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clicked on the last page of the thread without reading the posts from the previous few hours and your quotes have confused me, to say the least...

Let's just not train. Tell them to stay at home too, and get deliveries only. Avoid sex and DIY. Anything to avoid missing out on Premier League coin.

4 nights visiting the ancient ancestors around Bayeux, Caen and Rouen if anybody has any recommended restaurants, bars or just general trips. Never travelled on French trains before.

I was thinking of doing the same thing! Maybe combining Puglia and Venice and doing the overnight trains, so I may pass you on the way... Enjoy it. Venice is still one of my favourite cities. And Puglia is amazing. Great coast and some fantastic historic sites including a lot of Norman stuff.

We don't celebrate our tradition and history that well. I don't know why. As much as I dislike Liverpool they do this very well. All clubs need to build a bit of mythology around themselves.

No player is bigger than the club but Vardy is as close as it'll ever get...

Also more than Dalglish got for Liverpool! I like my football history so I've always watched his tally with interest and how it compares to others. If you'd told me that I would see a Leicester player get this close to 200, I would've imagined it would be in the lower leagues. The fact he scored most of them in the Premier League, with some of the defences we've seen in this era, is unbelievable. What a player.

Easily our greatest ever. And one of our most talented. His ability is underrated by a lot of fans. Has as many for us now as Wright got for Arsenal and more than Fowler and George Best got for their respective teams (obviously with the caveat that Best was not an out and out striker). I never thought I'd see an LCFC player get that many, and I really really hope he can join the two Arthurs in the 200 club.

A general rule of thumb for me is that the best chants are ones about your own players, and chants about the opposition club or fans are good and funny if they are spontaneous. Like you said they can be very tedious if they are rolled out at every away game.

Generally agree but it's somewhat inevitable considering up until recently anybody who offered even the slightest critique of the style of football was basically called thick and resistant to 'foreign' tactics.

Happy birthday. Before my time but family talk about that game a lot and I always enjoy seeing the goal.

Sounds up my street, thanks for the recommendation. I'm about the start the Meaning of Geese which I think contains similarly evocative descriptions of the English landscape and seasons.

I want to read more about Africa in general and specifically East Africa so I will give it a go.

A revolutionary tactic I'm sure we'll all agree

Never been less bothered about a promotion in my life, not just because of the points deduction but for the absolute shit fest the EPL has become.

Yeah it's ruined. So come join us at King's Lynn FC and after 10 minutes you'll see the money and greed in a new, much more positive light.

If a club of our stature needs to get CL to be not-****ed then there is something wrong both with the club and with English football

Happy World Book Day. What are your favourite books foxestalkers?

we have pretty short term needs

I've noticed this with Italian lower league highlights too. Minute 1 to minute 3 - players coming out, shaking hands, hot girl in the crowd, ooh look the Alps in the background, another hot girl, players warming up, shady looking guy on the touch line. Minute 4 - goal. Minute 5 - full time whistle.

I got the feeling this is why they didn't sack him

The EU is the third largest economy in the world. And we might not have much of a choice. The US is a very different country from the early 2000s it seems, more isolationist and less Atlanticist on both the left and right.

It's less than ideal that we have to worry whether the whims of voters in some godforsaken flyover state will lead to Eastern European countries not being able to defend themselves from Russia. We should develop our own capabilities more and if a Trump presidency accelerates that then maybe it's a good thing.

I think US-Europe is less of an axis and more of a servile relationship and since there have been two large wars in Europe in the last 30 or so years I'm not sure if it works anyway. Ultimately the fact that Europeans are currently fretting over a potential Trump presidency and what that will mean for e.g. the defence of Ukraine suggests we would do well not to need to rely on them in the future.