I’ve still got a little mental list of all the kids at primary school who did it. Wouldn’t lend any of them a fiver

Blacklisted

Never ever trust anyone who changes their football team

Reminds me of that Damned Utd quote. “as far as I'm concerned the 1st thing you can do for me is chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and your pans into the biggest f***ing dustbin you can find, because you've never won any of them fairly. You've done it all by bloody cheating.”

This is exactly the point. I’m no fan of VAR but the problem at the moment is simply bad refereeing, not VAR

No real fan of VAR but that was a clear pen and actually a pretty good example of what VAR was brought in for and it working well. Maybe you just don’t like the outcome

Was a handball

If there has been better, I didn’t see it

With posts that shit you might get a job writing for it mate

You’re grand Mickey, no pedants here

Agreed. Such a great album

Never understood this type of pearl clutching. This is exactly what football is all about - showboating

Partridge-esque intervention from Jeremy Vine as usual

I actually said this very thing to someone today. The first of many we failed to even properly try to replace

“Mid-tournament” is generous. After the first game against the wooden-spoon team

One game

Slightly different as we currently have a huge annual depreciation cost for the stadium which isn’t really a ‘loss’ other than for accounting purposes

Absolute bollox Irvine and just a typical nice narrative that doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny - it pretty much funded the tail end of the whole thing. And the dance scene in NI was never particularly lovey dovey. It was happy hardcore shite coming out of Vauxhall Novas from wankers you’d avoid