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Apparently not if you’re a Gooner…

To quote Mark Knopfler: "Oh yeah, the boy can play". Proper baller who reads the game so well - clearly has a quick football brain (and feet) that gives him that extra time and space. When he’s at the top of his game he’s just an island of calm.

We’re good when we play a really high-intensity style that requires literally all the outfield players to be 8+/10. That’s a huge ask, but when it works it’s exhilarating - Spurs, the first half at Leeds, etc. More than most PL teams we’re a...

Just goes to show the importance of three points for the win: four games today, four wins, the table changes completely. COYB 🐝 tomorrow.

People joke about the famous ND test, but it really is the opposite. Every time you see a Bees player interviewed (Ajer and Fabio in the summer spring immediately to mind), you just think "What a likeable chap." Keano joins a long list.... and...

It really is as simple as that. Ordinarily I’d be spitting blood, but we were so good and Brooks was so laughably incompetent that you can only kick the cat and have another beer. I hate to think how Keith must feel after witnessing that...

If Carlsberg did GW6…

What a ball from Ethan to start the counter-attack that led to the goal 🥰

Sorted (y) Thank you GPG.

No, they did a recount :LOL: One still needed please! 🇳🇱

15 McCallisters or 19 Dutch Bees in the Kings Arms? Degree of difficulty not even close 🍻

The incredibly supportive Dutch Bees are bringing over 19 for the game from Holland, and find themselves 1 ticket short after double-checking headcount. If anyone's suddenly unable to attend would you PM me for a very good cause!

Please can we stuff Villa on Saturday so I can leave a facetious reply on his post 🇮🇹

The Bank of England has chosen the Bees to feature on the next generation of banknote: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/08/uk-banknotes-new-design-barn-owl-bumblebee-puffin-hedgehog [Ok, I may have exaggerated our influence slightly 🐝]

Nothing really new in this FT 'exclusive', but nice to know HMRC has had City under the microscope for a while: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/4d9cdfa1-fb3b-45ec-b4f8-7b40230b4302

I think you're being incredibly charitable towards City TBH. For a decade, over 60% of their supposed income came from sham "revenue" (the dark blue in this chart). It's not as if it happened in the early days and then stopped: every single...

The podcast shown in this post really is good if you want to hear the full gory detail of City’s cheating: View: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-transfers-podcast/id1746700466?i=1000792863403

The independent commission made it beautifully clear that they found that a number of City witnesses knowingly gave false witness. For the appellate judges to find that the commissioners got the facts wrong, they'd have to overturn that basic...

@SwissRamble has done a typically thorough run through all the numbers. It's long, but 100% worth the read to see the financial detail, and the scale of cheating relative to other clubs' finances every season. I particularly liked this chart...

And never forget which six clubs voted against SCR - Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton, Palace, Fulham and Leeds. Not the supposed “anti-cartellists” Villa and Newcastle.

The more, and louder, the noise—Pep being wheeled out, Etihad threatening to raise the lawfare stakes, Burnham politicising—the clearer it is that the signal has actually got through: Bang. To. Rights. The mandarins will be desperately trying to...