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Bit embarrassing I didn't get the place about 200 yards from my old flat. #WhenTaken #312 (04.01.2025) I scored 871/1000 (💡x1) 🏆 1️⃣📍4.7 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200 2️⃣📍3.0K km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥈138/200 3️⃣📍501 km - 🗓️11 yrs - 🥈167/200 4️⃣📍331 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇186/200 5️⃣📍💡639 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇180/200 https://whentaken.com

The lyrics work for Ward

Remember the kop belting this out at home to Fulham in the 2020/21 season. Spine tingling.

Played the majority of games and was very good in our second most successful season ever. It'd be like expecting people not to mention Kante.

Instrumental in us winning the cup. For that alone he could blow up my favourite pub and I'd probably forgive him.

Shame. Put in a couple of the best performances I've seen from a Leicester defender - the cup final and the 1/4 final at Eindhoven. Didn't know about this. Makes me like him more.

Musk is basically doing to Britain what the British press and politicians have done to other countries for years - denigrating our politics and institutions, amplifying certain voices and whipping up anger towards elected politicians. I don't think it's anything new, it's just that Brits are not used to it happening to us.

Yes good chance of serious unrest and violence in England now. If you wanted to create the perfect conditions for it you couldn't do much better than the UK government in the last few years

I really love the Plantagenets. Very overlooked compared to the obsession with the Tudors. The small Penguin Monarchs books offer a good overview of each king and queen's reign. Then there's the Yale English Monarchs series which are more in depth and sometimes quite heavy going. The Hollow Crown by Miri Rubin is also a good overview of the late medieval period in England.

Surely one of the greatest CVs of any English king. Survived the actual Assassins on crusade before returning to England and conquering most of Britain.

#WhenTaken #311 (03.01.2025) I scored 915/1000👑 1️⃣📍106 km - 🗓️10 yrs - 🥇180/200 2️⃣📍2.0 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200 3️⃣📍1.6K km - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥈146/200 4️⃣📍29.1 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇192/200 5️⃣📍18.0 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇198/200 https://whentaken.com

Only if this refers to the average number of weak shots he saves.

Well I have to say I liked him.

It just put me in mind I've places I've been near the Turkey / Iran border. Morocco feels more Mediterranean to me although you're right if you took away the street scene I might have thought the same thing.

3 or 4? 3 imo looks like a lot of towns from Eastern Turkey to the Hindu Kush.

#WhenTaken #310 (02.01.2025) I scored 849/1000 (💡x1) 🏅 1️⃣📍227 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇192/200 2️⃣📍154 km - 🗓️💡1 yrs - 🥇193/200 3️⃣📍2.5K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥈144/200 4️⃣📍763 m - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇193/200 5️⃣📍2.5K km - 🗓️11 yrs - 🥈127/200 https://whentaken.com

I don't think it necessarily has to be non-league. I've started going to watch Orient quite a bit because I live in London and a couple of friends are fans. And I still try and go and see Palermo as much as possible after I lived there and started following them. I enjoy both more than Leicester. Better atmosphere and obviously cheaper ticket prices. But no in answer to your question I don't get the same kind of joy or despair from those games and I will never be able to replicate that anywhere other than Leicester. Non-league itself as GrobyFox wrote in response to your can be obviously quite poor quality and the atmosphere isn't really the same. I think it's specifically English elite football that people have fallen out of love with, not league football so much. It's soulless and quite boring, and totally ruined now.

#WhenTaken #309 (01.01.2025) I scored 881/1000 (💡x1) 🏆 1️⃣📍2.3K km - 🗓️15 yrs - 🥉117/200 2️⃣📍2.8 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200 3️⃣📍💡1.1 km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇195/200 4️⃣📍42.2 m - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇195/200 5️⃣📍743 km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥈174/200 https://whentaken.com

Happy new year everyone!

I was avoiding the forum after the Plymouth game so thanks for bringing this gem to my attention

I think I'm very liberally using the word 'central'. Even parts like Shoreditch now seem to be cleansed of most of its young and not-so-rich, or maybe I'm just not getting invited to the right places.

That's true, but he infamously appointed a very well paid 'nightlife czar' who seems totally useless. If what you say is true, then it's at best a pointless appointment and a waste of money. London just feels so much worse than comparative cities in Europe for nightlife. Even in the early 2010s you'd get young adults, students etc out drinking in central London but I hardly see any now, just groups of bubbly ladies from Leeds getting ripped off by those hellish rickshaws blaring out Mariah Carey. When I go to Paris or Madrid or pretty much any big city in Europe I see way more twentysomethings in the centre until the early hours of the morning. That is unfortunately partially down to our culture though not the Mayor of London.

Might be one of the reasons there's so many round tower churches here. Growing up I thought that's just what churches looked like - round towers, flint and painted rood screens. Although in my part of Norfolk a lot of carrstone is used too. Book looks good, will try to track it down.

My goal in 2025 is to stop myself from posting on here for long enough that @Wymsey starts wondering if I'm still alive

I think he's done ok but one of the problems for Khan is that he sometimes acts like someone with a lot more power than he really has, like calling on Teresa May to stop Donald Trump from visiting London, then people wonder why he's blamed for stuff that isn't really his fault. I would also say living in London there is also a slight cult of personality about him, he is very visible on new projects like the Overground rebrand, so again the "this is Khan's London" stuff from the right wing is less surprising. The decline of London's nightlife though is certainly something that can at least be partially blamed on his office, and it's an embarrassment that it's so bad in what is supposed to be one of the greatest cities in the world.