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Hate to say it but I agree.

The fact we had to sell Anderson is an absolute shitter. If the fee for the Greek keeper is anywhere near as daft as reported we've probably been mugged as well.

6-0 for Whitley today, wish I'd gone along instead of watching that shite on a stream. Seems like the team might be clicking after a poor start.

First half we were OK. Second half was abysmal.

He looks completely shot, sad

Late subs were absolutely pointless and a bit bizarre

If he hadn't come off maybe

Alexander Ameobi needs to pull his finger out

Lovely views from that ground as well

Yeah you can always just send off for the last few. I did that for all the ones I've completed

This was painfully predictable from day 1. Blyth Town 2nd in the Northern League. Could be in the same division as each other next year.

Yep, this is it. But I don't think people realise how difficult a lot of old buildings are to adapt to new uses. Retail demands changed so dramatically in a short space of time - and most of that demolished wasn't usable for what people wanted. Same story with the old city hall and the new civic centre - the old city hall was completely unfit for purpose (not that it necessarily should have been knocked down). Ultimately cities do need to be vehicles for the economy and society more than they do museum pieces - it is a balance. In hindsight some form of facadism might have been a good compromise to retaining the historic appearance of old Eldon Square - but it would have been far more expensive I would say. And that option certainly wasn't in vogue at the time.

Similar to with us but LCM and in a 3-5-2. Ricci as the deepest midfielder.

He has looked good for Italy. They've landed onto something now with him, Ricci and Barella when he's back as a three. Hope he can show similar for us.

Cities also have to adapt move with the times. It's easy to look at Eldon Square in hindsight as architectural vandalism (and I'm certainly sympathetic to this viewpoint) but it satiated the type of retail demand that existed at the time and for the next 40 or so years.

But beauty is not really definable as it will always be a point of subjectivity, despite what the currently in-vogue traditionalist think tanks would have you believe. It's why the attempts to enshrine it into planning legislation have been so ham fisted. I always think good placemaking comes more from building heights/street width, use and quality of the space in between the buildings, the quality of landscaping and the mix of uses - more than it does the type of material used to clad a building or any specific architectural detailing. This is has been the biggest failing in UK cities over last 70 years, moreso than you lot value engineering everything

Seems an almost certain car crash appointment to me. How often do these high profile, short term, foreign managers work for any national team? Throw in his track record as an abrasive character and I can see another Capello situation personally. Obviously we're limited with our coaching pool compared to other countries but I feel the one job where promotion from within the system generally works well is the international game.

Only Bolivia at home obviously but Messi highlights last night are ridiculous. Hattrick and 2 assists at 37

In Italy they'll do them in big batches so as long as you're going at the end of one of those batches you get certainty in advance. They just leave it very late to announce those batches as they'll often wait for things like European draws before doing them. I just keep picking the wrong weekends basically (although thankfully they've worked out exactly how I wanted them to in the end). You do also get a bit of a sixth sense for it as I know which games won't be evening slots, which games won't be on a Friday if there's Europe etc.

Trains are very affordable and very reliable, in the North at least anyway. I have done four games in 48 hours a few times now. Hotels are same as here I'd say tbh, maybe marginally less off season. But you can box clever a bit easier than here I think by booking outside of touristy areas and then relying on public transport.

It's shit but it could be worse. The last two Italian footy trips I've done it has been like 8-9 days beforehand when they've finally announced the kick off days and times.

Duplo is also fully compatible with Lego

It looks like an airport terminal Call me old fashioned but a stadium should look like a stadium.

He's only played a handful of games for Napoli so far, most of which off the bench I still think he'd have been a solid enough signing for us though - if a bit uninspiring. Gallagher on the other hand would have been an excellent signing.