Spudulike

Just watched Dear England on iPlayer. Expecting it to be rubbish but it was actually really good. Follows Southgate's arrival when the England team were at their lowest ebb after the Iceland humiliation and the Big Sam scandal. Saw similarities with the psychology of our players, noteably the will to win and spilling over into a can't be bothered attitude due in some part to the heavy burden of history. 2015/16 will never be bettered. We all know that and neither will 1966. Probably.

More shit chatting and banging.... https://www.itv.com/presscentre/media-releases/itv1-and-itvx-commissions-new-reality-series-vardys

That's just pillow talk.

I feel the Derby 11pts record is going to be under threat next season. Which is a shame.

The season from hell for this club.

'Undisclosed fee' to Qatar, apparently. Thought it was another loan.

No mention of Soumare? Are we still paying him until end of June? Probably still have to pay a portion of Wout's wages for his next (final) year loan.

That was money well spent then. Probably next season's parachute money gone.

All the footage of players celebrating wildly together whilst watching an on-screen match elsewhere seems so stage managed since our players did it round at Vardy's in 2016. Don't ever remember it being done before as the players are not together. Just seems expected now and another part of the plastic Premier League. Was it done before 2016?

Vardy and LCFC was a match made in heaven. Worked out alright.

Hull will have been training and building to this match. 'Boro not so much.

Or it could be an out-of-contract candidate that fit's the 'available' criteria but won't currently commit until other options have been explored and dismissed. Agents will be touting their clients far and wide.

Saw a bit last night and thought the Switzerland entry was ok, a bit Billy Eyelash. That said, I'm not sure that Switzerland are taking part? Perhaps I was watching something else, not Eurovision. I dunno.

That is sad. Ours are still frantically feeding so I'm assuming they still have a few hungry chicks. They get through a couple of big handfulls of soaked mealworms every day. Although shared with a pair of Great Tits that must have a brood close by. Must be fledging soon.

Same for me. Went to every game of the '74 run and never recovered after that night at Villa Park. Not quite as bad in '82 but accepted that we would never win it. Wasn't able to go to Wembley in '21 due to the covid risk. My Dad (massive City fan) died from it the January before and I didn't want to join him. Watched it on TV with my lad and the Tieleman's winner will live forever. Never swap that for a UCL qualification.

Passing it on to the customer, that's the phrase, isn't it. Someones got to pay for the Christmas party bubbly.

Which restaurants? I'm down that way next week. I'll swerve them.

Not me but my Dad decided to go for a pee at Wembley just after David Kelly scored the equalizer in the 2000 League Cup final. His plan was to beat the rush before going into the expected extra-time. He was still standing at the urinal when he heard the roar. I didn't even mention it afterwards as he was so gutted to have missed Elliott's winner.

Which is why Reform have hatched the policy for building immigration detention centres in Green voting constituences. The meltdown, they claim, has exposed this 'refugees welcome but not in my back yard'.

I went on those 'Rock against racism' marches in the late 70's and wore my 'Pogo on a Nazi' badge with pride. Might be why I'm disturbed by the current wave of activism being stoked by some with a platform who's motives may not be genuine.

This is all true, of course it is. My post was too generalised when it was actually in response to the point about artists using the Israel/Palestine conflict to get cheap approval from the audience. Antisemitism has become acceptable mainstream. It's frightening. Just for the record, I spent my late teenage years at the very beginning of the punk era and the very early 2-Tone so politics in music is nothing new to me. However, it was never lectured in the way it is now.

Amusing?! I'm with Noel Gallagher on this. Sick to death of it. They need a new trendy cause to latch on to. The last thing I want at a gig is to be lectured on politics.

I can't believe that Labour would go into the next GE with Starmer as PM and this current front bench. It would be the end of them for a generation, or more. Their best, probably only, chance is to somehow get Burnham in but only within 6-12 months before the GE. Not enough opportunity to completely mess it up and can blame the previous imcumbent(s). Labour are masters at that. Ramp up the spin, new brush etc, and hope for some traction. It's all about timing.

No, it's nothing like that.