Voll Blau

Oh yeah, quite agree! Just a quirk of cricket that the offence at point of delivery makes anything that happens after null and void. Played in a game once where my mate needed four for his ton, which would also have won the game. The bowler, an absolute cvnt by all accounts, bowled a beamer miles over his head and it reached the boundary for five no balls. Game over.

Poles sometimes manage to get it together. At one time or another, a fair number of Eastern European nations have managed something - even if not under one banner. It's just not a thing in Western Europe.

I guess because at the point at which the no ball was bowled the game was technically over?

Nope. You'd potentially do time for getting caught in Germany. They're just a trillion times better at it because they're organised to fvck and aren't from a country full of lettuces who whinge about not getting bottlecaps into grounds but who also think Ultras are "cringe". The fact they pulled that tonight in London shows that the only obstacle to more pyro going off in England is English fans themselves.

Hala Madrid!

Great stuff. Something to prove for Budinger after being frozen out of the Championship side?

True of the in-house bars, but I recall some half-decent ones at vendor stalls in recent years? Don't let it be a reason not to go anyway!

He looked pretty gloomy on Friday.

"the deep state"

Amazing to think at the start of last season the memo was that all the counties needed to start playing gung-ho, Bazball style cricket! When the sad and inevitable reduction to a 10-game season comes, they really will need to start offering better incentives to get results otherwise the season will become even more of a farce than it is now with the stupid fixture windows.

If I'd not had a dog in this fight then I'd totally agree with this. The incumbency retention rate is nothing short of ridiculous. An 18-team division can stand to lose three teams automatically every season.

Hope tonight may have sparked an interest for some of you on here to go over next season and experience the amazing warm welcome our friends will provide for you. I promise you'll have the time of your life.

GET THE FUCHS IN!!!! Don't cancel the Hamburg or Berlin plans though - it'll just be at St Pauli and Union instead!

Feel like I'm the only person in the country who actually finds Starmer's story both relatable to my family and inspiring. Suspect I'm not, but those other people in the same boat probably aren't sat crying on the internet because he isn't absolutely perfect.

Exactly. The problem with Labour under Corbyn (which I voted for twice, before anyone starts) was that it was guilty of trying to play the electorate it wanted, rather than the electorate it had. I don't like it anymore than anyone else, but them's the breaks. You have to play the system you're in, because you haven't a chance in hell of changing anything unless you get the keys to Downing Street.

Bet you anything the answer includes the phrase "Ser Kieth". Imagine claiming to be left of centre and thinking a massive Labour majority after this election is anything other than a good thing.

In fairness, if you're standing as an MP solely for the benefit of your constituents then that's a fair enough achievement to include - assuming he did play a part in it.

Love how the English translation of his menus begin with "Ay up m'duck!" Linie 5 and Weiherstube the other two places in Bochum with Leicester merch (not just stickers) on display. Owner of the latter has also been over to Leicester before.

Bet his daughters are buzzing about that one.

They can be, at the judge's discretion, and they can be named the moment they turn 18 in any case.

Definitely go. You'll have a great time.

Favourite big ground I've done in Germany. Dominates the skyline like Newcastle.

Hugely underrated derby, that is. Always some mad hi-jinx there.

Schalke a big derby for Bochum too. Will take on more significance for both while neither are playing Dortmund.

At least one guy from Leicester's going over for the second leg too...