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That is the problem. We took a punt on Ings and it payed off. This one hasn’t paid off so far and maybe it won’t. As we know, injuries can occur any time and there are no guarantees with any player. Yes, it is frustrating, just as much so for the player and the club. As we know, not every transfer works out the way we would like. None of us knows the score re his fitness, but they must have been moderately confident that he wasn’t a total crock when they parted with the cash.

I was under the impression that he had fully recovered from the initial injury and then picked up a new one? Could be wrong though.

The body of the daughter has now been retrieved. Very sad regardless of how much money some of them had, especially as it seems as if it could have been prevented by taking certain actions.

I have recently been given a pile of Bill Bryson books and am just finishing the Notes From A Small Island. I can see what all the fuss is about. For a Yank he gets the British sense of humour and even writes like a Brit. I know he had spent much of his life here but for someone born and raised in the US he really manages to nail Britain in the late 20th century. It was particularly interesting to read about his experiences at The Times. He joined about a year after I left (when the previous owner, Lord Thompson, closed the paper down for 11 months in a dispute with the unions). His experience with the unions at the time, the NGA, SOGAT, NATSOPA (my union) along with the NUJ was absolutely spot on. His mention of the Blue Lion in Gray’s Inn Rd, brought back many happy memories of boozy lunchtimes and after work sessions. I had left by the time that Murdoch bought the titles and moved them to Wapping so I had no experience of what that was like. It was interesting to hear about it from his perspective as many of the picket lines were manned by ex colleagues of mine. Some 5000 people lost their jobs. I got out just in time and ended up at The Guardian. Whilst the newspaper industry needed a shake up production wise, the Murdoch approach was brutal and left scars on the industry for years to come. I was lucky enough to work in the industry for 30 years, during its golden age (for its workers, not for its management 😉). His tales of his travels around the country, even for those of us brought up and working in big cities and towns, are a reminder of what a parochial, small minded, island mentality we have, but charming and mostly warm hearted, nevertheless. An excellent read and I am looking forward to the next in the pile, A Walk In The Woods.

We were given a “freebie” two months subscription to SKY Cinema so have been catching up with movies that we have missed over the last year. Oppenheimer, despite its long running time and slow start, was excellent and well worthy of all of its awards. We also caught Barbie which was nothing like I expected and also excellent. Last night I went for a bit of nostalgia, The National Lampoon’s Animal House which I first saw in 1978. An early example of the American teen gross out movies with the brilliant John Belushi, still made me laugh after all these years.

But you said that you didn’t read the links I post anyway so what is the problem? Just another excuse to have a dig?

This article references the way the visa works. Isn’t that is what is being discussed?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/20/uk-citizens-travelling-to-eu-next-summer-will-have-to-pay-7-visa-waiver-charge

Only for those who don’t know how to use the new caps.

No surprise that people who voted to leave didn’t know the details of what we were actually leaving. They just listened to the guff that Johnson and Farage fed them and didn’t bother to look further.

Racism still an issue within the police. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crger07nx4lo.amp Meanwhile black people are still 4 times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people. Two tier policing? Also racism within the NHS still an issue. https://www.nhsconfed.org/articles/nhs-needs-confront-serious-problem-racism-within-service

Welcome Mateus. Here’s hoping that you have a rosé future.

Why would they? It would spoil their fun. And as for “relative peace,” hypo seems to have forgotten his ongoing spat with Farmer Giles.

Wasn’t Ron Manager based on the old QPR boss Alec Stock?

Back in the 60’s teams used to line up 2-3-5 at KO. Gk = 1 Right back and left back 2 & 3 Two wing halves = 4 & 6 either side of the centre half = 5 The forward line consisted of two wingers = 7 & 11, two inside forwards = 8 & 10 and the centre forward = 9 The one substitute = 12 Our PE teacher used to blow his whistle every 5 minutes and if you weren’t standing in the correct place on the pitch according to your number/playing position you would get a bollocking. Both wingers and full backs would be glued to the wings. The centre half picked up the centre forward and the two wing halves would pick up the two inside forwards. Playing it out from the back meant hoofing it upfield. If you tried to play football at the back you would get a bollocking from all of your team mates and probably dropped for the next match. Passing to a man who was marked was also a big no-no and would usually result in you getting bollocked by the bloke you passed to who was marked as he would have been kicked up in the air as soon as he touched the ball (and sometimes before the ball had even reached him). The wingers had one job, stand on the half way line and when you got the ball, leg it down the wing and centre it to the big lump of a centre forward who would trade elbows with the centre half as they both tried to get their heads on the end of a sodden lump of laced up leather. The inside forwards were trickier players and would play off of the centre forwards. It was the wing halves job to kick lumps out of them. To put it even more simply, no’s 2 to 6 were there to flatten the opposite no’s 7 to 11. Leeds were the exception to this in that their no’s 2 to 11 would go out and flatten anyone within kicking/punching distance. It was all so simple then until Sir Alf Ramsey did away with wingers and played overlapping full backs in a 4-3-3 formation. It all went downhill from there (apart from winning our one and only World Cup of course).

Larios off to Malaga on loan apparently.

Shouldn’t you be milking cows and tupping your sheep?

Interesting choice of words given your strange, obsessive behaviour every time a transfer window opens. It seems like you lock yourself in the cellar and glue yourself to the phone, posting all day every day. You are like a 5 year old at Christmas, constantly speculating on what presents Santa is going to bring you and whether you will like them are not. The classic period was when you were desperate for us to sign a striker and every other post seemed to be from you for weeks, getting more and more fretful. You really need to grow up and get out more hypo.

No surprise given your weird sense of humour. Remind us again how many laughing emojis you have used on a thread about death and destruction in Gaza? You have always been an odd little man but you seem to have been joined by a number of others recently. This place is becoming more like the Ugly Inside by the day.

East stand nic throws accusations about but doesn’t substantiate them. Turkish does the same. Why is wanting to address false accusations digging a hole? At this stage Lighthouse usually splits the thread so that this crap can continue elsewhere without boring others. Now would be a good time for a thread split.

Dear god. No. I had the basic info last night and when I asked if it was part of a riot my wife said she thought it could be. My wife had second hand information yesterday and there was clearly some 2+2=5 going on. Not surprising really given the situation. She had more of an update today. The basic facts remain the same. Woman with brown skin has car windscreen smashed in city where demonstrators were assembled. If you are desperate to make a big deal of it, go ahead, but I think we have wasted too much time on it as it is.

I am not too good to apologise but you have constantly abused me today and did so on a different thread a while back so I figure that there is no point in trying to build bridges with someone who calls you a fucking plank, prick and a bellend on the Israel thread.

This place gets weirder all the time. The very people who accuse me of making things up make stuff up about me? At least have the decency to provide evidence eh? Anyway, I need to put the record straight about yesterday. The person who had her window smashed in Bristol was not in the car at the time it happened and there was no rioting going on around her car when she got to it. She was very shaken up because there had been rioting a few days previously and she was concerned that someone had deliberately targeted her car and knew which car was hers. So, no definitive link to the recent riots and a lot of fuss about nothing on here. Still, the good news is that last night wasn’t to nationwide carnage we were fearing.

And you expect me to apologise?

What? I was agreeing for a ban for myself so long as the other protagonist were banned also. I don’t disagree that I am complicit and have said many times that I will give as good as I get.