Alex

We’re in decline economically and he’s massively to blame. The absolute fucking shyster. The cultural decline thing is another carefully worded bit of covert racism of course. It’s genuinely a shame he survived that plane crash

The mass hysteria / group psychosis experiment that is RTG

Also good to hear about two NUFC legends

Good to see Dumas still looks like a bin man

I got asked if I was German once. I think I mentioned it before on here but we did get asked if we knew someone (happened on more than one occasion) but this particular time his auntie live in the Spinney in Heaton. I suppose it has to happen occasionally. Not that we knew her but we at least knew exactly where he meant

Just a bit of a typical American question when you meet them on your hols or whatever and they learn you’re from England.

If you look at the rankings, we’re the third best team in the tournament. Just behind Belgium. I don’t think the fifa rankings ever tell the full story. But France as the best team, with us in a group of about 4 or 5 others who have a decent chance seems about right to me. I have always thought that Southgate, despite being articulate and intelligent, is a ex-centre half at heart and over cautious. I think the subs last night suggested that. But I also accept getting the balance right is not as easy as some people make out. His tournament record is excellent. I do think we have sone players who are genuinely world class. But at the same time, could you really say there’s been a finals tournament where we’ve been the best team with the best squad? Probably not. So those arguing he should have won something with this set of players are probably oversimplifying it. Like you I have the benefit of not being too arsed though

Do you know John from Birmingham?

Like Henderson*, he fucked off the millisecond he got a better offer. They’re both products of their academy, which is something to be proud of. And you can’t blame either player for looking after themselves. But I really don’t think their respective careers are the ‘win’ mackems seem to think it is. *Obviously he’s suffered a backlash for going to Saudi. Not even joining Ajax, who have Sunderland to thank for inventing Total Football, has seen him forgiven

The way he goes on, man. He had two cracks at it including losing to May and her insipid campaigning. Totally oblivious to the fact quite a lot of those 14 years are on him. Not to mention that if he’d somehow beaten Johnson then I have little doubt he’d have been hopeless and we’d be looking at Labour suffering the sort of annihilation that looks to be coming the way of the Tories

Then nonexistent Washington fought on the mags side against then minute Sunderland in an English Civil War battle. One which definitely wasn’t invented by them desperately trying to be relevant. Despite it only appearing in a Wikipedia page with little or no citations plus a badly-researched Guardian article.

He’d have won the argument

Thing is with TAA, he could be very good in that position, because of his attributes, but he hadn’t played there anything like enough. He could probably do with a season playing there in the PL first. It’s so different playing a lot of the game with your back to goal compared to RB, where all the okay is usually in front of you. Not just that but there’s less time and space in the middle of the park. What’s weird is Southgate is normally so cautious, and it seems like an unnecessary gamble. Especially as Mainoo would be tailor made for that role alongside Rice. No t tye end of the world by any means. 3 points on the board is obviously the main thing. That was a desperately uninspiring second half display though. Especially the complete inability to string two or three passes together. Fabregas was spot in re : Foden bottling it and and trying to play killer 30 yard balls instead of hanging into possession

I thought that, especially in relation to the service he had and the role he had to play for the team, he did a great job second half. For his one chance he did pretty much everything right and was thwarted by a top class save. Some of his hold-up play where no team mate was within about 40 yards of him and he had to win a foul holding off about 3 defenders was brilliant. He was the least of the team’s attacking issues after the break

Which is nice

You and those scat-based fantasies again

It’s a shame Brian Cox didn’t ask her which economists she meant and what were their actual conclusions when she mention the mitigating factors of Ukraine and the pandemic. Because you can guarantee she was just waffling there

That made up shite again

Think they changed the rule. Clear goal scoring opportunity but also a penalty is now a yellow.

That’s fucking magic tbh. Croat dives after the slightest touch (presumably hoping to get the defender sent off) instead of just finishing off the easiest of chances. Absolute poetic justice

He sees himself as a cunt?

Here we gan, el plasticos

Similar with me. I sometimes pipe up but it’s not really worth it and a waste of time anyway. Out of my mam, dad, and my lass’ parents, my dad is the only one I can have a reasonable conversation about politics etc with

Quantum Leap

Just next to there, right next to the central station. It’s still quite a complex railway crossing but not quite what it was in its world record breaking heyday: