Ah damn, should have read older posts, so it's double game week confirmed, no wonder the Rashford love. Still plenty of time to switch around, and I'm happy to take a few points off to bring in another midfielder. Or Nunez back (haha).

Maddisson still too risky? He's been in training already. Sure, not sharp, but all we need from him is a couple freekick goals.

My FPL is currently the definition of fantasy (players I believe will turn a corner in a big way).

Yes, but not restricted to FUD. I think any kind of solicitation is unethical, especially the way most people do it (cherry pick information and showing what is positive, sometimes even unfounded). I love when there's spreading of awareness and information, absolutely don't like when speculative hype is being bandied around. Doesn't matter if FOMO or FUD, it's all generally quite irresponsible leading to people parting with money they can't afford to lose.

I know it's all opinion but when you're spreading it, even paying for it to be heard/seen...

Have to say the only stickers I've ever come across in my wanderings (apart from on shops to signal an accepting merchant) have always been neutral (no message), or even funny/non-serious (I distinctly recall the rollercaster Bitcoin person thing). Hard to spread a message without providing some kind of evidence, but I do always wonder what a person sees first when Googling. Definitely need to think about adding this forum link

The biggest probably crap news I hear today is Lukaku wanted by both Newcastle AND Spurs. I usually don't pay attention to that kind of nonsense but something tells me it's actually true. Heh.


Yeah and now, for me, who wants to go to Chelsea now and sit on the bench? Only people who don't mind not playing (aka not hungry enough). Something tells me it's not just about Chelsea being idiot in transfer, I wonder if also about Potter not knowing what he's doing or can he really be blameless here?

Closest thing I ever did to that was a short stay in the UK, which coincided with Liverpool's run to the final of Europa League in 2016 (we lost the final but it was unexpected, and Kloppomania had just begun).

Opened new accounts with almost every bookie I ran into -- online and at the shops. Didn't know there were so many! All books give new players a first bet promo, which pays out really generously. They limit you to something like 2 GBP per bet, but payouts were something like 50/1 on Liverpool wins. So I did this at every stage of the game on a new bookie all the way to the final.

Then throughout Europa, they all ran similar promos even in EPL. Boosted prices on small things like scorer, first scorer. I put almost every scorer promo on Daniel Sturridge. Who was on a hot streak that season.

With something less than 50 pounds outlay, I ended up with huge profits thanks to Liverpool's crazy run. Lost quite a bit in the final (which we didn't win) but ended the season well.

Left the UK so closed out all my bookie accounts.

But that wasn't me not going back again, that was just me unable to return =)

Unfortunately not. I was about to pull the trigger when Monza's first goal was disallowed, but then I spent too much time looking at horrible Liverpool play (more on that I'm too tired to explain). But yeah, time to get serious about Monza, I predicted 2-1 on them on Superbru but that was more hopeful than anything else to try and climb the table.

Honestly don't know what's going on in Serie A other than much-publicised Juve... but Napoli seems to be the only one keeping form.

And dare I say, Lazio's the one now improving theirs?

^ Ya saw that, well done, at least someone is not miserable today.

Funny enough, I saw that I actually had Sevilla in one of my tickets, so that passed happily as the first leg. Honestly can't remember ever doing that, it's been ages since I counted them to serve me up anything, so it's a weird accident I'm pleased for.

Meanwhile, Valencia did as expected, and Atletico slim win, business as usual in La Liga

And after I said to myself not to waste any more money on the Reds, I threw away a bit more. How do you rank our worst performances this season? Impossible. Every single Brighton player performed better at passes completed in opponent's half than our entire forward/midfield.

And Fabinho coming on, first key pass so bad, first key tackle could have been a red, he needs a cold storage placement because he has lost all confidence.

Mitoma's goal was pretty slick, rarely see that kind of feint in the air these days. May they go on and win the FA Cup. Don't let City please.

Yeah, there we go. Feyenoord dropping points at a time when they need statements of intent, now leaving the door open for Alkmaar (what?) to sit atop the league, if they win and Eindhoven takes what they'll feel is a possible victory at Feyenoord next game.

Couldn't have been an easier debut for Heitinga in the end, though must be nice to see Kudus, Tadic and Klaasen on target.

Wow. Just as I thought Atalanta finds a way to score the goals, they let in 5 at home against... Sassuolo haha. If Giroud's opener had stood, it could have been a whole different ball game after.

It was such an interesting prospect to see Sassuolo at 1.09 live even leading 3-1 at HT, I took them and tagged them on a Liverpool ML... so let's see how my Sunday pans out. Might be tempted to go on Monza later if all is well in 40 mins. Heh.

Got to be one of the most misleading headlines I've read recently heh. She didn't win the lottery, she lost all her money gambling. That's really the headline, here, no?

I mean, you lose at poker or black jack or roulette, and you don't mention how many rounds you win before eventually busting (you can even win more hands than lose as people like me usually bust when chasing losing streaks).

Missed the special and he didn't drop a single set so I ended up with no money bet. Probably one of the lowest amounts and frequencies I've ever spent on a GS, but that 25/10 seems in hindsight now the best value bet of them all -- and it still failed by one game haha.

So looks like I saved myself more money (that's a good thing, right?).

Didn't realise he had family on coaching (but doesn't Djoko and a lot of others do as well?). Still find it a bit strange to have that, even if it does happen in football too.

Anyway, match is going almost as I expected. More aces from Tsitsi, but more receiving points from Djoko.

Still waiting for a set to drop before I pull trigger on any bet but at least second set shows the Greek can still get to him. He needs to get a good streak going though and get his forehand going... totally let him down in the tie break.

Man, Bayern just teasing everyone else these days. Actually had a bet on Frankfurt last minute as odds were above 8/1 but didn't seriously think Bayern would slip up. Then we get this result. Every team including BVB in for it.

Not really a serious question but is Mane missed?

@KTChampions yes please. Knock out PSG and keep this league well alive. I of course want my team to win but we gotta take care of Real first.

@tokeweed yep, we've been pursuing him (or Klopp has anyway) for at least 3 seasons now, but he's always been too expensive, and then it was also a matter of timing, and now our old backroom acquisition people are gone also, so I'm not sure. It does appear owners are finally willing to consider the fee but then now we're not the only ones.


Yeah, I think he's a smart boy, and our fortunes thus far will have played its part in swaying that "hunger" if there ever was a case that he might choose heart over money. And we can't blame him for that.

I doubt we're in the lead too. It's just the fandom, and as you say, rumours, which have been fanning (admittedly also by me) since even when we won the title (damn that's ages ago).

Yeah, Dirk Kuyt captain days of strength and consistency long gone, but I definitely am enjoying Ajax's crappiness. My closest friends here (they're not that close but it's as good as it gets) are semi-Feyenoord supporters, but we can definitely agree we all want Ajax to be miserable.

Problem now is they acted swiftly and have a new guy in place. That can result in them climbing back up the table and those already at the top are, as you say, unreliable.

Nice one Slam. HT still scoreless but don't think there is any need to worry.


The way my team's playing, I honestly don't mind seeing these top 2 giants clash. They've become more attractive again, in part because of Real magic, in part because Barca's stopped looking like shit.


One club at a time for me is all I can manage. I suppose I have some leanings towards the underdogs in La Liga and Serie A, but that is generally reliant on their performance (it's never Real, Barca or Atletico which is great so I can enjoy/hate as a neutral).

Auxerre was sad, I didn't feel much for Cagliari, Everton, well, I can never take seriously. This season I followed Freiburg for a bit (and one of my fav players Doan helps me). Hang in there, man.

I genuinely liked Tsitsi, as a very casual follower who only gets to watch maybe 1 in 5 games properly, and only GS, the problem was when I started betting on him too, and you always felt, with the greats slowly retreating from the stage (with the exception of Djoko), I always felt he would be one of the replacements.

Did anyone actually have Tsitsi on outright? Was at least 20/1 as I recall. Amazing time to hedge.

My mistake, I meant to say I had an ML, and that got me the freebet. The $50 does need to be on the game with min 1.50 odds though, so just watch for that.

Good that you won. I hedged on Citeh, but then the final game on my acca was on Wellington in A-league... so all I got back was my stake as a freebet. Can't win them all, but FA Cup today kicks off my second round of accas. All to live for =)

That's okay. One day, soon, hopefully, this captaining of Salah will pay off. Rashford's too hot to leave out, Saka is probably the only guy who's stayed in my team the longest, but I've also switched Pope out now, have a feeling it can't last.

Martinelli played pretty ok last night but Trossard had as best a debut as you can get while on the losing side. He's backup though, so yeah I'm not going to tinker with Arsenal beyond (maybe) Martinelli.