The chairman of a top club from the richest football league in the world, that earned a record £113 million profit last season, has the fucking gall to apply for government assistance to pay 80% of the wages for it’s off-field staff. The greedy fucking Israelite!
The British economy is going down the pan, the world is facing a horrific pandemic, and a super-rich private company with sacks of gold want Joe fucking public to pay the wages of the tea lady so Shylock can horde a few more shekels. This same hebe earned £7m himself last year, the wage bill of their playing staff is £81m, but they want us to pay their out-of-work toilet attendants, that can be re-recruited at the drop of a hat anyway.
Nominated by Shagga for Freedom
Daniel Levy is a cunt…
Daniel Levy: Tottenham chairman issues warning as non-playing staff take pay cut,,,
So, the overpaid and overrated millionaires still get their obscene ‘wages’, while the real workers and people who keep Spurs running are getting screwed over?.. Wonder if Gobshite Mourinho is taking a pay cut, as he is not a player? Nah! Didn’t think so…
Classic Levy… Absolutely typical of the snake… A fucking cunt….
Followed by .Cunty Bollocks
Premier League Footballers
At the time of writing, football players in major European leagues are voluntarily freezing their salaries (Italy) or reducing them by 70% (Spain). The fuckers realise that they’re loaded and destroying their club’s finances by continuing to take a full salary during this pandemic. Doing this will help their clubs to survive the pandemic. Some of these clubs/players are also helping pay the wages of those laid off.
However, in the English Premier League, the players haven’t offered anything like their counterparts in Italy or Spain. Indeed, teams such as Tottenham (and a few others now) have laid off ordinary staff (cleaners, odd jobs men, physios, admin staff, kit men, cooks etc) to save costs.
The low paid staff are told to fuck off on no pay, while these rich cunts still get their 200k per week for doing fuck all. You’d think they’d take a cut, or at least offer to help pay the staff’s wages, but no…
…give me my fucking millions and fuck you all.
I hope people remember this when the Chinese flu all blows over. Fuck paying for Sky/BT, fuck going to games and fuck buying their ‘merch’.
Fuck them all, the greedy cunts.
Some years ago I was friendly with a former Chairman of Tottenham Hotspur, his son-in-law still sits on the board.. He would have cut his wrists before asking for a government bailout. That is an indication of how standards have fallen in the last 40 years. There was a time when football club directors were not allowed to take a penny out of the clubs, the only thing they received was a decent lunch at every home match. Greed seems to override everything nowadays.
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Oh I think you’re being harsh… I mean premier league cunts are letting NHS staff stay in their swanky EMPTY hotels for ‘free’.
…somehow I suspect that the ‘free’ stays will be creatively claimed back from HM treasury as some kind of written off loss / charity donation by the Cayman Island ‘Accountants’ (money launderers) they employ.
Premier league footballers will need every £20 note they have in readily available sacks, to throw out of their mansion windows, in order to distract the fuming masses, who will surely be after they blood once the rioting starts.
Their all a bunch of poncy over paid talentless fucking wankers anyway. I hope when this has all finally died down, that there is a re-evaluation of how valuable the main services (NHS, Police, Fire, Army) are, and they can be paid a proper wage.
There’s certainly going to be a huge rise in unemployment, and a lot less people inclined to spend £100 on the ‘new’ shirt & silly money on season tickets.
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Cunts like this will wreck the whole economy and skip away scot free laughing all the way to Branston island.
80 lashes and a week in a pit.
Fuck off.
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Levy simply can’t be parted from his sack of shekels. This is why Spurs are ultimately doomed – an owner who is too tight to spend any money.
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It must be difficult being connected to a football club at the moment. Even if not in a top team or even the top tier, you’d still be coining it in for doing fuck-all. The Tottenham Yîds are as shitty as all the others.
Oh and look! Here comes Gary fucking Neville again berating everybody, attacking Johnson, admonishing Hancock for suggesting players take a pay cut.
Shut the Fuck Up you little prick. I understand that with lockdown you can’t pop out to shag your Mum, though keep your daft thoughts to yourself. You and your even fugliet brother look like the sort of special needs kids who shit in a urinals.
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Gary Neville, what a cunt. Seems to think he’s an authority on everything football related from managing to club finances…what about his shite performance as a manager and the fact that he was carried in that Manchester United team… average player but a top cunt.
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Well said captain, and Wayne Rooney must have bollocks the size of football’s not being able to get away from Colleen and Shag some toothless old prozzy gran
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Does he shag his mum?
Im bit shocked, least shes dating someone with a few quid!
She best keep quiet about having kids though…
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🎵 His sister shags his brother
His brother shags his mother
They all shag each other
The Neville Fa-mily 🎜
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What should happen is all the football players should have a choice, cut your wages or get your cock and balls cut off by Michael Barrymore, over paid cunts,
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How about chucking them in Barrymores swimming pool
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Some of them might like a little tickle from Barrymore.
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That cunt Levy received a 3 million pound bonus last year for simply ensuring the new Spurs stadium was built on time.
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Yeah and Levy’s 3 mill bonus still went in his bin despite the stadium being 7 months late!
Now if I was promised a bonus for doing something and it was 7 fucking months late I wouldn’t expect to get it. In fact i’d be well pleased to keep my job.
The furlough scheme wasn’t designed for rich cunts to help themselves to taxpayers money. Tottenham, the eighth richest club in world football, should be told to fuck right off.
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Likewise the new Wembley Stadium. Years late and Well over budget. Mind you, built by Australians and those workshy convicts can’t get anything done on time.
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Bert – The stadium was 8 months late and massively over budget and the cunt still got a $3M bonus. Figure that one out.
Football is now an industry where failure is rewarded. New manager comes in on a multi-year year contract, doesn’t turn the team’s fortunes around, club slides down the league, club decides to make a change and pays off the remainder of the manager’s contract. That’s insane!
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This isolation shit is just about to get a whole lot worse, Mrs B announced that Andrew Loyd Webber is doing a weekly you tube show every Friday night.
Well she can self isolate in the bedroom with a laptop and headphones there are limits to my tolerance.
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The thought’s enough to give you a very serious eye twitch
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Afternoon,Lord B.
What a shame that there isn’t an “….is a Cunt” youtube channel. We could take it in turns to give a lecture on our “specialised subject”…apart from B+WC of course….we wouldn’t want people to think that we’re a bunch of practitioners of “The Sexual Dark Arts”
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I dunno Dick B+W would probably get more hits than the rest of us put together!
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True enough Ron, but it’s just not very “tasteful” …in any sense of the word.
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I have it on good authority that Black and White now takes precautions before engaging in such practices. He plunges his tongue into alcohol. There’s no evidence it keeps viruses away but at the end of the night he’s so pissed, he couldn’t care less.
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I’m surprised that he doesn’t rinse the fucking thing in “Toilet Duck” or something….I know that I fucking well would.
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YouTube is too ‘woke’ I’m afraid, Lord Fiddler. They just aren’t ready for the wise contributions of ISAC posters. We’re the modern equivalent of those scientists who were thrown in jail for suggesting that the earth isn’t flat.
I can’t see them accepting your, undoubtedly, fine videos on the perils of ‘the gayness’ disease, I’m afraid. Or indeed, Unkle Terry shouting ‘Oven’ every five minutes. I can’t see them being overjoyed at that bloke who stocks his tongue up ladies’ arses either, as you mentioned.
They just aren’t ready over at Woketube, I’m afraid.
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You could be right,CB.
‘Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honour in his own country’ (John 4:44)
We must remain an untapped source of Sanity in an increasingly insane World.
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I’ll have you cunters know that my ‘Tonguing’ practices build up a strong immune system…vital in the fight against Coronavirus and also useful in this toilet paper drought (although I insist the lady showers on the day of debauchery). Is there any way I can patent my practices?
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10 grand to HBH-Acme Patents Office, in used fivers…
So long as Jilly Cooper/Labradors are not in any way involved, wouldn’t want B&WC’s to gue to get harmed…
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“Patent my practices”??!!!…….you’re just fucking lucky not to be arrested for your “practices”in my opinion.
Although I suppose you could always go on “Dragon’s Den” and see what they thought?….that Deborah Meadon might be interested in a bit of ringpiece-rinsing?
https://images.app.goo.gl/GYrSfRd9YebdWRFj8
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Oh Deborah would love a bit of tonguing Mr Fiddler but as I am a young strapping lad perhaps a more ‘senior citizen’ like yourself may wish to step up to the task. 😁
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Are they ‘golden showers’ you insist your lady takes on the day of debauchery B&WC?
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I tried putting honest opinionsmon GoogleTube, but I couldnt compete with all the stupid cat videos and muppets who cant sing. I mainly use GoogleTube for gaming videos, and to download music.
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Golden shower…now that is way too debauched for me.
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Went out with a bird who was into ‘watersports’. Not my thing at all. She was fit too. She used to follow me to the toilet sometimes and request I pee on her.
Fuck me, I’ve had some mentals.
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I caught sight of Wubba accidentally on youtube; a definite candidate for the deadpool
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Surely somebody had Bill Withers today?
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Hopefully when all it is all over this kind of greed will be remembered….not just in football but the likes of Branson and Philip Green who are equally shameless….and the fucking Banks of course,but it goes without saying that they’d be looking to profit from misery.
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Greed knows no limit with his type.
He sees no shame in it
To him its just the way it goes.
Fuckin reptiles.
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Aye,their kind are never satisfied..it’s always “gimme,gimme,gimme”
How are you doing,MNC?
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Alrite Dick thanks.
Family gave me a bung till back to work, and sorted out finances, but not someone whos happy indoors, so the gardens got revamped, lots of little jobs etc
And hours spent in woods with dog.
Watching a pair of buzzard at moment.
But in all honesty Dick ill be happy to get working again, not just the money but i beleive working gives you self respect.
Old fashioned but true.
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Amen to that MNC! 👍
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I’ve got a couple of the lads who usually help me with the tree-work coming in 2- 3 days a week…they’re just doing odd bits around the place…some fencing, painting etc. while I’m on the digger.
At least we’re not stuck indoors all the time.
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Yep, getting busy is key.
When this lockdown finishes ill be very busy,
The housing markets on hold so some people are in a rental property still paying rent, while paying the mortgage on a new home they cant move into!
Going to do 7days a week as long as I can.
Didnt know how itd effect you?
But while seeing what government grants i could apply for saw lots for agricultural & farming.🚜
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I usually steer clear of the football noms, I hate everything about the stupid game, but just because I don’t like it, there’s no point in moaning about it all the time. However, this is one of those occasions where it strays into real life, and deserves a bit of hate. The trash that play it are normally tasteless chavs, who blow vast sums on pointless shiny shiny, then flash it on that cunt window known as Instagram like some downmarket Kardashian(now there’s an insult).
The fact that they are furloughing the people who can least afford it speaks volumes about those that run the game too, one that is so awash with cash, it really could make a difference with some generous handouts, but they plead poverty when they are down to their last 576 million quid.
Grand cunt Lineker has spoken out, saying it’s unfair to target rich footballers, saying they will do something ‘just give them time’. That’s rich, coming from that background himself, and making a very pretty penny poncing off the taxpayer.
Fuck them, they might just donate a bit of their precious time to some charity trash, where joe public has to foot the bill again.
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Publicly at least, Linecunt is a lefty socialist, but in reality, he’s just another tax dodging tight fisted as fuck grabbing multi millionaire.
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These cunts realise that takings are going to go down, tickets, shirts and expensive subscriptions to sky sports etc are all going to drop through the floor. Football is in denial just now, but they can smell the instant coffee they will be drinking.
Corporations buying expensive boxes? Maybe not so much.
All those unfashionable fans football dropped like a stone may be the only ones left to give a fuck next season.
I don’t begrudge football earnings but I am irked by the way some of the cunts involved thing it really is bigger than life and death.
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I´m a big football fan and pay a lot to watch English and European games on subscription TV. I generally arranged my weekend around certain games. However, I have realized over the last month that I don´t miss it in the slightest and intend cancelling my subscription. I imagine there must be lots of people thinking along the same lines. I think the golden days when football and other televised sports raked in the cash are coming to an end.
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“I am irked by the way some of the cunts involved think football really is bigger than life and death.“
“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.“
The late great Bill Shankly. Died from Covid-2. 1981
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He wasn’t in the middle of an epidemic when he said it.
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Aye he was in the middle of Liverpool.
Even fucking worse.
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I sincerely hope that we don’t bail out the workers that have been dumped by their multi millionaire employers.
To do so could set a precedent where the rest join in and gawd forbid, Mike “fat cunt” Ashley to crawl back onto daylight, blinking and grasping for his own pound of flesh.
My pal, Professor Bernard Fuck reckons all that’s needed is for other clubs to publicly state that they will continue to pay the wages and shame these parasite coooonts into backing off.
The sporty cockerals were and are famously shit, this miserly attitude of big business to the salt of the earth gawd bless yer, worker is commonplace however.
Levy, the slaphead cunt can fuck off and pay for his own brasso.
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Pure cuntery beyond measure, I fully condone this ‘top flight’ cunting. And fuck professional fucking football in its entirety, bunch of cross dressing, wife beating coke raddled, coiffured prima donnas and front loaded with foreigners. I wanna see bankruptcies!
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You sound like one of those ‘rugger’ fåggots.
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Nah Skipper, much worse… a wicket keeper!
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So many cunts, so little time…
Afternoon all.
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The players in Spain, Italy and Germany offered to take pay cuts or not get paid at all to help those more in need. A few have bought ventilators for public hospitals and taken no pay for 4 months so the more needy can be paid (Ronaldo perhaps isn’t that big of a cunt after all).
Premier league players? Fucking well shown up for what they are.
Selfish grabbing cunts.
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Its disgraceful. It’s as all just numbers to them.
I mean Spain and Italy both together are on thousands per week.
England soon will be on a thousand per day.
So Said Matt Hancock today.
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Just read that Lionel Messi’s private plane had to make an emergency landing earlier at Tenerife airport. What’s it doing out and about in the current situation?
Private fucking plane, I ask you. He must really be struggling to get by at the mo.
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That’s probably his version of going for a drive. Lucky cunt.
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I’ve often wondered if Sir Elton John’s private plane discharged it’s toilet over my land once….there’s a spot of completely dead ground. I call it the “The Gay Ground-Zero”. Nothing,even weeds or heather, ever grows on it…if it wasn’t that there doesn’t appear to be any hamster remains scattered about,I’d send the old botty-basher a bill.
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The country is nearing its ‘peak’.performance.
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Ronaldo is worth several hundred million, he could not get paid again and give away half his cash and he wouldn’t even notice.
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The only teams I have any passing interest in are Lazio (fascist club) and Leeds Utd (family club)…..Spurs can get fucked.
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I love Lazio, even though they would probably call me a monkey, I love the Fascist Lazio.
Perhaps my 12% Italian DNA will give a pass.
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Fuck Leeds though, I spoke to some guy on holiday once from Leeds couldn’t understand a word the cunt was on abaaaaaht.
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How do you think we manage listening to you cunts from the Brissle arial.
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I was born in Leeds, spent two days there and left – they’ll be calling me Harry Hewitt next!
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Are you sure he wasn’t from Barnsley?
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Football…really? who gives a fuck?
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Where’s my fucking letter Boris you mendacious cunt?
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Just got a letter from some cunt called Hancock. Stating the fucking obvious and asking me to put my details to some shite. I have ‘do not resuscitate tattooed on my knackers. What more do they want?
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He was good in The Blood Donor.
“It may be just a smear to you, mate, but it’s life and death to some poor wretch.”
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“A pint? That’s nearly an armful”!
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I received your letter by mistake,RTC…
“From. The Boris Bunker
To. RTC.
Stick yer mushroom curry up yer arse ya moaning old Cunt”
………………………….
Shall I forward it to you?
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As I suspected, it’s just another excuse to abuse an already demoralised electorate.
Don’t bother.
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No letter for me either RTC – but loads from some f*cker called “Bill”!
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Dear Ruff one, as you may be aware, we are a little behind with things at the moment here at Government HQ. I am only just getting up to speed again after my recent illness. Please be aware that this matter is receiving my urgent attention and I hope to soon have it resolved. Whilst you’re there, may I ask you for a donation to Tory Party funds as my stock of Arturo Fuente cigars is running perilously low.
Yours, Boris
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Go fuck yourself.*
* © B&WC
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What a fucking yiddy I want to keep all my wealth cunt master deluxe. I don’t watch football or follow football but I saw some pages today urging advice to clubs to get their players to take pay cuts during the pandemic or risk facing fat tax penalties in the future.
Fucking wankers all of them
In the same boat is that bearded cunt Richard Branson. My sister-law (also a right cunt but she has a nice arse and tits) is a trolley dolly for Virgin – thinks the sun shines out of Branson’s arse (probably while she’s noshing him).
Bearded cunt had the temerity to go cap in hand to the government for bail out cash when the cunt is worth billions – use your own money you fucking goat face. When that failed he had the audacity to get some of his ‘airline’ friends to write to the government to ask them to support Virgin.
I am getting pig sick of reading how the rich during these bad times are going into self protection mode, like a bunch of cunty yiddy bean counters.
When this is over these cunts should be taxed hard or told to fuck off out our country, penance for not using their wealth or status to help out during these unprecedented times.
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Branson? Throttle the gippo bastard.
That is all.
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Anyone who pays to watch these cunts by whatever means is adding to their greed and is a cunt.
These are not teams they are franchises who have no grounding in their geographical location. A merry go round of cunts. Stay away, don’t pay Sky and see how this all falls apart. Grasping, diving, play acting cunts.
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I only listen on the radio for that reason
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This is not at all surprising is it?
Whilst our government is happily making sure the rich don’t lose out in this ‘govt made crisis’ the rest of us can fuck off
Well, I have news – the rich can fuck off
the government is lying to the people and the virus scare is false – why should ordinary people foot the bill for the next 20 years so these fuckers can getaway with murder?
brilliant cunting
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We will be paying this off…or rather our kids and grandkids will for the next 60 years…..like we were paying the Yanks after the war….(WWII) not the war on political correctness gone mad!
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Anagram of Neil Warnock……..Colin Wanker
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Levy is a rat – but this is a good deflection technique, highlighting everyone else.
I emailed Matt Hancock yesterday asking when all Politicians will be taking a 20% per cent cut in their obscene salaries until Covid19 is gone – because, as the likes of Levy show – “We’re all in this together” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No response as yet.
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It’s fascinating to see how the football world is going to respond to Hancock’s statement that players should take a pay cut and ‘play their part against Coronavirus’.
Football leg-end Gary Neville has accused Hancock of having ‘a fucking cheek’.
Nerves are starting to be touched!
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Neville is correct RK – don’t see any overpaid underperforming Politicians taking a pay cut.
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I’m surprised that the thick-skinned cunts haven’t asked for an increase in pay and expenses due to the ‘pressure’ that they’re under at the moment.
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Politicians would be under severe pressure in the carotid artery area if I could get hold of any of the f*ckers.
Fuck the greedy self serving rich, fuck them all.
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A tight Jew. Who’d have thunk it.
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The Jews are always careful with money – the power of money and the muscle that comes with it is the best collective defence against the evil of islam – the eternal enemy of Judaism (And to be fair most Jews are greedy buggers! 😄)
Never met a Jew I didn’t like, never met a Muslim I liked.
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Get em in the shower.
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Yeah, just like them greedy Mike Ashleystein, Tim Martinstein and Sir Richard Bransonstein bastards.
Mega-rich businessmen are cunts full stop.
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Agreed wholeheartedly RTC.
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Horrible greedy yid. Ffs these cunts have never got enough money. I haven’t got enough words in my vocabulary to describe how much I detest pukes like this.
He could quit now and be comfortable for several lifetimes.
Avaricious cunt.
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The cunts are unbelievably blinkered.
“ The Premier League and its clubs could be set to explore the idea of playing games in China in a bid to finish the season.
Most clubs in the top-flight are desperate to finish the campaign as they don’t want to miss out on around £762million in broadcasting revenue.”
Hmmmm, well yeah, the Chinese gave us Corona, covered up the facts and the premier league doesn’t see an issue with playing the remaining games there.
Grary Winacre, he go too!
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Huh? What’s the thinking behind that Sixdog, do you know?
Is it just that the Chinks would actually be prepared to let them play there? Would they actually be allowed to leave the country I wonder?
Reeks of greed anyhow.
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The Chinese would take the money and publicity, the Chinese would see it as more appreciation for the brilliant way they managed to control the outbreak. I think the premier league would be better off ending the season in North Korea, they have no Corona cases at all, zilch, nothing to see here.
Greedy cunts, whilst millions of fans lose their livelihoods the premier league would give China money and good publicity as long as they can collect the big piles of cash.
If they do play in China it should be in Wuhan in the bio lab a few blocks from the livestock market bog the Chinese say the virus originated from. To be clear the virus came from a market toilet market not the bio lab experimenting with viruses and bats blood and the like.
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To me, football is something played in the back garden or at the park with friends and family.
Football on the telly with players walking out with random children, “Are you my daddy?”, applauding with arms up in the air to the spectators, kissing their shirts, feigning injures, silly haircuts, extravagant private lives which aren’t really private and are boasted about online etc etc…. can fork right off.
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I wonder if Premier League footballers holed up in their mansions surrounded by thousands of pounds worth of the latest technology, with their ‘ love them for who they are not their money’ girlfriends have the tiniest pangs of conscience when they hear of another health care worker dying as they battle to save lives?
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No Richard, they do not.
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Why would they? Most of the fuckers can’t speak English and have no idea what’s being said.
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Football, a spnrt invented by the englis that we’re shit at. Every team full of overpaid underperforming diving cunts. I say, you cant play for England internationally without being English (not british, english), maybe a few humiliating losses of 10-0 will make us play better! Millions of pound to sign a player too! Ridiculous.
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Agreed Diablo – whist I get that market forces dictate finances I think it is time a cap of 10 Million on transfers and ten grand a week on wages is introduced – if they can’t live on half a Million a Year buy less Bentleys.
But, as I have said before, an easy target to deflect from the real greed and wickedness.
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Social media is fucking special isnt it.
Do not go out unless it is necessary. or you are going to buy a fucking puppy!.
Firstly I can not conceive how the purchase of a fluffy little bundle of shit will eliviate your little princesses feeling of isolation as you lock down with fuck knows how many tv’s, game consoles 4 cats and two dogs.
Secondly, it shows the sellers scruples when they are inviting people round their house to see said bundle of fluff with a view to securing the deposit (a fucking deposit on a dog, it is a fucking dog not a house)
so that is a triple fuck me off, one going out, two buying a dog that is only wanted for its youth and buying from a fucking pikey breeder, when there are plenty of good ones in rescue. (only they are not open because they are responsible)
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Thought it was a bit special for the nom to specifically pick on Spurs, but I’ll weigh in as a Spurs fan.
For those that either don’t follow football or have no particular interest in Tottenham Hotspur, here’s a brief explanation of how greedy that club is. The club is owned by one of the richest men on the planet, Joe Lewis. If JL loved Spurs and wanted to see them do well, he could easily have done a Man City or Chelsea and pumped huge sums into the club, bought some of the best players around and gone after the league, Champions League and domestic cups. That hasn’t happened because Spurs is run by Daniel Levy primarily to make money for Joe Lewis. How do we know this? The net spend on player transfers over many, many seasons shows Spurs usually make money on player deals rather than actually spend it. There are exceptions here and there, but that statement is basically true.
It’s well known Spurs have a strict and low (by comparison to other clubs) wage structure. Hence, their better players are paid much less than other equivalent players at other clubs. We’re talking $120K/week at Spurs versus $200K/week at the top 4 or 5 clubs in the league. Still, $120K/week is still eye watering for most of us, but it helps keep the wage bill down and Spurs’ profits up.
Levy purports to be a life long Spurs fan, but actions speak louder than words. He usually shows up for the games (I don’t think Joe Lewis even knows where Tottenham is) and sits there stoney faced the entire time. As is fashionable these days, when a team scores the TV camera often fixes on the owners/chairman for a moment or two. Levy? Stoney faced like his mother has just died. Spurs fans absolutely HATE the colour red. There is a deep level of resentment and bitterness about how Arsenal Football Club have behaved over the years which I won’t go into here, but suffice it to say, Spurs loathe red. What does Levy do? Signs a shirt sponsorship deal with AIA and now the white Spurs home shirt has a massive red AIA logo on. Cunt! Couldn’t have been blue in keeping with the club colours, could it? Cunt.
Another example. A few seasons ago when Leicester won the league, all the other top teams (Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea, L’pool) were all having poor seasons all at the same time. A very unusual situation and one which allowed Leicester to have a run at the league title. The only other team which were doing well and keeping pace was Spurs. It was obvious Spurs needed to score more goals and a striker was desperately needed in the January transfer window. Levy wouldn’t sanction it. With about 12 games to go, Spurs’ form fell off a cliff and Leicester walked away with the title. Thanks Levy. Cunt.
Another example for which I’ll let you draw your own conclusion. Tottenham have been planning the new stadium for many years. They slowly bought up the land around the old stadium and even further down Tottenham High Road using the club’s money. Some of this was sold years later at massive profit via holding companies and the proceeds squirreled away back into the hands on Joe Lewis, NOT the club. It gets worse. Having acquired (nearly) all the property around the old stadium, one company refused to budge. It was a metal fabrication business directly opposite the stadium’s north stand on Paxton Road. The stand-off went on for a long time. Spurs offered to pay them off, the metal works refused. As the plans for the stadium were getting close to completion, a mysterious fire decimated the metal works company premises. I’ll say no more.
Daniel Levy’s job is not to make Spurs a dominant, title and cup winning team. He is there to make money for himself and his pay master. If the team flirts with success here and there along the way, it’s a happy coincidence nothing more. The stadium is a classic example. Joe Lewis could have underwritten the stadium. Instead, Spurs now has a massive debt to pay off, so the club suffers while Levy and Lewis get richer from increased attendances and hosting other events including NFL games. Spurs have basically built a massive cash point machine for the owner’s benefit. The culture and tone of any business is set at the top and filters down. Levy is in it for the money, so are the players and the club stinks from top to almost the bottom. It’s the people at the bottom (match stewards, ticket office people, etc.) who are being shafted. It’s a disgrace.
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Not forgetting sacking one of the most talented managers in the World and replacing him with “The special needs one”.
Spurs do not want titles, they want to do OK and keep the money train rolling.
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Arf’noon Vern. Talented he may be, winning he was not. His track record doesn’t support the hype. Spent 2 seasons at Espanyol. Won nothing. Sacked. Spent a season or so at Southampton. Won nothing. Quit. Spent 5 or so seasons at Spurs. Won nothing. Sacked. Should have won the league the year Leicester did, but bottled it. Should have at least given the Scousers a game in the CL final, but his team never showed up.
Yes, he did get Spurs into the CL and broke the spell of Arsenal’s dominance in North London (even thought they aren’t a North London team, but let’s leave that alone). At times the football was decent, other times dreary. Side ways/backwards passing, no spark, no plan B, unable to breakdown compact 10 man defences.
The squad he left behind needs a major overhaul as it has come to the end of its peak cycle. It got close to success, but wasn’t quite good enough as The Special Needs One is now clearly demonstrating. As it turns out, he knew that but for what ever reason, Levy wouldn’t sanction the overhaul (new stadium? greedy bastard?). A parting of the ways was inevitable.
I for one was glad he left. He had a stupid schoolboy haircut, I couldn’t understand a word he said and for the longest time, he was Levy’s yes man. How do we know this? Pre-season a few seasons ago he didn’t play the club record signing Soldado at all. Then he said Soldado was very much in his plans for the forthcoming season. WTF? The following week he was sold to Villarreal. Either Pochettino didn’t know this would happen, in which case who runs the fucking team? Or he did know and publicly lied about Soldado’s place in the squad. Either way, he looked like a cunt.
Replacing him with The Special Needs One would not have been my first choice. It will end in tears and mid-table mediocrity. The only question is, how long will that take?
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Afternoon IY – answers on a postcard to Manchester United Football Club….
Pochettino was hired to get Champions League qualification, which he is good at – not to win things, which he is not good at!
The Spurs players already hate Mourinho, with good reason – he is an arrogant narcissistic misogynistic overrated bully who wins nothing without massive financial backing and it will not be long before the best players give the same ultimatum that Ronaldo and many, many others have given in the past – he goes or I do.
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Hi Vern –
Yes, I do now recall his remit was to get into the CL places (and presumably stay there). So yes, he was successful in that respect. I’ll concede that.
I thought it interesting that Eriksen wasn’t swayed at all into staying after Special Needs was appointed. I really don’t get Levy’s thinking here. Special Needs is a cheque book manager – a very good one obviously – but still a cheque book manager nonetheless. Spurs aren’t a ‘whip out the cheque book’ club. Not sure what Special Needs sees in this (ahem) project or what Levy thinks will happen.
I was a season ticket holder in the late 90s and early 2000s before legging it to Yankland. It was mid table, maybe top 8 stuff back then, but it was fun. One week we’d be beating Man U at home 4-1, the next week we’d lose 3-0 to Blackpool or whoever. You never knew what you’d get. Crazy, but fun. Plus we always had that one special player who would get you out of your seat. Ginola, Klinsmann, Berbatov, Sheringham to name a few. I’d say Son is the closest we have now, but he’s no Ginola.
I loved watching Spurs play when we had Bale and Van Der Vart in the team. Watching the team during Pochettino’s reign wasn’t that exciting and Special Needs hasn’t exactly lit up performances. It needs a rebuild and a ton of money. Special Needs has never rebuilt an entire squad and he’s not going to get the money he’d want to do it anyway. Clock’s ticking! Cheers – IY.
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I hope Pochettino never comes to Old Trafford. He is a coach and not a manager. He would be another Dave Sexton. United need a gaffer who understands how it works and blokes like Docherty and Atkinson did that. While the likes of Moyes, Van Gaal and The Special Cunt did not. I also think Pochettino didn’t last at Spurs because -like Man United – they need someone who gets the way Spurs have (mostly) always done it. The flair was always there (Hoddle, Greaves, Ginola, Waddle, Teddy, Gazza, Archibald, Chivers etc) but also the guts and the tenacity ( Dave McKay, Graham Roberts, Richard Gough, Ossie Ardiles). Pochettino’s side had some fine attacking players, but none of that old Spurs bite and it showed when they played Liverpool in that European final. The Special Cunt will also do no good at Tottenham, just like he did at United. He was the ideal manager for Chelsea at the time. Because they were bankrolled by a cunt in the Ivan oligarch, their players were cunts (Ashley Cole, John Terry, Mikel, Drogba, Ballack etc), and the manager (Jose) was a cunt. Alex Ferguson could also be a cunt (ask Keano or Jaap), but for most of his time at United it was not all about him (except when those Glazer weirdos showed up). But with the Special Cunt it’s his show. That’s how he sees it. Good look to Tottingham (as Ossie used to say), because they are going to need it with the Special Cunt in charge.
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Spot on, Norm. Spurs is a strange animal. The last time they had guile and bite was in the 60s. Since then, it’s been one or the other, but never both at the same time and you need both to win things. But therein lies the paradox. The fan base want and expect success in the form of titles/cups, but the people who have run Tottenham are content with being also-rans.
Spurs and the way it’s run is a classic example of papering over the cracks. Style over substance. Make the fans believe they’re trying when they’re not really. Levy is a massive cunt. When he took over from Alan Sugar, first thing he did was sack George Graham (who we all hated for obvious reasons) and appointed Glenn Hoddle (who we all loved for obvious reasons). Great PR, but what did it lead to? Nothing. Levy’s track record of appointing managers is woeful and Special Needs will be no exception.
Pochettino is overrated. Hardly a shocker he hasn’t been snapped up by a ‘big’ club. Man Utd deserve better. Like with Moyes, the job would be too big for him. He’s at Spurs’ level, not United’s.
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