Lionator

Am I the only one who didn’t realise Handscomb has previously had a season with our 2nd XI in 2011?

Anxious parents = anxious children. Increased access to the media/internet.

He’s 43, he was the goalie in the 2000 league cup final. Not even joking.

Hopefully the crowd will boo them off at half time

There was an article last week that essentially said that it won’t happen because a) Russia has moved most of their stuff out of range anyway, so it would be a waste. b) the Americans don’t trust the Ukrainians not to do something incredibly reckless, for example they already attacked Russia’s nuclear weapon early warning radars which is a big no-no for many reasons. Ukraine have also learnt from Israel where they don’t actually need US permission to escalate. Ps. Kursk I predict was still a suicidal move. *and before I get called a Russian apologist, this is what Michael Kofman believes who is probably the best source imo.

Maybe he’s been offered one and has repeatedly refused it?

Like Putin playing off the oligarchs and silovikis against each other so that nobody ever points the finger at him.

there’s absolutely no precedent or reason to think that anything positive is going to happen. If he pulls something out of the bag then fair play, I’ll be shocked.

Spent too long in the England setup.

I see him as very unlucky in 2002. We were the 2nd best team at that tournament (Brazil a distant 1st), but we’d have won that World Cup if we beat Brazil in the quarter. And if the draw was different, we’d have gotten to the final. 2004 was a robbery and 2006 he was too conservative against Portugal in that quarter, although France would’ve beaten us anyway. There was something about the England Sven era, the lad mags, soccer am, 5-1 Germany, final innocence of football days. What a hero.

The problem is that JJ is put in a difficult situation in the first place. He has to make a decision and he makes the wrong one. He’s doesn’t have to make that decision if others don’t leave him exposed.

Look at all the naive fools believing that we’d be able to get a replacement in anyway.

The one thing I would say is that last season Bournemouth, Wolves and Palace all stayed up based upon one good run of form and were crap for 75% of the season.

Apparently the tour is rumoured to be worth £400m so there's your answer. I think rather wholesomely, there's something about their Mum as well who is very old now.

Another terrible tower block fire in London. It's a disgrace that this can still happen after Grenfell. People should be in prison.

ISIS probably the most right-wing organisation in history to be fair. They take social 'conservatism' to a new level.

Nixon played for England in 2007 too. As did Maddy but he’d left at the start of that season. What a time.

Interesting, it was giving a bit ‘stoned love’ to be fair, whereas I’d imagine the Oasis gigs will be a bit more Boxing crowd type affairs.

That Chelsea side conceded 12 *TWELVE* goals in a season. They've already conceded one third of that in 135 minutes of the season. They would also get dominated by Man City/Arsenal/Liverpool who can all defend. My bad it was 15 but still.

Looking at the match stats, are Chelsea just being ruthless?

I went to the stone roses reunion shows and the crowd wasn’t that bad.

How the hell is Lando Norris SO consistently bad off the start line?

Saw Liam in Madrid last summer and he was great. Since he started taking care of himself a lot more, he seems to have got it back, whatever ‘that’ is. For someone that was too young to see them before the split, I for one would be buzzing. It would put the Taylor Swift tour from this summer into insignificance, it would be a huge national event.

They were actually a decent side last year until they hit the self destruct button. I thought they were very good at the KP against us. Squad hasn’t changed too much so some stability will do them good

Go the whole way and give Hull a debut