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Raffa gone

Speaking of Dabizas, decent read: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jul/05/we-wanted-to-finish-the-miracle-how-greece-won-euro-2004-against-all-odds

Aye, we've just been caught up in close contact isolation for the first time and it does seem a bit daft that we're stuck at home for another few days when we're double-jabbed, met the person in question outdoors and have had no symptoms and tested negative (as has everyone else who was around). But then I would be saying that when it affects me. I can see why they're talking about changing that side of the rules, though, even if a general free-for-all is clearly massively ill-advised.

Dabizas is basically an honorary Geordie and he has, though he wasn't playing for us by then. And he didn't actually get any minutes in the tournament. It'll still annoy them though.

Never had any doubts

Gets you the best tunes, too

Can't wait for another 45 minutes of this tedium

On a totally different subject, this is a cracking little local tale: https://narratively.com/the-bank-robbers-who-couldnt-shoot-straight-or-do-anything-right-really/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Hope it's an Italy-England final now, that level of Italian shithousery in front of a Wembley crowd as they're grinding out a 1-0 win will be [chef's kiss]

After 16 months of both of us working from home the whole time, I can safely say that, if anything, following Covid guidance leads to a significant reduction in homosexual behaviour.

And then buy Stephane Guivarc'h

His mortality is now a known known

From what I've read, there's a decent amount of pork barrel politics involved - jealous glances at the neighbouring constituencies that went Tory last time and have been promised investment that Batley hasn't. Combined with disaffected Muslim voters who'd normally be Labour's core vote in the area but who say they're voting elsewhere this time because of Starmer's statements on foreign policy issues.

And I think Galloway's pro-Palestine drum-beating will be as much a factor as anything else he claims to be standing for this time.

The bookies have had the Tories as strong favourites for ages, for what it's worth.

Couldn't find kirschwasser, used Carling

So do I, but it just got knocked out by Ukraine so now I'm stuck with England.

Happy days

Fortunately we'll always have the limp defeat to Iceland immediately after the referendum, with Woy going on a boat trip instead of researching the opposition, as fate's real verdict on the matter.

Oh great.

We took essembee's kneecaps good and proper, 28-06-21

I believe the exact phrase used was that he "had Mongolian eyes"