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Very droll.

Hamez Ward-Prowse my MotM.

Triggered.

I think you'll find the expression is: Feeble minds seldom differ.

It is written.

Good analysis Ed. I know everyone (or everyone with sense) in the US freaks out at the suggestion that Biden has already won, but it's difficult to see a way back for Trump.* The harder he tries, the more he blows up his own campaign. In just a few days now, the US will wake up from the most surreal dream. *(Let's see how well this post does when compared with the outcome - will it out-Nostradamus our always-wrong OP?)

Separated at birth.

Gavyn Davies?

And so are expressed the hopes, prayers and wishes of the multitudes.

I saw that. I wish I knew what it meant.

I know I've been away a while but how the fork has hypo, of all people, come to be thought of as ITK?

Your last qualification aside, I'd be careful about the temptation to think it'll go tits up. Club transfer policies are like quantum physics - you think the outcome is certain but then random shit happens.

It's a good question, and I think the answer is no, Gao wasn't putting extra money in. You might get to an answer if you were able to ask the players at Southampton and Espanyol whether they were asked to be represented, either as agent or as negotiator for image rights, etc., by LD Sports. If the initial investment was with the intention of leveraging income from this, and getting a foothold in the lucrative business player repping, it makes sense. It also makes sense that, regardless of the pressure of such a request coming from the lead sponsor, the answer from the players was a universal 'no'. Hence the pull-out after a year.

You said the stadium is a 'curse'. Is that Keynesianism or monetarism?

Your point was that the London Stadium is a 'curse'. So really a point about witchcraft rather than economics.

Hahaha. I love your fact-checking MLG, and the accompanying sound of exploding posters.

Fulham is going to be a struggle even if fans are allowed back in by December. They've only got three stands.

From that brief description he looks promising. By the way, is it strictly legal to have 16 year olds sign contracts?

Am I the only one who has a momentary sense of dread every time this thread bobs back up to the top?

OMG

You tell 'em Jim. I think it's brilliant the way you read through the forum for all the speculation and regurgitate it into a bite-sized blobs. And don't get me started on that hooligan ultra trousers.

Unlike LeTiss, it was still possible to work out what he was getting at though: were the black cats dead or alive or somehow both at the same time?

The uncircumcised truth.

Crikey. Is that that you lot look like out in the provinces?

The UK is tough on everyone these days.