rallyboy

I blame the punitive EU.

I'm sure his habit of giving the ball away in dangerous places will go down a treat in Serie A. In a possession-obsessed league, have Juventus actually seen him play? He'll be back, and hopefully a better player for it, hope he does well.

Massive inconsistency with cards, missed some obvious fouls - apart from that, he had a great game.

They'll never light again.

This is the first time in years that while being behind, even after 80 mins, it always felt like we would definitely get something. Too many years of chasing an equaliser watching the clock tick down with no hope or attacking threat. It's a new era of optimism and positivity.

The non-tax paying billionaires who control the majority of UK media messaging won't change horses until it becomes obvious they are going to be on the losing side. Starmer should be in their offices now having informal chats - they will need each other.

The other pulls his what? Autocorrect.

It reminds me of when Nathan Jones left us, we thought he'd be here forever but you just have to hope that life goes on. We got over it, they will too.

There's no discrimination Lord T, I'm not looking to ban anyone from voting, especially the genuinely thick as they wouldn't operate pen and paper, it's the moderately stupid we need to tackle, the Gullis and Anderson types, they're the dangerous ones. But if we leave something shiny outside the Polling Station, or have Mrs Brown's Boys running on a big screen, that should occupy them while democracy is served.

Boris perfected a new approach, promise absolutely everything and concentrate your efforts not on policy but on coming up with a distraction or an excuse when you fail to deliver. The other thing is we have maybe 20% on the left and the same on the right who will always vote that way. Boris didn't care about them, he was just making up stuff for the other 60%, of which a considerable number are not interested or so thick they fall for any old drivel they see written on a bus. The key is winning over those simpletons, the ones who can't grasp the concept of things like roundabouts or corkscrews, you wouldn't trust them to sit the right way on a toilet, but they are still allowed to go into polling stations to cause chaos.

I wouldn't read too much into this minor setback, these little things happen to the best teams over the course of a season, especially if they can't defend a fucking corner. it's just a six-game blip.

Football's fun again. 👍

The Lib Dem minister is one of the seventeen Post Office ministers of all parties who failed to deal with this. But with the lies getting worse and the proof coming to light in the last decade, the latter ministers should perhaps be under more scrutiny. Add in the direct link between the Conservative party and Fujitsu and you can see that the focus on the Lib Dems and the former DPP is just electioneering distractions. Like a war.

The investigator on the stand today has suffered a right kicking - he's made it quite clear he's not a technical expert, yet he was quizzing people about Horizon and then giving expert evidence in trials where people were convicted. Headlines so far today seem to be that they withheld evidence from defence teams, persisted with the line that no one else was having a problem, and it's come to light that investigators had statements written for them by Post Office solicitors or Comms teams that they had to sign as their own. We also now have a direct link between Fujitsu and the government, in the form of Clark Vasey - which might explain the contracts being awarded. The problem Post Office management might find is that a few of the little people they are throwing under the bus might start chucking shit grenades around.

If I was going to choose a hill to die on it wouldn't be Mount Fujitsu, but each to their own. 🤡

Someone said Fujitsu had been awarded £7 billion of contracts by us in the last ten years - why? Chuck in Vennells' links to Dido Harding and the Johnson cabinet, and it looks a lot like we have all been taken for mugs. It's also a disgrace that it's taken a frigging ITV drama to get the pursuit of justice back on the front pages. It's been an absolute shitshow of lies, incompetence and fraudulent behaviour, and those responsible have walked away unharmed. How do they sleep?

When Che Adams sits on the bench watching you miss decent chances and then wanders on and casually shows you how to take a half-chance, you've got a problem.

I've dropped you, you're stood on the line holding the half-time oranges. I've got some apples so they don't feel left out.

Barton is just after attention. We've had decades of terrible pundits that he had no problem with...ignore him, he's still a moron, but at least he isn't a racist murderer so we must give him credit for that.

When the whole team was playing at 5mph and he was just playing short pedestrian passes sideways and backwards he didn't look great, but since we got the hang of moving the ball quickly he looks much better and is cool under pressure. He's no KWP but he's much improved, as are many.

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While it's good to move with the times, that whole non-competitive element is nothing new. About a hundred years ago when I was coaching my son's school team I was summoned to see the head teacher and advised that I was putting too much emphasis on playing well and trying to win, when all we were doing was training, and playing in proper positions in a league. It was also made very clear that the star centre forward who was miles above the level of everyone else should be given less game time and if possible, the performance levels of the whole group, including his, should be lowered to the quality of the least-useful player. The good player should be sidelined, and forced to be mediocre... I didn't think that was a particularly good way to prepare kids for sport, a competitive world, or a way to teach them how to accept not being the best at anything. Hopefully things have improved.

That laughable manipulation of figures and the quiet reclassifying of cases today suggests that they still think we are all as thick as a Boxing Day turd. Why don't they just revise small boat sizes or legally redefine them all as rafts? That would instantly Stop the Boats - the same approach made unsafe Rwanda, safe overnight.

The best players are those with the skill and confidence to play out from the back - and the judgement to know when to hoof it into the car park. Hopefully lessons were learned.

Hello, is that the Twat Farm? I think you must have had a fence come down over Christmas, yes, there's a few running wild again...