Alex

JFK coming back just in time for his 107th birthday, presumably to get Cruyff out of the witness protection program

I once had the pleasure of reading a letter she wrote to the PM when she was Foreign Sec. It was full of phrases like ‘maintaining our heft’. I’m sure that PPE course at Oxford teaches them to come out with that shite. Much like that weird way of talking Renton alludes to. It’s like a Tory politicians by numbers course. Whoever the fuck runs it wants shot to shit.

Cretan hospitality is legendary even amongst Greeks. Possibly in no small part to their absolute determination to get you rat-arsed on free shots of Raki ( or Tsikoudia, to give it its proper name).

You ever seen it when Jim Laker got his 10th wicket in the innings (19th in the match) v the Aussies? He just turns and gets his hat off the umpire and shakes hands with the batsman at the non-striker’s end. While his teammates politely applaud

Aye. Standing up to Underwood, who nearly bowled medium pace on turning, sticky wickets. And he makes it look like he’s shelling peas at times.

Aye but Southgate replacing him isn’t necessarily an improvement.

Aye, all those players we’ve sold to Saudi clubs with inflated values. I suppose they’re not exactly known for letting the facts get in the way of a story though. Newcastle have dove everything by the book and haven’t even looked to exploit any loopholes so far. There’s the issuing of shares but that’s legit and nothing other clubs haven’t done

You’ve got loads of options from Manchester. You could do the Peloponnese. The Greeks are slightly perplexed by the obsession with the islands. As they think the mainland is just as nice. The one thing I would say is do a bit of research. I’ve only been to Greece once post-Covid (Corfu). I would say it’s obvious a few of the smaller resorts are on the bones of their arse and haven’t recovered yet. Crete is very beautiful and massive and varied. You can also holiday in the mountains there. Not just beach resorts. Heraklion isn’t the best advert for it. It’s a bit of a sprawling mess, in large part thanks to having had the fuck bombed out of it in WW2. Rethymno is much more attractive. Thing is with Crete is there are lots of ancient sites to visit if you get a bit bored with sitting around. The Minoan sites pre-date Ancient Greece. The other thing is the size makes it too big to see all of it unless you’re going for about a month or two. If you can be arsed it’s worth going to stay in an island without an airport. But then you have to factor in the extra time, as you’ll need to catch a ferry / hydrofoil too. Maybe too much if you’re only there for a week. But with that in mind, Symi (next to Rhodes) is an option. The best place I’ve stayed is Paxos. But again - no airport. Also the ionians have a longer, wetter winter. If you’re going September, further east / south is more likely to still be dry and hot. Another place I loved was Paleokastritsa (Corfu).

Yeah. I’ve got the CD from back in the day. Loads of the Bukem mixes are also with MC Conrad. I don’t really mind MCs but he always sounded like he had a blocked-up nose Anyway, that’s just the man himself in the mix. It’s quality

Give this a blast: https://on.soundcloud.com/HcrkhLjDUnSZYEgdA

And out

What sort of holiday you after, mate? Also what time of year?

Yeah. I thought it was a bit tongue in cheek and a reference to how one or two results can have a massive impact in the odds at this stage.

Ok. Looks like we’ve run out of ideas

Nothing more to declare? No extras?

She’s a bit like Johnson where she lacks any real ideology and it’s just about gaining power for its own sake. But she doesn’t have the charm (not that I find that cunt charming, but you know what I mean) or the social background to carry it off. People just see straight through her. Then there’s the very real financial pain for millions of people which she’s directly responsible for.

She killed the queen so she’s not all bad

Aye. I think I mentioned before this that I could see her back as leader given she’s going to be one of the few recognisable Tory faces who is still an MP of the polls are even close to being correct. The members are mostly middle aged / old men who fancy her. Which was enough last time. As Sonatine points out she’s loopy, but so are the members

Gaslighting. But she’s even ineffective at that

Not sure re the requirements tbh but I am sure they will anyway. They were already the only full time professional club in their division. Which is the third tier split into a north and south league. So they’ll now go into the championship, just one below the WSL. Two things I say about women’s sport - it looks amateurish when it’s played by amateurs. And it’s worth the extra investment because a lot of lasses stop playing team sports when they leave school. And like you say, an actual path to professionalism and a football career for more locals can only be a good thing too

It’s a shame sports direct is such a successful model. Everything else he touches turns to shit.

There must be 100s of millions of pounds worth of talent in that side. Given all the players worth in excess of £20m that couldn’t even make the XI

All thanks to Harry Kane