The defending was horrid. Swansea went from being in the game to giving up real quick. I've always been a Lukaku fan. Hate seeming him at United.
Salah looks like he's really good. Between him and Mane, it's possible that Liverpool are no longer idiots at transfers. What is the world coming to?
Yeah and it sucks the big one. If you want to know the whole story, go to the NBC thread... https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...er.com/index.php?posts/35781474/&share_type=t
I'd pay extra for the extra time channels, but not for the streaming service. The extra time was awesome for watching multiple games at once. Can't flip between streams with ease . . . all good things must come to and end I guess.
Same. I pay for MLS Live so I can watch Red Bulls games while living in Chicago, but other than that, I'll never drop a dime on sports streaming services. I hate watching sports on the computer; it's 100x better through a TV.
I'll assume you forgot the polite please. But, very well: Abramovich had nothing to do with Putin's political rise. That was Berezovsky, who was very close to Yeltsin's daughter, and was a huge power broker. At the time, Berezovsky was arguably the most visible of the oligarchs who helped Yeltsin retain power in his re-election and got richer via the loans for shares scheme (via which Roman acquired Sibneft). Shortly after coming into power, Putin began liquidating oligarch foes, beginning with Gusinsky, who owned an independent tv channel*. Berezovsky asked Putin to ease off...at which point Putin liquidated him too. Berezovsky fled to the U.K., where he died.** Several years later, likely due to his interest in politics, which Putin was monopolizing, Khodorkovsky (probably the biggest beneficiary of loans for shares) was liquidated by Putin and imprisoned. Yukos (Khodorkovsky's company) had just acquired Sibneft (Abramovich's company), but after Yukos was taken apart by the state, the sale was voided....although Roman didn't have to return the funds. During this period Roman had a very low key public profile. He had a mostly symbolic governorship of Chukotka (a place so remote its residents are historic butts of Russian jokes as unwashed savages). He was almost never there. When he was, he'd occasionally unobtrusively join meetings with tourists on cruises (true story). He also kept up good relationships with the Russian government - he donated to the Russian FA, partially paid for the national team's coach. He also made zero political moves - even fewer than someone like Prokhorov.*** The point of course, isn't that it makes Roman a good person, but that he has made sure to be on good terms with Putin, but quietly. He has no reason to use Chelsea as a shield of any kind - it's useless. Putin has shown he can get to people he wants to kill in England. And part of Roman's wealth is still in Russia - Putin can take it away in a day. Nor did Abramovich have anything to do with Putin's rise to power - he had nearly no political clout at the time. He was barely known - almost a cypher. Buying Chelsea didn't help him politically in any way. *Gusinsky fled to Israel. Russia later attempted to extradite him from Greece, but the Greek courts ruled the prosecution was politically motivated. **Berezovsky later sued Roman in the U.K., arguing that he was owed a large part of Roman's fortune due to a promise made between them and a now dead third partner. Roman won, with the judge declaring that Berezovsky was a notably unreliable witness. Shortly afterwards Berezovsky committed suicide - or was murdered, if you prefer. ***Interestingly, Prokhorov has faced no accusations that he's bought the Nets for either money laundering purposes or to protect himself from Putin politically. This despite Prokhorov being a complete absentee owner. Roman meanwhile goes to most matches. Perhaps he enjoys owning a football club.
Posting on smartphone and tired Interestingly, Chukotka includes Big Diomede Island, from where you can see Sarah Palin's house.
This!! P. S. The extra time channels were rocksolid reliable although only one of them was in HD from my provider. But for me the ability to record them on my DVR was also HUGE. R.I.P.
Spurs v. Chelsea was a thoroughly entertaining spectacle. Really had a good time watching that match. Hope Man City v. Everton today is as good.
I gotta feeling we'll be seeing a changing of the board at Barca sooner rather than later. Now Messi being at Barca is in question; if he leaves for Citeh heads are going to roll at the Camp Nou.
Didn't he just sign a new contract with a billion dollar release clause? Hard to see him leavin Barca. Edit: I just looked it up, it's 300 million euros. Hmm, that must've been Messi's agent pushing hard on that contract, which is only a month or so old? 300 million, that could be chicken feed in today's loco market. Maybe I should reconsider my skepticism?