There was always a tendency for this forum to self-satirise, but this takes the biscuit.
We are going to Rome this week. Ludicrous fickledom is beyond tolerable. Honestly.
And when RDZ does go, his replacement will be in all likelihood someone we've never heard of!
:)
Thanks for the heads up re overnight service, I'm getting that now, though the sleepers are sold out. So Eurostar to Paris on Tuesday, Rome via Geneva Wednesday, overnight to Munich Fri evening, home Sat late, two full days in Rome, never been there :)
I have just gone through the match between the irresistible force (my Albion dedication) and the immovable object (my - entirely personal - decision to stop flying after 40 years of touring) and it's a draw after extra time and penalities. So I don't know what the fck to do!
It's not just...
Hallam FC, one of the world's oldest clubs, v Lincoln United last Saturday. 2-2, Lincoln won on penalties, nine scored, tenth saved by very well upholstered Lincoln keeper whose consumption of all the pies had been alleged all afternoon by the assembled throng. Fittingly it hit him in the beer...
I honestly don't see the point of this exercise. A supporters' group needs to be organised from the bottom up, not the top down. It should be independent, organised in its own right and listened to by the club because it comes up with its own initiatives which have the backing of at least part...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/26/ohio-jury-woman-miscarriage-abuse-corpse
This is where we are. It's beyond belief.
In my opinion the least worst solution for this is for Biden to rule by decree, suspending the (ludicrous, undemocratic, 19th century) electoral college and making...
POPPY'S POEM
‘What passing-bells for those who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.’
And so some lines to spike centenary prattle:
These words a sole survivor soldier’s son’s.
My father Bill, born in Victorian England...
The European Court of Justice has decided that FIFA and UEFA’s decision to block the European Super League is against EU competition law and - wait for it - ‘freedom to provide services’.
The ECJ has just ruled that capitalism has the ‘freedom’ to destroy the hopes and dreams of the fans who...