Tag Archives: Champions League

The Premier League Preview 2024/25

Posted on 31/07/2024 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Normally I’d leave writing this until the eve of the Premier League season in mid-August. The rationale – it gave me the most time to assess the state of each team before making a prediction. The flaw has always remained … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged Arsenal, Aston Villa, Bayern Munich, Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton & Hove Albion, Bundesliga, Champions League, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Erik Ten Hag, Everton, Farmer's league, Fulham, Geopolitical toy, Idiotic fat-fuck American tourist running a football club, Ipswich Town, Jason Tindall is a Patrick Bateman knockoff, Jürgen Klopp, Juventus, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Martin Jol, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Pep Guardiola, Premier League, Premier League Preview 2024-25, PSR, Real Madrid, Ruud Gullit, Serie A, Southampton, Thursday Night Wankers, Todd “Burger Me” Boehly, Tottenham Hotspur, Transfer window winners, West Ham United, Whiner transfer obsessed fans on Twitter, Wolverhampton Wanderers | 1 Comment

The Premier League Preview 2023/24

Posted on 11/08/2023 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Life ceases to be interesting if you lose the capacity to be surprised. If Donald Trump is never brought to trial, would you be surprised? Or, if Trump went all Budd Dwyer and killed himself on TV if he’s brought … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged Arsenal, Arteta is a metrosexual cosplayer, Aston Villa, Bayern Munich, Brendan Gleeson, Brexit, Budd Dwyer, Burnley, Champions League, Chelsea, Cunt fucking kids, Donald Trump, Erik Ten Haag, Everton, Financial Fair Play, France, Fulham, Germany, Harry Kane, In Bruges, Italy, Karim Benzema, Kenilworth Road, Kylian Mbappe, Lee Anderson's son is a vegetarian, Liverpool, Luton Town, Manchester City, Manchester United, Mohammed bin Salman, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Paul Heckingbottom, Premier League, Priti and Suella are cunts, Ralph Fiennes, Saudi Arabia, Sean Dyche, Spain, Thursday Night Wankers, Todd “Burger Me” Boehly, Tottenham Hotspur, United Kingdom, Wolverhampton Wanderers, YouTube | Leave a comment

By ratifying the Saudi takeover of Newcastle United the Premier League has lost control over its future

Posted on 31/10/2021 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Back in August I wrote that the Premier League’s blocking of the Newcastle takeover was arbitrary, cruel and inconsistent, given they’d already let another sovereign wealth fund belonging to a country with a questionable human rights record buy Manchester City … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged 1992, Abu Dhabi, beIN (lower case b you heathens), Bradford fire, Champions League, European Super League, Financial Fair Play failure, Gary Neville needs to take a break and we need a break from him, Get back on telly Delia, Greedy cunts, Hillsborough, Iraq, Jamal Khashoggi, Leonard Cohen, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Mike Ashley is also fat, Newcastle United, Premier League, Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Roman Abramovich, Saudi Arabia, Sky's homogenisation of football, Stalinist purge, The Future, UEFA, Whataboutery cunts, Yes Kim Jong-un is fat | Leave a comment

Greed? Sure. But our indifference to UEFA’s decadence makes us equally complicit for the European Super League proposal existing.

Posted on 27/04/2021 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Though we’re loathe to admit it, Gordon Gekko was right. The proposed European Super League captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit and clarifies how we feel about greed in its most brazen form. Europe’s biggest and wealthiest clubs attempting … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged AC Milan, Ajax, American sports soccer franchise twats, Apathy and Pessimism, Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, BT, Champions League, Covid-19, Disingenuous soapboxing, European Super League clubs, Everton, ex-playing pundits with their lips suckered on the Sky Sports teat, fait accompli, Financial Fair Play, Finland, Gordon Gekko, Greedy fucking bastards, Gullible, Inter Milan, Largess, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Meritocracy, Porto, PSG, Real Madrid, Sky, Sky Sports, Slovenia, Soccer - YEAH!, Spurs as a founding member - laughable, Swiss model, UEFA, Wolves | Leave a comment

The Premier League Preview 2018/19

Posted on 10/08/2018 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

And so another season in the Premier League. This one has arrived quickly, with a foreboding urgency. The combination of the World Cup stifling the transfer market for five weeks, and the transfer window in England ending before the season … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged Arsenal, Axe child benefit for single mums please said tosser Tory Tony from his townhouse in Marylebone, Bournemouth, Brexiteers, Brighton & Hove Albion, Burnley, Cardiff City, Catenaccio, Champions League, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Exposed in Kiev?, Financial Fair Play, Fulham, Gastroenteritispub chain Wetherspoons, Gordon Gekko, Greed is Good, Huddersfield Town, I'm a football Tory, Jürgen Klopp, John Dyson is a twat, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Marathon runner shooting themselves in the foot, Marouane fucking Fellaini, Marshall McLuhan, Miserable Mourinho, Money, Newcastle United, Pep Guardiola, Premier League 2018-19, Premier League Preview, Richarlison - £50m!, Southampton, Sports, Stan Kroenke - mediocre billionaire, The Internet Arses, Tit-rifle, Tottenham Hotspur, Transfer Market blues, Watford, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, World Cup | 1 Comment