I feel like 20 years ago on here, most of you would have been all over this thread, enthusiastically regaling us with lurid tales about your own trips to strip clubs. Did you all just get old and testosterone depleted, or have you become timid because of the puritanical times we live in?  People on...

Yeah, he looked fine. Mind you, the way we set up and the way Burney played I don't think we'd have even noticed if he was missing a yard of pace from not being match fit. A good game for him to start off with.

It's the sort of transfer window you'd be okay about if we were wallowing in mid table mediocrity with little hope of getting into Europe or getting relegated. As it is, it's absolutely pathetic if this is supposed to be an attempt to improve our chances of staying up. I'm an optimistic sort and hav...

I'll stick me neck out and say I think Disasi will be a decent signing. Don't buy into this not being ready mantra either. Is JWP ready for Burnley? Normally I'd agree with you. People make too much of that match fitness stuff. Lingard was at it from the off and he'd barely played all season. It do...

Sorry, but I don't agree on the scouting. He had a decent pedigree, certainly a better pedigree than Fabianski who'd barely played until he went to Swansea aged 29. Areola wasn't always back up - he had one full season as 1st choice No 1 at PSG - as well as at Bastia, Villareal and Fulham. The seaso...

Another lazy bit of non-scouting from our crack recruitment team. He was signed by PSG when they were interested in shelling out obscene money for anything that moved. They have since changed tack and end up finally winning the champions league. Funny that. Nah. Areola was a PSG youth player. They ...

In my opinion yesterday wasn't the player himself, but the intent and message it sent to the team and the opposition making that sub.   Exactly. I knew as soon as he went on that we were fucked, and not because of the player, who didn't perform especially badly. Taking off a striker to bring on a c...

Much ado about muffin

I know a few Barcelona supporters. When he went there on loan a few years back they were amazed. So fast, so strong. So unlike the rest of the team. Then after a few games they realised. Can't pass. Can't score. Thank fuck the rest of the team aren't like that. That said, I reckon he'll do well for ...

If you get stick it's probably because you talk utter shite that doesn't make any sense. Of course he doesn't want to go down, and how the fuck do you think he's going to strip the squad and pocket the cash under the noses of the other shareholders? And if he did want to strip the squad why wait un...

We also had 19 points from 23 games in 13/14 under Allardyce. Finished in 14th.

We also only had 24 points from the first 27 games in the season Moyes took over from Pellegrini. Mind you, the lockdown was probably our saviour that year and I doubt there's another of those on the cards.

If you get stick it's probably because you talk utter shite that doesn't make any sense. Of course he doesn't want to go down, and how the fuck do you think he's going to strip the squad and pocket the cash under the noses of the other shareholders? And if he did want to strip the squad why wait unt...

I think 442 works for us with our current personnel. Pablo and Taty are hard working team players who press from the front. With Summerville and Bowen playing a little deeper they can carry the ball out rather than wait for the ball to come to them. They're both hard workers too so can track back an...

Watched all 4 seasons of Ozark over the last few weeks. I'd given up after a couple of episodes when it first came out as it just seemed like a retread of Breaking Bad. Turns out that the family (especially the wife) is a lot more interesting than in BB and it's way darker and faster paced. 

Russ of the BML" wrote: ↑20 Jan 2026, 07:49 I always wonder how this would've affected our parents and grand-parents had Hitler invaded Britain with boots and actually occupied it. 

apparently Alonso's been sacked, it's alleged Granary Bap wasn't a fan Story I heard was that the final straw was after losing to Barcelona in the Supercup at the weekend, Alonso gathered the players to do the traditional guard of honour and Mbappe said no, he wouldn't do it and told the other play...

As much as I dislike Potter (a lot) it's a bit unfair to dig him out about something he allegedly said behind closed doors. Maybe he actually said something more along the lines of we're in for a relegation fight if you continue to play like that. Of course he'd say it in such a tedious, mealy mouth...

I've said this several times before, but I think the only way to get him and Brady out of their executive roles is to put pressure on Kretinsky and Gold's daughter, because they are the ONLY ones with the power to change who is in charge of the club. They might not deserve harassment the way Sulliva...

Where was the loan? Where was the chance to play regularly in the U21s?  Yeah. It was idiotic. If you're going to bring in an expensive 18 year old right winger and already have the likes of Kudus and Bowen then there should be a plan to develop him properly, not have him picking splinters out of h...

Palmer has been unavailable for 11 games through injury this season. They won 9 of them. They've won just one of the 9 games he's actually played in, so making out that he is the main reason Chelsea have improved under Maresca is just plain daft.

Have to point out that Bardot actually finished filming more than 50 years ago now. 

She weren't a bad singer too as it goes. Some of her stuff with Serge Gainsbourg is pretty good.


 

RIP to a real beauty back in the day. One of her relationships was with Roger Vadim, who had more hot totty than even The Swiss. I suspect Vadim of being a #metoo employer who was a bit subtle about it... Getting married is a pretty subtle way of using the casting couch, yeah. Vadim was married/lon...

You're the one who should be muted.

J-L, he got sacked from Southampton last month. He's currently unemployed. Which, worryingly, puts him on Sullivan's radar! He's not ready to manage in the Premier League. He would make a decent #2, though. Oh yeah. Forgot he'd been sacked already. I see that Southampton went from 2 wins in 13 with...

I was listening to a podcast today with Scholes, Butt and Andy Cole. They can’t understand why teams don’t play with 2 centre forwards and 2 proper wingers who get the ball into the box early. I found myself agreeing with them. I’d love to have seen a front 4 of Summerville, Bowen, Wilson and Fullk...