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I was on holiday in Croatia in July 2013. They'd just joined the EU. On every road that crossed into Bosnia Herzogovina a checkpoint had been built almost overnight. The locals told us that even during the Balkans war in the 90s there were no official checkpoints. There were long queues at every crossing point, causing havoc with the local economy. The EU had insisted they were built and the Croatians did as they were told. Seeing as the ECB have Ireland over a barrel financially am not sure what sort of deal can be struck when all but the most wilfully,stupidly pig ignorant, propagandising,lying, flag waving pieces of shit and those more than willing to be lied to by them can see that the UK have absolutely no leaverage whatsoever on this issue.

Don't know if any of our slightly more senior posters remember this series of documentaries about Shankly, Busby and Stein from the early 90s?..if you can put up with the awful vhs upload quality they're brilliantly put together by Hugh Mcilvanney; just about the best sports journo I've had the pleasure of reading (his books are excellent too)

my Mrs has just said the same thing when I that whinged out loud @robchester ; @Howmanheyman wants to see you in his office ASAP This current run is starting to give the lie to the “wey, at least we’re not fuckin getting twatted every week like with Pardew & McLaren etc” type stuff. Not sure if the answer lies within this squad though.

You can write down what most owners know about the game on the back of a stamp, especially the new breed of foreign moneyed bellends like Moshiri. This leaves them open to manipulation by those who are truly running the game is the 21st century; agents. West Ham's owners know a decent butt plug when they see one but are simply there sat there trousering public money and contracting out the footballing decisions to spivvy middle men who convince them that the decrepit Zabaleta and the frankly bone idle Arnautovic are decent signings.

Movember appears to be big in Oz... my mate posted a picture of his own Merv Hughes stylee effort from the train an route to the Gabba, the silly looking fucker

Am I hearing Pardew is favourite for West Brom job?

Is this lad a Liverpool supporter?...

To flush out another potentially more ridiculously profligate bidder?

A message from a former sage of this parish

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It's precisely what Freddy Shepherd did when he appointed Souness. Dangerous Dave

Charles Manson https://amp.thedailybeast.com/charles-mansons-prosecutor-says-he-deserved-to-be-killed-years-ago

Colemans strength is pulling people together; I remember Al Fayed interrupting a post game interview to tell the nation as much when he turned things around at Fulham. Just been watching a piece on the bbc where Gareth Bale says exactly the same thing, this was from 2015 and their achievements the following year speak for themselves. That is precisely what SAFC need as it’s pretty plain to me that most of their players over the last 3 or 4 years haven’t really given a flying fuck about the club or it’s fans. He’s what they need tbh, let alone any cash injection.

Sounds like certain "celeb" nufc fans on Twitter at the moment

My money's on Clive Myrie

You could put Armando Ianucci, Ian Hislop, David Frost, the fellah who wrote Yes Minister and the host of great satirists throughout the ages in a room and their combined wit and imagination couldn't come up with the abdoloute shower of utter shit that is todays Conservative Party.

The 94 team were mint. Brolin came to England after that and jacked football in to become a professional food taster. Pity he was still contracted to Leeds and Palace at the same time

The ref tried to ensure Italy got through last night but they were even too shit for that. Football is cyclical, Holland didn't qualify in 82 or 86 after having one of the best teams in history in the 70s. Italy would've been dull as shit anyway. They're miles from the squad of 2006. Bobby Charlton climbed out of a plane wreck that killed mist of his teamates to become a world and European champion. Given that context I think his words carry a lot of weight.

Buffon crying his fuckin eyes out the dirty great jessie...Bobby Charlton says crying with emotion at victory is fine but crying because you got beat just isn't on. I agree

it's taken a couple of months but tdan is starting to crack. Good work everyone Aaron Hughes starting for the Brits

Think Souness rates Zico in that match as the best player he's ever played against. About 35 degrees at pitchside that evening. Another player said Brazil were so good they let Scotland have the ball in the areas where when they inevitably lost possession it was easy for Brazil to play one ball and they were in on goal. Lots of games played at 4pm just when we were getting home from school, we watched Italy put Brazil out in probably the best game is ever watched up to that point.