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It's basically just an Enid Blyton book with an Irvine Welsh short story shoe-horned in the middle tbf.

To be honest I've not heard too much about what happened between the two JPs at the training ground but I got increasingly frustrated with Joao's attitude at times and with at least three stupid attempts at an elbow where he was lucky not to get sent off all three times. (We'd clawed ourselves back into a game at Brenford after Mitoma came on as a sub and then Joao threw our chances away stupidly). He's young but he had those two earlier in the season let-offs to learn from. He's got the ability, there's no dispute there, but Joao is never far away from censure. I just wish we could get Evan Ferguson back on track because he's more of a goalscorer but has seriously lost his way. But that's another story. Thanks for the welcome back , I really hope you do well this season - my favourite away game.

Absolutely ridiculous, wasn't it?

Amen. One thing this board has taught me over the years is this truism. "if we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back".

We haven't negotiated for a cunt since he got here so I agree. It'll probably speed them up a bit.

Fair question

We do and certainly don't want to see him leave. He's been great this season (his 3rd) and has improved year on year. A really top defender who gives no quarter and is excellent on the ball. We've just bought 2 new defenders one of which I suspect will be a starter from the get-go. As an aside I reckon most Albion fans won't mind you taking Joao Pedro. I certainly won't.

Would it be too harsh to say he looks like a Down’s syndrome Danny Dyer?

Im hoping the silence on transfers is because we are so busy trying to get deals done with players who aren't on the radar of the media. Throw them a few bones to chuck them off the scent while they get on with bringing in some surprise talent. That Marveaux character is half right when he's talking about bringing talent to develop in. We did that with Minteh and turned a tidy profit. We probably need to do it more often but again it's convincing players to come here. It seems that the likes of Chelsea can simply contact an agent and a kid is lining himself up a bedsit on the Kings Road to join the ranks of players who will hardly get a game.

Straight Uno reverse - send the goalie back and bring the geordie maradona home.

McGhee looks like he’s just about to decapitate that lad on the deck

This is from the replies to the article. This Rudd character makes a decent point about ending up where we were last summer but as usual with these types fails to offer an alternative policy. To me If Isak has another good season then he might well be off; if we get Pedro and he does well he'll be bedded in, Osula will have another year under his belt and we can then try to bring a younger striker in with the Isak money...we've got to be creative, we're not a huge name on the continent and don't pay the highest wages... https://bsky.app/profile/ruddymarveaux-lous.bsky.social/post/3lrpgefq3a22x

Fucking hell Blastronaut. Sounds like the start of a novel explaining the origins of a serial killer.

The ‘Hot Mitch summer’.

Jobe Bellingham came off bench for Dortmand in CWC tonight and according to the experts on RTG was head and shoulders the best player and will be a massive miss in PL

The UK is sending the RAF so that we too might entangle ourselves in this chaos. Some little quisling in the Labour cabinet called John Healey has claimed we're moving planes over there to 'protect our assets in Cyprus from Iran' but then added 'we may also support our allies'. There is going to be no persuading me to vote for Labour if they get us mixed up in regime change in Iran, mind.

That would be a class signing, Brighton fans think he is future captain material

The fucking irony btw if we end up signing van Hecke months after having a spat with Gordon considering Gordon himself signed for us a few months after having a spat with Schar

It’s also only the 17th of June. We’ve had a bit of a flurry of activity because of this CWC farce but it’s not usual for this time of year

Looking at the pic of his Mrs, his surname must be doing some heavy lifting.

Wonderful tribute to errr…IRELAND Which I think is how they’ll try and spin it. A certain Mr Fender was filming for Newcastle United in the irish centre the other week…

Hearse was right there

it's just too much football. it's the tournament no one wanted

Yeah, apologies, you're right. I was getting mixed up with the game 2 seasons later where they wore an equally garish kit....

Must've been the season KK took over they beat us, sure they had a similar strip? Think it was one of the games in a bad run after KK's good start where we went to shit?

Not quite the same support in Atlanta for Chelsea v LA.

Too many people want the conclusion to be "because they were Asian" and they don't/won't like the conclusion of past reports and probably this one which is "because the victims don't matter". As I've said before see also Hillsborough/Aberfan/Grenfell etc, etc,

FTFL:DRC

I am sincerely sorry you experienced this. Sounds like it must have been devastating to see as a child... not sure I could have handled it personally. You've got to wonder at the shit people go through sometimes.

This audit they've just done has stipulated that we need a new inquiry to address a few different things that, with the exception of one around the definition of rape, were already in the previous inquiries. Even the one 10 years ago - and yes, including the ethnicity tracking stuff and whatever. If we need an inquiry into anything, it's why the Tories did fuck all about this for the entire time they were in power.

My childhood was basically that film "Stand By Me". A mostly quiet and isolated wee ex-mining village where everyone knew everyone, we all kicked about together and went on daft escapades to the woods, local quarry, or played hide and seek grounds of the chipboard factory. Pissed off all the local farmers by moving all the hay-bails around and building what were probably incredibly unsafe structures from them. We would nick ropes and nets from the factory use them to make hammocks and zip-lines deep in the woods, or "absaile" down the cliffs at the quarry. Half the time there would be some random stray dog along for the adventure with us, we'd know the dogs name and roughly what house it lived at, but nobody knew fuck all about it's owners. Suburban childhood bliss until we stumbled on the body of a body of woman in one of those fields. Turned out she'd had a drunken arguement with her partner, he'd stabbed her 19 times and moved her body to the field in a wheelie bin. We were 10. Wish I could say I was joking. It was probably a year or so after that our neighbour introduced me to SLF and gave me a copy of some dodgy Guns N Roses bootleg. Absolute hero. That was childhood. The teenage years were a different thing entirely.

Rashford motivated and working hard in the gym for next season. With that nose he could smell his Sunday dinner on Tuesday!

Good article that. By the way FIFA have also removed any anti-racist and anti-discriminatory messaging that this usually see at the World Cup. Citing their politically neutral stance. It was always a bit all fart and no shit anyway but at least the messaging was right. This is basically how far we’ve regressed

I got a West Germany 1986 shirt which are like rocking horse shit to find so took a chance and it's obviously a fake but it's not too bad tbh. I'd love a proper one though.

The game where Dillon put the icing on his season's cake by running from the half way line all on his lonesome then ran straight towards the keeper before forgetting to either round him or chip him or touch the ball away before trying to get a free kick/pen/sending off. Went to quite a few away games that year but missed the very few victories until this one where I really didn't fancy our chances after bull put four away at SJP on NYD. When the useless mackem bastard fluffed that chance to make it two and seal the win I feared the worst but we improbably held on for the win. TSB!!! The bank that likes to saaaay.... Fuck no.

If they want to go after the people complicit in negligence around this then fair enough, though that's not what I've interpreted the purpose of this to be. The recommendations it has cited for improving the situation are the same ones we've had the past 3 times, and it's deeply frustrating to see all these right wingers now running around as if they've scored some sort of huge victory here by compelling the government to look at collecting ethnicity data and consider cultural factors. We had that 'victory' a decade ago in the 2015 one. Having said that, if the point of all of this is to go after people who were previously being protected, then fair enough - I've not seen that written anywhere except in your post so forgive my ignorance on it. If that is the big difference between this one and the others, then fine.

Agreed - looked pink from any sort of distance. They had the last laugh though IIRC as they won.

😳 Must've been 89? Divi 2, pre bar code strip...

Manchester is nice and some surrounding areas are decent (although some shocking places as well). Liverpool on the other hand. What a shit hole.

This is obviously just anecdotal but my own experience backs this up. I wasn't on SSRI's for all that long in the grand scheme of things, but did go through three different types when I was really suffering from pretty severe depression. Fluoxetine (Prozac) really fucked me up, it basically sent me into a manic for about 2 or three months, barely sleeping and waking up feeling like someone had shot speed into my eyeballs. Ironically, my prior experience with actual amphetamines and uppers was almost the opposite. Really worried quite a lot of my family. GP suggested doubling the dose and I went along with it, no prizes for guessing how that panned out. I forget the name of the second one we tried, but it was ultimately sertraline that seemed to work as intended and pull me out of that headspace enough to get back to functioning mostly normally day to day. Sertraline also really helped Mrs B massively with post-natal depression. I know quite a lot of people who are prescribed it or have been prescribed it and almost all of them feel it's been beneficial. Except for one really close friend who was on a really high dose (200 or 300mg) and ended up with pretty severe agoraphobia. It really fucking sucked seeing someone who was always such a socialite suddenly having full-blown panic attacks over the mere thought of leaving his house. Modern medicine is great but I do think that finding the right one is less likely to happen if you cant properly advocate for yourself, or have someone close who can advocate for you, especially with shit that literally intended to affect your brain chemistry.

Still dipping his Tosin IMO

I’ve never touched the smack actually

CN aka. Casey is on it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43902372 Just worth remembering whose fault this ultimately is. Trump binned the previous deal with Iran because: 1 - Obama had agreed it. 2 - He wanted to buddy up to Netanyahu who didn't like the Obama deal. 3 - He was listening to hawks in his cabinet who never would have been in office in any respectable administration. Had we not binned that, maybe now we wouldn't be here.

Oh aye, Elvis Costello famously hated owt to do with Newcastle …

FTM