People keep referring to violence. It isn’t the 80s anymore, unless it is a high profile game between two big rivals or you go out of your way to rile and antagonise you’re unlikely to get anything other than a few verbals. It’s highly unlikely you’re going to get filled in as an American Liverpool fan sitting in the Fulham end or whatever.

But just don’t do it. It’s a shit, dickhead move, especially if you’re wearing colours and actively supporting the away team.

If you do do it then we least be respectful.

Yes you are. And Liverpool aren’t your biggest rivals.

No. They aren’t rigged.

‘Show me you have no idea about football without telling me you have no idea about football’

‘Lol Spurs don’t win anything haha’

‘Emptihad lol’

It’ll be up to the individual nations to decide, but I would imagine they’ll only go on sale once they know that they’re through.

Genuinely blows my mind. Him and Camp are genuinely the two worst players I’ve ever seen for us, outfield players included.

The description of Fergie in the OP post is extremely one sided. I presume the OP is younger and didn’t follow football during Fergie’s reign.

Fergie was arguably the greatest manager and greatest man manager ever. He treated his players as his children and they looked up to him as a father figure. He nurtured them, protected them and guided them.

He was so successful because he fostered a winning mentality where every player bought into the team ethos. No player was bigger than the club. It didn’t matter how good you were, if you weren’t prepared to dig in and fight for your team mates there wasn’t a place for you at the club.

He nurtured Beckham from a teenage boy and had a special relationship with him. Beckham wouldn’t have had half the career he had without him. What you see as controlling is actually Fergie keeping him on the straight and narrow.

Beckham is presented in a certain way in the documentary but he was no angel. At various points throughout his career he saw himself as above the club and above his team mates which goes against everything which made Man United so successful. He said himself in the documentary that he craved fame and publicity. With the haircut, he was a massive celebrity figure - partially because of the hair - and shaving the curtains off was always going to generate publicity. There’s nothing remotely comparable these days. But he orchestrated it to keep it secret until he stepped on the pitch at Old Trafford knowing the eyes of the world would be on him for non-footballing reasons and effectively used the club to generate publicity for himself.

He didn’t control who he could see, either, but rightly felt his relationship/marriage was distracting him from football and was within his rights to move a player on who wasn’t fully committed.

Without Fergie you get pisstakers like Pogba and 2021/22 Ronaldo running the club and poisoning the dressing room. Bearing in mind he already got shot of one and nurtured the other into one of the best players of all time.

Doubt there are any clubs in the Football League.

It’s more common in the National League, although I still doubt there are any fanbases where 100% of fans support other clubs.

In the North East, a good chunk of Gateshead’s fans support either Newcastle or Sunderland. They have a very passionate chunk of fans who solely support Gateshead as well though and resent the fact Newcastle voted them out of the Football League in the 70s.

Similarly, South Shields famously played in front of a crowd of 27 people a decade ago and averaged 50 fans after having to relocate to Peterlee 20 miles away but were taken over by a local businessman in 2015 who ploughed money in and attracted lapsed ex Sunderland and Newcastle season ticket holders and now average 2-3k and took 13k up Wembley for the FA Vase final in 2017.

I’m a Sunderland fan who thinks Shearer is a wanker and can’t stand the man or the player.

But he was world class and to say it was a weak era or that he was overrated is laughable. I wouldn’t be shocked if the OP bases his footballing knowledge from Fifa and the fact he’s pretty shit on Ultimate Team.

The ‘Premier League record goalscorer’ thing does him a disservice too as he played another 5 top flight seasons as an 18-22 year old before the Premier League and scored 23 goals which aren’t counted towards the record.

How you’ve come to the weak era conclusion is beyond me - his last couple of seasons were bang in the middle of English clubs dominating the Champions League for starters.

You are absolutely right that it is nigh on impossible to pinpoint the exact moment the ball is played.

In which case, isn’t it great that we have VAR? We can freeze it down to within a fraction of a second - beforehand we relied on the lineman potentially 50 yards away being able to look in two places at once.

7 points adrift with 6 games to play, including Man City, Chelsea and Man United. It’s certainly the greatest relegation comeback of the Premier League era.

Luke O’Nien

Think I’m on 70-odd but should add another 2 this season

The best player to play in this country for decades. He was outstanding.

Haven’t watched the video, but we’re talking 10 as in the central attacking midfielder role, not the squad number? Fati and Rashford’s squad numbers are irrelevant (Zidane wore 5 for Madrid for instance).