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Sheaf Saint

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  1. I went to the Everton away game in 2004/05. We lost 0-1.
  2. Seriously? Among the numerous arguments in favour of leave that I read online, I would say that the ill-informed, ignorant and often outright racist anti-immigration ones are in the majority.
  3. Yep. It was THAT goal from Kevin Davies in 1997.
  4. Sheaf Saint

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    It's not even xenophobic. Is it really unreasonable to expect someone who lives and works in England to know the language in order to perform better at his job? If I went to work in a bar in Spain, for instance, I would expect to have to learn Spanish and I completely understand why, because it would enable me to do my job better. Ask anybody in any business and they will tell you that effective communication is by far the biggest aspect of good teamwork. If everybody speaks the same dialect, then that is surely a good starting point towards that, don't you think?
  5. Yeah I'm pretty much the same. Had £20 on at 6/1 which would return £140. Cash out was at £87 last week and I wish I had gone with that now. Have cashed it out for £59 and now I can spend the rest of the season cheering us on to stay up, safe in the knowledge that whatever the outcome I have trebled my money.
  6. Just looking at the odds on this match and Bet365 have us as slight favourites at 6/4 with Everton at 7/4. WTAF!?
  7. I'm sure they will come up with something. The latest attempt at reality-reversing propaganda comes from the Times headline that the Kremlin tried to get Corbyn elected last year using bots, completely ignoring the huge donations to the Tories from powerful Russians and the fact that the UK Russian embassy Twitter account actually endorsed and supported the Tories in the run up to the election. But on the subject of censorship, I notice that the BBC and the rest of the MSM have so far been completely silent about the calls from the Muslim Council of Britain for an urgent inquiry into rampant Islamophobia in the Tory party, after numerous recent instances of open racism and bigotry in the party. Funny that. It's almost as if the recent outrage over antisemitism in Labour was insincere and just politically motivated.
  8. Chelsea already winning.
  9. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unbeatable-Mind-Maya-Yoshida/dp/0008289336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524835249&sr=1-1&keywords=maya+yoshida Was the ghostwriter getting confused with someone else when he wrote this synopsis?
  10. The world has taken a turn for the surreal when Alpine is the most optimistic poster on a thread!!!
  11. Yeah I have to concur with this. I found it amazing that we used all 3 subs but somehow he managed to stay on the pitch. He was a passenger for the whole game. We really needed him to put in a commanding performance at the tip of the midfield 3 and drive our attacks forward, but he was hopeless. I like him as a player, but if he isn't even going to bother trying he can do one.
  12. Jesus, just take Lemina off. He's been awful and now he's a red card waiting to happen.
  13. FFS Long. You won't get a better chance than that.
  14. It wasn't handball. Looked like it might have been from the main camera angle in realtime, but the replay showed it clearly wasn't.
  15. There we go then. The floodgates have opened. Only question now is how many more they will score.
  16. A Republican congressman now joins the growing list of people casting doubt on the narrative. https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/986968440979247105
  17. Hmmm. The realist in me says it's over, but the eternal optimist in me thinks it still isn't outside the realms of possibility. Looking at their remaining fixtures, there's every chance that one or both of Huddersfield and Brighton could fail to get another point this season. Admittedly, that would still require us to get 7 points from our remaining games - wins against Bournemouth and Swansea and a draw at Everton would do it. The evidence of the season so far suggests we won't do that - but if we can just manage to keep our heads up and not capitulate every time we concede, it's not impossible. NURSE! Where's my medication!?
  18. Is that what it boils down to for you? A simple black and white, either/or choice? Our opponents are bad so we must be good? Nothing is ever that simple, as well you know. Yes, Assad is a murdering tyrant, and yes, Putin is the authoritarian dictator of a regime that uses disinformation and assassination to keep itself in power. I have never doubted or questioned that. It doesn't, however, mean that I automatically believe everything that my own government tells me. If our leaders want to claim the moral high ground and pretend to be the good guys fighting a moral crusade of truth and justice, they need to make sure they have the strongest possible footing from which to do that. But they haven't even come close to it. They launched a missile strike against Syria, knowing full well that it was going to provoke Russia, without a UN resolution and before any investigation had been able to confirm that Assad had carried out the chemical attack in Douma. If he didn't, as many respectable people are suggesting is very possible, then our government have either been duped into doing what they thought was 'the right thing' based on the flimsiest of evidence, or they have an alternative agenda and simply used the chemical attack as an excuse to do what they had already chosen to do. Either way, it doesn't look good on us does it. Let's be clear here - May would never have chosen to take that action if she wasn't being influenced by Trump, and do any of you honestly believe that he gives the slightest sh!t about things like truth, decency and justice? Honestly? History is full of examples of political decisions and military action being taken on dubious pretexts. We owe it to ourselves, and our families, and the rest of the world at large, to try and uncover the truth, because what's happening now is likely to shape the future of our society. If you're happy to put your faith in what you're told by your government purely because you think Assad and Putin are bad men, and to do otherwise would be appearing to side with them, then that's your prerogative. I can't and won't do that.
  19. He's disputing the certainty of the evidence, is what I meant. Yes, I get that. And it's pretty obvious that Russia are world leaders at muddying waters themselves. But should we accept what the government tells us, and flatly refuse to question the evidence, just because to do otherwise plays into Putin's hands?
  20. He suffered from severe depression, and no details about the cause of his death have yet been released, so a lot of people are putting 2 and 2 together.
  21. I work with a few Wednesday fans, and he was very highly rated by them in the previous two seasons when they made the playoffs. I think he's had some injury problems though.
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