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Opinions are like arseholes. It's my favourite kit since keegan.

Anyone checked for streams? My usual source has been taken down (soccer streams)

Can any of our resident experts explain why the front pages of uk newspapers all reported on the wicked premiere, as it is smashing the box office right now, but only included photos of ariana grande, who is an American supporting actress and singer, and not cynthia erivo, who is British, playing the lead, and chasing an EGOT?

Transvestigator fail. She's a cis woman, she just happens to have high testosterone levels, as many black athletes do.

They'll not sack him as long as he is meeting targets, i think we'd have to underperform for them to pull the trigger. We're exactly where we were predicted to be, most games we've been within 1 or two goals of the opponent, and we've only lost one game by a 3 or more goal margin, not sure anyone else could have done any better than that.

Eek. Latest trump tweet is all about a caravan of drugged up criminals making their way from Mexico and Canada, and about how he is going to "charge Mexico and canada" via tariffs until they stop them. He seems genuinely unaware who pays what and what is going on and I wonder if he has been spaffing one off over the farage poster again.

I asked everyone's best friend, and you are a bunch of racist cu,/s. Is it racist to sing about black men having large penises? Yes, it is. This perpetuates harmful stereotypes and reduces individuals to a single characteristic based on their race. It's important to be mindful of the impact our words and actions can have on others.

He is right though. The few times we actually should have kept our heads and then rushed forward as a team with the ball, we booted it back to them. And then when we had opportunities to hit players long, we tapped it round the back. I think it is mainly that we are not as good as the teams we are playing. Would put a vote in for cooper now he is free, he would be much more exciting to watch.

13 pts is on target. How we get there doesn't matter, it's all about the points, and we look like we could do it, if we stick with martin and improve a little bit in the second half of the season.

You're in a minority, I think most people watching think he had a good half, and lovely skill near the end.

Bbc said we are playing delightful football, can't complain about that. Tall paul taking his opportunity, good man management to get him to that mindset. Considering how much we miss bazunu, this is a great effort so far.

I thought you not racist types didn't see colour? Badenoch, braverman, and patel are all recognised as horrible people, regardless of gender or ethnicity, even the most hardened of tories would acknowledge that, there is no pretence that they are nice types who you would want to spend time with, they are there to do a job, a job which includes promoting the hostile environment as initiated by theresa May, and making sure evil trans people don't harm our kids.

https://youtu.be/m1g-Hd6Exd0?si=RB6eUbec6MM8SByD

Don't understand the drama, he has over achieved in getting us up a year earlier than planned, and we're on course for our target total for this season. You can't finish bottom with 13 points and win loads of games, not sure what people expect, losing week after week is a part of this season, as expected.

Labour now has now beaten the record for biggest return flights 3 times since coming into power, and have sent over 25 flights since July. 10,000 deportations so far, an increase of 20% on 2023. Also a 15% increase in foreign offenders being deported compared to 2023. And none of them had to be paid 150k as a sweetener. Considering that under 100 claims per month were being reviewed at the end of the tories reign, those are pretty good numbers.

You can disagree about whether we came up too early, but it's not a bullshit opinion to think so. Here's a relevant quote from klopp in februrary: "You can see Southampton’s direction is absolutely right. The way that Russell wants them to play is obvious. "There are some risks that come with the style. You have to get used to it more and more. It is not for me to decide if they get promoted or not. "They may stay in the Championship and get another year to work on it," the German continued. "That could allow them to win more games in the Premier League because they might be a bit more settled."

Russell martin is a reliable source, these signings are made with long term in mind, not to try and stay up this season. AR could be an exception, depends what contract he has but he's low risk in that we can move him on easily. "Whereas I think 18 months ago in the January window, it was very much about spend money for here and now because you need to stay in the Premier League. "We haven't done that and I think that's agreed that we're not just going to go all in for one season and then put the club in a situation that isn't very good. "Not everyone will agree with that strategy, but the club have gone with us to try and bring some stability over a period of time, to bring a way of doing things."

Edwards and wood will be excellent in the championship next year.

Why is this even an issue? We know ourselves that referees are allowed to criticise individuals (see clattenburg and lallana). It's natural for refs to dislike players and managers who abuse them, the only problem would be if it impacted their neutrality on the pitch decisions, and there is no suggestion of that? No idea why this is supposed to be of any concern.

So all this fuss on this thread and we're actually bang on our target? Insanity.

12? 13 is the target, 12 is sacking territory.

15? 13 is the target, 15 is knighthood territory.

Wolves looked like they were running on empty, even lallana was puffing less - best we've played this season so far. Same again second half and we should edge closer to the 13pt target.

The stats back Manning, he has the highest xA at the club, most key passes per game, and he takes a good corner. He is the best crosser of the ball at the club. Not sure why people dont rate him, he is pretty reliable, just being scapegoated. He would get in plenty of lower half prem teams and will serve us well next year in the championship.

It also means ihmane khelif can compete as a woman for the rest of her career (in the US at least, she could be banned elsewhere). In practice, what does it mean for those who have already transitioned, such as musks daughter? Will they be deported as illegal people? Put in prison? Does it mean everyone will now need to have their gender tested? There are a lot of intersex people who don't know it who could be breaking the law right now. When should that testing be? I reckon 13,14yr old would be most suitable. I'm sure DT will volunteer to do some inspections himself that way.