Give me Moyes and this squad, mid table football, different owners, and our real home (all eminently achievable with the budgets Premier League football and Sky afford us) and I can honestly say I would enjoy the experience of going to games more than I have this season and any other since we moved....

I think the timing can be tied to how hard many people are about to get ****ed by further squeezes to the cost of living. It's going to be brutal and two of the biggest hits (NI rise and energy bills) will come in to play just before the local elections in May. Quite handy for the tories to have a s...

Thing is with conceding goals is that you can often pick out pretty much anyone to blame for them, depending on how you're feeling on the day. Antonio loses the ball in the opposition penalty box and they break, let's say Lanzini gets brushed aside, Soucek misses a tackle, ball goes to the right wi...

They've got close by luck rather than judgement. Failed to back Billic and Payet in 2016 and the momentum built in 15/16 (whisper it, but from foundations laid by Allardyce) died within a year. They panicked that Moyes wasn't a cool appointment. They went trendy and nearly ruined themselves financia...

He's got 13 senior players who in most situations would be looking for work in League One and a bunch of academy players. No "siege mentality" alone is keeping that team within a sniff of safety. He might not have any potential as a Premier League manager but he and Rosenior are doing a da...

Clacton-ammer wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:05 pm

So yes/no NW?

I get the impression he's on the fence with this one.

I'm not going to post it here as it's horrendously libellous but there's a photo of a document with that MPs name on doing the rounds. Can see why he wouldn't fancy being threatened with embarrassing stories being released :lol: On a serious note, I would imagine threatening to mess with funding for...

SSN just said West Ham have money available and Moyes will be backed when he finds someone he wants.. What an odd statement to leak. Almost as though someone wants to make it look as though Moyes is causing a problem in some way. Can't be coming from Gold or Sullivan, everyone keeps praising them f...

sendô wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:40 pm

Who says it isn't?

Fair point. Usually happens to women regardless of colour as well.

Is anyone suggesting that when Corden and his mate made a **** sketch show there were shouts that they only got the gig because someone at the BBC was trying to tick some boxes?

Billy Hunt wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:50 pm

I'm inclined to agree with a lot of that, but if 8 goals and 4 assists by the turn of the year is under achieving, what return would you expect from Benrahma to raise him up a tad ?

He's been spoilt by watching Son for so many years to be fair to the kid.

Why isn't it a box ticking exercise when a white person you don't think is funny gets a BBC show?

Oko-Flex's goal last night was awesome. Sounds like he's been doing very well in the U23s. Can't help but worry if he could be this year's Nathan Holland though. Hopefully, will get a shot at first-team action soon. The defending and the goalkeeping is very ordinary. I would say highlights like tha...

I maybe wrong, but I think if a VOC is triggered by enough letters to the chairman of the 1922 Comm, even if the PM wins the vote, there's automatically another one 12 months on. (which is how they binned Teresa May) No. If he wins that he can't be forced into another one for 12 months (probably th...

Think the last Conservsative PM to face a Vote of no confidence was Margaret Thatcher. She was determined to stave off Michael Hesseltine. In the end, we got Johnny Major Let's not forget May going through a VONC from her own party. Lot of quotes from prominent MPs out there saying that even after ...

Ian Blackford savaged him when he saw him laughing whilst he was asking his question. Johnson is not fit to be PM. It's nothing to do with politics, he's simply brought shame on that great office. Who could have seen that a man sacked twice for lying, who doesn't know how many kids he has and who c...

Algeria-Ivory Coast tomorrow.

Hopefully that Ivorian midfield plays to their potential and wins the game for them. Nice little 3 week break for Said before our next league game.

That’s absolutely nothing to do with how money is generated. Well it is, you just don't agree. Without the public institutions we have all education, healthcare and security would have to be privately funded. We'd have a poorly educated and sickly population in an unsafe society (both from domestic...

Just saying you don't need one for the other. Of course, on the basis of "can one exist without the other?" you're right. But it would be **** wouldn't it? Do way with any entity that is run or administered by the state and we're back to workhouses, people dying in the streets and **** be...

SammyLeeWasOffside wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:55 am

Depends what you mean by state. Private companies existed and operated long before the public sector existed.

True. And the world was a far worse place. Unless you're suggesting we go back 100+ years and you are actually Rees-Mogg?

And if there was not state the private companies wouldn't have a society within which to operate.