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They basically trawl the internet constantly to see what negative stories they can come up with and spin it as our crumbling empire. Meanwhile they keep believing that some fat dodgy Uzbek will just come out of the shadows and give them a billion quid and magically build a stadium for them. No logical reason, just cos he's Moshiris mate. This is despite them wanting it for free, then wanting the council to pay for it and then needing a loan at a massively inflated interest rate. Four seasons without European football. Never been in the Champions League. No trophies for 25 years. No league title for 33 years. No derby win for 10 years. No win at Anfield since 1999. Shit sponsorship deals. Shit kit deals. Shit wooden ground that is falling apart. Needed the council to help them fund the training ground. Shit players who aren't arsed. Any half decent player fucks off once they realise how shite they are and their only ambition is to beat Liverpool in a derby one day. A manager who is on a fortune and doesn't look bothered in addition to paying off two other managers. 87 per cent of their income going on wages, whilst the whole ground earning less revenue than Liverpool's Main Stand. Their corporate hospitality is just chicken in a basket in a function room above a pub over the road with some shite ex player who won a derby 30 odd years ago. Going on about how much of a big club they are because they were the first team to play in blue on match of the day in the 1960s. Yet being the most irrelevant pointless set of cunts in the Premier League who just hang around doing fuck all. But just keep slagging Liverpool off as a coping mechanism to stick your head in the sand and ignore what is going on at your own shite club. They absolutely loved all the pier head/Dixie Dean statue stuff and it got them through a week they had been dreading for almost six months. What was going to be the worst week of their lives was a goldmine of high horse behaviour, faux moral outrage and making out they are the best fans in the universe.

They inject the vaccine via the end of an umbrella.

Yes mate. Nearly done. Another lick of paint and I'll be finished. Quick brew and a shit first though. Where's me fuckin Daily Star Macca!

Furious. Don’t know about what specifically. Doesn’t really matter.

It's telling and depressing that virtually all the grief that comes Starmer's way is from corbyn and RLB supporters, either voters or now a union boss. Allowing this narrative of continual infighting to continue at a time when we live under the worst Tory government in memory. "But he should be doing better against them!" they cry. Yeah, wonder why he's not. Who fancies a cruise on the HMS Bounty. The sad fact of the matter is there's people out there who'd rather be king of their own hill than see a labour government return to power that contained people that didn't pass muster with their own - often very very particular- sense of political right and wrong. There's also a lot of people who just want a fucking good scrap, and they don't care who it's with. It also helps to push their various blogs and "news" websites. Credit to Long Bailey, I haven’t heard a peep out of her, nor Angie Rayner who's a close friend of hers but is getting on with the job of being deputy Labour leader and putting the fight against the Tories first. I read some column the other day, a 'disappointed in Starmer' style piece (of which there were quite a few when he was only about four hours into the job. And it started with something like: "Starmer could have started his leadership by defending Jeremy Corbyn against vile lies about antisemitism." Gee yeah, what's not to love about that. I'm sure the landslide victory he won for not being the continuity candidate so he could draw a line under all the bollocks was achieved with the idea of dragging the party down the same never ending rabbit hole. I've said it before but it pisses me off the idea that Corbyn returned the party to its true self and it's somehow been stolen away again by the 'neoliberal right' or whatever the fuck that is. Corbyn constantly defied his own party, he was always an outsider - long before Blair, and surrounded himself in power with outsiders. Many people joined the party just to vote for him, and are starting to leave now he's gone. His was the insurgency, not what came before and not what came since. It was a lurch to the left in things like foreign policy that had been just as unpalatable to people in the 80s as it was in 2019. Maybe labour should split. Get it over with. Momentum, Corbyn supporters etc take the unite money and start a new party, while what's left absorbs all the willing lib dems, greens and non bonkers conservatives. Maybe strike election pacts with each other now and then but just keep it at a loose alliance. The alternative is basically perpetual sniping at any leader who's not jeremy corbyn or a fan of Jeremy corbyn and, i dare say, that isn't going to be a party capable of winning an election ever again.

Some of the best things I've read in a autobiography was in Lemmy book. Talks of being a teenager just out of school and going camping. Says he and his mate snuck into some girls camping trip tent. He fell asleep, woke up to screams. His mate, who had a artificial arm was screaming and being beaten with his own arm by some older woman in charge of the camping trip. Or when stopped by the police as a roadie, his solution to being caught with a carrier bag full of acid was to eat as much of it as he could before the police opened the van door. Or his girlfriend who was a nurse bringing massive jars of something (can't remember what it was) back to the doss house they lived in and him and his mates eating it by the spoonful. One sat up in a tree for a few days just spoon feeding himself the drug. Another unplugging the TV and carrying it around talking to it. Been a long time since I read the book, so could be a little off on the stories but it's funny as fuck in places.

Just seen on the Beeb that Villa, Bayern Munich & Bologna are looking at bringing in Aaron Hickey from Hearts. He'd be a perfect signing for us as backup to Robbo. The fee being quoted in the article is £1.5m. The lad is only 18, but has 34 senior appearances under his belt already. Hearts have played him primarily at left back, but he's equally capable of playing on the opposite flank, and a little further forward too, if playing in a traditional 4-4-2.

I’m going to get the ‘plain t-shirt version for adult males’ for about a tenner.

Stereophonics are absolutely shite

Not sure what the obsession with Momentum is. They are a pressure group for socialist ideals in much the same way as Progress and Labour First look out for the centre and right of the party. They have about 30,000 members so I have no idea how it is supposed to have control over the party. I seem to remember they were going to throw out every 'good' Labour mp via deselection but that turned out to be fairy tales , and it is surprising that this hotbed of anti-Semitism was set up by 3 Jewish people out of 4. I expect this ' reds under the beds' shit on the Daily Mail website but not here. ( scooped by Duff Man )

Just want to be clear that mine is a vote for Johnny Marr and not that other cunt, the racist, preening tit.

Now, not then, it’s been changed due to the backlash.

I wouldn’t expect the nation to bankrupt themselves to save her either. Because she’s a cunt.

Amazing how a guy who got the leadership of Unite with just 4% of the members voting for him can have such a big say in Labour. More people backed Starmer then Len and yet somehow Gnasher thinks it's the other way around. This is fucking embarrassing.

What actually is the link between being asked to wear a mask and it being an infringement on your freedom. Surely a mask historically is worn by people fighting for freedom and acts of independent thought. Especially with facial recognition why would the government have some agenda to mask everybody up. Its Law here to wear a motorcycle helmet, its a safety issue. Undoubtedly there's some who claim it should be personal choice but ultimately its accepted. How fucking battered is your mind from Internet conspiracy to think wearing a face mask during a pandemic is an act of oppression.

I was actually nervous clicking this one because I know how mental GF polls can be. Fortunately you came through and Pink Floyd are leading easily. David Gilmour is up there with the very best guitarists of all time.

Spoken like a true over the hill 80's music head who thinks seeing Simple Minds in a caravan park disco before they "made it big" is the pinnacle of music. I bet you would rather the Communards were in it

Promotion incoming.

They’re not there...

You should have got a framed one of this instead.

How is Momentum the 'grass roots' of the Labour party? And what about the Labour members who voted en mass for Starmer as leader but who's choice seems to be being derided as having smuggled in an establishment stooge? Aren't they grass roots? What about the people who joined the party purely to vote for Corbyn? How can they claim to be grassroots labour supporters? They're Jeremy Corbyn supporters. A labour man (or woman) is a labour man, they vote and support labour, pay their dues, knock on doors if needs be regardless of whether they do or don't like Kinnock or Ed Miliband or whoever else. They don't join another organisation and found blogs and websites to stick the boot in to the person who doesn't fit their very specific idea of what the Labour party should be.

Centrist

I would say that is pretty unlikely. AXA already give us about 25m for the training kit don't they? I'm pretty sure being the training kit sponsor is a bigger thing than sleeve of the shirt. Personally I didn't think it was that long, in fact I thought originally it was 2 with an option for 3, bit could be wrong. I've also a mate who's a media agency. He thinks the market for secondary sponsorship can be very misleading. Historically when the club had a main sponsor on the shirt it was all about that shirt and stadium advertising - everyone's deal was pretty much the same, an all access deal and values club to club were measurable as deals were like for like. However, apparently how the new deals work, each club will make slots available (such as sleeve sponsor, primary sponsor, shirt sponsor, sex toy sponsor etc) and with each deal comes a number of commitments. So some of these are joint advertising campaigns, some are about coverage on social media (and the reverse, so depending what they buy, they can only use the LFC brand so many times on social media) and access to the players for events and advertising. So we might put WU on the sleeve and charge 5m, but give them nothing other than the slot. Other clubs may charge more but be committed to do advertising campaigns etc. He thinks the badge on the sleeve is worth fuck all in isolation and it's value is the other access provided by it. So we may have sold that slot for 5m, but we could well be fleecing another sponsor for a similar amount (such as Nivea) who we're committed to working in a different way with. Ultimately there's a finite amount of time we can allow access to the players and manager, so if the deal is without them, it devalues it. In the same way, apparently we need to manage how much we're allowing our name to be used on social media, so again we might focus a lot of that with sponsors not so prominent on the kit to gain maximum return. The upshot, his view is you don't measure any deal individually, you measure the overall value of all deals.

Even though they're all dead, Motorhead would literally kill Coldplay.

I'm no Cliff Richard fan but the BBC had a helicopter live footage of the raid on his house and this politician has remained unnamed?

Bit OTT that, have always thought renting them to a Ugandan child army was a decent compromise. They go away and come back with some discipline, respect for the chain of command and can reassemble a kalashnikov in under 45 seconds in the dark.

Scenes.

One of my mates had a girlfriend called Myra for a bit. She was about 10 years old than him and had a face like a pitbull chewing a wasp. She didn't have any of Hindley's charm either. He finally managed to get rid of her when she fucked off to some other part of the country for all intents and purposes "on the run" having set fire to someone's car.

Can't deny it's an improvement on their current digs. Head falling off here.

The Smiths have got a remarkable back catalogue with barely a poor song. One of England's greatest bands.

Johnny Marr’s guitar playing was one of the few musical bright points of the mid-80’s plus he he’s still cool as fuck whilst also seeming to be a very nice man. A rock legend that I’d love to have a pint with Proving that he probably didn’t need the other bloke anyway

Repped. There’s nothing quite like being made to feel like a cunt. Outrageous that the large breakfast doesn’t include black pudding. A fry-up isn’t the same without it.

It’s the mrs that. She ate it with her knife and fork. She eats everything that way. She tackled a Cajun chicken burger with a knife and fork only yesterday, the bad perv. Hahaha - honestly, it was delicious. Best brekkie I have had for absolutely ages. First one I’ve had out since lockdown obviously, but still. £10 it was for the large. It was an extra sausage, extra piece of bacon, extra egg, extra round of toast and a whole mushroom I’d imagine. I did regret it once I’d finished as I would easily have managed it. Also, the large was called the farmer’s breakfast and the small one was called the farmer’s wife’s breakfast, which also made me feel like a huge cunt to order.

Does Sarah need a hand?

Yorkshire Day was yesterday but thanks anyway. Paul Sykes lived quite near me, in fact he was a patient of my Dads towards the end of his life when he was homeless. I hesitate to call him an utter prick and a bully as he clearly had mental problems but if you saw him ambling towards you, it wasn’t advisable to keep your hands in your pockets. He hated people who kept their hands in their pockets as a friend of mine found out to his cost.

Have you sold them any beak??

Kasabian tickets

It depends on the type of event for me. When it's a big name headlining they generally pad out the undercard with prospects fighting bums, which is as dull as fuck but the domestic cards with British titles on the line are generally good especially with the likes of Cheeseman, Fitzgerald, Fowler, Ritson, Robbie Davis Jnr being involved into some proper tear ups. I've always been of the opinion that a well matched domestic card trump's the big events, as you generally get a great night of scraps and I doubt it even costs the promoter that much to put the show on. The problem is promoters over-protecting their prospects which you can understand to some extent but that's when it becomes unengaging. Luckily the domestic scene at the moment is full of British level lads whose ceiling is European level at best so Hearn/Warren just stick them in together as they know they aren't going to be stars, even Josh Kelly is getting chucked into the fire fighting David Avanesyan.

First you use a lazy, tired, derogatory trope about lesbians. Then, within a few hours and without a hint of self-awareness, you play the saving white knight bemoaning the poor treatment of women in society. When challenged you fall back on the “just a joke” standard defence of wankers, although I’d be amazed if you could actually explain what the funny part of the joke is. Finally you do the passive aggressive “consistency” argument like you’re some kind of victim. To be clear, I don’t find you offensive. You’re just predictable and fucking dull

Oh look Eddie, they've just thrown Aswad through the off licence window.

He's got the "going to the match" part down alright, but until he masters the "incessantly whining and refusing to enjoy football" part he'll never deserve respect.

I've never met my father in law either, and my wife has never made the effort to contact him after he walked out on his family when she was 10. He never even attended his own mothers funeral. I hope he's seen our wedding photos and pictures of our kids somehow because that's the closest he'll ever get. Well the day has finally arrived, sort of. Had a phone call from my mother in law asking if we'd seen Granada Reports today. Turns out my father in law was on; https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2020-08-01/councillor-suspended-after-social-media-outburst-blaming-illegal-immigrants-and-nhs-for-new-local-lockdown Sent my wife's head west when she looked him up. She had no idea what he was up to but the fact he's a massive twat on top of being a Tory justifies us never having to have met previously. The funny thing is, my wife is a huge socialist, adores Jeremy Corbyn and despises everything the Tories stand for. We managed to locate his Facebook profile. Amongst all the Nigel Farage love in, there's some interesting parts of his life. Seems he preferred to stick around for his last family after abandoning his first. Seeing the look of disbelief and obvious hurt in the missus' face (she's not laid eyes on him for 30 years) I'd love to ruin his life.

"When footy was raw", you can get the person out of marketing...

He should be jibbed if only for that chino shants / black socks combo.

I'm pretty terrified of going bald, it's started though. I'm covering it up with long hair at the moment but am toying with the idea of going full Joe Zawinul when the time comes...

Lets not starting fooling ourselves into thinking Ferguson is decent now. He was always a cunt and so will remain a cunt. The cunt.

They get bloody worse. Her Indoors has a right cob on because I forgot to put out the thing that has food waste in it. Only half full, won't be collected anyway for another week. On another note HI's vile niece (bint) and her chav supporting boyfriend (cockney wanker) have invited us to his shithole for a BBQ next week to watch the footy. I presume that refers to the cockney wankfest at Wembley, can't be bothered to look it up. No social distancing for the them but I suppose all that is beyond them as collectively those two have the IQ normally associated with pond life invisible to the naked eye. HI won''t go anyway as she is on remission from lymphoma and if I was there all Thames Valley Police leave would have to be cancelled for weeks.

Hahah, fucking hell man that's dark. *swigs skol and weeps*