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Yes, lost too many loved ones to it. Truly lost his sense of perspective there, it is only sport.

Sounds a very decent appointment on paper but needs total independence from Rasmus. No more ‘Mr Football’. Rasmus has to stick to Goztepe only.

It was a bad one and he should apologise. Cancer and football outcomes aren’t comparable and should never be.

It’s the club as well though. I remember Drew Surman was talented but a bit weedy when he played for us, Mick McCarthy got him on the weights and protein at Wolves and went onto have a good PL career with them, Norwich and Wolves. After the euphoria of Wembley Will should have been told ‘well done, but you can’t play PL central midfield 10 stone dripping wet. Here’s a weight training and protein diet regime, we need a stone of muscle development by mid-July. We will loan you out again if you aren’t physically able to compete in the top flight’.

It was a dreadful comment though, much as I like Ottawa. I’m sure he’ll apologise on Atlantic time. Second part of your sentence you have either the wrong part of the forum - politics is for the lounge - or mistaken this for Conservative Home.co.uk

The Duncan Goodhue substitution really messed up what had been the best performance of the season.

His posts will dry up again (pity he won’t) in the spring when he can drink outdoors again all day. Plus he’s excited about the inauguration and probably boring all of his neighbours (‘did you hear that, tut, John’s drunk again’). He probably wants to wank, but given that it’s like trying to play snooker with a rope for him, he takes out his excitement/frustrations on here instead.

Unless you are 7 pints deep in Carling or Stella, have cracked a bottle of cheap wine from Lidl open by lunchtime, and are very sad, bitter and lonely, you logically wouldn’t.

He was already on ignore a long time ago for me but sadly people keep on quoting his Carling-fuelled ramblings. Agree with you calling him a wanker though.

If it was a choice between having to sit at an England game next one of the two Johns - Misselbrook or Westwood - I’d actually have to take a nose peg to the match and blank out the skate tattoos. Alcohol-wise not much between them.

Won’t happen. Tulip whatshername going means Torsten Bell gets closer to the policy levers in the Treasury and that’s a good thing.

That was an average as well, some regions up to summer of 2016 were growing faster and all of the political wrangling, uncertainty and turmoil which followed even before COVID and the lockdowns, Truss and anything have/haven’t done has screwed investment confidence and the huge visa rises and health surcharges imposed by Braverman which Labour is far too slow to roll back has totally deterred incoming exceptional talent in AI, hi-tech and the sciences. It takes decades to get those pipelines going again with domestic only and then they’ve got to want to stay when you have! Elon Musk is a total nutcase but even he can see the folly judging by his battles with the GOP over their high skill visas of what Braverman and Farage wanted.

I did think the unresolved attacks on his property were probably a major contributor. Hope the coppers load the charges up like toppings on a Subway sandwich when they locate the culprits. It goes far beyond criminal damage for me, whether it’s a world-reknowned cricketer or Joe Public.

Just informed by someone very senior in economics who is ITK and independent that Brexit has shrunk the UK economy by 6% and that’s without impacts from Covid and the NI rises. The elephant is still in the room economically.

Plymouth have dropped Conor Hazard, their first choice and who had kept clean sheets including their cup win at Brentford. Wonder if Bazanu is going there on loan?

Trump is only doing that if the tea is a golden colour.

If your satnav takes your near Bradford as some routes do (we tended to opt for via Skipton when going to Wensleydale, and we love Skipton, the farm shop is a cracker, great classic car show every June, Jenson Samuel for men’s shirts) then if you enjoy industrial history Saltaire is well worth a visit. David Hockney art collection as well. When we stayed between the Lakes and Dales up above Kendal near the M6, a stunning route into the Dales is that way. Lakes fells in the rear view mirror, Yorkshire Three Peaks ahead and Howgill Fells straddling the two counties but within Dales National Park despite being in Cumbria.

Whitby and the Abbey not too far either. Boulby Cliffs the other side of Staithes are some of the highest in the country and haven for wildlife.

I criticised cutting the Regional Development Agencies at the time, and Cameron partially acknowledged the mistake by setting up the Local Enterprise Partnerships within 12 months. But there was going to be public spending cuts in 2010 regardless, everyone outside of Labour’s core knew that, Brown had already started in some areas (my wife was working with one of the country’s biggest local authorities and money was already being cut heavily). Did they cut too far? Retrospectively, yes, it choked off recovery a bit but it looks very sane now compared with 2015 onwards.

The weather can make a huge difference, we tended to be up there in the last two weeks of June which bar last year is normally great weather. Still loads to do if raining, but it needs decent weather to be at its best whereas the Lakes, coast and Cotswolds can get away with it a bit more.

Cumbria 😉

That would go nicely with our third strip. Very fetching.

Agree with all of Hypo, and I have my own issues with their decisions and impact, but we’ve not even seen a full cycle yet. Thatcher took time and if you asked people on the street in late 1979, 1980, they were very angry with the economic course resulting in the 1981 riots.

Exactly this Egg. I voted Lib Dem and no regrets, MP is good and popular locally but I want to see Davey pushing the Single Market far more than he is. But I won’t accept any posts on here saying ‘Labour is in power in now’, or Brexit’s happening because the last 9 years have fucked this country royally to save their own party (failing anyway) and create new ones (Farage, Tice, Lowe). If Lowe’s time at SFC was anything to go by, Reform are like having a headache and decapitating yourself. People will debate 2010-15, 1997-10 and 1979-90 but those were all versions of the UK I recognised and loved. I don’t recognise the current populist shithole the UK and the world is becoming and my grandfathers who fought in WW2 could tell you about the dangers of populism.