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Michael Owen is a fat little cunt

Can't fault the lad. He's definitely working hard to put himself in the frame for selection.

There'd be carnage on the motorway. White vans just bouncing over the central reservation and into oncoming traffic as old sleeping pill voice went on another "witty" rant about softies with concussions.

I'll be your biggest cheerleader. Just remember to duck at all times. And run in zig zags. I think you'll be fine.

It's completely insensitive given Sutton lost his Dad to dementia. Fucking appalling really. Football continues to do fuck all about it save for a few token gestures - he's right, anyone suffering concussion should have an immediate and (if necessary) temporary replacement whilst the player is properly assessed. Shouldn't even be an option - should be mandated.

Looking forward to going to my mam's this weekend and she answers the door with an Ivan Drago flat-top. Saying "da" instead of yes and stuff. Nobody hangs on big Nige's words like my mam.

it'd be nice to just have a few boring years

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What actually did go on with you two anyway? Did one of you declare a war of self defence as a pretext for invading the other's back garden?

Arrest this cunt for treason. Seriously.

The extremes on both sides of politics are Russian supporters or appeasers. Either scum by design or naïve useful idiots.

Reading through those threads man. What a fucking pack of cunts they are. I really fucking wish “Sunlin til ah die” had kept going, could you imagine the episodes we’d be getting by this point. Fucking “witty”.

Used to work with a bloke who looked like Hitler and was fucking mental, everyone apparently knew him, he was called Shaun. One day we saw him at work and we said that Tuigamala looks a unit as we knew he sometimes used to watch the falcons. It must've been his debut and he'd been there two minutes really. Shaun said he reached across where the tunnel was, tapped him on the shoulder and gave him the self titled best worker in the north east's seal of approval by saying, 'Well done Inga, lad' to which, according to Shaun he replied instantly, 'I'm still jetlagged, Shaun, I can do better than that', proving that everybody did indeed know him. There was a similar tale involving Shearer after his two goals in the San Siro. Reckoned he congratulated big Al to which Shearer apparently said, 'I just try my best, Shaun.' I know this will mean Jack Shit to you all but he was the toucher's toucher who used to unintentionally have you in stitches and I can't think of poor Tuigamala without thinking of 'Super' Shaun as he was known at work. RIP Inga, lad, no doubt Super will raise a glass to you tonight.

Remember where you heard it first.

He's just doing that tired old shit and choosing the contrarian position in lieu of having an actual personality.

I remember sitting in the farmers rest on new years day '85 feeling the worst hungover I've felt in me life. first pint took over an hour to force down and every mouthful was very nearly barfed back up. a few short hours later the world was all sweetness and light!

“Some 20% of Russians have relatives in Ukraine I imagine the reverse is also true” Yes. That’s how relatives work

I’ve literally never heard of him

Concussion and especially repeated concussion is incredibly serious. There's all sorts of sports science backing this up at this point that opposing it is simply, as Dave said, playing devil's advocate for the sake of creating artificial controversy by being a WUM-y little tart. There's so many reports in the news over here in recent years of rugby players who have dementia in their late 40s/early 50s. And besides dementia, concussion is linked with all sorts of mental health issues. To state the bleeding obvious, the sports science on the dangers of head knocks and concussion is pretty well established at this point. To oppose players having the proper medical attention on the basis of some pathetic notion that 'it's only a bump on the head' is really beyond dumb. It's completely irresponsible. I can accept that these dying media forms have been forced in some respect to resort to utter sensationalism to graft out a market, but geez have at least an iota of class when it comes to the health and future health of your former fellow professionals. Owen really is an odious cunt. It's remarkable that someone so boring passes for a colour-commentator or whatever the term is for the plodders who drone on for 60 minutes before every match without any sense of discernible knowledge about anything at all. Wasn't there some interview when he was a young England player where he was filmed sat on the end of his bed staring blankly at the wall and over the top of this dire footage is him saying, 'I don't have any hobbies and I've only watched two movies in me life?' Says it all.

And that’s it - no matter how precise you think your military is, they’re not. Civilians, children, get caught up in the bloodshed. They’re displaced, they lose access to shelter & food any illusion of safety. Some doylem in a £300m jet flying over your house and firing a missile…at what exactly!? Why did the flats in Kharkiv get bombed!? Its fucking horrendous.

I’ve got some petrol in the shed I use for the lawnmower. At this rate I’ll probably neck it.

It's okay lads, we have Boris Churchill leading us to victory.

I literally can't remember. The reason has been lost in the mists of time. But I was the bigger man today and offered an olive branch and the tiny, very small lookie lookie man knocked it out of my hand. One thing we've all learned today is that diplomacy never works.

Funny that's Gemmill's catchphrase on a Saturday night down the taxi rank.

Well it is lunchtime.

All for this. But the tories are up their nuts in Roubles so will never happen. Yet again we have the worst possible government at the worst possible time.

You have to assume now that this aren't the actions of a rational actor but someone who is out to write their legacy.

Christ this is gonna back fire when he knicks three points for them.

Koch a doodle don’t?

I mean it’s a very wind dependent threat.

The issue is the media are throwing out stories that the price is about to go through the roof. This will be less about demand and more about people wanting to buy it at the current rate. Fucking media causing a frenzy on fuel once again!

Nearly half it's share price gone already. Schalke cancelled Sponsorship.

People on the left have told me Russia is self sufficient, the centre say this is ruining them. I don't know who to believe on that front but it seems clear to me that Putin will have expected the sanctions and isn't troubled by them. I don't know why you're bringing in Iraq and Afghanistan unless you think two wrongs make a right and are condoning a race to the bottom on the grounds that the US started it. I've had this conversation all over the place in recent days and it always comes down to the reality that some people think bloodying the nose of the US is more important that the lives of the people on BOTH sides who are dying for this fucking madness.

No fucker is getting called up CT man Placating him has lead to this. The time for action is now . ....

He literally threatens the whole of Europe. UK based Oligarchs should be in fuckin Belmarsh by lunchtime. We've got to properly hurt all powerful Russian assets/ gangsters. Make the consequences of their actions obscene. I'd put Farage and Bankes in there too, they're a national security risk. As I said earlier this week, declare war/state of emergency and intern the fuckin traitors.

No we're not happy but from my pov that is preferable to direct combat between Russia and NATO which could easily escalate to Armageddon. There's a lot of unknowns here as well. Just how strong is the Russian military, not in numbers, but in terms of technology. The US's defence budget has been in excess of 50 times that of Russia's for 3 decades now. Is it unfeasible that Ukraine armed with these gadgets could defeat the Russian bear? Always easier to defend than attack as well. Ukraine is a fucking huge country, no way can Putin control it forever given it's not liberation, it's occupation. There seems to be an assumption he is some kind of genius and has won already. I'm not sure that is true.

You’d think he’d be loaded if he’d discovered how to travel through time

We could sort it, our pipelines to EU are running at around 17% capacity, increase gas from Norway although that's pretty maxed out (80-odd percent) we could take LNG from US (they'd take our eyes out, but have shit-tons of the stuff) and send our North Sea output to Eu, taking their eye's out in the process. It's be messy and costly, but what price a few cities raised to the ground. Russian economy would tank WAY before significant European harm.

leeds tonight

They're fucked. Bielsa must be speaking to them without his terp during games now. Oh well at least attendances at the Rhinos will go up again

Howay Spurs, useless twats

Fuck me, I'll be steering clear of general chat for a bit. Twitter as well. If we ARE headed for WW3, I don't think I need the play by play. If we're not, I don't think I need the drama and stress of worrying about it.

Steve I’m not one to make excuses Bruce yet again somehow stumbles into a job at a club in a decent state. Then proceeds to make it worse and sets about blaming every fucker else for it. I would say he’s a fucking joke but he’s laughing all the way to the bank again. Surely this has to be his last big payoff. Alex Bruce on the payroll too, man The most important role at any club and that fat, lazy, incompetent cunt keeps getting jobs. The mind boggles