That's a powerful motivator.

It's always amazing.

Teams that have been relegated sometimes play with more freedom as they have nothing more to lose...🫣

This what happens when you're given free reign and don't tow the line.

Rejoin is coming Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future

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I had the same.

Grim

Idiots.

Everyone has a part to play.

It's pure speculation, as usual.

This is the new normal.

Bergvall is like that too. He is missed.

The game's gone.

He contradicts himself.

Yep

Blinded by the lights – driving in the LED era: the Stephen Collins cartoon When it comes to headlights, there’s been a bit of dip

Whose bright idea was this?

New Year Office Chitchat How was your Christmas? you ask and I think of the bloodstained rug and the silent scraping of the spade in the garden at midnight and the wash wash washing of my hands and the dreams, those endless dreams which haunt the night-time and smudge their thumbprints on the day to come and I reply Super, thanks. Yours?

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.

On a related note, here's a list of films that would be improved by combining them...

5. While You Were Sleeping with the Enemy
4. Three Men and a Baby Driver
3. He’s Just Not That into You, Me and Dupree
2. There’s Something About Mary Poppins
1. Pumping Iron Man

Last-minute gig idea! A knock-off VHS that looks a bit like a classic Disney cartoon:

No. It's called a backpfeifengesicht.

Maybe that makes it more likely (not that I particularly want it to happen).

Ronaldo dines with Donald for glamour portion of grotesque Saudi-funded spectacle | Barney Ronay A pension-pot World Cup is looming for CR9 and with Donald Trump in the White House and Mohammed bin Salman at his back, it seems this is now a safe space

There is so much to admire in the writing of this piece, in marked contrast to the subject matter. Lovely pay-off too (ironically).

X2

Doesn't help anything.

😃

Their bounce from the start of the season has definitely gone. Like you say, seen it before. Sick of seeing it.

There has been much talk from the coach about players being brave. When is this planned to start?

Maybe ten of them? 🤔

I think we have players who can be a lot better than they are currently showing. One of the things that can point to is coaching.