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Shelvey is the classic 'footballer' let down by other aspects of his game (mainly tactical awareness in terms of positioning and fitness). He's not a particulalry dirty player either compared to loads of England stalwarts over the years (Scholes, Bryan Robson, Gerrard to name a few). When Crooks is able to walk away from a packet of crisps he can have a go at people lacking self-control.

He pretty much wrote off (i.e. capitalised) £100m of the loan so that’s gone. Basically he’s put 1/4 of his wealth into the club. And got nothing but a FTM badge to show for it.

Very few places have a sense of humour like us either, which makes your options very limited unless you want to live with a bunch of humourless fucks. But I guess you already live in London.

Classic unintentional Partridge moment there

Sir Bobby, Andy Carroll's family, Beefy and now... https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/steven-taylor.1425815/#post-27374465

Aye, Only You by Yazoo playing in the background. Reminds me of the office every time I hear it now

Let’s not rush to judgement until we know for sure that Syria were behind this.

It's all a bit safe for pundits to have a go at Shelvey's temperament now, the lad has been bang in form recently and his temperament has been spot on. The problem Shelvey would have if he ever did get to play for his country is the fact he won't have big Mo Diame alongside him in midfield.

They're on about Shelvey's temperament keeping him out of the England team but Maguire is an ever present and he swung for Gayle just because he wouldn't let go of him

Who is also loves to leave his foot in. And would get more shit for the diving if he wasn't an England regular.

I'm ok with that, it'll give my new neighbours and I something to bond over.

You wish.

You'll have to pay.

All you've done here, Dave, is force a campaign of cat crap on your neighbours, up and down Bramhall. Very selfish.

Still manages to be an utter shite-talking cunt while complimenting one of our lot.

It's not a semi.

Yes they paid it.

I don't think you can just hold up the best examples of Centrism, rather look at it as a whole. Those countries have a far stronger safety net and are about as left as Centrism gets. They're also riding on the coattails of the war-mongering countries. What is the metric the OECD is measuring this happiness against? Ireland has a pretty strong safety net, yet the poorest (anecdotally at least) are very unhappy. They have no hope or aspirations. Maybe it's the middle-classes that are raising the happiness quotient? The people who are so happy that they vote to chuck out foreigners and fuck over the poor. Why are we moving to the wings in many western countries if people are so happy? It seems (to me) that as long as the corporations are served first and people aspire to empty promises, there will not be true happiness. I'm also willing to accept that this is just par for the course with government incompetence, but you've almost made my own point for me in shining a light on the most left-wing examples of Centrism in Europe. Defo up for an argument today.

It's proven itself to be arm-in-arm with Corporatism and Consumerism which are among the greatest poisons known to the West. Does it have to be, is this just the best we can do? I don't know, but in its current guise it's fucking awful for the poor. I'm willing to roll the dice, but I'm probably fine either way. At least until the proles throw me off a cliff for being part of the problem.

From my pov it leads to governments in the Major/Blair mould - a hint of decency but nothing bold to address real change on fundamental issues like housing/public ownership/taxation as they don't want to upset what they perceive as their chances of extending power. Whether it was misplaced loyalty or anti-tory resentment, I think the fact that 40% voted for a moderately left wing manifesto shows that the view that only a centrist platform can beat the tories is wrong - I think Blair could have done a lot more in 97 if he'd wanted to.

I've no idea what he's done before but I do know his Mam must've been at the shops* when he did that video of himself otherwise he wouldn't have been so loud. *Getting him some chicken nuggets for his tea to go with oven chips and beans.

Aye, he paid somewhere between £70m-£90m for them iirc, has probably plunged another hundred million or so into them and they still owe nearly £70m to a bank which has a high interest rate as it was initially a short term loan I think. At this point short of someone buying SAFC off him (which as Kitman said isn’t happening) his only hope of getting anything back is them going into administration, I’ve heard it probably isn’t even his decision at this point and it’s depending on the external bank. Of course he could use his personal fortune, pay off the external debt and save them from any threat of administration but it’s highly unlikely he would do that. Honestly why should he as tbh he was sold down the river by Niall Quinn who spouted bollocks about the clubs potential, it’s fan base and draw etc, they’ve cost the bloke a fortune and I’m sure have given him a right headache for years.

It could happen because Short is businessman not a charity. Apparently they’re costing him a millions daily just to keep afloat, and they’re basically worth nothing. He’s trying to give them for a pound and no-one will have them.

This is the bloke that sellotaped a bunch of pictures he’d printed off to his wall and sung shite songs about NUFC going down isn’t it? What a fucking nobber, no hope their mess of a club will see the PL again for a good decade imo.

I really enjoy seeing that peter schmeichel tweet every few weeks.

He’s a fucking weirdo yet totally unconvincing at the same time

There's a 13 year old in 1987 wanting their joke back.