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Aye. And even if we did, we're more than just fairly reliant on the US to actually sell us the weapons we have been giving to Ukraine.

Ah shit. I was thinking it couldn't be quite as clear cut as that as we've been through all that fairly recently, culminating in the Orange Revolution. But you've just made me realise that this drawn out war might just have been Putin playing the long game to simply weaken Ukraine to the point that the next Orange Revolution will be a non-starter a second time around. I hope we're wrong but if Europe and Canada don't rally around Ukraine Im not sure I can see a different outcome. Conjecture time: NATO is completely compromised now that the US (probably it's main producer of arms and most influential member state) is now acting in the interests of the exact thing NATO was created to defend us from.

Rangers announcing Barry Ferguson, Alan McGregor, Billy Dodds and Neil McCann as Caretakers is interesting. For whatever reason it has me picturing Steven Segal standing at a bus stop in the rain, desperately trying to convince passers by that he's a black-belt in some obscure martial art.

If you're taking issue over a misplaced appostophe I'm sure I could find you a chair in an ASN classroom.

That redcard will surely conjure up a few stories on the topic why Arsenal refuse to play Tierney and were happy to lose him in the summer for free, but we're reluctant to let him leave in January. Arteta must seriously hate him. Petty playground nonsense.

The father, the son and the holy spirit?

Aye, I actually thought they l held their own in the first leg but there was a bit of an inevitability about it. Tonight they were outstanding and punched well above their weight but there was still that same sense of inevitably in the last 10 minutes. Bayern looked like they'd ran out of ideas, but Celtic looked like they'd already ran their race and weren't in much of a condition for extra time.

As far as I'm concerned the two Black Sabbath "Farewell" tours were in the 90's. I saw them on "The End" tour in 2017 and it was basically watching an animatronic Ozzy as a cheap museum exhibit. Don't get me wrong the rest of the line up is looks great, but it would be a lot more appealing as a festival bill rather than having to sit in a shit seat at the arse end of Villa Park for the best part of 12 hours and paying £300 quid for the privilege. I'm quite happy to wait for the highlights, would love to see all those bands but not withing the confines of a football stadium, on a plastic seat that fucking miles from the stage. For a whole fucking day.

Are they still known as the Bitters outwith Merseyside? I always just assumed that nickname came about as sort of national reaction to the locals insisting on calling them the Toffees. Like the rest of the UK just collectively said "look at the nick of this wee guy that thinks he can decide on his own nickname".

They are a strange bunch. Proper "wee man" mentality. I didn't even watch it tbf. More interested in how Celtic got on against Bayern. They were on a hiding to nothing in the away leg regardless of the result tonight but Bayern knew they were in a game tonight. That Daizen Maeda lad, I knew he was fast but the cunt just blazed through a two match ban in just one game.

Last Merseyside derby at Goodison, easy to forgive them for celebrating a draw as if it was cup final win. Their derby record at Goodison Park will now forever be 41 Liverpool Wins. 41 Everton Wins. 38 Draws, and they'll never have the chance again to tip the scales.

"when he watches that back later on tonight" Its quite funny to think that Rio might be confessing that immediately after a match his main priority was go home and watch his own highlights reel, concerned with nothing other than how he looked.

Aye. Wasn't it Lenin that described fascism as a symptom of "capitalism in decay"? I think that's exactly what we're seeing now with the rise of the far right.

I quite enjoyed seeing the fallout from the Edinburgh nonsense getting cancelled if I'm honest. Imagine being the type of twat that plans a family holiday around a late night street party in a country of pissheads on a day where there's no public transport and the locals all take the day off, then having the audacity to get arsey aboit the fact Texas won't be performing and none of the pubs will let your kids in. But aye. Happy New Year.

Wild to see Devin Townsend in the top half of albums of the year contenders for 2024. I wouldn't even put it in the top half of albums of his career.