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https://www.safc.com/news/club-news/2018/july/exclusive-season-card-holder-event-marks-launch-of-new-kit?gamp=true&__twitter_impression=true Is this fucking Phoenix Nights or something?

Keepers not that likely to score though in fairness is he?

Couple of good WC pieces on the Blizzard that I'd missed, this on West Germany and that match in 1982, and this on the 1994 tournament (which is still one of my absolute favourites, but I suppose anything that happens in your younger years tends to be).

I’m laughing at the idea of it being Belgium vs England in the 3rd place playoff with both teams playing the subs again

He makes me think of Löw in a way, someone who isn't obviously suited to club management but might be the right character to quietly and effectively guide a bunch of disparate players at national level. Or he might just have got incredibly lucky. Also like Löw.

Dont disagree with that Corbyn assessment now, which will be annoying if the whole thing falls apart now and he turns around and spanks them since I'll lose my 'I told you so' privileges, but still.

He doesn’t remember who his wife is man.

We can beat the cheese-eating surrender monkeys

Change of plan. Going full council estate instead.

But unlike Low, he doesn’t like to sniff his own balls in front of the world’s cameras and think he can get away with no one noticing.

England have had some luck for a change. Strikes me the biggest factor though is that Southgate is England's first manager to have played at the top level in the modern era, i.e. the premier league. He understands these mostly unsung lads, knew the blend for a good squad, knew how important set pieces could be etc...

Real high quality match this

Hope you forwarded that email on to @The Fish

The only thing I have in common with him is a love of adult nappies. Though my affection for them is purely sexual

The Tories have only had a majority government in 2 out of the last 21 years, and even then it was a water thin majority. You're not going to like it but the problem now is Corbyn is the worst opposition in living memory. Virtually anyone else would have annihilated the Tories by now.

No deal won't happen. Parliament won't let it. There will be an extension or revocation of Article 50 before it comes to that. The EU won't reject what is on offer, it will be the basis of negotiations. The UK has moved in the right direction but not nearly enough to strike a deal yet and they know that. You don't show your hand at the 'beginning' of negotations, there are more concessions to come if we want a deal.

So it would appear Davis walked just to save face among his peers and the Brexit public at large.. "See, I did try..." etc etc.. Boris jacked because he's Boris, and Boris comes first in the book of Boris. They're trying to take her out and maybe get someone in they can properly put the squeeze on and manipulate... Javed? Got to say it's all very well saying that the main leavers in the cabinet have come up with fuck all in two years, that's possibly the point? They know this is May's last chance saloon, they may have her just where they want her?. They know the EU will reject what's on offer out of hand, what does she do then? I wouldn't underestimate them tbh, they had the perfect outrider in Farage to attract the vote but the 60 odd Tory Euro loonie MPs who put Cameron into the position where he put the referendum into the Tory party manifesto in 2015 pulled off a huge political coup just by doing that. They're really not about to give up as far as I can see. If any more resign they're maybe not giving up, it's perhaps just all part of a loose, flexible plan? Just heard Richard Drax on the radio saying the PM should be preparing for WTO now, withdraw any further payments to the EU and see what they come back with. This appears to be how the hard line brexiteers are thinking. There's a lot more to be played out iyam.

Expect more offers to come in for him now

It's what David Davis is trained to do.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/09/jordan-pickford-one-question-how-good-neville-southall In a week when we have to endure Donald Trump visiting Britain, while we watch this government of losers falling apart over Brexit, I am taking heart from the fact that England can win the World Cup... We’ve got so much shit going on in the world and yet our government are reportedly spending £30m on bringing a complete idiot in Trump over here. At least Southgate is in charge. Imagine if Theresa May was managing Pickford and England? She is not calm and collected. She’s weak. Are you telling me other people didn’t know David Davis or Boris Johnson were going to resign? How could Davis came out and say May is a good prime minister when he’s resigned? Southgate would do a far better job of handling Brexit than Mrs May because he would create the right environment. He would create winners. She’s gathered a bunch of losers around her. She has our future in our hands and she’s ruining it. Do you think Alex Ferguson would let these losers around her do what they’re doing? They’d be out quicker than they could say Hard Brexit. But he’s a winner. Unfortunately, she’s a loser. Neville Southall. Not a Theresa May fan.

@Howay you need to think less like a premier league football club and more like a cash strapped sports shop on maidenhead high st

1992 was the last time you saw your knob.

Aye it’s a bit of an eyesore but he’s a miserable cunt so I don’t want to talk to him

I'd settle for one who wasn't a rancid caricature of a Dickensian cunt tbh.

I wouldn't mind an honest owner who said we spend what we make, who then raised more matchday revenue by not giving away free advertising space.