Lighthouse

Imagine being 1-0 up, getting a man sent off on '38 and thinking, "right, nothing silly. Let's just see it through to half time and... oh fudge."

At what point do you start calling this WW3, I wonder? If you include USA, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, UK, Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka, all the gulf states, Cyprus and the Kurds as all being involved one way or another, there's quite the Royal Rumble going on.

The clamps have really come off Villa's nipples too, two wins in nine league games. How are you guys liking my new metaphors?

West Ham winning and Forest drawing as it stands. If it was to stay like this Spurs, really would be dangling their b*llocks into the marmalade of relegation.

I vaguely remember Ralph being the only manager in English league history to win Manager of the Month for July. No idea if that's actually true but we were pretty mighty behind closed doors.

I don't know how often it has to be said but people got the hump with Puel because he played for 0-0s at home, including against crap teams, like Stoke, Hull, Bournemouth and Be'er Sheva. He went to Leicester and they were equally unimpressed, he hasn't been seen in England since and has also had the boot from St Etienne.

I'm no economist but surely the price is going up because they can deliver less of it? I can't imagine prices would be going up if they were able to deliver literally the same quantity.

If they did that we’d have finished last season on -93.

I just can't believe that a FIFA Peace Prize winner could be responsible for something like this.

Looks like Etihad are feeling brave 😟

Petrol stations are already getting ‘fun’. Get ready for the photos of people with jerrycans in the Daily Mail.

I wrote a full six minute song about Jeremy Pied, to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody, but when I sang it in the Itchen nobody joined in.

Iraqi - Since. No question. Saddam was bad enough but Uday was one of the most sick, twisted, depraved psychopaths ever to walk to Earth. A country run by that monster would simply not be worth living in.

The video from the Fairmont on Palm Jumeirah was quite chilling, I went there for dinner and drinks on West Palm Beach with some mates last time I was out there. It seems weird seeing a Shahed drone smacking into the side of it.

Anyway... Surely there's no backing out of this now, from either side. Iran have gone for the Armageddon option and basically retaliated against everyone in the region. UAE, Kuwait, Jordan, Israel, Bahrain, Iraq and Qatar have all copped a few today and I can't imagine they're too pleased about it, US bases or otherwise.

Brentford go full Leicester.

So we're bringing on words that you'd associate with Robin Hood. Interesting strategy.

What in the blue f**k are you talking about? You literally just asked me what my opinion would be if the Iranians struck a school, I told you, and now you're pretending we're talking about the original incident.

There was no waffle, my point was exactly as I described it. Iranian weapons I would bet my house on being less sophisticated and advanced than American and Israeli ones, so as such I’d say an incident like this is, if anything, more likely to happen. Yes I would give them the benefit of the doubt in saying that, given choice, 100% of weapons fired would hit an Israeli or American military target. A friend who works in the Middle East sent me a video a couple of hours ago and holy f**k, neither side is playing around.

When was the last time both full backs scored in a game for us?

Are you high? I thought I'd made it abundantly clear that I think a missile inadvertently hitting a civilian building is far more likely than it being deliberately targeted. I'm not saying the IDF are nice, I'm not saying they will be crying and holding vigils for the victims, I am saying that a girls school was not the intended target of that ordnance.

Why, in your mind, does this have to be so polarised and absolute? Why are the only two options the Israeli government being 'decent human beings' or they're deliberately blowing up schools of no military importance? Why are you so persistently dismissive of what is, on the balance of probability, the much, much more likely scenario?

I’m saying if you can kill your own soldiers accidentally then you can hit a civilian building accidentally. I don’t know why that’s contentious.

Well what are youy suggesting? That in the middle of a massive military operation against a very capable and dangerous Iranian military, one of Israel's commanders said, "yeah leave that Iranian radar site for now, make sure you hit the primary school first." Even the most advanced militaries are not adverse to hitting their own forces in friendly fire incidents. Hitting some civilian infrastructure in an operation this big is hardly surprising.