Craig

The trackie top is OK, the rest ... could have been so much better - no thanks.

100%. Shepherd had pneumonia I seem to remember. It epitomises the Halls completely. Totally self-serving cunts! And some people still believe John Hall is the reason our fortunes turned around in the early 90s. Bullshit! He did two things worthy of note: 1. Appointed Keegan 2. Shit himself in a hastily arranged TV interview when Keegan walked out in the "not like it was in the brochure..." moment and finally agreed to spend some money.

Wasn't it Tony Jimenez who blocked the move for Modric because he was too lightweight for the Premier League?

I don't know how it happens full stop. My far from fully educated instinct is that Palestine would be more amenable to it than Israel who I don't think will ever shift towards being accepting of a Palestinian state.

Hezbollah leader giving a press conference stating the device attacks are a 'declaration of war. Whilst he's giving his speech Israeli fighters are bombing ground targets in Lebanon

Amol Rajan's interview with John Major is a good listen. Don't agree with everything he says, but his views on Brexit, recent Tory policies on immigration and autocracy quietly eroding democracy are bang on IMO. Amol Rajan Interviews - John Major - BBC iPlayer

Al Fayed being accused of multiple counts of sexual assault by Harrods staff is perhaps, sadly, one of the least surprising 'sensational news breaks' I've read in a long time.

You forget the inverted commas around assassination attempt. It was fucking nonsense, man. He lost the debate and was scrabbling for sympathy / attention. Thankfully most seem to have seen right through it. Only 7 weeks of this charade left.

They 'can' win without it, but I don't think they will. To win without it they'll need to pretty much take every other swing state.

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It'll come down to Pennsylvania IMO. Whoever wins that will be getting the keys to the White House.

Could not agree more. The depravity of their actions cannot be lessened on the basis of international relations, nor can it be excused in any way because "Hamas and Hezbollah are bad guys too". It's utterly appalling. I watched that John Oliver thing back earlier and the most telling line was where he comments on Israel's position in the aftermath of the holocaust which was "it must never happen again". They're dangerously close, as he pointed to that rhetoric being discretely changed to "it must never happen again, to us".

Yesterday pagers, today walkie-talkies

The piece he did on the Tories just before the election (which wasn't permitted to be broadcast in the UK) was nothing short of superb. https://tube.fede.re/w/e59cb0b5-3970-4298-af80-38b9aeeae0a0

Yeah, mainstream interest in Italian football was still to take off. The big names back then, aside from the ex-pats was Gullit & Van Basten but that was thanks largely to starring roles at Euro 88. Absolutely tragic to think both Vialli and Schillaci have now gone

I miss....

He's more than making up for it now ... although he's aiming it more towards Vance than Trump.

Been watching a lot of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight recently and he did one a few weeks ago on the occupation of the West Bank. Worth the 45 minutes to watch it if you haven't already seen it: https://tube.fede.re/w/c85fcae5-06b0-4f44-870b-a74c07378d95

Agreed, but the main boards on the middle of the East Stand in 86/87 were flooded with Greenalls rather than S&N.

One of a number of near-misses in the 80s which were completely ignored. Hillsborough really was a disaster waiting to happen and was just a matter of time. It still angers me to my absolute core - nothing to do with the teams involved but just the wider conception of the football fan back then and by virtue we were in the stadium, we were all a 'problem'. What happened after those events for the next 20+ years only served to anger me more.

There's advertising boards for Newcastle Exhibition. We were sponsored by Greenall's from the summer of 1986 so it must be before then, not by much though. I reckon it's 85/86

Is that the Trent?

The problem is they bundle it 'as a service' so you're not only paying monthly for the car itself, you're paying for the insurance, tax, servicing, tyre replacement, MOT, etc. I'm pretty certain the only thing I would have needed to have paid on top of that for was fuel but even so, fuck that! I'd rather have £400 in my wallet and a free choice of what car to go for. In the end I even gave the hybrids a miss and went for a petrol engine.

When they're intending to shoot someone, yes. When it's a publicity stunt to boost up opinion polls, clearly not.