DJ Barry Hammond

Stolz would be serviceable I reckon - especially if he’s allowed to hit long more (it seemed like he felt obliged to play short even in situations it wasn’t wise last season). Put it this way - if not this season, he’ll be firmly asking the question over the number 1 spot next year. Another factor to keep in mind - as good as Mads was last year, he’s got to show it again at a higher level… and while he seems more than capable of growing and excelling this season, there’s always a possibility he doesn’t because, you know, form can go two ways.

Kepa’s awful, why would want him?

Well, this is where it becomes more complex. The Conservative Party is made up of various internal groupings who have their own ideas on what it means to be Conservative - you may have heard of the “5 families” term, that has been used of late to indicate the ideological splits within the party? One of these groups is the Conservative Growth Group or CGG who’s ideas centre around the economy - they want free markets, lower taxes and smaller state - and a key idea behind all this; implementing Keynesian style economics. With Johnson resigning, this group probably saw Truss - who had been Cosplaying as Margaret Thatcher for the best part of a year - as the best choice they had within their ranks to get their hands on the reigns of power. I also estimate that within the group they probably viewed Truss as a ‘useful idiot’ - a puppet they could manage - after all this is someone that’s gone from being a Lib Dem, a Remainer and a fanatic of ‘Pork Markets’ to a staunch Brexiter. Clearly what they didn’t account for was what would happen once Truss got her head in front, as she ploughed head first into metaphorical fence after metaphorical fence whilst trying to bolt towards the finish line - and how much reflective damage this has caused to the image of their economic ideas. Suffice to say, the descriptive ‘useful’ is no longer used when referring to Truss.

The Tory party membership didn’t want to vote for the short brown guy.

Iversen will leave in this window - either permanently or on loan.

I’m sure I’ve seen suggestions we played a simple 4-4-2 here Strider… might have just been a case of playing a formation that aided getting players minutes in the right positions.

A todos los que publican los tuits del Villarreal en español: ¿cuándo se dieron cuenta de que tenían una versión en inglés?

To all those posting the Villarreal tweets in Spannish - when did you realise they had an English version?

Oh! Cooper in

Cooper out

Centre half is a position you don’t tend to take too many risks with - ideally you want a settled and regular pairing and of course you don’t substitue them in game that often either… so it makes giving Nelson a chance a little trickier. Alves on the otherhand - the positon(s) he plays gives him more scope to get in the matchday squad and then game time if deemed good enough - you almost always change one of your wingers.

Signed by Chelsea 😏

Fab and co no doubt get their source info from agents, they’re not regional reporters. JP is East Midlands football correspondent, who goes to matches and no doubt plenty of dinners with people high up in the club. I’d also suggest that given we as a club like to do our business in a low key fashion - Percy wading in now must mean this is very close. To the flight tracker people!

I’d suggest JP’s will be closer to the mark here given his contacts are clearly with us.

Could it be all the previous reports were eminated from Juventus in the hope of attracting a higher bid?

For me it was the complete lack of hazard perception he showed. There are certain situations where upmost caution is the better play - and riding into a wedge against a bus is probably one of them as a cyclist. Add in that in the video Vine shows himself; • In a rush to get past • making a blind overtake • (presumably) himself moving around a vehicle without indicating • Making a close pass / attempting to push through a tight gap • escalating a situation afterwards; It’s not exactly helpful in creating better attitudes on the roads is it!

Who’s delivering that Daggers? I have a sneaky suspicion that’s a Royal Mail estimate!

This guy is getting a little too self-important for his own good. Mean, he’s not even the best Vine sibling! Anyway - this particular cycling clip of his peeved me today. He was duly challenged by me and others over his part in the incident and he didn’t like it!

Reckon it was the motorised chair user that tipped the cop car - pegged it out of his seat, up and over, back in his wheels and off he went. ”I want that one!”

I think it’s pretty much confirmed - there’s a video of the apparent father on Twitter going around. There’s also suggestions a local councillor or two were on the scene too.

It’s certainly an ‘interesting’ set of sentances @EnderbyFox I’ve only read a couple of summary newspaper reports, but I believe the 5 were regularly pissing the judge off and received several contempt of court charges during the trial - not likely to help you when it comes to sentancing. It was also suggested that the policing cost was in the region of £1 million. I expect both the charges and sentences to be appealed - and possible shortened - but I think the end result will still be a custodial sentence. What is also clear is to characterise the actions as merely a ‘protest’ is disingenuous - the actions crossed a line.

I very much doubt any of the rioters really knew what they were rioting about. But if you have media creating divisions - groups will try to protect their own, regardless of whether that makes any sense at all. The situation in NI is another example.

I’m not so sure about that. The sheer numbers there meant it was a difficult situation to police in the moment. Would Yorkshire police have had the tactical numbers of riot trained police and appropriate vehicles on hand, midway through on a Thursday evening? We can see from the footage they did have a go and sensibly decided to withdraw - so I think the suggestion the lack of action was down to ‘who’ was causing trouble is an unfair suggestion to make.

It’s awkward in situations like this though, because they always have the best footage of the monumental craziness that’s going on!

Been a busy old news day today and includes the Daily Mail doing a 180 on their opinion on Judges!