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I'd rather have a pint with Klopp than you.

Apologies to the whole of Scotland btw

I'd have a pint* with you, Dave. *I won't take any notice of what @Gemmill, @Meenzer and @catmag said in Tilleys that time.

Paqueta Tayto's.

Bowen is a brilliant player, I wanted us to sign him back when he was at Hull but that would've cost 6m or something so of course the FCB couldn't stump up the pocket change from his settee. DCL sums up Everton perfectly for me. He should stay there forever, only coming back off the treatment table to score 4-5 vital goals a year before getting injured again whilst they finish 16th. Certainly he should not command a transfer fee at any future club he plays for, anyone paying for this sicknote needs their head looked at.

Have you heard about the non-binary gold prospector? They dug up gold in them/their hills

Hasnae goat tha baws for thas joab

The hypocrisy after complaining about people from abroad voicing their opinions about Brexit….

Dunt nails it as usual.

He's still a student with 200 followers who knows sweet fuck all. Am I fuck setting a precedent apologising for this as before we know it we'll be rimming casey every time he accidentally gets something right

Nothing wrong with an angry shag and a zuffle mate.

He held down SHIFT as he pressed the DELETE key whilst chuckling menacingly to himself.

That's really testing my stance on "never fuck a Tory".

Don't worry, she'll be on OF by the 5th July.

This explains the timing of the release of yesterday's story about Ashworth's cockup with his email. Presumably secretly conversing with a rival employer behind your current employer's back, prior to informing your current employer, then expressing a desire to take a job with said rival, prior to availing your current employer of the opportunity to protect their own interests and sensitive information is grounds to be placed on gardening leave. Well perhaps. I mean, really, its a maybe because, of course, I'm no expert on how contracts work, like Ashworth. The release of yesterday's story spells out the timeline perfectly (with some added dishonesty and rule breaking/avoidance thrown in for good measure). It is 100% timed to torpedo this completely ridiculous defence by Ashworth/ManU. And it's a wonderful lesson in how to use the media to your advantage. We've established the club acted in its best interests to protect sensitive information by placing Ashworth on gardening leave. Clearly his "secret" emails have shown that we had an almost prescient level of awareness, almost like we could somehow see the future (or one idiot's email account). On the other hand, I'm guessing Ashworth only learned that the club knew about his secret dealings with ManU yesterday*, unfortunately, for him & ManU, that would be after he'd already submitted his argument laying the groundwork for his arbitration case. So now he's married to an argument that is demonstrably false. And, moreover and best of all, its false in the best sense that the club only has need to utilise Ashworth's own words to demonstrate the argument for placing him on gardening leave. Your move, Ratcliffe. Edit: *Just saw the next story from Hope. So Ashworth did know that the club knew about his secret email? Or did he actually think he'd successfully deleted it and covered his tracks? Oh my. This just keeps getting better.

Article in that fabulous publication the Spectator tomorrow. Gone to press, too late to pull.

Who he thought he was. Who he actually was.

forget about Bowen man - he's going to cost north of £80m after a 20 goal season. not happening - much better value to be found elsewhere. aparenty that olise has a release clause closer to £40m than the £60m originally quoted. I'd be all over that one

"I intend to help with the grassroots campaign in the USA in any way that I can" = I am currently engaged in busily attempting to shove my entire cranium up Trump's asshole. Obviously it has gone so well for everyone associated with Trump, as they've all gone on to prestigious positions and enjoyed success in their careers after getting into bed with him. I wish him all the best.

Here we go.

That reminds me, where is CT nowadays?

The BBC can keep saying it’s a close race tbh. Did wonders for motivating Labour/Khan voters in London to turnout. Their complete denial of the Tories consistently polling in the low 20% range for ages and the general mood of the British public is almost Orwellian at this point though. John Curtice is one of the few decent commentators they regularly have on there. They did a piece last night where they were in Blackpool. It interviewed two blokes who were saying they weren’t sure who they’d vote for this time out (only in terms of Sunak or Starmer). Presumably this was meant to be balanced but ffs, man. Anyone not sure this time round is almost certainly a dyed in the wool Tory. Especially as they didn’t mention having any issues with Starmer (as you’d expect if they were disillusioned Labour voters).

Fish and Meenz were drinking buddies in that there Lahndan. Meenzer gave up booze. (I’d have a pint with Fish though.)

Is he being charged with both placing a bet AND then trying to make that bet pay out by getting carded? Bruno would be the fucking MASTER at this, given he can clearly turn the bookings on and off at will.

You're called Paddy Paqueta?

We didnt even have a fucking match thread for that one

Will Still is in talks with Norwich and likely to end up there. After all of that

Luke Edwards could be getting his info directly from the club and that still doesn’t mean it’s true. There’s form for that. I’d be amazed if they were in for either. Especially DCL. That’s not me turning my nose up at Bowen but his value is massively inflated after last season

Reflects negatively on Man U, we can't have that. I can't imagine there's a single clued-up person in the world of football who's looked at our trajectory and Man U's and figured he'll swap one for the other, so they must be getting ready to pay him the big wonga. Hope he'll enjoy losing half of it in the inevitable legal battle when we sue him for breach of contract.

Also managing to throw the other man under the bus while he was also trimming his bushes. 🙂

Bowen, yes. DCL, absolutely not. Permanently injured, and the king of underperforming his xG.

I can only think that his preferred style works with a dominant side, that's why Burnley did well in the Championship. But he didn't evolve it to work when they're not the biggest fish in the pond.

Nick Robinson seems to be doing his job from what I can tell.

Speaking of mistruths, I was at a conference in London last week where one of the keynote speakers was Margaret Heffernen - professor of Practice at the University of Bath School of Management. Part of her speech focused on planning and in particular vaccine response to an endemic. Typically they're assymetric in that by the time you create a vaccine, the endemic has passed. One of the greatest questions she said she'd heard in business was from the head of one of the pharmaceutical firms who asked "When the next endemic hits, what would we wish we'd been doing right now?" On the back of this in 2017 he became part of the creation of a funding programme to focus on the creation of vaccines for 6 known issues. The sought and received funding from the Gates Foundation and multiple nations governments. The British government declined to contribute. One of the 6 issues was Coronaviruses and in her words "thank goodness it was given what hit just 3 years later." Her wrap up line was "so the next time you hear the Tories rattle on that they were behind the biggest vaccine programme of all time, know that it's absolute fanciful Westminster bullshit. They were against it until it became a political weapon!"

So, was just thinking, we have had some truly shocking speeches by high ranking tories in recent times. May: dancing queen, the cough, when the backdrop letters kept falling down. Johnson: Peppa pig land. Truss: cheese, pork markets, the blob. Mordaunt: stand up and fight Sunak: things can only get wetter. Tell me of any political satirist that could write better scripts than that lot. Funny thing is, the most bizarre and funniest of the lot was probably Mordaunts who could be their next leader if she survives.

Won’t someone please think of the Tory MPs?

"For top flight football, St. Peyter's Metro Station ISN'T your destination." Nexus VII Bewk IV

St. Peter's station renamed Allah, The Most Beneficient, The Most Merciful

And south hylton metro station is demolished and replaced with a massive mosque / gay and lass stoning station.