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It will never stop being hilarious that one of these wildly average teams will be at the World Cup and Italy won't

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61763842 The two intercontinental play-offs are on free telly today and tomorrow. Bring on the mediocrity!

Is this about CT?

Did you deck her?

Noelie?

Julee Cruise

"Forgive them, for they have literally never eaten anything that isn't pie and chips with gravy"

I was extremely annoyed on the Eurostar the other day when a fat Essex family sat down opposite me, the kid started playing as West Ham on FM2022, they cracked open a few beers - and then started loudly laying into Boris and slagging off Brexit and the Tories to all and sundry. What am I supposed to do with my stereotypes now?!

I'm not wholly serious of course, I feel sorry for anyone who has to try and keep their little hellions occupied and well-behaved on a long journey, or indeed on the holiday itself. But I do enjoy a good holiday nemesis, whether it's cursing a family of Teutonic sunbed-hoggers or sitting in a restaurant attributing increasingly outrageous far-right views to all the loud gammons on the other tables. It's the little things.

Steady on now, seething hatred for other people's kids is one of the true pleasures of travel!

Aye, I was going to say, I easily lost that in my first month after stopping drinking but that was definitely a lot of water weight and the like.

It has the added bonus of propping up house prices, which may never be allowed to fall under any circumstances whatsoever. Doubly important now all that lovely Russian money has stopped flowing into the property market (legally, at least).

Aye. We've played Champions League football with Griffin, Hughes, Bernard, Bramble and O'Brien as our defensive pool. He's definitely good enough for what we're aiming for in the immediate future.

"...so I switched to TalkSport instead"

Could be worse

all they wanted to do was talk about their beloved Wimpy sausage in a bun. mean thats what hooligan firms are for

How's he supposed to sweat out the fever? Poor man.

Either he's involved or he's publicly documented his massive fantasist status once again. It's a win-win situation (for us).

The juxtaposition is [chef's kiss]

A true patriot would make their own bunting.