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Worth remembering that the left (me included, I would imagine) spent most of the 80s calling Thatcher a fascist. And yet it took her own side to get rid of her. Allowing them to win yet another general election. I am not sure that calling Trump a fascist will help any of those floating voters...

Time I put Crodo on ignore. He's lost it.

Yes. It isn't fair, is it?

Oh dear. I suspect that has probably just lost her 5 million votes. Enough to swing it. Does she really think such an utterance will persuade Republican voters to switch sides, or entice floating votes away from Trump? Have she no political nous?

Radio 5 did a good piece live from Georgia today (the state, not the (state of a) nation). Lots of dull sensible folk declaring a lukewarm preference for Trump, based around fairly nuanced economical considerations, notwithstanding the man's nutty utterances. I could easily fulminate about how...

Crodo. He can be quite amusing at times, hence not on ignore. But I'm likely to review my options at some point, given some of the recent soppy-bollocks thread bouncing. Edit: after now seeing a Mrs Brown's boys thread bounced by.....yes, him, I have now put Crodo on ignore. :shrug:

I salute your indefatigability.

The sound at the time was dominated by those who released music that sounded different. The Clash. The Damned. I liked the Pistols but Jones and Matlock were into 70s British pop rock and it shows. Anarchy in the UK did an awful lot of heavy lifting, but it was hardly archetypal 'punk rock'.

Apparently so. My irony filter doesn't work.

With apologies, are you saying that it is OK to have a foreign coach or not? I am now thinking that you don't mind. I was under the impression you were concerned about the Australians laughing at us. Sorry, I am not good an picking up on irony in the written word.

This is key for me. I have nothing against the Germans. But I don't want Our Boys being dictated to by a bloke with a comb-over. Enough's enough.

Yes, let's go back to the 1970s when English football ruled the world*. "Their ain't no black in the Union Jack". *Er, I mean the Home Championship. Look at that magnificent record: You're gonna get your fuckin' 'eads kicked in. Fact.

You are not following the logic. If England had appointed Lampard the ONLY reason would have been because he was the only Englishman with a modicum of management experience willing and available to take on the job. He has a track record of abject failure as a manager. His appointment would...

I'm really enjoying how much this appointment is making people angry.

The day I give a tiny shit about what Australians think is the day I book in for a brain CT scan. I have spent 35 years working with Australians and far too many of them spend their entire time trying to prove themselves to the English, like an over keen little lad who wants to join a gang...

Mendelian inheritance? Yes, ignored at the time, like so many discoveries and ideas.

The voice is very irritating. Life imitating AI? The content (to me as a scientist) is both trivial and important. Important because even scientists fall into confirmation bias when it suits them. Trivial because the scientific method is the only way of seeking 'truth'.

You do have a point. However, it is next to impossible to compare managers who follow in a sequence. So it is possible to paint the Sven era black or beige, depending on whim. Bit like politics. Was Thatcher 'better' than Blair? Possible to spin it either way. But England management is not as...

In all seriousness, and after my having a little fun about it all, I entirely agree with you.

Indeed. But the chances of the conniption fit happening after a trophy win are higher than our getting anywhere near a trophy during Beheaddie's nine year tenure, and titanic battles with the likes if Malta and The Faroe Islands in the third tier of the EUFA Nations League.