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Didn’t do them any good 😂

Their fans gave him loads of shit last season as well which he criticised them for in public. Been dreadful this season, didn’t even put it in for his ‘hero’. Had to manage staff like him and they stink the workplace out, and irritate the hell out of your good staff.

Not unless Farage finds a policy issue u-30s can lock onto as other populist outfits have https://unherd.com/newsroom/reform-uk-still-has-a-youth-problem/ Cultural wedge issues won’t work here like they have for the Republicans.

Been watching the Italy v Wales rugby and keeping an eye on this before England v France. This cup tie sounds about as appetising as a lard pie.

That is the perfect summary of the modern Republican Party and MAGA - abolish the Department of Education. Classic fascist playbook.

Quite possible although it’s a staggering lack of professionalism either way. That was hardly a marginal one to the naked eye.

It’s a distraction technique to disguise the raping and pillaging of the Federal Finances by Musk and his cult. We all know what they’re doing.

Luton 7-0 under Nicholl on the plastic, and 6-1 there later. 7-1 Everton with us 5-0 down after 30 minutes and Heaney as an emergency LB v peak Kanchelskis. Hmmm. 5-0 Newcastle on Sky under Jones, 2-0 down in 3 minutes. Last season Sunderland and Leicester away were as bad as any hammerings. This season Spurs and Chelsea home could have been double figures easily, serious contenders for worst ever Saints performances. I’ve seen us give out a few as well - Sunderland 8-0, Villa 5-0 and 6-1, Man U famously 6-3, Spurs 4-0. Newcastle home back to back. And we ran riot in League One and Champ at times - Hudds twice, Oldham away 0-6, Derby, Swansea last season.

I always felt that the UK electorate made broadly the right calls until the EU Referendum. Poor campaign by Remain but Leave told some fucking whoppers and captured the governing party by stealth. The oldies are enraptured by Reform and their shady funders, but that may fade as the wheels come off Trump’s car and Farage gets exposed on the NHS and the economy.

Still playing in the Western League along with coaching kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calum_Davenport Professional part of his career was quite short all told. Agree he was terrible, even worse than Olivier Bernard was. And that’s bad.

Tewkesbury Winter Ales Festival yesterday. Some cracking beers - Chocolate Marble from Manchester was my favourite. Couple of good Milds by Bradfield in Yorks and Moor in Somerset. Brew York’s Clementine Chameleon was great in breaking up the darker beers and bringing some freshness. I usually like Clavell & Hind stuff but wasn’t sold on their stout.

That’s a shocker https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/czrl25k748vo Nothing will be done though, any more than Steve Dunn against us in the quarter final in 1996 there which Fergie said ought to have stood. It’s either pure negligence, poor eyesight or closet supporting for Utd. VAR is not the issue - our officials are and have been for 20 years. This was supposed to stop when they were allowed to go full time but it’s just getting worse.

If there’s interest in him, it means Saints and SR are doing better, which can only be a good thing. Shields was a bit of an outlier, that seemed to be driven by the Lavia transfer, because the other imports from City were terrible (Bazanu), invisible (Larios) or at best average (Edozie).

Financially but Ipswich more than kept up with us, Leicester and Leeds. Birmingham shouldn’t have gone down in the first place and with them and possibly Wrexham, momentum and owner investment could go a long way. It did for us in 11/12 too.

Bitcon was singing 🎵 We’re going down with the Leicester 🎵 as his pen hit the paper. And probably missed.

Correct on income, although possibly not on spending assuming Brum and Wrexham go up this season. It’s what the club does in the market this time which hopefully is where Spores is the different variable. Last time we bought a semi-retired striker and a £15m DMC Russell Martin didn’t like or particularly use. Fortunately they did decide to let Che run his contract down and AA hit gold which saved the bacon. Selling was good on prices - Lavia, Tella, JWP - but the buying remained poor. Loans were used well - Downes, Brookes, Rothwell which will be important again.

They didn’t always prevail though - Big Ron’s last act as Utd boss

Wrong end of the country unfortunately and trying to slim down items rather than take more on but very sorry for your loss Kev and thoughts with you and your family.

Something to look forward to then…

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/musk-doge-techies-young-what-we-know-1235256687/ Seeing what similar young whizzkids with quantitative skills but no life experience or common sense did to the financial sector and its products in the 2000s, not difficult to see where this is heading. Headed up by a guy with serious mental health issues and a known absence of human empathy.

This is also what tripped Boris up as much as Partygate and will trip Farage up around the NHS. Easy to lie about £350m contributions on buses, much harder to actually make fiscally sustainable policies which can attract votes. Farage’s position on the NHS is as untenable politically as Labour’s was in the 1980s around nuclear disarmament. Once the wheels really come off the Trump car their bubble will burst. We want the same public services as pre-2010 but don’t want to fund them. We want economic growth but don’t want to be in a Single Market designed by Margaret Thatcher which made our economy 6% bigger than now and our businesses are tangled up in so much more red tape than before. We don’t want migration but our society is ageing. Or, we’ve decided Polish plasterers and Czech dentists are OK now having had a tantrum in 2016 but we don’t like ethnically diverse migration. You’d have to be mad to be a politician. No wonder people claim they are disillusioned with politics, their outlook is one of unicorns.🦄 Public are idiots.

A lot of it is being driven by gang recruitment of terrorists and assassins via social media https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-bombing-gang-violence-wiretap-children-teenagers/ Some of the cherished openness of their society will have to be compromised to deal with it https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/10/15/swedens-homicide-rate-linked-to-gang-warfare-is-one-of-the-highest-in-europe Mind you, it makes a mockery of Zuckerberg and Musk’s claims that SM doesn’t need policing and cleaning up. Organised crime, Islamic extremism and White Far Right running riot on X, Facebook and especially Telegram.

The parachute payments taper away though and after about three seasons you find that you’re not competitive any longer. Just ask Norwich, Swansea, Stoke etc.

Mo is a great lad and very fine bowler but the pace attack needs the age to come down a bit, plus it looks like he’s available for 6 games late season being part of the Pakistan national set up https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cd64pq1g0vjo

Virtue signalling for the evangelicals who voted for him, forgetting about the lying, bankruptcies and sex scandals/criminal record.