Gloucester Saint

If the measurement is impact per episode, then Fawlty Towers has to take some stopping.

Not only is his football drab but massive petrol club ‘give us what we want’ attitude. City unsettled the player no doubt, helping break up Palace’s much loved cup winning team, knew the rules and now want to break them, along with the 100+ FFP alleged breaches. Modern ECL-level football = get in the bin.

SR know how to find them! At least when Guly was arrested for DUI, he was on the right side of the road!

Some online resources for walks in Hampshire and my current part of the world https://www.youtube.com/@RobsHampshirePubWalks https://www.youtube.com/@solitaryrambler

Thought I’d post a healthier antidote to all of the politics-related threads on The Lounge. Lots of walks throughout the year that I’ll post pictures of from Cotswolds, Forest of Dean, Severn Estuary, Brecon Beacons and beyond. I’ll start with a trip to the wetlands reserve at Slimbridge (pictures below).

A40 has some absolute monster potholes on it as well that you really don’t want to hit at 60mph.

No worries. Certain there’s footage I’ve never seen before and the quality is very decent. Other details I noticed are the barking dogs at the Chelsea game. My parents lived near the Dell prior to buying a house in Woolston and remember saying there was loads of trouble before, at and after that game. Also McCalliog’s free kick v Bradford in front of their original main stand and a response to our celebrating away fans audible of ‘you’re going to get your fucking heads kicked in’. Their Ointment Crew was one of the most notorious in the lower leagues.

Flynn hasn’t been cooking chicken livers again has he?

Basically Mandelson bragging to Epstein that he finally got Brown to give up on trying to engineer a minority coalition with Nick Clegg and the LDs. Correct that it was a Con-Lib given the GE result but shows again what a snake PM is. What Starmer was thinking of is beyond rational explanation.

Didn’t seem to fit on an existing thread but it popped up in my YouTube feed and some of the matches I knew of but hadn’t actually seen before. It runs from Leeds away 1966 to late 1980s although most of the coverage is 1985 or before. I started watching 1983/4, quite a bit there but it was the late 1970s footage I’d not seen in any many cases. Especially a 3-3 comeback draw at Burnley with a last minute equaliser by David Peach prompting a superb line from Barry Davies as the players swamp David Peach ‘and they all want a bite of Peach 🍑’. More innocent days… Interesting that only two of the 1976 Cup winning team were around for the 77/78 promotion winning side (Peach and Holmes). Nicholl and Allardyce exchanging goals at Roker Park. Sunderland hammered at the Dell in 1975. Who was there for some of these games then and and what are your memories? Hope you enjoy watching this as much as I did! @Holmes_and_Watson your hero scores quite a few on here. And Steve Moran’s debut goal.

TBF Trump has been convicted as a sexual abuser already https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65502076 but broadly, I agree that like Savile, he will be long deceased by the time the Pandora’s Box finally opens on Epstein. Musk can buy silence. Andy Windsor and Mandelson will be the scapegoats here (and they’ve both behaved disgracefully, Windsor especially). And even when Trump was convicted over the sexual abuse of Carroll and bribing of Stormy Daniel’s, 77m thick cunts voted for him anyway ensuring higher prices and job losses for them, and severe global instability for the rest of us.

Got those ceilings removed from this house professionally as soon as we could. Can’t stand Artex.

Prolific is Peter Duncan.

That picture is faker than most of Katie Price, which is going some.

He has with Bannon but evidentially that’s nowhere near establishing that Epstein and Farage have had discussions in person. So did the ERG wing of the Tory party on a Bannon visit to Parliament in Trump’s first term when the Brexit saga was going on and no-one is accusing them.

The background also looks like an artex-ceiling era boomer bungalow’s living room.

Pointless as Saints last season, because 80-90% of the switchers are Tories and the so-called Labour switchers are mostly disgruntled Boris voters from 2019. Sums up Labour lack of strategy.

We were in Itchen Block 10 parallel to the goal and can’t agree with you there, it only crossed the line with Bridcutt’s fumble.

Starmer was going to be gone as PM by the summer regardless IMHO. Hence Streeting and Burnham recent moves.

A touch of the Ian Holloways (credit to SkintSaint for originally posting this)

Is that a genuine photo or the Wrexham Labour AI one? Much as I loathe the toad-faced grifter, I also loathe AI-generated misinformation wherever it comes from.

She compromised quite rightly because of the narrowness of the referendum result and also realised that a very hard Brexit would lead to no chance of some of the outlandish claims from Leave in 2016 being realised economically has led to mass disillusionment by poorer areas who voted Leave the most and ended up Boris’s biggest supporters in 2019 and switched to Labour in 2024. They just saw a red bus with £350m on it, they don’t understand it was a non-binding campaign. JRM or someone else on the ERG hard right might have pushed it through but no way that the One Nation group would have folded easily and probably large scale defections to the Lib Dem’s when conflict broke out. It was all in vain because Farage carried on anyway and the economy is much weaker than it was before 2016 on a permanent basis.

Chris Mason, who is pretty much kissing Farage’s arse, to be exact.

Or non-Labour/depends on the Tory (Hunt, Heseltine, Willetts, Clarke all good, I don’t even mind Osborne and Sunak was alright as well) I liked the Coalition and voted for it (knowing it was a possibility and open to it). Voted Tory in 2017 as whilst May’s deal had flaws it was way better than anything Boris and Frost would blunder upon (I was 100% correct on that aspect indisputably but sadly we ended up with their fuck up putting the skids under the last few governments). The country ain’t in a very good state and everyone has played their part - Starmer, Reeves, Truss, Boris and Farage, the electorate, Corbyn for not doing the opposition job properly during Brexit, the Remain campaign and ultimately, 52% of the electorate fucking it up with a Spors/Damion Downs moment in 2016. Everyone wants change but within 5 minutes the pitchforks are out whoever wins. We are doing down the American ungovernable road if not careful.

They’re too piecemeal to make decent policies, fly too many kites in public, those OBR budget leaks did my head in. Policies don’t seem to be configured end to end, impacts fully considered and it still feels far too Tory post 2016. Are they worse than the Coalition 2010-15? For me, yes, comfortably and worse than New Labour as well. Those governments had clear sense of purpose and direction which is a difference. But what I will say is that he’s had to deal with Trump 2.0 with no domestic guardrails over there, the economy was left in the worst state WW2 and public services through the floor. And Brexit carving 6% off the economy. They’ve made choices on NI, small business rates, International Student Levy that I’d never have made but they’ve not made enough inroads in clearing up.