Lionator

How good does that stadium look, Christ 😍😍😍

This willy puller was ref of the quarter against France in 2022

Azteca gotta be top 3 stadium in the world

Is he meant to be injured? We need him for the championship games tho I didn’t see him on Sunday when everybody else was netting

So many cricketers have been completely messed up by booze it’s crazy. Graham Thorpe, Mark Butcher, Freddie Flintoff, Steve Harmison, Alan Mullally, so many Aussies and that’s just the ones I can think off the top of my head. There’s just something toxic in the sport and its use as a coping mechanism.

It’s just the culture of cricket, you’ve got Ollie Robinson downing a pint of Guinness (should be savoured not devoured) on the Lords balcony after the game to cheers from the fans. Maybe it’s part of our culture but it’s all very sad. Stokes lost his dad in very tragic circumstances, he famously has a short fuse too, I think the guy just need a bit of love to be honest. Same with Atkinson, his mum got killed two years ago but a drug driver, it’d send us all to the bottle tbh. But I feel the wellbeing support probably isn’t good enough for an elite sporting environment.

I have this horrible feeling that there’s going to be a mass shooting or something literally insane happen

If USA win their group and Iran finish second, they’ll play each other in the knockouts haha.

Like most Americans, I’m backing the Knicks to win the lot!

Would be a tough choice whether to go for him or keep Trevaskis but it can’t escape Lewis how good we were for him and vice versa. He’s a much better bat than Trev but probably not quite as good bowler.

Forgot he’d played for us. Shame we can’t get Helm back.

The people that work in those kinda shops are most likely trafficked right? I see it as a massive failure of the left tbh.

Like a lot of us, Stokes probably just needs a bit of help around a) his relationship with booze b) why he needs to get shitfaced in the first place. It’s important not to judge too much, it’s must be awful struggling in the public eye.

Nah honestly it was a combo of Putin’s horrible pathetic paranoia and the worst part of the American foreign policy community thinking they are God. Add the two together and you have this horrible mess. You’ve literally got Ukrainians drones blowing up ports in Romania and Greece these days while you continue to have complete lunatics in charge of Russia too. An utter waste.

According to the State Department the Somalian referee had links to terror organisations so I guess it makes sense why he wasn’t allowed in.

Honestly Burnham isn’t ever going to change the world, or even the country, but the one thing he is is authentic. If he could get a good cabinet behind him we might actually see something. Starmer has also been the worst for London centric leadership especially with his ‘pavement pint’ tripe yesterday that literally only happens in London.

No ideally I want somebody who is ahead of the curve, who is charismatic and governs in the way that they said they would.

Tomorrow will be the 1567th day of the Ukraine war which officially makes it longer than the First World War. It has to be one of the stupidest most pathetic waste of life events in human history.

Can’t believe you just compared the genuinely very funny Lee Mack to Stephen Mulhearn

These are good points. Honestly I think he’s relatively ok on the policy side of the stuff, though I wish he was more radical on some things (means tested pensions), but to succeed in this role you have to have some modicum of personality. It also appears he’s sold himself to the ‘Westminster bubble’. He is the continuity PM of what came before him. What’s annoying is before he was PM he gave loads of interviews where he just came across as a normal bloke, he’s got 400 seats in the commons ffs, better than Blair. Do something with it.

Still doesn’t mean much, I don’t he started off badly but now is truly pathetic. This whole era of politicians has been an absolute disaster.

I gotta be honest Starmer was never great but he seems to have gotten really BAD at politics over the last 6 months or so

Money every time he plays is one thing but ultimately he is ours, we gave him his first class debut, I’ve read he was class with the kids on Sunday, he always bigs us up in the media. Whatever happens, he’s a Leicestershire academy graduate and he’s our bloody legend. Even people like Broad that pretend they were Notts born and bred can’t take away that it was the fields of Grace Road that made him.

Did you loot any goods?

we could play at 1/10 standard and still beat Ghana man, no serious country has Ayew up front. Panama are even worse but they’re only a small country. Croatia will be tough and we’ll need to win to make sure we top the group and not meet France and Spain in the earlier knockouts.