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[Welsh]

I'm really disappointed with the news I'm hearing this morning about Chelsea being seized by the UK government. I imagine they'll likely approve of a sale to someone that isn't Russian, which you could definitely argue is inherently racist, obviously their pitch will be because of the current owner is a oligarch. Looking at the special license that they've been given to continue operating, it looks like renewing, and buying new players could be a problem until the club is sold. Isn't Rudiger's contract running out this season, and I believe hes said a few times he would be interested in staying. For me, that's a player they absolutely need to keep. Thiago is getting on a bit now, and Rudiger is the only other defender that I think is up to scratch for the top four.

Back to the football on the field; I've got Liverpool to beat Brighton by three goals to nil, Chelsea to beat Norwich by two goals, and keep a clean sheet. I've got that accumulator with Chelsea also to beat Newcastle without conceding next week, and Athletico Madrid to beat Manchester United in the champions league without conceding. It's one of my long shot accumulators again.

[rdbase]

I'm really disappointed with the news I'm hearing this morning about Chelsea being seized by the UK government. I imagine they'll likely approve of a sale to someone that isn't Russian, which you could definitely argue is inherently racist, obviously their pitch will be because of the current owner is a oligarch. Looking at the special license that they've been given to continue operating, it looks like renewing, and buying new players could be a problem until the club is sold. Isn't Rudiger's contract running out this season, and I believe hes said a few times he would be interested in staying. For me, that's a player they absolutely need to keep. Thiago is getting on a bit now, and Rudiger is the only other defender that I think is up to scratch for the top four.

Back to the football on the field; I've got Liverpool to beat Brighton by three goals to nil, Chelsea to beat Norwich by two goals, and keep a clean sheet. I've got that accumulator with Chelsea also to beat Newcastle without conceding next week, and Athletico Madrid to beat Manchester United in the champions league without conceding. It's one of my long shot accumulators again.

So the UK government has block the sale of the club? This is disturbing news to Chelsea fans.
Thought he was going to hand it over to a delegate under some sort of donation/charity foundation for the time being or even to a Swiss elite who owns other sports teams. Ah well, they were all just rumors.
Yeah back to what really matters.. the matches on the pitch. Need to wait a few more days until those commence.
Think we have been spoiled with all those made up matches being played mid week since the season restarted.

[Trofo]

I'm really disappointed with the news I'm hearing this morning about Chelsea being seized by the UK government. I imagine they'll likely approve of a sale to someone that isn't Russian, which you could definitely argue is inherently racist, obviously their pitch will be because of the current owner is a oligarch. Looking at the special license that they've been given to continue operating, it looks like renewing, and buying new players could be a problem until the club is sold. Isn't Rudiger's contract running out this season, and I believe hes said a few times he would be interested in staying. For me, that's a player they absolutely need to keep. Thiago is getting on a bit now, and Rudiger is the only other defender that I think is up to scratch for the top four.

Back to the football on the field; I've got Liverpool to beat Brighton by three goals to nil, Chelsea to beat Norwich by two goals, and keep a clean sheet. I've got that accumulator with Chelsea also to beat Newcastle without conceding next week, and Athletico Madrid to beat Manchester United in the champions league without conceding. It's one of my long shot accumulators again.

So the UK government has block the sale of the club? This is disturbing news to Chelsea fans.
Thought he was going to hand it over to a delegate under some sort of donation/charity foundation for the time being or even to a Swiss elite who owns other sports teams. Ah well, they were all just rumors.
Yeah back to what really matters.. the matches on the pitch. Need to wait a few more days until those commence.
Think we have been spoiled with all those made up matches being played mid week since the season restarted.

Not only block the sale, they have put a number of ridiculous measures in place. Almost like the guy who wrote those regulations hates Chelsea and has just decided that this is perfect opportunity to make their lives hell.

They can't sell tickets, except to people who have season tickets. No merchandise sales. Traveling budget for away games has to be under 20k pounds. I mean WTF, how does this measure help Ukraine or puts extra pressure on Putin? Is that amount even enough to go play against Nice in Europe? I guess no flying this time for blue boys

Witting stuff from head after reading it on twitter trough the day so there is possibility that there is some fake news in that as well. Did not double check to be sure.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Well if the reward's in BTC then yeah it's going to be hard to get an exact amount, sometimes it's worth more and sometimes it's worth less depending on price but the yellow cap reward is $50 freebet. A lot of money to me and I'm sure it's at least worth a nice dinner for even someone in a high living cost country

Paddy Power ads are so cool, sometimes I see them watching livestream. I always thought you were in Asia actually, I always wondered about the experience of going into a bookie to place bets. On TV you only see people do that for horse racing usually. OR in casinos with sports.

Yeah $50 is enough for a nice dinner for a single person. But if you are couple then don't bother going to a restaurant, just order some takeaway. 😉

The reason I am not much interested to this $50 freebet is because eventually I will lose the money. The best scenario could be I will win one or two slip but eventually will lose those winning. The bad part from this losing could be, I will start feeling excited and next few weeks I will lose more money and that will be out of my own wallet until again I get bored LOL In the process of all these the worse part is, I will lose my precise time and energy. All the time my mind will be occupied with the update of the active betslips and searching for the next potential slip.

I have 4 - 0 for Chelsea, it looks like Chelsea will score few more. If they score only 2 more and don't concede any goal then I can wish for a three points LOL

[buwaytress]

^ Was talking on another channel and I also feel the sanctions action on Chelsea are -- racist and unfair. I've never been a Chelski lover but the other measures -- contracting etc. whatever happened to "spirit of the law"? And we've seen clubs get a slap on the hand for financial fraud. But this is almost forcing Chelsea to seppuku especially with player contracts, restricting their travel expenses. Ticketing (only season ticket holders can attend games)?? Course, I know I'm just reading from sources and I'm sure these aren't set in stone but I hope the FA step in and apply all kinds of special measures.

Anyway.

All my picks looking healthy at half time. Watching the Villa game and I'm really enjoying what I see. Backed them last game and this one -- both as slight underdogs, which Gerrard probably relishes. The little magician's finding a good home.

[Joca97]

So happy with how the first half finished all results almost are going good for me. Only thing that is not winning for me is Newcastle. Wanted to surprise myself with it if they win i think i might grab some amazing points in this round and for me that would be perfect to try and attack top places

[Harkorede]

So happy with how the first half finished all results almost are going good for me. Only thing that is not winning for me is Newcastle. Wanted to surprise myself with it if they win i think i might grab some amazing points in this round and for me that would be perfect to try and attack top places

In the end you got your wish and full 3 points for the Newcastle win over Southampton, I had Southampton to win the other way round, I felt they'd bounce back from their defeat over the weekend.


I don't think it's a terrible game round for me, I got 16.5 points in total for the week and just one exact point from all the games, it would have been much better if I was able to get a few more exact scores.

[Joca97]

So happy with how the first half finished all results almost are going good for me. Only thing that is not winning for me is Newcastle. Wanted to surprise myself with it if they win i think i might grab some amazing points in this round and for me that would be perfect to try and attack top places

In the end you got your wish and full 3 points for the Newcastle win over Southampton, I had Southampton to win the other way round, I felt they'd bounce back from their defeat over the weekend.


I don't think it's a terrible game round for me, I got 16.5 points in total for the week and just one exact point from all the games, it would have been much better if I was able to get a few more exact scores.

You survived and kept your 9th place haha. But i could have been the best in this round. That late goal by Chelsea killed my hopes of being first this week. But now i think im safe in 10th place overall and i think it will be extremely hard for someone below 10th place to go into the place that gives the prize. Now its just first 10 fighting for prizes that are bigger and lower. Hopefully i can be in top 3.

[jeremypwr]

Congrats jayce on winning your 1st Yellow Cap of the season  
Free Bet coming your way

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

You survived and kept your 9th place haha. But i could have been the best in this round. That late goal by Chelsea killed my hopes of being first this week. But now i think im safe in 10th place overall and i think it will be extremely hard for someone below 10th place to go into the place that gives the prize. Now its just first 10 fighting for prizes that are bigger and lower. Hopefully i can be in top 3.

Don't take the green pill too early 😉
If I am not wrong then 4 to 5 rounds ago I was not even in to p 30. I think I was like in 32th position LOL. I could have a very good round in this one if I would have one more or two correct pick. I missed few from very close margin. It's freaking hard to get exact scores. Jayce got three exact score which made the difference for him.

[slaman29]

Well done jayce yellow hat caused you to go up 7 positions! It was a tough end and so many people got 10 or more correct results, so we all got 3 points. I'm happy with my performance as it maintains my effort to close in on prizes. 10 more games to go I just need to be more disciplined, I have the most slam points, suitable for my nickname BigSlam lol If only my predictions are more accurate, I have the biggest Close scores but no one comes close to hilariousandco 102 EXACT scores. Amazing.

I have 4 - 0 for Chelsea, it looks like Chelsea will score few more. If they score only 2 more and don't concede any goal then I can wish for a three points LOL

About your gambling problem I get it, it happened to me before too but with crypto it's actually much easier to manage because it's not linked to bank account or credit card. So I just deposit and if it's gone then I can't gamble until I make a new deposit. Soccer Blackjack saved my life a few times actually You should try it out. Or be active in Clubtalk and in free promos, so many chances for freebets

[swogerino]

You survived and kept your 9th place haha. But i could have been the best in this round. That late goal by Chelsea killed my hopes of being first this week. But now i think im safe in 10th place overall and i think it will be extremely hard for someone below 10th place to go into the place that gives the prize. Now its just first 10 fighting for prizes that are bigger and lower. Hopefully i can be in top 3.

Don't take the green pill too early 😉
If I am not wrong then 4 to 5 rounds ago I was not even in to p 30. I think I was like in 32th position LOL. I could have a very good round in this one if I would have one more or two correct pick. I missed few from very close margin. It's freaking hard to get exact scores. Jayce got three exact score which made the difference for him.

I am also noticing this about correct scores.I doubt anyone had the Newcastle to win 1-2 as a result yesterday when Southampton has been doing good in a consistent way and yet yesterday they lost.Also I did not expect for Wolves to win 4-0 when so far they have been a team of having a lot of difficulties to score goals.Personally I completely forgot to put the predictions yesterday but at least I got 3 points from the default picks,it looks like the strong teams won yesterday.

[jayce]

Congrats jayce on winning your 1st Yellow Cap of the season  
Free Bet coming your way
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Thanks J! Finally on Round 28th lol

If I am not wrong then 4 to 5 rounds ago I was not even in to p 30. I think I was like in 32th position LOL. I could have a very good round in this one if I would have one more or two correct pick. I missed few from very close margin. It's freaking hard to get exact scores. Jayce got three exact score which made the difference for him.

Well if you mean this round, actually I managed to get one exact score only. But having 7 close scores is a great achievement tho. Good luck for next rounds mate!

Well done jayce yellow hat caused you to go up 7 positions! It was a tough end and so many people got 10 or more correct results, so we all got 3 points. I'm happy with my performance as it maintains my effort to close in on prizes. 10 more games to go I just need to be more disciplined, I have the most slam points, suitable for my nickname BigSlam lol If only my predictions are more accurate, I have the biggest Close scores but no one comes close to hilariousandco 102 EXACT scores. Amazing.

Thanks slaman29! I had to wait until 28th round to get my first yellow cap. And yeah this round was so tough indeed! Good luck for next rounds

[Trofo]

If I am not wrong then 4 to 5 rounds ago I was not even in to p 30. I think I was like in 32th position LOL. I could have a very good round in this one if I would have one more or two correct pick. I missed few from very close margin. It's freaking hard to get exact scores. Jayce got three exact score which made the difference for him.

Well if you mean this round, actually I managed to get one exact score only. But having 7 close scores is a great achievement tho. Good luck for next rounds mate!

Congrats man, very nice getting all those close scores.

Exact scores are bitching hard to get and I feel like they are mostly luck. Maybe it feels that way to me since I can't get them. Some players manage every week so I could be wrong

Another big gameweek for us with Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, Brighton, Everton and Newcastle all playing double fixtures. Newcastle in good form should take some points from Everton, Chelsea away is probably a bit much to ask for.

[Welsh]

All my picks looking healthy at half time. Watching the Villa game and I'm really enjoying what I see. Backed them last game and this one -- both as slight underdogs, which Gerrard probably relishes. The little magician's finding a good home.

I absolutely am not the biggest fan of "Chelski" this season, they've actually ruined five of my accumulators this year. One which actually did come in for 25k. Although, I'll still stick up for them, because the treatment they're receiving is as you put it; racist, and unfair. I get the UK government want to make it look like they're trying to hurt Russia as much as possible, without actually going to war with them, however I don't agree with the mass amount of seizures of normal people's assets either.

War is already horrible enough, we don't need to do more harm to the people who hasn't got a say regardless of whether you sanction them or not. Anyway, Chelsea ruined another of my accumulators yesterday, I had them down as a 3-0, and they concede through a unnecessary penalty. You can just imagine how irate I was seeing that there was really no danger, but he did have his hand in a non natural position. It was definitely a pen.

I'm probably going to put one more bet on this week, since I quite like the fixture list for an accumulator. Though, I think I'll forget putting Chelsea on my accumulators for a while.

[jayce]

Congrats man, very nice getting all those close scores.

Exact scores are bitching hard to get and I feel like they are mostly luck. Maybe it feels that way to me since I can't get them. Some players manage every week so I could be wrong

Thanks bud! Ikr, have no idea too why they can pick exact score regularly in every week lol.

[hilariousetc]

It's getting worse and worse for Leeds. Getting beat 3-0 by Villa at home and it now looks like Firpo will be out for the rest of the season. The game on Sunday against Norwich is going to be interesting. A loss against them would be devastating and Norwich desperately need to start grabbing some points and Leeds are looking like their best bet right now.

I'm really disappointed with the news I'm hearing this morning about Chelsea being seized by the UK government. I imagine they'll likely approve of a sale to someone that isn't Russian, which you could definitely argue is inherently racist, obviously their pitch will be because of the current owner is a oligarch. Looking at the special license that they've been given to continue operating, it looks like renewing, and buying new players could be a problem until the club is sold. Isn't Rudiger's contract running out this season, and I believe hes said a few times he would be interested in staying. For me, that's a player they absolutely need to keep. Thiago is getting on a bit now, and Rudiger is the only other defender that I think is up to scratch for the top four.

Back to the football on the field; I've got Liverpool to beat Brighton by three goals to nil, Chelsea to beat Norwich by two goals, and keep a clean sheet. I've got that accumulator with Chelsea also to beat Newcastle without conceding next week, and Athletico Madrid to beat Manchester United in the champions league without conceding. It's one of my long shot accumulators again.

I'm sure these sanctions will backfire. They're trying to make it look like they're doing something without actually doing anything because they're worried it'll kick off WW3. Well I don't think Putin will take too kindly to the economy being crippled and them directly arming Ukraine. At some point I think it's going to escalate especially with the mounting Russian losses and the invasion seemingly not going to plan. Pretty much all those Russian tanks that are being blown up are done so with British weapons. It's like grabbing someone else's hand to punch Russia in the face then saying it wasn't me. The UK/Nato might not have boots on the ground but they might as well have. I find the whole situation pretty hypocritical to be honest. When is the world going to start holding all countries to the same standards?

So the UK government has block the sale of the club? This is disturbing news to Chelsea fans.
Thought he was going to hand it over to a delegate under some sort of donation/charity foundation for the time being or even to a Swiss elite who owns other sports teams. Ah well, they were all just rumors.
Yeah back to what really matters.. the matches on the pitch. Need to wait a few more days until those commence.
Think we have been spoiled with all those made up matches being played mid week since the season restarted.

Not only block the sale, they have put a number of ridiculous measures in place. Almost like the guy who wrote those regulations hates Chelsea and has just decided that this is perfect opportunity to make their lives hell.

They can't sell tickets, except to people who have season tickets. No merchandise sales. Traveling budget for away games has to be under 20k pounds. I mean WTF, how does this measure help Ukraine or puts extra pressure on Putin? Is that amount even enough to go play against Nice in Europe? I guess no flying this time for blue boys

Witting stuff from head after reading it on twitter trough the day so there is possibility that there is some fake news in that as well. Did not double check to be sure.

They should just let Abramovich sell the club without all the red tape, otherwise it's the club and fans that will suffer. They want him to sell it but have made it practically impossible for them to do so? Doesn't make any sense. They'll just end up selling it to some other dodgy immoral fucker with dirty money anyway so they cycle will just continue. They should really look into privatising clubs and getting them majority fan owned or something otherwise it's just always going to be about the money.

[LTU_btc]

I absolutely am not the biggest fan of "Chelski" this season, they've actually ruined five of my accumulators this year. One which actually did come in for 25k. Although, I'll still stick up for them, because the treatment they're receiving is as you put it; racist, and unfair. I get the UK government want to make it look like they're trying to hurt Russia as much as possible, without actually going to war with them, however I don't agree with the mass amount of seizures of normal people's assets either.

Abramovich isn't just ordinary normal person, he is an oligarch who is close to Putin and I don't think it's correct to say that these sanctions is racist. Abramovich already wanted to sell Chelsea, but now this proccess is on hold and it may hurt club seriously. I understand that government wanted to prevent from getting cash, but I think they had to let him sell club.
I agree that some sanctions looks just as attempt to make look that governments is doing something. It's questionable how it will hurt Putin's regime, but it definitely will hurt ordinary people who aren't most responsible for war. But all these sanctions looks so hypocrite when EU and UK continue to buy gas from Russia.

[Harkorede]

Yeah, maybe saying the sanction is racist may not be the best way to describe the sanction, but the UK sanction on the club is doing more harm to other people than Abramovich himself, there are several UK citizens and tax payers who would have or have had their means of livelihood halted by these sanctions, I believe the measures are rather extreme, why let players and other staffs suffer ? They could easily allow him sell they club and go about whatever means they want all out on him ALONE.

[Trofo]

Yeah, maybe saying the sanction is racist may not be the best way to describe the sanction, but the UK sanction on the club is doing more harm to other people than Abramovich himself, there are several UK citizens and tax payers who would have or have had their means of livelihood halted by these sanctions, I believe the measures are rather extreme, why let players and other staffs suffer ? They could easily allow him sell they club and go about whatever means they want all out on him ALONE.

Exactly, there is no doubt that Abramovich is close to Putin and nobody is objecting to sanctions against him but these sanctions seems poorly thought out and targeted at wrong people. Why do you forbid Chelsea selling tickets to supporters? Isn't it better that you broker a deal under the table with Chelsea representative that half of all the money goes directly to help Ukraine? It actually helps people and Chelsea gets a chance to restore a bit of the image and maybe keeps some sponsors.