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Can’t wait to see his reaction when they’re relegated.

The threat of points deductions has left the door wide open for Luton, to be fair. At the start of the season they weren’t given a hope. Then they’re given a glimmer of hope with blades and Burnley being absolutely rubbish. So they just have to be better than absolutely rubbish to not finish last at least. Big then points deductions mean that if they can just stay within 10pms of forest and Everton then there’s a real chance they could stop up. and hope will do funny things to people.

Yes, but the reason that’s such an achievement is that they are specifically historically league winners. They should be winning leagues. The fact that they hadn’t was an underachievement. Winning the league is just standard to a scouser who grew up in the 70s. Leicester are the kind of club who build statues when they win the league. But for Liverpool, winning the league isn’t enough by itself to make you a legend. like if everyone who won the league with Chelsea had a statue, they could probably have a starting 11 of statues. For some clubs winning the league is just the bare minimum. You get sacked if you don’t win the league. Liverpool are one of those.

Scousers talking about building a statue to him. Everything you say is true, but the record will show he’s just won one champions league and one premier league. Where’s the statue for Benitez. Yes they’ve won the title, but this is Liverpool, past managers were winning back to back titles, winning one title is pretty much the minimum requirement. Not winning one title would have been a failure. Should he be a legend for achieving the minimum? I know that’s unfair cos he was up against Pep and probably would’ve won more without him, but that’s the reality. You don’t get statues for coming second place. Bit of a nearly man really. They nearly won back to back champions leagues. They nearly won the quadruple. That would have been proper legendary status. There’s some parcelled universe where those thighs came to pass. But it’s not this universe. Of course, if he wins the quadruple this season, we’ll see. His story isn’t finished yet.

I say deep fake. He didn’t stumble over any words or slander anyone. He’s spouting nonsense, but at least it’s coherent nonsense. Trump could do worse than to replace himself with a robot.

Well, the universe is clearly f****** with me. Stupid f****** universe. My wife has forgiven me though. She says I’m a jinx.

That would be f****** weird if my wife had been a member here the whole time.

Are they protesting by boycotting now? More Derby fans than reading fans here.

Doh!! I bought my ticket.

I’m in. The universe is definitely telling me to go. Even the nice lady in the car park let me in without having to pay for parking. The universe wants me here for a reason. Hopefully ti witness something spectacular. im not sure if my wife wants me here though. I’ve got radio silence from her. I’m not sure what reception I’m going to get when I rock up at 1am.

I’m accidentally in reading. I’ve been working here today. Didn’t even realise the match was on this evening. On my way home, but need a charge. The first charger I’ve gone to is taken, so the second charger I navigated to happened to be outside the stadium. And then it hit me that the match is on today my wife is expecting me home in 3 hrs. But this feels like fate is telling me I have to go to the match.

“We better hope there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there’s bugger all down here on earth.”

Well that ones easy. Just ask it ‘what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?’

Them beating our 11 points has long gone, so whatevs, a few more spawns decisions like this and they might catch Forest.

Think of the Star Trek scenario. Money doesn’t exist in that world. So people work because they want to. People own restaurants and vineyards, and work for starfleet to explore the stars. id like to think we get to that sort of position. Where the motivation is not money, but following your dream and the kudos of being the best at it. the one thing I never understood about that economy though, is how does the federation deal with other economies that do deal with money. Like how do they buy drinks at quark’s bar? Where do they get the Latinum from? I might ask chat gpt.

Also, you’re a Forest fan, and THIS is the thing that embarrasses you. We’ve finally found the bottom of your barrel.

Speak for yourself. Who’s this ‘we’.

Here’s one of my favourite facts. As much as I’m talking about the incomprehensibility of what a million quid actually is for us mere mortals, think about this: 1,000,000 seconds = 1.653 weeks. 1,000,000,000 seconds = 31.71… YEARS!! so as incomprehensible and out of reach as a millionaire is to us, that’s how millionaires must feel about billionaires. and oxfam reckons we’ll have our first trillionaire soon (which, if you’re interested, is 317 centuries!!!!).

I probably fit into this category. No matter how much I earn, I always tend to find a way to spend just a little bit more than what I earn. I’ve got debt, but I’m not afraid of debt. I’d rather get the things I want / need now, and pay them off over time, than save for them and buy them later. Our holiday to Florida went on a credit card. If I’d have waited til I could afford it, I’d be taking my grandkids. Now I’ve got a holiday my kids will remember forever. could it be argued that they’d remember a holiday to mablethorpe just as much? No, that bull s***, Florida was amazing and I make those credit card payments with a smile on my face knowing what they bought me and my family. Honestly, that’s the only thing I’d do if key was no issue. I’m happy with my house, I’m happy with my car, I just want to travel and make memories with the kids (and maybe pay off my credit cards).

I do t think I will join the £1m club. I think this is the first time I’ve really, really seriously looked at the big figures I could earn, because this is the first time it’s been realistically in my grasp. its when I worked out what I could potentially earn in a week, like £10k a week, which to me seems an astronomical weekly amount. And I thought, well surely if I’m earning that much, the I must be on the road to achieving the ‘this time next year’ dream. Then I realised the maths are simple. £10k x 52 weeks = barely half a mil. I just don’t think people appreciate, I certainly didn’t, just how much £1m actually is. When we talk about footballers fees, and wages, and how much Elon musk pays for twitter etc. they’re all just numbers. And when millionaires negotiate over irises, they don’t negotiate over the penny’s, they negotiate in terms of millions. Like ‘okay, you’ve worn me down, we’ll pay £20 mil instead of £18 mil. this thread wasn’t really a ‘look at me I’m starting a new business’ kind of thread. It’s more borne out of that realisation. Average wage is about £750 a week. There have definitely been times in my life where’d I’d have been very happy to earn that. But I’m talking about maybe earning more than 10x as much as that, and that is still half as much as I’d need to earn to actually earn a mil in a year. And it’s a quarter of what a lot average footballers earn each week its just that something doesn’t feel quite right about that. The disparity is phenomenal. I guess I’ve always known that, but only really thought about it (over analysed it, obsessed over it) now.

I definitely se shout point. I earn a lot more now than I did 5 years ago. But our lifestyle has changed, our kids do more activities, we’ve got slightly over cars with bigger payments, we’ve been on some nicer holidays with the credit cards payments to pay back. And we have 2 more kids, which doesn’t help. So I still end up with the same (basically nothing) money at the end of the month. But I still reckon there’s a point at which you’re accumulating money faster than you can spend it. Like you work hard to get to a mil a year. Or 2 mil, or whatever arbitrary number. But the. You fit have to work much harder to get to 10 mil or 20 mil. That wasn’t really the aim when you started working hard. The aim was to earn a decent wedge to live comfortably. Be a millionaire or whatever that looks like. But at some point, money just makes money and then you’re accumulating money for the sake of it. You can go on your super luxury holidays, and drive your super luxury cars, and send your kids to private school and yet you still make more money. So you buy property and invest in other businesses and make more yet more money. There has to be a point at which you just don’t need any more money. There’s more than you know what to do with.

That’s awesome. In a word, life. You got me worried now that my wife will grow tired of me after 40 years. (15 years this month (I believe we got married on the same day this forum was founded)). but I guess your story goes to show that you can have set backs and they probably suck at the time, but you find a new normal one way or the other, and then those set backs are just history. So no need to worry. PS during the period you mention, I was born. So it wasn’t all bad.

This is great. And without wishing my life away, it sounds like paradise. but… it’s like all those films where the dad walks away from his big business trip to watch his kid hit the home run in the big game. That’s all well and good. But it doesn’t show the epilogue where the dad is fired and the family end up living under a bridge. real life means having to earn a living. I often find myself torn between, am I working too hard and not spending enough time with my kids, or am I working hard now so that they’ve got a financially secure future and in a couple of years time we can go on great holidays and I can spend loads of time with them. And if I keep doing that, how long does it take, how long can I keep saying ‘this time next year’ before I start changing my goals to spending time with the grandkids instead, because I’ve missed the opportunity with the kids entirely?

You’ve pretty much described me a to a tee there. im not sure what business forum I’m part of (although I have signed up to a lot of things with the same user name), but you are right that I don’t have to worry about installing a Scrooge mcduck swimming pool just yet. I’ve been starting businesses since 2009, or even before that since I was a freelance graphic designer at uni. But it’s always been a slog just to break even. There’s something different about this latest venture though. It’s very exciting, and moving at a ridiculous pace. I think, as much as I’m that person you describe, I’m missing something to take it to the next level. More than 150 ish transactions a day would terrify me. That’s when I would have to start thinking about a big work force. Up to 150 transactions a day and I can still pretty much handle this myself, with my trusty wife at my side, and maybe an apprentice. Beyond that, we’re talking investors and offices and that’s all a bit scary. but that’s kind of what I was getting at in the original post. There is that next next level where that isn’t so scary, and once you make your first million the second comes easier. I always set that money breeds money. And I guess it all snowballs from there. I don’t think I’ll ever be at that next next level. Like I couldn’t imagine being the owner of Tesco, for example, with thousands of staff and locations and things to manage. That’s all just too big for my tiny mind to comprehend. not saying they don’t earn their money, but I just wouldn’t know what to do with that kind of money.

Do t even need to think about it or analyse it. Chris Martin is welcome back any of the day for me. My favourite player of recent times.