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And they’ve massively kicked on this season without him!

It’s not about what he’s done, it’s about the fact it was only going to get worse

I’d personally rather have somebody ambitious like that though. Stepping stone isn’t always a bad thing when manager shelf lives are so short anyway.

These Aussie pitches are making me think Woakes could do a job after all next winter. If Jaiswal can cash in this series, and Bumrah keeps fit, then the Aussies are going to find it hard to win the series imo.

He was probably our best player watching it on tv. He adds a ball carrying ability in midfield that we don’t have otherwise. Will be key against teams where we get more possession.

Yep it’ll be ‘Klopp set his legacy up for this’ not recognising that Slot has been a lot more pragmatic.

would be very funny that Slot does it in his first season, when Klopp did it once in nine years, and even then they lifted it in an empty stadium.

Martin is a far superior manager to Cooper. He actually has a philosophy/game plan. He just doesn’t have the players and ability to pull it off. Cooper is just hopeless.

Whether he has a point or not is another matter. These aren’t clear cut robbery type decisions, match after match he’s blaming refs to cover his own shortcomings as a manager. Adequate managers don’t blame referees when they lose anymore, it’s not 2004.

Does he realise how utterly ridiculous he sounds blaming referees week after week? What is he hoping to achieve from it?

Bumrah is an utter joke man, what a player.

Again the unmitigated support of Netanyahu basically killed all credibility the west had with Putin and the global south.

US veto’ing a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire. Gross.

World Cup Qualifying Update for anybody interested. In Asia, unsurprisingly it looks like Iran, South Korea and Japan are going to win their groups and qualify directly. More surprisingly the second placed teams may see some new faces. In Group A it looks like a straight fight between Uzbekistan and UAE, in Group B, Iraq and Jordan and Group C, 1 point separates Australia, Saudi, China, Bahrain and Indonesia. Indonesia beat Saudi 2-0 yesterday. In South America, no real shocks, it looks like the usual suspects will all qualify. Bolivia and Venezuela will probably fight it out for the play off spot. In OFC, New Zealand are clearly directly qualifying unless something mental happens. As for Europe. The pots have been decided. England will be in a group of 5 teams and will draw any of the white teams from the other pots. So a good draw might be Wales, Montenegro, Lithuania, San Marino and a bad draw Poland, Czechia, Kazakhstan and Moldova.

That was amazing to see, fair play Mr. Musk.

It’s astounding how many working class people go into bat for idiots like Clarkson that brag about how they’re getting around paying taxes.

Thank you, I always appreciate your insights! I get the impression this is just raising the stakes before Trump starts work as president (and potential improvement of US-Russia relations) but it’s still disconcerting.

How do you suspect Russia will respond to the ATACMS strikes? Nuclear escalation?

That video of Xi and Starmer is cringe-worthy. Xi made him look like a right plonker.

I’d guess unlikely as Trump has won and Russia knows they can just wait it out, especially as they’re on top all over the place. Some have suggested today’s attack on the energy system was a pre-emptive attack in response to this.

Just to say that there’s no ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’ to cope with what you’ve been through. You’re doing your best in horrendous circumstances, and that’s all anybody can ask of you. The fact you can talk about these feelings and emotions is incredible, and your children are incredibly lucky to have you

Rehan took that personally

Even Davina McCall should feel hard done by there.

LOVELY singing

Just because they’re trained to deal with scrutiny, doesn’t mean that they’re actually coping.