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David Conn ‏@david_conn 3h3 hours ago Hillsborough: PC Groome: Officers at the meeting to shift the blame were all freemasons. Duckenfield "was grand master of influential lodge" Worth reading his timeline, as always.

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Don't remember Westerveld coming up to jump on Gary Mac after the goal. His effort at saving the Unsworth peno looked like Jones' effort to save the first on Sunday.

The only way he doesn't do one is if Mendes f***s it up by insisting Falcao is included in any deal on €200K p/w

Man U won't have theirs for much longer, out of contract summer 2016, girlfriend living back home in Madrid, and guess who his agent is?

In all likelihood, the substance of what Eckhardt says is probably more or less true. The infringements of the rules as documented in the report may well have been more or less 'minor' (where a million dollars of a gift from Qatar to a football academy in some less well off country is minor in the grand scheme of corporate shenanigans and the Libor scandal was major). The value of the report surely lies in exposing the farcical bidding process for what it is. Uncrossed Ts pale into comparison to the culture of how the World Cups are awarded.

This is where he proves himself a manager as well as a coach. If he fails, at least we won't die wondering.

Thanks. So a f***ing fortune.

This is the best outcome really, outside of the Fifa reconstituting themselves with an entirely new infrastructure. He needs to come out and tell all. He defo has a draft copy somewhere on his laptop, probably even the final copy.

Whatever about his contract demands, he's too young to be carrying this amount of responsibility so soon. Really hope he scores next time out, Sunday might haunt him.

I suppose I should have just asked if anyone knows the prizemoney estimates for qualification, getting through the groups etc

Dion Fanning's preview of the game for anyone arsed, if it hasn't been posted already. http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/dion-fanning-fear-and-loathing-in-high-places-for-traditional-giants-30834024.html Fairly sobering.

Anyone worked out the relative damage of missing out on CL, with it's ramped up numbers for next year? Sickening if Man U make it and we don't, from the perspective of last season.

So there's no talking up 3-0 there but am I the only one thinking there were reasons to be hopeful after Sunday? The goalkeeper decision will be talked about for years and hopefully Sterling's performance in front of goal won't be but the team played better and in a better way too. It has to be taken in to the next games but I thought I could see some light and I am choosing to believe it wasn't a train, for now at least.

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Ah right. Maybe that makes more sense, if Laporta was some kind of clean hands candidate who couldn't be having a bitey-shoutey type sullying the jersey.

Sid Lowe was on Irish radio the other day talking about it. Suarez being played wider when it looked like they would set up with him and Neymar ahead of Messi during Suarez' suspension. Consensus seems to be that he brings something they didn't have before (no s***) and people are happy with him, though he has gotten some criticism. The interesting bit, however, was that it seems Laporta is set to win the elections and become president. (I thought he was up to his balls in corruption allegations, particularly over the transfer of Neymar but maybe 'More than a club' has meanings I don't fully understand.) And there is speculation that Suarez doesn't fit if that happens. Probably entirely BS, but showed that Barca might not turn out to the paradise Luis hoped.

You'd hope they will schedule only games that away fans can make it to after work, but two hopes I would imagine.

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