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As within the EU, it was probably expected that closer economic ties would lead to a better relationship between Russia and the West, after all, it has worked for Germany and France. Unfortunately Putin has changed from someone we can do business with into a crazed, paranoid psychopath who seems to have come to believe that doing the best for his country is isolating them from the very markets that could help Russia flourish. Seeking advice from Trump is akin to asking Boris Johnson how to avoid unwanted pregnancies and no matter what happens, the orange one will always frame it in his favour. Anyone who refers to himself as a “stable genius” is clearly anything but. His domestic policies were always about what was best for Trump, as were his foreign policies. Putin wanted Trump in the White House for a reason.

Seems crazy to be able to replace virtually half of your team. Nothing wrong with 3 subs plus the concussion sub system and as said, will only benefit those with deep pockets and squads full of quality. The only time I can see it if being a benefit to us is when we get a load of injuries in a match, but how often does that happen? If we want to make the game fairer for all we should look at ways of spreading the talent more equally. This will only encourage those who can afford it to spend more on players wages to keep bench warmers happy. Surely we all want to see the best players out on the pitch for most of the games? I can imagine it will put back the development of many young players too as clubs will look to beef up their benches rather than take a chance on youth as much.

Interesting Panorama earlier tonight looked at where Abramovitch got his wealth from and how he ended up looking after finances for Yeltsin then Putin. It will come as no surprise that his fortune came about as a result of high level corruption.

Shocking performance all round. It reminded me of that cup exit to Brentford the season before last. Watford are a poor side but made us look like the relegation fodder today and Roy must be wondering how he didn’t come away with a 4 or 5-1 victory. Perhaps we are trying to lure City into a false sense of security? 🙄

Apparently there has been a Russian military strike at a Ukrainian military base near the Polish border. Putin thumbing his nose at NATO?

The long ball worked for them because there were very few players in the box and the ball in was perfect and found a player who puts those away. Lumping it into a crowded area works occasionally as does trying to thread balls through a packed defence but it isn’t the same as their first goal. They were much stronger in the air at the back. As for KWP. He has scored and provided assists from left back and I really don’t see the problem playing him there. For me he is excellent and a real threat on either flank.

We find it hard to break down teams who put everyone behind the ball, most teams do, that is why teams do it. Our style is better suited to teams who come out and attack us allowing us to operate in more space. Newcastle were very happy to give up possession after their second goal. It is frustrating watching the ball being rotated whilst the players try and find an opening but is lumping the ball into the “mixer” any less frustrating watching countless crosses getting headed away? We all want to see shots peppering their goal, but when you have got 10 we’ll drilled players in the way it really isn’t that easy.

Christ Batman, do you understand that the problem here is Russia not Germany?

So John Bercow gets banned from Parliament for life having been found to be a bully and a liar. Priti Patel and Boris Johnson next then surely?

You don’t have to be a “leftie” or “pinko” for this piece to resonate with you. You just need to have a modicum of human decency.

I take it that you have never read Orwell? Boy did he nail people like you and the people your like enable.

Why does Putin get to dictate what happens within independent countries?

The BBC news just broadcast pictures of dead bodies from the shelling including a child. Not seen that from the BBC before.

Not to worry chaps, Ben Wallace says that we have kicked Russian arses before and we can do it again, so all’s well!

If, as has been suggested, Putin continues to invade non NATO countries to expand his empire, at what point would you consider us policing a no fly zone? 0r are you content to see him steamroller other countries that aren’t members of NATO until he has gotten all that he wants?

There are two sides to every story of course and many shades of grey instead of black and white. I understand why Putin might want to make an issue of NATO expanding although it is a defensive rather than offensive alliance. What doesn’t stack up is any argument that Putin is a sane, rational man. His pronouncement of late have all the trappings of paranoia and a blinkered nationalistic sense of entitlement. I don’t know if years in power have corrupted him absolutely, but those who have met him say he has changed. He comes across now as a second rate Bond villain. That has nothing to do with the western media but everything to do with the way he presents himself and his actions. There is nothing in his concerns for Russia that couldn’t be addressed around the negotiating table. The West and it’s foreign policies are often far from perfect, but Putin has chosen armed conflict to try and return things to the way they were in the last century and speaks in the language of Hitler. No one is forcing him to lie to his own people. To say the media in the West have brainwashed us is nothing like the brainwashing that goes on in Russia. Putin is clearly a very dangerous man. It doesn’t need the Western media to paint him as a villain, he has done that himself.

Didn’t Diane Abbott say the same and get vilified for it?

Christ Batman, for someone who has spent years having a pop at foreigners this is rich, even by your standards! Have I missed something or is Anglo Saxon now on the banned list?

What is odd is that, out of the blue, you pluck two comedians who are not standard Anglo- Saxon types and ask if I find them funny. What isn’t odd is that you get support from Turkish. So before I answer your question perhaps you would be good enough to explain why you chose these two comedians out of the hundreds of others you could have chosen. In fact, why did you chose any? This thread is about people we don’t find funny. Seems very odd that someone would not just post about people they don’t find funny and ask others what they think of certain performers.

I thought they had been pulled?

Surely though they understand the difference between an exercise and shooting at live subjects with live ammunition and blowing up towns and cities!

With today’s sophisticated weaponry there is absolutely no excuse for indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets. For someone who is supposedly trying to liberate the country from its fascist rulers Putin seems to have an odd idea about how to get the people on his side. I hope the bastard gets what’s coming to him soon.

Gone from our screens? The BBC still reports daily on Covid.

It’s a funny old world. A person who claims that he is not who everyone knows he is tries to conflate two of the biggest despots in history with the honours system and a British Prime Minister whilst also spending his days trawling the internet to find things to denigrate other European countries with and has spent years running down the regime and religion of those Tony Blair went to war with. Yep, it’s a laugh a minute.

Same old same old. You conveniently forget the part your party has played in sucking up to Russian money. To say that Germany has been financing this war is pure Batman xenophobic rhetoric. Putin had been in power for over 20 years and was originally seen as someone the West could do business with. Putin was clearly playing a long game, either that or he has gradually lost it and the rest of us have to change our policies towards him accordingly. It’s just a shame that the West (that includes us Batman) weren’t so decisive when Putin annexed the Crimea.