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Aye, honestly this Labour party is pathetic, politically clueless.

Labour trying to woo the benefit cuts rebels by pointing out that, since their u-turn, it's now ONLY 150,000 people that will be pushed into poverty by the cuts, and not 250,000. I mean fucking hell.

What is wrong with ME? The nerve.

What is WRONG with you?!

Not sure how I feel about this, a bit queasy tbh. You disgust me Gemmill.

"You have a woman's bottom!"

Wouldn't fancy getting pegged off that.

Do you have it on absolute authority we'd made an approach, or are you going on the words of a few journos? I don't know either way, but carry on having your mental gymnastics about every transfer rumour we get dragged into.

Here you go Wykiki, that should soften the blow.

Hotel at the weekend had 4 brummies in. Fuck me. Dull sounding cunts

To me it looks like we want Premier League players but we're unwilling to pay the Premier League tax. No one has any clue on what is really going on behind the scenes but we do know that Eddie stated he wanted to move fast which, for one reason or another, clearly hasn't happened. I'm not arsed about Pedro going to Chelsea to warm their bench whilst collecting massive wages and time will tell whether it was agent games or genuine interest that linked us with him in the first place but the next few days will be very telling. Trafford should be the easiest link to conclude and we'll see if it's one where we, once again, put in tiny incremental bids that fall short of the asking price or if we pay what Burnley want to get our man. Similarly for Elanga, given the player supposedly wants the move. Although, as Brentford don't need to sell, I can see that one being one we eventually give up on. Hopefully we've a list of targets from abroad that fall within our price range as the "buy Premiership proven" strategy isn't working out too well for the 3rd (or is 4th now) window running.

Mate you can still go and watch your beloved Villa Women's team. They've just got a new daddy now.

I honestly think that could be a nail on the coffin for me and football

huge crowd at that game.

I agree with you ultimately but nonetheless, these are the sorts of issues he will lose support over and I'm not seeing where he gains it otherwise. The right quite literally will never vote for him.

Ah, right. I'll be honest and ignore all discussion about that no matter who from. I don't think these culture war subjects, wedge issues, have any place in politics. It's a big reason politics is failing imo.

Villa don't have any PSR issues but they're selling the women's team to themselves

If you genuinely believe point 1 then we are in Mackem delusional territory

Today is the day we are taking advantage of other clubs PSR woes apparently, and that's why we have been keeping our powder dry...

No, Starmer has come out droning on about trans people again but I didn't want to link it and end up in yet another back and forth about that, so I'm trying to keep it general.

Is still specifically about Bridgets comments? I read them in the Guardian and can't say I found anything to disagree on?

The EU is/was open borders as part of a Union bound by a common framework of values, beliefs, law, trade and shared competencies. It is a wonderful institution. And yes, the idea was to boost poorer nations like Poland, enriching us all ultimately as the market increased in size and value. And it worked, with Poland shortly surpassing us on GDP per capita. But this has to be done cautiously and incrementally. The next step after the balkans would l guess be Turkey. But that won't happen in anyone's lifetime on here. Because they do not have shared values, are not fully democratic, have very dubious human rights, and do not meet the required economic conditions. After that would be Russia, aye, right. We're never going to have any meaningful union with an African or Asian country, just isn't going to happen, for dozens of reasons. And anyway, taking their "healthy young workers" isn't doing those countries any favours. There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting your country, whether by itself or part of Union, to be self sufficient in terms of its work requirements. The aim should be to invest in Africa so it can flourish, not rob it of its human wealth and all the attendant problems this causes. I realise as well of course that this is never happening either.

Honestly some of you need to take a breath and perhaps read back on how you've conducted yourselves especially over the last 5 pages or so. Chill the fuck out, man! Joao Pedro might well end up at Chelsea (not confirmed as yet). If he doesn't end up here it'll be for one of a number of reasons: We were never in for him. We weren't prepare to pay the fee / wages for him He wasn't interested in coming here. Was probably the first one and his agent using our name to bump up the price. In Eddie we trust - if he was the right fit, he'd be coming here.

I'm wondering at what point Labour are expecting things to improve for them in terms of popular support - this cannot possibly be the strategy they're going to stick to running into the next GE. All these policies and statements which seem designed to alienate young, progressive voters, how on earth is this going to benefit them? I could buy it if they were picking up votes somewhere to the right but there's no evidence that they are. It feels like the whole thing is designed to suffocate the Tories but how does that help once Reform merge/ally/flat out replace them.

I wouldn't dare, No way could I go through life worrying about being smacked in the face with a plastic sword.