Hobsons Choice

It was a close run thing for me when the finalists were announced, but as time goes on I am happier that we went with the option we did. The gaslamp had the benefit of novelty and was slightly different to anything out there, but the roundel now just looks and feels right. Would other options be better? Sure, maybe, but of those two we definitely went the right way, and it's something I can more than live with. Makes our current crest look childish imo.

Haha, awesome.

I must say this latest 'build up of troops' by Russia is a little ominous to me as a layperson. I take it there are reasons why it won't work?

My Scottish uncle used to tell this one: Did you hear about the Scotsman who dropped a penny? He bent down to pick it up and it hit him on the back of the head.

Second.

I know, that is also another good reason why this idea sucks. There are many!

I don't see how any overarching Super League will lead to sustainable distribution of revenues across the pyramid. It's fewer people eating more of the pie. The only thing it could potentially do is level up the financial distribution of wealth across the various national leagues, which would be to the detriment of the PL and EFL because ours is currently the most profitable league around.

Bernd Reichart of A22 Sports Management- sponsors and organisers of this new super league: click Well no sh*t Sherlock. The top sides in Europe, including those of the PL have spent the last 2-3 decades trying desperately to ensure that: no one else can compete financially everyone but them gets less money they don't have to deal with anything as vulgar as not winning every year. In other words deliberately destabilising the foundations of European football. It's frigging grotesque that the owners, sponsors and in some cases fans think that it is their right (!) in a competitive sports arena to win continuously at the expense of anyone else. It's also stupid, because the idea that our teams can, if they achieve the right balance get from the bottom to the top of the pyramid is what everyone loves about football. Short term fixes of success will become boring to supporters, and there will be no substance or history to fall back on. We're heading toward a franchise system, where at a whim a club can be moved away from the fans which nurtured it to a commercially more viable location. Awful, and I hope everyone involved gets one right up the chuff.

Can't really agree on Bailey. He does get in good positions, but he does not beat a man often enough for me, despite his pace. In terms of experience, he's 25 and has played in top leagues - Prem and Bundesliga for 6 years, I don't think he's going to radically improve in terms of vision or application. He's also very one footed, and doesn't have enough natural finishing ability to be an out and out, or inside forward for me. He's OK, but I think we need someone else in the medium term. Or perhaps we play him deeper in the hole between opposition full back and winger and appreciate that he's not gonna get loads of goals and assists.

He's ruined that joke. You can't make a decent Jesus joke anymore. He needs to play in la Liga so I can make Religious jokes again. You make a God joke these days and you get crucified.

Day release?

I just realised you said pretty much the same thing I did, but earlier, so sorry.

I don't see any problem with his visit being 'theatre'. It's PR, he knows it, we know it. That doesn't mean it's bad. Zelensky understands far better than Putin that this is an information war as much as a physical one. The more he highlights the conditions on the ground, the more pressure, he realises, will descend on the west to support him. If he rocks up like everything is normal, wearing a business suit from Saville Row, then he's projecting affluence and normalcy in the media. The situation in Ukraine is not like that, and that's what he has to convey in order to continue bolstering western aid. It's a dance he has to do.

I'd like to take a minute of your time to talk about Jesus.

My only real interaction with City fans was when I stopped at a service station on the M5 during a family trip. A bunch of City coaches had stopped there, presumably they'd been playing somewhere down south. I couldn't use the baby change for my youngest son as there was a City fan shooting up in there (we found the needle in there after we waited for him to come out). I also had to explain to my eldest why people were running around shouting obscenities at full volume (the worst ones) and threatening to assault the staff of the place. Real salt of the earth.

I think that looks fast. You know, it's got the lines. Usually cars that look fast are slower than a snail's chuff, though.

This is exactly how my wife feels. I am going to be very honest here, because I feel that I really read the room wrong on this, and my wife became very hurt, which in turn made me feel awful. I have always been very liberal socially, and my instant reaction when she brought this up was to go liberal, and suggest that I feel solidarity for LGBTQ rights, in the same way I have always been extremely pro-womens rights and pro choice. I realise now that perhaps I was conflating all of these issues, the rights of individuals, if you will. What I did not get was the depth of feeling my wife had toward this issue. She felt, understandably, that the hard fought rights of women, and women's safe spaces were potentially threatened by the way society treats trans women. This is extremely hard for me as a (hopefully) enlightened man, who feels strongly that everyone- gay, straight, male, female should have equality of rights. I'm still not sure I understand how my feelings fit in with this subject, as I think that as well intentioned as I feel I am, I have entered into a conversation I am ill equipped to deal with. Perhaps as others have mentioned, this is a society level issue. Perhaps instead of allocating existing male and female spaces to trans women/men, we need new spaces. Perhaps this undermines the equality of the Trans community. Honestly I have no idea, and my instincts seem severely inappropriate. I would love some help on this, I just don't know how to feel.

It's not just the States, you ought to have been in the UK during Brexit. It was like the country had a stroke. In my family personally there have been whole bunches of people who have not spoken to each other since 2016, and likely never will.

Just made me laugh as I had visions of a confused soapy infant trying to figure out whether his head could fit in a pint glass.

I'm just thinking that 5 years of my life would have been made infinitely easier if I could have put my two mucky sons in the dishwasher to get them clean. No mucky handprints on the wall, floor, carpet....ceiling. Bliss.

It's an attempt to monetise twitter, making it the mouthpiece of wealthy organisations, rather than regular folk, who will remain unverified scum. It's basically the opposite of what Twitter was supposed to be. Not that I care much, I don't use twitter anyway, so fire away Musk. Beat that cash cow to within an inch of its life.

You bathe your baby in the sink while you are washing up? Just kidding.

There are people trying to get IN to Ireland? Just kidding. Cheap shot.

Plastic fans from Asia and America will watch it on Sky. I bet the domestic audience in the UK will be awful. Which is perhaps more than anything why I hate the idea of it. The folks who have supported teams in hard times as well as flush for over a Century, chucked out in favour of wealthy casual fans.

They look like they are tucked in, beneath a spongebob bedspread, waiting for Bielsa ('s translator) to read them a bedtime story.