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Alex Crook - the Les Reed of football journalists.

No short term about it - Villa are a bigger club then we could ever hope to be.

Ol’ Rupes said that it would cost the same price as the stadium cost to build, £32 mill, to expand the Chapel, Kingsland and Northam to a 48’000 capacity. That was 20 years ago though so who knows what price it would be allowing for inflation. The foundations are in place should we wish to do so. Shame the new improvements don’t include replacing the tired pink seats - made a huge difference to the Stadium of light since they did theirs.

Even though the thought of Lancashire in a Saints shirt still gives me nightmares I do like the concept. It makes sense for the players coming through to play alongside and learn from seasoned professionals to aid that transition to the first team. Crazy to think there’s a generation of fans now that never knew what it was like to have a reserve side, where the up and coming academy talent would play alongside fringe first team players as well as those returning from injury.

“Despite his struggle with the virus, Mr Harmon still said he would reject being jabbed, saying his religious faith would protect him. Prior to his death, had joked about the pandemic and vaccines, sharing memes saying he trusted the Bible over top US disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci.” Idiot that believes in fairytales over science ends up dying. Perhaps he should have picked up a textbook rather than a bible. Don’t know who is the most dangerous, anti-vaxxers or religious folk.

Looks like a unit already and he’s only 19, local lad too - has the potential to be a good deal for us and him.

Fuck him, if he wants to turn down the club that gave him a chance when others wrote him off so be it. I’d have thought a long term high wage deal would have been tempting for a player that’s had two ACL ruptures previously as well as 4 separate injuries last season. Sell high and reinvest…

Back to back semi finals at major tournaments - fair to say I’m not used to this feeling. Started slow and now the momentum has us flying, actually feel we’ll steam roll through a side containing Hojbjerg and Vestergaard, especially with the Wembley crowd behind us.

Spurs fans on social media tonight are having a good go at it 🤣

Didn’t realise how much I wanted to win this until that second goal went in. What an atmosphere at Wembley that was this evening, only half full too, mental!

Nice to see a pundit mention how overrated Ronaldo is when it comes to free kicks. KDB off, that’s a huge blow for Belgium

Played with a guy that went on to play at Hampshire league level that was that way inclined too. He had zero interest in the game, except playing it, and he happened to be decent! He didn’t even support anyone, I could never get my head around it. Fair play to Telfer, assuming you don’t end up with a job in the media or coaching I imagine life could get quite boring once you’ve retired and you’re still in your thirties.

I’m guessing you’ve subscribed then? Her lips are fucking ridiculous though let’s not beat around the bush.

Got nothing against the girl, she might be lovely - don’t understand this porn star wannabe mindset behind only fans, where average looking birds get their tits out for sad blokes to pay money and drool over. Especially when you’re married to the son of a famous footballer and have young kids.

Christ, I’ve not looked but I can only guess it’s fish lips. Mitch must be so proud.

Yep, shame Southgate never had the balls to take him off against Croatia in the semi final when it was clear we need a change. Look forward to watching this England side with a more forward thinking manager in charge, Southgate is clueless.

All I got yesterday when I tried to have a rational discussion with him was different replies calling me a twat, most have been deleted now tbf. I deduced that he has an anger problem, lacks the ability to have a reasoned grown up debate, is probably 14 years old, and maybe retarted. Or most likely, all of the above.

The knee doesn’t offend me, I said it’s a pointless gesture that has lost all meaning. If you read my posts properly you’ll see that I hoped it would be a force for change but nothings really happened. I’d much rather the likes of Kick It Out or a new anti racism in football charity came to the forefront, rather than one which now has some murky crossover with the BLM movement as seen in the States. Of course white people have issues with similar crimes against themselves, the difference is we’re not blaming centuries of oppression, or black privilege for our actions. There is a serious issue with black on black crime in this country, do the research, watch the news, take your head out the sand and stop shouting “Racist” at anyone that dare hold a different view to yourself. If anyone’s behaving like an angry gammon it seems to be you.

I know right, he probably has “be kind” on the bio of his social media account that he uses to anonymously abuse anyone that holds a view different to his. Voted Remain by the way Antrim, just didn’t cry about it when the democratic vote went the other way. Keep sending me your salty tears though, they taste too good.

I mentioned it, and who said I’m a bloke, typical assuming sexist privileged male. That’s a joke btw. The reason I’m fed up with the whole taking the knee thing is because I believe it’s become an empty gesture now, at first it was quite a powerful thing to see and it really felt like maybe we were on the cusp on seeing some real change. However the phrase BLM whilst intended to be a force for good has been linked to the political party/ideology of BLM that stand for some very dangerous things, and it’s those links that have if anything created a bigger divide then ever. I genuinely don’t believe the UK to be a racist place, I believe we’re very tolerable of different beliefs and ethnicities, if anything a little too much at times whereby we protect the minorities at the expense of the majority creating divides and tension. There is a serious issue with black on black crime in this country however, and I’m fed up of reading online - social media etc that it’s all the fault of the white privileged male, that we’re somehow holding them back, causing them to behave in this way. I had the misfortune of seeing the video of that kid getting stabbed by a black guy in Hyde park last week, knifed in the belly as if it was nothing, and somehow there will be a victim mentality to the suspect I’m sure. Antrimsaint called me a gammon twat because he hasn’t got more than a single brain cell for a reasoned debate, but he is indicative of the problem online now, whereby if you don’t toe the snowflake party line they respond with insults and assume you to be some kind of sexist, racist, EDL pig. I’m none of those things, I will treat my fellow man with the politeness and respect that I would like to be treated with myself, regardless of ethnicity, gender or race. In an ideal world we would all share that view but as we know it’s not an ideal world. As stated earlier some people need to look inward before blaming others for their actions. Im fed up of hearing that because I just happen to be a white male, that I’m by default a racist, and somehow it’s because of me that black teens in London are walking about carrying guns and machetes, and fucking people up as if their own lives don’t matter. Stop taking the knee, stop creating divides, treat each other with respect, and actually clamp down on real racists and maybe we’ll get somewhere.

Congratulations on your fantastic display of reasoned debate, I won’t stoop to your level of intelligence but stand by my original view - taking the knee is no longer making any difference to the situation in this country, and the so called “minorities” need to sort their own shit out instead of blaming us. The recent shooting of the BLM activist by some random black drug dealers, as well as the gangs of blacks attacking police in Brixton aren’t helping their cause.

Virtue signalling that has lost all meaning, it should have been retired at the end of last season. Theres still serious amounts of black on black crime happening in this country, stabbings and shootings, it’s about time they look inward rather than blaming “white privilege” for their behaviour. Black lives do seem to matter to us, but not to themselves.

Shame, was half hoping he’d gone on to replace Ralph after the inevitable poor start to next season. Be interesting to see if the Everton/Howe thing happens, especially after the failure at Burnley caused by homesickness and his wife’s inability to settle up north. That being said going from living in Bournemouth to living in Burnley would tip most people over the edge. Seeing the Everton fans crying after Carlo was picked off by a bigger fish sure is funny after the way they behaved when Koeman jumped ship

He had a decent season tbf, although it’s clear to every man and his dog that midfield is one area we don’t need reinforcements. (*unless we somehow manage to bin off Redmond, then we need a replacement)

Espanyol at St Mary’s perhaps? Anniversary of the first game and all that…