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We should have challenged this appointment. He will always be scarred and have it in for us after being taken for a mug by Big Nige.

You do nets for all the daylight hours then go in and play Brian Lara Cricket on PS2 until bedtime.

Destroy the French fleet in a naval battle?

Looking for 1 spare for this - pm me if you can help please

The EFL/PGMOL joint meeting after the latest PSR charges news dropped:

Tough start for Fuchsy 3 nil away at Oldham. Good to see the Melton Modric played the full game though.

He's what ChatGPT would spit out if you asked it to generate a Spanish football manager.

You like to bring this up a lot, but given most of those Tests were against India and Australia, against whom this team also cannot win series, I don't think there's as much difference between the teams as you think. Depends whether one thinks a drawn series is really any better than a loss - when you aren't the holders of a series trophy I'm not sure it is. They're both shit to middling England teams, one just has fantastic PR.

Doesn't look good for Crawley and Root at all. Both look like it's in their heads.

So they couldn't give the Labuschagne one yesterday but that was enough to overturn a not out decision? **** off. There's our excuse for taking the moral victory at least. 1-0 England

Sorry to say it's still pretty ominous that with Australia missing their captain, a strike bowler and a competition winner opening the batting we need our bowlers all playing out of their skins just to keep us in the game, on the first day...

Presume this is the bit where we inexplicably stop bowling at the stumps.

They have at least made the point on bbc that India were 150ao batting first at this ground last year and ended up winning comfortably.

Said we'd get pumped but still a bit crushing to wake up to, you still hope we could at least be competitive rather than just look like an upmarket Zimbabwe again. This is the last Ashes series many of this Australia team will be around, think we'll just have to take the beating and have a proper go at getting the urn back in 2027.

Gerrimin

So bored of this muck now.

I just can't get my head round how this market works. Up to 50m purse for Joshua? Why? From where? How are charades like this worth so many people parting with their hard-earned? It's sickening.

More likely Top's mate comes in and applies all his knowledge and best practice from the Powerleague 5-a-side scene in Bangkok.

Christ, really? What was the actual quote on that? Disgraceful if so.

Hopefully the new TD bins off Glover sharpish

99% likely to be criminal negligence and another disgraceful insult to the fans. However a 1% chance she's an undiscovered football genius.

The Thatcherite economic model is destroying this country imo. Giving us nothing but managed decline. National infrastructure sold off and replaced with unjustified deference to a shareholder class whose top rungs simply siphon money out of the economy and give nothing back, whilst the richest cohort of our population, which owns all the wealth, land and property gets nothing but bungs through short-termist government choices. Tory and now Labour both guilty, yet the only two mainstream party leaders who have proposed substantively changing the status quo were both laughed out of town (albeit one did it in government and without a democratic mandate).

They've been pumped after playing a long warm up programme against multiple teams and they'll get pumped this time after doing chuff all prep. Ideally you'd play one proper game against a native team but I don't think us getting pumped can be pinned on the schedule, it'll be because of headloss and overpromoted Bazballers.

Ffs is that Carabao