Manchester United ANNIHILATED by Liverpool
Well that was fun. Seriously fun. As in, quite literally skipping around the house at 5am fun. Manchester United nil, Liverpool FIVE....
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Yammer's shortest blogger. Football and Fantasy Content. Thinks shortness is a competition. Doesn't know how to dress himself properly.
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Sep 2, 20211 min read
Props to Willian
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Well Done to La Liga
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Turns Out I Was Right About England After All
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Jul 9, 20212 min read
I Don’t Usually Go For Omens, But…
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Jul 1, 20212 min read
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Jun 23, 20211 min read
Contrary to Recent Reports, There Will Be No Snow Next Week
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Jun 21, 20212 min read
Now This is Cool: Football's Unofficial World Championship
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Jun 14, 20212 min read
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May 24, 20212 min read
Well, I Was Wrong … And I’m Bloody Ecstatic About It
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May 17, 20212 min read
The Superior Version of Return of the Jedi
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May 12, 20211 min read
Congratulations to Man City and Leicester
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May 5, 20212 min read
Jose Mourinho is Back.
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May 3, 20211 min read
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Apr 29, 20212 min read
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Apr 21, 20213 min read
Why the European Super League Plans Were So Appalling, and so Hated
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Apr 21, 20211 min read
Message Received: There Will Be No Super League
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Apr 19, 20213 min read
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Apr 18, 20212 min read
Newcastle are a Really Weird Team
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Apr 12, 20212 min read
Ole Gunner Solskjaer is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT Right about Son’s Cheating
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Apr 10, 20212 min read
Rematch Time for Man United, Liverpool
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Apr 9, 20211 min read
I'm Back, and Nothing Has Changed
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Mar 27, 20211 min read
I’m Going on Break
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Mar 26, 20213 min read
Bill Shankly Was Right About Referees. Part Two: VAR Offside
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Mar 24, 20211 min read
The Lovren Report
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Mar 20, 20212 min read
Chaos Walking: A Good, Entertaining Film
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Mar 18, 20212 min read
Laziness, Rani. That’s Why.
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Mar 17, 20211 min read
It’s Over. It’s Finally Over
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Mar 16, 20212 min read
Rani, Kindly Go and F*ck Yourself
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Mar 15, 20212 min read
A Day of Shenanigans in the America’s Cup
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Mar 14, 20212 min read
Sacking Chris Wilder is an Absolute Disgrace
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Mar 14, 20212 min read
What Can I Say? I’m on a Roll
Apparently the General is surprised by the fact that I’ve been doing my job properly and “reporting” on something that I was told to....
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Mar 12, 20212 min read
The America’s Cup: Day Two Roundup
They did some more racing today apparently. After a false start due to a spectator (read: rich asshole) floating absentmindedly onto the...
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Mar 12, 20212 min read
Yammer House’s America’s Cup Coverage Begins
As I was walking through university today, I ran into The General. Things, I thought, could not get any worse. He proved me wrong...
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Mar 10, 20212 min read
Bill Shankly Was Right About Referees. Part One: Handball
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Mar 6, 20213 min read
Now I'm Panicking
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Mar 4, 20212 min read
Reylo Haters - A People in Denial
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Feb 27, 20211 min read
Sportspeople These Days...
I just walked into the lounge as my Dad was watching the news, and it happened to be the sports section. In addition to seeing that the...
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Feb 24, 20212 min read
The Week That Changed the Relegation Battle
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Feb 21, 20211 min read
Liverpool Are Cursed
Oh God. Oh God oh God oh God oh God oh God oh God oh God. This is just unbelievable. Jordan sodding Henderson has just trudged off the...
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Feb 12, 20212 min read
Neymar is Ready for Carnival
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Feb 9, 20212 min read
IT’S OVER!!!
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Feb 6, 20211 min read
Jose Should Have Shut Up
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Feb 5, 20212 min read
The General is Ignorant, But Correct
Earlier today the General sent me this: It is, he claims, proof that Liverpool are terrible. It is a nonsense argument, made by one who...
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Jan 26, 20212 min read
Replacing Frank Lampard – Two Poor Decisions in One
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Hayden
Jan 23, 20212 min read
Screw the Yachting
I, for one, do not give two shits about the America’s Cup. It’s a boring-ass rich man’s sport being paid for by the taxpayer for some...
Hayden
Jan 20, 20212 min read
People Need to Stop Panicking, and Stop Blaming Mohamed Salah
I would be lying if I said that Liverpool had been playing well recently, they haven’t. They have been abysmal. Appalling. Atrocious....
Hayden
Jan 19, 20212 min read
My First (and probably last) Movie Review
First, a piece of public service. Only scroll this page down as far as necessary to read each bit of it. There's a GIF near the bottom...
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