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I'm sorry, the biggest what?

Rochdale on course for the mother of all fumbles then? Say what you want about the single automatic promotion place, but the thought that if they'd not had that pitch invasion they'd probably be up right now is going to haunt them forever.

Goooallll

Think it was the 60s bunch that really ruined it for everyone personally. Young adults through the peak of Thatcherism and a huge number swallowed it whole. I grew up with the weird juxtaposition of spending weekends at my Gran's council house in Braunstone with Dad, while both parents waxed lyrical about how great the right to buy scheme had been, without even a hint of irony that they both grew up in state-provided houses that my generation would have to fight tooth and nail for years to access. Grandparents on Mum's side had of course bought theirs in the 80s. Then again, I also remember my gran fighting tooth and nail to stop the council giving her free double glazing. Didn't need or want it apparently.

Justice for Dorothy

Labour have a remarkable history of backing the wrong horse, whether that was Foot, Corbyn, or the wrong Miliband brother. And now they're doing it all over again by letting Starmer cling to power like a limpet on a ship, when it's bleeding obvious that Andy Burnham is the only figure who has even a small chance of reversing their fortunes before the next election. They had their chance with Gorton and Denton and instead decided to hand it to the Greens on a platter and show them to be a viable home for left-leaning Labour voters. Pure self-immolation from a position of power.

From personal experience, I'm afraid you are. Well, at least if you genuinely mean it, that is. My parents have always claimed similar but their politics is absolutely rotten and their brains have been rotted ever since the days of Thatcher. Purely self-serving, and they've now progressed from Tory to Reform. Somehow their idea of 'looking after the next generation' is to hoard all the housing stock, enable the selling off of all the publicly owned assets, oppose any and all development, kneecap the country's ability to be a global leader in modern technologies, then try to tell my generation it's the fault of immigrants that the country is on its knees while simultaneously trying to gaslight us into believing we've never had it so good and should just work harder. Ten years from now, when they have huge private medical bills and social care has been dismantled, I'll be telling them where to go if they want me to help foot the bill. They can work it out for themselves since it's clearly what they support. Mum in particular, who now has five holidays a year and a paid-off mortgage while I'm still clawing around to get a deposit together in my mid-30s, can pay for it herself. While I'm on my soapbox, does anyone know how to lock GBeebies on a Sky Box to stop it brainwashing family members? Asking for a friend.

The Net Zero thing is the biggest swindle Reform have going. It's an actual disgrace and a terrifying thought that they could tear up the work we've done over the last 10-20 years to become a world leader in renewables. A lot of their platform I'm kind of just resigned to and making plans to mitigate in my own life if they get power in 2029. But the climate change denial and their blatant backhanders from the oil and coal industries make me genuinely angry. It's going to cost this country A) tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of jobs, B) our place as a global leader on wind and now solar and C) undermine our energy security and double down on making us beholden to what happens in places like the Middle East and Russia. I'd go as far as to call it traitorous.

My #1 tip to anyone right now would be, if you don't have it already, to start a savings pot for private healthcare insurance, so you can get on BUPA or something equivalent with full cover by 2029. Not because I agree with it in the slightest, but because by the mid 2030s you might bloody well need it. While I don't believe Reform would be capable of dismantling the NHS entirely in one term before the country gets the mother of all buyer's regret, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's been ground down to the point that it resembles the dental sector, where it's technically still available but you have to get lucky in the postcode lottery then queue around the neighbourhood just to get an NHS GP. And then get charged more than you should anyway.

Social media has emboldened grifters and turned huge swathes of the population (especially boomers) into reactionary drones. Goes for both sides of the political spectrum, but the right capitalised on it first and more or less gained a monopoly on minds who didn't grow up with the internet. Only takes a quick look at Facebook to see how unbelievably stupid some people are when it comes to taking what they see online at face value. And that was the case BEFORE AI came into the equation...

Meh, on this occasion it's an absolute piss-take that they've been forced into this competition - it should have been them getting spanked at Villa Park tonight, not Forest. If the end result of those corrupt bastards worming their way into the Europa League is that Palace win the cup they should have been competing for while they get nothing, I'd take that.

It would be nice if this is the turning point in the misery. I still don't think we're quite done yet, but if next season becomes some sort of almighty readjustment where the end result is us, Coventry, Forest and Derby all playing Championship football I'll be hopeful that nature is healing. I can't see it personally for as long as Top and Rudkin call the shots, but I guess we'll find out. It's just been a relentless battering with literally everything that could possibly go wrong for a Leicester fan going wrong for the past two years - both for us and for our local rivals. Between Derby bottling the playoffs and Forest's god-given right to European glory ending in humiliation, there's finally a small, pathetic morsel of schadenfreude to enjoy from our historic low point.

Sidepoint but Morgan Gibbs-White looked like Randy at the end of that one South Park episode

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YES MCGINN

Embarassed to confess that I was in the "he pumps his fists occasionally so he's going to be the next Stuart Pearce" crowd when he first arrived. I'm genuinely sorry. In my defence I'd already worked out he was shit by the time we were first relegated.

It looks shite, adds absolutely nothing to the game and the sort of thing nobody except suits in the EPL boardroom would come up with.

Palhinha showing more passion in 10 seconds there than our tossers did all season

Villa clearly saving themselves to spank Forest in the second leg and simultaneously dunk them back into the relegation battle then?

What the f***ing hell is this RefCam bollocks? game's gone right up its own arse

Gwon Fuchs

Well at least we can now say it was boardroom malpractice that sent us down. Imagine if this horrible lot had kept us up by a point...

What's the point, it'll just be 10 pages of people posting the link to this thread

not good enough for us apparently

decided to watch the last few minutes and the blackburn comms are glazing the keeper for a "stunning save" from Ayew... it was dead centre, right down his throat. That's the level we're at EDIT - BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO