Yes I imagine their hope was pay the fine get out & maybe family could follow. They could see the future but maybe the future was worse than they imagined.

I started listening but took a break will check in later. Watching Anfield TV aka SkySports when I saw 11 minutes I knew it was happening as I’m sure many others did. Our squad isn’t strong enough the CF position has been a chain all season. Barry was disastrous after Beto had put a good shift in.

Thank you I was totally unaware of this but how did the men make what seems heart breaking decisions to leave family? Where they primarily single and did the worst happen to those they left behind?

Hijack the moment get cheap publicity?

Never mind that it smacks of grift & bribery.

There was a big difference between that performance and the Brentford and earlier defeats. Fans surely know we need key positions filling especially CF. The inability of Barry to make any impact was significant it allowed them to build some momentum just when we’d lost Branthwaite.

In the second half was it Beto who got penalised for ‘shoving’ a defender in the same spot that KDH was barged over? No irony from Sky commentators of course. It reminded me of the game v Arsenal where the tone of the commentary was dictated by the in-house team on both occasions that wasn’t us !

Amateur - hopelessly out of his depth but no doubt looking after family interests.

It’s an attention grab.The opposition can say ‘the maths don’t work’ in which case, probably Tory and Labour, they start a race to the bottom on numbers or they damn it for what it is the view of the progressives. Meanwhile Reform avoid scrutiny on just about everything and Farage grifts.

In derby games you could argue the mentality has been a problem for 60 years give or take a few seasons. The importance of a CF able to hold up play was never more obvious as Barry was shocking. Losing Branthwaite a big blow. We didn’t deserve that ending but over the years they usually make us pay.

The man is wrecking the global economy. There is no ‘sorry but’ just arrogance. If he stays put for another 32 months then who knows what the bill will be and how many years it might take if ever to recover. It’s not a trivial issue that can be explained by domestic politics. It’s a nightmare.

This is MAGA influence isn’t it? The aliens are in a warehouse in Area 51, the more extreme Kennedy conspiracies, the fake Moon landing, the deep state, the Covid trickery. My guess is they all match Reform candidates.

The Mail lost any fitness to be taken seriously a long time ago.

As a foreigner would it be reasonable to suggest that the US is now at its lowest ebb in 250 years? The men standing behind him seem to represent a rotten, decaying, putrid carcass just washed up on the shore.

Where does that leave the leadership of the Republican Party? They are happy to leave the nuclear deterrent with a senile old man who has no idea what right or wrong is?

I think the story at the time was that we nicked him from under Shankly’s nose as they really were expecting him to sign. Catterick was very stealth like he got deals done and Moores backed him up.

He’s probably a more sensible Reform candidate.

I remember in Sheffield c1983 a queue around the block for a Tesco store 3m unemployed yet the public decided a war against a tinpot regime was worth 5 more years of Thatcher!

It was terrible judgement appointing Mandelson, even without Epstein his track record was sufficient in itself to debar him. Did Starmer tell the civil servants I want him at all costs whatever the vetting process? It isn’t credible that no politician knew or that Starmer never asked.

The original 12 should have a separate badge to that effect. When some talk of ‘football’s coming home’ this is the history although I recall there were large numbers of Scots who played in the EFL.

Given Brexit is such disaster and that Trumpism is a nightmare the really weird thing is the willingness of voters to even think of voting Reform!

A racket, Infantino and Trump what did we expect?

Yes I think that’s correct what worried me is how cleverly Farage manipulated his false YouGov narrative. I truly despise him and his cohorts.

There’s probably a bottom line that neither Tories or Labour will fall below . However, aren’t More in Common usually positive for Reform? This isn’t a good look for them.

The staggering thing is that people having seen how populists destroy countries most notably Trump and use power for self economic advancement and seeing Farage for what he is still say they’ll vote Reform. Just don’t vote if you hate the system but don’t vote the arsonists in.

Unfortunately this is meat & drink to Reform.

Why in the name of any god you choose the Scots would vote for this fraud and grifter. The evidence is out there in your face. Don’t be stupid like the English wake up!

One of the worst periods in the club’s history so not an easy time to play for the Blues. Condolences to his family.

The level of grift is unbelievable it’s not as if what’s happening in the US is hidden? The criminality there is factored in yet these grifters are getting away with the same. From GB News to Bitcoin to Nazi candidates to Farage and his lies. We need to get this poison out of our political system.

Trump does an act doubling up as Caesar and King Herod at the same. it’s all a bit too much for old JD to get his little head around. As for the little ‘joke’ just another normal day where POTUS makes a joke intending to insult millions and claims that everyone else got the joke wrong!