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Relegation is one thing. Especially with the way the financial rules are now set up. 9 home defeats without scoring is quite another. That's not a post 1992 PL record. It's something no English club has ever done. Humiliating, disgraceful, contemptible. They should be barred from playing and coaching in the top flight again. The only sliver of comfort I take from it is that many of them won't after this season.

The pudgy teenage lad in front of me at the London Stadium singing "two-nil down and you still don't sing" at the bemused WHU fans, before realizing his mistake.

head of the largest Christian denomination in the world, over a billion members.

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True although that particular culture war has been going on for about 500 years

#WhenTaken #418 (20.04.2025) I scored 877/1000🏆 1️⃣📍645 km - 🗓️16 yrs - 🥈148/200 2️⃣📍89.8 m - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200 3️⃣📍1.0K km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥈160/200 4️⃣📍410 km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥇183/200 5️⃣📍250 km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇186/200 https://whentaken.com

WHU vs Leicester game this season might have been the most depressed I've ever been at a football match. It was a grotesque parody of what football should be, on and off the pitch.

4. Disaffected with modern football and in particular the current incarnation of LCFC. Don't get me wrong I'd like them to blow it, but I'm closer to 'meh' than I probably would've predicted if somebody had told me this scenario a couple of years ago.

This kind of stuff can only thrive in a morally bankrupt culture

#WhenTaken #417 (19.04.2025) I scored 807/1000 (💡x1) 🏅 1️⃣📍2.2 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇197/200 2️⃣📍636 m - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇193/200 3️⃣📍1.0K km - 🗓️15 yrs - 🥈139/200 4️⃣📍💡869 km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥈165/200 5️⃣📍3.9K km - 🗓️11 yrs - 🥉113/200 https://whentaken.com

I think both points can be at least partially true. Our near decade of success, especially the miraculous title win, raised our expectations to a place that was always going to be difficult to reach in the closed shop of elite English football. At the same time the management of the club has been absolutely disastrous since we won the FA Cup (and even before then) and fans are right to be livid about the fact that not only have we dropped out of contention for European places and trophies, but we're struggling even to amass 20 points in the PL.

DJ Campbell's through, no he's not he's offside

Saw Tony Woodcock in Hampstead today. Apparently he lives there. Being a good Leicester fan I wanted to troll him by telling him how much I liked Led Zeppelin, but chickened out.

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GB winning the 4x100 relay in 2004 was fantastic. Only one race I suppose but still an iconic moment.

superb goal to be fair

Embarrassing that on a major broadcaster you have someone like Rio commentating like he's on a youtube fan channel with 42 viewers.

You just love to see it

I don't think Arsenal have ever been liked by the neutral apart from the early years of Wenger when they were up against Ferguson's United. And even then they were the club most associated with the post Hornby new breed of English football fan lampooned by the Fast Show.

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Stout from the Fownd Brewery. Very nice. Something about Worcestershire breweries and pubs, they seem to be very good at providing solid, proper pints of bitter and stout. One of the last holdouts against the juicy pale ale hordes.

Don't stop me blaming the Welsh for the Tudors

The Tudors were PoC (Welsh)

You probably already know it but he's right that the Royal Oak is a beautiful pub and one of the best places to get more trad bitters, milds etc in London. Though it's all Harvey's. Fantastic pub all in all.