There's footage of Bancroft putting sugar into his pockets during the Ashes now. Let's declare all the results null and void
https://wwos.nine.com.au/2018/03/26/11/19/cricket-australia-cameron-bancroft-footage-sugar-ashes-series

None of this is surprising as Aussies have such a strong will to win at all costs someone is bound to cheat.

When your belly is over your shorts, you're not in any condition to fight a proper fight. 

Now if they can extend the ban to cover the next Ashes, it'll be great. Smith and Warner are absolute whatevers, but they are very good batsmen.

Same old Aussies, always cheating. I bet you'd still hear the nasal whiny noise now if England did it during the Ashes. Both should be banned for a long time.

I think Westley has just more or less relegated my home town team, Barnet. Now Martin Allen has taken over for the 5th time.

12 hours ago, Rover_Shaun said:

I've not watched a world cup religiously since 1998. Dipped in and out ever since. Watched 1 game in 2010 because of those fcking horns ?

2010 was awful. The games were crap, and like you say those effing horns. They gave me a headache. The last tournament had some fantastic games, and yes I did love seeing Germany hammer Brazil.

I'd not like to be the one scores the goal to knock Russia out. I think I'd practically go on hunger strike in case I get Polonium tea.

Loving Wolves seemingly bottling it, even if it means Colin's Cardiff might be champions. 

11 hours ago, joey_big_nose said:

My gut's telling me that England will pull out. We're going through a massive diplomatic incident at the the moment, we've squarely blamed Russia presumably as there is solid evidence which will filter out over time.

It's lose-lose. Either we ultimately withdraw because of the political dispute, or we withdraw due to fan safety as Russia ramps up as the dispute escalates. 

Can't see it happening.

I think the players will go, but fans will be advised not to. The FA and related authorities are cowards who'd be happy to go to any dodgy country if the money and prestige is there.

1 hour ago, roverandout said:

I need a date with taylor swift..aint gonna happen

I don't see it with Android Swift myself, she looks like a Tibetan Fox to me, and she is a money grubbing hack. And it might happen, though a lot depends on where Newcastle are, managers and owners' thoughts and asking price.

Yes, I didn't research the exact timing from Cellino to the other Italian (who may be a friend/puppet of Cellino at one point). Like I say Monk may be another Dowie/Bothroyd who had a good first few months and then become pundits or manager of the likes of Coventry, Grimsby or England.

Monk is a funny one. He started off well at Swansea, then it went wrong. Then he got Leeds either to the play offs, or just outside, from a bad position, then it petered out (or was the crazy Italian owner in the mood to sack him?). Finally, he was very average at Boro.

For a rough translation from French:

Who can resurrect Birmingham? They're almost as bad as Sunderland, and have been dire since Rowett was sacked.

Well, the authorities are, and a section of fans who follow the Harry Redknapp route of refusing to ever think about learning from other sports or jobs that are not football.

This shows VAR shouldn't be used in football as the people who trial it, and use it are thick as mince. Takes too long, crowd are not informed. Football is too stupid to use it efficiently.

I played the Sim City build it before my tablet died. My city was called Venky's out.

There would have been more attention if Anderson did a job on Man City like he did on us. I do not like agents having so much influence as all they do is take money out of the game, and cause disruption. I would not want Mendes, or Tony Blair's son, or whoever coming in and telling a new owner which players and managers we should sign. Their interests lie elsewhere, they will drain lots of money out the club and turn the club into a personal gravy train.

On 2/17/2018 at 10:56, arbitro said:

The big difference from the fans perspective is that they are in an upwards trajectory whilst we have been in a downward spiral. It will be interesting if the are bottom of the PL this time next year and have a plethora of Portuguese players and officials on massive money how they react.

Meanwhile the EFL will be happy to pass the problem to the PL and vice versa if the go down. And the FA will continue to monitor events at Wolves.

It's an accident waiting to happen.

Exactly what I think. Mendes and the Chinese guys only have to lose interest, and then it will go pop. And it also sounds like the set up is like us and Kentaro in 2010, but with more competence. One or two here were envious of Wolves and wished we had this lot running our club on a 3rd party method. The authorities will do nowt as they get the brown envelopes from the same sources and refuse to see any conflict of interest when the rich agents are involved.

Barry was backing into the keeper on purpose though. So did he foul the keeper?

It needs to be made available on the big screens at modern stadiums (so the crowd can see what is going on), sped up and used as it is in rugby union. The ref says "can you look at that" whilst play goes on. However, since it is football, it has been completely mishandled and all the fans hate it.

5 hours ago, LewisF said:

I don’t think I ever posted this one on here, feel free to give my band’s cover of ‘What A Wonderful World’ a listen

https://t.co/

hope it somewhat does the original justice

Only joking!

As said elsewhere, the Leeds badge looks like it is from one of those computer games that do not have the official rights, and is the badge for 'West Yorkshire Whites'. It is really dire.

I always got the impression that he was a real gentleman when he was on the radio. Like Richie Benaud on TMS.

This is probably off topic, but I was at West Ham years ago when we lost 2-0 to a Hartson led Hammers I swear they piped extra crowd noise to make it sound great.