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Poor so far, look a player light. Two good chances they’ve missed. Djenepo unlucky to be booked but some clumsy fouls, Redmond at HT I think. Let’s hope it improves. Lampety a handful going forward, Ryan getting exposed. Adams struggling with a knock but don’t want to bring Danny on yet.

For a minor illness/virus that most of their brainwashed followers believe is a ‘plandemic’, COVID is running through Trump’s team like Shane Warne through a 1990s England batting line up on a dry 4th day surface https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55210243

PL seem fairly content but could be tricky for FL Champ clubs? Could Saints have signed Diallo under these new rules? Don’t think it’s a bad thing that stopping signings u18s from overseas which the FA seemingly pushed for - Chelsea and Man U and especially Liverpool especially weren’t so keen I expect - stops the racking, stacking and endless, with limits also on u21 signing numbers in each transfer window. Putting aside people’s views on Brexit itself, what do people think of the new rules from an SFC perspective? Looks more difficult for smaller budget PL and Champ clubs but if academies are productive it could bring prices down for domestic players apart for the really outstanding prospects everyone wants. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/01/work-permits-for-eu-players-and-no-under-18-signings-in-post-brexit-regulations

Against run of play but will happily take it, great delivery and good movement reacting to the flight. Bed got the right contact on it to smartly guide it in

Ball needs to stick more up front when we do get the ball. MU screaming like girls at any kind of contact. Close from Fernandes.

Palace v Newcastle a goalfest.....of course it isn’t. Two of the worst free kicks from either side just been taken. Benteke now coming on, without Zaha struggling to see Palace score although better side. Eze bright but too deep too often to do damage. Newcastle happy for the 0-0. Wilson close with a header, their first effort on goal for a while. Even Tranmere v Brackley was goalless last time I checked

Great to see Theo score and a good point, but yes, that miss clean through was frustrating. Wolves better second half and deserved something. McCarthy very good, back 4 decent, Berty coped with Traore well, KWP played well bar one silly giveaway after beating two, Vesty very good, Bed ok but couple of ropey moments. Romeu and Armstrong best of the midfield, Djenepo tracked back well, JWP decent but not 100% his normal energy level which understandable given the precaution with his hamstring. Adams decent but would like to see him take more gambles on the far post, good assist for Theo.

I said it would be 3-1 but possibly not after just 34 minutes.... Any kind of movement and Fulham are in all sorts of trouble. Lemina has been poor, first touch like trapping a bag of cement. Reed tidy but 3-4 yellow shirts around him every time pressing the ball. Wonder how many outstanding transfer fees Fulham have from the £170m spend and their last relegation? Shows you the damage Les and Ross could have done with serious backing. Fulham’s Burley-esque approach to building a back 4 not functioning. Should have been more there, miskick in front of open goal. More here for Everton if they want it.

WBA astonishingly are even worse, Man U still laboured to beat them though. Fulham should be 3-0 down although Everton look shaky at the back as well. Will end up 3-1 Everton. Reed tidy but not better than we have. Edit - Fulham score, player that gave away Everton goal.

Having been confirmed as defeated comfortably in Georgia - by his own party’s vote managers - now the desperate tactic of trying to persuade states to elect different members and ignore tens of millions of votes. What Swinney proposed in GE 2019 was bad enough with ignoring Brexit but this is a whole another level. Pure Mussolini, Putin or Hitler. I don’t think those states will acquiesce either but Trump is one of the most dangerous leaders in the history of democracy for wanting to destroy it. Best he concedes before the military eject him.

Probably best he doesn’t read the DT saying today that the French have shifted on this issue and according to Coveney there is a ‘landing space for a deal’. With the US election outcome killing the Anglosphere idea and the chaos from WTO on top of COVID, although there will be further twists and turns it looks more likely some kind of deal will happen with more detail over time. If that does happen - big if - the fanatics eg Farage won’t be happy. Cummings and Cain may have known what was coming on that dent although looked totally stage managed.

Hershey’s has a horrible vomit 🤮 note in the aftertaste. I thought it was down to the transfats it contained but it is still there. Cheese - probably my lactose intolerance but have never liked it. Parmesan is the worst - and beats Hershey’s on the vomit enzyme count. Have seen people eating Parmos in the NE - foul. Garage music - house I enjoyed but when Garage came in it was the first sign of me not being young any more. Carling - Carlsberg not great either and Stella has a certain nickname in the trade, but Carling has the sulphur note from Marsdens without any of the fruitiness and balance of any of the Marsden’s range. Although Pedigree has always caused my stomach to go to Pedigree Chum. Carling Premier was alright back in the 90s. Supporting one of the big 3-4 clubs - Man U, Liverpool etc without having a family or other connection eg you went to Uni there. How can you feel any connection when they succeed? Can understand admiring Best/Charlton/Law in the 60s or Cantona/Giggs 1990s but not plastic supporting and ringing 606 when you lose 1-0 at St Mary’s.

Some phenomenal keepers around 1970s and early 1980s - Clemence, Shilts (loved watching for Saints), Parkes (would have been automatic England pick now before the knee trouble) but also Southall, Pat Jennings and slightly before, Bob Wilson. Clemence was ahead of his time in distribution and with his feet. Allison is decent but when was the last really great PL keeper since Schmichael and Seaman? De Gea and Cech had spells but not in the same calibre as the names above IMHO. Even Niemi was better than anyone around today. Kasper probably the best PL keeper now.

Glad you are feeling better Crab Lungs, sounded awful but some positives in terms of shifting. I had to make similar changes pre COVID due to chronic stomach problems and lactose after lots of testing and hospital visits lactose was found to be causing the issues. Occasionally have fish but digestion miles improved without meat intake. Agree with Cat and Hypo that banning the anti Vax brigade, much as I dislike the misinformation, is the wrong way. Shine a light on the robustness of evidence of findings to date and communicate the science really well to positively combat it. The Great Barrington Group isn’t helpful either but scientists aren’t a monolith either so again, good communication to combat the more eccentric members of the profession allied to clear public health messaging would be my remedy. Some will prefer conspiracy theories but you have to cover the majority of publics as effectively as you can.

This is probably fair assumption - lots of great info online (for practical tasks especially and for research and for advocating freedoms eg Arab Spring which couldn’t have happened without it) but can be conversely used for spreading extremist material, leading to radicalisation, terrorism and deliberate misinformation. Of course, the traditional media could be used historically to make claims to large audiences but there was more chance of genuine inaccurate claims being challenged by better journalists or experts in the field. People vulnerable to joining outlying movements have always been there - Mansons, Jones, Waco, QAnon is an online version of a cult. I think what many people are now turned off social media by is the fact you can see all of the circular and most partisan of online squabbling within echo chambers and across Twitter. My own use of platforms is strictly professional - I don’t use it for personal things full stop.

Seems the QAnon loons on the far left and right have even come this way ps -get well soon Badger https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/11/totnes-covid-concerns-reflect-uk-wide-rise-in-conspiracy-theories

Nonsense about the mobile phone checking after being subbed seems to have gone away. The Celtic fans thought it was Lennon and his mates Lambert and Sutton trying to deflect from the Slavia Prague debacle. s Won’t fit Ralph’s system but could sell now for a reasonable fee. Watching Torquay v Crawley in Cup, 16 minute delay due to a horrific injury to Crawley’s on loan keeper from Brighton. Torquay 2 up and playing well but that looked really bad, hope not as severe as looked

At least it gives the unfortunates - those sitting around Westwood as well as being Pompey fans - some nasal respite. A bit like the Fabreze advert, they’d probably gone nose blind at games. Michal wotsit is only saying that because his beloved PFC flopped in the play off semis again.

This on the subs, wall did its job on the fk. Murphy good on fks but not JWP

Alan Smith called it straight away with a growl - the centre forward union still there. Scharr got away with one. Good first half but gutted at Theo miss, certain it was going in. Theo lively, Djenepo very tidy, Stephens doing OK out of position, KWP very good game and Adams has the measure of their CBs. Armstrong and JWP our best players.

Republicans fighting back against the Trump entryists https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54835454 Clearly they like democracy, Trump family and the hangers on want a one party state. They need to look at the Labour Party’s experience with extremist entryists, expel them. Short term pain for long term gain.

Keep thinking back to LeG’s comment ‘it’s not easy to be Salisu at the moment’. Passing of a relative which means training OK but match focus more challenging? Had COVID and taking time to recover fully to get up to Ralph levels of fitness? Positioning and awareness of Ralph’s system taking longer? Vegan Forres Mk2?

Minnesota solid blue and worth 10? Picked up a surprise vote in Nebraska and everyone counts.

Two very good goals by Fulham, albeit not as a good a hit as Danny’s, but overall I wasn’t convinced. WBA started stronger and after the goals, twice Fulham gave easy possession away centrally in dangerous areas, and WBA should have made them pay, although Lemina did recover his loss of concentration unlike Anguissa (IIRC). Against Saints in current form let alone Spurs or Liverpool, that would have been two goals shipped. Karlan Grant missed a chance that he sliced as well without working the keeper. Second half WBA heads went down. Lemina injured again - didn’t have a bad half but hard to evaluate vs WBA. Compare it to his Pellegrino performances v them and not encouraging, hope he is not out long as both parties need to move on. Reed busy but WBA pressure on ball less. Lemina has more quality on the ball but Harrison will help Fulham’s back 4 more. Prefer our CM options with Diallo in.

Was a 2-1 v Man U, Glenda and Rod Wallace. Remember the Newcastle game well and the shocking winless run, keeper did catch Wallace but he made the most of it. Scuffed penalty but what a relief, it went in and the celebrations were huge relief. TBF, got a bit derailed after the goings on at Arsenal with Paul Davis knocking out Glenda and David Axcell seemingly playing on until Arsenal equalised, using Davis’s thuggery as an excuse for several extra minutes. It was very controversial even at the time. Saints were always leaky under Nicholl despite some very exciting attacking play. Numerous 2 goal leads blown in the 23 game run, this wasn’t like Pellegrino.