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Sing to the tune of the infamous Harry & Jim song 🎵 Just get a point, You Useless Pricks Just get a point You Useless Pricks 🎵 Our lot will just stand there and clap them instead

I think the Leicester forum has called it The El-Shatico. Same thing and both clubs and squads are a disgrace to English football.

He’s economically illiterate, not difficult to see why he’s endured a string of bankruptcies. Hinting at elimination of income taxes is typical populist fantasist thinking, Farage is in a similar mould, as was Boris as well. No qualification of what ‘massive’ is or any evidence of it bar the odd new plant, nowhere near covering the jobs lost in the commercial sector. And that’s pre-DOGE, because tens of thousands of highly skilled people won’t be buying new Chevys or extending their townhouses. They’re more focused on not foreclosing. He’s has been propped up by Daddy, the banks and shady billionaires (eg Musk), hasn’t had to face realities. If he presented this as a business plan at the interview stage of the UK Apprentice, Claude Littner would tear him a new arsehole.

Apart from slightly higher inflation, Biden actually left the economy in decent shape. The fact he was doddery and should never have been standing for a second time is tangential if we’re only discussing the economy. People voted for Trump claiming they felt he would put more money in their pay packets and he hasn’t. Given the disruption caused to global supply chains already by entirely unnecessary tariffs it’ll be quite some time before there’s any prospect of that being the case outside of the odd isolated specialist sector. His billionaire friends - and Marjorie Taylor Greene - seem to have done rather well out of insider trading however. By contrast, the UK pattern postwar has tended to be - centre-right government, better public finances, worse public services, and swap it around for centre-left. Now I’m no fan of Reeves but this government has had to address dreadful public finances and public services, acknowledge to be the worst postwar right across the economic and spectrums. The IFS warned there was a conspiracy of silence about what was needed post-GE across all parties but some of the public don’t grasp that losing 6% of our economy to a very hard Brexit and funding furlough has done grave damage despite Boris and Farage’s sunlit uplands. The latter is borrowed and has to be paid back, that is adult life. By contrast, the damage by Trump’s tariffs is only 0.8% of GDP. Could do without it but drop in ocean compared to above.

Or that was it how it presented around the SR Boardroom table by a certain member.

And retreating like an Italian tank in WW2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70zy5w983go https://news.sky.com/story/trump-100-days-executive-orders-tariffs-stock-markets-trade-war-latest-live-13209921 The amount of lies here is astonishing. The DNC is a disgrace though and should be mobilising ahead of the mid-terms. Instead they are AWOL, even if Trump and MAGA are doing a fab job of sinking themselves https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98gv43pjjno

Mind you, Jeffrey Archer would’ve been more of a threat to defences than Cameron’s been.

Edited it for you

A non-Melania one (allegedly).

This area needs further research, it’s a real gap at the moment. Would have a lot of benefits if done well.

St James Park for all-northern games even pre-renovation let alone post. Villa once North Stand expanded/renovated, Brum’s new stadium if they build it.

It does look a bit lopsided with the existing smaller lower tier and widened and higher upper, but still a big improvement on what is there now having been in that stand when the lower tier housed away fans https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/april/24/aston-villa-announce-redevelopment-of-the-iconic-north-stand/ Leeds have plans for a second tier on the Revie End but I suspect that’s subject to survival next season and a prolonged PL stay. Hillsborough by comparison has had virtually nothing spent on it since the main stand renovation for Euro 96. In the 1970s it was miles better than most Division One grounds despite Sheff Weds languishing in the second and third divisions. The Leppings Lane was a problem by the 1980s but poor policing played its part too as other SF venues eg White Hart Lane, Highbury, had ends that were dangerous.

Having been there to watch Saints, it’s still got the bones of a major stadium, tunnel for the coaches under the main stand etc. North Stand a stunner of it’s era. But the away end is monsterously dated, dangerous and basic, even without its chequered history, pure 1970s with asbestos roof, Kop has pillars in it and the blocked off corners. It would need £100m spending minimum to renovate it to that standard for SFs/Euro matches. In the 1990s, it and Villa Park were peers and the latter could still host a cup semi once the old North Stand is replaced and capacity up to 50k. That’s what 20 years plus in the second and third tier wilderness does.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/dragan-solaks-stance-southampton-sale-emerges-big-simon-jordan-claim/ At the moment, probably better with SR even with their flaws.

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There’s the song the team come out to sorted. Although ‘we’re going to score one more than you’ is rather fanciful.

Added to that the peer review and Director’s panel decisions, whilst supposed to be faster, may have taken months, and may even have happened under the last government as well.

Not to mention a manager and new DoF too. Shits on the fans after such an appalling season. I hope for Dragan’s sakes a sale happens quickly or start the season well because if neither happens there won’t be a repeat of the mindless happy clapping at Spurs.

Sorry to MLG you but having read further, it is the whole funding body, established by Dominic Cummings as a more high risk, high reward funder along the lines of DARPA in the US, which has a budget of £800m, not that project or programme. This particular programme, one of their biggest, could be up to £50m in value but probably won’t be in practice. Some of the other programmes are here including Programmeable Plants are here https://www.aria.org.uk and https://www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/programmable-plants/programmable-plants I much prefer the plants and other programmes and don’t like the sun dimming project. But the whole point of ARIA was to be different and risky so we understand more in the future if we do need to use those methods. Not saying it’s my cup of tea but it’s meant to be more edgy and have commercial applications.

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There is much truth in this, however it wasn’t long ago Dragan was on there being interviewed by Jim White who he is apparently friendly with. Would have taken White seconds to rebut Jordan with ‘news to me or not heard anything about that’. He didn’t. Doesn’t mean the club is actively up for sale but might mean Dragan will want to oversee another promotion but recognise that to undo the sheer scale of Rasmus’s ineptitude plus compete at the PL level as we traditionally have will cost more than he’s prepared to gamble. So for anyone to kick the tyres more firmly, £125m opens the door to discuss further.

I see the Canadian election interference is working out well for him….not https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ylzkzxkndo It is set to be close, but it wasn’t anywhere near close pre-Trump with the Liberals set to be on the wrong end of a landslide.

Or @LeG

If Spors gets the opportunity. My sense is that most clubs are available if the owner’s price is matched, excluding the Bundesliga which has a different culture. But the optics are poor on the Jordan comments which haven’t come from thin air sans a manager, pending a total squad rebuild and the DoFs feet barely under the table. Not to mention a diabolical season.

Interesting piece - Bessant and Kellogg at the moment as the adults in the administration seem to be having more input over the morons like Navarro https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g45zp77y5o