rallyboy

I think the delay of such an important decision is unacceptable. Is the intention to do the maximum damage by forcing the club to drastically alter plans at the last minute? It is starting to stink the same as the EFL enquiry led by Steve Gibson.

Just planning ahead we need to choose what we're having for Christmas lunch. Just like the BBC, I can't decide between Turkear and Turkeyay at the moment. It's bonkers.

That piece above is literally made-up. The Telegraph, Mail, GB News etc will spend the next few months making up stuff and carefully spoonfeeding it to simpletons who will greedily gobble it down before spewing it all over the internet. That's politics in 2026.

A Premier League ref would have had a field day with that match, penalty, cards all over the place, but that ref last night set a high bar for fouls. He wasn't going to let the challenge on Eze go in the build-up and then give a penalty straight after for less.

There's half a dozen senior members of Reform who have spent the last ten years insisting that an election isn't required after a change of leader. I agree with them, however, if Burnham moves significantly away from the mandate the party has, that should change things.

As Braverman, Anderson, Jenrick, Zahawi, Kruger, Dorries, Berry etc all of Reform have spent the last few years telling us that a change of leader doesn't require a general election, and Farage is adamant that the Brexit vote is set in stone forever, an election clearly isn't required yet. But is anyone starting a new thread The Burnham Months - can he clear up all the shit the last six PMs have left behind? We're gonna need a bigger broom.

Very true, 52% took the nuclear option that could never be reversed and imposed it on the 100%, many without even understanding what they were voting for - those responsible need to own that huge mistake, or at least learn from it. After deliberately damaging our own economy I suspect that history will view the 2016 UK as a bunch of total fuckwits.

I think some are still dreaming of a fantasy Brexit and blaming governments for not delivering the impossible. It's difficult to accept that there never were any sunlit uplands, cheaper food or improved living standards. This is it, they've got exactly what they voted for.

2016 - Farage assures everyone that his plan is best for the UK. It's an unmitigated disaster for the UK, but he becomes incredibly wealthy as a direct result. 2026 - Farage assures everyone that his plan is best for the UK. Shall we repeat the error but hope for a different outcome?

It's a disaster for Reform, it wasn't even close. The only thing that might save Labour is a change of leader and direction, Farage had a golden opportunity to prevent that even happening, but he failed. So they cannot dress this up as anything other than a crushing defeat, a rejection of mad shit - and a vote of no confidence in both Starmer and Farage.

Nigel's many bosses, the guys who really run Reform - the crypto market, the hedge funds, the oil companies, the Russians, may all be asking him for refunds this morning.

After the anger we all felt maybe it's time to decide whether you're on the bus or not. If some don't want to continue that's cool, free choice, but also understand that the majority of us want to fuck over the EFL and Middlesbrough, and that requires money. So I've just renewed.

While frothing at the mouth about every Pakistani sex offender and demanding that they are put to death, Rupert has no opinion at all on the two white men who murdered a baby through a violent sexual assault. Ditto Farage, Robinson and Fox, very quick to demand street rage for any crime committed by people who look different, but eerily silent on any crimes that don't suit them. Both Reform and Restore's agendas and the aims of their financial backers are very clear.

Unlike the EFL who had no legal precedent for that new law, the FA have previously dealt with a manager who has admitted to observing other clubs. The legal precedent set by Bielsa's case of many more charges than Saints, is that he received NO personal ban at all, the club fine was deemed sufficient - while the media all laughed that off as a storm in a teacup. So if the FA attempt to impose any personal ban it should be robustly challenged through their 'independent' system and then in a real court, where legal process is followed and former Middlesbrough players don't decide what's best for Middlesbrough. Enough is enough.

So Everton have clearly brought the game into disrepute - as have West Ham with their owner, so I guess they're both heading for League One at least. Add in Man City getting liquidated for their charges, Chelsea and Liverpool getting hit for their misdemeanours and anyone who has ever played Man City or Leicester seeking compensation and it's going to be a complex season. Especially if Hull don't raise the immediate sales income to save them from having to pay ALL of us compensation... We could be minted by August.

If some fans and officials are being prevented from attending it's not really a World Cup, it's just a Trump invitational event. Just when you thought football had no soul left to sell, it finds a little scraping left in the barrel.

FIFA need to stand up to Trump immediately and say, let our chosen referees attend or the first game will not be starting, you've been granted the World Cup, you are not in charge.

Trump is about to invade Vuvuzela, he heard there's oil there.

I fear this could be one of the crappest World Cups in memory - the ludicrous number of teams, the extortionate pricing and the banning of fans from countries that Trump doesn't like isn't a great start. I'm also looking forward to the first dodgy refereeing decision that goes the way of the US, Saudi Arabia or Qatar... Call me Mr Miserable but this beautiful festival of advertising and hype has all the early signs of a borefest that will be more about making dollars than promoting soccaball. It feels like we're one step away from halftime monster trucks.

Great signings, hopefully Dragan will now be as proactive against any additional action the FA attempts. Keep the band together. ✊

Shit, have we got to the point now where we can't even hold onto our local journalists? Has he been tapped up by Tache Monthly?

Well we've heard them now and they sound like cunts.

I'm not sure how doing Hitler salutes and throwing missiles at the police helps Henry's family, but then again this isn't really about Henry. This is the civil unrest, faux patriotism, harnessed indignation and rage that Farage and Robinson instigate to fuel their careers. Rent-a-riot is on tour, coming to any grievance with a potential racist element near you soon - you won't even have to ask Nigel or Stephen for details, they'll tell you where to riot, and if you're easily-led and confused by simple concepts, you'll go and smash up innocent neighbourhoods, wrapped in a British flag, celebrating Hitler. Perhaps instead we could bang up the killer and his family that helped him, and let Henry's family have some peace so they can get answers and change policing for the better. They don't need this shit, but Farage and Robinson do.

It wasn't spying, it was observing outside the permitted timeframe - but Gibson and his little puppet boy media circus decided that Spygate sounded more sexy and would sell better to the nationals. Had we beaten Hull, and let's be honest here, we fucking would have done, this equates to double the biggest financial penalty EVER imposed in the history of world sport, making it by far the worst case of cheating ever committed - in monetary terms twenty times worse than Lance Armstrong, two hundred times worse than Liverpool setting up an IT dept to hack into Man City's confidential scouting data, at least double the losses Juventus suffered from match-fixing. One bloke behind a tree, yes, we cheated, but no more than happens in EVERY fucking match in every country in the world every day. Football is riddled with cheating - this is not the crime of the century. Enough.

That's enough of the Premier League and the Champions' League final, let's find some more shit on Saints to fill in time before the World Cup. It's old news and 95% of football doesn't give a fuck.