Lighthouse

Ignoring the fact that when he did actually play for us, he did absolutely sod all in three years and four managers, aside from one wonder goal a year against someone sh*t.

When supermarkets don't have decent bananas at the right level of ripeness. I don't know why but that annoys me more than anything else being out of stock.

It’s nothing to do with experience and everything to do with quality. At no point this season have I really seen a team which looked naive, inexperienced and struggling to see out results with poor gamesmanship. We’ve just, quite simply, been crap in front of goal and the worst culprits are Che Adams, with 110 PL apps, Walcott with f**k knows how many, Moi and Armstrong. Hardly kids.

Two sh*te pens there, all over already.

I’m hearing that the ball could be as much as 0.6PSI lower than the one used in the Wales game, huge news if true.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer rat-faced w*nker.

What shouldn’t have happened? To disallow the goal they needed clear evidence of the ball crossing the line and there wasn’t any, hence the goal was given and there’s nothing else to show.

WTF is with Souness angrily demanding pictures of something that didn’t happen?

Some of you have an intriguing imagination. Even if a British newspaper was planning to run a front page story about him attending cocaine-fuelled gay orgies, complete with photo evidence (and I can’t believe for a second there’s anything like that forthcoming) he wouldn’t have to flee the country to escape beheading. Being in possession of drugs and committing a homosexual act are severely punished. Simply being gay and having previously taken drugs in another country is not going to get you in trouble. I can’t imagine it’s anything more exciting than a private, personal matter and no business of anyone other than those involved.

The Saudi goal changed literally nothing and missing chances is part of football, Poland had a penalty saved against Mexico which would have made these fixtures pretty much irrelevant. Wolves beating this season Saints wasn’t a fluke, even though on another day we’d have won 3-0.

Nothing flukey about it any of it. Everyone played everyone and they were slightly better than Mexico, who wasted a lot of chances against the Saudis.

You had an open goal there to make a 'trans fats' joke and you made a complete Elyounoussi of it.

My comment wasn’t personal to Ralph in any way. Replace ‘he’ with ‘no credible manager in his right mind, Ralph, Jones, Pompey’s manager or otherwise…’

Leeds offered £30m plus £13m in add ons, according to this article quoting a Dutch media outlet, with apparent quotes from PSV’s chairman. https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/09/20/we-said-no-director-admits-leeds-united-made-43m-bid-for-his-star-man/ There were also quotes from Gakpo himself saying he’d had contact with ETH at United but I CBA digging it all out again. To say it was ambitious is an understatement and it’s certainly not something I’d be laying at Semmens’ door for not happening.

By anybody credible who was reporting on the story at the time. Any perhaps next time you can be a bit less rude and not blow your fuse over an imaginary scenario you’ve made up. This wasn’t some £12m deal where we’ve quibbled over his petrol allowance and Leeds have come in and pinched him from under our nose. Had he been interested, it would have taken a fee nearly double our transfer record to get it done.

TBF he's hardly going to slag off his own player in public, especially with so few decent options to choose from. It'd be like telling your own son, "TBH Jimmy your art work is sh*te and I wouldn't stick it to the fridge door in a mortuary."

This has been explained by many people many times. He isn't coming here, he never was and any interest shown by us and Leeds was speculative hope, rather than expectation.

Well you keep saying, I'm just curious as to what exactly it is you're refering to. Wait, I thought that was the one thing they had actually gained from all this? A small amount of farmland in the area around Mariupol? The carpet bombing of Dresden was an inevitable consequence of war, doesn't mean you can just strug it off. Quite definitively not true. The west hasn't lost a single soldier or piece of amrour in this conflict, only the hand me downs we've donated to Ukraine. Russia's infrastructure will suffer horribly from the sanctions, they build almost nothing modern and hi-tech themselves. Russian people are being dragged from their civilian lives, given a barely adequate (non-winter) uniform and thrown into the meat grinder. My view is that they haven't achieved anything of any help or relevance whatsoever to Russia. Aside from a bunch of hot air and bravado about their Russian Empire fantasy, they've got nothing to show for everything they've lost.

I havent' claimed Ukraine is cruising to an easy victory or that western economies are getting off Scott-free but none of that answers the question; what's the one area Russia is struggling in?

Which is this, "one area," you speak of? I can’t decide whether you’re talking about: Soldiers dead and wounded Long term effect of economic sanctions Terrible international PR Territorial losses Huge numbers of military hardware lost or captured Massive financial cost of keeping the war going The rest of Europe basically quitting your main exports, hydrocarbons, cold turkey. Russian weapons proving hugely inferior to NATO ones on the battlefield. An already stagnant economy now shrinking and dropping behind the likes of Spain and Australia on the world stage. Even the latest Russian planes and tanks not being deployed reliably or in sufficient numbers to make much difference. Their so called ally, China, basically taking them to the cleaners for my natural resources they need. Political unrest from and within several disputed and breakaway regions. Mass exodus of younger, more educated people within more realistic ambitions than Putin’s Russian empire fantasy. But I guess these are all small trivialities when you can make Ukrainians, some of the toughest b*stards on the planet, put on an extra jumper for a few weeks.

Having checked, this is the fifth time, in both cups, since 2011.

For about the fifth time in the last ten years… 🙄

City vs Chelsea 😆

I never thought I'd click on a thread about gays and find Tim and Turks openly talking about their experiences out cruising.