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Exactly this. The power he put into that gave Macca no chance to react. It had to be perfectly hit to score from there, and it was. No keeper gonna save that.

No, the stream I'm watching didn't show it.

Am I the only one who doesn't think it was a foul on Diallo? He tried to dribble his way out of trouble in his own half and got caught out. It was no different from what we were all slating Armstrong for recently.

Anybody got a decent stream? My usual go to ones are pretty unreliable tonight.

Yes, I remember vividly when thousands of Hilary supporters stormed the Capitol and tried to prevent the certification of the election because they didn't accept the result.

This doesn't seem quite as ridiculous and clichéd anymore, given the bizarre decision to go ahead with the Cheltenham festival last year.

When the leading man and leading lady absolutely have to get it on, despite how implausible their mutual attraction might be and how irrelevant it is to the main narrative. When the hero is in a gunfight and is stood in the open getting shot at from all sides, but still manages to kill everyone and end the scene unscathed. When the hero does finally get shot, but only sustains a very minor injury and still manages to kill everyone and save the day.

Yep. A whole lot better this morning.

Perhaps start with Adams and N'lundulu up front, with Walcott and Armstrong behind. Will leave us an incredibly weak bench though.

Tella injured as well. Probably start with Adams and Walcott up top. Having said that, with Redmond and Djenepo both unavailable, who do we pair with Armstrong in the AM roles? Perhaps move JWP up and play Diallo alongside Romeu? Sounds like a right headache for Ralph?

Jesus fucking christ. Yeah I bet all those fish sat rotting in warehouses and on quaysides are waving their little flags in jubilation right now.

Starmer just took Johnson apart on this at PMQs. When he asked the PM to address the issue, he said the images of the food parcels were shameful and disgraceful and pinned the blame squarely on the private contractors. Starmer then proceeded to read out the government's own guidance on what contents they should include, and they match pretty much exactly with what's been reported.

Once again, the government being shamed into a change of policy by a young footballer.

You are spectacularly missing the point here, which is that there is simply no need for a middle man in this situation to cream ANY money off the top. Just issue vouchers to the parents and let them decide how best to feed their kids with it FFS. Even if you think that their mark-up rate is reasonable, they are still riding the gravy train of government funds, taking food out of the mouths of disadvantaged kids, in the middle of a pandemic, to line their own pockets, which is just shameless profiteering at the expense of the most vulnerable. It's absolutely sick. Even 1% of that money going to a private company is too much. I've been following this story closely for the last couple of days and I am horrified at some of the pictures I've seen of the 'hampers' that parents have been given. I'm lucky that my wife and I are comfortable enough to not have to rely on this scheme, but if we weren't we would be screwed if we got given such an inflexible selection of food as our daughter is the world's fussiest eater and there is virtually nothing in any of them that she would actually eat, save for the bread.

Some representatives have reported that a number of GOP reps were refusing to wear a mask while locked in the chamber, and were surprisingly calm. Was their being unmasked a deliberate way for the attackers to identify them and leave them unharmed perhaps? Ordinarily I would dismiss this kind of thinking as too far-fetched, but given some of what has been coming out in the last few days, I really wouldn't say it's outside the realms of possibility. The implications of that are truly horrific.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-republicans-idUSKBN29H2RM GOP house leadership apparently won't whip their members to vote against impeachment proceedings. Is this the most principled stand they are capable of?

I agree. They have to do it because it is the right thing to do. Any thoughts of political point-scoring should be secondary to that right now. If someone commits a murder, you wouldn't choose not to prosecute them just because they were already in prison for something else. You do it because having the facts determined in a legal process and obtaining justice is the right course of action. Trump may be leaving office in 8 days time, but he clearly cannot be trusted not to cause a lot more damage to the country in that time. If the GOP refuse to invoke the 25th amendment then impeachment is the only viable way to go.

“Resolved, That Donald John Trump, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors,” the article says. “President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. “Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law. Donald John Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/11/joe-biden-donald-trump-impeachment-capitol-mike-pence-nancy-pelosi-coronavirus-covid-live-updates Impeachment begins, on a charge of inciting an insurrection.

Apparently the acting defense secretary Chris Miller - the guy who Trump installed as his puppet in the DoD after losing the election - delayed authorising the National Guard to enter DC until about 5.45pm - nearly 3 hours after the insurrection began. Add that to Giuliani's phone call to Tuberville, and Boebert's live tweeting of the speaker's whereabouts during the attack, and you start to see a very sinister picture developing. But yeah, I'm sure it's just a normal Saturday night in Maidstone.

They had 6 hours. That was the time gap between the final clarification and publication of the new border protocols and the end of the transition period. We had the opportunity to implement a grace period to allow everyone to get used to the new systems etc, but Johnson flat out refused. By the time everything has been ironed out, and the new IT system (which is being set up and tested in a real time, live environment) is up and working fully*, many businesses who are dependent on exports to the EU will not survive. An interesting thread... * - yeah, seriously. Anyone who believes that will be a success clearly hasn't been paying much attention over recent years

Also just reading about Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. Just wow. She doesn't seem bright enough to have destroyed any evidence connecting her with the action. She hasn't even bothered to delete the tweet where she broadcast the location of Speaker Pelosi when the attack began. Can't verify this of course, but am seeing reports on Twitter that loads of active police and armed forces personnel were among the rioters, and the guy who was photographed with the large number of zip-tie cuffs is a retired Lt. Colonel! 1900 Capitol police were told to stay home and only 400 were on duty. You can see them in the videos literally opening the barriers and ushering people in. There was definitely an organised plot going on here. Does treason carry the death penalty in the US?

And conversely, I remember when we had our run of horrendous home form, at one point Leicester had won more games at St Marys that year (2018 was it?) than we had!