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Looks like it'll be McCoist but I saw something on there about Coleman's odds dropping... surely he wouldn't fuck his career up with Sunderland...

You think? I think there's a fair chance the next war could be triggered simply by diplomatic abnormalities at the moment. Having said that, before Trump was on the scene my money was on water shortages in the Far East.

Well I've never listened to him talk about anything so if I do, it's just by coincidence. Looks fairly logical to me though.

Was talking more about geopolitical clout and influence than just banking. All the EU has to do is federalise and it'll have blown the doors off the US hegemony. Banking is only a small part of this, but the decline of London and NY in this sense is a microcosm of the wider trend.

Balance of power is shifting now anyway IMO, with or without banking centralised in NY and London. Europe is the only answer for the West, and we're heading the wrong way.

https://twitter.com/lloydblankfein/status/931170132616974336 Goldman Sachs boss calling for a second referendum.

It's not so much the mind-games, although they're part of it. You can jump and do a somersault as you've probably noticed, but it times out after two seconds. So if you wait longer than that for the somersault, it doesn't trigger. The first guy got around this by taking the ball up to the ceiling and just 'falling' off it, so that he could trigger his somersault far later than the 2 seconds... and the flick so radically altered the trajectory of the shot, and with so little notice, that the keeper couldn't respond. But the precision needed to place the ball where he did, and himself just behind it simply be falling off the ceiling, was remarkable.

Yeah I think that might actually be the most subversively witty thing CT has ever posted

Although I think this one rivals it for technical skill:

This has been acclaimed as the best goal ever scored in RL I don't know how it looks to someone who hasn't played the game as much but it's fucking crazy. Skip to 34 seconds though.

Is pickford really the best we've got... he was a shambles last season.

Hope for our fan's sakes that we avoid Russia.

I've not watched us closely but this article from Barney Ronay makes me think we are https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/nov/14/neymar-magic-unable-to-dominate-brazil-england "In 6 hours and 40 minutes of football, we have a combined score of 2-0 - one of which was a penalty".

But we are, somehow, even more boring a team than under Hodgson.

Being totally honest though, I genuinely don't think I've ever cared less about an international football tournament.

Think this covers it for HF. Renton and Gloom seem to have done for him thanks to the terrorism discussions. Thanks guys

No, it's lost on me too, but I'm sure that's what he said...

He just said he was busy with other things in his life and very wisely felt that the amount of time he was online here was non-conducive to his other life priorities. Fair enough tbh.

Is anyone bothering with the poll this year? Since HF left the forum there's no administrative clout around here.

Aye should be pretty comfortable for them, this one. Best we can hope for is a 0-0 IMO, and I consider that unlikely.

Looks like he's hoping to either see Islam get the same treatment, which would quite possibly lead to fatalities, or for Christianity to be protected, which not a kick in the arse off censorship. Either way, I now want a steak bake...

God, how is this still going...