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Shearer did a good doc about Alzheimer's in retired footballers. Jeff Astle's daughter fuckin annihilated Gordon Taylor at the PFA over it.

First round FA cup draw tonight.. https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/fa-cup-draw-start-time-tv-channel-ball-numbers-and-prize-money-as-79-teams-go-into-the-hat-a4266941.html 79 teams so one gets a bye... My mates just been on the phone...he's a Bournemouth season ticket holder but says he's bored fuckin shitless with them We're both occasional visitors to Poole Town who need a replay v Hayes & Yeading at home tomorrow night so we're going...were also going to go to the next round home or away...it'd be a bit ironic if they got through and drew the mackems

Going well at Stormont too

In my experience it's mostly middle income/lower middle class tossers (some of whom I consider to be my closest friends) who treat it as a social occasion and know next to fuck all about rugby... thet are also aware that muscle bound rugger buggers attract large numbers of semi posh women who are less likely to reject their clumsy advances if theyve got a prosecco induced wide on after salivating over Johnny Smithers-Smyth of Harlequins & England for a couple of hours The actual players are quite often decent lads if you enjoy buggery and communal singing of offensive songs 👍

Cheers @ewerk I think I still see things differently. But I can see what you're saying. The speaker isn't going to allow another vote on Johnson's deal today. Apparently theres some precedent from the 1600s that stops it.

Yeah you're right. Seems like (to me, a fairly uninformed observer) that a general election delivering an overall majority for the Tories is all they need to get their Brexit through and thats been their sole aim since Johnson has become PM. Any extension doesn't quite give them an open goal but it's a great opportunity. They've plainly "war gamed" all this and know what their options are every time the road seems blocked. Maybe I'm crediting Cummings with far too much here but they always seem to have their next move ready straight away. As far as I can make out theres just as much chance of a no deal Brexit now as there was when Johnson became leader either by design or default. The arch remainers even with the backing of the highest court in the land aren't winning this as we sit here 11 days from the next Brexit deadline. Obviously there's now another extension but that's equally another opportunity for no deal as it is for...what exactly? A people's vote resolves nothing. It'll undoubtedly be legally binding this time but in reality it resolves nothing outside of Westminster.

Am getting the feeling Cummins may have known we’d reach this point all along....

Klopp reminds me of Scooby Do. Not Fred or even Shaggy but the fuckin dog himself the daft looking grinning Teutonic cunt

She's a fuckin twat

It appears that whilst I was typing the above missive the UVF drag act called it all off

No, just wandered into the local record shop and it was there....record shop is about 10 miles away so don't get there very often and the current Mrs PL hates hanging round these places so a quick decision had to be made or the chance would be gone...am not pussywhipped in anyway, obvs...

I found this useful...seeing as ewerk couldn’t be arsed to explain it himself his cousin here has been kind enough to explain it for the hard of comprehending. When is Stormont getting the band back together? Or will things just default to the revised backstop until Arlene has finished counting all the billions?

Arlene just upped the cost of the bribe by 10 mill so they've got to speak to the Magic Money Tree Ltd.

One of my old haunts when I was feeling brave in the 90s, much beloved of the traveller community..... It's a co op now

Our good friend Jezza Corbyn has just stated in the house that 11 million adults in this country don't have a passport or a driving license

Minimum of four days between games. Group stages take as long as the entire football world cup

Scotland needed to score four tries and win by 8 points. It was unlikely at the outset. Japan ranked higher and with twice as many registered players. If you want other excuses there's plenty more where they came from 👍

Is there a difference between an internment camp and an immigration detention centre or has the terminology changed because of Brexit? 🤔

Scotland well beaten in the end by a better side. If Japan beat SA in the next round they play the winner of Wales v France in the semi final....

The two disc gatefold re release of Paul’s Boutique is fuckin mint

"loads of conker shells" + "an old dear' + "some dick in the office next door' = Wykkiki is plainly still trying to bump off his female colleagues and has taken to gloating about it via local media

In an outburst unusual even by his standards, President Trump explained one reason why he could not regard the Kurds as long-term partners: their failure to help the US and its allies in the Normandy landings. “The Kurds are fighting for their land,” he told reporters. “As somebody wrote in a very powerful article today, they didn’t help us in the Second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example . . . But they were there to help us with their land, and that’s a different thing.” In spirit, he seems to have been making a technical point about the difference between a longstanding alliance, such as the West’s with Turkey, and short-term co-operation with countries or local forces with which the West has a passing common interest His comments were immediately ridiculed, however, with critics pointing out that as of D-Day the Kurds, a landlocked, mountainous people living in the Middle East and Central Asia, were not well endowed with Marines and landing-craft. Moreover, Mr Trump was wrong in any case. The Kurds did help the British, US, and Allied efforts in Normandy, albeit obliquely. The raw facts were pointed out quickly by Akil Awan, an academic at Royal Holloway, University of London: the Kurds played a key role in the British occupation of Iraq during the Second World War, fighting alongside British troops who stepped in to block a pro-Nazi coup. Britain had been given responsibility for Iraq after the First World War under the Sykes-Picot agreement and, while the country won notional independence in 1932, London continued to keep a close strategic eye on it. It maintained a military presence, particularly on the RAF Habbaniyeh air base west of Baghdad, where fox-hunting British officers were supported by the so-called Iraqi Levies This force, first raised to support British rule at the end of the First World War, contained Iraqis of all sects and ethnicities but was dominated by minorities, particularly Assyrian Christians, Kurds and Yazidis. When a pro-Nazi politician seized power in 1941, the British invaded from Basra in the south. RAF Habbaniyeh was surrounded by pro-Nazi Iraqi forces, but the RAF, supported by contingents of the Iraqi Levies, broke out, pushed back and eventually reversed the coup. Dr Awan estimates that by 1942 Kurds made up 25 per cent of the fighting force of the Levies, and certainly in records from a year later ten of the 44 companies were said to be Kurdish. The Iraqi front was, of course, a long way from Normandy, and Hitler’s crack Panzer divisions were not involved. But there was a reason why Iraq was so strategically important: oil was the main driver of western interest in Iraq from 1918 onwards. Not for nothing did Britain demand — and win — control of the key northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which Sykes-Picot initially gave to French-controlled Syria. With major wells unveiled in the 1920s in nearby Kirkuk, the city the Kurds regard as their spiritual capital, the Kurds came to play a central role in world history for the first time, even if it was one from which they benefited little. The Americans and the British did benefit however, not least as they fuelled the landing craft on June 5, 1944

Well I got all that wrong didn't I?.... Not to mention the Japan v Scotland game being in doubt now to say the least. They won't move it bacause they won't move the other two that have been called off. Those out there with UK media seem to think the game will go ahead on Sunday. There's 170mph winds forecast for Saturday in Yokohama though. If that hit this country there'd be fuck all left of it 😳

Varadker chipper and confident of a agreement before the end of the month.....he doesn't have to win a vote in Westminster on it though