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If Trump so dislikes oppressive regimes, will he now attack China, Russia, Saudi Arabia.....?

Will that be to signal that Top has sold the club?

If JJ is fit, I would start him and Winks at Ipswich. JJ is one of very few midfielders at this level who has the lot: physicality, creativity and goals. Ideally I would like a physically strong player alongside him who stays deeper while JJ goes forward. Neither Winks nor Skipp fits the bill but Winks is a better passer.

There was excitement among birdwatchers in Leicester today as a "Vieites" was spotted near the River Soar, resplendent in its characteristic Iberian plumage. Experts say that it will only be here until May when it will migrate back to Spain. Other species likely to join the exodus are the "Daka" and the "Winks" (rarely seen outside it´s native London)

Agreed. Which is why it was, and still is, a mystery to me why, in the summer of 2024, they signed Okoli and loaned Nelson to Oxford. We wasted 12 million quid, plus wages, to end up with a worse player

When I first saw him I thought "He looks like a centre half" Then I saw him play and I changed my mind He is physically weak for a man of his size, technically poor and brain dead Apart from that.....

Yes. I thought It made a refreshing change when they played it at the last Commonwealth games, when an English athlete received a gold medal

Thanks, although some of the figures must be wrong (e.g. I don't think he earns 10.8 M euros a month) He was great in 2020-21 at Leicester before his form dipped and Rogers refused to pick/help him. Since then his career has gone from bad to worse. A pity.

Also, India has greatly increased it's imports of Russian oil in the last 2 years

Translation please

So, who DID know him and who was responsible for signing him? I appreciate it was a "wild card" loan as they were clutching at straws, with no cash to spend. I hope he creates/scores some goals to keep us up. I saw a compilation clip of him playing in the Chelseas U21s against West Ham. He looked like Fatawu - playing on the right but all left foot.

Who ate all the pies?🥧

Your story and that of Alf Bentley are definately good cop bad cop

Perhaps we met! I was there for 3 years, at the University, between 84 and 88. I went back about 7 years ago for a visit. I thought the new area next to the Kennet, with the places to eat and drink, was nice (and the new railway station extension!)

This was in the 1980s, when I lived there. I dont know if it´s very polluted but it´s a reasonably big river in Reading. It´s surprising the size of the fish that get caught in small rivers and canals. In the Erewash canal pike and carp of upto 20 lb have been caught.

Was that the driver's first and last driving job?

If the bloke had been carrying fish and chips he might have got battered

Can they play left back?

Why is It that after a home game there is always one bloke trying to cycle against a tide of thousands of fans?

One for the anglers. Walking through Reading on the way to Elm Park, I watched a bloke battling a fish he'd hooked in the River Kennet. After 5 mins he pulled out a barbel of about 6 lbs.

Sadly enough I think I remember that photo. Is it from Carry on Camping? I seem to remember Barbara Windsor (playing a 16 year old) doing some vigorous exercises and her Bristols popped out (for half a second)

Now the title of the topic has been changed, new readers won´t get your joke. A pity because it was a classic!

I thought this might happen. I suppose our game against BC will be moved to the Wednesday without waiting for the outcome of PV-BC

Mid 90s - drove over to Grimsby, parked the car, put the radio on and heard the game had been postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. Similarly, on the way to Brighton, on the train, at the last stop before Brighton they announced the game had been postponed, due to a flooded pitch. We went to the replayed games and Leicester won both of them

Better still if two of them (or two food delivery blokes) crashed into each other