Bernard Diomede

The level of hatred towards Henderson is genuinely bizarre. He’s a good solid pro who never fails to give 100% for the club. I can understand people highlighting his limitations as I do myself at times. But people seem incapable of acknowledging anything positive he does and some seem to genuinely hate him. I find it quite embarrassing. I thought he he played well 2nd half yesterday and clearly raised his intensity after a poor first half.

He was by Dave. I’ve never trusted him ever since.

It’s a weird feeling but I honestly feel more confident of winning it after the defeat. I think the hurt of losing to them and the fact that it will remind our lads just how in the ball they need to be will see our intensity go up another level. The thought of leading by 10 made me feel proper uneasy, and I was worried about us maybe becoming complacent. I don’t think that will be the case now. Time will tell.

Too right! We are in the middle of a title race with one of the best sides in the game. It will require our players and manager to have calm heads and hold their nerve. It would be nice to see our supporters follow suite after our first defeat of the season, away from home, to our main rivals. In January.

He's an easy target. He was no worse than Wijnaldum or Milner last night. In fact I would say he did more good stuff than both, interspersed with some average play. People saying Gerrard would have done this, that and the other need to get real. You are comparing him to one of our greatest players of all time. Henderson is not or never will be near Gerrard's level. He's a good player and a good professional. Nothing better, nothing worse. The fact that he is captain seems to make people judge him differently, but I would counter that by saying he is now no longer a guaranteed starter in our midfield, so in general the captaincy is irrelevant.

I said before the game that I believed a defeat for us in this game would take our intensity up a level, and I still firmly believe that this will be the case. Last night was a reminder for the players and the fans that we need to fight tooth and nail every minute of every game if we want to win the league ahead of a top class side. All the talk of 10 point gaps and winning it in January was dangerous and stupid in my opinion, even if we had won yesterday it was never going to be over. Personally I honestly feel more confident of winning it now after a narrow defeat to our rivals in which we never got the rub of the green as it should stoke the fire of the players, which is what I think this side needs. It it was never going to be a procession or given to us easy. We go again reds. A true question of what we are made of now. I believe it is one we will answer.

https://youtu.be/Bop4rr6sUQo Delia knows. Come on you mighty reds!! Edit; bollocks don’t know how to embed that from my phone

I think a defeat tomorrow would spark a really positive reaction from us. My bigger worry would would be if we lost a real home banker as I think that may allow for more self doubt to kick in. I’d argue that a loss tomorrow would raise our intensity level even higher.

It worries me that there is zero talk of a new contract for big games James. Worries me greatly.

Untouchable. A french film about a disabled fella who hires a carer from a rough neighbourhood. Genuinely funny and heart warming. I’ve seen it before but it didn’t disappoint a second time. 10/10 noticed a shit American remake is due to be released after Christmas. Whatever you do don’t watch that before the french version

Have you got a link to we’re they are advertising it mate?

To be fair. We have just gone 6 points clear at the top of the table at Christmas and these cunts are languishing miles behind us. Fuck them. The insignificant bellends. Im a big fan of taking the piss out of them but fuck them. We’ll just crack on

What a cunt of a kickoff time

Fuck off I love her more

I’ve just bought a pair of them tobacco’s and can confirm that they are the shiz

Bit of a long winded one this. I am in dispute over payment of fees with a car leasing company after them fucking up collection of my car on numerous occasions. The details are below in the initial complaint email. They have agreed to wave the additional pick up charge but are still wanting me to pay for the damages to the car. I am not disputing the damage, only the fact that I have lost earnings as a result of their incompetence and am now unwilling to pay the remaining £340. Anybody with any similar experience or expertise in this area? They have proper pissed me off over the whole debacle so I would like to push it further and am likely to contact the financial Ombudsman just out of principle. Any thoughts? I am writing to register my complaint regarding your services and in response to a sundry invoice and your letter relating to damages dated 24/9/18. First of all I would like to register my disgust at the level of service that I have received from you and the partner collection company that you associate with and am detailing the list of failures on your part below. I originally arranged for my car to be collected on 30/8/18 and received no email correspondence to confirm this, other than a text message detailing date of pick up and post code of pick up which I have attached for your information (Image 1). Prior to that collection no terms and conditions were sent to me and as far as I was aware this was the procedure that you used to confirm the collection of my vehicle. The pick up took place and the collection agent informed me that he could not take the vehicle because the front left tyre was illegal. This was despite the vehicle being serviced and MOT’ d on the 22/8/18 (Incidentally this MOT was completed by the independent mechanic who regularly appears on BBC One’s Watchdog). When I informed him of this and expressed my surprise the collection agent smirked and responded by saying that ‘this happens a lot’ Having refused to take the vehicle I returned it to the garage who felt that the tyre was still legal, however I was told in no uncertain terms by your operatives on the phone that the vehicle would not be collected unless the tyre was replaced. Having replaced the tyre I arranged for the vehicle to be collected on 3/9/18 To my great surprise I then received email confirmation of my arranged pick up (Image 2) informing me that any failed collection would result in a charge of £136.50 plus VAT. Obviously this was the proper procedure for arranging collection that I had failed to be informed of initially. Having arranged to be off work for the 3rdI waited until around midday and had received no contact or correspondence from you, I therefore contacted you for an update. The operative on the phone explained he would try and get in touch with the collection agent and would call me back. He called back explaining that he was having difficulty doing so because their systems were down but would contact me once he did. An hour and a half later I called back to again enquire having received no response and was told that they would chase this up. I received a call back explaining that the collection process had not been properly booked in and no pick up had been arranged. I am sure at this point you can understand my obvious frustration however I arranged for the vehicle to be collected again on 6thSeptember at my home address (Image 3) and again arranged to take another day off work to wait in for the collection. On the day of the collection I received a phone call from my friend who had informed me that the collection agent had arrived at his address and not the correct address and was about to leave and register this as another failed pick up. I spoke to the collection agent and informed him that he had been given the wrong address and asked him to come to the correct address , which was a 7 minute car journey down the road. He informed me that he was not allowed to divert from his schedule and asked me to bring the vehicle there. I informed him that because of the multitude of failed pick-ups I was no longer insured to drive the vehicle and he would need to come to me. He said that he would need to contact his office and I expressly asked him to inform me of the decision by phone call once he had spoken with them. He failed to do so and despite me calling him 3 times he failed to answer. As I am sure you can appreciate by this point I was absolutely furious and contacted you to inform them of this. They passed on my details to the collection company who contacted me to arrange another pick up and I spoke to an exceptionally unhelpful women in the complaints department who was unable to provide any alternative pick up times to avoid me taking another day off work. Having accepted the fact that I would now be forced into taking another day off collection was arranged for 11/9/18 and I was patronisingly informed to ‘go and have a beer’ by the complaints operative. The vehicle was finally collected on the 11/9/18, 12 days after the original pick up date. As a director of a small company that provides educational services to schools my 3 days enforced absence as a result of your incompetence has come at a cost to my company of £750 in services that I have been unable to fulfill. So you can imagine my outrage at now being faced with a bill of £500 in related charges from your company. I am writing this email to inform you that I have absolutely no intention of paying the additional charges you have invoiced for in light of the loss of earnings suffered by my company and the additional stress and inconvenience placed on me during the period stated in this email. In addition to all of this, I cannot help but feel I have been the victim of a wider scam that is in regular operation by leasing companies in manufacturing charges against clients that they have little or no recourse in paying. If I do not receive a satisfactory response to this email I will be referring this complaint onto the financial ombudsman, in addition to this I will be investigating whether there are any customers have had a similar experience to myself and if necessary am willing to pursue this in civil court. I can only finish by expressing my shock and disgust at the level of service that I have received from a company of your stature and await your response with interest.

Also where we are we have things like parent partnerships and voluntary services that can support you with the process. So have a google of what is about locally.

There are 2 type of exclusions mate, a fixed term exclusion and a permanent exclusion. Permanent exclusion is where he is removed from the school entirely and by what you have said they have no legal basis to do that. However they may may put in a fixed term exclusion (what we would call a suspension back in the day) and maybe look to keep him off for a set period. If they do that there are still legalities that school have to follow (off the top of my head still ensuring that he is provided with work being one of them) and I would recommend looking these up because it is rare that schools do follow these legalities properly and if you Ever get to the point of having to deal with a permanent exclusion you will be able to appeal if they haven’t followed the proper procedure. Keep a record of everything as well. If his behaviour hasn’t been great then interventions should have been already put in place to try and address this, things like putting him on report, access to the learning mentor or learning support before you have reached the point of exclusion. Also it costs the school a lot of money and is bad for their figures if they permanently exclude kids, therefore there are other options to be explored. Google what a managed move and a negotiated transfer is as these are options that will not negatively impact your lads permanent record.

To be fair, only pre pubescent teenagers who have never been to a match in their life call them rent boys any more

Just listening to Frank Lampard’s interview there and that is a great loan for Wilson. Having Lampard to learn from is certainly no bad thing. Great free kick and pen tonight

Haha! I've just text my mate saying exactly the same! looks like a proper weasel him

Was it Antynwa who was like Hodgson’s love child?

Top gooser

Haha I thought the same. I’m not sure whether it’s a look o likey or not. Whadda guy if it is though!

Watched the 15:17 to Paris the other day on a flight. Quite possibly the worst film I’ve ever watched. 0/10