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Thought that was a typo and you were talking about mtwg

A bit chainy but aesthetically a beautiful pub and I love sitting outside and listening to that very specific sound of the Eurostar trains departing to Paris.

BBC patriotism is so weird though. I suppose if you like patronising, superficial documentaries about foreign countries or presenting patently false information in the name of 'impartiality' then it's great, but this worship of it is slightly North Korean.

Love that gallery and that painting. The bass bottle in the corner!

Probably past plane banners now. Should just storm the stadium.

I think I taught her on a pre-sessional English course at university of Surrey. Went to the wrong uni on the first day then wrote her final essay on the importance of photocopiers.

Agree that we should have sacked Rodgers earlier but that it also had got to a point that keeping was probably a better option than getting in Smith. Who if he was any decent wouldn't be managing in America. Still think O'Neill would've kept us up. Would probably have matched Smith's results but won the Everton game.

He wasn't a great signing at the time, potentially very good player though. I think his best games came alongside Okazaki unsurprisingly.

For us. Fofana had more potential than any Leicester player I've seen, just hasn't reached it.

Agree on Fofana and was going to write something similar. People underestimate how good he was for us because of what a dickhead he is. Put in two of the finest performances I've seen from a Leicester defender firstly in the cup final and then against PSV. We missed him perhaps as much as Kasper although obviously he was never going to stay. I want to agree with your second choice just because he is Bulgarian but... no. Very cultured defender but was playing one maybe two leagues below his level at the time. Nowhere near Elliott, Huth, Evans or Fofana.

I think the Puel revisionism has perhaps gone a little too far the opposite way but obviously he is nowhere near that bracket and nobody thinks he is... do they?

That's a stone cold fact, not a hot take. Although at the same time Kasper was arguably easier to replace. Maybe my hot take is that we should have kept hold of Fuchs for another couple of seasons. Even at 37 he would've been better than the left back performances we saw that season which might have made that tiny bit of difference we needed.

the shame of being associated with lcfc!

Skopelos is great. We used to eat most nights at a place called Molos in Skopelos town which was always very nice, though that was 10 years ago. Kastani and Milia beaches are good on the west coast and Stafylos just south of the town.

I see Antonio Brown is promoting BC Game which assures me it's a fully legit, upstanding company

Strong central government, one dominant political party, state corruption, poverty, cult of the leader, expansionism and Russian domination over bordering countries, crack downs on dissent and freedom of expression. Modern Russia is not incredibly far apart from the old regime.

A city that can go from ugly to beautiful quite suddenly. Great food and bars. Museum of Yugoslavian history is fun if probably a little too Yugonostalgic. Apart from that all the main sites and attractions will be the ones you've probably already read about.

Probably my favourite painting is Fra Angelico's annunciation in Florence and I try and see it once every couple of years. Also the incredible medieval pieta in the pantaleimon monastery above Skopje, from an unknown artist. I love Ravillious' paintings of the West of England And Nash's of Norfolk, who I think was probably influenced by Ravillious

Like the 2016 team, the late 90s team was seriously underrated in terms of ability. English football fans still seem to struggle to believe international quality players can be found outside the traditionally big clubs, but it was even worse then.

Feels lower than 2008 because of where we've been

our first 1-1 of the season

Foxestalkers willing BDCR to score with their posts is a better tactic than anything Marti has come up with all season

I love the idea of Trump as a "barrier to American imperial hegemony" after threatening to annex Canada and Greenland and help ethnically cleanse Gaza to redevelop it as a new Dubai, all within a few months.

we are comically awful

cheerio