Lighthouse

Nobody gets a pass but you can’t just sweep the fact the fact they have an obscenely large population under the rug. I doubt it’s much consolation to the residents of Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, Mexico City or Karachi that they are actually less polluted per person than a picturesque village in the Cotswolds.

Supergoat car park eats mountain disappointment ghost jealousy astronaut. I’m willing to bet you can’t provide any evidence that I’m wrong.

The very real and ultimately correct fear that you may be about to die from severe respiratory failure, when you’re barely into your forties, tends to do that to people. When you’re a 35 year old widow and single mother, you probably start to wish you could go back in time and get a free, ten minute vaccination. You may also start to doubt that some of those pictures with text on Facebook are 100% accurate.

It's more than possible to wince in anticipation of something unpleasant happening, even if it doesn't necessarily come to pass. I do it every time Shane Long shapes to shoot.

Article published on Monday with the quote, "died on Friday." I'm fairly sure this was NOT their first thought on the situation.

That’s not a foul, the still frame doesn’t do that justice. Watch the video, his toe barely flicks Neves’ shin pad. Neves sets off after the ball absolutely fine, not even a hobble, then when he sees the ball’s gone straight to Varane, he looks round at the ref and collapses in a heap. I’m not exactly one to side with United and Pogba but Wolves can’t complain about that.

Which 90s, budget supermarket bags are Man Utd wearing?

Training alone because Bournemouth didn’t offer him a contract in the Championship. I’ll pass thanks.

But writing him back on again after one fairly good game against substandard relegation fodder is perfectly rational?

I’m certainly more optimistic for our season than Newcastle’s. They look like they’re reliant on teams like us throwing points at them, rather than ever actually outplaying someone.

Wow, that was… something. 🤷‍♂️

Has he really? Sounds like we’ve been absolutely all over them, played much better and the players have let us down not taking their chances. I very much doubt missing a sitter from two yards was a tactical move by Ralph.

Ings couldn’t score against 9 men in this fixture last season.

There it is.

Because you will never build anything resembling a settled defence swapping ‘keepers every weekend. I’d have played Forster too but the sad fact is we have two substandard options and we’ve got to make our bed with one of them.

Come on, at least get 7/8. Give the ‘gators something else to talk about more interesting than our 9-0s.

3-0 at half time against ten men. This could be a cricket score.

Arsenal, please never change.

He’s the delta variant.

Personally, I'm glad some of our regulars moved on and were replaced. I think the squad was looking stale, at least as far as the first team regulars were concerned. If you look at the core of last year's team; Forster/McC, Bertrand, Stephens, Bednarek, Vest, Romeu, JWP, Redmond and Ings have all been here three years plus. Some of them 7 or 8. Man City have just left their all time top scorer go, when many were saying give him another contract. Instead they brought in a £100m player many feel they didn't really need. United got rid of Stam, Sharpe, Cantona, Yorke, Cole and Beckham and kept winning things.

I seem to be in a minority but I wouldn’t play KWP and Liv together. I’d swap them around, keep things fresh and intense. Start one, tell him to go nuts for an hour, then bring on the other to do the same. When you’re other bench options include Long and Elyounoussi, I’d say that’s as good an attacking switch as we can make with our squad.

Ronaldo 4th behind Cahill and Fonte IMO.

Without going into details, it’s probably a good time to take Mendy out of your fantasy team.

When I was younger I briefly worked as a holiday rep. When I was doing the airport run, the last thing I said before everyone got off the coach was, "please take your rubbish with you and put it in the bin in the hotel/airport." Sure enough, when I went through to check and tidy the coach afterwards, there would be half a dozen seat pockets stuffed with rubbish. Some seats looked like a hamster had been nesting there with litter, crisps and god knows what else all over the place. That job really opened my eyes as to some of the nutters who are out there. Most of the guests were great but every now and then you got one who was from another planet. Highlights included: A morbidly obese woman who could barely squeeze into the coach seats and spent the whole journey complaining, telling me the seat rows were too close together and asking what I was going to do about it. A man who wanted ski hire, lift passes and lessons for a family of six. When presented for an invoice of over £2000 he refused to pay it and said he’d sort himself out. Several hours later he angrily phoned me up, saying I hadn’t booked any of his stuff and demanded I sort it out. Same bloke, night before the return coach journey, asked me to reserve the front row of the coach for his family. Sarcastically rolled his eyes and said, "God forbid you should actually organise something for us," when I said I couldn’t do that. Same bloke again, upon landing in Bristol, phoned and said he was going fly back over and, ‘sort me out’ because they’d queued for 2 hours at Geneva Airport security. Odd for three reasons; firstly we checked the logs and the flight departed 1hr 45 min after the coach arrived and they were on it. Secondly, airport security isn’t actually the responsibility of a 19 year old rep. Thirdly, I was 50 miles away on the Grenoble transfer bus that day. A guy who didn’t like the snow quality phoned me on my day off, asked me to come over immediately and book him flights and transfers home for that afternoon. A guy who lost his coat/lift pass whilst p*ssed in an après bar and basically blame me for it on his feedback form, saying I didn’t sort it out for him. I went to both the bars he said he’d been in, twice, they didn’t have it. Various guests who said they’d had a lovely holiday all week, then got home and put reviews on trip advisor about things like broken toilet handles or blown lightbulbs. Stuff the maintenance guy could have sorted in 5 minutes if they’d maybe mentioned it at some point. They’re out there, watch out…

I’ve been playing Pokemon Blue on Game Boy Color, so I’ve no idea how good he is I’m afraid.