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So get your coat on and get moving, financial fair play were abusing, So come on, come on, pay all the Bramley Moore Sparks, WOOOOOOOO

I think we're in broad agreement generally, I don't know if Starmer believes anything, I don't find him inspiring at all, I just view him as a means to an end. Starmer’s labour might be Cameron lite, I don't know until they're in power, but they're not gangsters. We're literally run by gypsies, tramps and thieves. People who profiteer off pandemics and social strife, then brag about it on their own GB News channels. The difference between Labour and Tory now is the same as Democrats vs Republicans. One is centrist, the other is a collection of thieves, liars, flat earthers and abject scum. What absolutely bakes my noodle though is that there's people out there claiming to be left wing who'd happily see Starmer’s labour lose. They can't claim to care about ordinary folk and hold that belief, they just can't. There's lots of people out there now, people with blogs, YouTube channels and all that bollocks - bums generally - who if they weren't obsessing over all this, it'd be lower league football or steam trains. They rant and rave in their own echo Chambers. Owen Jones makes money out of Starmer the way Alex Jones rants about gun control, monetised fume to the already initiated. But 99.9% of people through don't give a fuck, they just don't want to live in a country that's falling apart around them. I'm one of those people.

Disgrace that they made us play Brentford and Burnley at the same time. Good job Burnley we’re so passive. There was definitely an element of the lads thinking it was over, but Burnley had been so passive in that second half I can understand why.

@jonnyp

Work-rate. Incisiveness. Nous. I don't ask for much. This is how it's gonna be. Build from the ground up. Note this game is not on TV in the UK, and yet this is a game that requires more focus than most. City play Brentford the day before so the gap is likely to again be reduced. We also have the small matter of the League Cup final at the weekend. I don't think Jurgen or his players are the type to take their eye of the ball, but it is still something to guard against. Luton have been punching above their weight all season, and while it hasn't translated into points on the whole, their opponents have generally known they were in a contest. We saw that in the return fixture earlier this season. They started badly against the Mancs earlier today and were 2 down within 10 minutes, but gradually got somewhat of a foothold and pulled a goal back. They were unfortunate that dickhead David Coote (he who as VAR didn't see anything wrong with T-Rex's reckless lunge on Virg in the derby) deemed Casemiro's challenge from behind to not be card-worthy. He probably more than any of the other PGMOL brigade needs to hope PGMOL don't come under any investigation because he just looks the type to turn into a puddle of piss and shit under questioning. Luton had to push forward so left themselves open to the counter, so they certainly gave it the beans in that game. They play us and then City in the Cup over the coming week, but the City game is the following Tuesday so they can attempt to go strong for this one. The two sides last met in the league at Anfield in January 1992. We were miles off the pace in the title race and they were battling against relegation. Chris "Unbelievable Jeff!" Kamara was in the Luton side that day, as was Mark Pembridge, later to represent the blueshite as an industrious but limited midfielder of the sort they have filled their team with since the 90s. Nick Tanner did Nick Tanner things to gift Luton the opening goal, passing the ball into his own net following a miscommunication with Grob. We huffed and puffed but eventually broke Luton's stubborn resistance when another defensive mix-up left Macca with a simple tap-in with 5 minutes to go. It gave us a lift and in stoppage time, Dean Saunders stole in to bundle a Barnesy cross past Steve Sutton for the winning goal. Results-wise, we were actually in a bit of decent form, with the Luton game part of a 12-game sequence featuring 8 wins and 4 draws. We were by no means a prolific side that year, with results like the 4-0s against Swarovski Tirol and Crewe definite outliers. I said in the previous match thread that I don't know the fitness situation of the squad at the time of writing. Ali then dropped out with a hamstring strain in training, and both Curtis and Diogo were crocked in the Brentford game. Darwin was also taken off at half time as a precaution, so who knows what the situation is. The rotation in the Luton game might be more down to necessity than design, as Trent, Dom and Thiago are all unavailable. The hope is that the players involved are capable of doing the business. Aside from the usual maximum motivation, attitude and application required from first minute to last, I hope the players aren't casting one eye on their place in the cup final team and taking their focus away from this one. Concentration needs to be bang-on here. More than that though, I hope we get some much better luck on the injury front, with players staying fit and the injured ones coming back quickly, fully recovered, sharp and hungry. Three points please. Get it done!

After the depths of grief - hope and happiness….say hello to Bailey the Goldendoodle

It's been said a thousand times but fuck it, once more can't hurt: If they're such an attractive investment and categorically NOT a money laundering vehicle for a mate of Vlad's, then why couldn't they just swap to an almost-as-lucrative sponsor for Finch Farm and BMD the minute that fat slug Usmanov's assets were frozen? Oh yeah, because there was barely any interest in sponsoring either for useful sums of cash beyond said fat slug's unspecified purposes. They should just count their lucky stars the PL has been so circumspect about challenging their Covid losses (because they'd have an even bigger deduction if they took the dim view they should have about theoretical valuations of players sourced from SteveO), and that these point deductions are coming for them in a year of historically bad football teams in the league. Honestly, their sense of outrage about all of this is fucking scandalous. They're bang to rights and yet are probably going to be let off without any kind of meaningful punishment, but they can't help being cheeky bastards and foaming at the mouth about it. The karmic reckoning of 777 ownership and financial oblivion is more than they fucking deserve.

What they can't seem to grasp about the war in Ukraine ending their sponsorship deal is that they were funded by a mate of Moshiri who seemingly wanted to put a lot of money into the club without ever owning it. Their fans were all laughing about him being the real owner and just using Moshiri as a front man. They've always been cagey about him being involved yet what company would offer £30m naming rights for a stadium that had had yet to even be started?. It also conveniently appeared when the club were that amount short of meeting ffp and they announced it at their AGM with a straight face. So he blagged his own money into the club with inflated sponsorship deals which no one else would pay. Since then they've been unable to get equivalent deals or even replace them with anywhere near what he put in. Spurs despite being based in London and using the stadium for other things like NFL and concerts still haven't been able to secure naming rights a few years after they built it. If AXA or Standard Chartered got liquidated Liverpool would still be able to get a similar deal from another sponsor yet Everton want you to believe that they lost all their funding from one dubious source because of the war.

On everyone's favourite villain Owen Jones (who's articles are very rarely linked or discussed). I'm no fan and rarely read him as the issue of LBGT rights doesn’t interest me which he's obviously passionate about as a gay man. To be honest I could hardly care less. Their was a concerted effort to have him cancelled at the start of the Israeli invasion into Gaza by many in the media. I'm glad it wasn't successful. He is a journalist. To try to say otherwise is ridiculous. He comes a working class background from Stockport, got top grades at Oxford, is left wing who's been writing for the guardian (amongst others) long before Starmer became an MP. He's one of the few left wing political commentators in the media and he's definitely one of the most qualified. He can certainly be an annoying little twerp but like him or loathe him he hasn't been given his voice in our printed press or on our TV screens by coming third on Alan Sugars the Apprentice.

Just watched The Zone of Interest. Went in with high expectations and it didn’t disappoint. An absolute harrowing, unique take on the holocaust. Was absolutely brilliant and would really recommend finding a cinema showing it if you can. The sound is what drives a massive chunk of the film and anything other than a cinema will do it a disservice.

Trying to lose weight whilst frantically refreshing the page and eating a box of heroes isn’t how I saw my Monday evening panning out if I’m honest

Gary Neville?

Always think Akehurst looks like a cartoon depiction of a tumour, like if you had an advert for kids about stopping smoking.

There was one post I couldn't find again referring to BMD as one of the most important building projects in Europe.

It's Liverpool FC, not Van Dijk FC.

Fucking hell, one of the lads in the chat did that before the game and I ripped him for it and there was a pile on from everyone else. Life comes at you fast.

Ah, Smithers has arrived to release the hounds.

Are you old enough to remember when Phil Boersma was here under Souness?

Van Dijk’s man of the match performance was mentioned twice, Nunez’s goal got eight full paragraphs. I really should have taken that offer from RAWK.

Not you obviously as you've just replied to one.

And if it's a DCL he'll be wearing knickers and bras.

A bit like this.

One more and you'd have a barber shop quartet.

The Tories are starting to remind me of a dog after it's shit in your shoes, then tilts its head quizzically because it doesn't understand why you're not over the moon.

Get stuck in, I think it's great. Just fingers crossed it gets picked up for a 4th season due to it's new netflix popularity

Self-awareness?

Yep. A 62k capacity stadium with the highest fan spend per head that has held NFL games, numerous concerts and boxing matches since it was built wasn't able to get naming rights but one that hadn't even been built was able to get a £30m deal off Moshiris mate. Not dodgy at all.

Fucking hell, as someone who works in research that's an utter clusterfuck of a question that's designed to do nothing other than give you a few soundbites rather than any kind of meaningful plans. The fact that the only headline you can get is zeroing in on a small group of people who fulfil not just one (ex Tory voters), but two (ex Tory voters who are undecided on their next vote) criteria says it all. At most it gives you a bit of insight into why they might have changed allegiance but in the absence of any other questions about other factors that may have driven them away, it's utterly meaningless. Propaganda dressed as 'research' - boils my piss.

nah think he is toast now think that covid enquiry probably finished him off

No you wouldn't. You'd love to keep making shitwitted snarky jibes that would fit right in on GB News. It's much easier than trying to learn stuff.

Life under Blair was Utopia compared to the current shite. I can't see how anyone would object to that level of living standard again. I think he should have paid for his Iraq shenanigans however.

Are you just going to take that @YorkshireRed ?

She's a handsome individual.

He's not a bad guy Jones but he's not a journalist he's an opinion writer (nothing wrong with that, but it's not the same). He launched his own YouTube channel a couple of years back and YouTube depends on you having subscribers and the best way to get them is through knowing your audience. I used to watch a couple of pop culture/sci fi YouTubers but don't watch them now as they've gone down the whole incels, "disney is woke" rabbit hole. It's monetised fume. Jones knows his audience, it's the same as Skwarkbox and the like. I just don't see the point of it at all. Jones hates Blair, but how many lives were made better under new Labour compared to what had gone before and what came after? My happiest times living in this country were under Blair nationally and the Lib Dems locally, both "centrist" by any measure. Perfect, no, better than this shit, absolutely. I saw someone, possibly Jones, posting a michael foot quote recently. Michael foot lost.

4 weeks ago Neville said Spurs would finish 2nd. Now he doubts they'll get 5th. Our greatest pundit ladies and gents.

Has Angry just dropped a huge hint about what departing, affable German coach Jurgen Klopp needs to do to win the title?

If we're going on camera angles of still photos, that's handball.

Ha. He’s right. Without the commentary you can clearly hear it.

I haven’t seen this kind of hysteria for a single artist, since Bobby Chariot was on tour in 82’ during hid, How ye Diddling, tour.

Damn, I've been rumbled again. You kids are just too smart for me.

Just seen that Holgate challenge. He is one horrible little cunt. Got a grid would never tire of punching.

Children of Men. Haven't watched this in years, still great. 9/10.

Specsavers reply under that.

This series of columns from ten years ago where a columnist was rereading King's books in order was really good. He only got as far as Rose Madder, but there are 33 entries here that are worth a look: Rereading Stephen King | Books | The Guardian

And the wee bit of not understanding that the PL governs itself and you can't go to the high court to appeal punishments because that's what the clubs themselves voted on.

Having been (un)fortunate enough to spend many days canvasing at the last election in Blackpool (South I think it was), I can say anecdotally that a lot of voters liked and would normally support Labour but just couldn't bring thmselves to vote for him. One of my arguments of choice was how you are voting for a party/policies not a person, as the leader can change at anytime, but obviously it didn't work. To impress you even more, as we knew Liverpool seats were safe I spent no time there during the campaign. As well as Blackpool I spent time in Warrington and Crewe, even having the joy of door knocking on election day in Crewe. Don't bother checking, everywhere I went we lost. I am now fed up and will not campaign as the next election, which is why Labour will win. We all have to not do our bit.

Anyone who went to South Africa at the height of apartheid to coach an all white team is an absolute cunt: he did and he is, as well as being a nasty self serving piece of human garbage

I've been through this with other posters before but I want them to lose every game, regardless of the circumstances. I don't do pragmatism when it comes to that lot.