The Kraken

He missed the last game or two of the season with Bayern due to a back injury. I genuinely don’t think he’s got over it, he’s plodded his way through the tournament.

Erm, yeah, about that…….. 🤣

I do often wonder what happened to them. Did they just give up Saints and miss out on two of the most enjoyable seasons in our history? Intriguing.

Parking at the stadium, they went to pick up their season tickets and the club had stopped free parking, it cost £1. So they refused to pay for their season tickets.

It doesn’t say much about the secret service that about 4 of them together couldn’t pin down a near octogenarian who was trying to wave to the crowd.

Very gracious behaviour in the face of such hostility, lovely to see 🥰

Using ChatGPT to formulate your answers on a sodding internet forum 🤣🤣🤣 The King of C&P .

Navy shorts is a really good look. Gets us away from Sunderland/Stoke/Brentford/Sheffield United, is a nod to our history, and looks much better than black.

Interesting. I must be in the 5% who won’t be voting for Biden.

He’s definitely a member alright, but not of the CoT; it’s an inclusive group, yet introducing someone with that level of bitterness and resentment into the fold would (I feel) bring the group zen down to an unacceptable low. Much better to steer above the grey clouds 👍

I couldn’t much care about Sue Ellen’s flag preferences, but her self-reflection feature seems to be faulty. She told the Washington conference: "Our problem is that the liberal Conservatives who trashed the Tory party think it was everyone's fault but their own."

I think some people need to calm down a bit. The CoT simply can't win with the polarising levels of vitriol being dispensed on this thread. Demands for providing more information swiftly followed by demands for the thread to be deleted. Thankfully the CoT are made of sterner stuff and won't be diminished by such scurrilous bickering.

Not Ryan Manning? Tsk. Sloppy.

Thank fuck, Trippier off and Shaw on.

This is a good game! So,thing I haven’t said once about England this tournament.

That can’t be a pen surely,

Trippier is awful. Fucking hopeless at left back. We have 5 subs, 1 extra if extra time is needed, just get Shaw there. Southgate is so timid.

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Labour have historically had much more support for PR than the Tories but they’d be utterly insane to announce any proposal for change now. It would undo some of the political goodwill they have. Plus the British public have just given one of the biggest mandates ever for Labour to get on with the job of governing, so that should be their focus. Im genuinely not convinced a majority of the public want PR. The AV vote showed how desperately unpopular that was. A referendum would be needed and fuck tgat for now. Also the Lib Dems likely won’t be quite as vocal about PR considering they were less popular nationally than Reform but ended up with 67 more seats than them.

Have you ever stopped to think “maybe it’s me”?

Yep, looks exactly how I’d expect a Sunderland kit to look.

Top class punnery 👍