Craig

Pleased for him, but totally given up on F1. It's boring as fuck these days. Something needs to change there and quickly. Liberty Media have NOT been good for F1.

If at first it doesn't work, change and try something different. A lot of pent up anger in me is being explained thanks to nothing more than talking and someone taking the time to try and help me understand it. A lot for me goes back to having an older sibling who topped everything they ever tried to achieve in life. I'd reasoned at a very young age - definitely pre-school - that the yardstick was far out of reach and that I'd never reach those levels so resigned myself to always being 2nd or 3rd rate at everything I do.

Cheers HMHM

Have been seeing a therapist for coming up to a year and honestly it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. I've learned more about myself in the last year than I ever did in the preceding 46. As I've alluded to on here there has been some really difficult moments in that 12 months and a moment when everything nearly came to an abrupt end. I've learned how to manage myself, how to deal with those situations and how to introduce alcohol back into my life. I've made some tough calls along the way - people who add no value to me have been dispensed with. Finally I've learned a lot about what causes many of the negative emotions I experience. I understand what makes me angry about the world and am learning to be open about those things and look to heal. Bizarrely (to me, anyway!) one of the things that makes me really angry more than anything is what happened at Hillsborough all those years ago. None of the victims were anyone I know and I've got no affiliation to Liverpool FC but I'm as angry as if I would be if it had wiped out my whole family. I don't ever feel I had the right to be so furious about it, but apparently I do - it's relatable to a lot of deep-rooted challenges I have. My advice to anyone struggling is to talk. To someone professionally and independently. If there's something in this age we live in that need significant profile increase it's the mental health agenda. What taking those relatively small steps can do is nothing short of remarkable, however difficult the journey may be along the way.

This is a beautiful sight: General Election Prediction (electoralcalculus.co.uk)

Not that there's a vast array to choose from, but I find him one of the very few palatable Tory MPs. He's pragmatic and talks sense, and was behind the ousting of Boris Johnson long before any other of his contemporaries.

Only 5?

Speaking of mistruths, I was at a conference in London last week where one of the keynote speakers was Margaret Heffernen - professor of Practice at the University of Bath School of Management. Part of her speech focused on planning and in particular vaccine response to an endemic. Typically they're assymetric in that by the time you create a vaccine, the endemic has passed. One of the greatest questions she said she'd heard in business was from the head of one of the pharmaceutical firms who asked "When the next endemic hits, what would we wish we'd been doing right now?" On the back of this in 2017 he became part of the creation of a funding programme to focus on the creation of vaccines for 6 known issues. The sought and received funding from the Gates Foundation and multiple nations governments. The British government declined to contribute. One of the 6 issues was Coronaviruses and in her words "thank goodness it was given what hit just 3 years later." Her wrap up line was "so the next time you hear the Tories rattle on that they were behind the biggest vaccine programme of all time, know that it's absolute fanciful Westminster bullshit. They were against it until it became a political weapon!"

The wally without a brolly

And yet Man City continue without any sanction whatsoever. The arbitrary nature in which they've issued points deductions, partially rescinded them in the case of Everton and then added more is utterly ridiculous. Irrespective of who you support, no-one should be comfortable with this shit-show. Everton have been handed a total of 12 deducted points this season. Luton are currently 11 points behind them and in the relegation places, if it finishes like that you can see Luton taking them to court. Utterly ridiculous.

Deep in the Tory heartland that is North Hampshire, 9/18 wards have been announced so far - Tories have only picked up 3! Ours has gone to the Green Party - local fella who has stood in every election for the past 5 years including the GE, drinks in my local and refers to our sitting MP as 'a vacuous cunt!' and is interested in understand what is important to you as opposed to rattling off his own agenda. More of this please. One of the wards has gone to the Women's Equality Party who took 22% of the share. Tories only took 9%

Implosion ... and it's fucking hilarious!

30 years since Senna died. FFS it feels like yesterday!

It's why IMO the PL in its current format is finished. Bruno should not have to be sold to comply with artificial rules that do not account for owner's wealth. It's the Saudi sovereign wealth fund - the richest on the planet - not some dodgy millionaire. Simon Jordan's suggestion about rewriting the rules and bringing levels of taxation into play is a good idea, but six clubs effectively rule the roost.

So Howe has now confirmed the clause is there and must be triggered before the end of June. Clearest "come and get him!" there could be. It was nice whilst it lasted.

Changed mine back in late February. Contemplated a Tesla for all of about 5 minutes before coming to the conclusion the only redeeming feature for me was the farting indicators (if you know, you know) but i reckon that novelty would soon wear off. Also the fact I don't own my own place meant I could either fork out a shit-tonne on a charge point that my landlord would benefit long term from, or survive on trickle-charge made it even less appealing. In the end I went for a petrol A-Class. Seems a nice car.

The added bonus that it could help dispel any notion that PGMOL is a closed and controlled club as well.

These lot, man....

If Webb didn't know then surely Attwell was at risk of being given a Luton match to referee. I'm not buying that he wasn't aware. Probably irritated that Forest queried the appointment. Strengthens the argument in my view for more foreign referees with no team affiliation. If we're happy to have foreign players and coaches, why not officials as well - particularly, as the authorities keep banging on about, we've got a desperate shortage of British-based officials hence why the standards are dropping....

I'm probably in the minority but I've never advocated it in any shape or form - it over-sanitises to the point where it takes what is magic about the sport away. The moments that hooked us all when we were kids. Look at the Coventry game yesterday, technically they were right to disallow the goal but in the spirit of the game it just felt like the magic of the cup was ripped away in an instant. Consider our CL campaign in 2002/03 when we got the last minute winner at Feyenoord to take us through to the next round and imagine that goal have been ruled out thanks to a fag-paper thin offside decision in an earlier phase of play. Offsides need a review for me as well - make it so there has to be clear air between attacker and defender for it to be offside. That way we don't have this utter nonsense where you're offside due to a hand / toenail / etc.

Didn't they do this initially though and everyone said it was ludicrous that a bloke behind a TV screen in Stockley Park was making the decisions rather than the on-field referee who to that point had ALWAYS had the final say? There definitely needs to be amendments if it's to remain as it's ruining the game. I'm still in favour of each team having a limited number of VAR challenges per match (3 each maybe) and once they've burned them that's it - it's down to the on-field referee to decide.

I don't share your optimism. I think the scroats at the FA will use him as an example, and there'll evidently be considerable support from other clubs in the league. A great player he is but it does beg questions about the level of due diligence we did on the lad before spending £55m on him.

Still get angry watching this despite the many years that have passed. He was never the same player for us after that IMO. Read somewhere that he yelled “they just don’t want to let me play!” as he marched down the tunnel.