Alex

Also funny when you consider the people who made it are actual Sunderland fans

I think there’s mayoral/local/ police commissioner elections on 9th may. I did wonder if they might just say fuck it and go for them for a GE. Sunak’s like a toxic little drip. Somehow managing to gradually corrode away their support even more with each shitty, insincere sound bite

JRM and Sunak hate each other. At this point I think the former is just campaigning for his seat at the next election. Although he looks set to lose that too. And playing to GBeebies twats as well. Actually when I was looking, one the more prominent Tories looking likely to remain in parliament is Truss. Apart from that leading me to assume Norfolk must be stuffed to the gills with absolute cunts. It also made me think she’ll probably make the shadow cabinet. Given her profile and the lack of options. I fucking hope so as she’ll continue to be a disaster. She’s thick as pig’s shit

I know he’s a crock but this still seems really unlucky / a freak injury. It’s not like he has a history of this sort of injury. It just about sums our luck up this season. Obviously we need a more reliable option there next season though.

Helen Harrison, the Tory party candidate in Wellingborough (who also intends to stand at the general election), is Peter Bone’s partner Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?

With the stake he has in the club he’s always one EGM away from that happening

Agree with all that but, in particular, for a bloke all about the medium to long term, he’s quick to fuck off before anyone is able to judge that.

Henry Winter reckons it’s a huge coup. All that suggests to me is that, as with most walks of life, what actually separates Ashworth from people with similar knowledge is his ability to sell himself. Because you can guarantee any conversations he’s had with people like Winter will be him bigging himself up. Rather than revealing much on the way of what he actually does know

Not just that but a Labour Party IN FUCKING OPPOSITION being held to entirely different standards to a government that’s completely fucked just about everything they’ve touched

It’s about conning enough floating voters into thinking they are better off. They’re good at it and the press are largely on side and fptp facilitates it too. AKA our broken democratic system

Technically it’s the mildest recession since the 70s

I appreciate it early days in the project and there’s probably some sour grapes here too but I’ve found him a bit ‘meh’ so far. I don’t think any of the first teamers brought in required much rocket science and the hopefuls haven’t done much on their loan spells. Brighton haven’t exactly fallen apart in his absence either. All of which may change subject to what happens

That’s him starting there next week then

Even the magedia is onside while this run continues

As an aside I fucking love how they’re fully on board with KLD, ‘the model’ et al again after a couple of wins on the bounce

Well I wasn’t at all cliched and got my lass some chocs, flowers and wine. And I got some nuts ( ) and then when she was writing my card this morning she realised she’d gotten me a girlfriend one by mistake

And people say romance is dead?

If we’re doing songs for lovers then surely it has to be the opening track of Luke Vibert’s Lover’s Acid album:

That’s funny because I was questioning my memory. I’m sure I read it was a line from Burns in more than one place. Wonder if it’s a long standing myth that’s been corrected recently

Aye. I did too. Wiki and the club site says different: http://www.qosfc.com/history

Cheers, mate. I’ve rekindled my love of local football of late. It’s quite a nice way for me, my dad and my eldest to spend a bit of time together too. I had last weekend all mapped out with Heaton Stannington hosting Temecula, a team on tour from San Diego (believe it or not - why the fuck they thought a tour of the north east and Scotland in February was a good idea is beyond me) on Friday night. Then Benfield at home to Whitley Bay on Saturday afternoon. But the rain fucked the fixture list and practically every local game was off. Don’t worry though, I’m not planning on starting a blog about it and linking to it on here

I did subsequently realise that. Along with, sadly, Cowdenbeath. One of the less unusual names but with the superb nickname ‘The Blue Brazil’. I used to love (even as a very young kid) listening to James Alexander Gordon reading out the full classified results. Mainly for the unusual and poetically named Scottish teams. Even Celtic and Rangers, with their not being named after the place they play. Then Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian. The latter being the Roman name for Ireland. As you went down the leagues the names got better. Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Hamilton Academical and so on. My favourite was always Queen of the South though. Which I later found out was a reference to Dumfries in a Robert Burns poem, and that phrase in turn is a biblical quote referring to the Queen of Sheba. Edit: I checked and it was David Dunbar, not Burns (although Buns was from around Dumfries too)

It was the other way round as, unlike the great Michael Holding, Peter Willey wasn’t much of a bowler. I think that was apocryphal unfortunately (although I like to imagine Brian Johnston saying it then making the TMS box giggle). Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley actually did occur though.

People don’t like to talk about it but all those antisemitic tropes / conspiracy theories are rife amongst Muslim communities.