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Who's to say they wouldn't want that, if they took Israel with them? I'm not saying Trump is a force for peace in the region but if the Iranians were just paying the treaty lip service, whilst continuing to develop missiles and enriched uranium for 'peaceful purposes' then it's all a bit Neville Chamberlain. I know it's understandable that they'd want a nuke but under no circumstances should they be allowed to have one.

I think a lot of what gets perceived as racism is just people not liking being patronised. People want to just watch sport and other forms of entertainment without the need to be continuously spoon fed political correctness.

Unless I’ve missed a bit of that terrible, ad-infested article, I can’t find a quote where he says anything along the lines of the BIB. Seems like the Mail really want to make a mountain of this molehill. Who’d have thought.

If I was going to give him credit for anything, it'd be tearing up the Iran nuclear deal. I don't think such a fanatical, totalitarian regime which does nothing but destabilise the region should be legitimised in any way and despite their protestations, I doubt the Iranians were paying it anything other than lip service.

The best way to hire people, in any industry really, would be to have some online portal where you upload a CV and cover letter and software then blocks the name, gender and email address from the recruitment team. That way it’s physically impossible to discriminate against any prospective candidates as you would have no idea as to the gender or ethnic background of the CV you’re reading. The best CV and cover letters are selected and interview invites are sent out based on that. Obviously everything becomes apparent at the interview stage but if all 10 candidates are white men, that’s life.

As a slight tangent I’ve known and worked with a number of people who have been involved in recruitment for various companies. You’d be surprised at the number of otherwise high calibre candidates who talk themselves out of even getting interviewed with a badly written CV or cover letter. As in, basic grammar and proof reading that people should have learned at school. ’I wood love to work for your company’ - Straight in the bin Email address: bigboy69@hotmail.com - Bin ‘Thompson Airlines is a great company‘ - Bin (it’s Thomson) Printed on scented/coloured paper - Bin Little hearts used to dot the ‘i’s because you’re kinda creative and want to stand out - Bin Obviously anyone can make these mistakes but if you don’t spot them and keep getting rejected, it can be massively frustrating. It’s not a big leap of the imagination to go from that to assuming you must be the victim of some form of discrimination.

We aren’t going to have Bertrand, Rose and Vokins on the books. Given that the bar for reserve fullbacks has been set by the likes of Fox, Pied, Martina, Targett and Valery in recent years, I can’t see us bringing in anyone above JV.

Why, having finished 11th and not lost anyone significant, you’d have thought we were in for a relegation fight in summer, I can’t understand. This is probably an 8th-15th 6 pointer, if there is such a thing.

Let's hope Sunderland stay in League 1 for a while.

For £15m he's produced far better than our rivals have managed to extract from the likes of Haller, Wesley and Tosun.

Basically how I saw it. Given how we performed as a team, I don't see any need to drop him. Theo I'd be more inclined to try through the middle for Ings/Adams late on.

Did you know, this game will mark one week since the first anniversary of the 9-0 game!! Anyway, same team unchanged for me, obviously Theo back on the bench.

Standard MotD build up. A short piece w*nking over Everton's history and getting back to the glory days, then straight into the 9-0 stuff when the game begins.

Last season it took us 14 games to reach the 10 point mark.

Properly decent performance, against a good team. First team to keep out Everton's attack this season and up into the top half.

I wish him well... but no. In 4 years here he scored against WBA... who got relegated, Boro.... who got relegated, Sunderland... who got relegated and Spurs.... who were 5-0 up and already in the pub. He’ll do well in Ligue 1 and there’s no shame in that but he’s not about to suddenly light up Europe.

Hopefully he’s found a level where he can deliver consistently, for his own sake if nothing else.

Great minds think alike. Sadly my mind is shit so, I don’t know, maybe get a CT scan?

Hopefully that’s Villa’s bubble burst, before we play them next weekend.

Our game against Newcastle in a couple of weeks is now Friday. At home, on a Friday, Mid-autumn, live on Sky... what could go wrong.

People who have an Instagram account for their dog. Made worse if it’s all written as if by the dog in the first person. "Hi I’m Benny, a 3 year old labradoodle, I’ll be keeping you updated with all the fun adventures I get up to!"

Long term being the key word there. If 20% of people who got a whiff of cigarette smoke were going to need hospital treatment within a week, they would be banned, yes.

But smoking is a choice, which can be easily avoided now that we have laws against doing it in public, indoor places.

I kind of see that the other way around. If he was struggling to get a game ahead of Mané and Tadič I’d be more inclined to agree with you. The fact that he hasn’t been able to get even semi-regular football under four different managers, when the bar is set by Redmond and Boufal, probably says something.

Turkish, MLG, you’ve got your own special thread to play in. If that’s not enough then find another forum.