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Not a chance, I know a few Latvians and some of them despise Russia. The Russian population now is only about 1/4 I believe, nowhere near enough to push for some sort of unification. The large majority of them prefer being in the EU and the opportunities for work and travel within the EU. As far as I'm aware, Latvia also lacks the concentrations of ethnic Russians that Ukraine has in the Crimea and Donbass regions.

Or we're in a daft situation where he's our only other available CB and don't really have much choice in the matter.

Thoughts on Sané's disallowed goal? Looked a fairly obvious mistake to me as it was Milner who played it back.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. There is far more potential in Tadic, Redmond, Jay Rod, Gabbi and Sims than either Puel or MoPe have managed to extract. Even Long is capable of 7/8 goals a season instead of just 2.

Last few meaningless matches? We only scored more than one goal in 3 home games all season.

Can't we just pretend we sold Virgil for £55m and signed this bloke on a free? I'd feel a lot happier about that.

The direction we were heading at the end of the season, we may well have been. Wasn't it 6 blanks in his last 7 home games or something?

I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt in spite of my reservations but Jesus, did we REALLY spend £19m on a bloke who has scored 5 goals against a bunch of 'équipe de pub'.

I don't get this borderline masochistic obsession with our rivals being responsible for our suffering. Pompey didn't send us down, we were out of the relegation zone with 2 games left. Pompey didn't stop us winning the League, Reading edged it and if anything we threw it away losing to them and throwing away a 1-0 lead at Boro. Bournemouth wont send us down. Highly likely we we still be in it (mathematically) whatever the result. We probably wont win, we will probably go down and they will probably gloat. C'est la vie.

It's only his sixth league goal, which is nothing really that spectacular for almost a full season of regular football. True, I'd rather have him than Long or Carrillo but I'd say that about 99% of strikers out there. He needed a fresh start and I'm glad to see he is having a respectable season at West Brom.

'99 was the Great Escape. What the current lot are doing is willfully digging into a POW camp and waving their kn*b and boll*cks at the guard with the machine gun.

I've always maintained that the war on drugs is unwinnable. If we legalise everything (for over 18s) we can at least control the source and quality of the drugs. We could also use the tax generated to fund a considerable number of Police, PCSO and rehab programmes for the worst affected. I've seen similar arguments shouted down before, normally by some hysterical mother who doesn't want her child taking drugs and is naive enough to think the law (barely enforced my a skeleton Police force) is enough to stop them.

I'd imagine Abbott is absolutely appalled by the 12,374 murders on the streets of London this week.

So the Russians want access to our evidence so that they can launch an investigation into themselves, which definitely wont be totally corrupt and find the Russian government completely innocent on all charges. Nothing at all to do with: a) Trying to save face by publicly giving the appearance of co-operation. b) Trying to find out the sources of our intelligence, which are probably more accurate and in depth than what some guy reckons on twitter.

It's odd how some of the things I would previously have considered satire are now transpiring in real life. A vegan terrorist going on a killing spree because her YouTube blogs keep getting taken down; it's like a Daily Mash article.

Agree. Let's stop sending our children to these namby pamby academy schools to learn 'emotional studies' and 'communication technology'. Get them off the breast milk and down the lead mines FFS!

Just a gut instinct but this doesn't really 'feel' like a terrorist attack. A lone woman, obscure location, low number of casualties, turned the gun on herself... doesn't fit the usual profile.

Going to vote Clasie, just to make a point. I want to embarrass this lot. A shambolic lack of desire and bottle, you can't JUST blame the manager when there've been three of them.

Just for sh*ts and giggles. Stephens - Cranie - That academy defender, who sort of looked alright for a brief period last year but clearly isn't a 1st choice PL player Austin - Pahars - If only he'd stayed fit, we might not be in this mess. Cedric - Kenton - He's got good pace but I'm not sure what else he does. Carrillo - Bernard - Why in the name of f**king f**k did we sign him?! Tadic - Lundekvam - He's been good for a few seasons, so why has he absolutely bottled it now. Hoedt - Davenport - We quite obviously needed an experienced CB, instead we got this guy. Lemina - Squashie - Is he a battling midfield dynamo or a headless chicken? Not sure.

Interesting (It was a genuine question BTW). When I lived in Bristol, St Paul's was notorious for stabbings among the Somali gangs. Hopefully it's not on the rise.

San Diego also has Sea World, depends on their views on the whole Blackfish thing TBH.

1. There isn't a toxic atmosphere at St Mary's. If anything it's apathetic and resigned. 2. Most of the blocks will remain closed off to save costs as they are expecting low interest in this match. 3. I don't want to go, the standard will be far worse than an U23s game, which I also wouldn't choose to watch.

San Diego, 100%. Brilliant city. My girlfriend regularly visits LA regularly with work. You can do the whole Venice Beach, Hollywood Hills bit but most of LA's a dump.

What a daft conclusion to draw from such a tiny data sample. In 2 cities of over 8,000,000 people, there were 4 more murders in London in February and 1 more in March. Any evidence to support the theory that the increase is down to inter-racial violence?

That's exactly what we did do with Stephens. What are you suggesting, we give a slightly worse U23 CB a run out and hope that works better. People cry out for the youth team to be given a chance because they will try and can't possibly be worse than the first team. What we have now is Martin Cranie 2.0.