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Against Murali as well. Does challenge the idea he couldn’t play spin. If he’d had Duncan Fletcher as a coach five years before he got the gig I reckon he’d have sorted that out with the forward press method. Instead, England in the mid-90s had dinosaurs like Keith Fletcher, and Ray Illingworth (appreciating Illy was a fab England captain late 60s/early 70s but was well into his 30s even then).

Think that was another poster - CL by the looks of it.

He’s certainly lost his bearings…

It’s here https://www.facebook.com/100063703086121/posts/nigel-farage-sparks-fury-over-chinky-slur-row-️nigelfarage-has-ignited-a-storm-o/1419439373522819/ I have less of an issue with her - she apologised without excuses, taken training and education, and served her punishment. It is Farage. Under the Coalition one of the Tory MPs said something foul in a committee. Whip removed, training and education, full apology and reinstated. Farage - ‘She’s a victim, everyone was using it 20 years ago’. Only the racist and ignorant were by 2005 Nigel. If the cap fits..

Agree with this, and looking at the Ashes first test, you could say this about Brendan McCullum and the batting approach of the England test team. When it looks good, it’s really good but when it doesn’t, it’s horrific and looks brainless.

Where’s @trousers with a fishing reel gif?

Farage is a cunt for trying to downplay this though - the word, and we all know what it is, hasn’t been acceptable at all in public use for far more than 20 years at least, more like 30, the same as other ‘colloquial’ words used for British Asian and Black people at that time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvd298wxvro

TBF Tonda can hardly say ‘yeah, he’s a lazy fat layabout’ even if he thinks it. The likes of Redknapp used to but only after a long career. Not at the start they didn’t.

Echoing the banner over the East Stand at the infamous Port Vale cup game (Branfoot’s last): - Mr Blobby In - Aribo Out

Far Right and Lefties are way over-used as a term of colloquial abuse unless you’re talking about Ken Livingstone, or say Tommy Robinson (Oh God, I said it now…) because they are lefties and far right respectively. But that’s the benchmark.

Ditto, it’s on a bat from Nigel Cowley’s testimonial. My old man played golf with him a few times for societies, apparently Judgey was a great guy and great cricketer. Pretty good golfer too, his driving off the tee was as almost as crisp as his square cut in the cricket pitch.

Burridge ought to be - old but good, if mad as a box of frogs. Brucie had some brilliant nights - Newcastle home he kept us in it until the late assault on their goal at the Archers End. But there’s always that ‘did he let one in at Coventry?’. Dave Merrington had a view I would say and Beasant didn’t let him down, huge role in keeping us up.

That data is skewed by a much smaller dataset of games and the 5-0 at Leicester skews that proportionally. So not just my opinion I’m afraid. Alex played more games under Still than Bazunu after Gavin got canned post-Hull debacle. By the way, they’re both crap and we are debating whether a cow pat or dog shit is worse. WTF Martin and Rasmus were doing offering McCarthy a 2-year contract after Wembley I have no idea. Rasmus has the double distinction of signing of Bazunu for £10m plus even if it was Shields’s bonkers idea. We’ve had some right twats running the club.

Certainly are https://www.politico.eu/article/final-decision-on-fate-of-crumbling-uk-parliament-delayed-to-2030s/ Asbestos exposure especially is a huge safety issue for people working there (not the politicians as much) and the electrics are really antiquated and lacking a lot of the basic safety features our own homes have.

Bazunu better than Paul Jones? Seriously? Watch the Man U home game we won 1-0 backs to the wall. Baz doesn’t save any of the stops Jones made that night. Liverpool certainly won’t be taking him on loan. And Forster pre-knee injury? Beasant was miles better than Baz as well. Got POTS in 1996. If you’d said Bazunu was par with Bart or Gunn maybe, but still a push. He’s not better than McCarthy either.

🎵 So True 🎵 The sun’s gonna shine on Gavin Bazunu too

He babysat Gavin as a nipper when Mr and Mrs Lighthouse wanted a Saturday night out.

Reform are presenting it as a coup - but like Mad Nads joining them, Badenoch will be fairly satisfied at seeing three more ERG nutcases fuck off and weaken Reform. In Lia Nici’s case, she’s a plastic Brexiteer and as Reform finished second in the 2024 GE in Grimsby she believes she can get her seat back. Gullis is one of the thickest human beings I’ve ever seen, how he was allowed to be a teacher I’ll never understand. Chris Green I know less about, has done some good charity fundraising for women’s refuges so well done there, maybe needs to be a bit more careful on what he retweets e.g. antisemetic poems. A vaccine sceptic so ideal for Reform’s medical quackery. End of the Uniparty? Not with Reform, ERG Mk2.

He did allegedly drive off from the scene of an accident though, that’s frequently a ban and a big fine in court. Club sorted it out seemingly. Agree that the woman on the video is doing a Francis Lee in the penalty box though, going over dramatically. He admitted liability via his insurer, her car was repaired, get on with your business and life. Millions like her pollute the Nextdoor apps.

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me, a Mercedes Benz…

My wife works for the NHS and I can confirm that your first post about the pandemic pressures pushing back cancer treatments for patients with advanced stages is sadly 100% accurate. There’s also a hell of a lot of trauma from Covid within the nursing profession, imagine having to facilitate goodbyes between parents and kids via Zoom. The parents weren’t elderly in many cases either, our age (mid-late 40s or younger). Friend of mine was one of them at just 47 and you still get helmets on here denying the danger of the pandemic and conspiracies about vaccines. Lifestyle illnesses are a problem, people will not walk any distance, seeing it at the Christmas fairs, park as close as they can and aggressive with each other competing for spaces. Mental illness in this country is frightening, it wasn’t good before the pandemic but worse again still now. Manifests itself in not just the welfare bill but at work, some of the behaviour is terrible at all levels, albeit not the majority. Includes colleagues and customers. The only bit of the above I’d slightly quibble with is about immigrants. Asylum yes, but if it wasn’t for the Philippines especially and other regions coming to work in our health services, we wouldn’t have them. I’d argue it’s probably evens Steven’s with an ageing population as they do a lot of caring albeit there’s some migrants who are a drain, seeing the stories about ASs and taxis. But I’d say legal immigrants benefit us (including say oncology PhDs training here, coming into teams finding breakthroughs, as well as nurses/doctors) and asylum is too high and a drain.

Gavin is hit and miss still - some improvement but remains well off Champ standard and consistency overall. And you’ve only got to watch Downs with your own eyes…worst outfield player I’ve ever seen in a Southampton first team shirt, and that includes Ali Dia. Gavin back in the team I would strongly suspect is Rasmus’s influence - the only positive thing Still did was drop him but the goalkeeping situation has been a total mess for years. All they needed to do was loan him out and get a solid first XI keeper in for this level which McCarthy is a bit too old to be now. Not expensive, should have been sorted.

Wouldn’t have thought so, it’s a technical detail probably most familiar to police/enforcemebt officers, motoring organisations, driving instructors and the courts, but leaving the scene is a distinct offence and set of penalties.

Pretty much, worse arguably. Joe has been on the scoff judging by his lack of fitness since his agent wasn’t able to bluff a move to the Saudi or Qatari leagues in September. Even Diallo and Holgate could get a gig in the latter and they’re appalling.

Not a Bazunu supporter but can’t see that he was a factor in throwing today’s game away. Manning, well, that’s a different story. Wood lousy and THB little better.