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Friendly or no friendly, it was a cracking bit of skill and a brilliantly taken goal. We seem to live in a very strange world now where something can’t be appreciated properly just for what it is. Even if he never scores again, those who saw it will remember it along with Boufal’s wonder goal and MLT’s more sublime efforts. For those who say yeah but it was only a friendly, those who play and watch football do so for moments like this. Just enjoy it FFS.

Thanks for thinking of me Batman. I am surprised that you don’t want to go further and ban women’s football (again).After all, they should be home looking after the kids and leaving things like “proper” football to the men shouldn’t they? Is it not possible to follow both teams? Is it not possible to follow the national ladies team but not the club team? I am just curious as to why you feel the need to make a division between the two and also feel the need to be so specifically definitive as to which group should support the men and which should support the women. Does your wife know you write this crap?

Christ almighty. The women’s national football team have just won a major tournament and become the best in Europe, something the men’s team have never done, yet some people still feel the need to find things to whinge about. Why not just enjoy the achievement without the nit picking for once? There are people on my face book feeds today who never bother about football and who are loving it. God knows we need something to cheer us up and the Lionesses have given us that. The celebrations were awesome, especially when they crashed the coaches presser at the end. Enjoy the moment FFS. You will have plenty of time to moan about it later.

What he fails to grasp, along with everyone trying to deflect from the Tory incompetency, is that it isn’t necessarily about getting a decision wrong. The police bring a case to the CPS along with the evidence and request a charging decision. In the first case, is there a case to answer and then what will the charge(s) be. The CPS then, if they agree to prosecute, take if from there. The reviewing lawyer has to make a decision that it is in the public interest to prosecute and if it is, then what are the chances of a successful prosecution. Many cases don’t get to court because no matter how strongly the police believe they have a guilty suspect, the lawyer feels that the evidence received isn’t strong enough to stand up in court. As I said earlier, this was dealt with in another area and I believe that it involved some selected incidents. What people assume is that everything he has subsequently been accused of doing was on the charge sheet and therefore there was a huge amount of evidence against him. Not so. Johnson knew exactly what he was doing when he made those remarks about Starmer being responsible for not charging Savile. He knew that there are plenty of fools out there who would swallow it hook, line and sinker. The fact Weston still repeats it shows how easy it is to con large sections of the public and how they can continue to believe guff even when it has been shown to be guff. I don’t know if this happened in this particular case, but the Reviewing Lawyer often asks the police to go away and come back with various other pieces of evidence (witness statements etc) in order to provide a stronger case and it doesn’t happen. That is not the Reviewing Lawyers fault. There are incidents where cases are pulled at the last minute because either the police don’t provide some evidence that was promised or a witness or witnesses withdraw their statement(s) and the case collapses. None of this has anything to do with the Director of Public Prosecutions and is not the fault of the CPS. If a case does not meet certain criteria regarding its evidential substance, it does not go to court.

You really are quite stupid aren’t you and it appears that you can’t read and comprehend simple English. I was not a “senior manager” as such, I managed a paralegal team in the Kent area (B2 grade, not that will mean anything to you), many miles away from the team who dealt with the Savile decision. Starmer’s job as DPP had nothing to do with prosecuting people. He managed the CPS. For the last time for stupid people like you, the decision is made by the reviewing lawyer who reports to his boss, an Area Crown Prosecutor who in turns reports to a Chief Crown Prosecutor who is in charge of an area. The DPP does not go around prosecuting (or not prosecuting) people. The decision was made by those whose job it was at the time to look at the case brought by the police. The view was that the evidence provided was not substantial enough to get a conviction (I assume as I had nothing to do with the case, neither did anyone in the Kent area). There are many people who work for the CPS (wow, what a surprise). Would you call of them Walter Mitty? My wife, then girlfriend, got me a job there initially as a temp as I had been out of work for a while and I stayed on and got a permanent job. My wife worked there for 33 years but I guess that is a fantasy too and she is also a Walter Mitty. I stopped reading your posts a while ago as you clearly do not know what you are talking about, not unlike the bloke you follow about. At least he can troll properly. So, you are completely wrong about Starmer and Savile and you are completely wrong about me. Apart from that…😂

I was making the point that there is a difference between getting something wrong on a TV quiz show and getting something wrong in your job. I didn’t have to see it to make that point. But again you twist something to suit your own agenda. Classic Ducky. 🦆

Oh, I didn’t see it. Yes, that is not great (and would have been correct the other way round 😂)

It was funny. It is always funny when people get guesses wrong big time on silly quiz shows. It is completely different when people in power don’t have a clue about things they should have a clue about. I guess you didn’t bat an eye when the person responsible for selling off Channel 4 didn’t have a clue about how it was funded?

The problem we have now is that it isn’t just the odd individual who is isn’t that bright and is incompetent (and nasty) it is the current sitting PM and pretty much all of his cabinet. As for the Henry V111 question, I don’t know many people who could answer that and hazarding a guess at Henry V11 is perfectly reasonable if you don’t know the answer. Fortunately a light hearted quiz show has nothing to do with running the country and understanding your brief, which few cabinet misters seem to do. People like Lammy and Abbott have been getting dogs abuse for years, not just recently like Nad and her chums, and we all know why. I think that poor old Duckie is rattled. For years it was the preserve of the Right to make fun of those whose politics are left of centre, fuelled by the Right wing media. Now the shoe is on the other foot and we have a bunch of useless, and quite often clueless individuals in a Tory government who get away with the hammering they would get from the mainstream media only because they are Tories. Fortunately there are now plenty of normal, decent people who can see what is going on and hopefully many of these MPs will be looking for a new job in a couple of years time.

Perhaps they should have chosen something really cool, like the Lady Duckhunters?

If Ronaldo had scored that everyone would be talking about how audacious it was. Ok, it went through the keepers legs but who was expecting Russo to do that?

What a performance. Not always at our best but after a slow start we found a couple of extra gears and put 4 past a very good Swedish side. A very well deserved place in the final. Now bring on Germany!

What a goal by Russo!!

Fixed it for you 😉

Given the amount of hours you spend everyday trawling the internet for things of this topic, perhaps you would be kind enough to provide the evidence that using the word “brown” when describing someone’s ethnicity is a racial slur yet using the words “black” and “white” are not? Getting back to the football, apart from one dodgy early NI game, for me it has been very entertaining. It is pointless comparing it to men’s football but by its own standards women’s football is progressing in leaps and bounds. The goalkeeping, generally, has improved enormously and the quality of crossing has been excellent. It makes a refreshing change to see teams going for it and every one of the quarter finals have been worth watching. If taken on it’s own merits, there is plenty to enjoy but as others keep saying, if you don’t like it don’t watch it and don’t bother boring others with your negativity. There are plenty of Saints threads where you can dump that stuff if you feel the need.

Upset, Batman, that The Guardian have used the word “brown” when describing someone with a different coloured skin? I guess that you will be lodging a complaint against them given the way you kicked off when I used the word recently?

You do know that the UK is part of Europe and just because we have left the EU it doesn’t mean to say we are part of a completely different meteorological system to the rest of the continent now? Keep on stalking and making your fatuous comments Turkish. You are managing to make Liz Truss look like a decent prospect for our next PM. Where is this hot weather coming from? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62166766

Nothing to worry about, a fuss about nothing… https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/17/forest-fires-rage-across-europe-as-heatwave-sends-temperatures-soaring

Not strictly true Whelk but I did upset them when calling out Robinson and Hopkins for the far right wing bigots they are. It seems if you speak up against Islamophobia, racism, homophobia, sexism etc you end up attracting a bunch of stalkers. I think most of them have got nothing better to do other than be WUMs on social media and there is something very odd about grown men stalking others for their own amusement. Still, it keeps them off the streets I guess 😉

The car parks were full. If you know Camber you will know that there is no where else to park your car legally once they are full and people usually leave their cars parked on double yellow lines as well so there is no where to park. When you go on holiday do you think it is fun to spend two weeks sitting in a traffic jam? Perhaps I missed something but if that is the case why not just sit in the car on the drive rather than sitting in a jam between your house on the beach?

I wasn’t “wondering the streets of Paris.” I was there with friends doing what all tourists do. Funnily enough there were thousands of other tourists there too. Who would have thought it? I wasn’t working for the CPS at that time, I was working for The Spectator. I was not a lawyer when working at the CPS and never,myself, prosecuted anyone for rape or any other crime. Apart from that you are spot on. So unlike you to make things up to try and get a bite but well done because it has worked this time thanks to your mate Batman quoting more of your usual bol locks. Even on a day like this you feel the need to stalk and to troll. Sad really.

Of course you are Duckie. You are so used to being lied to by the people you vote for that you assume that everyone lies. It is true though. Why would anyone lie about something like that? Perhaps you think that these people just collapsed and passed out or died conveniently in hospitals? If you are that desperate to discredit it go look at the news reports from Paris that summer. Perhaps this will help, especially the bit that’s says “morgues overflowing with bodies.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/25/heat-wave-killed-france-temperatures-soar-again-officials-are-taking-no-chances/

We were in Paris during the heatwave of 2003 and saw many people collapsed on the pavement being treated by paramedics. I think they estimated that it was responsible for another 2500 deaths. It can be dangerous for those with cardiovascular issue as the heat thickens the blood. My Dad died of a massive coronary on a day of excessive heat here. I know it seems funny to hear people telling us to drink more water and to stay in the shade but whenever we have heatwaves there are always those who don’t take proper care, many of whom pay the ultimate price. There have been a number of drownings in rivers already. A few years ago there were multiple drownings just down the road from us in Camber which seemed especially odd as you have to walk for miles to be able to swim at low tide because it is so shallow there. It might be a laugh to people like Batman, but hopefully the warnings will help save lives.

By “normal people” I was referring to people who Turkish would define as not, by the look of them, abusing fast food outlets on a daily basis. Of course fat people are normal people. I’m not the one calling out people’s lifestyle choices here but if you want to hitch your wagon to his ideology go ahead and enjoy the ride.

I spoke to a guy today who knows a senior manager in the NHS in the south east. He says that staff are leaving in droves putting more pressure on those remaining. He also said that their are two more different strains of Covid about to land which they think will cause major problems for the Service in the autumn/winter. The ambulance service seems to be on its knees already. Grim. Still, at least our current PM can leave office with his head held high. As for people taking responsibility for themselves, I have spent a lot of time in my local doctors surgery and hospital over the last few years and have seen plenty of people in waiting rooms. I don’t know if they smoke, drink excessively and/or eat poorly but the vast majority of them are not what you would call obese, they just look normal. The human body relies on millions of things working properly all of the time to work efficiently. The graveyard is full of people who had healthy lifestyles but had died well before their three score years and ten just as there are people who smoke, drink and eat poorly who live to a ripe old age and have rarely have need of the NHS. A&E units are full of people who have accidents playing football, doing DIY etc. Should we point the finger at them for putting themselves in harms way too? We live in an imperfect world and the NHS has to have the resources to deal with it.