diable rouge

Keep cool Daddyo...

Most things eventually come back into fashion NW, Lad Pad innit...

Just over two weeks to go...

He's not even pretending anymore. Outright Fascist/Authoritarian...

This is going to be big, very big...FOUR HUNDRED!!!

Good Leo, Bad Leo...

...we could score chocolate milk...such innocence! :)

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The BBC has treated Carole Cadwalladr quite badly > IMHO - There really is more to come here. > > (She's spent the last two years investigating Vote > Leave/Leave.EU and if it wasn't for her the latest > Electoral Commission investigation wouldn't have > started - she's still pushing the Russian links > but is treated like a maverick) It was Jolyon Maugham of the Good Law Project that went down the legal route to force the Commission to investigate, otherwise the Commission would've carried on ignoring Cadwalladr...

The BBC will say it's doing their job because a lot of Brexiters are saying it's pro-Remain, and vice versa with Remainers. The problem I have with the BBC in recent years is that it's created a rod for it's own back with it's post-referendum ideological need to provide so-called balance. That's fine up to a point, but not to the detriment that it stops the BBC doing it's journalistic duty of checking whether what's been said is factually correct. This from a journalism lecturer explains it better... If someone says it's raining and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fooking window and find out which is true. :)

I like John's updates, the EDF is the one-stop go to place for news, sport, weather, entertainment, even consumer advice on 'sophisticated' phone scams...:)

Tory Remainers now rebelling against the Mogglodyte rebels. The Gov could lose an amendment it capitulated on, but then be back where it started. Only in the Brexit madhouse...:)

Final Table... The normal game starts in a few weeks...:)

They used to say that a footballer reached their peak at around 28, often retiring by their early 30's. But with the introduction of sports science/improved diets etc players retire later nowadays...

Trumpy now saying the Sun's report was fake news. Oh the irony!...:)

No idea, but I remember Fergie once saying that young players are inconsistent and their game time needs to be managed well, so he would rest them. Southgate more or less played the same team except for the Belgium game, understandable as they were winning, but in hindsight some changes may have been beneficial. Even during the Croatia game in the second half he didn't see fit to change the formation. I felt that 3 central defenders against one Croatian striker was ok when we were knocking the ball around in the first half, but when the Croatians pressed in the second half, they panicked and started hitting it long. I think it would've helped to have gone to a flat back four and put an extra body in midfield which was getting overrun and stretched by Modric and co. Overall it's hard to criticise when they played well above expectations and became enjoyable to watch again...

May's invite has backfired on her big time...

Lots of rumours go around about Pep's teams and their 'nutrition'... ;-)

No, he was referring to whether they relaxed properly in their own downtime. Did the buzz of winning and getting through the stages, something new to them, sap some of their energy before they had even stepped onto the pitch? Not hard to imagine a lot of the young players would rather spend time on social media and gaming, rather than having an afternoon kip..:)

There are degrees of fitness though, Croatia looked much fitter in the second half despite being an older team and having played more football, including two energy sapping extra times and pens on the bounce. I think it was Gary Neville who said that England's young players may have been expending a lot of energy off the pitch, and haven't learnt how to relax properly between games...

Semi-Finals Table... All to play for, 6 points up for grabs, so anyone in top 6 can still win it. Saturday 14th July... Belgium v England (15.00) Sunday 15th July... France v Croatia (16.00)

Tham Luang activity...

I'd like to nominate Kyle Walker as the fall guy... :)

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well I'm convinced you're wrong fishbiscuits. > natty has been around the forum quite a while and > has displayed human traits a bot couldn't > replicate. natty is quite clearly a dating site bot that has malfunctioned when asked ''Did you score last night?''...

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If this is true and there are the numbers, then > she will have to face a vote of no confidence... > https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1015930389934886 > 913 > She would win it as there simply aren't enough > Brextremists to defeat her, but the much bigger > problem she could face is if they then start > voting against her in the HoC. Labour have already > said that the Chequers deal doesn't pass their > tests. The big irony in all this is that the > Brextremists are now relying on the EU to reject > the deal... This has already started... Re. Patel's Tweet, that's all they can claim now, Brexit has been totally debunked...

Shouty angry people will of course be easiest heard, but that doesn't necessarily mean they hold the majority view... The problem with Brexit is that it was only ever a concept. In it's simplest form one could say that it was primarily about leaving the EU. But we know there are many ways to do that. So you will always get ''It's not what I voted for!'' comments...usually in CAPS :)