I see Sky's Transfer Deadline Day programme is occasionally interrupted with ads for a haven for donkeys and knackered horses. The jokes write themselves etc.
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I see Sky's Transfer Deadline Day programme is occasionally interrupted with ads for a haven for donkeys and knackered horses. The jokes write themselves etc.
Their squad is thinner than Palace's - there's no way they will match last season's performance. And Emery will combust by Christmas.
I imagine his "devout Catholicism" is the kind espoused by Vance rather than that of Pope Leo or Francis.
Think it's going to take at least a season of consistently good home performances to stop it happening during the poor performances. Fans' expectations, and negative relationships with some players, are all over the place.
Yeah, I can't excuse the half-time ones!
I don't like that booing has become our default reaction to playing poorly, but would add that the full-time boos were mostly aimed at the ref.
If a pragmatic manager loses, do we blame his pragmatism?
Hope celebrating their trophy with Trump was worth it.
Agree, but ref could still stick with his original decision - refs now just afraid to take responsibility.
But fans don't really 'lap it up', as he says. We go to games because that's what fans do, but no one likes the new format, or the number of English clubs in it.
It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.
I quite like him as an individual but he's got too many quirks to survive in the Premier League, especially at such a dysfunctional club.
When he said "the players spoke really loud", I thought he meant he'd pretty much lost the dressing room.
Frank's actually acknowledged that a couple of times, referring to the 'strong mentality' and togetherness he'd found when he arrived.
Haha, I'd be the first one with the measuring tape and pointing fingers!
Agreed, given the times BA have made me put my small bag in the hold while others have outsized cases. In fact, the only way it could be better is if they give passengers bonuses for dobbing in other passengers!
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I sympathise as this happens to me every Christmas: leave it too late to buy the exciting gifts, then panic and buy a bunch of random last-minute stuff that no one really wants.
Who's to blame for the transfer window mess?
Great writing on a great film.
BRITAIN BRACED FOR HUGE WAVE OF SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY DEMONSTRATIONS THIS WEEKEND - ARMED FORCES INSTRUCTED TO PREPARE FOR DEPLOYMENT
sometimes i read your posts and until the end i'm not sure if the names you're dropping are unfamiliar to me because i haven't read enough philosophy or socialist theory, or because they're European football players
Mind you, I pinched it too!
This was also the unchallenged, context-free wording on the BBC 5Live news headlines this morning. Hard to believe what I was hearing.
With commentators saying, "well at least he cares." But do we use metres in football now? That's got to be worth a yellow card.
How can you be 5-1 down at home and none of your players got angry enough to get a yellow card? Game's gone.
i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.
Probably even darker than when he said this three weeks ago.
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I'm still excited about Paulo Dybala's upcoming debut.
Radio 4's The World Tonight yesterday spent at least five minutes on the suit, how many times Zelensky said thank you, the 'mood music' etc. The BBC's continued normalisation of Trump is beyond disappointing.
WILD situation in Texas right now: The House Speaker has required Dems, who just returned from their out-of-state quorum break, to have police escorts once they leave the chamber. One Dem is refusing to leave the House floor with escort, and GOP leaders have blocked press access to the chamber.
Oh god, now you've mentioned it, I can't unhear it.
Yeah, I liked Tim when he covered us, but I wondered what on earth he meant by that. It's not as if Ange just told the players to run around a bit. But I feel the Ange Narrative is now sadly and lazily embedded in most parts of the media.
It's a great podcast. Think the key word in their video is 'empathy' as I feel they really try to understand what players/managers (and fans!) go through, instead of just piling on them.
This is a lovely video and such a great podcast. Full of empathy and humour, free of smirk and cynicism.
Really looking forward to this! Is there a new Stadio bounce?
"I hope there comes a day in Afghanistan when women can do whatever they want." It's a year since we helped bring 19 female Afghan medical students to Scotland to continue their studies. Omulbanin Sultani reflects on her life before and since then: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yeah, the chaotic nature of it made for some entertainment, but more often now the low quality seems so at odds with the money spent (and charged).
All that money spent by both clubs for such a terrible game, and Maguire up front.
There's something about the way our left backs react to Lamela.
Yes, totally agree, though it does seem as if the major shows want/need a 'name' first, and hope the rest eventually follows.
It's easy to overlook that new pundits, just like new players, can take time to develop. Don't know if Rooney will improve, but eg Shearer is better and more relaxed than in his early punditry days.
As someone who has learned from and reported on families who had loved ones disappeared in Guatemala, Chile, and Uruguay, I can say that countries rarely fully recover from the trauma and harm of disappearances. At the same time I have no idea how to report on this happening here in the US right now
Most irritating part of new season punditry is always a variation of, "Last season, Team X would've thrown away/comfortably won that game".
We go again.
Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.
AI derangement syndrome is real. The government have set a challenge for AI: prevent crime. www.gov.uk/government/n... But the substance looks like a credulous insertion of "AI" into basic police work...
Every newsletter editor's worst nightmare. Wonder what their 'open' rates were.
Tbh we'd all be surprised if there was a bit of decent investment!
He looks too cheerful for his own good.
Sat back too much without enough players who can hold the ball up further forward.
Narratives being rewritten in real time.
Sean Dyche is available.
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
Congratulations to you both - and both of you still looking great!
#freedc I returned from the wedding of our daughter to find the city where I have lived for the last 3 years in the midst of a military takeover. The military policing Americans. This is happening. It is a danger for everyone in our country. Now is the moment to turn out in protest.
Can honestly say, Warra trophy!
How the heck am I expected to survive this twin catastrophe?
Your annual reminder that the FA were required to rename the Charity Shield to the Community Shield in 2002 after the Charity Commission found the minimum transparency requirements in funding charities were not being met.
I'm going to the gym despite some injuries (fully COYS, me). I'll spend time in gym wondering what I'm doing there when it's so sunny outside!
I've lived through too many resets, not sure I can cope with any more.
I know! I felt bad just typing it. Maybe I'm just having an existential crisis, which would actually be easier to cope with.
Must say I've never felt so downbeat going into a season, especially considering the recent joy. For the first time, I feel we have no chance of 'competing'.
Hi Matt, maybe if you advised gov uk to post here - where a lot of their citizens are - that might make a difference.
Love to see a creepy AI smile when telling us a death sentence has been upheld.
Don't worry, you can rely on Spurs to bid too low and then give up!
He's already made two pointed comments - we haven't competed on multiple fronts for a long time, and our transfer processes need to be streamlined. Goodness knows what he'll be saying by January.
I don't want to cry some more...and yet I want to cry some more.
Yes, I wouldn't blame Frank at all. Think the problem is managers getting too many mixed messages from above and, as you say, constant change of managers.
Honestly think that so long as our managers know they're only likely to be in the job for a couple of years, they're not going to be focused on integrating academy players.
As someone once said, failure to replace one world class goalscorer may be regarded as a misfortune; failure to replace two looks like carelessness.
Lovely stuff. Shame we never adopted that song for him.
Love his "next slide, please" in the midst of all this. Sure we've all been there, trying to get through a presentation when our audience has lost interest.
Great tribute for a great player and person, thanks. Don't know what's going to be harder to replace - his on-pitch or off-pitch qualities.
Congrats and good luck!
Always an amazing event to attend. Great to see super-competitiveness combined with solidarity and empathy. "It's the taking part that counts" has a whole other meaning when every participant has had a life-saving transplant.
exactly one player in the xG era attempted over 1000 shots and had a better scoring record against xG than Messi Son Heung-Min the greatest to ever kick the ball real hard at the goal
"Let's say I'm a legend now." youtu.be/E6HzXXv7Q-w?...
I wonder if it is the right time for the club? I imagine he did so much behind the scenes as captain and senior player that won't be easily replaced.
Apart from how much he'll be missed on and off the pitch, how long is it since Spurs will have been without a proper star or face of the club?
Ah, this is lovely. As if it's not enough to be Thameslink's oldest employee, Richard Thompson writes a song about you, too. 21st Century Folk: Richard Thompson - Siggy's Song: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0lrrh74
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I helped run a gov dept twitter account in 'the old days', and it was a positive comms tool, especially when we had to get out credible, important messages. Hard to see the point of govt still being on there - and thankful it's no longer my job.
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And shame that Starmer is unlikely to push back on it.
Good grief. And why limit it to 'parents'?
A key role in any team!
Minor claim to adjacent fame is that I played for the same club as Linda Curl - Lowestoft Ladies - but never made it beyond the reserves.
BREAKING: COUNTRY NOT BROKEN
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Signing just a one-year extension to a two-year contract definitely raises more questions than it answers.
Well it makes a change from the average obit.
Has anyone told Jay that Spurs were among the top scorers from corners last season?
Bonmati's goal last night was so similar to Jamie Donley's for Orient against Shrewsbury in January, I can only assume she's been watching it on a loop or was actually at the game
Lord Beaverbrook is the one that makes me laugh - ghosting in out of nowhere at the far post.
I didn't know about that - that's madness!
Essential, horrifying reading on.ft.com/4m0enBH
What, they won a European trophy?