the worst individual performances, I've ever seen. Like he was concussed or something. |
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Reply | Tonight's Championship games
at 22:33 10 Apr 2024
Blackburn were rank tonight. City played well, but Blackburn were absolute pony. This division is mad and brilliant - bar about six teams in midtable and Rotherham, everyone still has something to play for. |
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Reply | Swimming pool at Craven Cottage
at 09:36 29 Mar 2024
Tony Khan is the DOF , but yes, he runs a wrestling company, and he appears to be pretty er, "wired" a lot of the time. Could just be too many Haribo, though. Given that we've made a lot of good signings over the past couple of years, I would guess that he's more focussed on the wrestling than football these days, and more of a figurehead. |
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Reply | Swimming pool at Craven Cottage
at 09:32 29 Mar 2024
Khan has converted the huge losses accumulated to equity, so I think we're okay on that front at the moment. |
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Reply | Swimming pool at Craven Cottage
at 22:30 28 Mar 2024
£71 in the Putney for Newcastle at home. £77 in the Hammersmith or Putney for Liverpool, and £83(!!) for a kids ticket in the central blocks of the Johnny Haynes. But don't panic, it's only £59 for behind the goals v Palace and the dearest kids ticket is only £59 for the central Johnny Haynes blocks. Bargain. I absolutely hate the cun ts who run our club. |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 06:57 28 Mar 2024
"Ukraine: enemy in the woods" - BBC documentary consisting of interviews and helmet cam footage from a battalion of Ukrainians tasked him holding a stretch of frontline during the winter. Unbelievably intense and sobering, but well worth a watch. I couldn't cope with the cold, never mind the constant attacks and having to try and kill people. |
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Reply | Swimming pool at Craven Cottage
at 06:50 28 Mar 2024
I think the vast majority of Fulham fans are really fu cked-off with the club. We knew prices would be ridiculous in the new stand, and I think most of us grudgingly accepted that the stand wasn't intended for "people like us" , but I think there was a naive belief that the revenue from the Riverside would be used to keep prices elsewhere, relatively reasonable. Instead, we have big increases in season tickets prices and match by match prices have gone from taking the pi ss to absolutely taking the pi ss. The club have also said that as far as they're concerned, they will get the maximum they can for a seat and they're not interested in who buys the ticket. Insult to injury - the restricted access to the riverside area means that the Hammersmith concourse is absolute chaos now.
I'm on a boycott - I've done one game this season - Rotherham in the cup because it cost us £21 or something, rather than the £110+ it would now cost for me to take my son to a PL game and sit in the Hammersmith or Putney.
We will go down again, and as others have said, let's see what happens to gates /prices then because the club are really alienating a chunk of support that has been through all the divisions.
On the tourist front, I'm taking my son to the Rome derby next week. I ended up paying €163 and €50 for our tickets, when they went on general sale, and could have paid a lot more. They're all at it. My wife loves football, but at that price decided to give it a miss as she's already seen Fulham there. So, the cu nts are even pricing out tourists! |
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Reply | Alzheimer’s Memory Walk
at 21:57 26 Mar 2024
Good luck, mate. A great cause - hope it's a cracking day. Thanks for fund-raising for a very worthy cause. |
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Reply | New England Kit
at 13:04 22 Mar 2024
But if you decide to stick a little flag on the collar, what exactly is the point of making up a completely different flag and then sticking that on?! If the shirt didn't have a flag on the collar, no-one would have cared. I'm not fussed about it, but it just seems like a strange decision to make when it was inevitably going to wind-up a lot of people who care more about these things than I do. Either have the proper flag or don't bother.
PS. The British Rail logo is fu cking magic, isn't it. [Post edited 22 Mar 13:07]
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Reply | Onuoha on loosing his mum
at 22:05 20 Mar 2024
I couldn't agree more about a work life balance. I have friends who have worked insane hours in incredibly stressful jobs, which have made them largely miserable. Needing to earn big money to afford to live in a big house in an expensive area because of the proximity to stressful, well-paid jobs that allow them to afford to live in a big house in an expensive area, which they choose to live in because of the proximity to stressful well-paid jobs...
I have always been terrible at coping with stress at work, so like you, have turned down numerous job offers from clients and colleagues over the years (some daft cun t thought I'd be a great trainee fund manager, when I would actually have spent the whole time crying in the bogs). Money would have been welcome, but I'd just have been a thoroughly miserable bloke living on a nicer street.
My Dad worked for the same company, in the same role, for 36 years on not great money. He liked his colleagues, it was an easy commute, he liked his clients, and he was home for 5.30pm every day, with his weekends free for football and cricket. He watched all of our games for the school and clubs. That approach has very much informed my decisions when it's come to work.
I wrote my boss a note thanking her for being so kind and supportive at the time of my Mum's death and she just said to me, "There's nothing that happens in this building that is more important than being with your family". If I'm even working five minutes late she tells me to pack-up and go to collect my son. Probably the best run department I've ever worked in and she is genuinely loved by the whole team. |
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Reply | Onuoha on loosing his mum
at 14:55 20 Mar 2024
That sounds like a really rough time for you, mate. I think there will always be regrets and it's natural that you question whether you should have done more or done things differently. A great, simple piece of advice I was given, was to be kind to yourself because you'll always find something you'd do/say differently if you had the chance to go back. Loved ones know that for most of us, it's a question of trying to juggle everyday responsibilities and obligations with trying to be there for support/company. You can't be everywhere at once, especially not when there's distance involved. |
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