Alex

Looks pink to me. Have they gone woke or something?

Do you know that the Too-wit / too-woo call is that of the tawny owl. I occasionally hear them and (very rarely) see them out the back of mine. But the former is actually a male call and the latter is a female’s response. Anyway there were these two blokes in a village in Devon several years back that started making the calls (using a bird whistle or something). But, unbeknown to them, they were calling to each other, not another owl. It went on for ages and it was only due to a random conversation between the two fella’s wives that they discovered the truth.

Heard him do it a few times on Motd

I’m not too fond of Shearer doing it either

Well I think there’s only a couple of you who post regularly. So I’d place you somewhere in the top 5

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/crystal-palace-rename-arthur-wait-stand-to-the-jamal-khashoggi-stand-for-wednesday’s-fixture.1632140/

Ciao Rio, As you know, many have tried interpreting Allegri. Some cited existing philosophical works such as Bordiga, Hegel and Plato. The former saw Allegri as the progenitor of a spontaneous revolution, his football being so boring it had deep ideological significance. They viewed his football as the cry of discontentedness with the neoliberal consensus, and a legitimate philosophical work in it’s own right. The modern Hegelians saw Allegrismo as the dialectical synthesis between two states of being, that of anguish and that of ennui. Those using the works of Plato are conflicted on whether to see Allegriball as a concrete object, real and tangible, while all consider the feelings the games elicit to be abstract. Others saw it as post-modern performance art and tried to categorise it as the intended catalyst of a yet to materialise Neo-Fluxus movement. Alas, others even ascribed it a theological value, arguing for the canonisation of Allegri and compared our pain watching to the pain our lord felt on the cross. A contingent of these worshippers split recently and alleged Allegri was inherently heretical, no mortal man had ever suffered like Jesus did until we watched the Sampdoria game. The truth is, Allegriball defies what the human mind is capable of interpreting. Do you suppose we can only bask in its majesty?

We’ve got about 1,500 inactive members 👍🏻

She’s the thinking man’s Liz Truss

That’s a Partridge reference btw. I wouldn’t have a clue tbh

They’re spawny enough to win the final

It’s the Japanese Mercedes

Well my waistline was smaller back then. Her arse was large proportionally though. Which is no bad thing imo. Just making the point she had some junk in the trunk back then

I might as well do some fucking work as read this shite

On a more serious note, I saw Vorders once about 20 years ago and the main thing I noticed was she had a relatively big arse. Which is not to say she hasn’t had the sag put right since

I just took the dog for a walk and didn’t even bother checking the pens score until about 2 or 3 hours later once that goal was disallowed. Apart from the inevitability of the penalty shootout like you say - it was just another (but particularly extreme) instance of it sucking all the fun and magic out of the moment. Agree about offsides too.

I wasn’t aware that they’d done that initially. But if that’s the case and they binned it without trying it properly based purely on knee jerk comments then it’s little wonder VAR isn’t working.

Probably said this before on here but there should definitely be a time limit (say 30 seconds at the absolute max) and the officials doing VAR should own the decisions. They do for offside but for the other decisions too. I.e. they can clearly see the on-field ref has either made a mistake or missed something so the VAR officials reverse or make a decision. Or they can’t see that, so they stay out of it. Simple. None of this sending the ref to the monitor. It puts them under unfair pressure and you also get the ridiculous inconsistencies, like where they aren’t shown a crucial replay (or part of one) that the VAR refs have seen. It’s a fucking ludicrously simple and obvious improvement imo. Especially seeing as VAR would appear to be here to stay.

I actually think the article has a point but because it’s Julie Burchill, she’s used a shit example (that she’s also needed to lie about), introduced (probably made up) anecdotes, said middle class white women on these marches actively support Hamas and brought the culture war into it. With zero nuance. All the while playing to the equally smug readership of The Spectator. Which should tell you much she really cares about antisemitism relative to her being “controversial”, ie actually predictably dull as fuck and completely unhelpful. On the other hand I totally get where Gloom is coming from and antisemitism being relatively acceptable. There has to a recognition (imo) that it can be really difficult and scary to be a British Jewish person in the current climate. Whatever Israel does as a state does not make that remotely ok

Mind, it’s not often you see a caricature that’s better looking than the person

Use the AI like the CL or bin it tbh. It’s genuinely ruining football in general as well.

She’s preaching to the choir somewhat in The Spectator though. And while I agree with the points in the latter half she undermines her own argument (and will cause many people to dismiss it) by being wilfully disingenuous at the beginning. The anecdotes about her life of having to defend herself for not being Jewish but caring about antisemitism smacks of bullshit too. And bringing JK Rowling into is her trying to be controversial for the sake of it. Which also diminishes her point imo. But that’s what she’s about.

Garnacho having a good game and Man Utd cruising. Then Ten Haag has to make a statement and show who’s the boss. What a horrible arrogant cunt. Serves him right

Can’t believe it hadn’t been overturned

Tbf, all the other punters in that pub are just as weird for choosing to go there