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Have we even been seriously linked with anyone in the PL besides Lingard?

So the contention is that junior staff members banded together to have a party at No. 10 without his knowledge, or the knowledge of anyone who had his ear. This is the place where he works/lives/whatever day to day. And he didn't know about it. They just did it on their own without anyone saying anything. Is that really what he's saying?

If that tweet is in any way representative of how his mind works, it explains pretty much everything about why we're in the mess we are.

Surely we're coming to the end of Johnson's run as PM here?

A masterpiece of a post

The stuff posted there is absolutely disgusting. It's not just racism, it's bordering onto BNP style Nazi views, by his own damn admission. And this is public knowledge? And the Spectator still employ him? Like fuck was he hacked.

You just know Fish is seething whenever Diego posts and picks up his 5-10 likes I appreciate the Fish too tbf, if only he posted here more instead of elsewhere...

I would love it if this was his career trajectory

True but there's a psychological component to it. If we're completely cut adrift up to the tune of 10 or 12 points by the time we're mid-January, one would think it's a lot harder to keep the players motivated and pushing, along with the fans of course. And new signings potentially - conversation changes from "yeah we're in the relegation zone but there's only a handful of points in it and we're strengthening in key areas, with you on board as well we'll be fine" to "aye we're fucked but you won't get a pay cut for next year in the championship".

Has his wife divorced him yet? I felt pretty sure that was coming. Although she might just wait until he dies I guess.

Aye but us going down looks a lot more on the cards than Everton going down. And don't worry, everyone will be back to crying in a few weeks I expect I feel better about it after doing that results predictor thing though, as bad as our run is it's not a lot better for the others.

They're 12th and 8 points clear. I mean, I'm not saying it can't happen but I think there's a few other teams I'd give the nod to before them. I still think Watford along with Burnley and Norwich.

They're not going down man They never were.

I mean you shouldn't laugh really, this is our society fucking imploding around us, but even so it is kind of amusing.

What the fuck is going on there Also what's the deal with Arcuri now being one of those conservative elite paedo hunters?

Clearly I didn't appreciate how culturally significant 'singles' were, back in the 1800s or whenever they were mainstream

You'd be waiting a long fucking time given the speed of this industry

While I appreciate the sentiment, publishing is currently up to its eyeballs in ebooks and AI assisted workflows At least in academia which is my focus area anyway. You are quite right though, touché indeed.

In fairness, if I'm representative of publishing as an industry he's 100% right. I'm yet to meet a Brexiteer publisher and if his book had been submitted to me it would have been right in the bin on principle.

"The cat was screaming for its life"

What a complete waste of resources 'singles' were mind I thought that even when I was 10 years old, just waited for the album.

He's with Reading now is he..? Is it working out or just the normal? EDIT - normal being: injured and useless.

Agreed - this is one of the most winnable games we have, and we should aim for all points. And if we manage it, we'll suddenly be looking a lot happier.

Just having a browse through RTG and the usual fighting is going on between people who are outraged at where the club is, and those who just don't want to hear it. The thing that it got me thinking about was just how similar all 4 of their seasons in L1 have been - iirc they've always been in positions 3-6, always with a game or two in hand that would potentially put them in the automatic slots, and always somehow incapable of capitalising on it. They've had multiple different managers who have all more or less achieved the same outcome. Maybe it's just not going to happen. I mean if they did go up, on this evidence they'd be struggling at the bottom of the championship. I'm not totally sure of how much overlap there is between lower champ and upper L1, but I'm assuming it's not more than a couple of teams either way. Eventually you would think they won't be able to sustain the current placing in L1 - and it that happens and they sink to midtable, how long before they build the next team that's going to be capable of pushing out? And how long then in the championship recalibrating, consolidating, and pushing up? They could be out of the top flight for 20 years based on how this is going, it's incredible.

They do, but then in January they've got Burnley and Villa at home, which could be a fairly routine 4 points, maybe 6.