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Ties. Seriously, what's the point of them? And how the fook did society end up in a position where they became essential attire in order to look smart?

It literally states in the Tweet "50 fake tickets seized" and that was just from one seller.

I've bought tickets to take my 8yo daughter to see Sweden v Switzerland at Bramall Lane cos we live so near. She's really excited about it. Should be fun.

I'm 47 and the only vague memory I have of buying imperial weights is when I used get a quarter pound of sweets from the local newsagents as a young kid. Still, I'm sure some of the fervent Brexit supporters on here will be along shortly to tell us what a great victory this will be to go with our blue passports.

It's OK, he's come up with a brilliant plan to win back those votes and make Brexit Britain truly great again... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/28/boris-johnson-set-to-bring-back-imperial-measurements-to-mark-platinum-jubilee

Am I right in thinking that 2 of the 3 were out of contract this summer anyway? Sure I read that somewhere. Do coaches have agents like players and managers do? I assume so, and If so then they would have known long before last week if they were being offered new contracts or not. Maybe, just maybe, they were told a while back (say around the time of the Villa game when everything went to shit), and the media are just sensationalising the story of the 'sacking' for clicks.

"Johnson has also rewritten the foreword to the code, removing all references to honesty, integrity, transparency and accountability" There it is. The true character of the man laid bare for all to see. He thinks he should be exempt from the rules so he's changing them to save his own worthless skin. The ministerial code should not be something a sitting PM has the right to alter as they see fit. The fact that Johnson thinks it's fine to do that after he has been caught breaching it tells you everything you need to know about him.

I imagine it would just be to provide cover while Tino recovers. A low risk free transfer seems the perfect deal for that scenario.

Nigel Adkins was a goalkeeper.

You mean the big announcement that they have finally, and reluctantly, caved in to what Labour have been pressing for for months but the Tories kept saying was a terrible idea and would be counter productive? Starmer's first question at PMQs yesterday was about a windfall tax on energy companies and Johnson immediately ridiculed him for it, saying it was just typical of Labour to want to raise taxes. Today's announcement is quite a spectacular u-turn. I wonder what it is they want to distract the hard of thinking from 🤔

People who don't maintain their privets and leave them to grow so big they take up the entire footpath.

I doubt that personally. If SR want to replace Ralph then now is the time to do it. Replacing his coaches in the hope he will leave of his own accord doesn't sound like sound forward planning to me. I know it's the done thing to bash him and call for his head on this forum now, so I'm probably in the minority these days, but the fact remains that Rslph has kept us in the PL for 4 seasons running despite having one of the weakest squads, the second lowest net spend in that time, and a team of coaching staff that the new owners have decided are not up to standard. Maybe, just maybe, the board aren't as reactionary as the majority of this forum and they recognise that RH has the skills to manage the club in line with their expectations, and just needs to be given better tools (ie playing squad and coaching staff) to achieve that.

Reminds me of that famous quote "when someone shows you who they really are, believe them the first time". Alexander Johnson showed us 20 years ago who he really is. Too many people didn't pay attention and here we are.

Might as well lock this thread now. With the coaches being let go but Ralph not, he's obviously here to stay for the foreseeable.

One hit wonder? You do know she is still only 19 and has had injury problems recently, right?

Fabricant on BBC news now trying to defend Johnson. Apparently it's all due to the civil servants giving him bad advice. I still refuse to believe he's a real person. I'm sure he only won his seat because people genuinely thought he was a comedian in a wig on a wind up.

I think he misspelled "rumbled".

Yes, fair point.

Yes, I imagine after the coming winter when a record number of people have frozen or starved to death because the government didn't have a clue what to do about it (and don't care because it won't affect them), people will have more pressing things to worry about. The party is dying a slow and painful death. They tore themselves apart over Brexit and purged all the decent, moderate MPs in favour of vacuous, loyal Brexit cheerleaders, leaving themselves with a serious intellectual deficit as a result. As the circulation of their supporting newspapers dwindles and their older generation of traditional voters die off, they are going to find it harder and harder to get support among the general public who see them for what they are now - a bunch of self-serving, morally bankrupt, corrupt, entitled shysters with zero shame in supporting a talentless, bloviating charlatan as their leader. Even my old mum - a lifelong Tory voter - voted against them for the first time ever in the recent local elections because she is embarrassed at what they have become under Johnson.

Every day he clings on in there and his fellow ministers continue to support him, the credibility of the Tory party is further eroded, increasing the likelihood of them being obliterated at the next GE. That's the silver lining I'm focussing on here.

Fucking hell he is floundering in there. Just answering every question with "I refer him/her to what I've already said". Just look how many Tory MPs have abandoned the chamber and left him to it. What a pathetic excuse for a human being and a spineless bunch of cowards enabling him.

So the Sue Gray report lands, and to nobody's surprise it details a culture of total disregard for the rules at the time. Pre-planned events, karaoke machines, people so drunk they were sick, and even a drunken altercation between two attendees. But there were absolutely definitely no 'parties'.

Oh what so that's yet another mass shooting where a 'good guy with a gun' wasn't there to stop it? Maybe next time then. Fingers crossed. Bound to happen sooner or later.

I'm sure he will try and use that defence, but it wouldn't stand up in court when you look at the dictionary definition: No way you could argue it doesn't fit with #1.