Disco Stu

It looks like we'll have to go through it all again with Bazunu. The absolute state of our goalkeeping options is a disgrace but McCarthy is still superior.

Couldn't ask for a better leader to come in. I'd immediately make him captain.

Russell Martin can fuck off

More of the same shit. Fed up and regretting my season ticket.

He has this weird habit of taking off our best performing player.

There's no way that's a red card. Should get rescinded.

That's surely the final nail in Will's coffin?

Bragg playing without a number? That's proper Championship that.

6 weeks without Charles.

From bad to worse.

We've been unacceptably poor. Especially the second half.

McCarthy stayed on his feet well.

Flynn Downes is a cunt. So is Adam Lallana amongst the staff. Perhaps the wrong type of cunts.

I feel nothing.

Besides the clear conflicts of interest that sees owners like Marinakis finding unscrupulous ways to bypass UEFAs rules, I look at clubs like Strasbourg and Troyes whose fans have seen their clubs become mere training centres for their "parent" clubs. Or as the Strasbourg fans put it "We are little more than a financial asset for an investment fund that already owns another club. Multi-club ownerships kill football. We have been robbed of all our most experienced players... It is now clear that BlueCo are imposing a U21 recruitment strategy, we aren't stupid". I look at several clubs in the red bull group that in many cases have had their identities stripped from them (different badge, different colours, different names) to become marketing vessels. I look at models like the City Group that start up a load of cookie cutter "city-lite" clubs that bankroll themselves to domestic success in a clear strategy of sports washing. Then I look at groups like the 777 group that despite consistant mismanagement of their assets, were allowed to continue building a huge portfolio of clubs that led to the likes of Girona, Standard Liege and KV Oostende falling into financial ruin. Now I'm seeing Sport Republic looking to expand their portfolio of clubs when two thirds of the group are in the worst state they've been in many years. For me, the multi-club model flies in the face of why I love football. Communities being represented and identifying with their local club and dreaming that they'll have their day in the sun. Too many multi-club models become a food chain, where those not at the top effectively become capped. That goes against one of my fundamentals. Nearly half of the Jupiler Pro league are part of this model and none of them are at the top of their respective groups. This was once a respectable league. No club should exist to service another club or a corporate entity. I see too many, the little guys especially, succumbing to that fate. Sorry if you don't like my opinion. I simply don't think it's good for football or for the communities that it originally served.