The Footie Thread

[Red devil]

Me and the kids are members at United. When both of them are available to come along, getting tickets is really difficult, unless they’re both happy to sit alone in another part of the ground. Three together is really hard work, and certainly my daughter doesn’t see the point in going to sit alone.

Now my daughter is at uni and son working shifts, it has freed me up to go a lot more regularly, and thankfully getting single tickets is a little more straightforward. I still have to take time to sit viewing a fixture on the app, hitting the refresh button to see if tickets are returned and made available for sale. But more often than not I can get something, albeit I’m still paying between £65 and up to £90 depending on seat.

If I wasn’t a member, there are hospitality tickets still available for the remaining fixtures this season, but the cheapest seat for the cheapest game is £199. The cheapest hospitality tickets still available for Leeds is £399. Liverpool is up to a grand. And I hear rumours that some of those hospitality packages actually include a meal at Lancashire Cricket Club rather than OT itself.

It’s a licence to print money.

As I've said I use my mates 2 tickets if he can't make it because if they're not used the club gets onto him threatening to take them off him. Of course we all know the club wants him to give the tickets for resale so they can give someone a Pukka pie and a programme and charge them £500 for "VIP hospitality "
They're making it increasingly convoluted to pass tickets onto friends and family too.
Anfield is the same according to lads at work. You're allowed 2 no shows then they're taken back.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Well Aluko been firmly put in her place

She has tried the race card , the sex card etc and all been dismissed with facts

 

[Orikoru]

Well Aluko been firmly put in her place

She has tried the race card , the sex card etc and all been dismissed with facts

She really reminds me of Sol Campbell at this point. Absolute main character syndrome and a complete delusion about oneself.

 

[SteveW86]

You could tell Simon was going to tear her arguments apart when he stayed silent for the fist 10 minutes, then Bang.

Quote after quote torn apart with facts.

 

[nickjdavis]

So in the Olympic Speed Skating, a Korean skater in the relay was taken out by an American who fell, effectively ending Korea's hopes of qualifying for the final.

Korea raised an appeal......but in order to do so, they needed to submit their paper appeal along with a $100 note.....they had to PAY for their appeal to be heard...almost a bit like the money you used to stick in your passport when entering certain eastern european countries back in the old days!!!

Could something like this work in football....you want a VAR review?...It'll cost you x% of last years reported revenue (so the bigger clubs pay more).

 

[4LEX]

She really reminds me of Sol Campbell at this point. Absolute main character syndrome and a complete delusion about oneself.

Exactly. One moment she claims she's the protector for women's football and rights, then goes on to talk about herself non stop

I wonder if she's actually all there? All pundits make mistakes but the difference is they laugh at themselves and don't go around with a serious face telling everyone how 'world class' they are. Someone like Merson makes a lot of bad calls (plenty of good ones too) but he's liked because he's got a personality.

Aluko is the very worst at everything.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

You could tell Simon was going to tear her arguments apart when he stayed silent for the fist 10 minutes, then Bang.

Quote after quote torn apart with facts.

Won’t take her long before she is complaining about being misrepresented

 

[backwoodsman]

Everyone needs to be backing West Ham tonight. Their players need to be giving everything. A draw will do. Don't let them reach 5 wins in a row, keep the Utd fan from his haircut

Sorry, but as a Forest fan, I'm afaid I'm hoping that United get the win. (Wouldn't normally, but things being as they are ...)

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Sorry, but as a Forest fan, I'm afaid I'm hoping that United get the win. (Wouldn't normally, but things being as they are ...)

Compromise, a draw? For the hair

 

[Billysboots]

She is on Talksport with Simon Jordan now

Interesting to see what happens now

For once I am really irritated that I missed TalkSport this morning. I’ll bet it was absolutely hilarious.

Whatever anyone says about Simon Jordan, he doesn’t suffer fools and Aluko is one of the biggest there is.

 

[Swango1980]

For once I am really irritated that I missed TalkSport this morning. I’ll bet it was absolutely hilarious.

Whatever anyone says about Simon Jordan, he doesn’t suffer fools and Aluko is one of the biggest there is.

I'm sure you'll catch the replay. It'll be doing the rounds all over social media for the next week or so.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

For once I am really irritated that I missed TalkSport this morning. I’ll bet it was absolutely hilarious.

Whatever anyone says about Simon Jordan, he doesn’t suffer fools and Aluko is one of the biggest there is.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021209343987691631

 

[Swango1980]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021209343987691631

So, she has been making a huge fuss about others getting work ahead of her, when she believes she deserves the work instead (that is what I thought it was all about).

Then as soon as Simon responds to her claims of being world class by saying she should think why she is no longer getting work, she tells him that it was her decision to take herself out of the firing line, implying that if she wanted the work, the top broadcasters would employ her.

His final question hits the nail on the head "what's this all about then?"

Simon Jordan must love days like this, when he gets to play the barrister against such individuals, who can't help dig holes for themselves.

 

[clubchamp98]

And as I explained before, once Haaland fouled Szoboszlai he couldn’t ignore it, in theory Haaland prevented Szoboszlai from clearing the ball, once that happened he had to review, with VAR, the whole passage of play.

A. Was Haaland offside when Cherki played the ball? No.

B. Did Szoboszlai DOGSO when pulling Haaland’s shirt? Yes.

Everything after that is then irrelevant, the goal, Haaland’s shirt pull.

Red card and free kick to City.

If, Haaland hadn’t pulled his shirt and the ball had gone in, the Ref could of given a goal and a Yellow Card to Szoboszlai.

You have to remember, all players pull and push an opposition players shirt, not every shirt pull is a foul.

After the ball went in you had 3-4 LPool players surrounding the Ref asking for the foul on Szoboszlai.

As I have also explained before!
I was answering a hypothetical question by Tash on Quote “how this goal could be allowed and what needs to be changed to allow it”
Post 94172

Just repeating the rule isn’t what we we’re discussing!

We know as soon as Haaland fouled Sob it was going to be pulled back.
I can’t belive Sob complained to the ref. Mad.

 

[Billysboots]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021209343987691631

Loosely translated as “Get back in your box.”

Jordan’s description of how Aluko comes across is absolutely spot on. And I suspect, and indeed hope, that she has just drawn a line under her broadcasting career.

Horrible woman with a hugely inflated opinion of herself.

 

[Swango1980]

Loosely translated as “Get back in your box.”

Jordan’s description of how Aluko comes across is absolutely spot on. And I suspect, and indeed hope, that she has just drawn a line under her broadcasting career.

Horrible woman with a hugely inflated opinion of herself.

The full replay is on youTube, and is 47 minutes long.

 

[Billysboots]

The full replay is on youTube, and is 47 minutes long.

As luck would have it, I have 47 minutes spare. Catch you all in a bit………

 

[SteveW86]

The full replay is on youTube, and is 47 minutes long.

This is one occasion where it would be worth watching the radio.

I listened to it in the car and at times she just had no answers for the holes she had dug herself into

 

[Tashyboy]

See, I'd rather they get the 5th win, so your man has his haircut and then disappears forever.

Give him 15 mins of fame. He may get it cut for charity.

 

[Swango1980]

This is one occasion where it would be worth watching the radio.

I listened to it in the car and at times she just had no answers for the holes she had dug herself into

I'm wondering what they'll discuss on the Overlap this week with Ian Wright (although they only film every 2 weeks, so not sure if they'll be filming this week or next week)!?