Alex

When he plays one-twos with the defenders legs and stuff like that. You’d think it was a fluke but he did it so often. This is the clip I think you meant btw:

There’s a job(bie) for him at the SoL if it all goes to shit

Assumed he was injured when I saw this thread bumped that’s the problem with him. I don’t think we consider selling him at present if it wasn’t for his fitness issues

Fletcher staring back with a look that could kill at his bantz during team talks

Fletcher didn’t like Swann apparently. Mad in retrospect but he had issues with his character.

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Stop it!

Giles was good in that series, mind. Wickets were quite costly but he picked up a few. Did ok with the bat (that half century on the last day at the oval was a crucial innings). Excellent in the gully too.

Never tested himself outside of Spain tbh

He was bang into that too tbh. Wtf do you think he was doing in Studio 54?

That’s a complete myth tbh. The Brazilian league was arguably the best in the world at that time. Santos won back to back Copa Libertadores and Intercontinental Cups to help prove that. So he didn’t just excel in Brazil in he won four international trophies at club level. For context, Santos have won 8 in their history. He was the best player in the world when he was 17, scored fucking outrageous goals winning the World Cup at that age. 12 years later, he was past his best, after nearly a decade and a half of playing year round football and a ridiculous amount of games. But he was still the best player in the best international side ever. The NASL era was just a bit of retirement money tbh. Same for the likes of Cruyff and Beckenbauer. He could handle himself as well as Maradona could too.

Apparently Fletcher just smiled back at Ponting who was mouthing off as he came off. Particularly significant given he cracks a smile about twice a decade. England did take full advantage of the fielding regs then but so fuck? They’d have done the same. I remember Trevor Penney being used too. Another superb fielder

Different eras are difficult to compare too. He was undoubtedly the best player on the planet for a good few years in the 80s as well. For me the thing with Pele that sets him apart is he was the complete all round player. Two-footed and could do everything superbly well. I think him and Maradona are on a different plane to the rest so far as the twentieth century goes though

I think they’d call an election now if they thought it was that tight. They won’t because they don’t but it’ll just be the latest in their series of “if we keep repeating it, people might start to believe it”. Although the current lot are much shitter at that than Johnson and co were. I’m also not sure how it even works as a tactic. They’re so unpopular I can only see it motivating people who might have otherwise been complacent to vote for whoever has the best chance of winning against them in their area. It’s also another sign of how completely desperate them and their allies in the right wing press are

They basically paid £70m (or whatever it was) for one decent season

Nobody has ever won a World Cup single-handedly and that includes Maradona in 86. The side were decent and got better with each game. That is not to say he didn’t have a fantastic tournament but he had a quiet final (despite the assist for the winner). I just think it’s a disservice to his teammates to suggest he won it in his own. He was undoubtedly the player of the tournament but no more influential in the win than Rossi four years earlier. Personally I regard him as (comfortably) the second best player of the last century. I don’t even think there should be much debate over Pele being better.

You’ll know if you’ve been before but the local Keo lager is spot on. Have a great time

Yeah, I read an article in The Mirror saying it’s been confirmed that it’s 26 now.

I went to Heaton Stannington on Thursday night to watch them beat Birtley Town in the playoff semi final in front of an excellent crowd of nearly 1,300. Then I was at the final (again at home) yesterday as they beat surprise finalists West Auckland 3-0 with a set of well taken goals in front of over 2,000 fans. Which is a pretty crazy attendance for that level (level 9 / promotion to level 8 on the pyramid). Good angle of the first goal:

I hope they end up claiming asylum here

Aye, she’s not even pretending to be neutral these days. She’s on borrowed time anyway you’d think. She’ll probably end up on GB News within 18 months. And, as you allude to, she was fizzing at the slit at the mere mention of Johnson. And it’s difficult to think of a politician more style over substance than him. I think it was Gemmill who said that (back when Cummings was feeding her whichever bit of propaganda he wanted presented as news) that the only reason she wasn’t working for no 10 was because she could make more money at the BBC. I genuinely hate her for her role in enabling an incredibly damaging government.

I hope someone has tagged William Storey in the comments

Spot on that. To paraphrase Harold Macmillan - you’ve never had it so bad

It’s funny because despite his anti-establishment schtick, I can’t think of a more egotistical, self-serving grifter

That scene with Souness genuinely funny and threatening and sad and pathetic all at the same time