Rayvin

City look toothless. Brugge just hitting them on the counter every time they catch a misplaced pass. It's nice to see Brugge do well but I think it's better for us in a few different ways if City don't bomb out here.

What was the previous iteration of it like? I don't really have conscious memory of it.

Some form of move back to the EU has to be on the manifesto next time out. I just hope the rise of Farage doesn't scare Labour into shying away from it.

It's following on from a Guardian one last week which was less bleak but still bad: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/one-in-five-britons-aged-18-45-prefer-unelected-leaders-to-democracy-poll-finds But yes, one or two data points isn't the end of the world anyway. It does 'feel' right though.

Yes social media is a huge part of it but it's also how fucking worthless our societal offering to Gen Z is. They have no wealth, no prospects, and a country that feels like it's decaying around them - thanks to things like Brexit, but still. That's exactly the breeding ground the Nazi party relied on to win power in the 1930s. Widespread disillusionment, despair and hopelessness. For my view there's nothing we can do now, the actual answers involve actions which would be too radical. They're going to change the scene to suit themselves and in the image of their heroes. The pendulum has fully swung back their way. We just have to hope we live long enough to see it start returning to our side. The online right has defeated the left in all arenas.

And this goes from bad to worse... https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/gen-z-doubts-about-democracy-laid-bare-in-worrying-survey-vsxx509n3 52% prefer authoritarianism, a third want rule by the army, and 47% believe we need some sort of revolution.

I love this claim that he's only sent him off so that he misses the second leg of the semi final against us, since Oliver is an NUFC fan Arsenal fans starting to challenge Liverpool for the lifetime tinfoil hat award.

I think what at least I'm saying here is that I'm struggling to think who we are gonna bring in that will be as effective in the short term as Murphy is right now, and that as TP says, his partnership/understanding with Isak is a key part of that. Maybe if you stick him in any other team he goes back to being bang average, but with Isak on form he's looking very good indeed.

Yeah truth be told I'm having a hard time imagining that I'd be complaining about that if it was one of our players being sent off...

I think/hope it's this. His passing is superb in the final third, I don't see how he could be purple patching that. He has more confidence now sure, but nothing stops that from continuing while he's getting games.

Good luck to the lad. Tried his best at all times - limited player, sure, but one who really encapsulated the effort and intensity of Howe's team.

Fulham looked decent at shuttling the ball upfield but otherwise fairly toothless against Man Utd. We need to win this one.

Even last year tbh - Spurs are suffering through a Europe induced injury crisis same as we were. Howe had us finishing 7th despite that. Spurs are currently 15th.

I stuck this one to see if you were being uncharitable. You were not It's like watching Sunday League.

The article was open for me when I linked it, guess they've worked out how to freely advertise