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Btw was talking to a mate this week about the changes to the nursery free hours. A real canny use of policy and joined up thinking. 30 hours of free childcare - get people working more/earlier and all of the knock-on's of that.

When 60% of your MP base is arguing, it's bad for press. If Lowe leaves the party, I think that's a real issue for Reform in any plans of creating something which looks electable across the country. He's the nearest thing to a proper politician they have. It would be the second of the high profile personalities that Farage has seen off. Exactly Starmer's popularity has increased because of sensible decisions and good diplomacy. The polls aren't always accurate I don't doubt that - but its the comparison of the last two months which is telling.

When two of your five MPs are at each other and the wife of your 3rd MP is taking the urine out of your best performer in Westminster, that's an internal implosion being played out. That's 3 out of 5 MPs playing it out publicly. Public opinion on Farage has dipped over the last couple of weeks - https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51739-how-have-recent-developments-in-ukraine-affected-favourability-ratings Starmer is outperforming on Farage on favourability which is a stark change

Started working as an UEFA Technical Observer - a very common interim job for out of work managers

Reform internally imploding. So much for their great electoral challenge

Ashworth for West Ham

Leicester will get overlooked because its crowds for women football average about 5k/6k. The club has never even put their weight behind having a game where they aim to break records etc like so many others have.

Suspect government funding

Conrad Logan - he's the goalkeeper at Anstey Nomads and now vice chairman

One of their largest legacies is to gatekeeper a generation of fan from watching their local team

The new/current owners brought him in August 2018, was villa's third season in the championship, he sacked Steve Bruce and brought in Dean Smith

Was clarifying that the bloke is very unlikely to take a role at LCFC. I suspect salary has never been a motivating factor of his involvement in football with his fortune from his capital ventures days wrapped up in investments/property.

Favourite for the role of chairing the independent football regulator too - his time at Villa did include Championship (took the role in their third season and was there once they got promoted)

Interesting point about getting someone in who's up and coming. So let's rule out the PL. There is no team in the Championship overachieving at the moment. League 1 is very much to type bar Wycombe. So you go to Europe:- Ligue 1 - gone to type Serie A - Nope, outside shout for Bologna but Sartori is 67. Como comfortably look after their own staff. La Liga - gone to type, Rayo outside shout Bundesliga - Mainz & Freiburg - Hartenbach at Freiburg is 60 (https://www.scfreiburg.com/en/latest/news/2024/25/interview-klemens-hartenbach/ - good comms there) and Mainz can't work out. So you heading towards the smaller European leagues and a lot of them are reverting to type/budget. Frode Thomassen at Bodo/GLimt may be ? No outstanding candidate from those coming through. So you probably going to have to over promote or get someone out of work.

That's quite literally what's happening now. Manager has final say on targets. Then DoF takes up the other half. It's a very archaic way of running a football club these days.

You missed the Ship there too. That's gone gone now. Used to sell Oakwell Bitter. 2002, I joined the parents on doing three of the remaining Frog islands pubs. Robin Hood had gone. All died with the hosiery factories in the city going.

It's a bad world when such a horrible person as Matt Healy gets such coverage.

Thing is as Ric says you can probably fetch £5m Monga now and that’s not being silly on the valuation. We are tying up bad players on higher wages with no resale value That said I'd be reluctant to have a 15 year old kid that you can get in training for one session a week starting or playing for first team. It won't be the case at any team he joins from us.

Aiywatt is 39. He was 12 in 1997.

I did a pyramid of intervals yesterday, my legs wanted to drop off at the end

You joke but Aleksandr Vucic claims he was at the famous 13 May 1990 riot between Dinamo and Red Star. Which some view as the real reason for the beginning of the Yugoslav wars

Vance has somehow got the Mail and the sun to write positive words towards Starmer

Hate to break the face here - on paper, he was a good idea but to give him three years and compound it with the signing of Ayew was fcuking mad. At least the bloke ain't toxic

Do the fella a good un and delete your reply please

Too raw that Groby. How I long for a day in the snow crowding out a hotel bar drinking cocktails in Denmark's most boring place