Alex

When he first broke into the side I liked him. When he played in a back 3 at the World Cup in Russia he was good at bringing the ball out from the back. But he’s gone backwards both in performances and confidence as his weaknesses have been exposed. If he was at a mid-table side I don’t even think he’d be making the squad. We don’t have loads of good English CBs though either (not saying that justifies him getting called up)

Still has her trademark excruciating circumlocutions and lack of punctuation throughout. Hopefully it was as painful to write as it is to read She does actually get the area though Tbf and the stuff about local businesses and the Emirates flights etc is spot on. Not to mention the bit about the north east being patronised. Which could just as easily be applied to her colleagues at The Guardian as football pundits elsewhere

She wasn’t really my cup of tea like. Nutbush City Limits is about the only thing I like and she disassociated herself from that because it was with Ike. Which is obviously fair enough. Most of it is proper turgid 80s soul pop or cheesy power ballads. Not that either of those things can’t be good.

What makes it even worse is Southgate then has to employ tactics to protect Maguire and his lack of pace etc.

It would be poetic justice seeing as they brought it in to stop clubs competing with them

Couldn’t stop a pig in a passage. RIP

Best of luck btw, Strawb. I hope she says yes

Aye, but, lasses being as they are, she’ll definitely find out

In the same way JRM is a Christian

Dan Burn

Literally nobody said abandon all your principles to win power. That sort of polarisation of the debate is sixth form politics though 👍🏻

Tbf I think that’s fucking bollocks. There’s a world of difference between being his being pragmatically non-committal on Brexit and completely ruling out things like freedom of movement. I think most on here found it depressing Brexit was off the table as a subject before the next election but show me one person on here who wanted him to double down on it to win. The stupid thing is he doesn’t need to fight on that front at all. The economy and cost of living has created the massive lead he has. Even if the boats is being weaponised the government have an appalling record on that and can be got at easily

Aye. At this point his priority appears to be pandering to the fucking idiots who’ve gotten us in this mess.

Kalvin Phillips being picked for his excellent recent form

That story about the chef at SJP in the Ashley years who resorted to cutting old desks up because Charnley wouldn’t sanction him buying some new cheese boards

Complimentary glass of blue pop on arrival

Also, Blaydon (like Gateshead) is almost exclusively black and white anyway.

Aye. I think Francewanker, for example, has a massive majority. Must be inversely proportional to his height

The Durham Cricket song I’m not sure how long it’s been associated with DCCC but they’ve only been a first class county since 1992. Their patter in general and attempted gotchas are fucking shite.

Funny, even pre-Trollolling

Hang on, aren’t you a journalist? Oh..,

It’s in Prime so there’ll be no shortage of advertising when it does come out. But the Arsenal one was released at the beginning of August so I’m assuming similar? Bearing in mind this season finishes a bit later due to the World Cup mid-August-ish

I notice the politics forum is private too. I wonder why

There’s a big piece on ITV local news not just about the CL Qualification but also the boost (economic and otherwise) to the wider region. Blue touch paper lit

Asking for it tbh