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Astonishing that he ever thought that was acceptable in the first place at work https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewgz0qw77lo Even more astonishing Shine/Banjay and BBC production and other managers thought it was alright.

Hope he thinks it through and doesn’t make a decision on the hoof.

Bruges would outbid Rangers I reckon. Plus Edozie turned them down last summer on loan, unless he fancies a Rustie reunion I can’t see it. Good to have a queue of clubs interested though.

Musk might actually regain a bit of respect from me if he blows MAGA apart and further discredits Bannon and Trump connecting them with Epstein conclusively, and showing them up as perverts.

The GOP in Texas itself has a medium-term history of racism as well https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/04/texas-greg-abbott-bexar-GOP-conspiracy/

£6m and wages off the books. On top of what we got for Sulemana the outgoings are working out nicely.

Might be harder to fund post-earthquake damage though, not impossible.

It needs to be two countries - let the GOP loons have the south and Midwest, Dems the Rockies and north east/west coasts. California probably Dem as well. It’d make a great trading partner and lots of wonderful places to visit again post-Trump. Restore the relationship with Canada post-GOP knuckledraggers.

Had seen the bottom idiocy although frankly if Kelly is right, the residents of Kerr County get little sympathy, and they certainly won’t be getting help from a Trump Federal government. Casino politics sucks if you don’t win at the table, as the former miners of Pennsylvania have found out. The top part - so dense even Nic would read it and say ‘that’s a wind up surely?’. Congressional candidate for Georgia - for those with an IQ of 10 or less https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2025/07/ga-congressional-candidate-goes-full-conspiracy-on-texas-flooding-fake-fake-fake.html It clearly hasn’t occurred to her that putting ‘Jesus, Guns, Babies’ might be a contradiction.

It’s what the players want as well, Edozie reportedly wasn’t happy at being loaned to Anderlecht and didn’t pull trees up when he was there. If there’s options where he’s more likely to be a XI regulate he may want to look at them. Smallbone is into the final year of his contract and in his mid-20s. If a club at our level mid-lower table wants to sign him and offer him a three year deal, he’s not turning that down if it keeps him in the RoI squad and a first team regular in a set-up using a central three. Not sure he’s a Will Still player either.

Got turned easily by Henry for his first Arsenal goal wasn’t it? Hadn’t scored in the PL yet and pressure was building up in the press. Rewind 4-5 years and ditto Bergkamp at Highbury although different Saints defenders that day.

Linked with Everton, West Ham and the wealthier MLS clubs. Ipswich seem to be trying but no chance against those clubs. West Ham fans seem to think they’re in front but staying in the NW plus new stadium could be tempting. Especially the dug outs.

I would have done so but had a yogurt in the fridge about to go out of date.

Don’t forget about NotnowJimmy

Only played a dozen or so, did score ten mind but as sample sizes go, it’s very limited.

Didn’t vote Labour, voted Lib Dem, and we don’t get any press, Reform do and uniformally positive despite their staggering level of sleaze compared to our 72 MPs and their 4. No need to champion the current lot and plenty to criticise but they’ve been good on foreign policy and are making some headway on health. Fuck ups on NI rise hitting SMEs under 10 people, charities, education etc, and the welfare issues although personally I thought their MPs were wrong and it should’ve been cut further. Fuel allowance was a bit daft politically as could’ve made the exemptions for those on £25k or less to start with. Tories hardly get mentioned now compared to Reform. It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes the red tops to clock that 85% of Tory support is heading to Reform and whether they finally grow a pair around Farage or whether they’re willing to hammer the final nails in their party’s coffin. Also, and very importantly, the May, Sunak and Starmer governments have been economically very stymied by the hard Brexit which Sunak and Starmer have tried to alleviate slightly - not fucking far enough in my book. I would say Boris but it was and Farage’s fault in the first place. 6% of our economy - Vote Leave didn’t advertise that.

And I’m talking about a corrupt party with shady funding getting no scrutiny whatsoever from the media so the majority of the public who want them nowhere near politics have to the fill the gap.

I do. My grandfathers didn’t fight in WW2 for people like that to win power and Brexit has fucked our economy. Reeves hasn’t done an especially good job but the markets trust her. People forgotten the sheer carnage of Boris and Truss - I’m quite disappointed with Labour in many aspects and they need to do a lot better but a pro-European party I vote for won’t win power, although we might hold the keys to it next GE.

Imagine their behaviour at Lib Dem, let alone former Tory scale or current Labour. If they won say circa 70 seats at the next GE (God forbid) like the Lib Dem’s have now, proportionally 30 would be suspended or under investigation for fraud, sex offences, electoral misconduct etc. All led by a graduate of Dulwich College. Party of the working class!

Surely Crawley has to be dropped now? From 56 Tests, no recognised batsman has more single figure scores. All the footwork of John Sergeant on Strictly.

Reform going great guns by contrast https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78n1dxl8wwo What 6 MPs, now 4, two quit/walked out, another one with a racist question in the Commons caused the party chair to resign and declare working for a Reform government was a total waste of his time. Litter of resignations across the councils just two months in, leaving acne-d teenagers in charge. We will never get the Lib Dem government I’d like with Brexit and Tories are brown bread. So better hope Labour picks up hadn’t we?

Question with BBD is where would the market be? Flop with Saints and Villarreal, one good and one poor loan spell with Sheff Utd. You’d buy him maybe based on his Blackburn record but looked out of shape last season not just out of form.

Tim Davie at it again https://bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/bbc-news-tim-davie-robbie-gibb-reform-voters-nigel-farage-trust/ Question is when the tabloids realise the Tories are a busted flush with Badenoch and 85% of their voters have gone or are going to Reform unless those papers turn on Farage. Penny hasn’t dropped yet and get the sense the Telegraph might go Reform. Maybe the Sun. Mail is the bigger one though readership-wise, albeit a fraction of what it used to be.

All sorts of records yesterday - record number 7 score for England, record for wk, 5 ducks + and 2 x150+ scores in the same innings for the first time. Siraj getting 5 on that deck - hats off to him. Stokes’s form with the bat is an ongoing concern. Pope is too hit and miss at 3, he’s competing with Smith for me for wk/bat, so we need a number 3 and Crawley keeps getting out the same way. Combines well with Duckett but needs some competition. Jonathan Trott has never been replaced really.

It’s going to be a ‘wait and see’ with this signing. If he scores 15 and shows potential then it’s good VFM. With the parachutes situation we can’t afford for him to be the main striker signing if AA/Archer/BBD goes as it’s two seasons up or bust. But all of those stay (AA the club seem to be moving on though) it looks a far better signing as he can’t be worse than Onachu, cult favourite though he was. We look like a 6th-10th place squad as it stands if Fernandes and Ramsdale leave, could squeak in the play offs, long way to go in the window though. Similar to 2023 so far in that outgoing fees impressive but not blown away with what’s coming in. But first team quality certainly down on that on that season even by a previous manager’s admission. Needs some automatic XI purchases to compete for the autos through the spine.