Lighthouse

Wonderfully engineered Brighton free kick, from our own throw in.

Another bad mistake from Bednarek there.

I’d bring on Djenepo for Tella and push Minamino up front, personally.

7 League goals so far, 2 clear of £50m Timo Werner and good enough for our golden boot for about 3 years, before last season. He’ll do for now.

Booo-yeah!

Utterly pointless discussion really. If you think the UK has problems with sexual crimes going unreported, I can’t imagine what it’s like in either devout Muslim or Catholic countries. Anyway, it’s not a competition; both of those religions have an appealing record when it comes to treatment of women.

Excellent point, let’s never sign any more players ever again, in case they turn out to be Hoedt or Carrillo. I'm done, cheerio.

That article only goes to prove how difficult it is get a conviction for rape, not that the Police aren’t trying. Your own article says itself - 40% of cases are dropped because the victim doesn’t support prosecution and very often refuses to hand over their phone. I completely get that; why a victim would feel ashamed and not want anyone to invade her privacy after what she’s been through, but how do you think it’d look in court? The defence lawyer would just stand up and say, "they had a consensual relationship and had been dating for some time etc." The prosecution would refuse to provide any evidence otherwise and the trial would be over.

Quite a lot. It will be somewhat easier to achieve with £40m to spend on two replacements, as opposed to zero, a year later.

Surely a conviction would depend upon the prosecution proving guilt beyond reasonable doubt, as with any other crime? Unless we’re going to start prosecuting guys for rumour, hearsay and ‘he looks a bit shifty.’

Yep, let’s screw ourselves out of £20m, just to teach Levy a lesson. He can sign Vest on a free next summer, that’ll sure show him who’s boss.

Remember when Everton were a bottom half team and everyone thought they were in trouble when they had to sell Rooney? Qualified for the Champions League the following season. Selling Ings might not be the death sentence everyone is envisaging.

I still can't watch this without feeling a little emotional. RIP Murray.

How the frig was that not a penalty against Holgate?

Eh?

We don’t need and won’t be signing a CM and I wouldn’t be surprised if we brought in a versatile FB to cover both sides. That sees us needing five players, assuming those three leave. Not unreasonable.

We still need to get rid of some of the wastage on our wage bill so we can bring in other players. We could quite reasonably lose Moi, Forster, Lemina, Hoedt, Long, Valery and Walcott from our current salary outgoings, save a huge amount of money and not really lose anything of note from the playing squad. Add to that the likely departures of Ings, Bertrand and possibly Vest, that's even more wages saved and hopefully some reasonable transfer income.

No, he was just crap. Not helped by Burley’s absurd obsession with playing him anywhere at any cost. I think Hooiveld got more stick than he deserved in the Premier League. He and Fonte both looked very sketchy in our first season back up, the latter only really steadied when Lovren came in. Jos wasn’t PL standard admittedly but a couple of unfortunate own goals gave him an undeserved reputation as being a hopeless liability.

I once had a girl tell me I was number one when it came to cock size. Problem was she was a hairdresser and was actually referencing the length used on hair clippers.

The Fifty Shades series of books/films has shown us that a large number of women will fantasise about what is essentially an abusive, controlling relationship if the man is handsome and rich. Not that this has anything to do with this poor woman being murdered in the park. I think the principle of what’s being discussed can actually be extrapolated to 99.9% of the animal kingdom, not just human women. Any living organism out at night, in the open and alone is at risk of predation. All the advice which is given to women in this regard, I’d generally apply to myself anyway. The idea that men can all go strolling around rough council estates or unlit parkland alone, at 2am without fear of harm is just daft.

https://www.murdermap.co.uk/statistics/london-murders-2021-latest-total/ These are the recorded murders so far in 2021, for the London area. It would appear BLM is no longer flavour of the month on woke social media.

According to ONS, 36% of murder victims are female. I can’t imagine how terrifying that must be, being a woman - knowing you’re part of the gender which makes up over 1/3 of murder victims. 😟

Yep. That always works out for the best and never results in the manager losing the dressing room. Well we're midtable in the country's top division, I'd say it's working okay. Unless you think a bit of hairdryer treatment would have us top 8 and above the likes of Spurs and Arsenal? Complete conjecture.

You do know that not everything a football manager says in the press is the full truth, right? I mean, when somebody says, "player X isn't for sale," it means they're trying to get the best price. Or when Ralph says he enjoy bit of the way we played, he is simply trying to put a positive outlook to the outside world, so that he and his players wont get crucified in the media.