The Fox Covert

This trio would struggle to make Anstey Nomads.

Derby fans will be rooting for us on 3 May. They will want us to beat Southampton and help make them the worst ever Premier League team, with 10 points from a whole season. This is going to be an absolutely horrible game of 'football'.

Any other job, which pays far less than these players are being paid, and the worst performers would be sacked. I think Wycombe managed to sack one of their players for being useless a few years ago. Get rid of three or four and it would do wonders for the PSR next season.

Peter Rodrigues?

This is increasingly true of Trumpist USA. The cult of tradition wrapped up in fundamentalist Christianity. The rejection of modernism. The appeal to social frustration, particularly among older and poorer Trump followers in red states who feel left behind. An impoverished vocabulary and the use of soundbites and social media to propagate Newspeak - Trumpspeak. The fear of difference, hence the purge on undocumented migrants, the vast majority of whom are not white north European. Contempt for the weak, whether it is vets surviving on a small pension or the old and sick on Medicare. Machismo and weaponry hasn't quite come into it yet, as Trump is elderly and obese and not a great advertisement for muscular masculinity, but give it time. Disagreement is treason also hasn't quite come into it, but the most fascistic elements in Trump's administration have been emboldened and have made calls for the jailing or deportation of vocal opponents of the regime like Sanders and AOC. Trump has already carried out a purge of the top military.

Donald Trump was bailed out with dirty money from Russian businessmen. Would you want a KGB agent in control of our club?

It gets worse and worse. Trump has now removed temporary legal residence status from the 240,000 Ukrainian refugees in the USA. This puts them at immediate risk of being deported from the country, even if they have fled from regions illegally occupied by Russia.

Trump is not only a paranoid narcissist and a would-be dictator, he is also an old man in a hurry. The rumours that he has been a KGB agent for decades ring true with the recent events. Trump's businesses have been bailed out with Russian money more than once and in 2016, Russia did its utmost to sabotage the campaign of Hillary Clinton and get Trump elected for the first time. They did it again in 2024. Most likely, the present events have been triggered by Trump failing to get any concessions out of Putin, an essential step in the path to getting Ukraine to agree to participate in talks to end the war. Putin probably told Trump that Russia has helped him and now it is payback time. Trump then tried to bully Zelenskyy into accepting a settlement which his government could not possibly accept. So Trump has shown himself to be the mardy immature brat that he is and he has now ceased shipment of US aid and sharing of intelligence with Ukraine. Trump not only speaks with the limited vocabulary of the average fourteen year old, but he and Vance are ready to behave like the bullies behind the bike shed to get their way.

Thanks for finding and posting. Copied and sent to my mum who used to live round the corner and was a member of Clarendon Park Methodist Church - as I was many decades ago.

I lived in London for several years after I left home in Leicester. RTs were no longer on services in Central London but they were still common on services in less fashionable districts like Edmonton and Walthamstow. LT had a close working relationship with AEC which paid off with bus designs which were exactly what the operators wanted, and had very long lives in service. I had a friend who was a bus nut and I went to see the last service operated by RTs, in Barking. I can still remember the whine of the AEC gearbox and the really quite melodious engine note. And the dark red moquette on the seats.

The route number. Bus shown while in London Transport service.

Has Van Nistelrooy even got a complete coaching team? I believe the entire first team set-up left after Cooper got the boot and if so Van Nistelrooy will have had to build a new coaching team from scratch.

Trump is a disgusting piece of 5h!t who has probably never even heard of our club.

If the rest of the back line speak French that would be absolutely fine ... Faes would understand but Coady, Vestergaard, Justin, Thomas and the other defenders? And Stolarczyk? Or Van Nistelrooy?

If this lad comes to us can he speak English? Whoever comes in has to be a part of the squad straight away. Caglar Soyuncu apparently spoke no English when he arrived and it was a full season before he made any impact. Communication is critical for a centre-back.

Anyone else had their Facebook feed muddied by this? They are apparently stickers which the fascist knuckledraggers who follow Yaxley-Lennon were trying to hand out at Villa on Saturday. I have had this pop up four times now from different pages. They are probably also trying it on other social media platforms like Instagram and X. I expect the people behind this have run out individual versions for every major club. Fascists have been trying to cosy up to football supporters since the days of the National Front in the 1970s and this is only their latest attempt to stir things up. I expect the club are aware and it would be interesting to know what they are doing about it.

The line used to run from Leicester to Swannington Colliery. There is a junction at Desford where it joined the line from Knighton Junction. The train is heading towards Leicester and there used to be a station just to the left of the picture which closed in the 1920s (hence Station Road). The site of the station is now occupied by the housing in Stephenson Court. Beyond the station is Glenfield Tunnel, which passes under the housing estate opposite the hospital. The tunnel is still there but there is no railway track. The station at the Leicester end was at West Bridge, again totally unrecognisable today. By the time of my drawing in the 1950s the line would have served a few factories and coal merchants and there was a wharf to transfer goods to the canal.

Work-in-progress scene from the 1950s. An elderly Johnson 2F crosses the level crossing in Station Road, Glenfield. This location is still near the edge of Leicester suburbia, but nothing in this scene remains today. The line, only the third steam railway in the country after the Stockton and Darlington and the Liverpool and Manchester, is closed, the house for the crossing keeper has gone and I don't think the tree in the left background is still there. I complete my drawings with watercolour so I will post again in a few weeks.

Thanks for posting. Photos of Glenfield station, which closed a century ago, are very hard to come by!

I wish, but Joe Rogan can go and do one. Ignorant knob. Would probably say 'Lie-sess-ter'.

Made from milk from cows which live at a rather famous farm in Mid Somerset. They have free access to the unusual plant species which grow in the supersized hedgerows. It is actually quite difficult to get them to turn up at the dairy for milking time because although they set off with the best intentions, somewhere along the way they can't quite get it together to remember where they are supposed to be going!

I would say that is true. After a previous term in office and another four years since, Trump has no tolerance to anyone calling him out. If the people in his cabal don't stop him he will go to any lengths to go after people who challenge his authority, which probably means billion dollar lawsuits, trumped up criminal charges, and every covert effort to damage their personal life and career. After the election I posted this and got quite a lot of unpleasant pushback from people who think Trump is the second coming. I spent about an hour blocking all the nastier ones who really are Nazis.

My house is full of foxes. Foxes on mugs, a fox in a painting, fluffy foxes, big foxes, little foxes, even a real taxidermy fox. There was a fox head door knocker but my ex took it.

Hat er große Männertitten?

I hate Selhurst Park as the whole area looks dodgy. Last time I went there I drove and parked well away from the ground in a council estate on the other side of the railway. I drove until I found somewhere which looked like a decent residential area. Nearer the ground I felt my car might not still be there after the match. Spuds have very fickle and ignorant fans who quickly turn against their own team if things are not going well. Chelsea's old ground was the worst I have ever been to. Away terrace miles away from the pitch, dreadful toilets and herded along like sheep by police on horseback after the match.