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Always used to go to Pizzeria Bella Napoli when I was in Verona. Old school pizzeria run by southerners, nothing spectacular but great if you want a reliable, cheap pizza and cold beer. Their half metre pizzas were always good. Tosca cafe was always really good for coffee and lunch, in a nice square by the river, away from too many tourists. There are some good pubs we used to go to as well, I'll see if I can remember them. It has a bit more of an alpine, central European feel than many Italian cities, so lots of good places to drink beer.

Although it is quite amusing that when we won the FA Cup for the first time in our entire history, he started as many games as Kasper Schmeichel and conceded the same number of goals.

Not sure there's anything worse in modern football than the tell-tale Instagram likes from players' wives

It will be a disgrace if he ever starts a competitive game for us. Or even a friendly.

There was nothing personal in the chants as far as I know. Just telling him he's shit, which he is. It's happened forever in football and is not really a big deal. Do you leave when the opposition fans sing about Vardy's wife?

Joined July 13th July 2023. Trying to remember where I was that day.

This is good

Also it's a good chance for younger fans to go to a game at e.g. Craven Cottage or Goodison for the first time. I remember last year there were a lot of what seemed like first timers at the Birmingham tie, which is great to see. I have a friend who wanted to take his niece to Everton for the first time but can't do so now. Without getting too cheesy the FA Cup has long been the people's competition more than the PL, but that's starting to fade away too.

Some good posts in this thread. Has to be Parker vs Atletico though, absolutely mind boggling.

Have heard similar rumours in the pubs of her ex constituency.

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It's a beautiful city with as usual for Italy lots of great places to eat and drink. Then nearby you've got... Venice - About 1hr 20 mins by slower and cheaper regionale train. Padova - About an hour by train. Very beautiful city with Giotto's amazing frescoes in the Scrovegni chapel. Vicenza - about 45 minutes by train, very pretty town. Lake Garda - very easy to get to from Verona, bus and train. Trento - about 1hr 20 minutes by train, beautiful town surrounded by mountains, quite different from the rest of Italy. Bolzano - maybe just over 2 hrs by train but surrounded by some of the most stunning scenery in Europe, easy to get a bus from there to the valleys all around. Parma and Modena - both great cities with plenty of sites and great food but don't think there's a direct train, will probably be a Flixbus. Ravenna - an absolute must see in Europe imo, but don't think there's a direct train. Again, there could be a Flixbus. Venice for me is still the most beautiful city in the world and it's worth going to that region just to spend some time there. Late April will be wonderful.

Great city, and lots of beautiful places nearby.

To be fair they also have some of the strictest immigration policies in the Western world.

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Our league win will never be eclipsed. The PL will fall apart and it'll start again as league division one before anything like 2016 happens again.

Also different parts of the country benefitted more from it, e.g: Norfolk - became wealthy from the medieval wool trade with Europe; totally fine. Liverpool - built on slavery and proceeds from the empire; should be razed to the ground to atone for the past.

Was it MTWG wanting parenting advice?

Saying the country was built on slavery and looting of the colonies is at best a very simplified and ahistorical view, and at worst total disinformation.

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Well, no.

Yes, I think it is. The GFC had a huge economic impact of course, especially in the UK that deindustrialized more than any Western European nation (only parts of Poland and E Germany deindustrialized more I think). But the austerity we had in response to that was a political choice and not something that was uniformly followed across the Western world or necessarily baked in to our political model. It was something a lot of voters wanted - "there's no magic money tree" after all. The US arguably stimulated their economy more after 2008 than Europe did, and yet people would probably say the US is more neoliberal than the EU (and yet maybe not?). Then about a decade later we in Britain decided literally to impose trade and immigration sanctions on ourselves - hardly neoliberal. I am not an economic historian at all, it mostly bores me silly, but when I think of neoliberal economic policies I think of the 80s, particularly Raegan, and the 90s. And yet the US didn't see an upsurge in the far right then. That's happened under arguably the least neoliberal president of recent times. Similarly, there was not a great far right movement in Western Europe in that period either, although it was always there, in the UK probably as much as it is now. The far right has gained popularity in Europe in the last decade, mostly because of a backlash to immigration, exacerbated by social media. So yes I think it's a stretch to say neoliberalism has broken the West. US, UK, Germany, France, the Nordics, Japan, Australia - all with quite different recent trajectories and all with quite different politics. I spend a lot of time in Europe and I don't think it's quite as broken as some people in the Anglosphere like to tell themselves.

It gets used in similarly reductive ways and like woke can mean almost anything the person using it wants it to mean. I remember it being used a lot in 2016 by people claiming that the EU and Hilary Clinton were 'neoliberal' and therefore bad. Saying "the West has been ruined by neoliberalism" is as silly as saying it's been ruined by woke, not least because 'the West' is full of countries whose social and economic policies have been totally different recently.

The problems in Britain are caused by absolutely suicidal macro economic policies carried out at the behest of confused boomers.

I feel like neoliberalism is the left wing's version of 'woke'.