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Why is it irony? You’re talking about a fan, not the football club. The FSA guy who is often in the media talking about the FSA, is a Newcastle fan, and has made it clear that he’s very uncomfortable with what’s happened at his club. Not sure if it’s the same guy but anyway, you shouldn’t...

They are really not. This isn’t your finest moment on the forum. I would personally greatly prefer an English manager as I think that’s what internationals are all about — gathering the best talents you have as players and coaches and comparing yourselves with other nations. There’s not a...

"Global laughter" is a silly exaggeration but I agree that an international tournament won by a coach of a different nationality devalues the victory, and goes against the entire point of international competition. I don’t give a toss what the global audience thinks but I personally would feel...

People are free to buy the chemically supermarket stuff if they want. Not sure what that has to do with someone preferring to make something healthier and cheaper at home?

Am I going nuts or do those two statements contradict each other? Yes of course the programme takes time (3-5 hours typically) but you don’t stand and watch it for that period. You load up the ingredients which takes 5 minutes then you get on with your life for a while. There is no ‘big...

I liked the Finnish shirts.

I fear we are finding the chap guilty without due process. He had a replica conker in his pocket which he’s fully admitted to, but explained that this was merely an amusing trinket that he, as a conker enthusiast, liked to carry around with him. It’s telling that the complainant was the bitter...

I don’t get the hyperbole about Uncle Sam's on NSC. Admittedly, I’ve sampled their wares only from the Eastbourne outlet, and possibly this is an outlier. It was decent enough, and I have been back a second time, but I couldn’t understand the hype I’m afraid. That said, I agree that the Amex...

Use a bread machine. If money is tight, you often see new-looking machines in charity shops for £20 or so. Time consuming? No. Takes 5 minutes to put the ingredients in. Certainly no need to prove dough in the oven, or anywhere else. The machine does it all. Yes, you do need to anticipate need...

For any other fans of Ben McIntyre and his superb books on espionage, WW2 etc, he has a new book out called Siege, about the Iranian embassy siege in 1980. Just bought the audiobook. Next on the list is Jane Eyre, arriving today. It cropped up in conversation the other day and I realised I’d...

Commiserations regarding the stress of looking after your mum. Yes, the E numbers and mysterious ingredients in bread was what finally stopped us buying it. Anything in plastic packaging is designed to be kept for several days so is likely to have preservatives. From an independent bakery...

The longer the use-by date, the more full of UPF, preservatives and other crap it's likely to have. I'm another make-my-own type. I tend to use my Panasonic breadmaker to make the dough, then I take it out, let it rise, and whack it in the oven. The whole process takes about 3.5 - 4 hours...

Why is that an irony?

You’ll have a grape time.

Great post @Orderabi - thanks for taking the trouble to offer such an interesting view. The great majority of Brighton fans are fair-minded but like football fans the world over, we all get a bit emotional and irrational occasionally, some more so than others. Please don’t be offended. Ferdi...

Fair enough, I never knew that. Good on ‘em.

I repeat that I think it very likely that the next Tory leader considered even vaguely electable by the electorate at large will be someone we've not yet heard of. When that will be, who knows?

So is it a burger van outside St Albans or an official Stoke City concession?

WTF is that?

The Basque Country in general is a wonderful place for a holiday. Hire a car and mooch around. Lots of art, nice food and wine.