Rushies tash

Can see Contentious Penalty coming on for City soon. Brother of Utd's Dubious.

Fucking sick of seeing half arsed, clueless displays from teams a week after busting a gut against us. Pretty sure we'll see the same tomorrow against Brentford.

Thought we started off quite well, but then ran out of ideas the deeper Arsenal got. It was like a throwback to those lockdown games where the likes of Burnley would just string 6 across the back and we'd knock it from left to right in front of them. Henderson pissed me off the most with this, absolving responsibility for creating something in front of goal by knocking 5 yard balls right to Gomez of all people. Poor all round really. Oh well, Arsenal will at least have to attack next week.

Someone just leather it. On target preferably.

Playing really well, but not sure where a goal is going to come from. Especially if our corners carry on being so shit.

And they said supporters of Corbyn were cultists? Fucking hell.

BBC news quoting some survey of floating voters saying the majority think there's more important things to worry about. I fucking despair. Country is full of cap doffing bell ends.

It would take them winning a few things for that to happen unfortunately.

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Names are for tombstones baby.

Was pissing myself at the walks on some of them. Cunts.

Not watching this. Is penalty playing?

What's with Neville squealing whenever they shoot the fucking quim.

Just finished watching this. A timely satire of what happens when scientists are confronted by less than intelligent careerist politicians and social media crackpots. Enjoyed it (and agree about the length) 7/10.

The article mentions 3 cases spread over 18 years (there have been far more than that) as a nice contrast to the "blitz" recently - one of whom hadn't even had the vaccine. As I said, I'm not saying there is categorically no link because I don't know, but I do know the insinuation of the article and that these events have always happened. I'll bow out now as I've spent more time in here than I'd wanted to. Good luck to you.

I've been trying avoid this thread as I really can't be arsed getting embroiled in endless bickering about something I neither care too much about nor can do fuck all about (I try to stay out of the EU thread as well these days), but I had to take issue with vaccines being blamed for tragedies that have happened every year for as long as there's been professional football.

Recent cases could be linked and I have no way to disprove that, but have you checked the list? Going back to the 1800s, the rates are pretty constant, and there doesn't seem to have been any significant increases post mass vaccination. Sports people sadly collapse and die whilst playing sport through undiagnosed heart problems. I'm not sure you could now suddenly blame every death on vaccines.

Sudden death on the pitch (as tragic as it undoubtedly is) is not a recent, or uncommon phenomenon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing

Ha ha, when I worked for Stanley's, there'd be lads who'd collect these slips from their mates and cash them, about 20 at a time.

You may be right, but there was a brief moment in the mid-nineties when people seemed to care and there was a palpable air of positivity in society. Labour rode this wave to their landslide victory, then proceeded to spend the next couple of years pissing on that fire of optimism. I didn't intend to bring politics into this, but I genuinely believe that if our leaders (and in turn the media) led by example, then society as a whole would follow. As you say though, that's unlikely to happen again in the near future.

On the plus side, my £5 free bet from bet365 came in at 11/1 in the 2.00 at Cheltenham. I've now got £100 in my account made up almost entirely of free bets from them. Splendid, and just the tonic because this fucking virus is pissing me right off.

Scratch that. Just checked and there's a faint line on the T. Figures, as I still feel like I'm trying to shake off a particularly irritating cold. Fuck sake.

I suppose it's a consequence of the relentless divide and conquer politics we've seen since the eighties, and latterly the poisonous & polarising influence of alot of the content on social media. It's the doubling down I find worst - no one seems able to hold their hands up and say 'sorry, I was wrong'. Some one cuts you up on the road? They give you the finger out of the window; their kid does something wrong in school? It's some other kid's fault. Hardly surprising though, when most politicians seem incapable of taking blame or responsibility for anything.

I'd have loved it to have been a pen, but thought he won the ball tbf