The Fish

What's tripping you up?

In an Athletic piece about Liverpool's hunt for a new wide player.

Ok, that's enough of that. Fingers on lips, bums on seats now. You've all got work you should be doing.

This time.

A mate invited me to his stag in Glasgow. It would have cost me £500 for travel, hotel and "activities", that's before food and drink. For a Stag in Glasgow. I did go to his second stag in Bristol, for 1/2 the price, so I think I made the right choice.

Who's recently announced he's leaving his job and will likely be fleeing to a country without an extradition agreement...

Just typical of top-down thinking. Outmoded ideas that people only work hard when in the office, or that emails= productivity. I'm at my most productive when I'm at home getting on with the fucking job, not sending an email to Mike to see if he fancies a brew in 10 minutes. *disclaimer I'm never particularly productive.

I've been on some corking stag dos to be fair; Oktoberfest in Munich, week in Portuguese villa, European tour of London. Mine was a day at the races, a steak dinner and getting drunk in York (although we were the oldest people in the club, by about 20yrs).

I was sat beside two massive Kiwis on the flight from Singapore to London. For 13 1/2 hours I was pressed against the window like the last commuter squeezed on the Japanese underground.

Same, I'll just wait for it to appear on some "Reaction" channel on youtube.

That's a heck of a spin.

Victims of stalking ✅

I'm not jealous at all.

It's good to see grifters like him and Fox getting sued into bankruptcy, but it's baffling that yet more grifters are lining up behind them despite the warning signs being clear as fucking day.

Back off Paternity Leave now, aren't I?

Took them from 19th to 12th in about 10 games. You can see a downward trend in xGA, and and a nominal upward trend in xG across the season.

He hasn't scored a single goal from what I've arbitrarily deemed a 'Good Chance'. They're all either Penalties or <0.25 xG. Compare that to our top scorer

Ok, so a quick check and 38 of 52 (73%) Man Utd's goals come from chances valued at less than 0.35xG. Given a penalty is valued at 0.79xG I think it's safe to say that 0.35 counts as a half chance or worse. To go further, lets say any chance valued less than 0.1 is No Chance, 0.1-0.39 is a Half Chance, 0.39-0.79 is a Good Chance, and anything better than 0.79 is a Sitter By comparison, here's ours

Oh, will it scare off advertisers? More so than, say, bigotry and glamorising hooliganism?

Forest and Everton have 1 or 2 pretty straight forwards cases to answer for. Man City have over a hundred. @LondonBlue has posted about it before, but it seems that neither party are interested in a swift resolution and so that's why it's dragging on. Adjacent to that is the ridiculous timing of the points deductions and reinstatements. This should have been wrapped up in the summer, or by that weird half winter break thing we had. That way the teams around them know what they need to do. If this happens again next season, you could very well get a scenario where some bureaucrats relegate the team who finished 17th after the 18th placed side wins their appeal the week after the season ends. It's bullshit.

Feels weird to be fine with selling the clubs second most prolific PL striker, but here we are.

Completely unimportant, but I've never understood why people post in faux-swears. Fugging, fecking and the like, unless it's to mock the potato botherers. Fuck off.

Bournemouth have quietly improved throughout the season.

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