lanky_ffc

Having a striker that scores goals is quite useful IMO.

Just think of all the teams that'll need to fire up temporary stands when the Navy Blue roll into town.

Huge Saturday in Serie A spoiled by KO times and not being on TV.

Real Madrid getting absolutely ragdolled at the Pizjuan so far. 2-0 Sevilla, but could easily be 3 or 4.

They looked abject at 2-0 yesterday. Didn't tune in early enough to see the goals, but they've looked very frail the other times I've seen them this season. That first half against Atalanta is the worst defensive performance I've seen from a top flight team all season. His reluctance to play Nzonzi is a bit strange IMO. Surely when you're leaking goals like that you'd want a good ball-winner protecting your back 4. Might be a season too far for De Rossi.

Caught a little bit of the Celtic build-up and they were joking that Bonner had probably seen more of Rosenborg than some SPFL teams

It doesn't matter where a bookie is based. On a market like the Champions League they'll all be broadly in line due to the amount of money being staked worldwide.

Amazon have had a lot of heat over their US Open coverage. You'd imagine they'll be working hard to get any potential fixes in before they get the two rounds of PL games in December.

Matchbook and Racing Post have both become essential listening for me. I've got my own betting strategy, so don't follow their tips, but it's still interesting to see how others are thinking.

Watched Real for the first time this season having seen them putting up some solid numbers in the league already. Thought they could struggle post-Ronaldo and with Lopetegui being pretty inexperienced in club football, but they look good and 3-0 still flattered Roma.

The English pundits will do anything to big up the PL sides. They were favourites in the betting markets, so not an inaccurate statement, but don't have the pedigree to justify their price IMO.

Aye, it'd be hard to justify that amount, but there's no harm putting the feelers out and seeing what brands would be interested and how much they'd be willing to pay. Another obvious revenue stream would be to actually qualify for tournaments. Think Euro 2016 was worth about €8m just for making the finals.

If there was a will to redevelop it, surely we could look at naming rights to fund part/all of it. Ireland got about €40m for 10 years from Aviva. Sadly it's hard to disagree with the rest of your post.

Tidy goal from Saul puts Spain ahead. Croatia have actually had the better chances so far with Spain playing themselves into trouble a couple of times.

CBA reading back through pages of tears and snotters, but are there Morton fans genuinely suggesting that we approached McKinnon without being confident that 1) we had the cash to settle any compo dispute (£100K ) or 2) had found a get-out where we didn't have to pay a penny?

Zak Rudden scored for Scotland U19s tonight.

Margaret Laing >>>> Harvey Specter

Milan 1-0 through a nicely worked and have been on top for most of the game without creating too many clear chances . Roma have switched to a back 3 tonight and they don't look particularly comfortable in it.

They out-shot them 48-13. No idea how they didn't score, especially in the first leg. Agree that they could have a good season as I already thought they had a nice deep squad.

Mind there were Morton fans on here laughing at the state we're in? Top patter if we pull this off.

Get Caldwell in as player/manager. Probably still better than any of our current CBs

PAOK have shat the bed. 3-1 Benfica and playing with a swagger now.

PAOK were 1-0 up and looking comfortable, but conceded from a corner and a ludicrous piece of goalkeeping. Benfica ahead on the night and PAOK needing 2 goals now.

FS, I was there that day as well. Putting this down to old age.

That's who I've just linked. He was Lambert's assistant at Wolves and Falkirk are listed if you go further down to his playing career. Don't remember him as a player tbh.