OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
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In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.
Zero skin in Man City-Arsenal but it's fair to say Cherki's "celebration" and Sky's gushing over same, had me absolutely howling at the instant equaliser and the car crash cornucopia of cavalier up-cocking and comic catastrophe which brought it about.
Love Peter Drury but he lost me at "maverick".
Rangers are in the middle of a two week break.
Here's a two week long pod.
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I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me. They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely...
It is, however, beautifully apt that two of the three European Champion clubs never to have appeared in the final of another European competition, will play-off to do just that*. Villa the only club to become champions of Europe in their only European final to date.
*Steaua Bucharest
Always a miracle if anyone other than Os Três Grandes wins anything in Portugal so good luck to Braga in the Europa Lg.
But much as I'd love to see Palace win the Conference Lg, a second European trophy for Shakthar Donetsk would be a gorgeous Fuck You to a game plagued by the cancer of oligarchy.
Hilarious if the only European trophy heading to Madrid this season was brought home by Rayo Vallecano.
Sensational if the only European trophy heading to Germany was won by Freiburg.
Downright French if legendary inventor-underachievers France suddenly win two European trophies in one season.
England still in with a shout of becoming the first country to claim the three main European club trophies in one season since Italy in 1990.
Crystal Palace could become the third different London winner of the five year old Conference League.
If Palace win their semi the Conference League will be contested by two clubs appearing in their first European final.
20 years since this happened in any European final.
If Rayo beat Strasbourg in the other semi it would be England v Spain, like Boro v Sevilla in the 2006 Uefa Cup decider.
East Stand at the Wisla Krakow stadium which has hosted Shakhtar Donetsk's home European ties this season - it has blocks of red seats and blocks of blue seats, with "1906" picked out in white seats on the bottom tier.
Palace's first European semi-final away leg will be played at a stadium decked out in their colours, boasting a formation date just one year out.
But, of course, that's a million miles away from why it's unfair on Shakhtar.
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As with yesterday’s lurid BBC allegations about people falsely claiming to be gay, the problem isn’t whether possible fraud ought to be investigated but the complete paucity of evidence that this is a major issue, in comparison to the up-to-11 volume given to it by our national broadcaster 8/
Yup. Absolutely right that abuses of the system are investigated but the emphasis and tone of this "exposé" - by a politics rather than a news dept - is a Farage-friendly miasma of "Migrants are bad", "Domestic abuse claims are bogus" and "There's no such thing as gay!"
Sickening, shrill bias.
People asked how we got here, check out the drawing...
Trump attracts a certain type...
Feel that Forest and Villa - the first former European champs to meet in a domestic lower league match and the last European Champion Clubs' Cup winners to appear in the UCL group stage (Villa just last season, Forest not yet) - should be in line to contest a European final rather than a mere semi.
Arsenal or Atletico winning this season's Champions League would also mean brand new European club champions in successive seasons for the first time since Marseille in 1993 followed Barca in 1992
...which followed Crvena Zvezda in 91, so it was three straight then, also during big format changes.
Atletico Madrid are the only club to have lost more than two European Cup/Champions League finals without ever having won the competition.
If they or Arsenal (2006 runners-up) realise their biggest ambition it will mean first time European Champions in three out of the last four seasons.
One side of the Champs League quarter-finals draw was four clubs who'd won it 28 times between them. But on the other side Barca were the only former champs. Sporting have (still) never reached the final. This season's Conference & Europa Leagues could be won by clubs in their first European final.
Fitting that a purely instinctive touch decides #FCBRMA - that yellow was out the ref's pocket before he even realised he'd already booked Camavinga: A natural.
Millennial and Zoomer Atletico fans saying, "Oh man, not again"
Boomer and Gen X Atletico fans saying, "Hey, The alternative isn't much better"
To be fair this is a photograph of my actual doctor.
Hey.
Hey...
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Your antidote to the manosphere. There is a lot of testicle talk - and not just coz we nearly ballsed it up then displayed huge stones to turn it round - but most of this is about having cappuccino and cake in nice wee cafes.
