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Yep, going from bad to worse for him. The best bit is that there games in hand are making their goal difference worse. Brilliant.

I get the sentiment SOG, bit I'm not sure how they could afford reparations without sanctions being lifted. There's also a need for the West to avoid being dependent on them on the future. Tough to get the balance right, but I agree entirely, they should put their hands on their pockets for a long time to come.

Jesus. Words fail me.

We couldn't have bought a better draw. Nice.

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His clean sheets for Liverpool are largely due to the quality of VVD and the midfield shielding the back 4. Put him in a lesser team and he'd struggle defensively. James is a better defender, ditto Walker, and a few other English RB's. His attacking prowess is aided by having Salah in front of him, and the midfield structure to essentially play as a midfielder. The England set up is different and for me he's good for England but not great - a point Southgate seemingly shares.

TAA is up there, but personally I think Hakimi and Cancelo are better. On a good day, Trippier too.

All healthy opinions TWar, and we all see players differently. My view is largely aligned with DMan, but neither of us are wrong - it's all subjective.

Sadly I can't see JWP making the Euro's squad. Phillips will return to fitness and offers more a DM imo, Gallagher has shown himself to be a more complete box to box player imo, and Mount has more as an attacking player. Rice and Bellingham are certainties, and as much as Henderson gets criticism, he has bags of experience at the top level. If either of those don't make it for any reason then I think JWP has a chance, but otherwise I think he'll miss out again. KWP on the other hand should be there for me, based on his quality and versatility. I fear Southgate will prefer the others over him though.

I don't want to labour the obvious, but how a woman looks is a sensitive issue. Take the piss out of them by all means, but unless you know someone will be cool with it, a decent comic doesn't have to go near their physical appearance. To you her condition may be "minor", but I doubt it is to her. Anyways, the topic has been done to death. It seems a number of us have different moral positions on this. Nowt wrong with that : )

Whitey's point is that jokes at the expense of anyone's appearance as a result of health issues are unnecessary. It's a good point which I agree with. If you, CB Fry or anyone else have different lines of acceptability to the likes of me and Whitey so be it, but his words have been hugely distorted.

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They're winning on that score. Keep going and they could release a dead generals top trumps set.

I suspect that's been the case, but there's no way Russia would settle for that. Essentially it would restate the pre war status quo, and Putin will need a victory. The Muriopol area/that land corridor and the coastal area from the Donbas to Crimea will be the area of contention, and something has to give in negotiations to exit this.

Yep, although Foden is doing his best to ignore him at every opportunity.

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Nobody did mate.

Nobody is trying to "equate" illnesses. It's a simple point that Rock picked on her appearance unnecessarily, and I find it hard to see how anyone can't see that Rock was out of line. His "joke" caused offence to Jada, and pointing that out isn't "moralising", it's just highlighting what is obvious to some. You think Rock didn't do wrong, others disagree. I think it sensible we leave it there. What is undisputable though is that Smith should have laughed it off, and any issues dealt with sensibly (by his wife if she was that bothered about it) out of the public eye. The slap was ridiculous, and the rant embarrassing. Whether what we saw and heard were relationship related dynamics related being played out, or Smith related, I don't know but he's done himself no favours. Ironically his wife's career probably hasn't been helped by his misguided patriarchal behaviour either.

Taking the piss out of our friends and family is a a different ball game to it being done by some random person on live TV in front of millions. Rock made an error of judgment imo but it didn't justify Smith acting like a dick. As has been alluded to up there somewhere, ^^^^, Jada will have suffered more embarrassment by Smith's behavior than Rock's joke.

Yep, it's not complicated.

However you cut it, the "joke" was about her appearance flowing from a health issue. Whatever that health issue is, focusing on her appearance as a consequence of it, is unacceptable. Sure, Smith's reaction was pathetic and unacceptable, but I can't agree with condoning Rock's part in it.