Dazzler

Fly into Newcastle Airport, dump your stuff at your hotel, jump on the metro for an hour to go to a fanzone, jump back on the metro for an hour for the match. Makes a lot of sense when you think about it.

Only Everton waving back...

"Hello Dortmund fans, we have set up a black and yellow gazeybo for you in the byewtiful city of Sunderland. Well it is a city, it doesn't need an airport. Technically, the mags don't have an airport either, it's in Ponteland. Cathedral? The mags have two, they stole one them from us, marra. Do you want the use of the gazeybo or not? Where is it? Pennywell marra. Hello?"

Head above the parapet here, but we pagger Milan at home. Trippier has Leao scouted now and Lascelles will nut the nose off that outrageously handsome Frenchman. Either that or Wilson, Schar and Giroud will have a Zoolander vs Hansel style walk off all game instead. Dortmund we'll turn up with our vuvuzelas to drown out them annoying fucking drums and snap their centre backs early and beat them 2-0 to overturn the home match. The PSG match is nailed on to be invaded by a just stop oil fanatic since it never happened in the home match - match written off as a 0-0 draw.

Very true. Plus most right backs shit their pants whenever someone built like Joelinton is running directly at them. They can chop down players like Gordon but they are getting steamrolled by big Joe.

I think we get more from Joelinton wide left, interchanging with Willock than we do when we have him as an out and out centre mid tbh. He picks up less cards from reckless challenges and got a few goals from Willock's overlapping runs. Plus he's a fucking beast at holding the ball in the corner to kill time at the end of games.

Aye, that last point is massively important here. If Hamas were removed then it would remove the excuse (at least from Israel's side). No Hamas, no reason to do the rest of the shit you've already outlined. My gut feeling though, no Hamas would strengthen the ultra nationalists in power and would likely make things even worse in Gaza. However, it would then be very difficult for Israel's allies in the West to defend them - not to mention fuck up any hope of normalisation in the region (if it's not already fucked up). As it stands there are a range of outcomes given the nature of those in power on both sides, and none of those outcomes appear positive.

And that one offence should see them get a 50 point deduction for the next five seasons, fuck them. I am more benevolent towards Man City as they always vote in our favour with the PL (or at worst abstain) as fellow gulf state owned beheading enthusiasts trying to ensure they can bring in dodgy gulf state owned commercial deals to buy £100m world beaters.

I know, what a fucking amateur. That said "release the brown bear from it's cave"

In summary we're still fucking mint despite losing a tight game to a very good Dortmund side?

I wholeheartedly agree so long as we included it in the loan agreement that he can be recalled at any point.

I'd rather big Joe out wide and Gordon through the middle. Especially once Willock gets back on it. Big Joe and little Joe were deadly down the left last season.

Pretty sure he's played most of his games in our youth set up as a striker (happy to be corrected). Plus he was up top when he scored in the Saudi friendlies during the WC I am sure.

On the 12th point of Christmas my true love gave to me......an Everton relegation, 11......

Parkinson featured a few times in preseason, but not sure if he's a) good enough or b) remotely ready. I think the club has initially hoped Dylan Stephenson would be the third option and his loan at the end of last season was to prepare him, but it didn't exactly go particularly well for him in Scotland.

But the reality is that if Israel stop occupying more and more of Gaza / West Bank and leave the Palestinians to fend for themselves it would have absolutely zero impact on Hamas' beliefs and decision making. Hamas exists to exterminate Jews, and create an Islamic state of Palestine. As long as Hamas is in power they will always be a very real threat to Israel. The problem is when you have terrorists running one region and a bunch of nationalist nutcases running the other then you are always going to have conflict. The only way for peace to reign supreme is to remove both and have people in charge who actually believe in, and strive for peace. That's not the case here. In reality it's the real Muslims in Gaza and the real Jewish in Israel who suffer equally. Neither want this conflict, and the people should be able to see the humanity in both groups of people and the evil in both sets of "rulers". Anyone who believes Palestinian lives matter more than Israelis or vice-versa are driven by agenda IMO - you are either an anti-Semite or an Islamaphobe.

Man City's are worse and over a much longer period, so if Everton got 12 points then Man City should get a lot more. To me it's a load of bollocks. They'll get a fine and a slap on the wrist - The PL is bent sideways.

You could replace Rishi Sunak with Donald Trump and that would read exactly the same to me. "We have the best computers. I walked in and I said wow that's a good computer. Thousands of times better than your computers."

I'm not sure it's fair to say the far left hate Jewish people, though I do think a large proportion of the far left hate Israel. This is true of Corbyn and anyone who absolutely loves the bloke. I think it's only natural for a nation to value the lives of it's own people over others, every country is the same - however I would say the ultra far left value the lives of Palestinians over Israelis. Leaning too far politically will always end up in the same way, someone has to be dehumanised. It's far too simple to say when it comes to humanity Palestinians = Israelis and and atrocities are atrocities no matter who is responsible.

It seemed like Miggy was playing to a game plan from Howe that didn't come off. People might like to drag him for his decision making when attacking but no one can argue against his defensive work rate, so last night was a bit odd from him in that regard; especially considering the pace that Trippier was up against all game.

Mick Martin - Wikipedia This him? If so, then yes Edit: nah that's not him, unless Mick Martin is in his 70s which I don't believe to be the case.

Is Martin still going? Fucking hell I thought he'd been cancelled years ago for being a miserable twat.

Thursday / Sunday is the same as Wednesday / Saturday really.

Aye, possibly - but it seems from the outside that Tonali only got found out because Fagioli grassed so it's plausible that Milan had no idea.