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That's precisely the point, isn't it? I have no idea whether he'd think the thought that's being attributed to him, but I'm as sure as I can be that he wouldn't express it in those terms.

Probably gonna get ripped to shreds for even suggesting this, but it's a thought I've just had in relation to the whole "high line, but lack of pace" discussion above: Can Hinshelwood play CB? I don't know enough about his youth-team career to know whether it's a string he has in his bow (he's...

My answer to this used to be a very confident "yes, of course" until I started reading about how it works in Canada

Funny, all their fans on Xitter keep denying there's a rivalry (even as they pray for us to lose every game). But then something called the "Chelsea Chronicle" goes and writes this: Chelsea host rivals Brighton on Saturday afternoon...

Many, many years ago I spent a year working as an MP's researcher as part of my degree course. It was a placement kind of deal, so most of the arrangement was done by the university rather than by me. I only vaguely knew of the MP I'd end up working for. Her husband was her office manager, an...

Seems the purpose of hyphens is one of those things that's being forgotten by all but the most pedantic grammarians. Technically, the only time you should see "free kick" hyphenated is when it's used as an adjective before a noun. So "he scored a free-kick goal" is fine (if clunky), but it...

Fixtures https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/threads/possible-bloom-investment-in-hearts.409667/

As much as I love this goal, it's a bit sad that the all the clips of it miss out the astonishing build-up.

Literally never used a screen protector on any of my devices. I can never get them on right, so I stopped even trying years and years ago. I've had loads of devices with screens in that time. My first smartphone was a Sony Ericsson P910i, and I've had various iPhones and iPads since then as...

The UK has a piece of secondary legislation called "The Pensions Increase (Pension Scheme for Keir Starmer QC) Regulations 2013" that exempts him, and only him, from being taxed on his pension savings after the first £1 million. Worth remembering, I think, when the reports of pensioners...

This. And I think "who starts" is less important under FH than it was under RDZ, because we score more late goals now so are less reliant on taking an early lead. I also think FH makes better, more intelligent use of substitutes than RDZ usually did. In some games it'll make more sense to start...

Lol I left the civil service 15 years ago and this wasn't even remotely true then, let alone now. Just an out-of-date cliche regurgitated from the kind of tabloid that sets out to leave its readers stupider than when they started reading it.

But Pedro's not his surname though (we had this in another thread). Calling him Pedro is like calling JPvH "Paul". Damn it, Troy's right, we've gotta sell one of them just to clear up the confusion.

I actually didn't mind going to the office before the pandemic. I was at the same desk in the same room every day with the same bunch of people who (mostly) became good friends over the years, as well as colleagues. Since then I've changed jobs and the nature of in-office work has now changed...

Agent Goodnight is ready for them (Edit: Seriously, I hope Buonanotte scores the winner against them, it'd be so much fun)

Yeah, I mean I think we were probably interested, I just don't think the interest was reciprocated even a tiny bit. As I recall, the reports linking us to Nunez happened just before he moved to Benfica from Almeira (in Spain, not sure if I'm spelling the club name right). So it wasn't a case of...

The points about the standards of the Portugeuse league are interesting. I must admit I know very little about it, outside of the names of their 4-5 most famous clubs. But I note that another "one who got away"* for us with experience in Portugal is Darwin Nunez. And while I like him a lot as a...

"Anything that is potentially detrimental to the Albion"?! Anything? Really? And it only has to be "potentially" damaging? Cos some people might think that being relentlessly negative about the club and its players is "potentially detrimental to the Albion". Not me of course, but some people...

We should be using this guy's story every and any time we're competing with Chelsea for a player in the future.

Did Sven used to sing our anthem? Or Capello? Genuinely can't recall. In any case, Carsley's Irish as far as football goes. I don't think we should demand foreigners sing our anthem, that's just pig-headed chauvinism.