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There's the turd nugget on top of this shitcake of a season then. I hate football.

Taiwan may as well just get Ukraine on the phone and strike a deal to produce drones with them. Russia has found it hard enough mounting a land invasion, good bloody luck to the Chinese doing it from the sea with a finite number of ships when their target has essentially got an opportunity to throw an endless supply of manless kamikazes at them for £2000 a pop. US military gear, as crazy as it sounds, is outdated and behind the curve. The advent of drones has been a huge leveller and countries with traditional militaries are being left behind, as the meat grinder of young Russians in Ukraine proves. Why spend millions on missiles and anti aircraft guns when you could do the same damage with something you could whip up in a garage for a few grand? And yes, sure, China could absolutely fight back with drones, like Russia is now doing. But again, having to do it from the sea, with a finite supply, from navy ships that are more or less sitting ducks... it won't be nearly as easy for them as some people think.

Depends which ones though. The likes of Vestergaard, Skipp and Choudhury are all in contract and not shifting them is going to sting us massively unless by some miracle they have League One relegation clauses and significant ones at that. If the £2 million TV revenue figure is true, Choudhury alone is reportedly on 50k a week which is more than we'd earn. Him and Skipp alone would cost us £5.2 million next year in wages and we'd need them to take a 50% pay cut to even entertain being compliant. Even if we both finished top and rode the maximum number of TV appearances, and backed it up with cup run prize money, we're going to struggle to clear £10 million which makes 65% of that (£6.5 million) almost certainly untenable. Basically, King Power are going to have to pull another incredibly dodgy advertising deal out of their arse to cover our wage bill, or we're nailed on for another points deduction. And let's face it, aside from another BC Game scam company, nobody is paying the money we need for the complete lack of exposure that comes with third-tier football.

Thought I was on General Football and Sport for a split second, then remembered. Just in time for our arrival! But nah, the rules are looser, we're just going to spend our way out of the league eh KPFC gang? Absolutely no way in hell we comply even with the extra 15% leeway, let alone make wholesale squad changes through the transfer market.

Well that's where he's dead, dead wrong. Spurs going down is something the football world as a whole will never, ever let them live down even if they claw their way back at the first time of asking. We live in the permanently online banter era and them - a Greedy Six proponent of the breakaway league - going down is the second biggest thing to happen in the Premier League era behind... well, us winning it. People won't forget. It'll be something they get the piss taken out of them on the terraces forevermore. Think 'third in a two horse race' on steroids, from every club. 'Who went down from a six team league?' Tottenham f***ing Hotspur'

Two teams saved in one season? Rowett masterclass.

About time Restore stood a candidate in one of these - would be very interesting how many votes they cream off of Reform when they contest seats. That's about all I'm clinging to as far as the next General Election goes: it would be very funny if we're spared PM Farage because the right does what the left normally does and tears itself apart over ideological purity. Bonus points if the wolves are kept at the door long enough to implement voting system change to kill off the chances of them ever getting a parliamentary majority. Back to Burnham - he's popular in Manchester because he communicates the things his administration does. That alone would be night and day if he takes the PM's job and actually has a comms strategy, rather than just letting Labour take a battering from all corners and being ignored when they do something right.

Scenes when Saints get a 50 points deduction, relegating them and leaving us... Oh, third bottom and down anyway. Never mind.

nahhhhh had to be seniorman

Cartwright comes on and we're catching strays about relegation on the commentary, is nothing sacred For what it's worth, Falkirk would absolutely smash us from what I've seen tonight, they play good counter-attacking football, were unlucky not to bag early on.

Boro choking under pressure like they have done all season it seems

Not unless he's willing to be a bit-part off the bench and mentor young players. Next year is just that crucial - not in the sense of our financial future relying on instant promotion, but in the sense that we need a bonfire of everything that has gone before. We can't afford to bollocks up the rebuild for the sake of sentimentality, even if a 39-40 year old Vardy would still bag plenty at League One level. And that's not just me talking with blue tinted glasses, he's got seven goals in Serie A for a relegation fodder side while being injured for long spells, which is more than Ayew and Daka have managed all season in the Championship. I voted yes, but only in the sort of role Dickov had last time we were in the third tier. And that would frankly require a manager of Pearson's caliber to happen, so I'm doubtful.

It would be very 2020s Labour for them to spend two years chasing Reform votes by engaging in the culture war, then deciding to follow that up with a guy who has been on record as wanting parts of the NHS privatised. I guess in their heads, do all Reform's work for them so they don't have anything to take credit for after the next election.

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.