HighPeakFox

Although I note your humour (or reality), this response misses the point.

Just heard James Richardson refer to it as the 'Bottom of the Classico'

Positively transparent!

Is his name not Kasey McAteer?

I know Anil, and can confirm he's never actually been to a football match, and is in fact a hologram. @StriderHiryu

If this same source suggested to you we had a bargain incoming, would you believe it?

I swear a proportion of people go on the Match thread to legitimise their evident need to be angry about something. Stop being surprised about it being a s**tshow lads, it's the same every week.

Well, in my case I can say they've done me a favour. There is so much boilingly nonsensical stuff posted that I am saved from being able to get a whole forum ban, as it would be all too easy to cause offence to someone with a big gob and an ego made of biscuits.

It plays on my PTSD something chronic

I can't post in General, so I'd just like to say that I'm terrified about what lies ahead. The philistines are at the gate.

Ronnie looks very old, all of a sudden.

I came on to say, if only they had a player called Freude, and he scored a 2nd goal for them...

Yet ironically, by not voting you are effectively affecting the result.

It never ceases to amaze me how willing humans are to destroy their own environment.

Trump/Murphy having a very scrappy frame.

Also, they don't represent all Jews (indeed a very small proportion of them) and there are many disparate views of what is going on amongst the Jewish people - unfortunately people are easy to persuade that other races or creeds speak as one, which is demonstrably not the case, as it isn't within our own culture. I have Jewish friends from childhood who now refuse to speak to me because I am of Jewish background but hold the 'wrong' views. Sadly, this perception is encouraged by certain Bodies and Councils, which is not only arrogant and presumptive, but highly dangerous too.

I agree, because getting the right player at that point could well have made all the difference. We'll never know whether or not it was a sliding doors moment, but it looked that way.

People wearing their pig ignorance like a badge of honour.

Wasn't today, but where I live there's a notorious right bend that a good driver will take cautiously, as there is often a car or cars parked once you are off the bend. Some yoof came around said bend, saw me coming the opposite way and decided he didn't need to give way. Of course I drove in such a way that he could pull in after the parked car and he tried to tell me I was at fault for 'blocking him in' as it was his right of way, or at least it was because he'd committed to his manoeuvre despite me being clearly visible coming up the hill. Moved on before I swore at him.

I'm sure some people could do sufficient mental gymnastics to blame someone like me, yes.

Violence, always someone else's fault.

Well, if I were a journalist, I'd make it my business to ask the relevant people, out of respect. I'm a musician, I've been taught to use my ears and listen. I wish people did it more. But if I wanted to know this sort of thing now, there are endless resources. I'm sure you've heard of the Internet.

Have you ever noticed how angry people are on this forum?

For some reason I've been reminded of this (not least because my thermostat batteries have just died!)