Lighthouse

I’m not sure staying at Juventus when you’re 32 is quite the career sacrifice you’re implying. I’d have done the same as Prowsey and so would 99% of us in that situation.

A bit of a cultural cliche that, I can’t see why a manger who likes to play any variation of tidy, passing football wouldn’t want JWP as an option. He’s hardly Lee Cattermole.

Too many chiefs, not enough Indians or a proper holding midfielder. Lampard, Gerrard and Scholes all wanted to be the #8.

He is. SWF HQ is floors 97-114 of the Burj Khalifa.

Thankfully we don’t have people marching through parts of London with a significant Jewish population, waving Palestinian flags.

At the perilous risk of actually troubling the OP, one of my grandfathers was old enough to have served in the war, he was a tank driver and spent most of the time in Burma. Never said a word about what he'd seen to either my mother or (as far as we know) grandma. He simply came back to the UK, said he didn't believe in God any more and never spoke of it, or went to church, ever again. As sad as it is seeing the ever dwindling pack of veterans at D-Day, and other such commemorations, part of me also feels relief that such unspeakable memories are rapidly passing away from this world.

You’ve really highlighted to me just how Islamophobic our government is. They sent the RAF to drop all those bombs on ISIS targets in Syria and North Africa but they wouldn’t dare do the same to the Jehovah’s Witnesses who keep bothering people in Taunton.

Its a stupid and asinine comparison, I’m not even going to bother explaining why the situation in Gaza is not the same as with the IRA.

You do wonder how a population can be so collectively thick as to still swallow all that guff. It’s almost comical really, as if somebody had parodied everything written by Orwell and made it into an actual country.

Is there a reason why only Maddison has been cut now, with the final squad not being confirmed until this weekend? Seems a bit odd to announce this separately from the other six.

He won’t. If West Ham really want rid of him they’ll almost certainly have to subsidise his wages somewhere. You’d have to be mental to offer Ings a £100kpw contract in his current state and I can only think of two clubs who’d do it. Everton, who’re fighting off the financial vultures already, and West Ham, who already own him.

We’re going to need to do a fair bit better than that to stay up. Che is a very limited PL player and Delap scored 8 goals in the Championship. Nobody is going to pay £35m for Broja or £100kpw to Ings, especially not us. I’d say halve both of those numbers and it’d be more realistic.

Valery was accused of some pretty horrible stuff, which I wont repeat, by a woman on Twitter. If you know you know, but it was pretty unpleasant, never proven and best not dragged up again. The Ranger fraud stuff was just mental. Mainly because you'd have to be some sort of Oxbridge graduate accountant/hacker to have had any chance of pulling it off and that bloke is thicker than a whale sandwhich.

Charlie Austin - That performance against Fulham.

It's the transfer window, we're obviously going to be looking to replace him and to put it bluntly I don't want either Stu or Lallana in the squad next season. We can't be sentimental if we want to stay up and decent Championship players aren't going to cut the mustard.

No, most people will vote in accordance with their own preconceived biases and the swing voters who fall outside of that have probably long since made up their mind already (most likely on the side of Labour). I’d put myself in the latter category, nothing Sunak says in the next month is going to convince me that I want another five years of Tory rule.

Over 20 police officers brought in to investigate apparently. Her milkshake brings all the boys to Scotland Yard.

Can't really tell much from the woman in the red dress, that's just generic Instagram face. You pretty much just click a button and every woman on there looks like that. She appears to have the same bracelet on her right hand, although that's hardly conclusive.

What's our best hair XI? I'd start at the back with Gazzaniga. Lovren's probably in there, so are Stu, Anders and Pelle, obviously. Licka maybe....

I'm hoping what we've offered is a one year extension on modest terms, as back up to a hopefully much more capable number one. The logic being that Baz wont feature at all for the first six months at least and we want someone better than Lis on the bench. If we're trying to keep him to start PL games... Christ.

Been a decent player for us for a few years, wish him all the best with whatever he does next. Being pragmatic though, we’re going to need some much better, fitter players next season to avoid going straight back down.

So you can’t imagine someone being an immature idiot, chucking a milkshake at a politician she doesn’t like?

I can’t say that someone standing in a free, democratic election being physically harassed in public is something we should particularly celebrate. I’d rather we left that to the Russians, personally. Plus it’s totally counterproductive, Farage will basically just say, "oh look, the tolerant left are at it again," and his popularity will probably step up another notch.

We lost as many games as we won and we only beat Tunisia, Panama and Sweden. Fair play for finally winning a shootout but we still only got a draw against Colombia. For all the ifs and buts against France in Qatar, when push game to shove we didn’t win. Again. The biggest nation we’ve beaten at a major tournament under Southgate was Germany in 2021, and they were somewhat mediocre in that tournament; scraping through their group after a late equaliser against Hungary.

I guess people having barbeques during lockdown are the modern day Che Guevara.