benjii

Frankly, this election is dismal and boils down to a choice between what you think is the least damaging of: - the clueless approach to Brexit and utter skulduggery of the Tories OR - the economic naivety and myopic dogma of the current Labour party I take some solace from the fact that even if Johnson wins and gets the WA through, he might be forced into a rethink during the course of next year. I take further solace from the fact that the Corbyn government might not be able to implement policies particularly quickly and could get booted out in five years without causing too much irreversible harm. Maybe a hung parliament and further gridlock is best, which might even help embolden politicians to seek electoral reform.

What does “took her payment straight out the club finances” mean? Who took what payment? Sounds unlikely, mush!

They are on a terrible run and are underachieving. We need to go all guns blazing with intensity from the off.

And don't give away stupid free kicks. Even on the half way line. We gave loads away.

Yes. We haven’t played a good 90 minutes for about three years so it probably is.

Nah, Stephens was ****e as well. His pathetic header teed up the chance for Cedric to do his van Damme impression, which all led to the first goal.

Do you think so?

Absolute mess at the back. No surprise.

Indeed. I think it is defamatory to call someone a "pedo", and simply saying "I didn't really mean it" or "we all call each other pedos where I'm from", is clearly not a defence, particularly for someone high profile and with reach, who should know better. On that basis, it seems an odd verdict. Where "pedo guy" seems to have had trouble is in convincing the jury that he actually suffered as a result because it seems that, in fact, he tried to capitalise on the infamy/fame at the time and the size of his claim now is clearly mental and greedy. I would have thought that guilty but with fairly modest damages would have been a better outcome. And the bloke has ****ed up by not getting a decent agent at the time to spin some more cash out of it

Yeah, any of the goals in the 4-1 at Fratton were much worse than the Norris one.

We should be positive and stick with the same shape. If we go to 3/5 at the back the whole team will drop off and we’ll just invite balls into our box. I would consider Valery instead of Cedric and maybe bring in Romeu, move JWP to a wider slot and drop Redmond or Djenepo from the starting XI. Other than that, we may as well stay as we are. We will have had three clear days since the last match and don’t play again until next weekend so I don’t see the need to “rest” anyone.

Anyway, are we talking about that awful programmed drum loop with the string sample over it? It’s ****ing terrible. Not rousing in the least. If they must play music at that moment then it’s a terrible choice. Obviously they should play something when the players emerge then either shut the **** up or play something the crowd can sing along to.

Shatner's Bassoon by The Bush Rocketeers.

Wild Woods?

I had some business dealings with the club about two or three years ago and it seemed like a mess. The bloke I was dealing with was nice and did his best but he seemed to be covering about three different roles at once and didn't have the support, time or budget to handle them all.

You're banning people for drawing attention to relevant historic threads? This place.

Yeah, and I guess the bog-roll boom vest was a give away too. Rubber dingy rapids, innit. But my broader point is that if you’re a brown person intervening in something like that you’d better hope the police know what’s going down.

Indeed. Massive credit to the police for identifying what was going on and getting in and dealing with the bad guy. Imagine a scenario in USA where a couple of black guys intervene to take down a terrorist - they'd probably all be dead.

He's obviously Ralph's number one pick at CB. Has he missed a single league game since Ralph came in? All the others have been dropped at some point. So fair play to him. Not his fault we never signed a good, experienced partner.

I couldn't see the game. What shape did we play? 4-2-2-2 or more like 4-3-3?

Player of the season by a distance so far. Averages fewer minutes per goal this season than Kane, Sterling, Mane, Rashford and Aubameyang. A compelling example of why signing experienced players is important to complement the "buy low, sell high" policy. If we'd made a similar signing at centre back we'd probably wondering how high we can finish, rather than if we are going to get relegated. Also seems like a decent bloke, and he's a mush, and he gave it to the Skates at the Fratton end. Top lad all round.

I don't think "quarter Arabic" even makes sense. "Quarter Arabian", would be correct.

Lock up yer daughters... It's Budulak time!

If China wants to invest in foreign infrastructure projects, it does so quite openly. It doesn’t send gormless, disgraced patsies in to buy up the local football team.

I don't find them attractive, just confusing. Fascinating creatures, though.