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I hope the lollypop lady outside their school is better than the useless one we had as a kid.

The media in general seem to be being very kind to our CHEATING neighbours. The BBC's headline was "Dogs of War Reborn - Everton Gear Up for Another Challenge" alongside a defiant puff piece from Leon Osman. It's almost victim-blaming with a generous dash of gaslighting. Imagine media coverage of the conviction of a guilty villain focusing on THEIR reaction to it! Not a thought for the people wronged, impacted by the underhand robbery of the actual villain. No, just the villain's reaction. It's actually an outrageous miscarriage of justice - THAT's what the BBC should be focusing on! A measly 10 points handed to them THIS season when their crimes were committed LAST season. It's disgusting. CHEATS! CHEATS!

You are back at the peak of your individual footballing ability (whatever age that was). You've won a competition to play for Liverpool for any season. You've got to be on the pitch for at least 75% of game time. Which season would you pick and what position would you play (you may have to consider who you are ousting!).

There's been other threads on this. And in them I pointed out that the worst, and most deeply offensive, acting performance is Juliette Lewis inconsistently playing an autistic woman in The Other Sister. The performance is horrendous and only rivalled by the male lead in ... The Other Sister. So, congratulations to a lad called Giovanni Ribisi for that. Makes Ben Stiller's Simple Jack look like Robert De Niro in Raging Bull.

This is such a pertinent point. Sporting law is so fraught with difficulty. The timeframe of crime and punishment needs to be constrained to the same season. Otherwise it is ludicrous. One team breaks the law to avoid the "punishment" of relegation, and another team pays the consequences but because the context is completely different, these are actually minimal. They will have hardly any consequence. The punishment must fit the crime. Basically they should be retrospectively docked 10 points from LAST SEASON's total. Get the CHEATS sent down. Disgusting cheats.

This should free up some more time for his humanitarian work, and self-appointed ambassadorial role growing the game across his new homeland. Good on him.

Filthy, dirty, rotten CHEATS!

So it's confirmed then. Everton are CHEATS! They have cheated all of their fellow teams. Every one of the teams in the division. Compromising the sporting integrity of the greatest league in the world. Forever tainted. Their name will be synonymous with CHEATING. Like Ben Johnson or Lance Armstrong. They sat in those league meetings, their representatives looking around the room knowing full well that what they were doing was underhand, corrupt and devious. Absolutely disgusting. A complete disgrace to the great city of Liverpool. CHEATS!

You're not helping, mate...

It's a barometer of morality. It may not have political clout, but it has moral currency. I didn't think I could hate another Labour leader, and I've been absolutely sick of the Momentum activists spending more energy on undermining the leader of their party than the morally bankrupt Tory Party. But I'm decided. Right now, I hate Keir Starmer. Like Blair (whose hand I shook at a Labour meeting back in 96, and whose cause I campaigned for), he's a compromised figurehead. Coward.

At least I'd have felt warm. I lived like a savage. "What were the 90s like, grandad?" "Oo, times were hard. They talk about "heat or eat" these days, well they haven't got a clue! It was either a shilling for the meter or a shilling for a bump of beak.... Tough times, my lad."

Just read through the last few pages of this thread. It's hardly the inspiration I thought it might be. There's so many posts about having beautiful heads of hair, and/or handsome features and/or looking very tough and masculine. I'm bald, ugly and soft. There's nothing down for me...

I can get over 200 lines on Tetris. Well, I could in the winter of 1997 when I was living alone in that dreary flat on Smithdown Road.

The BBC Sport App > Football > Scores actually states the scores of the games in that league. It's below the Greece, Turkey and Belgium leagues' scores, but it's still there. Amazing editorial decision. Wholly unjustifiable.

So nothing at all happened about Arteta mouthing off last week? Not a peep from the FA. Or have I missed something?

I always think that Bournemouth manager looks like the lad from down the road that you see in the pub in his Christmas clothes.

A terrible take. I don't actually think you mean it; you're just trying to bait Angry so are exaggerating. How many headers did Endo win? For a little fella he knows how to make his presence felt.

Wears blue on a Friday. Unless he's going bowling...

I reckon the Premier League have arrived at the decision to dock Everton 12 points FOR BEING MASSIVE CHEATS, but have negotiated with the blues to hold off until this 777 thing goes through. This is a shame as it will mean they likely won't go into negative points. That was a screenshot that I think most people would have enjoyed taking. Shame.

A great piece of writing. Thoroughly enjoyable.

No, have to disagree, Mook, Free As A Bird does it for me. 100%. Yes, there was an element of it breaking through due to nostalgia, the video, the technical wonder. But even today I absolutely love it as a piece of work. Real Love and Now and Then, yes, I would agree they're just alright. Free As A Bird, though, I absolutely love it.

Was it just me who detected a sly smile on Taylor's face when the camera cut to the bench after Darwin missed that sitter...?

Mate, honestly, stop doing this. Talk about the topic at hand and stop looking for comparisons / connections to yourself.

Someone who said they were nearby said he was reacting to the tasteless chanting rather than giving it the big one.

Although I agree about Arsenal - and how much funnier it is that the club that prides itself on its integrity and tradition is acting more petulantly and entitled than Chelsea under Mourinho - maybe, actually, they are actually getting on board with Liverpool. I know we don't like the timing of it; as we all know, football clubs are wholly governed by self interest. But maybe we should see it as part of the long game: if what happened to Liverpool hadn't have happened, Arteta and his cry-arse club may not have been so emboldened. So what seems like a lack of buy in for change is actually just taking a bit longer than we'd hoped. It started with Liverpool, but Arsenal have taken it to a different level. Maybe the start of next season will look very different to this one...? If it takes Arteta wetting his kex to get Howard Webb out the door and a root and branch review of English refereeing up and running, then that's a block of lego I can get behind.