Fair do's. The truly meaningless games are the shit early round European games and the international friendlies or whatever they're calling them now. Make the Euro competitions two leg straight knock outs from the beginning and you'll get rid of the fixture congestion.

The league cup is not meaningless. Unless you're a super rich 'elite club' of course. Both these teams should be going full noise to win this game and get through to the next round. I see villa gave away a goal by 'playing the right way'.

Nobbers got a full house for the biggest game they've seen down there for 65 years. Plastics.

The Champions League will be organised like this soon.

Back in my day a big crowd at Ewood was 29-30 thousand.

Don't expect incomings even if there are outgoings.

Especially after he'd just scored the greatest goal of his entire career

Great stuff. Nothing will ever beat super rio setting up David Bentley though, that was amazing.

Lashers equaliser right at the death. OG from a cross drilled across the goal mouth. Amazing what happens when actual wingers put proper crosses in from the channels. Good game by the ref as well.

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Only after a good few years of scrambling round the bottom of the league though.

As I've said many times before, if the goal is to just stay in business and plod along in this division then they may as well just shut the place down. Absolutely no point in existing if they're not at least trying to get BACK into the premier league.

We'll either win this or get proper bummed.

So what's it going to be this year then? 'Forgot' to hit send? 'Accidentaly' submit the paperwork late? 'Misplace' some of the necessary parts of the contract? Don't get excited, we won't be signing anyone of note. It's not like we've brought in about £40 million over the last 12 months.

Either that or Real Madrid.

Yep. More than anything it just shows that these people are nothing other than complete pieces of shit.

Actually that was a far more competitive era. There may be more individual competitiveness between players now because they are all so homogeneous and there's no real individual standouts anymore. In this regard, Wharton is an outlier as he's got real quality about him and plays a style of his own, hence the reason they are still wanting to play him even though he's injured. In the good old days every team had at least one or two top class players that the team was built around and the rest were solid. In the modern era the players are pretty much interchangeable and nobody has any personality or individual attributes, it's all about who can play best for 'the system'. Well, it's fucking shit. It's boring, turgid and predictable.

Britain was once part of Rome no? Maybe he's just got a love of the classical age?

If anything he's been shafted by playing in shit internationals that mean nothing and getting injured in them.

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If only they would. Come on venkys, do the right thing and fuck off once and for all. Take your arse licking cretinous underlings with you as well.

Hopefully both things happen soon.

It's embarrassing. More for them than anyone else.

You do realise who you just quoted there don't you?

He's a far higher level of cunt than that abbey.