Hobsons Choice

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

I entirely agree. It wouldn't surprise me if they almost wilfully disobeyed the rules in order to provoke a confrontation, and precipitate the super league. We're at a point where the existence of a number of the biggest European teams will be dependent on the SL. It would be hilarious if no one actually watched it. I would be cackling for a year.

I'm not sure Abramovich is happy at the moment. I would imagine he says a prayer every time he turns the key in his Lambo.

Chelsea are gonna be bang in trouble in 2033.

Awful news.

Aerial submarine. Fascinating.

I'd never tried them before. Nice drop. I feel like I should have gone for the Gold. The pub is nice there,too. Must say it made the jaunt round Aldi much nicer

Completely agree with everything in this post. Regarding the bit in bold, though, they think the average voter is dumb, easily led and votes on the basis of personality. And they may not be wrong.

Seems that leadership these days means something completely different. I'm pretty sure that leadership traditionally meant tanking responsibility and protecting those under your control. Now it seems to mean blaming everything that goes wrong on everyone but yourself, and throwing all your colleagues under a bus. We live in strange old times.

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That's because of the left wing conspiracy. Left wing media will never publish thi....oh.

I've not had chance to read it yet. I'm assuming it says 'Sorry I f**ked the economy in 4 weeks, sorry, thank you, sorry, bye"?

I would imagine there are frogmen recovering the debris as we speak to have a closer look.

But as far as I understand, you can't recover mass once it's released (ie ballast) and the mass of helium is the same compressed in a tank as held in a balloon. They seem to have done it somehow, but control over 2000+ miles of flight without heating the gas (changing density) or having another means of propultion must be very difficult. When the Japanese did this in WWII it was so inaccurate they barely hit the right continent.

Went food shopping in Ludlow this afternoon, with a cheeky stop off at the Ludluw Brewery taproom/bar. Pint of Staircase IPA. Nice drop.

I mean I guess that they can then, but I don't see how they would heat that much gas with a solar powered heater. Look how much heat hot air balloons have to dump into the envelope to ascend.

It's not a hot air balloon, though.

As mentioned above, not in the jetstream, and they can only go higher, by dumping ballast.

Yes, or that. Still not quite sure what China gets out of it. It's all a bit of a mystery really. Weren't there talks of drones being used for spying not so long back? Maybe it's a distraction tactic for whatever more viable spying methods they are using?

It's not a hot air balloon, though, they can only really control altitude by dropping ballast, and that only works once. They follow the Jetstream, too, which describes a variable but very definitive direction. Individual layers within the Jetstream follow a similar path, like a turbulent river. If the jetstream overflies an airbase or something, cool, if not they are out of luck. Variations in direction of the Jetstream are difficult to predict, which, given its role in driving weather systems, is why forecasts at mid latitudes (like us) are unreliable. In general it's just a crummy system which only has merit as an unpredictable tactic.

Out wide? The only other wide right would be Cash, playing one of Cash or Young as a wingback and right back together.

Until Bertie is fit he could sit on the touchline picking his nose all game, cos he ain't losing his shirt.

But as a counterpoint, the Chinese also have no control over where the balloon goes. Where the wind blows, it goes. They are as likely to be taking pictures of a housing estate in downtown Chicago as area 51.

Said my piece last week, and got a bunch of verbals, so I'm not saying anything about recruitment. What I will say is that our defence will be key for the rest of this year. They cannot play like that going forward, but hopefully they learn, because we'll need to nick goals and be solid to get anything out of the next two. We do seem to perform better against top sides, so hopefully we can get maybe 1 or 3 points from Arsenal and Man City.

Use it, Mings. Use it as Fuel to beat these.