Kid Dynamite

FYI, our cup run to the final last year was: Tranmere A Palace H Bournemouth H Leicester H Southampton A/H The footballing Gods did us a favour and we still fucked it up

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/29/met-police-should-never-have-employed-wayne-couzens-report-finds Jesus wept. The number of times this bloke was investigated for sexual crimes before he murdered someone beggars belief

It's not particularly controversial tbh. Most jobs would suspend you on full pay if you were being investigated for a sexual crime. Not sure why MPs would expect to continue working with members of the public with that hanging over them

I'm beginning to think playing Ten Haag's Man Utd in last years final was the best chance we will have in a long time of winning a cup. What are the odds of us managing to avoid Arsenal, Liverpool and City in an entire cup run again?

Last minute winners for Chelsea and Man Utd

I'd feel left out if I wasn't on the list tbh

I eat cereal for lunch occasionally. Because I'm lazy and living the life of a 41 year old student, rather than to save money though

This whole argument about "no-go areas", btw. There is some basis to it. Knife crime amongst teenagers in London is through the roof. It's got fuck all to do with religion though. It's 14 years of Tory cuts to policing, closing of youth clubs and green spaces etc that has resulted in kids roaming inner city housing estates with nowt better to do than get sucked into bother. It happens in Sunderland with White kids. It happens in Birmingham with Asian kids. It happens in London with Black kids. It's not because of skin colour or religion though, it just so happens that in those individual cities, that group of people is the poorest, living in the shittest areas.

He's done a 540 now

Pure coincidence, but I watched Ken Loach's "The Old Oak" this morning. Literally set against the backdrop of all of the above.

Who we losing to in the quarter finals then?

Danny Murphy fucking gutted

Howay Dubravka

Sean Longstaff ✅

Fancied going to see Pearl Jam in Manchester. Face value tickets £160 Fuck that

Only player in the whole squad rested?

Just to clarify (for my regulatory board) I don't think that people taking days off because they feel unwell with their mental health are all lazy bastards

Which I didn't (just a minority of them ) Sorry to hear your bad news btw

The absolute cheek of you giving me grief this morning for calling out lazy bastards

There's a wider cultural shift since the shut down of industry in this country. Millions of young lads in the 60s/70s/80s knew there was a job waiting for them in a mine/shipyard/steel factory. That's not the case anymore. And since those places shut, so did the working men's clubs, bingo halls, pubs and the communities that went with them. Some of this stuff isn't rocket science. A job 40hrs a week, money in your pocket and a place to de-stress after work is enough to keep a lot of people "mentally well". We are seeing 3rd generation fall out from the damage Thatcher did to this country in the 80s.

Steady on, nothing I've posted contradicts that. I've spent the past 15 years working with suicidal patients, I'm well aware of the socio-economic factors underpinning that. I hear horror stories every day. But that also gives me perspective. I also work with some staff that are grafters and some that love a sickie and play the sickness scheme. That's not intrinsically linked with mental health.

Kuol joined about 6months after Ashworth. Ashby about 9months later. Forgot about him. He looks shite too

Theres a bit of a leap from WW2 vets with PTSD killing themselves and kids pulling sickies mind There's some overlapping in the Venn diagram here between lazy bastards/work stress/zero resilience in young adults these days