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I was going to say the same, but decided not to I mean, they assaulted him with icing sugar WTF

So which lay-by do you frequent, MF?

Grim scenes in the garden today The rooks / crows who are nesting in one tree, paid a visit to the pigeons who are nesting 2 trees along. Lots of noise, feathers falling down and then Mrs pigeon came flying out. 20 seconds later the rook came out with one of the pigeons eggs in its beak. What absolute cunts. I half tempted to turn the hosepipe on them. This is not the garden for ruffians of any sort.

no, and you wouldn't want anyone else taking pens. he's ice cold in those situations. but his all round game has definitely dropped off in the past 4-6 weeks though. it's just not about his goal scoring. he doesn't seem to be moving around the pitch as freely as he was in the run up to the cup final, which to me suggests fatigue or he's carrying a niggle. we also have history of continuing to start players when they're managing injuries, so it wouldn't surprise me. i have faith in the medical department since bunce has come in. we have had way fewer injury problems this season but i wonder if they have weighed up how important isak is to the team against he lack of viable options on the bench and decided to defer his rest or op till the summer.

Valid point and reminds me of a comment made during the cup final when I was in the same box as a few Liverpool fans. One of them made a comment that in the 2nd half, Isak had a one on one with Andy Robertson and was out-sprinted. They consider Robertson to not be quick so in turn commented that Isak has no pace. That's not the Isak we know so wouldn't at all be surprised to hear that he's off for an op as soon as the season is over - no international football so nothing to 'manage' in the interim.

Did you see the state of him coming off when he was subbed at Wembley? He could barely walk. He did the full 90mins on Sunday . Am certain a knock has been managed for months and he’ll get an op in the summer. If we’d already got CL he’d have had it by now…

It's like Beetlejuice but worse.

There we go. His xG and non penalty xG. Your wish is my command.

We need to know his xG for the last five games in order to pass judgement.

Does it matter of its a pen? Still got to score them.

Yeah Tories closed all overseas processing centres and safe routes. They created the boat issue so they looked like they were doing something about an issue which didn’t really exist at the ballot box but after Farage’s constant exploitation of Tory policy we are now here with a Labour PM making speeches that got politicians sacked for making in the late 70s (Powell had to go to one of the Ulster Unionist parties after Heath sacked him so he could remain an MP)

two of those were pens though, right? not scoring is fine. There has been a noticeable drop off in his energy and mobility. Might just be fatigue but I wouldn’t be surprised if DK’s source is ITK

Miggy 2, get rid.

I haven’t got a clue. I was speculating as to what the PM was getting at. Ironically I see closer EU ties by stealth (which I think is what Starmer is going to do) is another ‘cake and eat it’ scenario which would be more popular if it was honest and out in the open. Trying to appeal to (or not annoy) people who still think Brexit is a good thing is bat shit crazy. It’ll be another fudge that pleases almost no one

Could be why he isn't sprinting as much.

By ‘them’, I mean the previous government. Also, legitimate academic institutions were incentivised to attract increasing numbers of foreign students. As fees for UK students were frozen for ages (effectively reducing in real terms) whereas they could charge foreign students what they liked. There’s other stuff too. You could have prevented a lot of channel crossings in small boats by agreeing to have had a processing centre on the French side (I think the French offered this option).

Well they relaxed visa restrictions in 2021, which strangely the point where the transition period for Brexit finished and we were completely out. Not sure if these two things are connected? 😆 edit: I say this specifically with the care workers thing in mind

FYP - Racist Stanley bastard.

It was his groin (and hip maybe) that he was having a persistent problem with, wasn't it? Might be that.

Ah that makes sense now. But it's interesting this point about papering over the cracks - what does Labour expect is going to be different now, that they'll enact changes quick enough that they can fill the cracks before they need papering over?

I think the student visa thing was to allow them to paper over the cracks of the loss of FoM. But it was massively open to abuse with academic institutions being set up that were only pretending to teach students and were just a route into allowing you to live here

I’ve long since found it funny & couldn’t care less about the mental gymnastics other fans need to do to justify us being where we are I’ll say this though - i think the refereeing has been abysmal for both teams in our last few games. It’s like they have lost the ability to control a game. They are trying to galaxy brain when to hand out yellow cards rather than hand them out for yellow card offences. Then you get stupid stuff like Chelsea thinking they can kick the fuck out of us unpunished & our lads getting annoyed & taking a pop back. It always has the opposite effect.

Nah just said op. Hopefully not a Botman type situation.

I see we're running Rivers of Blood comparisons today. One thing that I'm not following mind, Starmer keeps claiming that the Tories were running an open border experiment - obviously they weren't in reality, but what is he basically pointing to? What specifically did the Tories do which enabled immigration to spiral?

3 goals in the last 5 games. He's clearly not playing as well as he was on his hot streak earlier in the season but come on