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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...

I've been triggered by hearing about those horrendous incidents in Porridge and The Sweeney, I need an apology from someone, compensation, and six months off work.

5-0 and unbeaten in ages, I think I'll just quietly enjoy this moment while it's here...it doesn't happen often, breath it in.

One of the best winger displays of recent SMS years - destroyed his marker at every opportunity and had end product as well, even found time for some tracking back when needed. Great performance.

I see the boss didn't travel back with the players because he and the coaches were going straight back to the training ground to review the video and prepare for Boxing Day. Great commitment, he deserves success, just for making the matchday experience 50 times better than the past two seasons - we're in a good place right now, let's enjoy it. COYR

the secret to a long spell in government is ensuring the electorate is mildly sedated so they never realise there are better options out there...

When did it become okay to drive a shopping trolley around town? As they chose to go shopping it can't have been a surprise to discover they had shit to carry home - take a bag you lazy fuckers, and stop dumping trolleys everywhere. No wonder some of them don't drive well, they've done the housing estate Dakar.

The last figure I saw quoted in Israeli press was in the region of 700 innocent civilians, plus military. Clearly still a horrific terrorist atrocity, but in this media war where we have already been told of various horrendous aspects that have since been disproved, the facts are getting lost - sometimes by accident, sometimes intentionally.

Where does that figure come from?

Hamas took a significant early lead on the war crimes scoreboard, but Israel have come back strongly. We're heading for extra time, though with every new atrocity, the inhumane momentum now appears to be with the Israeli government.

I wouldn't trust her to operate a stapler, let alone a printer.