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what exactly do you have against the generic small time football blather thread?

Almost had an argument with the missus when as a by-product of talking about the pip fiasco which obviously could affect us she in a roundabout way put immigration as a problem which should be looked at before the disabled, I mentioned the phillipson comments the other day about falling birth rates and they just needed to reverse Brexit and get rich cunts to start to pay their taxes for a start and her reply was Brexit will never be reversed as they'd be kicked out straight away. I said the polls are overwhelmingly anti-brexit but she disagrees when it comes down to it, but the absolute zinger was me saying, in relation to the falling birth rate, that young people aren't having kids because of the state of the cost of living/shit deal they have etc and she reposted a lot of it was to do with being taken over in our country!!! I couldn't believe what my corbynista wife was saying? I got up to make the dinner as it was starting to get heated but I should've said 'I bet Corbyn wouldn't agree with you?' I put this 100% on Facebook and reading shit like the chronicle letters page. She'll argue disability rights with people on there and she'll be right but it's almost like the conquer and divide arguement in action with regards to immigration.

We all know Keith from the SMB is thick as pigshit and boring as fuck to boot. Perhaps he has some emotional intelligence after hearing about the tragic death of Diego Jota? Nah, of course not, time for another boring as fuck driving anecdote from the brain donor.

In general they voted for brexit and consistently vote tory.

I think the answer to the question is Brexit, voting Tory, buying up property for rental income. And then to top it off, and I don't know if this is a majority or a vocal minority, but being absolute fucking cunts when it's suggested to them that young people face hardships that they never had to contend with. "Eat less avocado toast" and all the shite about snowflakes and being too soft, etc. These twats bought 4 bed houses for under £20k and retire on unbelievable pensions. My mam didn't work for the vast majority of my childhood and has a pension I might just about surpass having worked all of my adult life in jobs that pay multiples of what she would have been earning.

He is to reanimating ancient threads what Robin is to GIFs.

My lass won’t have them on, prefers the dub. Yet another reason that no court would convict me

CT btw If we’d signed three players by now, he’d be waddling in worrying about PSR and having to sell Isak

Fuck me there’s some serious bed wetting olympics on display in here over the last few weeks We’ll be fine come start of the season.

I drink loads of water too, pints and pints of it. I’m fine through the night, but if I have one lager I’m up twice at least. Life fucking ruins everything fun.

I heard an interview with Adam Curtis about his film ‘Hypernormalisation’ and what it means. He goes into a bit about the likes of Facebook and how the tech evangelists from Silicon Valley who created the algorithms will argue they are efficient. Because they create communities of like minded people who only see views and opinions they like. Apart from the untruths around things like Brexit being perpetuated though, which is an obvious negative to me, Curtis also points out this is deeply conservative as it stifles new ways of thinking. He argues the left has fallen into this trap and that the echo chambers it creates means all mainstream political movements have become essentially conservative. And that was about 10 years ago and things have moved on since then. But not for the better. How we or politicians manoeuvre out of this now is difficult to imagine without some sort of revolutionary change in the way people think. Another point is that people instinctively know things are getting worse and living standards are falling for most but feel completely powerless. They feel similar about political leaders. And that mindset is conservative too. Because you resist the big changes needed through fear of losing everything. So become complicit in that decline by accepting it. And on that happy note….

Yeah I've even started to hear this from my vehemently Labour voting parents. I mentioned how childcare is now up to £80 a day and my dad said that people shouldn't have kids if they can't afford them. I was genuinely raging. We're pretty lucky in that we both have jobs and both earn a decent amount. We shop modestly, we drive reasonable cars, we save money where we can and we aren't frivolous. However, we can't account for mortgages going up as much as they did, we can't account for utility bills exploding, we can't account for old cunts voting for Brexit because of "reasons" meaning among other things that food shops are vastly more expensive. I'm paying about £200 a month on gas and electric, paying about £1k a month on childcare, the same on the mortgage. Cutting back on avocados or Netflix isn't going to plug those financial gaps, Dad.

Tough one when it's your missus saying that stuff. Sounds like she needs to spend some time in the Toontastic Re-education Camp. Get that woman a login!

You could genuinely be writing that about my Dad and Step Mam. When Dad realised I've voted remain he told me I'd "made a clear mistake which was understandable as I wasn't alive in 1973 so have no understanding of what sovereignty is". I mean, how condescending can you get?! It's one of the only times in 50 years I've told him to fuck off. My Step-Mam .... forever texting me pro-Brexit propaganda which I just ignore. Every now and then I have a go and tell her to stop sending me bilious nonsense that I don't subscribe to and she relents ... for no more than a couple of weeks and then it starts again.

I think I've mentioned this on here before but when my job was at risk cos of Brexit, my own mother told me that "well if you can't find another job with your CV, you're doing something wrong". Honestly, I paint a bad picture of my mam on here, but in reality it's anything for her kids and if anyone does anything to upset either of us she'd murder them. But Brexit was this fucking thing for people like her that sent them completely daft. That was the first time she'd ever said anything like that to me, and the first time it was clear that her brain was starting to melt because of Facebook. One of my old mates from school contacted me a few years back and said "do you see the stuff your mam puts up on Facebook?". I don't cos I'm not on there, but I fucking dread to think.

He is to our CPU usage what CT is to new hobbies that wont last.

Ok boomer.

Personally when I complain about the speed of decision making at this club it's got more to do with the lack of replacements for top execs, stadium and sponsor decisions etc. rather than just this window (for which it would be too soon of course)

Are you sure you're not actually a liverpool fan that just hasnt realised it yet?

I hope they haven’t

Keep an eye out for Wyki

Fellow 1970s kids! 😀 and the 1970s middle aged ie @Toonpack obvs .. Difficult to avoid the 21st century creeping in here this lunchtime but it's still very quaint...

Your last sentence.... Seriously, she's spot on still on most stuff but I can see bits creeping in and it's definitely Facebook and what/who she's seeing seeping in a little. (She's also a remainer).

Makes you think

not you, obviously

Who gives a fuck

This x1000. My mum, with her prinlvate pension she got part time as a clerk (would be minimum wage now), my dad's teacher pension still paid after his death, and the state pension, is on more money than most 30 year old graduates in full time work. No mortgage of course. Now undoubtedly I'll be a beneficiary of this, and my kids will be pn my death. But that is fucking wrong, life just becomes a lottery on how rich your parents are. For those from disadvantaged backgrounds, well, you are fucked my son. Social mobility really isn't a thing in this country any more. The only difference between Labour and the Tories is the former want it to be, whereas the latter don't. But increasingly it doesn't matter, the outcome is the same.

The "old' have enabled conservative government's all my life. They vote for policies to enrich themselves at the expense of the young. And Brexit. It's not all old people of course, including exemptions for your good self I'm sure. But it is still a general truth. The older my mum has got, the more bigoted and judgmental she has become. Seems to me that this happens to a lot of older people as they age. I hope I end up more like you TP than her tbh. It scares me I might end up like that.

I don't disagree with a lot of that. But in theory I quite like the idea of the best clubs from each federations best leagues playing each other to see who is the best in the world. But it should be just that, the best teams from the best leagues. Not the 4th or 5th best, not the winner of a cup. It should be English, Spanish, German, Italian champions vs the champions of Brazil, Argentina, US, Mexico, Japan, Korea etc. Have a simple knock out competition so teams only have to play 3 or 4 games even if they make it all the way to the final.

Stop believing everything you read from football journos in the silly season man. They're just cycling through ways to get you to click on the links/tune int' t' wireless. Trafford has been rumbling on for ages and it's probably as much to do with Burnley getting a replacement as anything else, which means waiting for the other team to get in a replacement for their 'keeper and so on. Yes, it's frustrating that we've not yet been able to announce the signing of a raft of new players, and yes we really need the club to be more agile before and during the windows. That's a criticism that ultimately falls at the feet of the ownership. They should have had a replacement CEO by now, Eales has been one foot out of the door since the announcement of his illness. Mitchell was a misstep, no doubt, but it comes hot on the heels of Ashworth's unexpected departure so perhaps less due dilligence was done at the time? Either way, we will sign some players, we will likely be competing for the CL spots once more, and we've still got a very strong first team. Howe has us playing very good football. Oh and while he may get frustrated by the slow movement in the transfer window, he's still got way more control here than he would do at other clubs, he's got an excellent group of players to work with, his pick of staff below him, and the love of the fans. He's not going anywhere. You all need to fucking relax.

Thats true but when your manager is advocating for speed in the market, it’s not a good look. Last thing we need is another summer where you’ve pissed off the best manager we could possibly have

Arsenal have signed a back up 'keeper.

I'm not saying its been good so far, signing one development talent and thats all is hardly inspiring BUT https://www.premierleague.com/en/transfers A lot of teams haven't really done their business yet, I see a lot about how slow we're being and how we specifically are dragging our feet when everyone else is doing loads, but thats just not reality.

I'm generation WTF?

oy @Craig.... the number of people who need to have a long hard look at how they're conducting themselves appears to be growing daily.

It's even more ridiculous that it's funded by PIF, and the money Chelsea have made has probably funded their purchases of Delap and Pedro

Stores it in his knees

I preferred Gina Bellman in that but yeah singing detective was fucking glorious nonsense will hot as fuck women...

i knew some pedant would pick me up in this, which is why i googled it before choosing an animal. so sit on that and swivel Camels are often cited as the animals that can drink the most water at one time, potentially consuming over 30 gallons in just a few minutes.

“What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.” That makes fuck all sense in the context of SAFC tbh.

Paddy McGuinness plays Dracula, or Ralph Malph's great grandson. That's the pool we're fishing in.

Happy memories for this fella no doubt.