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And now our heads have dropped and Fulham are dominating. Soooo predictable. It's as if our players seem to think they only ever need to score one goal and it's job done.

That's cos we're winning and playing quite well so there's barely anything to moan about. And just as I type that, Fulham score. Typical.

50/1 for a draw with Chambers to score. Gotta be worth a quid or two.

Lovely stuff. Redmond did very well in the build up to that as well.

http://sportmargin.com/live-streams/football-streams/fulham-vs-southampton-live-stream/

Gabbi has to score there. Why didn't he just lift it over the keeper?

I don't think playing Davis as a lone striker would be the answer to our goalscoring problems TBH.

By all accounts, Armstrong had a stormer of a game for Scotland last week, and ran the show for them. Obviously the PL is an entirely different kettle of fish to playing against international minnows, but hopefully he can transfer that form to us. He's come very close to scoring a couple of times now, so I reckon he is due a goal soon.

Looks like a 4-2-3-1 with Redmond and Gabbi on the wings. Good to see PEH given the armband. I hope he keeps it. If Targett plays well today then hopefully he can keep Bertrand out of the side for a while.

Gabbi hasn't been dropped.

That's as maybe, but I would wager that the majority of working class folk doing their weekly shopping in Asda don't give a toss if their chicken legs or pork chops have a red tractor on them or not, and their decision on what meat to buy is based solely on price. It's all very well telling people they can still choose to buy British meat if they so wish, but it doesn't take a genius to work out what effect flooding the market with cheaper imported products will have on UK producers. Sooner or later they are going to start demanding that our welfare standards are relaxed in line with US legislation so they can remain competitive, or they will simply go out of business, leaving us with no choice but to buy the sh*t stuff from America.

I mean how is that relevant? The way that an animal is slaughtered has no bearing on a discussion about the effect that an influx of cheap, low quality meat from animals that have spent their entire lives in cages no bigger than them and been pumped full of growth hormones will have on the British meat farming industry. Halal meat is raised and reared to the same standards as the rest of the UK and EU currently. The only difference is the way it is slaughtered, and the vast majority of halal meat is stunned before slaughter anyway (due to EU guidelines) so it is no less humane than non-halal.

So now even Dominic Raab thinks that remaining would be the best current option... http://uk.businessinsider.com/former-brexit-secretary-dominic-raab-scrap-brexit-rather-than-accept-theresa-may-deal-2018-11

How is that relevant? Halal only refers to how the animal is slaughtered. It doesn't in any way impact on welfare standards during rearing and doesn't undercut UK meat suppliers in the way that the American meat would if we are forced to accept their trade terms.

True, but 'flooding' the UK with cheap imported meat from the US will have a huge knock-on effect on British meat farmers who will find it much harder to compete. Surely you recognise that?

"US trade deal would flood Britain with 'cheap, inhumanely produced' bacon" https://twitter.com/Scientists4EU/status/1065617152248594432 Taking back control, huh?

Then perhaps we're both guilty of only hearing what we want to hear. It's a very common human failing to which we all succumb, whether we realise it or not. The key point here is that Steve Baker described this 'evidence' as being non-aligned. But given Lilley's well known position and previous record, and his close links with all of the same pro-Brexit think tanks as Baker himself, it's fair to say his report is nothing of the sort.

Technically there are two Saints old boys, if you include loanees.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1064998103437201415?s=09 This one piece sums him up perfectly. His ego and narcissism know no bounds.

The IEA, the Adam Smith Institute, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the Taxpayers Alliance, and Leave.EU. In fact, just about every right wing lobbying group you can think of operates from there.

Steve Baker on Twitter tonight promoting this 'outstanding' piece of work by Peter Lilley - the same Peter Lilley who was utterly destroyed on R4 this morning when he came up against someone with actual facts. https://globalbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Global_Britain_Fact_not_Friction.pdf I'm sure it's just pure coincidence that this group - Global Britain - just happens to be based at Tufton Street alongside all the other fanatical brexiteer 'think tanks'. I particularly liked this bit from the last page...

Absolutely this. I was in favour of giving Hughes a chance, but my patience has worn extremely thin now. I want him out as much as the next man, but to try and replace him before we have appointed a new technical director would be incredibly stupid for all sorts of reasons. As awful as he is, I think sacking him now and relying on a caretaker until the new DOF comes in and appoints his own man would be far, far worse in the short term.

I really do wonder just how monumentally f*cking stupid you would have to be to believe that these two chancers actually give a flying f**k what's in the best interests of the working/middle classes of this country.

Oh I do love this argument: "The climate has changed in the past due to reason 'A', therefore reason 'A' must be the only cause". It's a total fallacy. Have you even looked at the graph in the wiki entry about the medieval warm period?