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£60m for a player with a year left on his contract? He'd have gone for about £20m, regardless of his performances.

I think it's daft that our U-23 compete in that, should just be left to L1/2 teams.

Up to you whether you want to discuss him or not, just pointing out that we currently have 5 strikers who have scored a combined 0.5 goals in 3 months. If he had stayed here and scored 3 goals it would be something.

TBF, aside from Long's borderline o.g. none of our strikers have scored since Christmas.

I'd quite like to see Leeds, Sheff U and Norwich come up. Have a feeling Leeds will end up in the playoffs and f**k it up, with WBA coming up instead.

Are you this needlessly rude and patronising to everyone you meet in real life?

And winters.

Looks like standard Boufal - losing, need a goal, first attacking player to be taken off.

You do know that playing the same number of games spread out more is not playing fewer matches? 38 games; More games in summer, fewer in winter. I’m saying scrap the LC or make it an U23 competition because it’s largely pointless anyway. A bunch of our reserves and kids beat a couple of other clubs reserves, then get dumped out in some sh*tty non-performance against Sheffs Weds or Bristol City.

No idea why you’ve invented this notion that I want fewer games. “Fingers crossed”? Grow up a bit. One proper cup competition, which people can take more seriously with less fixture congestion and more rest for players. FWIW, I’d have a CL place for the winner and EL place for the runner up too, as more of an incentive. We could easily go 5 rounds and make it to the QF, how does that compare to this season? I make it 4 cup games plus one replay, all of which featured a sub standard mix of reserves and kids from both sides.

I find this odd. It's still 38 Premier League games and there is still room for a tournament. The number of fixtures doesn't really change, the only difference is the timing. Premier League First half - August - Jan 1st. Premier League Second half - Early Feb - Mid June Major tournament - July The way I see it, right now there is 3 months with no football, which I find far more tedious than having 1 month in January. Especially as myself (and I suspect many others) are often skint after Christmas.

Jesus effing wept. You must be overjoyed in May- Saints aren't playing YEESSSSSS And June YEEEESSSSSS Saints aren't playing again. YES YES YES

I’ve long believed there should be a winter break - everyone plays on NYD then nothing until the first weekend of Feb. Smaller squads get a rest after the busy Xmas period, fewer injuries and games in late May/June instead of sh*tty, blowy, freezing your t*ts off January games. I’d be in favour of scrapping the LC or making it an U23 competition. However, I’d also change the FA Cup so that everyone starts in round 1. 92 League clubs plus 36 non-League qualifiers, 7 rounds, if my maths is right.

Fair enough, I can’t remember the game in that much detail. I do remember the Lino being the target of his aggression but it was the ref who was pushed. It really wasn’t much worse than Barnes’ outburst for Burnley when the Lino didn’t give that first penalty.

Never got the near obsession people have with his miss against West Brom. A howler no doubt but Shane Long seems to have made a career as a Premier League striker running around and missing sitters. I also think he gets judged way too harshly for the Arsenal incident. Neither of these are correct. He was trying to have a go at the linesman who had just told the ref. to send him off. The ref stepped between the two and Prutton pushed him away. It was stupid and a 5 game ban would have been fair but 10 is ridiculous. Barton got the same for punching his way through half the Man City squad. Keane only got 5 for deliberately going out to end someone's career. Never the most talented player but you can't fault his effort and passion. I'd say comparisons with Hoj are reasonably fair. Always seemed a good honest bloke too.

I'd say not wanting to die is a fairly basic animal instinct. I'm not sure I'd agree with the idea that a suicide attack is more noble because you also die yourself.

I think that Henry/Pires one from a few years ago comes close. The worst part was when they completely stuffed it up the ref let them take it again.

No deal No no deal Surely May has to go now, she literally has nowhere to go.

It’s not about the context though, it purely comes down to who is saying it, which is wrong IMO.

I’m starting to think all of this is a bit of a kerfuffle.

No, that’s when I was at school some 20 odd years ago. These days kids get given a page of lines, a care worker and an emotional support animal if they stab someone.

Bit of a difference between old enough to know right from wrong and old enough to decide how to run a country, I'd say. No way was I mature enough to vote when I was 14 but if I had sexually assaulted a girl in my class, or stabbed another boy, I'm pretty sure I'd have been expelled.

Perhaps that will be a condition of an extension. When they ask to what end she wants an extension, May will have to either resign or call a GE so that there is at least the prospect of someone else's deal being put on the table. Not saying that anyone else will do a better job but it's just a stalemate otherwise.

What next then? I reckon they will vote no on no deal, then yes for an extension, which will eventually be granted with a few conditions, followed by a GE.

There are almost always reports of smoke from eye witnesses which usually turn out to be something else. Areas of low pressure around the air frame can lead to water vapour forming, especially in areas of high humidity which I'd guess this might be. This photo sort of illustrates it, with the vapour forming above the wings as the aircraft performs a tight-ish turn. If the aircraft is falling at some unusual attitude then it's not impossible that the something similar but more pronounced would have been seen.