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It won't - coz there's none on 🙂

As for blaming the clubs, they are only paying market rate for players. If Mbappe had turned up at the BBG in 1975 and demanded £500k a week they'd have taken him away in a straight jacket. But today some consider it a bargain. Actually, football is one of the few businesses where the front line workers take the majority of the company revenue home with them. Neymar got his first pair of shoes from a landfill, Franck Ribery worked as a construction worker, Di Maria worked in a coal yard. They were all, in their prime, among the highest paid employees at their company. I have no problem at all with these people taking large amounts of money off the likes of Murdoch, Glazers and Saudi princes.

Eight million in the UK are watching sport streaming live already, this is the genie that Sky is trying to put back in the bottle. It's the equivalent of trying to stop people record music on cassettes (reference for the teenagers there). https://dubsports.net/illegal-streaming-on-the-rise-for-premier-league/

Just getting to the end of series two of White Lotus. It's so well scripted and, in particular, the use of the music and sweeping scenery shots really set it up to play well. Great character portrayal throughout - lovin' it.

What a numpty I am, now realize I was watching a repeat of the Fulton flight. I promise to pay more attention in the future...

And fighters who call off fights with weeks to go with a knee injury. Many will be thinking that the real reason Beterbiev has backed away is because he might be glowing a little too much.

Tyrone Mears would climb through a training room window to see this lot

Inoue is really quite impressive. For the first five rounds he looked like he was winning on points but then he just seemed to take it up a level - or maybe he is carrying on at the same rate as his opponents tire. The finishing combination was just text book - problem for him is where to go, we've seen time and again that power punchers lose their unique advantage when they go up through the weights but he's cleaned up here so hard to see much attractive to him or the promoters.

Technofeudalism: Who Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis Pretty disruptive view of what the future holds, as good a book on the subject as you will read this year (or many others).

I share your concern, I've not always been his biggest fan. But I do hope he's going to be given access to a better squad than he has previously enjoyed. Then we will see, I guess. And I wish him well with it, it would be terrible for us to be back thinking about trips to Stevenage and Shrewsbury.

VADA has become the VAR of boxing. You can't really celebrate any victory till the geeks doing the monitoring have confirmed it as legit

Yeah, but they don't have Birds bakery in London. No West End nightclub will bring more pleasure than two vanilla slices and an elephants foot.

Read my post again, actually taking in the words this time, and you will see I haven't.

Fair expectation of any club signing a potential goalscorer is that they either score - or at least make - goals. Washington isn't that - either for Derby or elsewhere.

Orca-ward

Is that how you describe it to Mrs VdMH?

Anyone want a sweepstake for how long it will be till we get a "Games I wish I hadn't been at" thread kicking off? Oh, I'll start. Crystal Palace away, the season of the WBA play off win. We were garbage, Gary Teale looked like someone who had been told he would be shot if he didn't play.We lost, Sunderland got the second automatic and it all felt rather poo. As for the OP, again - as with others - apologize if I've duplicated. - The 5-0 against Wolves under Mac. Really felt we were on to something that day - The FA Cup win against Forest when Archie scored the winner - The Soton play off semi in the tipping rain (I know it's been mentioned but it was just golden). I went for a job interview the next day and couldn't speak - Huddersfield (a) Boxing Day under TBE. Just a great vibe of a team on the way up - Three all draw against the Wendies when we were 3-1 down after 89 mins. God bless Kinky! - QPR under Lampard when he started the bounce, play offs secured

Yeah, our thought it is to keep one of our two cars as petrol so we can do the occassional long run without having to charge and then have the other electric. Your point on driving experience is a very good one for two reasons - plug in hybrids are terrible in petrol mode (ours makes all sorts of noises unrelated to the speed of the car as it charges the battery to the needed level - not sure if it is the same on all plug ins but for the Volt you never actually 'use' the petrol engine to drive the car, the purpose of the engine is to then charge the battery - if that makes sense). Second point is that the drive experience of an electric car - torque, no gear change, response - knocks any petrol engine into a cocked hat.

This was the sentence where my sympathy started to wane

And now I can't stop singing the theme to the Banana Splits

I'm actually quite muted about what happened at the weekend. Clubs with our infrastructure shouldn't be playing at that level. We did, because we deserved to, but it was of our own making. I have to admit I found it more relief then celebration to put that chapter behind us.

You should, if you didn't pay tax at source. What is infuriating though, is that you get taxed on what you earn, taxed on what you save and taxed on what you spend. And, for all of this, I genuinely struggle to see anything of equivalent value that I get for it (I pay for most services I receive, from bins to roads and opt out of many others - e.g. dental. I don't mind much of it going to others less able but I can't even see that these days). It is a complete and utter scam - any party that wants to sweep to a landslide victory at the next election just have to promise transparency on government spending and where your taxation goes and they'd have the HoC to themselves.

You might want to explain to her that's not why it's called a blow job

Who invited Mel Morris into this chat?