Lionator

That ship has so obviously sailed. We MUST get promoted so that we don’t end up in league one/two in the next few years because we’d be starting from square one next season, with a points deduction. We have the financial resource to put a good squad together provided we get rid of our biggest earners but it’ll take time.

if we don’t get promoted then it’s our own stupid fault. Blaming refs would be the ultimate scapegoat

Godwin’s law. Rightly or wrongly, she knows she can win arguments but bringing up the idea that people wanted to destroy all Jews. And that’s a very powerful argument.

The constant 'WW3' press reports are honestly so dumb and click baity. Even if Israel and Iran go into a full shooting war (which is nearly impossible due to geography), how would that mean it is world war 3? Was Iraq v Iran WW3? Was Vietnam WW3? Was the Falklands WW3? Nobody is jumping to Iran's aid, Russia is in it's own war and would put its own interests first, China is simply not an ally of Iran either.

We just need to smash these next two games. Win them both and I think the last two could be meaningless given the other teams fixtures. Leeds especially are basically on last chance territory and all three of their games look solid.

In danger of sounding like some of the crackpots that posted in here a while back, but I think we do live in a very flawed democracy, especially in the uk and US, even compared to places like France and Germany. You’re basically always voting for two different flavours of post 1979 neoliberal parties whose policies have continually failed us. Let us also not forget that Iran basically has the same democratic model as us in terms of an unelected head of state then an elected government below, which shows us how flawed democracy can be given that our most important ME ally is an absolute monarchy. But anyway I do withdraw my original point to an extent about presidents. I think it’s a very interesting time in terms of power transitions, India is the real one to watch over the next 40 years imo.

Weather will probably save us given the absolute deluge which is happening right now. Leave them covers off lads.

Morally he’s a much better person, and I am a big Obama fan, but Libya was hardly a great moment was it? Although I give Obama credit to admit his mistakes something that Putin, or George W. Bush would never do. Psychopaths.

That’s also a good interpretation! Both sides need each other in that case

Not going to be popular on these pages but I think Morsy deserved to be in there.

It’s called strategic interests, you think these countries are just happy to roll over and let all of their allies and neighbours fall into the western sphere? I urge people to stop seeing these things through a good vs bad lens. Putin is a terrible man, but so is pretty much every US president post Kennedy.

I can’t help but think that all of this now is simply about power and manipulation. Israel have squandered EVERYTHING following October 7th. Mass, systematic killing of innocent civilians kinda looks bad and doesn’t take a genius to see through the propaganda. Israel had lost it all, they were even struggling with the American government. There was probably only one way that they could regain sympathy, to poke the bear (or in this case the paper tiger). The evil, scary Islamic republic of Iran. That is the way that Israel shifts the power from the oppressor to the oppressed. The wilting sympathy from Europe, is regained. We are once again talking about Israel as the victim, rather than the aggressor in spite of them making the first move in this case. Whether that is enough, will remain to be seen. If it isn’t enough, they will retaliate again and aim to provoke Iran into an even bigger barrage. Iran would be stupid to take this bait, but they’re idiots anyway. It’s not good v evil, this is evil vs evil, and I cannot even fathom taking a side between these two disgusting governments of Israel and Iran.

Arsenal have been terrible. Bottlers.

Yes absolutely

That was actually mad how similar that was to our game on Friday.

Game has got away from us

The theory is that’s why he bombed the Iranian embassy. He wanted a mad iranian reaction, but unfortunately for him, there’s a democrat president who won’t touch Iran with a barge pole. If he can outlast Biden until January 2025 then things may get hairy but I presume Netanyahu will be in prison by then.

Based on what? We’ve seen the proxy wars all the time since 1945. There is no appetite to take it any further, the US doesn’t want it, Russia genuinely can’t. Iran knows they’d get battered, China obviously wouldn’t take part etc

Nah he’s gonna go in once and for all here now. Maybe not Iran but you can defo see him doing to Hezbollah/Lebanon what he’s done to Gaza. Knows his iron dome is great too. Sickening

Iran sending a few missiles over, very well telegraphed, probably in the expectation that they’ll all be shot down. But the government will be able to say they retaliated.

If we somehow win the next two, we’d be basically promoted.

Also a good excuse for misogynistic bs it seems. Like the make refs haven’t made terrible calls.

Is it worth buying?

Yep pretty much

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