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I sometimes feel like I only come to the football forum to post Squires cartoons, but anyway, the cat stuff https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2019/feb/05/david-squires-on-everton-annual-crisis-and-celebrity-cats

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/05/british-man-detained-in-uae-after-wearing-qatar-football-t-shirt-to-match "The UAE authorities announced on 7 June 2017 that showing sympathy for Qatar on social media or by any other means of communication is an offence. Offenders could be imprisoned and subject to a substantial fine." Keep going on holiday to Dubai folks, it's completely normal.

Is anyone keeping an eye on Quiff to make sure he's OK?

Beloved

Is anyone keeping an eye on Quiff to make sure he's OK?

https://gizmodo.com/crypto-exchange-says-it-cant-repay-190-million-to-clie-1832309454/amp?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_campaign=top&__twitter_impression=true

Nee need for that kind of language.

Here we are, then, the start of the inevitable reframing so that none of the hedge fund managers, closet racists and war fetishist gammons have to take any of the blame. For a party that trumpets individual responsibility, the Tories aren't half good at refusing to take any themselves.

Just out of interest do your family find child abuse jokes funny? Do you crack these hilarious jokes with them? Or do you hide this stupid side of your personality from them or are you a loner? With regards to rules, I was referring to the forum rules. Is this not a forum which is moderated to prevent foul messages? People posting and allowing child abuse jokes no doub reflects badly on the site and puts a lot of people off posting and it spoils threads. As a Necastle United fan I am ashamed and embarrassed that other Newcastle fans stoop this low to use child abuse to mock Sunderland. I typed this one-handed as I was “watching” Secret Life of a 5yr Old from my W. Bank.

We publish them on Ready To Groom

Are the rules only available in the secret forum?

Being from Atlanta and a huge ATL United fanatic, I'm (We) are going to certainly miss Miguel. It was well known when he came to Atlanta that his ultimate goal was to play in the Premier. The team knew it and the fan base knew it. His dream has come true but he will be sorely missed here but I must add we are very happy for him. You will be impressed with his game intellect, play making ability, unselfishnes and especially his pure speed. He is also a humble and class act. I've always wanted a Premier league team to root for and now I have one. Godspeed Miguel.

Adam Johnson was a hero to t00nraider But he never meant shit to me you see Straight up nonce that sucker was Simple and plain Mother fuck him and CT

He must be exhausted after that. http://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-man-stripped-at-side-of-road-and-started-simulating-sex-with-car-20190205?c=1549362344787&fbclid=IwAR08u_2rLdlAgsZBsgofKm-rQ-G33cNfBRnMX-zXHkRlCeMN58EPQvd2WNQ

I'm connecting through the place in the summer and I'm not even happy about that.

Easy to mock but swap UAE for Sunderland council and Qatar for Newcastle United and, err...... I mean, a council DOES have the right to protect itself from a mysterious cabal of Tyneside businessmen, after all.

which one is the coward?

This blokes still fucking whinging

He's just a liar.

The thing i find immensely frustrating about the GE defeat is they'll come out afterwards saying things like "we didn't appreciate the strength of feeling that people in our membership had for remaining" or something that suggests they're totally out of touch with reality or liars.

Nice one mate! Can’t wait to see him in action. Sounds like exactly the player we’ve been crying out for for years now, as long as he can hit the ground running quickly. Too often foreign players take months to adjust to the pace and physicality of the PL, which we don’t have if we’re going to avoid the drop. And don’t worry about the piss takey comments. Standard treatment for any newbie, no matter how civil they are, so don’t take it personally, give a bit back and welcome to the board!

They've walked away from £61m of funding. That shows you just how Brexit is going to kill our car industry stone dead.

Nonce sense

What did the late A.A. Gill think about Brexit? “It was the woman on Question Time that really did it for me. She was so familiar. There is someone like her in every queue, every coffee shop, outside every school in every parish council in the country. Middle-aged, middle-class, middle-brow, over-made-up, with her National Health face and weatherproof English expression of hurt righteousness, she’s Britannia’s mother-in-law. The camera closed in on her and she shouted: “All I want is my country back. Give me my country back.” It was a heartfelt cry of real distress and the rest of the audience erupted in sympathetic applause, but I thought: “Back from what? Back from where?” Wanting the country back is the constant mantra of all the outies. Farage slurs it, Gove insinuates it. Of course I know what they mean. We all know what they mean. They mean back from Johnny Foreigner, back from the brink, back from the future, back-to-back, back to bosky hedges and dry stone walls and country lanes and church bells and warm beer and skittles and football rattles and cheery banter and clogs on cobbles. Back to vicars-and-tarts parties and Carry On fart jokes, back to Elgar and fudge and proper weather and herbaceous borders and cars called Morris. Back to victoria sponge and 22 yards to a wicket and 15 hands to a horse and 3ft to a yard and four fingers in a Kit Kat, back to gooseberries not avocados, back to deference and respect, to make do and mend and smiling bravely and biting your lip and suffering in silence and patronising foreigners with pity. We all know what “getting our country back” means. It’s snorting a line of the most pernicious and debilitating Little English drug, nostalgia. The warm, crumbly, honey-coloured, collective “yesterday” with its fond belief that everything was better back then, that Britain (England, really) is a worse place now than it was at some foggy point in the past where we achieved peak Blighty. It’s the knowledge that the best of us have been and gone, that nothing we can build will be as lovely as a National Trust Georgian country house, no art will be as good as a Turner, no poem as wonderful as If, no writer a touch on Shakespeare or Dickens, nothing will grow as lovely as a cottage garden, no hero greater than Nelson, no politician better than Churchill, no view more throat-catching than the White Cliffs and that we will never manufacture anything as great as a Rolls-Royce or Flying Scotsman again. The dream of Brexit isn’t that we might be able to make a brighter, new, energetic tomorrow, it’s a desire to shuffle back to a regret-curdled inward-looking yesterday. In the Brexit fantasy, the best we can hope for is to kick out all the work-all-hours foreigners and become caretakers to our own past in this self-congratulatory island of moaning and pomposity. And if you think that’s an exaggeration of the Brexit position, then just listen to the language they use: “We are a nation of inventors and entrepreneurs, we want to put the great back in Britain, the great engineers, the great manufacturers.” This is all the expression of a sentimental nostalgia. In the Brexiteer’s mind’s eye is the old Pathé newsreel of Donald Campbell, of John Logie Baird with his television, Barnes Wallis and his bouncing bomb, and Robert Baden-Powell inventing boy scouts in his shed. All we need, their argument goes, is to be free of the humourless Germans and spoilsport French and all their collective liberalism and reality. There is a concomitant hope that if we manage to back out of Europe, then we’ll get back to the bowler-hatted 1950s and the Commonwealth will hold pageants, fireworks displays and beg to be back in the Queen Empress’s good books again. Then New Zealand will sacrifice a thousand lambs, Ghana will ask if it can go back to being called the Gold Coast and Britain will resume hand-making Land Rovers and top hats and Sheffield plate teapots. There is a reason that most of the people who want to leave the EU are old while those who want to remain are young: it’s because the young aren’t infected with Bisto nostalgia. They don’t recognise half the stuff I’ve mentioned here. They’ve grown up in the EU and at worst it’s been neutral for them. The under-thirties want to be part of things, not aloof from them. They’re about being joined-up and counted. I imagine a phrase most outies identify with is “women’s liberation has gone too far”. Everything has gone too far for them, from political correctness — well, that’s gone mad, hasn’t it? — to health and safety and gender-neutral lavatories. Those oldies, they don’t know if they’re coming or going, what with those newfangled mobile phones and kids on Tinder and Grindr. What happened to meeting Miss Joan Hunter Dunn at the tennis club? And don’t get them started on electric hand dryers, or something unrecognised in the bagging area, or Indian call centres , or the impertinent computer asking for a password that has both capitals and little letters and numbers and more than eight digits. We listen to the Brexit lot talk about the trade deals they’re going to make with Europe after we leave, and the blithe insouciance that what they’re offering instead of EU membership is a divorce where you can still have sex with your ex. They reckon they can get out of the marriage, keep the house, not pay alimony, take the kids out of school, stop the in-laws going to the doctor, get strict with the visiting rights, but, you know, still get a shag at the weekend and, obviously, see other people on the side. Really, that’s their best offer? That’s the plan? To swagger into Brussels with Union Jack pants on and say: “ ’Ello luv, you’re looking nice today. Would you like some?” When the rest of us ask how that’s really going to work, leavers reply, with Terry-Thomas smirks, that “they’re going to still really fancy us, honest, they’re gagging for us. Possibly not Merkel, but the bosses of Mercedes and those French vintners and cheesemakers, they can’t get enough of old John Bull. Of course they’re going to want to go on making the free market with two backs after we’ve got the decree nisi. Makes sense, doesn’t it?” Have no doubt, this is a divorce. It’s not just business, it’s not going to be all reason and goodwill. Like all divorces, leaving Europe would be ugly and mean and hurtful, and it would lead to a great deal of poisonous xenophobia and racism, all the niggling personal prejudice that dumped, betrayed and thwarted people are prey to. And the racism and prejudice are, of course, weak points for us. The tortuous renegotiation with lawyers and courts will be bitter and vengeful, because divorces always are and, just in passing, this sovereignty thing we’re supposed to want back so badly, like Frodo’s ring, has nothing to do with you or me. We won’t notice it coming back, because we didn’t notice not having it in the first place. Nine out of 10 economists say ‘remain in the EU’ You won’t wake up on June 24 and think: “Oh my word, my arthritis has gone! My teeth are suddenly whiter! Magically, I seem to know how to make a soufflé and I’m buff with the power of sovereignty.” This is something only politicians care about; it makes not a jot of difference to you or me if the Supreme Court is a bunch of strangely out-of-touch old gits in wigs in Westminster or a load of strangely out-of-touch old gits without wigs in Luxembourg. What matters is that we have as many judges as possible on the side of personal freedom. Personally, I see nothing about our legislators in the UK that makes me feel I can confidently give them more power. The more checks and balances politicians have, the better for the rest of us. You can’t have too many wise heads and different opinions. If you’re really worried about red tape, by the way, it’s not just a European problem. We’re perfectly capable of coming up with our own rules and regulations and we have no shortage of jobsworths. Red tape may be annoying, but it is also there to protect your and my family from being lied to, poisoned and cheated. The first “X” I ever put on a voting slip was to say yes to the EU. The first referendum was when I was 20 years old. This one will be in the week of my 62nd birthday. For nearly all my adult life, there hasn’t been a day when I haven’t been pleased and proud to be part of this great collective. If you ask me for my nationality, the truth is I feel more European than anything else. I am part of this culture, this European civilisation. I can walk into any gallery on our continent and completely understand the images and the stories on the walls. These people are my people and they have been for thousands of years. I can read books on subjects from Ancient Greece to Dark Ages Scandinavia, from Renaissance Italy to 19th-century France, and I don’t need the context or the landscape explained to me. The music of Europe, from its scales and its instruments to its rhythms and religion, is my music. The Renaissance, the rococo, the Romantics, the impressionists, gothic, baroque, neoclassicism, realism, expressionism, futurism, fauvism, cubism, dada, surrealism, postmodernism and kitsch were all European movements and none of them belongs to a single nation. No time for walls: the best of Europe, from its music and food to IM Pei’s pyramid at the Louvre, depends on an easy collision of cultures There is a reason why the Chinese are making fake Italian handbags and the Italians aren’t making fake Chinese ones. This European culture, without question or argument, is the greatest, most inventive, subtle, profound, beautiful and powerful genius that was ever contrived anywhere by anyone and it belongs to us. Just look at my day job — food. The change in food culture and pleasure has been enormous since we joined the EU, and that’s no coincidence. What we eat, the ingredients, the recipes, may come from around the world, but it is the collective to and fro of European interests, expertise and imagination that has made it all so very appetising and exciting. The restaurant was a European invention, naturally. The first one in Paris was called The London Bridge. Culture works and grows through the constant warp and weft of creators, producers, consumers, intellectuals and instinctive lovers. You can’t dictate or legislate for it, you can just make a place that encourages it and you can truncate it. You can make it harder and more grudging, you can put up barriers and you can build walls, but why on earth would you? This collective culture, this golden civilisation grown on this continent over thousands of years, has made everything we have and everything we are, why would you not want to be part of it? I understand that if we leave we don’t have to hand back our library ticket for European civilisation, but why would we even think about it? In fact, the only ones who would are those old, philistine scared gits. Look at them, too frightened to join in.” ........................................ A.A Gill. The Times. 2016

It would be good if winning the presidency exposed crimes that he would otherwise have got away with - assuming they can nail the fucker for them.

Those shoe wearing toffs.

Pubs England wide are full of bootcut jeans and shoes

I wonder if the discount we got on him after a year of playing hardball is more or less than the loan fees we've paid for Kenedy as an alternative to just signing him earlier.

I'm not sure we have a traditional number 10 with the wingbacks formation. We don't have typical wingers with it either. beyond the midfield the front 3 are Rondon as a focal point and Perez and Atsu to play off him as necessary and on the counter their "positions" are pretty much irrelevant its all about moving the ball upfield quickly and directly. Rondon with Perez and Almiron playing off him wouldn't have any of them out of position to me.

Pickford to drop an absolute whopper of an error to send essembee into cardiac arrest. 3-1 to us.