Paninistickers

It's a fantastic tournament. The ECB, of course, despise it. As they do the t20. But it feels a throw back to the old NatWest that was played over the summer holidays. Settling in for a day's cricket. Loads of outgrounds being used too. Outgrounds being the unsung brilliance of English cricket (and antidote to that ECB hula hoop garbage)

I'll have a go at this and suggest that not all those who are concerned/opposed to mass and rapid immigration are 'far right' Fwiw, I'm a pro European, staunch remainer who would never ever hold a view against someone based alone on skin colour or religion or nationality. But there's many on here who would equate to the 'far right' my personal serious concerns of (literally) millions entering the country legally and illegally for (understandable) economic reasons but have almost zero interest in the UK

I think many of us would support the use of firearms in these circumstances.. Certainly taser them. I can only imagine those officers on duty were PCSOs Taser. Arrest. Charge. Aggravating features. Hand out maximum sentence of four years. Parliament should introduce a bill upgrading knife crime to life sentence as a maximum

Seems absolute madness to have kept the images though. Depends on the mood of the judge. Won't questions be asked why on earth did he continue to engage with this fella? Surely you'd block him and bin off that phone and its storage as a matter of immense urgency. That said, I think Edwards is more likely to receive an 'understanding' judge,.same age, same social class etc than a vindictive one.

I'm always amazed that in 1850 or whatever, there were no trains. By 1900, literally every single line, bridge, tunnel, viaduct and station we have today we're all built. Then we ripped half of them up again 60 years later. We are a very odd country. 1800s to 1950 or so with the creation on the NHS we just went for it. Ever since we look to penny pinch and short cut and patch up at every opportunity

Corby has a station. But I get your point. So frustrating for coalville but Leicester's poor connections to surrounding towns - Cov, Rugby, Northampton (in addition to the Ivanhoe line of coalville and Ashby) - hurt its own economy too.

I'm surprised at the detail and gravity of his offences. I had expected the images were going to be of his 17 yo sugar baby. Yet apparently no crimes committed there. His barrister is not making a defence. He's pled guilty. But his team are entitled to provide mitigation. My own opinion on reading the details is that there isn't much mitigation though. If this fella sent through some unsolicited filth, you'd either go to the police (as in the case of the girlfriend you mentioned above) or if you feared being arrested anyway like she was, you'd smash the phone with a hammer burn it and chuck the embers in a random skip.

Very rare a story upsets me. Most stories seem too distant, too remote. But this event and the John Hunt story a couple of weeks ago are both cut very deep. So unbelievably painful for the families

Since Alan Yung

Illegal immigration isn't even close to the problem. It's legal immigration that's fcking us over. The elderly have swapped European immigration - under freedom of movement - for some kind of ghastly student/nurse visa system that brings in all sorts from Timbuktu that haven't a scintilla of interest in the UK.

Should've been booted years and years ago.

Rachel Reeves having to cut road and rail projects, so says the news. That's gonna be bad for this (tho the scheme is half baked anyway)

Teams very quickly adopted a shoot on sight policy when Ward was in goal. The clearest example was Chilwell lining up that volley for two or three seconds, everyone in the stadium could see him lining it up except for Ward, who instead was busy organising his defence. Chilwell didn't really connect but, as per pre match instructions no doubt, so long as it's on target it has helluva chance of going in.

If we had a bubonic plague equivalent doing the rounds, count me in. . This was never ever in that league. I guess the whole exercise was a decent dry run for a virus that does actually threaten our existence though (however, I suspect antibiotic resistance will prove the far likeliest problem in the next 50 years)

Tbf, you come across as a very reasonable debater. I enjoy reading your well put views on this subject. We'll have to agree to disagree that we could've done virtually nothing with covid and the outcomes would still be ( more or less) what life is for us all today. After all, COVID has now been downgraded to what I personally considered it in the first place - a bit of a sniffle and head cold. But that's not the point. The point is, you have a view. Punters like @Daggers do too. But he's quite abusive with it. Which I'm fine with as frankly, I find him a total oddball. Not just on this subject, but on most items I see him chirping on.

Mate, there's a hardcore of people on here that assume any questions about COVID equate to a MAGA Trumpian / Tommy Robinson fanboy / conspiracy nutter Some people simply cannot tolerate a counter argument that lockdown may well have caused as problems as it solved. I think such a stance says alot of them themselves and their viewpoint

Oof. Not impressed with that.

They were at the start. I think it was @st albans fox made the excellent point earlier that Enzo inherited a set of players desperate for leadership and eager to buy into anything. Towards the end of the season, that wasn't the case. Vardy was public about the players' meeting and I'm sure it was Coady in a radio interview over the summer hinted that the dressing room needed to sort out a way over the line. John Percy also tweeted that a portion of players weren't disappointed to see him go (tho in fairness that was probs those who'd been excluded, such as Coady and Souttar) Edit; the crowd also contributed to wins v Norwich and West Brom, when the players responded to essentially binning off his tactics

Enzo got away with murder with us. Everything that could've gone right went right. We/he got the desperately needed good start courtesy of fortunate wins v Cov, Huddersfield, Cardiff and Rotherham. All to be honest would've been fairer as draws. Then we got some fear factor in that October period and certain games - stoke, preston - spring to mind the opposition had convinced themselves they were beat before a ball was kicked. I thought from Sheff Weds and West Brom onwards cracks started to appear....we were conceding late goals every game and having to hang on in games we shouldve destroyed the oppo In the end, the players were just too good and had enough to see us over the line. We were promoted in spite of Enzo, not because of him

Yup, sure. Good job that, unlike teachers, all shop workers did live in isolation. All NHS staff fortunately didn't have the communal housing that teachers had. Amazon workers, TV presenters, Lorry drivers too, all of them lived in solitary. The basics were that it wasn't harmful to anyone under 60 odd unless they were very very unwell or very very very unlucky.

Absolutely. Not only that, when Arsenal bring on Nelson to 'chase a game', it's a drop dead giveaway that they aren't good enough. Soon as he's is on, it's game over. He's nowhere near their level. And I'd be surprised if someone so far off Thier level has an impact at the wrong end of the table Funnily enough, I'd rip your arm off for Smith Rowe tho.

True, but in friendlies so far we are playing the back up (ward) to the back up's (Stolarcyk) back up (Iversen) Below that level, you are talking willy Cabellero or Stowell playing....and many people (me included) would choose them two above Ward.

I agree Iversen isn't quite there but as a back up, he's there or there abouts. We can't realistically employ another keeper, back up upon back up. As for Ward, had Iversen have played all season we'd have been at least 4 or 5 points better off - and stayed up

If the money was right, I'd sell. Play Iversen for the next six months til Stolarcyk is ready. Write off the fact that we'll then lose Iversen for free end of season (rather than accept Derby's bid of two dairyleas and a pack of ham) Iversen gets PL football for at least half a season

You can imagine the chat with Adidas. Can you spray some gold to tribute Top please?