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It'll be one win from three for Man United if it stays like this. Two results behind us after three games.

The white lads get 9 year contracts too, Alexis. I think me AND Noel might be innocent.

Nicholas Jackson not ready for the concierge desk just yet. 1 ni Chelsea.

I think the way these 9 year things work are first 5 years in the football team, and if that doesn't work they do last 4 years working at one of the hotels. Preparing them for retirement.

Thanks chaps. Hats off to PaddockLad for this dismissive, passive-aggressive use of brackets.

I actually looked at the podcast after listening to the clip, but those episodes are so fucking long. Do you need to be watching the episodes of TOTP along with them for it to make sense, or can you just listen without that? I might not anyway like, just wondering.

What's going on at The Guardian.

That's really good ta. I haven't been able to work out wtf people (my friends in particular) are so excited about, and I think he's nailed it. I'm also not a "get legless before the gig" person (I'm not really a get legless ever person). My mates are. Add that to the "hug rock" and that's probably what they're excited about. Maybe I'll stop pouring cold water over everything they say in our WhatsApp groups. At least for the rest of today.

Aye you're right about the black music thing, and that is odd. I don't know whether he just has very set views on music and how his band should sound. I remember early on him saying that he would never be in a band with anyone that played a Fender guitar (he now plays one). And things like "music should never be avant-garde or experimental". Like he writes all of his songs from basically 5 open chords. He thought All Around The World was revolutionary cos it included a key change. I just don't think there's the intellectual curiosity there to try and understand anything else musically. I also think he probably found something very early on that catapulted them to global fame, and he didn't want to fuck with it. I bet he loves Clarkson's Farm these days. I'm rambling here, and I'm not really arguing one way or another on the racism thing. It's just never jumped out at me and I wasn't convinced by that bloke's examples - I think he just really doesn't like Noel and (whilst very engaging) he sounded quite prone to hyperbole tbf.

The thing with the Stone Roses that's truly mad is how comically tone deaf Ian Brown is. It's like he's fucking joking. Like he's barely making it on the actual albums, and then you see them live and he sings the whole song off-key. That is hard to do even as a joke.

The knight put out a 3 minute youtube postmortem of the window. That's more like it.

I listened to that there. I haven't seen any of the Noel being racist stuff before. Him not liking hip hop / saying JayZ shouldn't headline Glastonbury, and not liking Jazz hasn't really convinced me. He's DEFINITELY come out with some Brexit dad sounding bollocks (although I can't think of examples, I remember thinking it at the time), and I'd need to see the Russian oligarch and schools with metal detectors comments in context, but I wasn't convinced he's racist by the examples provided in that clip. I'm not defending the bloke. I think it's one thing coming up with some of his nonsense when you're coked up and on top of the world in the 90s, and something entirely different to be wheeling it out when you're sober and in your 50s. A lot of it is embarrassing.

If anyone follows anyone or thing even vaguely related to Newcastle World on twitter, you should unfollow them. I sometimes click in these things to try and understand just how they are pulling these lies off. This one they've concocted because "Newcastle United owners" refers to the fact that Simikan, who we were interested in earlier in the window, is now going to Al Nassr, who are owned by PIF. His medical at Al Nassr is complete, resulting in the perfectly reasonable, and not remotely clickbaity headline you see above. If you follow Charlie Bennett, their "Newcastle United writer" on twitter, unfollow him. He wrote this bullshit.

I've got a mate, my age, and I'm 100% not exaggerating when I tell you that ALL he listens to is Oasis, Liam, Noel, and the Stone Roses. And that's been the case for 30 years.

Get the fuck out of the guitar thread with the puns.

Anderson singled out for analysis on MOTD's Forest game coverage. Looked like he had a good game tbf.

imagine turning up for your work photo like that.

Everton the first game on MOTD. A late editorial decision.

Congratulations!

I wouldn't fancy being an Everton player trying to get home tonight.

Please define "surge".

Forest might have done us a favour knocking back £60m for Elanga.

@Toonpack How you getting on with the Silo books? I'm just closing in on the end of book 2.

I'm interested to see how the Hope haters respond to this. Is he talking shit and just a fucking liar, or is this a well sourced piece which confirms their own views? Tough spot for a Saturday morning.