inspectorfrost

Funny you say that https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7zen0vveo The UK has announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, accusing Israel's government of turning a blind eye to the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians by settlers.

He was right, for the comedy value. Have the opposing fans started cheering every time Leicester get a goal kick yet?

Trump's just announced that all mines have been cleared from the Strait of Hormuz, according to the beeb Roughly translated he's just realised his Iranian economy plan isn't going to work

Had to laugh at the 2nd sentence of the report of the EFL cup win against Northampton the other week. "The League Two side had a golden chance inside the first minute when Harry Souttar misplaced a pass straight to Harvey Saunders but his hurried effort was saved by Jakub Stolarczyk." Sounds familiar. . .

It gets better, he's now threatening to bomb Oman for reaching an agreement with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran must be finding this hilarious

Our opening day record must be one of the worst in the football league, we're always total crud first game of the season.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jy96w6pw2o UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children #selfdefence

The Iranians have apparently re-closed Hormuz due to Israel violating the ceasefire. Their way of playing Trump off against Netanyahu, this'll be an interesting one

-and ultimately left the Iranian regime in a stronger position -exposed an open rift/created division between the Americans and the Israelis -achieved regime change. . . . from father to son. . . .who then proceeded to close the Strait of Hormuz (which eventually forced Trump's hand). Ayatollah Khamenei was actually opposed to closing it, and killing him put that option back on the table for the Iranians -the economic fallout both domestically in the US and elsewhere etc. etc. As far as foreign policy blunders go this one takes some beating, you knew it was heading that way as soon as Trump started claiming they'd achieved "total victory".

A good summary if the Iran war by Bowen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr4x3vg347o

It was

Egypt leading Belgium now. Nice shot

The mother has been found guilty of assisting an offender, and the brother/father are also facing mulltiple charges

And this is a very good illustration of the problem. The police should be treating everyone equally, regardless of colour or creed. The Henry Nowak case is the product of years of excessive governmental political interference into the police force, sorry service. The problem goes far deeper than the competence and attitudes of the individual police officers at the Nowak scene (which left a lot to be desired to say the least) People were right to protest Floyd's murder but BLM went too far and governments failed to nip it in the bud. Divisions widened. Police resources taken away from tackling/foiling terrorist attacks and diverted towards arresting people holding Palestine Action signs. Politicians throwing police officers under the bus when challenging a Jewish man who is clearly trying to antagonize a pro-Palestine rally in London. The above examples hide an underlying and very ugly problem that is only becoming worse. The police have ended up serving political masters and not the public as a whole, sacrificing equal treatment and the establishment of facts for towing governmental lines that have utterly failed to stand up to counter-productive woke pressure. Cases like Henry Nowak are the result. The priorities on the ground are all wrong. Basics are not done and innocent lives are lost.

Keep Tonda and the majority of the squad, 'restructure' to virtue signal that it's been stamped out (no one in their right mind would carry it on now regardless) and use the summer to get the players onside. Maintain the current form in the first 7-8 games next season and the fans will consign this to history. That's the best shot to get promoted less than 12 months from now. Doing the 'right thing' won't get us up next season. Unfortunately I suspect the FA will ensure Tonda never manages for us again

Get rid of Tonda and we'll most probably end up with Ed Still next season

Even nuns aren't safe in Jerusalem now https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy02gnzlvkko

Does that include the IDF soldiers that repeatedly warned their superiors for months in advance of the attack and were ignored, some of whom were then killed in the attack? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67958260 It's well documented that the October attacks (amongst plenty of other things) were a monumental failure intelligence failure on the part of the IDF.

Apparently the German chancellor has recently commented re: the negotiations To paraphrase 'he doesn't know what the Americans are doing and the Iranians are playing a blinder'

Think it was more TP had just had enough and wanted to leave. Can't say I blame him either. Never got the rub of the green here, people forget he was totally frozen out of the team and fought his way back into the first team under an ego like Russell Martin. He had poor games and had good games here, sadly he joined us at the wrong time

Was he not just laughed at? Looks like old Don's just got on the phone to Netanyahu to stop masscreing the Lebanese, seems he's realised the 'oh Lebanon wasn't included' hasn't washed with anyone

Works hard as well Loved that moment in the 1st half when he chased down a lost cause towards the touchline and won us a free kick in a dangerous attacking position. Impressive goal, when he gets going he has got some pace. Just a constant nuisance for defenders, hope we can keep hold of him

I noticed even Frank Gardner was comparing it to the Taliban/ISIS earlier This world cup's going to be fun, problem is even if all the countries boycotted it we'd just get Trump presenting the world cup to the USA team and rambling on for 3 hours how it proves how the USA have and have always had the greatest soccer team in the history of the world since soccer was invented in 1994. . . . FIFA peace prize. . .oh dear

Hm, should play Trump at his own game and use this and his fictional timelines has an excuse to withdraw the support. If this committee does achieve the unblocking of the strait, maybe they should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. . .

Inevitable that Putin sees an opportunity by offering to resolve the conflict (see Syria several years ago) Iran have just stated that the Strait of Hormuz is open to any ships that aren't American/Israeli or belong to any related country. If an agreement could be reached where the Iranians let their countries' ships pass through the Strait in return for stopping the US/Israelis use any of their countries as a platform to launch attacks from. Shame Starmer caved in to Trump's noise and didn't take a leaf out of the Spaniard's books.