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he lost it

I should point out it's the only part of North America where my surname (originally from Essex) is common. If you google it + 'Detroit' you get a few newspaper articles about robbery and murder and several pdfs of court case records.

grown man!

I take it you've never met anyone from Detroit

A nuclear armed Suffolk. Truly terrifying.

If any Russians are reading this and want to know how to torture state secrets out of me, just put Scholes Neville and Murphy on repeat

The ex Liverpool and United players seem to be the worst by some way

Murphy is a testicle headed **** whose miserable drone is enough to put half the country on suicide watch

I was going to write the same thing - next time I feel I need a check up I'll buy a ticket to the football

KDH wasn't in the squad in 2016

Are you trying to get a rise out of someone?

Urgh. Winnable game but could be easier

See this is why I come on transfer talk - to calm myself down with posts in bold capitals from people I've never met

Try and get to a couple of medieval churches and/or old monasteries. The ones in Norfolk are better than anywhere else in the country in my very biased opinion. My favourites around there are: Mary Magdalane, Warham - amazing medieval stained glass from the Norwich school which was one of the most prolific in Europe. Binham Priory - Originally a priory from the 12th century which is still very spectacular inside. Early examples of English gothic tracery - predates Westminster Abbey. Interesting also to see the pictures of saints defaced and painted over with bible verses in English from the reformation. Burnham Deepdale and Burnham Norton - both with late Saxon/ early Norman round towers and lots of interesting monuments inside. Bale - a bit further away but some of the best medieval glass I've seen anywhere in England.

Honestly I still absolutely love it. There is very little like it in sport. My friends from other countries love it, love the upsets. I remember meeting and talking to an American in a London pub 6 years ago and how mind-blown he was by the fact that yes, any team can hypothetically win this competition, from Manchester United to Walsham le Willows FC. And no they obviously won't win it, but there is a good chance every season that your club could get through to the 3rd round and get to play at Anfield or Villa Park. I'm a King's Lynn fan as well as Leicester, and I usually watch us play in front around 500. I remember us playing in front of 5000 and the sky cameras in the cup in 2006, and my friend playing upfront for Lynn. In what other sporting competition in England is something like that possible? Yes the 'magic of the cup' itself has been commercialised to some extent, but it still exists. You saw that today with the Maidstone fans at Portman Road. I was lucky enough to be at Wembley in 2021. About a week before the game, I was on a zoom call with an acquaintance who worked for Brent council who wanted me to do some proofreading and editing for her. I was about to close the call but suddenly remembered and decided to ask her about what I'd heard about Brent council employees having the chance to go to the cup final as part of the government trials for reopening major events. Yes she said, she'd got an email about it the week before. She quite fancied going, but she didn't know anybody who liked football. Did I know anyone who might be interested.....? Family members had been at every cup final we'd been to, and a relative of mine was in the team in 1949. I grew up with the stories of Wembley heartache - Revie's nosebleed, Chalmers broken leg, Banks' one bad game, Rodrigues' miss. I just wanted my own experience of watching us in a cup final, even if that game added to our FA Cup final woes. My Mum made me a rosette and everything. I don't think the lack of a full stadium taints the victory at all. In a way it makes it more special for me - the first proper crowd at a game since the start of the pandemic. That was emotional too. Our end feeling almost more like an away end. I will never tire of seeing that goal, and I'll never forget seeing us lift the FA Cup for the first time ever. So I'll never apologise for being romantic about the FA Cup, and I will never not be gutted when we get knocked out every year.

Agree with everything apart from Albrighton, who I thought was excellent, definitely one of our better players.

Nobody stunk up the prem more than us last year. I remember the Arsenal defeat in February

Kiss me, Vardy

First half - lmao. It was like Brazil vs Germany 2014 if Germany couldn't finish.

Verona is a beautiful city and a nice base - close to Venice, Padua, Ravenna, Trento, Bolzano, Bologna. Bologna itself is also lovely and again close to some lovely places, including the Apennines. But further south you have Perugia, which has one of the prettiest centres in Italy, and close to the wonderful Umbria countryside. In Puglia there's Bari with a great old town and a stone's throw away from incredible beaches and historic sites.

When I said I'd never cried at football I didn't mean it as a challenge

I don't think it's not normal. I think it's silly and I doubt it's always genuine.

I have to say seeing little Junior and his bow legs finally making it in the big league moved me to tears, bless him

I well up a little when watching videos from the title win. Usually when drunk. But properly crying over football as an adult is absurd.

Liverpool fans' whole existence is about convincing themselves their fandom "means more" and that their on-field success is both more hard-won and moral than other clubs. Ironically they are the most quintessentially English fanbase.