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Ha ha. How was ALFOS?
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Yeah. This laboured analogy doesn't work, does it?
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Bet they'd skimp on the sultanas.
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Sustained applause.
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True. But then Sainsbury's could leak a photo of the chairman eating a cream tea with actual clotted cream to kill the tawdry gossip.
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come across as The Dreaded Vote Of Confidence™, and should be avoided. A new, extended contract, yes, but otherwise as you were.
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Indeed. They really did ask for it.
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Ha ha. Frank was also in XPress 2 for a bit. Became a Buddhist.
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Hah. I had him down as a DJ/producer with various nom de plumes including 'Tommasino Franco' during his short-lived Italo piano-house era. Worked with Andrew Weatherall, natch.
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Good lor...
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I did not know that. Blimey. It's like AFC Bournemouth (no offence, Bournemuff fans) having a shop on the Champ Elysee.
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PSG shirts have already been a common sight among the yoof and it's going to get worse. Paris carries its own cachet so combine that with a fantastic team bankrolled by enormous finance and power and PSG will have to royally mess it up not to dominate for a while.
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to do the bidding of whatever clubs happen to be owned by petrostates, hedgefunds and assorted funnels for global capital. The clubs dont need an ESL because they've got one, and it's PSG's turn to rule. We've got some tinned salmon in the cupboard that's older than the club itself, but here we are
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It wasn't just the Inter team that looked old, but the club and a kind of football business as well. The corruption, graft and grift of recent decades seems almost benign by comparison. This is the new order that runs things now. Not the governing bodies, who increasingly act as sub-contractors>>
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I'm not expecting Ally McCoist to go into a deatiled riff about the complexities of the long 20th Century and how sport willingly bends the knee to money wherever it comes from and however its gotten. But while it's easy to admire the PSG team you can't separate it from the dough and the power.
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Exactly
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Savage is not the only one coming out with this bollocks, either.
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A ref who had to make a split-second judgement in pressured circumstances and got it wrong. Not Martinez, BTW, who commited a reckless, pre-meditated foul and got sent off thus having a more significant influence on his team's chances. The ref.
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Leftfield, superb
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Ha ha, great minds think alike. ‘The Prostate Zone.’
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Actual roffles.
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Gonna need a bigger book.
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Lovely. All the old heads were on this straight away.
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Posted without comment:
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What are they suggesting instead?
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Yep. And has a fine choice of football club as well.
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Likewise. Yes, they delivered and then some.
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Not half. Must admit, when they opened with Song For Life, rather than close with it, thought ‘that’s a risk.’ But oof, superb. The gaff was rocking.
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Oh yes
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Hah. Lorra lorra Leftfield.
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Hah! Never. Marvellous. Chapter 1…
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It’s a fair point but no one will be hounding him out or keeping him in the job. This is a decision for the guvnors, and them alone
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Concur. Was in NYC when it broke in the US. You heard it everywhere.