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Pretty sure little kids, disabled people and old ladies do all go to hell tbf. We are supposedly all born in a state of sin and anyone who hasn’t asked for forgiveness for that sin-from-birth supposedly does.

Feels like every other month a story comes up circulating that Putin or Kim Jong-Un is on the verge of death or actually dead though tbf. There's even a wikipedia article on the phenemonen. Predictions of Vladimir Putin's death or incapacity - Wikipedia

Not least, refusing to forgive a human being almost 15 years later for failing to score a goal in a football match, I don’t see how it’s healthy to hold that level of resentment, that doesn’t mean you “felt the low” of the actual moment any less. Same with other posts on here like they want to see Vestaegaard dropped because of last season and they can’t forgive him for the relegation when he’s playing well this season. It’s almost like it’s a competition for some people on how hardcore a fan they are and how much they hate anyone who even slightly makes a mistake or does something slightly wrong against the club.

Agreed. I criticised him a bit the first 3 or 4 matches, but he’s been excellent recently and really took the game by the scruff the neck yesterday. He was excellent in that second half, felt like everything was going through him.

Very harsh not giving the opposition any credit tbh. They’ve defended well and countered at the right times abd played with loads of energy. Can’t remember another time who played with such energy so far.

Entertaining game. Think Swansea have been the best side we have faced so far.

No it hasn’t. History has never shown anyone as bad as the current hard right Tory party from 2019-present. This isn’t a normal Tory party, the UKIP wing took control of the party and purged the moderate wing of the party after the Brexit vote and has run the country and party into the ground with its absurd immigrant-baiting, culture war, anti-protest and libertarian policies and passed bills taking out the checks and balances that make democracy work. Again, it’s obvious you’re a Tory posing as a “centrist” doing the classic Tory tactic of “they’re all as bad as each other”, which is the easiest answer and most basic propaganda technique there is.

Erm, you said you wanted them in. ok, so you’re one of those people who claim they’re a “centrist” despite always taking the right wing position… And of course they’ll do a better job ffs. Are you kidding me? Regardless of economic position, there’s no way they’d pass unethical, 17th century shit like the Rwanda plan, the nations and borders bill or the anti-protest laws. Immigrants, dual citizens, refugees, trans people and other minorities won’t get endless rhetoric and whipping up of hatred towards them and laws passed against them turning them into second class people. That’s an obvious improvement for starters. And how exactly could they make the economy any worse than Liz Truss did ffs! Tanked the economy in 2 weeks with her proposed libertarian utopia. Starmer literally can just sit there on the beach for 2 weeks and he’d have done a better job.

I’m sure history will already treat Liz Truss as the worst PM in British history, don’t worry about it.

I don’t understand your point. Austerity was an ideological choice by the Tory party. It wasn’t an inevitability as a response to the global financial crisis and the place the UK economy was at in 2010, plenty of countries chose QE instead. Blaming the 2010 Labour government for austerity is a new one to me, not seen that tactic before.

I’d take 2010 Britain in a heartbeat today tbh. Those days seem like a virtual paradise compared to 2023 post-Brexit, post-covid, post-Truss Britain.

They’ve already had 3 leaders since the last election and 5 leaders since 2016, Tories always sell themselves as being stable leadership, so another leader change just adds to their current perception of chaos. I don’t think another leadership change does them any favours whatsoever. I think they already know they’ve lost and are probably thinking more about how to get back into power in 2029/30 instead.

Yeah, that's it exactly. I also think there's a good chance all 5 nations will qualify at any rate. This just doesn't sit right with me at all though. It feels like a very old fashioned and outdated view of nationality and it is creating two tiers of citizenship and literally telling people they're second class citizens, and while, sure, why there are people who might exploit the system, these rules will inherently rule out people who move country because they fell in love with a person from another country or were forced to leave their homeland for whatever reason or because they moved there for work or studies and ended up feeling at home there. Ultimately, I'd much rather the rules lead far more towards openness and integration than to exclusivity and creating an idea that you have to be "a certain type of citizen" to represent your country. There's nothing to say that if they've lived in that country for several years they don't feel at home there anyway, regardless of what the original intention was. And there's nothing to say that just because someone was born and brought up in a country they genuinely feel a great pride it in either. I can't say I particularly feel anything towards the UK in comparison to other countries, it's just a set of imaginary lines my parents were living in when I was born, can't say I had any choice in the matter. The idea you have the "identify with" or "feel" a certain nationality to represent it in a career move just strikes me as a bit weird and uncomfortable in 2023.

They're only allowed to give 2 places to host nations, it would be a bit much with 5 tbf, so all 5 nations have to qualify, but the 2 best performing nations in the qualifiers who don't qualify will also be given a spot.

There is no way you can legally differentiate the two though. I think only the weirdest nationalists would have a problem with someone who moved to that country, lived there for several years, learnt the language, worked and contributed to that society, fell in love and/or started a family with a "native" citizen from that country being able to claim naturalised citizenship and represent that country. Yeah you might get so called "projecct players" who just go to another land to try and win things, but they may end up feeling at home in that country anyway. There's no way you can really tell apart a person's intention and whether those intentions changes after years of living in a country anyway. I don't think you can really have residency laws changed without affecting people who genuinely call that country home. At the end of the day, I think people like to think it matters, but if the players are helping them win games, it soon goes out the window. When England were the #1 test team in the world, I don't think many cared the likes of Andrew Strauss and Keven Pieterson were not born in the UK. No one cared Raheem Sterling wasn't born in the UK when he was England's best player in their run to the Euro 2021 final either. Also, I've seen interviews with Muzzy Izzet and Wes Morgan have both talked incredibly positively about the experiences of playing in a World Cup semi-final and continental final respectively, even though they both only qualified through grandparents.

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His best football was during Rodgers first 12 months imo. Between Feb 19-Mar 20 lockdown for me though, even above the title winning season. Where he got 30 goals in 34 league games and only Messi and Lewandowski scored more than him in Europe. There was even a run of 14 goals in 11 games which was better than his 13 in 11 record, but 1 match he didn’t score in so didn’t score in every consecutive game. Just felt like he’d score every week during that time. That 13 months or so was the highest peak I’ve ever seen from a Leicester player.

I doubt Jamie Vardy had ever set foot in Leicestershire before he joined us, what’s the difference? It’s not the 1800s anymore, the team you represent has nothing to do with weird nationalistic chest thumping.

Patriotism is one of the worst traits of humanity. Who cares how English or Irish he “feels”? It’s just a temporary career and a short one at that. I’d play for whichever national team I qualified for who I thought would give me the most matches.

Alex McLeish at Birmingham could be another one

Just finished Shadowfell in act 2. I think I’ve just got the Moonrise Towers left before I go onto act 3. It’s such a brilliant game. Probably the best RPG I’ve ever played. Really great to have a proper Dungeons and Dragons computer game and one that’s *this* good.

Problem is, even as late as this summer, after he’d been crap for 2 years, there were still loads of fans on here saying he’s “world class” “our best player” “the least of our problems” and “we’ll miss him more than Maddison or Barnes”. Even when he moved to Villa, many of our fans were giving sneering pelters to anyone saying he wouldn’t even be starting for Villa ahead of the likes of Kamera, Douglas Luis and McGinn. One of Rodgers’ biggest mistakes was refusing to drop Tielemans even for League Cup matches when he’d been rubbish for a long time. Many of our fans were also still burying their head in the sand about what a big problem Tielemans was because of the fact he’d scored our FA Cup winning goal. I’m certain you’d still have plenty fans here demanding Tielemans started every week because he was good 3 years ago.

What a hero! Can only wish him all the best.

I think “squad” is stretching it, I’d say the regular starting XI + King and Ulloa.

Also Italian league plays the same kind of football everywhere else does these days. Feel like people are still stuck in the 00s. Every team tries to emulate Guardiola these days. He just doesn’t have the fitness levels you need for modern football in any top European league anymore.