rallyboy

A whole valley constantly full of smoke tends to confirm that there is a fire.

The CPS now have plenty of time to gather further evidence and get him back in court for more charges, so we're probably not going to be seeing him again for a decade or two. Thankfully.

I thought Gibson was demanding further punishment when I saw the thread title.

Interesting interview with Trafford where he makes it very clear that not playing was driving him nuts and he had to get away from Man City. He says that being a goalkeeper but not playing is the worst feeling. Ramsdale still has a lot to offer and needs to find himself a new club for his own wellbeing. Sitting around getting paid is nice, but it's time to be playing football.

That youngster McCarthy he's brought in looks handy. Pity he didn't use either of them to prevent the first goal yesterday.

It's no big deal. Unless of course you've been all over social media demanding sanctions against other clubs for not adhering to the rules.

And three yards being the distance that Harry Maguire requires to trap a football.

The positive thing is that rather than muttering in the shadows because they think they have minority views, these people are now showing us who they really are, in the real world, and on forums. And the second positive is that they don't even realise, they are still in the minority.

The bizarre thing is that Russball might work if you had the best players in the world, it just doesn't work in every other league where quality players and coaches can comfortably counter it. Seeing him attempt it with crap players at Man Utd would make a great comedy documentary.

Binoculars? Spying? 😮

As you believe Nazi is a lazy term to use for this specific idiot, how would you describe a Reform-supporting Patriot who proudly wears SS and Himmler insignia and does Heil Hitler salutes?

I don't do regrets but seeing the detail of the Covid enquiry reminded me of one. I was walking over Westminster Bridge in late 2022 and even though I recognised Matt Hancock walking the other way, I didn't shout cunt at him nor ask him why he wasn't in jail. It was a golden opportunity missed, and now that Boris Johnson and his corrupt government have been exposed by the enquiry as liars whose incompetence and personal greed led to thousands of Covid deaths, I really should have spoken up on behalf of the nation, sorry. 😞 Ministers should be in jail.

I was slightly surprised to see some of the Patriots proudly sporting SS and Himmler insignia. If you find yourself on a protest or in a polling station and you are on the same side as actual Nazis, it may be time to step back and have a good look around. And the next time someone complains about the far right being lazily described as Nazis, if someone buys and wears an SS ring and does Heil Hitler salutes in public, call me woke, but I think they're ticking enough boxes.

😮 Think this might be better on the other thread....

Trump does a deal with Putin and now Elon Musk has thrown his technical support behind Russia's military campaign. When Trump and Musk are on Russia's side, do we have to reconsider how special the UK/US relationship really is?

Rewatched the match on telly - I reckon they should have had about four yellow cards and Devlin was lucky not to get a second yellow for taking out Azaz off the ball - Bragg's offences were no worse. As for Larin's, yes, he did for a split second wave half a card, at a bloke who'd just taken him out to prevent a break...but the offender didn't get one even though it was one of several high-profile fouls he committed. Inconsistent refereeing at its worst. Either way, on TV the goal looked even better and we still hung on and won, so it's all good.

No problem with the two yellows for Bragg, bless him, he knows what he did and will learn from it, but many complaints about the appalling inconsistency of the ref who failed to give a number of yellows to opposition players. And Pompey were hilariously dreadful. Day topped off by finally saying hello to our spiritual leader Steve as we left the Pompey fans to fight a fence and some rather incontinent horses. Farmer Grant allows us all to use his land to plant our thoughts, I salute him.

The precedent was the timing - the EFL still let a game go ahead after the crime, thus sanctioning it as a fair match. Anyway, fuck em, and Boro, it's all yesterday's chip wrapper, City is now the go-to cause for faux-hysterical pundits trying to get clicks. The End

I think most fans accept that we stupidly cheated and should have been proportionately punished. The fact that Steve Gibson publicly used his position at the EFL to clearly influence proceedings while running an aggressive media campaign that has now been exposed by the FA as semi-truths, all so he could hijack the narrative to reward Middlesbrough rather than punish Saints, that's more the issue...

Former journalists and pundits like Winter, their jobs in this online era are to disagree with public opinion, it's how they earn a living - you show them a black wall, they'll argue that's it's white....click, click, click 🤑 So let's not be too surprised when they disagree with everything sensible. But they're still twats.

This all makes the EFL look like a right bunch of tits. As for Boro, fuck em - apart from their comedy keeper who was hilarious.

That wasn't contorted with rage, that's just his normal face - he always looks at people like that, even when he's happy.

Something needs to be done, I fully expect Birmingham's pensioners to develop nuclear weapons within a year.

Look at me, I can't be racist, some of my favourite biscuits are brown - clearly a virtue-signalling Bourbonista.

Presumably no Man City manager has any charges to answer because they had no idea that their whole playing project was being run fraudulently, and they weren't even aware that their own personal contracts that they'd negotiated and signed were illegal? They just thought all the best players in world football went there for the weather. Tonda should have just shrugged and chucked an analyst under the bus, we'd have looked after them.