Hello there and welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com.

Hope you're well, football eh?

Why do we do it to ourselves?

Honestly, what do we get out of it apart from occasional joy, friendships, social events,

something to help pass our time, excitement, sense of community, finding other people who

have a shared passion and interest, laughter, hilarity, bad things happening to people we

don't like, but apart from that, what do we get out of it?

It's been a very, very frustrating week from a football point of view.

I have to tell you, not just from an arsehole point of view either.

What happened to me on Tuesday night really should have been a precursor, almost like a warning

sign of what was going to happen to us in the Champions League.

Tuesday night is the night ever since I've come back from Spain 2006.

I've played for an Astro team.

We play 11 aside Astro.

And over the years we've had our ups and downs.

We really have.

I don't know whether there've been more downs than ups, but we've been like this consistently

mid-table team forever, apart from one year when we came second and we had to be Google

13 nil in order to win the league.

I think we only beat them 7 nil.

And that's because Google were playing a Spanish guy who wore trousers.

Honestly, he wore trousers playing football, but anyway, just beside the point, but every

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