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BMA and RMT have got a better strike rate than Guido Carrillo 😂

Dunno, depends what transpires. If you’re prepared to vote Labour as a rarity Lib Dem is more the next logical step.

I remember Les Reed at the fans forum in August 2018 actually trying to convince the audience in response to a question about Guido Carrillo that he was still going to be a huge asset to the club in the future. He got the huge roar of derisive laughter he so richly deserved. Shortly afterwards he was reunited with Mauricio Stresshead at Leganes, scoring a whopping 7 goals in 56 games. Still, better than he did at Elche, 5 in 50. 😂😂😂

As long as Stokes only has cramp, that’s about as good a day as England could be hoping for. The commentary box might need nose pegs though https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/michael-atherton-no-sense-smell-35610826 😂😂😂

Not in places like Herefordshire not too far from here where the Greens have seats. Some of their voters are ex-Tory left and would never vote for Corbyn plus he’s mainly urban appeal. Not much for rural areas.

Mark Carney speaks sense https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/mark-carney-israel-gaza-aid-flow-humanitarian-disaster-00476658 Israel’s global empathy from the Hamas Oct 2024 attacks has run out. Sadly, without an American President without the intellect to contain a nutter like Netanyahu, the situation is deteriorating rapidly.

Sky reporting Wrexham have approached Christian Eriksen.

I hope so, otherwise it means Spors is as big a mug as Reed, Semmens and Ankerson, which I didn’t think was possible.

Unlikely they’ll do much outside of the M25 ring really, possibly pick up 2-3 seats there and as Duck says possibly ditto the Midlands and at a push Lancashire mill towns assuming the Gaza situation is still boiling hot by 2029. but Lib Dem/Green voters won’t go anywhere near them (I speak as one) and Corbyn is despised by most of the media.

I’m sure I saw something like that shirt on the final clearance rail of Sondico kit at Sports Direct. This little perforations when worn by JPFCW will cause several medical emergencies in the Fratton End on a hot day as the full spectrum of stink and stale beer emerges.

If you are going to use terms such as this, perhaps you might need a reference point as to what ‘disgusting scum’ truly looks (and smells, according to the skates I know) like https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/im-disappointed-with-myself-portsmouth-fc-fanatic-john-westwood-banned-for-second-time-this-season-after-publicly-urinating-outside-forest-green-stadium-3896168

Latter would suit the club if he isn’t signing a new contract as pure ‘profit’ under PSR. Mind you, even just having typed that reminds me of why I feel distant from football at the top levels these days.

Meanwhile Jeremy Corbyn starts a new party to tackle the ‘rich and powerful’. Like Len McCluskey, the bloke who put him in post, I presume? https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/report-lifts-lid-on-liverpool-firms-role-in-unite-corruption-scandal/

As long as there’s no collapse we should avoid the follow on and that would be another draw. Safety bit by bit.

THB had surgery this summer IIRC

I don’t agree with Starmer at headline level on the available data but life and policy is not as simple as ‘Get Brexit Done’ (we didn’t), or ‘Stop the Boats’ (we haven’t and nobody entirely will, whatever you hear on YouTube). There’s a fair bit of stock that post-Grenfell and as tower blocks, older estates get beyond the point HA’s want to sink in yet more money renovating them, isn’t suitable, or most British families won’t consider. The Red Road Flats in Glasgow are a prime example in the years before they were demolished and housed ASs at scale. It’s not a long-term solution but it buys time to get the cases backlog under Braverman back under control. It needs to be accompanied with faster and more ruthless processing, the AI tools and checks to stop people claiming u18 who aren’t is a start.

Quite surprising isn’t it? Mind you, whilst it doesn’t feel like it, it is in modern history terms a while ago now. Most British history courses cover the period because you can’t understand today’s Britain without it. As a person, she was quite interesting and family friend worked for her - best boss he ever had. Didn’t agree with 50% of her policies but no denying she had a huge impact and genuinely cared about people on low-mid incomes even if her policies benefited them short-term but harmful in the longer-run. Hard to say many governments of any stripe have since.

As someone who doesn’t vote Labour or Tory and cutting out the noise, has Starmer done a good job objectively? Internationally - yes, there’s some scraping of barrels online and in the tabloids but he kicks Boris’s arse on that score. They’ve done more more major trade deals, far more, than the Tories did in 10, and most of those bar Truss’s Aussie disaster shafting our farmers were done by Sunak. Rishi was alright actually but his situation was like Rusk last season. Domestically - no, the NI increase had to happen but the lack of exemptions for SMEs under 5 staff, charities, education etc was stupid. Winter fuel allowance wasn’t worth the hassle and the optics around it were a mess. I didn’t agree with the extent of the climb down on welfare either. As @egg said though, anyone who thinks it was anything other than inheriting the worst situation since Churchill or Attlee has got their head stuck up their arse, or is spending too much time on X. Don’t agree with circa 50% of the choices they’ve made but to argue it’s been a disaster is some serious drunkenness. Truss - that’s a properly a disaster Hard Brexit - losing 6% of your economy - that’s a disaster.

After the bonuses of Sully and Onachu, I can only assume the outgoings that were expected to happen quickly - Bednarek, Aribo - haven’t happened, Dibling situation hasn’t resolved with a departure or new contract, THB injured. Even so, the attacking midfielder hasn’t happened which has a stink of the last minute failed striker trolly dash of 2023. Less profligate than Rasmus but as dynamic as a breeze block so far this summer on needed incomings. Squad is still bloated and can understand there not exactly being a queue of takers.

Bednarek with more pace and less experience, basically.

Exhibit three: Millwall home https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/gavin-bazunu-under-fresh-scrutiny-as-southampton-boss-blasts-concession-of-crap-rubbish-goals-against-millwall/a457780480.html That’s without mentioning the PL horrors - Lallana’s header, Firpo Leeds away etc

4% of social housing sold off by Right to Buy replaced since 1980. Yep, blaming a policy starting in 1980 is absolutely reasonable https://news.sky.com/story/end-right-to-buy-to-help-save-councils-from-2-2bn-black-hole-government-urged-13209490 As for rubber face, he was as much a part of Vote Leave as Boris as you well know and just as untruthful. And the reason he’s down to 4 MPs is that one of them is a wife beater and the other who took our football club into the abyss he fell out with (a common theme). Classy party. Nigel Pinocchio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg6r7vyz4zo https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-reform-winter-fuel-child-cap-b2757571.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2998klx2y0o https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/farage-port-talbot-call-more-lies-from-chancer https://nation.cymru/news/farage-claim-that-police-drove-protesters-to-demo-is-not-true-senior-officer/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l47e86r39o https://www.desmog.com/2025/07/17/reform-uk-nigel-farage-zia-yusuf-west-northamptonshire-council-doge/

Look at Ipswich away that season - even Martin criticised him after that and said he cost us the game.

Leading MAGA and Republican figure Candice Owens being sued by the Macrons for nutty conspiracy theories https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8739w8py4jo Clearly slavery, civil rights movement, Martin Luther King and Barack Obama all passed her by or hasn’t read about them in her futile quest to cuddle up to white supremacism. Married to a British Tory - not surprising these days either with how far they’ve gone in the MAGA gutter.

That’s why last night at Ibrox was so frustrating - not because I’ve got anything against RM, well done on the result - but seeing Gassama do actually what we sorely need. Player we were linked with as well.