CB Fry

If anyone thinks some of the poppy day displays/posters/creations that appear outside peoples houses were mawkishly over the top in recent years, then this November is going to go up a level once the Queen gets bundled in with it all. Probably arm in arm with Captain Tom flying a Spitfire in the First World War trenches.

Someone needs to revive that famous thread we had on here once: "How can we get the St Mary's crowd to match the atmosphere of the PGA Tour Championship?"

Weirdo. Can't get out of bed. Just Lookin'.

I understand virtue signalling perfectly. The problem is people like you can only see virtue signalling in others, in people that aren't you. You love to lecture "you youngsters" and position older generations like you as better than younger generations because you have coins of other Kings in your pocket once. Fucking amazing. Look how virtuous me and my older generation are, the country "didn't go to the dogs" but it is now because we're better and more virtuous than you youngsters. Virtue signalling. It's in pretty much every single post you put up on here. If only we had your virtues grandad, you're fucking amazing. And here you are blubbering like a baby because you didn't get what you wanted and couldn't go to a football match.

The death of the longest serving monarch is "no big deal" but you not being able to go to a little football match is, by contrast, a fucking massive deal you seem unable to cope with, or keep calm, or carry on. By the way, your routine about how many rulers you've seen on a coin is the dictionary definition of virtue signalling, so jolly well done.

Glorified loan deal.

Bank Holiday mentioned there - HERE WE FUCKING GO LADS

Blair seeming to make sure he had his back to Gordon leaving him stuck chatting to the shagger in chief. They seemed to be having a proper natter though. Pompey Penny has landed right on her feet here though.

Knighthood for Wayne Lineker in the New Years Honours list for sure. 👏👏👏👍👍👍

I don't need to justify it, I'm not The Premier League sweetheart. Just pointing out that you're fuming about a reason you've made up in your own head. Do keep raging though, it's wonderful x x x x

I've literally given you the answer. Fucking weirdo.

The Premier League put a statement out, its on their social media feeds, and on their website as well I guess. You'll know it when you see it. It's the statement that at no point mentions anything remotely like "going to football is disrespectful".

"Going to a football match is disrespectful" is not the reason given though is it?

I think the issue is that football is not some noddy niche sport like Rugby. If it was a genuine big Rugby match (England in the 6 Nations) then it would be off. Worcester vs Sale or whatever, who gives a shit. Premier League football generates too much news and attention, plus the crowds and the supporters present too much risk of a negative story. Even a basic Premier League weekend is a huge part of the national conversation, so it would just take up too much attention in a weekend like this. It's annoying - especially the kids football thing, which should have gone ahead - but I can see why, and I think it is the right call. Last Night of the Proms is the mad one for me, and I don't even like it. Should be going ahead 100%, just with a slightly different running order.

Seems fanciful. I know we sack a manager every 18 months or so, even if they've won the league/Champions League for us but now, with this guy, we're not going to do that any more. No siree. They could have given the "we want an identity" and "we want to stop hire-and-fire" in a speech explaining why they are not sacking Tuchel. Pretty hollow to say it immediately after sacking someone who has been successful and that you gave several gazillion to spend a few weeks before. If they don't finish top 4 minimum he's gone by the summer. It's not like the fans will be that bothered. I think they quite liked the Champions League winning guy, and Potter is not a big name or has any Chelsea heritage. Chelsea fans has seen countless managers thay they really, really like be sacked in front of them. Jose. Ancelotti. Conte. Even Lampard. So why should they suck up Potter if he ain't no good. They won't.

Someone send Nicholas Witchell home.

Starmer's pretty good as well. She stood for what we agreed upon.

There ain't going to be no game this weekend lads.

I think this is incredibly contrived, well done.👍 I can't see how/why another club would need to offer (say) double vs the buy back clause amount. It works pretty much as a release amount. City know they can but back for £40m and they have that baked in. In the unlikely event the player doesn't want to go back there and wants to go to Liverpool instead, then that's the defining factor, fees don't need to come into it. Liverpool don't need to offer twice as much because the player would already be clear in where he wants to go, and interested clubs just need to hover around the release amount. I don't think you will get bidding wars with players with very specific buy-back amounts. I just don't see any scenario where Man U and Liverpool get into a £60-80m bidding war for a player that doesn't want to go back to Man City. If there is competition then it would be at player salary/terms level and both clubs would pay the £40m release clause amount. At every stage City will be there, ready to buy back and talk to the kid about his future. If you're thinking next summer, say, I think City will be in our players ears to complete 2 years with us and not jump off to Chelsea or Newcastle etc. In summary we get the best part of the deal now in getting a good player for a couple of years. But a fee ceiling is pretty much locked in as far as I can see. I've got no doubt that one of these boys may well be "worth" £80m or whatever but we ain't going to get that, we'll get what City set it at. Sure people on here will be sobbing about how unfair it is but the point is we got the player in the first place.

Graham Potter currently boarding a private jet to John Lennon Airport.

Maybe. But they've only finished true mid table once under Potter - his previous two years they were bottom six and below us. Before that two seasons scraping up under Hughton. So 4 out of 5 seasons in the Prem finished bottom six. Will depend on who they get of course.

This. It's a terrible fit, he'd probably be gone by Christmas but go for it. Take the money and the Champions League games and the experience. I always look at managers and think that as long as their last-but-one job went okay they'll always get another shot. So Potter goes in at Chelsea and is binned, fine - he's not going to be out of work for long and he'd get a job at a club like Leicester or Palace or Saints etc no bother at all. Even if he goes to Chelsea and loses ten games in a row and is sacked before the world cup, he will bounce back. Honestly if he turns it down he's a fucking plank. Take the money and the challenge. Make no mistake i think it would be a terrible appointment for Chelsea but that's not the point. Also it brings Brighton back into the bottom 6, all being well.

Now, I'm not comparing Truss with E Haaland but this has reminded me of the stuff that came out after his first Prem match following the Charity Shield game when he was a bit off the pace. One match later and Pep and others giving it the "ha ha ha you all said he was shit and he's not". No one said Haaland was shit in the first place, and I haven't seen anything anywhere that would suggest that Labour have "underestimated" Truss whatsoever. I have no doubt they expect a honeymoon period and a poll bounce, especially as she is about to dish out a load of money to people. The polls this weekend will be much closer, probably Truss in front in some of them. Labour have definitely estimated that.

Chelsea are chaotic (see Lavia, R for evidence of that) so I would not put it past them to get permission, speak to Potter, making his role as Brighton boss untenable, and then they go and offer it to Pochettino anyway.

You think Austria v Macedonia would be a 10-0 match in mens qualifying?