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Lee Mason on VAR. Definitely gonna put a few quid on there being a red card in the match. It's like printing money.

Pretty sure nobody does. It's just a running joke based on some absurd comments someone on here made before we signed him.

Is that John McGinn rushing over to celebrate with Che? Thought he was suspended.

I look forward to the day Kane surpasses Rooney's goalscoring record.

What a stupid penalty decision. The touch was so faint and didn't alter the fact the shot was off target.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/10/campaigners-celebrate-new-uk-environment-law-but-vow-to-fight-on The Environment Act was given royal assent and passed into law last week. Still work to be done to fully address the river pollution problem, but it's a good start, requiring a comprehensive plan to reduce discharges from CSOs by September next year. It's odd though, given how much attention this issue was receiving only a few weeks ago, that the Guardian seems to be the only mainstream outlet that has bothered to report this.

Yep, fair points. I guess I just lazily assumed because it was timed to coincide with remembrance services that it would be IRA-related, given that tensions are rising again following Brexit. But I've seen the video now and realise it was a suicide bomber, and that's not their style at all so it's more likely IS. Have to wait for more as it's reported I guess. Will be interesting to hear the cabbie's full story.

Amazingly quick and selfless thinking. A true hero. I'm sure it will all come out, as 3 people have been arrested, but why on earth did they target the womens hospital I wonder?

I remember going to see Faithless at the Guildhall early 00s and the sound was just awful. Have they still got the speakers mounted half way up the wall like they used to be? It's a shame there aren't any better large venues in the city. That's one of the main reasons I jumped at the chance to move to Sheffield when I was offered it. There's some great venues here, but even we still miss out on some of the bigger names. Luckily Manchester is only an hour away by train, and if anyone is doing a UK tour they are pretty much guaranteed to be playing there. Saw Portishead at the Apollo when they made their 2008 comeback. Best gig of my life bar none.

We were looking the better team but didn't look like scoring. Chelsea have players all across the park who can create something out of nothing, which we most certainly don't. We might well have held on for a draw, but like you say we'll never know.

More than that, we ended up losing a game we would probably have lost anyway (yeah we were playing ok up to the card but Chelsea have the kind of quality to create goals out of nothing that we lack), we got two wins and a draw during his 3 game suspension, and he got an enforced rest and came back looking fitter and sharper having been a bit off form after missing the pre-season friendlies. I thought it was harsh at the time, but in hindsight I think the ref actually did us a favour.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/19716029.report-southampton-one-three-teams-keen-jesse-lingard/ I doubt we'd be able to match his wage demands. He'll probably go to Newcastle in January I reckon.

I have a few mates in Leeds and they all tell me the best place for live music these days is the Brudenell social club. Keep meaning to get up there for a gig but not managed it yet.

I was at the Sheff Utd game, and although he understandably looked a bit rusty, given it was his first game in English football, it was obvious he had something about him. He was let down quite badly by Valery having a mare at RB and constantly leaving him exposed. When I read the comments on here the next day, I was pretty amazed really. There were a number of people saying he looked awful and hopelessly out of his depth, but he really wasn't. Weirdly, the most negative comments of all seemed to be from people who weren't even there. And there weren't even any streams for that game! I get the sense that some people were desperate for him to fail so they could use that to justify their criticisms of the club's recruitment over the summer.

Not sure what it became / is now. I lived and worked in Reading only briefly in the 90s and haven't been back there since. I remember it was next to the Purple Turtle, which was a well known indie bar that a few of my work mates liked to frequent. It was a decent venue, on two floors IIRC. Love the Leadmill though. Been to quite a few gigs and club nights there since I moved up here in 2004. Best live music venue in South Yorkshire hands down.

Story I heard was that when they refused to pack up and leave, the police charged the party with batons.

Went to see them at the Alleycat in Reading around 1996. They were nearly 2 hours late coming on, apparently because they had overdone it a bit with the drugs backstage and needed to come down a bit before they could play! Never went to any Megadog events. Me and some mates did once drive all the way to Taunton for a Spiral Tribe free party, only to turn around immediately when we saw a police riot van parked on the lane and a group of lads coming down the hill with blood everywhere!

Living up to his nickname of Fourpast then.

That could be sooner rather than later. Bednarek dropped out of the Poland squad for reasons unknown, and Jack won't be fit enough to slot right in and play 90 mins next week against Norwich if he is indeed available. No better game to give him his chance than against a potentially still managerless bottom of the table team.

For me, the best album of the 90s wasn't even an album, it was a compilation

I was spared from watching our 9-0 defeat to Leicester because I was watching Lamb play at the Leadmill in Sheffield that night. I definitely made the right choice!

I knew the name but never really explored their music. I was excited by what was going on with electronic music in the 90s, and thought guitar/indie music was too limited and had run its course. Loved stuff like Leftfield, Eat Static, Squarepusher, Zion Train, FSOL, Aphex Twin etc..

I was never really a fan of most of the indie bands already mentioned in the 90s. I was a fully signed up member of the rave revolution in the early 90s and got into DJing, so pretty much all of my music budget in the 90s was spent on dance vinyl. When I did buy albums on CD it was from the likes of Orbital, Chemical Bros, Prodigy etc.. but I also liked the Bristol trip hop sound so got into Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Lamb etc... I liked the first couple of albums from Jamiroquai, but he disappeared up his own arse when he got really famous and everything after Space Cowboy was shite.

Went to a festival in Lisbon in 2012 and was extremely happy to discover Morcheeba had been drafted in as a last minute replacement for headliners Florence and the Machine, who had to pull out because Flo had a throat infection.