Alex

Well that’s basically a slight variation on what mackems get a buzz out of 👍🏻

If only they hadn’t conceded there at the death. As that would have meant they would have been eliminated anyway

Boom

I thought it was a pen

Without the kids anarl? You legend

I mentioned it on here but him and my dad were great mates when they were kids / went to school together in Walker. He did really well for himself. He gave up the blog when he was diagnosed but I think he decided to revive it by popular demand. And only gave up all together near the end.

Wenger was ‘unknown’ because English football in general and your average fan in particular were very insular back then.

Nice to see ewerk riding out the cost of living crisis in style

Twitter is rammed to the gills with people who should be ignored being given an audience

Pizzeria Italia at four lane ends is the dog’s bollocks too.

Strawberry, vanilla and chocolate pizza, obvs

Minteh is completely unproven in England and it’s almost pure profit. That doesn’t mean I’m happy about it but I can see the rationale. It also doesn’t mean we don’t subsequently flog Almiron to a Saudi team whilst getting a serious RW upgrade. I can’t say signing DCL makes a lot of sense like.

Did this take place near an alcove?

Btw, the latest prediction from electoral calculus has Labour and the Tories down a couple of points at the expense of Reform. But it hammers the Tories and increases Labour’s predicted majority. It also predicts Reform getting 3 seats. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html

Less than 15 seconds was all it took for Matterface to tortuously string out a metaphor

Fascinating Rhythm or Water From a Vineleaf, Shirley

Find the medication

Actually don’t mind him winning if it’s the only Reform seat. I don’t mind Sunak winning his either as long as the Tories are annihilated. The former will be sick as a fucking chip with everything from the scrutiny you mention to the day to day MP stuff. Sunak would I think rather be free to move to California so I hope he ends up as an opposition backbencher

Well done on convincing her so easily. And congratulations on your silver wedding anniversary btw

Sunderland: we’re interested in your manager and would like to discuss a compensation package. L’Orient: how much do you want?

Then when it’s gone they’ll feel like they should’ve kept it longer

Probably worth giving it more opportunities rather than just one game though. Otherwise it feels like he’s trying something he hopes will fail, just to shut people up. He comes across more and more as an overly loyal, one dimensional and limited manager. If you’ve got a talented set of players whose particular strength is going forward, then I don’t think criticism of the manager is out of order. Especially when it’s not working and he seems bereft of a decent plan b. His only tactic seems to be get your noses in front and hold on. Which is fine but only if it works.

Thing is, qualification is relatively easy these days so you can do that a bit in those matches too. Instead of just playing Kane, for example, to bolster his goal record. And I’m not singling out Kane. I’ve only seen the highlight plus thought the criticism in the previous match was a bit OTT. But you get the point

If the manager’s giving it a ‘go out and play your natural game’ type of team talk, that’ll be a million miles away from the intricate instructions players will be getting from their club sides. Can you imagine Guardiola, Howe etc by comparison?

Didn’t watch the game but the TAA situation is so strange because Mainoo, Gallagher and Wharton are all better options there. But the most obvious solution to me would be to play the lad who’s just had a fantastic season with the best club side in the world alongside Rice. This would allow Foden to play more centrally too. I know he plays as a nominal LW for his club but he takes up lots of no 10 positions. You can then play Gordon, and him and Saka running in behind means that suits Kane’s tendency to drop deep because those two can utilise their pace in the gaps that would create. It’s all a bit moot as I don’t see any hint Southgate’s going to do it. He’s lost the plot imo. Bit of a sad end to things if we go out in the last 16 / quarter as he’s a likeable lad. But looking at his post match interview, he looked like he didn’t even believe the shite he was coming out with