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The Ale Wagon is at most about 5 minutes away from the station

I was stood at the bar of the King’s Head earlier next to some Brummie tigers fans and it was slightly stomach churning, not just because they liked rugby

Gen Z would hate this - it’s firmly millennial and above - just say the action figure AI craze was on LinkedIn

Really benefits from relatively few stops. The capacity is a bit of a problem but 100 miles in circa an hour is one of the better services in the country.

We ought to have an FT meet up/crawl on the day of the first Saturday 3pm next season

Went to a wake there recently, the interior wasn’t as dingy as expected but the locals were just as I imagined

Ale Wagon and the Castle are the only two I’d frequent if they were in other cities. I’ve gone off lager almost entirely which whittles down the options to almost nothing in town. Tonne is occasionally fine but more often than not they have 7 near identical craft options

The cluster to the north of the city centre along Humberstone Gate are comfortably the worst Royal Oak (Belgrave Gt) is bad, nothing redeeming at all rather than outright rough. Shit and tired decor, poor selection and weird atmosphere. Skandals - wtf Fountain is the best of those but still not great Hansom Cab is probably much better post refurb and still probably shit The Hind is rubbish and a big waste of what could be a great pub, Barley Mow wasn't exemplary before but it's absolutely shot now.

-1 in 9 darts, is that good? Doesn't feel like a usual nine-darter!

Me neither but the only solace is it kicks Forest in the bollocks

The region has returned 3 European cups more than probably 98 or 99% of European provinces

Can anybody hear Paul Smith, Art of Football, Shipstone’s, the Panthers, the Lace Market, Biggger Fish to Fry Billy Davies, Natalie Jackson, Carl Froch, Fletch, Fletch, Fletch

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You can imagine them trying to refund people but less the admin fee

14 assists in his career, remarkably uncreative - Thomas has 6 this season and he’s hardly Marcelo. I’d be over the moon with £5m, given his record in France we might get close to that.

Let’s just give up then and slide into administration and possibly liquidation. Nothing we can do.

Probably wasn’t that bad but it’s classic Leicester to throw the baby out with the bath water

I think any significant fees are unrealistic but we are a huge draw and even an extra 2k p/w for some of these players would be a huge salary increase. Without sales first it’s just hard to know what our budgets will be like. Say Ballard for £4m probably isn’t unrealistic if we can offer him £12k per week - we’re probably still a more attractive proposition than Preston

Spurs won't be letting those go out again, they will be in the fold

ENSI is flying currently

We were joint favs for the Europa too

Association football is the most popular sport for about 6% of the population, the MLS is never going to be massive - especially whilst they insist with franchises w/o promotion and relegation. I say this as somebody fairly MLS curious too. Assoc. football would become the most popular sport in the US within 25 years if they actually had a proper pyramid, a huge part of the US interest in Wrexham is because it's their first taste of climbing up the divisions. There's millions and millions of people in the US without access to a local professional sorts team (hence the popularity of college football), if they could then follow Austin or Arizona up the ranks they'd become big clubs overnight.

The aversion to general sale is really weird at this point.

The last good defensive midfielder we signed was Ndidi in 2017 - we can't neglect the position anymore. We also need physicality, Gibson Yah fits the bill perfectly.