Brilliant discussion on referees. You guys have changed my whole attitude to them. As you say, it’s about consistency within games, taking the temperature of a game and letting the players win it - it is not about the major incidents. And I agree with you all about the Haaland goal

“What dumb leftists don’t understand is you can’t implement the policies you want if you don’t get power in the first place”

Mine is that the fourth plane in 9/11 was shot down by the US airforce to minimise the damage

I was starting to feel ok until listening to this!

…what adverts they can run, they don’t tell us what we can publish. Admittedly this is an old fashioned view these days and not one we can really stand by.

I thought that apology was really good. As a cishet man, it’s not my place to say that, but I do appreciate when an apology seems genuine. As do the ad thing - as an editor (admittedly not of national), there has been a feeling of editorial and sales being completely separate. We don’t tell them…

I think we probably need to start earlier and breed a middling Scandinavian Premier League player with a middling Scandinavian athlete. Is Matthias Jensen currently single? Admittedly, this might be a bit too long term for our win now strategy

In terms of recently, Mosquera was superb scouting but yes, still defensive. The likes of Isak (before he exploded) don’t come round too often, in fairness

I'd say Saliba, Odegaard, Gabriel, Timber and even Martinelli were examples of great scouting. Even club has the ones that got away, and every club has duds too

Olly Robins must have just really loved working with Mandelson. He must have known that Starmer wanted to be kept fully abreast of all developments and would have said no straight away if he would known Mandelson was a bit dodgy. But Robins was just desperate for Mandelson to work in the FCO.

Ah, apologies - I wasn’t aware

Sorry wait what. The original poster said 'it would be like Hitler writing for the JC'. Two weeks later, the JC get someone who said 'Hitler was right' (ref: You) writing for them. It's not comparing him to Hitler, but it is horribly ironic, if nothing else.

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This guy must have just really really really loved working with Mandelson

Maybe (probably). After today I think we will too. So it becomes a shoot out. With our fixtures and our players back, I feel we can do it

Before today I thought Arsenal wouldn't win the title with a defeat today. Now I'm not sure. Played really well today. What a difference to have Havertz and Ødegaard back together.

I was resigned to losing today. The manner of the defeat was the main thing to me. Next Saturday is massive. Bigger than today almost. We don’t win that, or get a jammy 1-0, I’m saying title over. We play like we did today with either Saka or Timber back, I’m feeling confident. We don’t do it easy

This. I think we can do it

I agree but I think it might be his fitness. I weirdly feeling more confident about the title now than I was at the start of the day

In danger of becoming an Odegaard fanboy, he may not score or assist these days but we look so much better with him in the team. We looked like Arsenal today and this one could have gone either way

We played more like ourselves. Title not over

Two equal teams for me (I think we are a fair bit better when both at full strength)

This half is a reminder that we are a good team

Delighted by this. Worried about the general fitness though

When I saw this pop up, I thought it was genuine news. I’m glad it is not (for now)

Which big player’s injury will we get to find out about in 35 minutes time? My guess is Rice, but I also think Saliba might be a good shout

Yeah, that’s a fair point. When you say stealing joy, Chelsea are the first club that comes to mind. And that might be because they were the originals. Maybe the fact that I am indifferent to City is an even worse indictment. We are just accepting of this evil empire ruling over us

I don’t blame them for this. City are just not a real club in my mind. I have only indifference to them. When I do talk to their fans, it’s always about pre 2010. Even they know that there is something not real about their post takeover achievements

Still true

Just as I thought I couldn’t hate Fabian Hurzeler more. Where’s your free flowing “football the right way” today you little prick