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It's miniscule.

Looks like I'm wrong to still be confident.

Hey I'm still confident. But then I don't follow Graeme Bailey on twitter.

Is Carsley gonna persist with fucking Pickford, I wonder. A goalkeeper that the entire footballing world is happy to watch battle relegation every year at Everton, without ever thinking about trying to buy him, but who Southgate saw as the best England could do.

I wouldn't want to be Kieran Trippier if Tino turns up dead in suspicious circumstances.

A general rule of thumb is that if it can't be objectively measured, they're the best at it.

Another triumph of the intangible. I've heard they tan better than us too, and they have better smiles.

BTW KD, post this stuff in your Marc Guehi thread. Never mind trying to slip your bad news about Guehi posts elsewhere. Own that shit.

SHITC more like amirite.

Do you rate films before they've finished?

"HITC understands..." I don't even know who HITC is, but I bet they're heavily reliant on clicks to keep the lights on. The kid that's written the article looks about 14 as well. My advice. Ignore this shit. And unfollow Graeme Bailey, he's a proven bullshitter.

What about gardening?

Nah its not that.

We've got a better writing room these days.

No one can touch Jamaal's Jams.

Retired from international football. Wonder if this presages a move to Saudi.

❌ Signing players is like buying a house ❌ Miggy is like Kluivert

I think we'll get Guehi and possibly someone on loan. Howe keeps saying he needs to be respectful of the players we have, which makes me wonder whether the loan thing just won't happen - it doesn't look great for the permanent squad if you bring some temp in to play ahead of them. It would have to be an obligation to buy thing, and then it's harder cos you're into discussions on fee.

My gran was in hospital for weeks on end earlier this year, before she died. My mam was amazed at the number of black nurses there, and my auntie (who is a nurse) was telling her that it's the same in her hospital, and the training they have isn't up to scratch. No idea whether any of the training stuff is true, but my gran was too ill/dying at the time for me to get into with my mother as to why she wasn't seeing the usual European workers.

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the hay bales today.

I am starting to wonder if Starmer isn't a timid little fuck like. The free movement for young people is such a no brainer, and the sooner he implements it, the sooner a) people will start to see benefits, and b) the kind of arsehole that doesn't like it will forget. But he's still too scared to come out and even say aye we're thinking about it.

Aye only CL and EL.

When I suggested someone better at maths might know the answer, I didn't in my wildest dreams imagine ewerk would view that as some sort of invitation.

Usually a pretty maths-heavy crowd in the Dolphin, I think.

Seeding rigs what side of the draw you end up in too, generally. This is what happened on home vs away: So last night, in the pre-draw, five of the 6 bowl 1 teams were pre-selected to get home draws. Which did give the perception of this being EVEN MORE rigged in their favour, but actually it might not have been. I can't do the maths, but it feels intuitively like there is something not right about having bowl 1 which has predetermined home and away ties, so when you pick a team out of that box, you already know where they're playing. Also, having 6 teams in one bowl, and the remaining 32 teams in another bowl and drawing the 6 bowl 1 teams first... Does that confer a further advantage to those teams? It certainly removes a lot of the randomness of WHEN they come out in the draw and what the pot of teams they can play against is. I don't know, I'm not maths clever enough to work it out. I might be talking shit here and someone who knows maths might say there's no advantage at all from either of the above.