Jon the Hat

It was a gamble which actually worked, though Coady had little to do with the promotion.

They cannot believe this is harsh. They certainly believe the league should not tell them what to do with their money. We have a weird situation where the board is completely complicit in the outcome, so who hold who responsible? Useless governance.

Fine if that's your immediate reaction to the news but don't forget this is a new low for this football club.

Anyone who expects 16/17 year olds to have good judgement clearly doesn't have a 16/17 child, or a good memory.

Its amazing how in these 3M documents there appears to be not a single identifiable email from Trump.

Lets give the guy a chance, he has to be better than our players who don't want to be here and are running down their contracts.

Not sure what you’re getting at here? There is clearly a huge cover up going on - it’s no coincidence that few American names have come up this week. Many people should be in jail for this industrial scale abuse, but it’s not going to happen under Trump.

We have a strategic branch?? Who is that? We certainly don’t have an executive with CEO, technical director and commercial director vacant.

I am sure he forgot about it as soon as he put the phone down and hasn't given it a moment's thought.

Gerrimin. Huth 2.0

At least it is something.

So much riding on getting the right people in now, and so little hope of them getting it right. Sigh.

I saw something earlier claiming he was some sort of terrorist for being part of a signal group communicating where ICE where so they could find them to block them.

I do wonder if the facts are known and they are waiting for the right moment to take him down. No not wonder, hope.

The Ian Allan publishing works used to be down the road from me as a kid in Surrey.

I walked past a Foot Locker the other day, and I go to Woolworths regularly. Not quite the same as they were in the UK though. Woolies = Sainsburys, Footlocker seems to be 50% clothes. Still does trainers though.

No indeed. Two Corsa's in the pic and the one on the right is 2000 on I think. Classic 85/86 plate transit though.

Usually the sign of an ignorant ****wit in my opinion.

Bloody hell that is on point. Reminds me of this brilliant piece of writing from his first term. "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

I like Mads, and I hope if he goes to Spurs he gets some game time and shows what he can do. West Ham are as mental as us squad wise.

I mean the authorities will not want to be embarrassed by Di Marco again, it will be agreed quietly not in court.

Absolutely. Talks will be well underway with the deduction being negotiated. Deal done by the time it is announced. They will not want to be embarrassed again by our legal team.

If there is one thing we learned this year, it is that you absolutely can.

The internet is still off in Iran I guess.

It is a hugely important airfield for the USAF, and also a base of equipment which allows the US to put troops on the ground on a huge area of the globe with equipment in a few days rather than weeks, and from a secure well defended base which no one can sink. The fact the CIA no doubt also use if for nefarious offshore activities doesn't change that.