TheKingMonkey

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[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Hey! He scored yesterday!

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How's a Saudi move a jail-free card for him, besides it just being a massive pay cheque?

Such is the problem with golden handcuffs. There are probably a dozen clubs where Sancho would be a good fit and see him recapture his Dortmund form, none of them can afford the financial package it would take to find out.

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

In fact they might even sign Dane Rashford now!

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Nice to see Douglas Luiz get a nomination, he's been brilliant for Villa for basically all of 2023 and he's playing in a position that doesn't really get recognition in highlight reel driven awards. Salah will win of course.

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TV broadcasters apologise for swearing at boxing matches which are broadcast after the watershed. Repeated dropping of the F bomb during primetime is not something that they will want on the games they pay a lot of money to acquire the rights for.

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They won't broadcast it live any time soon. Mind you, players might stop swearing at referees so much if they realise everybody hearing them scream "fucking blind cunt" at Stuart Attwell at half four on a Sunday afternoon might mean the endorsement deals from Gucci and Bose start drying up.

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

You’re just saying that because you can’t handle the fact that Milan have never won the Copa Eva Duarte.

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Emery masterclass, can see them winning the Conference league comfortably as well, only competitor I can think off will be Fenerbahce and the teams that might come from EL.

We got a rude awakening in the Conference League when we went to Poland, at the moment the group we are in has basically been reset with all four teams in it having the same number of points and the same goal difference (3 points and +/-0 GD) after two games. We go to AZ on Thursday which is a really big game for us, it's a "must not lose" fixture as far as I can tell, but at their place and in the form they are in it's going to be a tricky task.

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely last season. Unai was picking up about 2 points per game with Gerrard's squad.

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

He's got a licence to zkill!

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, he pops up on TV duties over here more often than you might think. Seems like an interesting guy, he's definitely charismatic.

[–] TheKingMonkey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who was the "star" in that Euro 88 team? It was probably the first tournament I watched with any interest, I remember the 86 World Cup but was more interested in riding my bike and trying to climb trees at that age but by the time 88 came around I was fully on board. I'm not sure if I was aware at the time or it's just a lifetime of memories being cloudy now but from England it always seemed like the Dutch produced incredible players (this continued throughout the 90s and 00s) but to my eyes in 1988 Ruud Gullit was the man. I was so excited when he came to play in the Premier League and he rocked up at Villa Park, even if it was when he was trying to be a sweeper but spending most of his time as a No. 6.

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