Alex

You've still got pricks on Facebook etc defending Ashley the businessman. These fuckers deserve him tbh

Jealous, mainly for the rum.

Shades of 2008-09

Yep, whilst not actually committing to anything concrete such as a proposal to ban the burka in public places. Not to mention the fact that he spends his entire life looking ridiculous (literally and metaphorically).

Definitely comes out of this looking badly. Needs to take a look at himself and grow up a bit.

Speaking of Sweaties, I'm pretty sure this has been 'shopped' but it still made me laugh:

It’ll be like the time he couldn’t attend matches on ‘police advice’ only for Northumbria Police to issue a subsequent statement saying they’d had no contact with him

He’s so thin-skinned it’s untrue.

Seattle Shitehawks

Unless they make an example of him he’ll get a fine and that’s it because the sentences meted out for fairly serious assaults are a joke. Should be his absolute last chance though for England

FFS

@The Fish I saw this and thought of you: https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/british-burrito?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page

Not sure I could take any more crazy

It's a bit different I think. It's impossible to be a billionaire Russian oligarch without having gained that money through extremely shady methods. It's a bit of a tough one though because the amount of money required to actually compete over a sustained period in the PL (i.e. as a regular top 4-5 side) means you're dealing with the sort of people who probably have blood on their hands. The whole thing's an absolute mess

Against Ward second time round (whether you think it was a legitimate stoppage or not) he could've taken a knee rather than when he ended up sat on the ropes and left himself in what was basically a defenseless position. This was a similar sort of thing in terms of how you would expect someone with the amount of elite-level fights he'd had to have a bit more know-how regarding surviving. I didn't actually know he was fighting either but I watched a re-run of the whole fight that had been posted via Facebook. The first two rounds were quite close with Kovalev probably edging them. He had Alvarez in bother in the 4th and it looked like he might win with a stoppage. After that though he looked a bit gassed and he was probably just ahead on points but Alvarez looked to be coming on strong. Also, like you say he looked like never saw the first knockdown coming and almost panicked and jumped up before he'd cleared his head at all, making the stoppage almost inevitable at that point. I wonder if he'll keep fighting. I think he'll have made good money in his career but not the megabucks he probably should've done. Even the two Ward 'Superfights' didn't do very well in terms of PPV figures. I think probably a combination of his age, the defeats to Ward and his alleged 'lifestyle' choices mean he's now a spent force. I also think that he'd been so dominant prior to taking on Ward that he'd never really had the experience of needing to go into survival mode which perhaps explains why he's looked a bit clueless the couple of times he's needed to do that. I think he's lacked a bit of class at times with comments made, not least regarding Ward, but he's been a great champion and you get the feeling it's going to be a bit of a sad end to his career now however it pans out. You'd have to wonder if he's still got the hunger for it too.

Just the latest in a long line of boring bastards we’ve had on here whose only means of gaining attention is being contrary for the sake of it tbh

I see Kovalev got knocked out

Aye, undoubtedly

'Starlet' was one of Alan Oliver's favourites iirc

Would actually be India highest 4th innings score in England to win a test match. But a lot of those records have fallen in recent years and continue to do so with so few matches going into the 5th day now so the pitches aren't as worn as in years gone by. Should be a fascinating finish though. Get Kohli out cheaply and it's definitely game on.

Opening line - Before we start - any coloured people in here tonight? No? Good

I see he got another Daily Quotes calendar for Xmas.

Going to be one of those 'what if?' matches by the looks of it.

What was quite obvious was that both him and Andy Gray were fucking hated by the people they worked with at Sky to the extent that they had saved loads of their off the air comments in the hope they'd be able to use them against them at some point.