Ghandis Flip-Flop

Aye and typically the format changes the year after, which would’ve meant we’d have made more money if we'd qualified this year instead of last. It’s just bad luck on the clubs part, overachieving CL qualification early IMO

That was utter idiocy, spend some time mentalising how much you’ve let yourself and your teammates down with that petulance Anthony

And as I’ve just said the fact that those 17 year old fans live in a North East, that looks like it does now is a direct result of things that happened in the early ‘80’s, therefore is it so wild for those resentments to still exist? Especially if like many from the area, their parents or grandparents that they still have daily contact with mention it frequently. God forbid that 17 year olds understand their local history and why they’re disadvantaged compared to others in the same country. The Nottingham bit rankles with me on another level too, my first job was as a lab technician for a Pharmaceutical subsidiary of BASF who had a plant in Cramlington. This was largely made possible by EU subsidy, but most of those in the good jobs were merely transplanted from their sister plant in Nottingham, with only entry level positions or plant work offered to locals, so they kept taking the piss even in the late 90’s

Speak for yourself, I"m the son of a miner who was alive during it. And regardless if your were born or not at the time, if you’re from the North East you’ve lived through the direct consequences

As someone who used to volunteer for Trailblazers https://www.trailblazersmentoring.org.uk and did a placement in Peterhead jail during my MH Nursing degree, I’d really have to suggest you refine your search criteria in AirBNB if they’re anything like a U.K. jail. Honestly wish people would actually volunteer to help in these places rather than take bollocks written in the Mail at face value, as jails are yet another thing that have seen insufficient public investment for the past several decades. They’re overcrowded, filthy and falling apart and lots of the education and rehabilitation is almost non-existent and often reliant an charities such as Trailblazers. Yet another case of being too tight to invest the relatively small amount in terms of staff, to try to prevent reoffending (or better yet stop offending before it starts with the youth outreach programs etc) but quite happy to pay the vast quantities to keep people locked up and stuck in cycles of repeat incarceration.

Very true, I guess you’ve not seen what’s happening to any public official who has criticised Musk recently then. I guess the fact that the direction of travel in Saudi Arabia is towards being more open and progressive even if not at the speed lots would like, as opposed to the apparent "Leaders of the Free World" TM sleepwalking into an Authoritarian nightmare is why it shocks and annoys more

Think Trump and his forces undertake extra-judicial murder on a daily basis, it’s just called a targeted drone strike or Special Ops mission. Heck our own SAS are currently under investigation for the brutal murder of civilians. How many journalists have Israel vaporised in the last 18 months? There’s not much I agree with Peter Hitchens on, but focussing on one specific type of murder whilst being oblivious or ambivalent to others is daft. (Was an interview at the time of the Syria gas attacks and the point he made was if you set that as your redline, you’ve effectively given every dictator free rein to murder their people as long as they stick to conventional weapons)

Im not to up to date on cloning these days, but surely it’d be 20 odd year until the clone Botman was ready to start games?

Not that I’m aware of

They couldn’t directly funnel money in, but they could dramatically increase sponsorships from related parties, which would increase our spending power significantly. This would not be prohibited by UEFA's squad cost ratio rules

Our route to the final two years ago was hardly arduous, but last year was horrific. At least we’ve managed some home draws this year

After the three finals in recent memory, I just want us to give a good account of ourselves rather than meekly surrendering. Obviously would prefer us to win, but if we do get beat at least go down fighting

Ah the right wing comedian, that makes Michael McIntyre look fucking hilarious by comparison 🤦🏻‍♂️ the bloke is about as funny as rectal cancer

Neither do Chelsea, I'd argue I’ve never seen a Spurs top anywhere during my global travels and Arsenal is only really big In West Africa. To be honest the only English clubs with real international reach are Man Utd and Liverpool. Give it another decade of shite and I’d imagine a lot of the plastic international Man Utd fans will happily switch allegiance too

There’s also a real possibility that we did go in for some of these players, but Bournemouth could guarantee them first team football, something that we couldn’t do.