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People fear change. It's the reason for sexism, racism, ablism, and every kind of bigotry you can think of. Young people are more open to change, older people less so. It's why "we" all move more to the right as we get older. "The way things were" is always better. This "football is for men" bollocks doesn't wash any more. *By the way, Mook - when you say "people", you mean of course, "men".

Barmy Army! [clap, clap] Barmy Army! [clap, clap]

This is how Laurence Fox started. Gain a little bit of "notoriety" with outrageous rhetoric, gain a little bit of covert Russian funding, and we could be into new right wing political party territory. "Late Night with Barton! 1am every second Tuesday, here on GB News, sponsored by the Get 'em Back in the Kitchen Party."

I know what you mean around the Gooner/Saka thing, Dave. But he really can ball and is a clutch baller. Ball.

If we were playing someone like Boro or even Brighton, I wouldn't really care, I'll be honest. I don't feel we have enough to get all four, and I do feel we need to prioritise: and this competition as is, is fourth in importance. But, and it may be a sign of the times, Arsenal have started to get on my pip lately, their manager having free hits on referees and throughout the media. A draw or loss will likely irritate me. Go strong and get them beat, Reds.

You should have seen the cover they wanted to have. It wasn't a glove, believe me.

Mike Terry took the art of poor creative ideas to a whole new level. It says a lot when this isn't even your worst entry into the field. It's probably this one, Live at the Glasgow Pavilion. [vol 2!!]

BrokenBottleBoy? I follow him on Twitter. I know he had an on-going argument with that idiot Matt Goodwin. I should spend more time looking at his stuff, but I find myself less interested in getting sucked into things that generally make me angry. I know how stacked the deck is, and I know the futility of exploring it as it just makes me frustrated! That's half of my issue with Pilger - even the people you used to depend upon end up letting the side down. But I am in agreement that there is far more deserving targets for a hit piece than Pilger.

This whole thread is a charade. Stig just wants someone to post that picture of the naked man blowing a tuba up some woman's arse because his own copy got deleted...

Ha! He's writing on behalf of the Centre for Policy Studies there, which doesn't help Kamm's cause. To say the least. For me, Pilger's later pronouncements is like Morrissey turning into an arse. I still love The Smiths, but you worry about some of the things that you used to love. I don't like the re-evaluation of Pilger's ENTIRE career, especially when it's coming from a place I don't trust. CPS isn't exactly neutral. Any chance of a Tufton Street expose, lads...? Like a self-review?

I don't know him at all. Where did you get that info, Kep? Ta. As I mentioned earlier, Pilger was a bit of a hero to me when I was at Uni. He was a voice for those without one. I loved his work on the plight of Palestine, especially. In later years I was baffled by him and thought he may have had some kind of breakdown. I think it may have been around the time of the Arab Spring. And then there was the Lockdown / Vaccine stuff more recently. I was glad it wasn't just me who felt that way. I am not aligning myself with Oliver Kam, who as I say, I haven't heard of before, but was glad others noticed it, too.

Like The Rolling Stones, I really liked the early work. The later, not so much... For years I always held him up as a paragon of great journalism - causing discomfort and frustration by shaking the tree. But then, more recently, I saw him on the side of Russia. I haven't read this yet, but it may be of interest. I'll read it and evaluate if it's the chickens home to roost, or a hatchet job by the establishment:

Great footballer, just a little late in his career. My overriding memory is the Leverkusen QF which still makes me sad.

Great stuff. And a great example of a Freudian slip: "When Longstaff went down in the box after cheating a ball down and running across Endo." Exactly right. Along with the jumping backwards into an opponent who is jumping for a header, this is a classic Harry Kane cheat move to gain a penalty. Running onto a ball dropping over the head of a full back and falling across the opponent nearly always gets you a pen. I could see it unfolding as I've seen it so many times. Taylor didn't fall for it, though which is amazing. It's never a penalty in a million years as there's not enough contact. Bonus feature: because he hit the deck, Longstaff was then 10 yards behind Curtis running back, and couldn't make up the ground as Curtis slotted in. Howe lets himself down every time nowadays. His team were given a hammering and he focuses on that non-penalty incident. Just hold your hands up, lad - you were battered.

Nunez! Nunez! Nunez! Nunez....!

Photoshopped that one, of course. The lad who did it even put his social media name on the assistant's shirt.

I’m of the opinion that he chose “penalty and red card for the keeper; 3 points guaranteed” in the split second it took him to go down. He’s that kind of player. Do I like it? No. But did I actually like it? I absolutely LOVED it, yes!

The Gary Neville podcast (I listen so you don't have to). The new owners won't judge Ten Hag until he has the injured players back: Maguire, Lindaloff, Martinez and Hoijland. Never has a person so articulately spoken so much wrong. PLEASE can the new owners give Gazza a leadership role. He sounds so credible, but in the cold light of day, speaks absolute drivel. Wrong, but wrong spoken well.

10 non-conjugal visits out of 10. Whenever I read about someone being caught smuggling drugs, I always think "Have they not seen the first 15 mins of Midnight Express?" The anxiety it induces is off the scale. No chance.

I think Trent's first half performance was unreal. Fell off second half, admittedly, but some of those passes seemed impossible to make. What a player.

But who would he get a rub down off after the game?

Unlike the incident involving the solid pro Sean Longstaff. Clear pen, and not a predictable body movement across the opposition player as you go to ground. Copyright Edward "Nice Guy Eddie" Howe. Up the Toon! Barmy army [clap, clap]! Barmy army!

Respectfully, I disagree. We set up for many different ways of attacking, and using a number 9 is one. Picture how many through balls big Darwin has had - the ones he usually smashes wide or at the keeper - and you will realise a number 9 is most certainly part of our armoury. People being critical of his conversion rate are not necessarily people who "want him to fail" as you seem to be always arguing. I would also say that Klopp went out of his way to praise Darwin after the game not necessarily because he was occupying the two centre-backs, but because he is protective of his player, and is a first class man manager. He contributes. He tries hard. His finishing isn't good enough and has to improve if he is to stay here.

One thing you can say about Ivan Toney is he'll always back himself. As part of a long-odds accumulator usually...