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I have what they have been doing over the past 3 years or so to go on, I keep saying we are doing the right thing and keep being proved right. I don't remember when was the last time we were doing things so right and keep pinching myself how good we actually are in the transfer market. Over the past two and a half years, we lost one truly important player and added Mane and Salah in attack (didn't go for the most expensive and biggest names but for the best fit to Firmino), reconstructed the midfield with Gini, Keita, AOC, Fabinho, Shaq (would have added Fekir), bought the most expensive and the best defender in the world because that was what we needed, most expensive goalkeeper for the same reason, added two of the most promising young defenders to the first team, brought in Robertson in probably best value for money deal in years. We sold well. I'm enjoying it while it lasts, because nothing good ever does. You and a couple of others are for some reason intent on arguing yourself into position of needless negativity, frustration and resentment when thing are good, I can only imagine how would you feel when they inevitably turn for the worse some time in the future. I expect us to spend big in the summer, just as we did last summer, there will be some of the Fekir money, money from sales and the seasonal "net spend" money. If we don't, there is more chance it would be because we don't see anybody available who could improve us, than because we (the owners) are tight. Until this changes, enjoy it. It won't last forever.

The Medusa Touch (1978). 9/10 just recently starting to be shown on Talking Pictures I think it's on again this Saturday . I can't even tell you how many times I've watched this film but I never get tired of it, one of the truly great British horror movies and did any actor ever have a better voice than the great Richard Burton.

thank fuck he hadn't seen you run a server upgrade, he'd have thought dog's dinners were a speciality!

Love sharks. Went to the sea life centre in Blackpool a few weeks ago and they had a little baby oceanic black tip in one of the tanks. They had to take it out of the main shark tank and stick it in with the regular fish, as the sharks would have eaten it. It was about 18 inches long, just swimming around this tank like a little badass, intimidating all the fish. I could have watched it all day, but my parking ticket only half an hour left so I had to leave. Someone needs to put a stop to those Japanese cunts killing millions of them every year for shark fin soup just because they think it makes their needle dicks stay a little bit harder for a little bit longer. I read recently that shark fin soup doesn't even taste of anything and they have to put chicken or pork in to give it flavour. They just chop the fins off and throw them back in the sea, still alive. Fucking pricks.

I still think, were you to scrape away the bile, anger, ifithadnabinfer, conspiracy theories, blue Christmas trees and sheers bitterness, it'd be like taking apart an infinite number of Russian dolls, and at the very centre there's a little Evertonian (holding his child and aiming a punch) with an atom of dignity left. Or at least as close an approximation as to pass for it. It's for that reason I don't think they'll ever go back for Moyes. They've blamed being shite on a variety of things, and those stories are now of greater substance than anything else about them. Moyes represents their best years post 2000, and a whole generation of young fans have solidified the narrative that he would've been challenging if he had the funds. Now they've got the Moshiri millions (trillions?), and they should be moving forwards; to take him back would both dispel that myth and reveal how truly desperate they are. On the day that they run out of such excuses and twisted histories, they'll turn to dust like staked vampires and dissipate into the wind, and we'll wonder if they ever existed to begin with.

What do evertonians do at the roulette wheel? They don't like red, and they don't like black, so...

She's also saying that she's still not convinced that Labour are doing enough to tackle antisemitism in the party. She may have a point, to be fair. These non-Labour members should be forced to join the party, so that they can then be suspended. Or, Jeremy Corbyn should go round to their houses and break their keyboards so they can't tweet anymore. Enough is enough!

Half the problem with Labour grassroots politics, much more so than Tory grassrots politics (because there isn't one) is that it attracts some oddballs. It would be the same if it was a lower league football club or a church. When you go to a lower leagues club there's always a bloke there with loads of badges and scarves on, there'll be someone who lives with his mum despite being in his late 50s, someone who thinks they're a professional photographer just because they've got a long lens - but still manage to take shit snaps. And there'll be a club bursar who spends all day fucking around with spreadsheets and getting arsey about the price of Costco coffee because they've got fuck all better to do. Then there'll be a load of normal ones who get put off by all the above, come to watch the match and then fuck off. Churches are the same. You get the top tier who are there to do business deals, a middle tranche of normal or semi-normal people, then a group who are thoroughly, utterly odd. Tis the same with Labour. I saw quite a bit of it outside the Labour conference. I just think when you group a bunch of humanity together in one place it's what happens. Me personally am probably like most people. I'd like to get involved with changing things but couldn't be arsed with the machinations and 'politics' involved in said groups. so would end up fucking off.

Too much red.

What rest? That is what is publicly available. Although financial results have been reported for 2017/18, the accounts aren't available yet. If you mean his first transfer window, when we bought in Grujic (and Grabara) and sold no one. Firstly He was only a couple of months in charge and wanted to take stock of what he had. Secondly the way transfers work is that we would have been contracted to pay fees in that window, and there is no way to know how much we 'spent' in that window because we only get the full year's accounts. For the full year 2015/16 we spent £38m, the year before £59m, the year before £53m, the year before £44m, and the year before that, FSG's first full season, it was £14m. That averages as as £41m per year.  So, we have 2 'facts' in your post. One of them is demonstrably wrong, so why should we believe the other one?

"Place your bets please" "All on blue" "I'm afraid there isn't a blue option, sir" "All on blue, mate" "Sir..." "Born not manufactured" "Excuse me, sir?" "All on blue, mate." "Right you are" "Red, number 19" "Get yer coat Sarah"

Stand there booing it

Imagine the fume if he put it all on red.

Couple of Mr Ted releases for you guys, Muscle Milk is our latest - was released on Friday!

It has already been started. By me you lazy fucking twat.

Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Mountains (One of my best mates can see them from his office window the jammy bastard) He has only got 1 arm though so fuck him

When Origi is coming on before you 2 games in a row for the last 15 seconds then you know its not your year.

Downtown LA & the San Gabriel mountains.

I don't know how anyone can complain about net spend when they are buying players of the calibre of VVD, Salah, Fabinho et al for big money. Sure, it would be nice to have a spare player in each position of the same quality But that brings its own issues.

I agree with that. I can't help but feel that if we come through the next three games we will be okay. 9 points and i think we win. 7 points and i'd make us slight favourites. 6 points and they are slight favoirites. Anything less and i think they are strong favourites. We will have all our horrible away games done and I don't see us dropping points at fulham, cardiff, southampton or newcastle. Think we could drop points to spurs though. Wolves are dangerous but if we are top playing them i don't think we will drop points. Chelsea would want a personality change to cope with us. City will drop points somewhere. I think it will be the United game. Their win yesterday was spectacular, but equally chelsea were spectacularly bad.

Always read the small print

We'll also have the Salah money which should be well over £120 million.

Lion. Based on a true story of a young Indian boy who got separated from his brother and went on to be adopted by an Australian couple. What a tale of sadness. 8/9, who knows. Excellent

LiR - Magico Magico: Another one I've struggled to motivate myself to review but this time for a different reason. I'm very familiar with this band and album, having seen them live more times than I can remember. I have it on cassette buried at home somewhere. Hearing it again after so long felt a bit weird to be honest. If I heard this anew without any previous exposure to the band then I'd probably not like it if I'm honest. I always felt lead singer Dave McGuinness' vocals to be a bit weak at times and listening to this album again more or less cemented that opinion for me. Dave's vocals have never really transferred well to record IMO, but really suit the tracks when played live when he just floats them airily over the music. Just listen to LiR Live album on Spotify for comparison to this to see what I mean. Musically though, they are a great band and I enjoyed many a night grooving along to their output. Onto the album. This suffers from trying to do too much at times. Sometimes there are guitar or bass parts or keyboard parts just chucked in for little or no reason that can just smoother the track. I've always liked this approach with live music as it tends to add something different to the recorded version of tracks so you don't get the "same old" vibe, but I'm not a fan of it on albums. Stick on point please - expand and experiment when live thank you very much. No issues with the production. It's not brilliant, but it ain't terrible either. As I type this I tried to remember how many times I'd actually listen to this at home in the past. The answer is not many. They were always a "live" band for me and I'd prefer to remember them that way. I realise I'm rambling here so I'll move swiftly on. I won't go track by track but the highlights for me are: Traveller, New Song, 3 Legged Guy, The House of Song, In a Day. (Am I alone in thinking "In a Day" bassline in the verse is very much ripping "Ike's Rap II" bassline?) Overall a 6.5/10 for me. Live it would be 9/10 as they are amazing live. Coincidentally they just played this album in its entirety in Whelans 3 days ago which was also streamed live on the internet for a fee. I would have liked to have gone to that for old times sake.

Mignolet - 10 million ( ward went for 12 mill) Lovren/ Matip - 15 million Origi - 10 million. Milner and Lallana will have English tax on them plus we get 32 million from Ings and Clyne along with 19 million from Solanke that we haven't used. We are looking around 85-110 million atleast without accounting for grujic, ojo and Kent who will most likely be moved on. Sometimes you sound like SteveO dude. What measly budget? We are in CL this season still and for sure, next season too. None of us know the budget let's hope we have one more summer like the last one.

Hopefully city go the same way once Pep gets bored and fucks off back to Barca.

Hard to do straight edges with a sledgehammer like.

As if anyone on here would fall for that. What do you think we are? A bunch of Ron Moores?

The fans are so fuckin pivotal in all this. If the crowd is up for it, we usually play well. Every game at Anfield should be a bubbling cauldron of noise, enough of the fannyness - just sing, make noise, support the fucking team.

Utopia.

Posting shit trainers on internet forums should be an illegal activity too.

Aguero, what a striker. Bit thick for not having picked up a word of English after all these years, though.

Text from god daughter last night in USA(she's out there working for Apple) GD - Hi, off to Yosemite National Park tomorrow(part of the conversation) Me Bird - Our Shans off to Yozzermite national park tomorrow Me - What do you mean, Yozzermite? MB - Yozzermite National Park Me - Fucks that *she spells it* Me - Yo-sem-it-e, national park, as in Yosemite Sam, from the cartoons? MB - They named a park after a cartoon character? Me - * loss of will to live* Me - No, they named it after an 80's unemployed character from a BBC drama series MB - What? Me - Yozzer MB - Yozzer who? Me - You know, the one they named the national park after? MB - Which National Park? Me - Yozzermite National Park MB - thats the one I said our Shans gone too Me - *sigh* Me - The Voice is on soon Me - *Googles best acid to melt down a cadaver*

The poached eggs are like how I’d imagine Danger Mouse’s bollocks to be. Impressive stuff!

I wouldn't fancy trainies made out of Swede though. I'd look a right turnip in them..

The chip pushing into the egg yolk reminds me of first sexual experience. "Is it in?" "No." Good times.

They Shall Not Grow Old 10/10 If you have any interest in the first world war get this watched. Still available on I Player https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brzkzx/they-shall-not-grow-old

The party should be broad enough for LFI (just as it is for groups supporting Palestine, Cuba, etc.) But you're right that the handful of MPs who spend all their time working against the party and the Labour movement need booting.

That letter from Formby really does destroy the slurs of "widespread" antisemitism in the Labour Party, as well as tackling the myth that the party isn't doing enough to tackle the antisemitism that exists in the party (in levels that are not in excess of society in general). It's also interesting to see that a lot of the allegations are against non-party members. It's a question that's been asked before but never really answered: what can Labour/Corbyn/the NEC do about this? I think we all know what the answer is...

Excuse me if I'm wrong, but didn't we start out against West Ham 4-3-3 in the first half, with Bobby up front and Mo to the right, and then switch it to 4-2-3-1 with Mo as striker and Bobby behind?

I've gone over this type of stuff repeatedly over the years in this very thread, but the same shit still gets posted *shrugs*

His catering budget is reliant on matchday food sales- he's having a problem shifting 50 jars of sauerkraut

And those nationalists will often try to resolve disputes with their neighbours in that shooty way that competing nations often tend to resort to. It doesn't take a professor in political history to understand how quickly peace can unravel.

I think you need to put the crystal ball away, if you use that logic you could take the fixture list at the start of the year and say City will win 38 games because on paper they're better than everyone else. The key for me is who's going to show the most fight when the going gets tough. Who's going to get up in the faces of the opposition and refuse to lie down when they should be drawing or losing. There's some ridiculously talented players in that City team, but not too many hard bastards past Kompany (who's not involved that often) and Fernandinho. They won today without breaking a sweat, but both them and ourselves are going to have hard games where they really need to dig in and get their toes over the line. Whoever wins more of these games is going to take the title, for me. There's really no need to cry about this individual result which was settled after 15 minutes. Having said all that I'm not encouraged by the total lack of heart we saw against Leicester and West Ham, and my feeling in that we'll both drop plenty more points as the pressure mounts but we may drop more. My hope is that that can maybe change if the leaders we have in the team now will cut that sort of stuff out at the source and the likes of Salah, Firmino and Keita can play with much more bravery.

I've never been awestruck by city, ever. I used to have genuine sleepless nights before we played the mancs in their pomp under Ferguson, Mourinho's first chelsea sides were rock solid and blistering on the break, Wenger's greatest sides were formidable too. City have always had average players littered throughout their squad, it's like someone welded a Champions League winning side onto Derby County, they're half awesome and half average (a bit like us in fact, although less so these days). Guarantee anyone going into a CL game against them will consider them to be a good team with some class players they need to watch out for, but they're not in the Madrid, Barca, Munich/Juve class of years gone by, nowhere near. Guardiola has themm otivated and purring and they have the numbers to come in and replace injuries, plus probably the best out and out goalscoring striker in the world, but they're not some kind of unbeatable machine.

Let's not forget that even after a couple of disappointing results and a worrying dip in form, we are still top of the league in what looks likely to be the most competitive title race (points-wise) in recent history. It's not like we have this one chance because everybody else is restructuring in an off year or the first 11 have surprisingly clicked together, lead by the best forward in the world hitting the top form of his career. We have built the strongest team in decades and even if we don't win it this year, we are not going away. I expected and hoped we would be in the title race this season, I didn't expect us to be the strongest contender (since late December) in a race at above or around the 95 points mark. This is quite something. And it's because we built that strongest team in decades. Which will be stronger next year. And this is what we want, to be in the mix every year.