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All they did was put us under more pressure and made us make difficult decisions. They took more risks and surprise surprise we crumbled.

Must be galling for these lot getting outplayed and outfought by Marlon Pack. Christ what a disgrace.

Rudkin levels of incompetence

My god these arguments just go round and round in circles don’t they lol??

A lot of the world’s current hotspots (🇮🇱🇵🇸, India/Pakistan, Myanmar) can be directly traced back to appalling decisions made by the British state/empire. Obviously not the cause, they’re ethnic/geopolitical but we need to acknowledge that we cocked up. Even in Ukraine, while we rightly support them in their quest for freedom and sovereignty, we have a bizarre interest in Crimea and want to build bases there based on bad historical decisions.

This is all well and good in America where they have infinite physical and economic resources, compared to here where the system is falling apart. More children are homeless than ever, more people are sicker than ever before, housing prices are spiralling, nobody can afford to retire etc etc. But what we should all really care about is Palestine/Israeli’s and trans people. The left are guilty of this too although Polanski seems to understand the way forward is through targeting economic policies thank god, he’ll make traction with it too.

Personally I’m just so so so sick of cultural and social issues that have little impact on the actual issues in this country being in the headlines constantly while the actual things that matter are degrading around us.

Don’t worry, Nigel’s going to kick out a few Zimbabweans and all our problems are going to be solved thank goodness.

Would be a lot more (and maybe a number that could deal with the situation) if successive governments hadn’t massively cut police numbers. But hey we were told those decisions were for the good of the country.

It shouldn’t sit well with anyone. I understand why they’ve done it though, you have most traditionally violent and pro BN 🇮🇱 club fans who will be still hurting over oct.7 going into an area of a city where there is a predominant Muslim population who will be angry at the way Palestinianz have been treated. Any attempt to compare it to a pogrom or anti-semitism is in bad faith. It’s ultimately just easier for the police to make this decision for Birmingham to be safe that night. There no good options in this situation. They’ve chosen the least worst.

Indeed but then again the old Firm have only just started away spectators back in again and that is also on religious grounds. How do you reasonably manage such things? Of course nobody should be attacking anyone but there is genuine anger in communities.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c205gnz5p8xo this is controversial obviously but one thing under reported is that there’s plenty of evidence of Maccabi fans engaging in disgraceful behaviour. If it was Hapoel on the other hand, I’d be upset.

Vote him out, do it for Andrew Sachs!! Edit: idiots (except for Marler)

To be fair the 32 team format is literally the best format of any competition in any sport I reckon. Once you get into best third places, the competition loses something. The next two world cups will be a joke. 2026 will be a Trump circus given he’s Infantino’s best mate. 2030 is likely to be played across 6 countries and 3 continents despite Spain (with or without Portugal) having the infrastructure to host a 48 team World Cup. 2034 is corrupt for obvious reasons but might be a laugh. 2038 it’ll probably be held on Mars.

https://www.flightradar24.com/SAM153/3cac4d86 Pete Hegseths plane has an emergency over the UK 😬😬

Not only that but football is significantly different now to 10 and 20 years ago. Individuals could have a bigger impact back then. Now it’s ALL systems. Players are signed to fit into systems, whereas 20 years ago you’d adapt around players.

Yes his wife was Angie Stone, creator of this stone cold classic

The big question for Tuchel, does Bellingham and Foden get back in the team?

Really was like having an extra player in midfield. Even in the 2018 World Cup, Pogba played the best football of his career almost solely because of the space Kante was creating for him.

I believe all but one of the eight World Cups held in the americas has been won by a non South American team, probably for good reason.

Kante between 2016-18 was arguably the best midfielder in the world, backed up by him winning two premier leagues and a World Cup where he was the best player in each team.

This is not true, we swept teams like Latvia aside easily under Southgate too. But I agree this is a bit easier to watch.

We’ve gotten better at breaking average teams down. Will wait til we play a decent team before coming to conclusions. Serbia were supposed to be our biggest challenge and they’ve been a shambles. Can’t even beat Andorra.

Classic Kane here, tremendous finishing, outrageously theatrical dive to win a penalty, scoring a penalty to stat pad

Someone once told me when lifting/using machines, if you’re not sure technique wise, keep everything still and straight except for the muscles/limbs that you’re using.