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On MotD 2 last night they were saying that we look more like an established PL team than a newly-promoted side (in contrast to Ipswich and Southampton). It made me wonder whether our much-criticized summer transfer policy of targeting players with PL experience might have something to do with it.

To everyone surprised that Mavidid isn’t starting - did any of you actually see him when he came on on Tuesday?

He was dropped on Tuesday, too.

This is interesting. Apparently Ruud has been tracking Daka since his Salzburg days and tried to sign him from us when he was manager at PSG... https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/ruud-van-nistelrooy-already-knows-9769273

I’ll be hugely disappointed if the ‘Who are you?’ isn’t Peter Canero.

The word among West Ham fans is that Sullivan does not rate Potter and is unlikely to go for him…

Southampton and Wolves have both recently taken a point against Brighton and they're below us in the table. It's doable.

He really didn't. Has he picked up a knock or has he been ill?

In morning meetings in workplaces across Nottinghamshire this morning, the first item on the agenda will be how much they don’t care about us. Neighbours chatting over their garden fences will chuckle at how irrelevant we are to them. Christmas shoppers exchanging pleasantries in the Victoria Centre will ask each other, “Do you care about Leicester?” And every time the reply will come, “Absolutely not!”

Hopefully this is one of those one-in-fifty occasions when Pete O’Rourke is actually right about something.

If anything it's even more disturbing to think they were actually trying on Saturday...

RvN apparently approached us about the job when Maresca left, but for whatever reason the club decided to go for Cooper instead. Presumably he must have made a decent impression, though, given the club went back to him when they decided Cooper's goose was cooked...

So what were they trying to achieve on Saturday? To prevent Dawson from being invited to join RVN's coaching staff? To get back at Top because he told them off about their party in Copenhagen?!

I don't think Souttar can be recalled.

Yeah I know. I was probably thinking more about how I'm still feeling after Saturday....

It will be delayed until the staff at Seagrave succeed in coaxing Ruud out of the toilet cubicle he's locked himself, then dry his eyes and tell him everything will be ok, before ushering him to the media centre.

Do you mean humane like in Canada, where elderly and disabled people are often made to feel a burden on the healthcare system if they don’t agree to let themselves be killed? And where it’s going to get even worse when assisted suicide is expanded to include those solely suffering from mental health conditions? Or perhaps you mean the Netherlands, where physically healthy young people are euthanised to ‘cure’ conditions such as depression and anxiety? To allow certain categories of human being to submit to their own murder is essentially to say that some lives have less moral worth than others - that some people are so burdensome that maybe they should consider ending their own lives to spare society the cost of their care, whether they feel ready to die or not. Once you cross over into that territory, there is no amount of safeguarding that will prevent some people feeling an obligation to submit to being given a lethal dose of poison because they feel they are burden to their family or to society. The draft bill for the UK would even allow doctors to suggest assisted dying to vulnerable patients even if the patient hasn’t mentioned it themselves. That pressure, either spoken or unspoken, will always be there and many, many people will end up dying feeling terrified as they are poisoned to death out of sense of duty rather than because they really want to. I have deep sympathy for people who are terminally ill, but the only humane solution to that is better palliative care. This bill is taking the UK into a territory that devalues human life and is going to mean that large numbers of vulnerable people submit to being killed because the state has determined that their lives are less worthy than others. It’s an utterly barbaric development that will have absolutely terrible consequences. The fact that some people have somehow managed to convince themselves that assisted dying is ‘humane’ only makes the whole thing even more tragic.

It isn’t even a ‘massive if’, though. It’s a stone cold impossibility. They are not going to get this legislation right and we are moving inexorably to a future in which vulnerable people who are not ready to die will be coerced into doing so, either explicitly or implicitly, by their families, the medical profession or societal expectations. I absolutely guarantee you that there is no way of legalising euthanasia that will not result in horrendous abuses. Tonight’s vote means this country is already a much darker, more sinister and less humane place than it was yesterday.

It’s not about how long it’s taken objectively - it’s about how long it has felt for some people. Feelings over facts 😉

I’m very much on the ‘no’ side and I’m utterly horrified that the vote has gone through. The implications are massive and I just don’t think most MPs could get their heads around them.

That's pretty much how I read it, yes.

He didn't say that, though. He was pointing out that all teams concede goals, and illustrated that by pointing out that we've scored in all our games bar one. In fact, he explicitly said that we need to get better at scoring goals: "We want to be conceding fewer and scoring more and hopefully that starts tomorrow.”

I joined a while after you by the sounds of it, but I'm not sure exactly how long as I've no idea when the school opened...

It depends on the personal hygiene of the lady in question.