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My brother died ten days ago. I’ve mentioned his decade and a half long battle with drink and drugs elsewhere but, as yet, the cause of death is unknown. He had been in hospital for several months from January, but was discharged in mid May. Three weeks later he’s gone at forty nine. Grief for me has always been a funny thing. Very much a slow burner, the real impact might come later, as it did when my Dad died. I can joke around on here, be normal (sort of) in real life, but there’s a whole load of ‘stuff’ swirling around that will need dealing with. Much harder for my mother, who was estranged from him for the last few years, but made it to the hospital to say her goodbyes. In fact we all made it. Myself and his three sisters were able to give him a ‘good death’ if there is such a thing. As life sometimes behaves, my youngest sister received a cancer diagnosis less than twenty four hours after she’s watched her brother die. Hopefully they’ve caught it early and the prognosis is good. Still a blow to a family where resilience levels are low though. Particularly for my sister obviously.

Can we all please stop posting links to the hate mail and the shite this cunt is going to write for them. Every click is money for the cunts, money they’ll spend desperately trying to stop a Labour government.

I'm going to have to stop reading about this shit, it's making my blood boil. My arl girls main cause of death was COVID, but me and my sister were lucky because she died on January this year. We got to sit with her and say goodbye. I can't imagine what people went through during the pandemic, including my mate who lost his wife and my 32 year old workmate who passed away. These fuckers should be in jail, but they'll never face a criminal charge, sickening.

Told that he’ll be replacing Sephton from the start of next season.

Horrible bastard - his commentary was always shite and biased and worse than that his Hillsborough comments were bang out of line. Cunt.

The funny thing is none of our competitors have actually bought any of these vastly better midfielders. None of them have actually bought any players at all.

he shuffled all effin season.

always been like that J, it's just that in the last 20 years technology has afforded the pub idiot/bore an opportunity to spout shit to a global audience.

The fucking gob on Steve Smith Get fucked you cheating twat

All three I'm afraid.

Boom go on fuck off

Martin Tyler to leave Sky Sports before the start of the season. What a great start to the day waking up to this news!

This is exactly how I feel about it. The only reason I was so keen on us getting Bellingham was because that's what the club sold me on. That was their plan, so I got on board with it and was excited about it. I'm massively pissed off about it. LFC are like the parent who didn't take us on holiday for two years because they were booking a trip to Disney World. Then instead of taking us to Disney, they booked a caravan in Wales for 2 weeks. There's nothing wrong with a caravan in Wales for 2 weeks, but we could have done that for the last couple of years as well as this year and had three holidays. Instead you deprived us and sold us on a dream that you just abandoned. You fucking knew how much a trip to Disney would cost, how are you only now realising it's too expensive?

My hearing is shot with everything sounding distorted so listening to music, which I love, hasn't been possible really for the last 3 years or so. I've bought myself a pair of earbuds as a last resort thinking you never know and nothing ventured, nothing gained. I'm sat in the back in the sunshine with a cold beer listening to John Fogerty, and while what I'm hearing is far from perfect, It's massively better than it has been since this started. Not so much a small pleasure, more a huge one.

Should be number five, for the number of feet Darwin the fish tank measured.

He looks like Antonio Inoki.

Thin ice

I enjoyed last night greatly. I was expecting a mid-gig lull but it didn’t really happen, IMO. My planned piss break during E-Street Shuffle worked well. I agree the organisation was poor. I had to move out of the way getting in and out as I was getting anxious over it. £7 for a plastic bottle of Carling is extortion. Still, that didn’t ruin our evening, it was great.

There were loads around us that left straight after Born in the USA, luckily the fat old bitch in front of me who kept throwing her hair back into my pint was one of them. Like you I just couldn’t get it, it’s not like the tickets were cheap and the end of the show was the best. The organisation and stewarding was a disgrace. 4 of us walked in without even showing tickets to find two blokes and a steward sat in our seats, who then all took offence when we told them to move. The missus and I almost ended up having a barney as she hates any type of confrontation. That was the first time I’d shown our tickets all evening - when telling a steward to fuck off out of our seats!

A family found dead in London. 40 odd people massacred in Uganda. BBC News leads with Nicholas cunting Witchell wanking over some aeroplanes and the King's honours list. Jesus christ.

Peter Drury would be nice...loves us.

@lifetime fan @Barrington Womble Didn’t know about people leaving early. Why would you leave early from a Springsteen concert though? Weirdos. Getting away from the stadium was a bit awkward though. One of my mates was happy to go for drinks and chips but they must’ve missed the first three songs queuing up. It did seem to take ages. Stewards seemed a bit disorganised, particularly outside the ground, and the security/bag searches on the way in seemed to be a bit lacking. One of us had a shoulder bag and it wasn’t even looked at. Gutted. Could’ve took some butties in! I think there was a bit of a lull in the middle. A fair bit of instrumental stuff, but as @Barrington Womble says, he is 73 and it did seem to be designed to rest his voice a bit as he absolutely hammers the end section of the gig, apart from the charming, heartwarming acoustic closer to the show. On the sound, I was seated a bit back from the stage in block B3 of the Trinity Road Stand. It wasn’t awful sound or quiet or anything. Just struggled sometimes to pick up the vocals and couldn’t really understand what Brucie was saying/singing. It sounded muffled/slurred at times, so much so that one of my mates said he sounded a bit pissed. It definitely improved as the show went on. Again, it might’ve been a bit of Brucie saving his voice. But, not that arsed, he’s bloody 73 and put on a show which would have knackered me and a lot of people much younger than him. Overall, it was a good gig. A solid 7.5/10 from me. The last section saved it from a lower rating as that was an amazing close to the gig. Particular highlights for me were The River, Out In The Street, She’s The One, Wrecking Ball, Badlands and, as mentioned, the whole encore. And Steve van Zandt’s remarkable white teeth. On Brucie’s age, that he seemed to touch on it and things like losing friends, valuing friends and close relationships etc and the structure of the show, with all the absolute bangers saved for one large chunk at the end of the show, it seemed to have a slight feeling of a goodbye tour to it all, for me. You wouldn’t begrudge him it, to be fair.

Should get Andy Serkis to read them again.

Roman Holiday. Wonderful, as good as it gets for showing off beautiful people in beautiful places.

Just came on to post this fucking brilliant news. Good riddance to the biased, senile old twat.

It’s not going to be the only player we sign. The transfer window only opened 3 days ago for christ sake. What the fuck has happened to the support of our club? One poor recent season and it’s a whole cry-arsing bunch of whiny babies.

There’ll be posters who won’t vote for Der Bomber for the same reason. It’s a bit like voting for Ed Sheeran as the greatest ever singer songwriter, in a list that includes Bob Dylan (or others of that ilk) because they’ve never heard one of his songs.

FSG can quite justifiably point at the trophy count over last 5 years and say their model is superior to the mancs and arsenal for example. The question about FSG for me centres around not doing enough to really kick us on from a position of unprecedented strength for the club in the PL era.....and the almost constant noise around/from the 3rd highest revenue generating football club in the world, and 2nd highest by fair means, of being "skint".

I have a confession to make. I didn’t want Brendan Rogers from the off. I thought he lacked experience and came across as a dick. On the day, or thereabouts, that we announced him as our new manager, I referred to him as “Brendan Todgers”. Someone on here, I can’t remember who, pm’d me and said I was a disgrace and my negativity pissed him off. I said it was a typo. It wasn’t, it was deliberate.

What a strange, self absorbed, dribble chinned fella Kane is.

Tyler was one of the first of that inglorious bunch of wankers who eagerly called OT 'The Theatre of Dreams,' as if it was an obligatory official name rather than a shameless advertising affectation. He also pioneered the 'commentator and sidekick banter' which assumed that the ordinary viewer cared one jot about two people whose full human potential didn't stretch beyond excessive masturbation and sociopathic droning. A water-damaged SatNav would be more informative than this withered and croaking crone. He needs to be retired to that lonely seat on the double decker bus reserved for urine-drenched loons and chronically confused widowers.

Ah man that's a lot to take on. Sorry to hear. Hope you're doing OK.

Let’s wait and see, eh. Couple of early wickets tomorrow and we’re ahead in the game again. I think the Aussies are absolute shithouses for not trying to match our run rate. This is prehistoric cricket they’re playing. It reflects badly on the whole country, to be honest. Cowards.

Walking in the footsteps of giants

It’s fun to see what films other people like. Well, for me it is. Given that this is a football forum as opposed to a dedicated film forum, not everyone is going to be a cinephile and have watched hundreds of films. Therefore, in my opinion, it doesn’t pay to be too specific when making posts like this. If I’d said, say, favourite Spanish films or films set in Spain, chances are that I would probably have got about two or three replies. That said, it would have been better had I said favourite films about Brits and/or Americans set in Italy, France or Spain. That way it would have been a broad enough subject to allow plenty to participate without making it too easy or uninteresting

Just flicking round and Nicholas cunting Witchell was saying that the trooping of the colour was a "significant event" because it was the first one of Charles's reign. Fuck off. It's just soldiers being made to dress like twats for tourists. Where's the fucking news on BBC News?

It's set in Italy in the same way that Star Wars is set in Buckinghamshire.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly had filming locations in Italy and Spain but it wasn’t set there you lunatic

3 Stalks is full of shit

Greetings from Villa Park. Filling up gently. The fact the place isn't that big by modern stadium standards, might be to the gigs benefit. The stage isnt dwarfed by the surroundings, traffic was light, no delays and got parked easily. Ten minutes walk and straight in. Once again, many thanks to the villain who sorted us out with presale tickets.

The top comment on the Daily Mail is surprisingly ......... normal. I was expecting mass support from the flag shaggers.

Nah, winning the FA Cup is still a fantastic achievement for a club like Leicester.

Lazy pair of fuckers.

Cheers Dave, you've really articulated the way the game has gone with super-wealthy foreign states buying up the British game. "They've ruined the game." Spot on. And as you conclude, the Premier League and its members (and the government, I'd say) are ultimately to blame for letting it happen (encouraging it, probably, with open arms and open wallets). It sounds a bit OTT, but it's really quite depressing. The game I grew up with, the game my dad and uncles and granddad etc all knew, it's on the way out. Progress? Is it bollocks. But this is Britain, where the super wealthy are encouraged to shack up, avoid taxes and do whatever the fuck they like without consequence.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/im-sure-coronation-worth-seeing-29902759?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar Good old Brian.

The unionist royalist view from Northern Ireland.