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As soon as I saw this thread I knew who would have bumped it

We finally found the thread where Stevie was right about something! …Artur Boruc really was a heap of shit, wasn’t he?

Federico Bernardeschi is now a free agent.

This thread! Anyways, Fabio just broke Buffon's record. 508 clean sheets now at the age of 44! Latest came against Inter which also featured 40 year old Casemiro.

im no fashion guru, but... still looks considerably better than the shite he's wearing from the waist up.

"Top Shagger" too.

It's still only the 1st of July. I'll piss my pants on the 8th

This!

I enjoyed Busta Rhymes

Villa can have him for £60m. We can do better. Where is the Hot Mitch Summer ?!?

Villa flush from selling their women's team. What a load of shit the premier league is.

Djokovic has a right set of legs on him

Those armpit stripes!

Looks like we have to create a reverse gazump thread https://talksport.com/football/3338134/newcastle-aston-villa-anthony-elanga-nottingham-forest-transfer-news/

The french relative of Essembee while wearing a "useless Joe" shirt he got from his English cousin.

Wouldn't really fancy getting pegged off anyone, but hey ho, live and let live

Agreed about Starmer tbf but we could stop supplying arms. Instead we're branding the people trying to prevent planes going over there as terrorists. I don't think any sort of genuine de-escalation is even possible anymore tbh, the hatred will span generations. Maybe if Netanyahu answered for war crimes but I don't think he values the peace and safety of his own people enough for that.

I actually think the amount Starmer can influence Netanyahu is negligible but I take your point. The issue is Trump. Netanyahu won’t stop until Trump tells him to but sadly he has his biggest cheerleader in the White House. Biden was fucking senile in his last year as president and should never have ran again but I’m convinced we wouldn’t be where we are today with a democratic president in the White House. Bibi upped the stakes before the election and doubled down after Trump started his second term knowing he’d have his support.

There has been in the past - e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61943613 - but it's true (if grim and sad) that there seems to be a degree of "conflict fatigue" where Ukraine is concerned, yes.

We still live in a country with separation of powers so I won’t blame the government for the outcome even if their reaction has been identical to that of the right.

It will be whatever the government decides it is in the end. I'm wondering if they might be about to use this to make a show of going after left leaning people and putting them in prison same as they did for the hotel burning fiasco.

Criticism of Israel does not equal antisemitism. Chanting death of the IDF isn’t antisemitism. Chanting death to the IDF is however most likely a crime in this country but not antisemitic. It is probably wrong and I did think of the likes of Gloom’s conscripted family when I read about it. Bibi seems to liken any criticism of the Israeli government’s actions to antisemitism and it couldn’t be further from the truth but it has worked for him. The likes of Bob Vylan and Kneecap know they aren’t making a difference by making a stand but it keeps it in the public eye when the UK government appears to be doing fuck all about it.

I get that for sure. I would throw into the mix as well though that the UK supports Israel whereas it doesn't support Russia - so there's a domestic angle to it there. There's not much more anyone can do than what we're doing with the Ukraine, the government supports them and is assisting them - Russia doesn't give a shit if we protest them but Israel does actually on some level respond to international pressure. So arguably people's energy is actually better spent on Gaza than it is on Ukraine. I think if people's feeds were full of dead and dying Ukrainian children it'd be different though, tbh.

Sadly I think both the media and the politicians determine which atrocities matter more based on the impact it'd have on ourselves. Genocide is genocide whether it's Israeli, Palestinian, Rwandan, German, Yugoslavian, Russian, Ukrainian, etc.