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You can't do it because you're not a lizard

So much rubbish on the streets in London now. Yesterday saw a guy across the road from me pick up a delivery and just chuck the bag on the floor and eat his food. Then you get all the shit left outside houses. People leaving kids toys or even books ffs for people to take, which get wet and disintegrate all over the pavement. If I were a new PM the first thing I'd do would be a massive cleaning blitz across the country. Would be pretty easy and cheap to do and would be so noticable. Easy popularity boost.

Tell him it's all gone wrong for the conservatives in the polls since he stopped posting them!

Clean streets in general

This is a good point, and I think touches on one of the reasons why cup the PL and/or CL now dominate a lot of fans thinking. I am sure more people now follow an English team than say 15-20 years ago, certainly abroad but also in England itself. At the same time I reckon a smaller percentage actually go to games, and play out a lot of their fandom online or occasionally socialising with friends. So the competitions that get the most publicity at home and abroad - Premier League, Champions League - are the ones these fans are most invested in. And the cup competitions that, in my opinion offer a better fan experience, are seen as an annoyance.

Some of our fans talk about the cup like it's the LDV fans trophy and not a competition won 26/ the last 30 times by the 'big six'.

You could level all those accusations against the United Kingdom to be fair. Maybe not priests but other people in positions of power.

I think regularly about that chav in goal for Aston Villa saying he's a believer, "mate", when asked about their title chances.

Can kind of understand why some people would want some key players rested for this game. But the 'couldn't care less' comments - very odd.

Has my post been deleted? Was it the mention of an illegitimate child or England's return to the Catholic fold that did it?

If Harry turned into James Hewitt he'd at least be a bit more interesting than he is now.

My Kate's Not Dead photo has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the photo

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.