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First day back in work today after 2 months off with it, ruined me physically and mentally but i'm over the worst now fingers crossed.

Much as I didn't have a lot of time for the DoE, his medals include the Greek War Cross Of Honour, awarded for his bravery in the Battle of Cape Matapan against the Italian Navy in 1941. Aged just 19, he operated the searchlights against the Italians during a bloody gun battle in which he said later 'all hell broke loose', and he was Mentioned in Despatches for his courage. Not his fault I know but about 7 of his 17 medals are commemorative ones, but unlike his dick of a son he actually earned the others. Apparently he would have risen quite high in the rank of the navy all by himself had he not had to cut his career short when Elizabeth became queen. It reminded me of my grandfather who was killed protecting Liverpool during the second world war, killed in action whilst operating the searchlights during a raid on the city. He has a war grave in Toxteth Park Cemetery which now the rules are relaxed mean I can lay some flowers on the grave.

Baseball caps - 3 for £2.50.

Just watching West Brom walking the ball into the Southampton area, wave after wave. Saints can't be arsed, fans can't return quick enough, these mad silent games are absolute shite and a waste of everyone's time.

I have nothing but respect for those that earned their medals, in fact, I have nothing but respect and gratitude for anyone who fought in the 2 world wars and any other conflict where they protect us. Those that just get given medals and dressing up uniforms when they haven't earned them can fuck off.

1. We do not need to get used to the fact it is here to stay, people can do something about it by boycotting games & cancelling TV subscriptions. 2. If VAR remains, the goal celebration issue is not 'fixable'. That moment of elation is gone forever. The introduction of VAR was a disaster for Football & it's continued use will ensure that the sport is never the same again.

Julianne Moore is 60.

I don't watch any Champions League stuff other than our games but they took about a minute to give a perfectly good goal for us the other night & by the time they gave it, I was almost past caring. It doesn't belong in Football. At all. Goal line technology, fine but this shite needs fucked off back to wherever it came from ASAP.

Ingrid Pitt

Martin Tyler is a cunt.

Close enough to marry.

That’s a Celine Dion one, yah?

Not sure what this is all about but Brian Johnson appears to be doing YouTube now. This popped up in my recommendations this morning presumably because I'd watched an interview he did with Dave Grohl last night. Mark Knopfler used to show up at quite a few rallies when I was a kid so I met him quite a few times, but can't remember him all that well. I think I have posted it before, but Brian Johnson did a tour with Geordie quite a lot of years ago and some friends of mine had an AC/DC tribute band. They were playing the same night as Geordie, so Brian Johnson came to the City Hall to see everyone, brought a load of drink to give us and apologised that he hadn't know they were playing and said that if he'd known he would have moved to another night so that it didn't clash. I'm not really an AC/DC fan, but he's a thoroughly decent chap.

As a child of the 80s I was schooled early on the dubious quality of Chinese goods, if I wouldn't buy one of their cowboy sets from Speke market, I'll be damned if I was gonna pump their shit into my arm.

Always think it's shitty when people post stuff like queues at Primark on social media. Big fucking wow, people have been under house arrest for months at the cost of their mental and physical health and now they're legally allowed to do something. They're so sad, unlike me who hangs out of windows filming queues on my phone and posting it on twitter. The amount of judgment that's been passed on others during this pandemic is fucking shit, people with money and gardens and families passing judgement on people who are holed up in tomb-like student digs or flats, or people losing their marbles because they haven't spoken to anyone for weeks or months. Everyone is fighting a battle here, as long as they're not deliberately placing people in danger they should be left the fuck alone.

Never seen this view before.

I loved St John's Market as a kid especially upstairs. All the blag gear and the smell of vinegar on chips and beans. Essentially would walk around, my mum ignoring all the shit I wanted but randomly stopping now and then and holding a pair of shite jeans against me.

I grew up in Prescot on a street backing on to the old BICC Cables wasteground (Its a big Tesco retail park now) and every now and then travellers used to park up on the site. Great for us we used to have running battles with the lads etc. Superb times but one day a big land rover drove down our street obviously looking for things to steal and one of the girls only my age (8 or 9) was out the car window like that. Seriously the most stunning girl i've ever seen in my life. A week later I saw her have a shit and not wipe her arse.

My kind of girl. IMG_7483.MP4

The money they have spent and what they pay Ancelotti too.

So, this became this... Port reduce shallot gravy, Parmesan and whole grain mustard oven baked mash, beef stock and time roast potatoes, candied carrots and celery, balsamic glazed mushrooms and beef cooked perfectly. Now being washed down with this... A 13% imperial stout, before an ‘early night’ at the better half’s insistence. Glorious! I now await gout.

Its mildly infuriating reading so many suggest amending how VAR is used. This is a football site and the game is being destroyed by it, its the equivalent of saying we won't pay £77 for a ticket but shaking on £75. Its poxy, everything about is shit, getting rid and bury Mike Riley under all the abandoned screens.

Fingers crossed, we need eyes on the ground over there and with his jovial nature and natural bonhomie he'd be the best amongst us to be on the first flight.

So Remmie might end up conscripted to fight over there?

You want unaware (probably not), I was in Kyiv buying cheese and killing time whilst there was an uprising and people were getting snipered in Maidan. It's fucking awful all this, but luckily my wife is from the furthest possible spot in Ukraine from all the trouble. They tried to conscript my father in law to fight over there, but he has high blood pressure and my wife got him to drink lots of coffee and Coca-Cola before a hospital appointment so he was exempted on health grounds.

He served three months the twat, many of us spent longer in the NAAFI queue than that.

His son Edward also has lots of medals. I've seen them pinned to his chest when he's laying wreaths at the cenotaph and everyone of those medals are well earned, he was magnificent leading Britain to victory in the Royal its a knockout.

I have not been to a game since the introduction of VAR & I won't be back as long as it is there. I doubt some Scottish bloke who goes to five or six games a season will make much difference unfortunately. I do not subscribe to Sky Sports. Just get fucking rid of it & we can go back to proper goal celebrations again, it's that simple.

How have they managed to get it spot on in the super league for over 20 years yet royally fucked this right up in football? I think the VAR officials are all corrupt manc cunts out to make a name for themselves. They always seem to do anything they can to rule out goals out.

Knobhead country. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/12/visually-impaired-users-complain-rail-websites-greyscale-prince-philip

Anyone who books tables in a restaurant then doesn't bother showing up without telling the place.

You would hope reading that, that because we have vaccines that provide decent protection after the 1st jab, we'll get through ok.

Milner brings more intensity, some nastyness as well. And definitely some leadership on the pitch. He has to start against Real.

The Echo don’t help when they state which team every victim or criminal supports in every story.

This is why I don't get how people can be so blasé about it. Glad you're on the mend, anyway

A shit Tywin Lannister.

"It brings us great sadness to learn that His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has died - Mid Devon Leisure" https://middevonleisure.com Thanks for letting me know, Mid Devon Leisure...

This from the Guardian open forum is quite far fetched, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least, given how far fetched the show is anyway. "Since Lee Banks was in contact with Ted while in prison during season 5 I suspect he might be an undercover cop. Which makes me suspect Banks didn't really kill Lakewell. It was a show put on in front of Buckles so everyone would think Lakewell is dead, so Lakewell could then disappear into a witness protection programme with a new identity. As Arnott had promised him. Which means Lakewell had already told Arnott all he knew about the OCG."

From just by where I grew up. Stanley Road, with the Roundhouse in the distance, and Tilottsons. , who used to make packaging for BAT, which was just the other side of Sandhills Lane

I've missed loads of games this year. The euphoria has gone, even last year when it came back was the same. Remember going mental at Stamford Bridge when Mereiles scored, the relief when stevie hit that worldie in Cardiff, countless others which seem like nostalgia now. Those moments are gone. You'll notice it when the crowds are back, celebrations won't won't as wild or as loud because of the prospect of VAR. When is a goal not a goal? When a Virgin draws a wonky vertical line

This will likely be the last year I watch every game. The fun has been going out of it for a long time and I've know seen us win the league and been old enough to enjoy it. But this shit and the whole twitter banter, wind up bollocks has killed off any lingering love for the game. I'll watch on and off and stream the odd game from time to time but that'll probably be it. Sport as a whole has been turned into a greedy shit show. A place for regimes and dodgy businessmen to flex muscles and sportswash their image.

'May as well not bother watching it live anymore and just watch the highlights later'. My feelings exactly Dave. All the spontaneity of the celebration has gone.

I’d be happy for Keeley’s DNA to be all over my house.

Not a lot to aim at all, he should have reversed it to Milner, the selfish cunt.

Don’t know why we’re cry arsing over VAR yesterday as it seems to me we dodged a bullet at the end

Buzzing. Beat previous best for 10k today of 59 dead with 57.49.

Yep, just wait til we replicate the massive 2019 summer spending spree.