I imagine BlueCo will have some sort of contractual t&c wizardry whereby they can ship him out to some mid table farmers league team in Europe without having to worry about a payout.

Is it? Looks more like a 43 year old ex Lib Dem trying hard to appear hip and relevant to a young demographic.

When do we reach the point that the mainstream media acknowledges the truth that the United States of America has become a banana republic.

The insurrectionist-in-chief is determined to leave in his wake a smoldering pile of rubble where America's democratic system once stood. An imperious monument to individual freedoms and the free market, reduced to ashes having been stripped bare by billionaire raiders.

Might as well have said Bruce.

I want to feel like this too, but the last few games have felt like surrender.

Salah absolutely stank the place out.

Artax!

100% - Michael Owen 2.0

Before getting into the total wank spouted from the leader of the free world, can we stop and acknowledge that the shit for brains idiot doesn't know the difference between the word "depicted" and his made up version "depictutred."

Of the illiterate, by the illiterate and for the illiterate.

I genuinely think it could be very calculated and with some targeted sales as well as some announcements like the new shirt sponsor, we could be about to see the club shift gear a bit, and a year out of Europe gives us the headroom to go a bit more bananas than the rest.

Am I the only one thinking that Newcastle not qualifying for Europe is an unspoken internal plan so that we get a full season of 85% (or more) SCR in its first year, as opposed to the clubs in Europe for whom it will be 70%.

If we aren't in the ECL then it's better not to be in Europe at all. #nufc

HARDEST FACT: None of your common sense, moral decency, appeals to reason or anything else that a moderately educated person might consider matters a jot when you have a large uneducated, unsupported, unappreciated underclass that vote for whatever the opposite of what clever people tell them to.

Unfortunately, according to a sizable and grossly under-educated proportion of the population of the United States, we can. Yee-haw and all that, yeah?

If I promise to work hard and pay my taxes can I come and live there please? It looks beautiful and you seem to have a significantly lower asshole quotient than the rest of the world.

It's easy to snipe from the wings when you're leading a party in opposition and lower in the polls to other parties. Not so easy to comment in a statesmanlike way when you're actually running the party of government. Especially in these circumstances.

The French have an idiom for this. They call it 'L'esprit de l'escalier." It translates as "staircase wit" and describes the feeling of thinking of the perfect thing to say just after the moment has passed (like people on a staircase or escalator, going in opposite directions.) I think it's perfect.

100%. I just don't know how to communicate it clearly to my friends who can't see that he's more Tory than Tory. The lack of an alternative is such a problem for the hard working in this country.

America, your time for what you see as self-confidence and what those outside can perceive to be an arrogance is coming to an end. Unless you, collectively, as a nation can put this to a stop to this you have become a pariah state on the world stage. #nomoretrump #ergaomnes

The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be the new 1936 Summer Olympics.

In addition to marquee signings, players in the 21-23 bracket who can improve and be sold on, there's a case to be made for getting the odd squad player at 29-31 on a free or very cheap with a 2-3 year contract who can fill out the squad. Old school perhaps, but it works.

Tabloids gonna tabloid.

How lovely and naive you sound. Like a 2nd year politics chap at ex poly (and I went to one so I'm not being sassy.) There's so much more at play and you either can't grasp it or you're deliberately avoiding it so they're won't think you're boring

FYI all Americans. Donald says law only matters when it suits him. You elected him as your representative. So the same applies to you. Take what you want, but good luck if you piss someone else off.

We should have just given him one of these:

He's very injury prone.

I'm sure they're all very happy, because heaven forbid what might have happened if a competent, educated, mentally sound woman of colour would have won the election. A nation gets the government it deserves. It's just a shame the rest of us have to suffer as a consequence.