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This thread hits home hard at present. Been struggling a lot recently all beginning with losing my job (have since found another) Then's there's the alcohol and gambling. You drink and gamble to try and help yourself but it reaches a certain stage during/after where you just feel 10x worse than you did before due to hangover and money lost. All coming to an all time low yesterday where I emptied my bank account to a grand total of 1.35 within the space of 45 mins. A kick in the balls and hit me hard this morning when i realised i had nothing to live on until Friday. I don't know whether I'm an addict because I'm depressed or depressed because I'm an addict. Either way today I realised enough was enough. Permanently excluded myself from all my online accounts and going to see the Gp on Monday.

Took a lot of comfort from reading this read. Went through many pages and seen that there were many others going through worse than me that came back out the other side stronger. Just got to take it one day at a time.

Massive clearance!

See Ronaldo went off injured tonight. Anyone know how serious it looked?

Class from Everton tonight.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-43870881

Strange choice not to start to Zebo I'd have thought. Any updates I was following had him making a huge difference.

His replacement also got taken apart by Thomas who was involved in 3 tries.

Glad to see Ronnie go through. Could be very hard to stop now.

Always sad to see a big club like Sunderland in such a horrible state. The club is a shambles from top to bottom.

Mark Selby out. Beaten 10-4 by Joe Perry. 

Ruthless stuff from Leinster here. Sexton is a class act.

Sadly Ken never made it. Stuffed 10-2 by Stevens 

First round draw was made today. O'Sullivan v Maguire the standout tie.

Full first round draw
Mark Selby v Joe Perry

Mark Allen v Liam Highfield

Kyren Wilson v Matthew Stevens

Shaun Murphy v Jamie Jones

John Higgins v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh

Stuart Bingham v Jack Lisowski

Luca Brecel v Ricky Walden

Judd Trump v Chris Wakelin

Ding Junhui v Xiao Guodong

Anthony McGill v Ryan Day

Marco Fu v Lyu Haotian

Barry Hawkins v Stuart Carrington

Mark Williams v Jimmy Robertson

Neil Robertson v Robert Milkins

Ali Carter v Graeme Dott

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Stephen Maguire

Always liked Ken. One of my favoutites. Plays Matthew Stevens who won 10-9

Mark Allen sneaked in as the 16th seed. Could potentially face a difficult 2nd round against Mark Selby though.

Ken Doherty one win away from a 1st Crucible appearance since 2014 after a 10-4 win over Gerard Greene.

Plays either Matthew Stevens or Yuan SiJun in the final qualifying round.

Last week Manchester United beat the best team in the league away and today getting beaten at home by the worst team in the league. That lack of consistency must be very frustrating for any Manchester United supporter.

Not half. Pathetic stuff from Utd today. Players never looked interested.

Jim Allister is a bitter little man. Don't understand why Nolan continues to invite him on show after show. I've never heard him make any sort of positive contribution or suggestion.

Jamie Bryson another example of a top class tw*t continuously asked back.

Stupidity from Buffon getting himself sent off. Ronaldo probably still would have scored but it's a hell of a bigger task with the imposing Buffon in goal.

We've all played enough and seen enough sport over the years to know that the referees not going to change his mind. Don't know why players continue to protest with referees.

Buffon is only 6'2 and change, while Szczęsny is about 6'5 - in terms of imposing presences for a penalty it was a significant improvement for Juvetus.

Buffon is one of my favourite players of all-time and will go down as probably the greatest keeper of his generation.

Wasn't really talking about physical stature,  it's more about the personna of Buffon. Szczeny a fine goalkeeper but I'd much rather be taking a last gasp penalty against him in the 95th min opposed to one against the legend that is Buffon.