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Mornin' all Woohoo!!!!! Now waiting for Trump to claim it was all his doing...

Heya Chippy So glad to see you posting again. Best of luck with your health old bean.

Oh dear...disingenuous deflection. First, she was not charged with being "intoxicated" or being "an entitled brat". You're the arbiter of role modelry are you? And then you resort to the bandwagon fallacy. An apology, if warranted, and done with timely grace shows the mark of a person. Conversely...

Heya - been a while - hope this finds you well. I don't have access to the full hearing transcript but this article is revealing: https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/its-fing-scary-the-heartsinking-reality-revealed-by-kerrs-full-police-tape/news-story/1ca884f63e68482f1a6ca648d39d7b87 Had the whole 34 minute police tape been released a long time ago then some holier than thou opinionistas may not have embarrassed themselves as they have done. Some of those will own up to being "had" whereas others...

Took a snap poll did you mate? Once the jury was presented with all the evidence (ie the whole truth) it was unsurprising that the jury voted unanimously for her acquittal: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/feb/11/sam-kerr-trial-how-a-drunken-night-revealed-questions-race-power-and-privilege-ntwnfb Lessons to be learned: First, if you go out on a limb with an opinion that is solely based on an edited version of what occurred you will rightfully look a fool when all the facts come to light. Secondly, never trust the media to report all the testimony prior to a verdict. Why? It's in the business of selling controversy - that's how outlets make money. Or do you still think, given all the evidence, that Sam is "racist against white people" ? An apology from you to Sam is warranted.

Large kudos moi for the news & your thoughtful choice of songs et al. He was a spirited, provocative poster who lived on the edge & so, keenly appreciated by other spirited, provocative posters among us. He was old decent chels & will be missed. We all seem to be avalanching down that rickety slope now. I hope he felt no pain at the end - salutations Lofty you sublime rascal.

A rather amusing take on the whole imbroglio https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/13/putin-tied-boris-johnson-up-in-his-own-trousers

And presumably now those American f**kers as well?!? Tell me, have the States now listed Djokovic under the Magnitsky Act & frozen his assets?!? As far as false equivalences go your comparison is off the charts don't you think?

woohoo!

woohoo!

More importantly, he's made his first Squires! https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2019/sep/10/david-squires-on-england-scotland-and-owen-v-shearer

Fixed it for you.

shush mate! If word gets out the ECB may have to do the right thing and have a referendum on the issue...

Can't tell you how chuffed I am to see that a Durban lad is contributing to the survival of English cricket.

Well prepared on that front my man - Warner completed 6th class during his sabbatical & Smith has had his tear ducts removed.

Lozarus! An unexpected delight. Gearing up for another Ashes whitewash no doubt.

heya - good to see posting again. who do you suggest instead?

Somewhat curious, and a bad look, that there's been no thread created for this thus far so here it is. I've had a look at a few games so far & mostly enjoyed them: particularly the fact that there seems to be very little rolling around & playacting from any of the players when they're tackled.

Indeed. I'm still not convinced by the Sarri experiment but by delivering the objective (and regardless as to how that all came about) he is to be congratulated & kept. I just hope he has the balls to stick around for next season given that he has had to endure a lot of completely childish & unwarranted taunting by many supporters over the last few months.

My original understanding was that FIFA was to release its decision concerning our appeal prior to the commencement of the summer transfer window on 11 June 2019 but, of course, and resulting from the somewhat unlikely denouement of the EPL as far as settling the top 4 is concerned, the pressure on FIFA to release its decision within the next fortnight is now even more compelling from our point of view. No doubt the club will have already decided on its shortlist for the CAS arbitrator of its choice for any CAS appeal should that be necessary & I imagine that the club has already drafted its interim application for CAS to suspend the transfer ban whilst CAS deliberates on any appeal.

^ Strider - thought you might enjoy this article by the belated (& much missed) Christopher Hitchens. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/04/bottoms-up/304719/

Good post & especially as concerns the owner's ambitions. I think the appointment of Sarri showed us that Roman still hankers for attractive possession based football & in that sense, Sarri's appointment, given our squad deficiencies over the last few years, was always likely to be problematic in much the same way (but possibly less starkly) that AVB's appointment was going to be problematic: both appointments were I feel were overly ambitious given the respective squads & the results of each did/have not really surprised. I wasn't keen on Sarri's appointment for much the same reasons that I wasn't keen on AVB's appointment. I suppose it's still possible that we could sneak into the top 4 this year but I don't really hold any hopes for that after the last 2 games & I became resigned to Hazard's departure several months ago & Zidane's re-appointment has really settled that issue. None of us can accurately 2nd guess what Roman makes of all this at present as regards next year but perhaps the transfer ban may finally force his hand to settle for the youth approach which many have been hankering for over the last five years or so. Given that we've been remarkable successful for the last 15 years, the chance for this new approach would be an exciting ride for all of us. And I know that we'd all love to see us go all the way in the EL this year but in terms of the future, the sad irony should we win it might be that Roman would be less willing to go the youth route next year because we've made the CL for next year. Either way, I think the Sarri experiment is over. As for who we get - I'd like to see Lamps & Jody given a go for next year but there are other possibilities as well.

An astonishingly good actor in both mediums & his versatility & range was, in my view, only matched by Alec Guinness. If one had to pick 3 of his best film performances I'd go for his magnificent Poirot (comfortably better in one performance than any of Suchet's career long attempts) , as O'Bannon the local crime boss in Miller's Crossing & as Ed Masry in Erin Brockovich. A colossus & apparently a complete joy to work with. John Cleese (@JohnCleese) Albert Finney is gone... The Best. But more than our greatest actor... What the Germans call "Ein Mensch" February 8, 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2019/feb/08/king-of-kitchen-sink-albert-finney-a-life-in-pictures

i thought he was living in an Hotel...

Of course he played the game - for several years. First, revisionism from you in this thread mate for which you were rightly taken to task over & now a palpable untruth.