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Big Wednesday fan here. Kieran Lee has been one hell of a player for us. I’d actually say he’s been our best player since we got relegated from the premier league in 2000. Only problem is that we ruined him by overplaying him when he was injured. Had a bad hip injury that nearly finished him. A central midfielder that can do everything and makes the game look easy. He’s a box to box player that links the play between midfield and attack. At his pomp around 2015-2018 was one of the best players in the championship and could easily of played in the premier league. Often got unnoticed by other fans and the media but what a player he was. I hope he keeps fit for you guys and he shows off how good he is. His bad injury is a problem tho. Good luck to you guys and hope you get promoted this season.

It means a lot more to the kids than simply playing football. They learn so many life skills being part of a team going out every week trying their best for themselves and eachother. Its more than just a game.

I think you know better laddie. My accent has grown stronger down here and I find myself purposely talking with more Boltonian slang me owd cocker (just for the look of "WTF did he just say?" on their faces). Bolton to the core - so much so they gave me this nickname down here. They tell me I never shut up about Bolton but I can't see it myself

Jesus Christ, when will normally intelligent folk realise this? Not only that, we are ex members leaving the club who live right next door. Fucking swap roles and think about it. It is simple politically and economically so why anyone now thinks we are somehow going to come out of this is beyond me. John Redwood ffs? Bloody hell BD, thought you would have better ammo than that!

Full on Scottish me nowadays. Ken what I mean?

Aye, we are going for operations without any anaesthetic if we extend your analogy. if you follow John Redwood you get what you deserve.

I’m pretty sure we wanted much more than a Canada / Japan free Trade agreement Parking the fact that those deals have a lot of quotas I’m pretty sure that they don’t include Services which is obviously massive for us, particularly Financial Services So in reality we wanted a cross between a Switzerland / Norway style deal crossed with a Canada / Japan style deal. But the EU would never entertain allowing us to dominate European Financial Services without giving up other things (fish for a start, regulatory alignment another) It’s not the EU’s fault that they won’t let us have our cake and eat it, they said from the start, no A la Carte. Anyone saying they have moved the goalposts has had their fingers in their ears for 4 years

John Redwood? 😆

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Lost me at 'John Redwood'😀

The Gypsy v the Darkie. What a night for the racists. I think David Price does them both at the same time

Yes, ONS like you asked him to provide. We get it, you want to see something that causes issues, that’s your choice. Most want match-day to return to normal, you want to see something so that you can then run to the police and tell tales because you think for some reason that you’re clinton Baptiste and know why fans will be booing. Please let us know where you’re sitting so we can see who the childish melt is going to the police seconds after KO.

Get your tissues out you bedwetting pansies 😢

my football club. oino

Hanging over seccy bridge waiting for the steam train great 👍

I said, in my opinion, he would've gotten less shit if he was white. You've then barrelled in making half a dozen posts calling him a killer (false) and that he was somehow using a mid-sized football club in a small town in England, to advance his career (absurd). There's a middle ground somewhere in between having to like someone, and hating him for reasons that are mostly made up.

Sure it will be; already have had variants over here (from Spain) and no concerns.

its that the one only open at weekends

Khan was disliked by many before he ran anyone over. Because his dad dyed his hair. Probably.

Not sure what article you posted but many on here have said go for the linked arms, you know the stance that’s doesn’t cause any problems. For some reason you seem to want to stick with the kneeling which is causing problems. I think that says more about you than anyone else. With regards to ignoring posts, did you get round to posting them ONS stats that BC has repeatedly asked for?

I think we do on the whole which is why something like Millwall became such a big news story. The UK is a great, secular and tolerant nation overall, we have an weird case of exceptionalism that if you question some accuse you of trying to run the country down. Lots to applaud, lots to fix as well.

No comment In other news, I’ve always been a big fan of ex Sheff Weds midfielder Kieran Lee 😁

Ooops 🙂

Fred Dibnah - first series in the 70's. Nothing is more Bolton than that.

He’ll keep them up

This is my profile name on Grindr 😲

Oh dear. My missus will be appalled that I communicate with people who do not understand the appropriate preparations of specific types of meat. 😘😎😆

Are those that fantasise about rape, therefore rapists ?

This argument about other countries following our lead if we leave with a good deal doesn’t add up to me. We were/are the second highest contributor after Germany. Most of the countries are net beneficiaries. Only 10 contributors. I can’t see France or Germany wanting to exit so it doesn’t leave many. We’ve always been a bit remote from Europe because of the geography and our relationship with the US. Politically, I doubt many in Europe would be sad to see us go. Without a deal, many in Europe would be very worried economically.

this i coached grass roots to help out; my ladcouldnt play, but they needed someone. none of the parents were prepared to step up, which was disappointing. i took that team to two promotions in three seasons, and handed them over when another coach came free. in that time, i hoped i taught them to respect officials, opponent and themselves. i asked them to work hard, persevere, and not to just accept defeat. i gave them responsibilities, confidence, and belief in themselves. i brought the quiet kids out of their shells and developed theless able, including them where they would normally pushed out. a grass roots coach is a selfless volunteer: i got more rewards from that than any paid coaching i've ever done

Even if you know theirs is the first time this week and yours is the second time this evening.

He’s an 80 seat majority, he’s called their bluff, they can’t manipulate the situation in their favour, yes he comes across as a bumbling, unkempt maverick but they know they are in a fight, we couldn’t be in a stronger position to get a good deal.

Its a term used by those that believe they are superior to others. It has never been used in an inoffensive manner.

https://amp.economist.com/open-future/2019/11/22/climate-freedom-and-denial-what-green-thatcherism-teaches-us-today Thatcher thus became the first prominent political leader to warn the world about the danger of climate change, and to outline a strategy to deal with it. The timing of her speech, as communism was crumbling, was no coincidence: she cast climate change as the successor menace to socialism and nuclear annihilation.

You’ve swallowed some bullshit.

When there is a very clear end goal in sight there can be nothing dystopian. We want to be a global, sovereign nation championing free trade. That way lies prosperity for everyone. The benefits won't be seen on January 2 but they will in good time. This is a historic moment. We are freeing ourselves of the last of the shackles. I only wish the hard-working people of Europe from Ireland to Poland could free themselves too. I recommend that you read the piece and subscribe to the Telegraph were common sense and logic on this topic is dispensed on a daily basis.

Charles Moore in full. As ever he nails it. The EU and Mr Barnier are playing the ultimate game of hard-ball, but it isn't going to work, as Charles explains. We are out of the EU. In 18 days we will be free of all its tentacles and a full sovereign nation state once more. There will be bumpy elements of the transition but no change is straightforward - even if it moving house or changing jobs. The long-term future of this country is exciting. Sadly for the fine folk of the 27 historic and proud nation states that make up the EU, theirs is mired in a protectionist racket, stifling regulation and kafkaesque bureaucracy. If they want to do business for mutual economic good (ie the mindset that most rational people and nation states would adopt) great. If they want to keep us in the orbit of their self-defeating dystopian regulations the answer is "non", "nein", nao", "nie" I am proud of the nation state I am from and wish it to prosper. My affiliations are not with an over-weening bureaucratic monolith with a pompous bureaucracy with thinly disguised imperial ambitions beyond its "borders". By Charles Moore: Negotiations are the way each side works out what the other really wants. That is obvious. Slightly less obvious, but equally important, is the fact that they also force each side to work out what it wants. In most Brexit matters, Boris Johnson is guided by the principle that one should study Theresa May’s example – and then avoid it. Although she publicly stated early on that “No deal is better than a bad deal”, Mrs May accepted the framing and sequencing of negotiations which Brussels proposed. She did not know what she wanted. So the EU understood from the start that she did not mean what she said. A bad deal was therefore inevitable, and duly arrived. That is why she was forced from office. As foreign secretary, Boris watched these events unfold, and resigned. He then became party leader and Prime Minister. He got the first half of a Brexit deal, partly by insisting that no deal was a genuine possibility. He resoundingly won the ensuing general election by saying “Get Brexit done”. That victory was a year ago today, and tomorrow is the deadline for agreement – or lack of it – between Britain and the EU over the Brexit second half, our future trading relationship after we leave the single market and customs union on December 31. It is not credible that Boris will use the weekend of the anniversary of his victory to capitulate. Cynical though one must be about some of his promises, doubtful though one sometimes feels about his strength of purpose, such a surrender would not make sense. It would end his political career. I must admit that when the Prime Minister flew off for dinner with Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday, I feared he was breaking his “Don’t do a Theresa” rule. It reminded me of her embarrassing dawn flight to Brussels three years ago to “seal a deal” that could not work. Boris has additionally promised to fly anywhere – Berlin, Paris – which might help. Are such journeys really necessary? It would be better if he stayed put and avoided getting into a compromising position alone in a room with any EU leader. His leading officials, Lord Frost and Oliver Lewis, are long-marchers from Vote Leave days. They know what they are doing. But so far, no harm has come of his journey. And he does, to be fair, have an interest in showing the wider world that he will not be the one to collapse the talks. Compared with the latter half of 2019, Boris is, on the European issue, in an oddly strong position today. Then, he had no reliable majority in a Parliament that was trying to usurp executive power. Most MPs opposed a genuine Brexit, but his party members, and the original decision of 17.4 million voters, supported it. He was in the tightest of corners. He got out of it with the Withdrawal Agreement which the EU – to many people’s surprise – granted him. It contained problems for the future relationship, notably about Northern Ireland, but it did the trick. Now, the Prime Minister has an 80-strong majority. His reputation may have been dented by erratic policy over Covid-19, but no one else within or outside his party is about to take over, and it is four years until the next general election. There has been more fuss about Ireland, and the Government’s threat to break international law to defend our customs territory; but this week, the clouds parted, revealing an Irish rainbow. The EU conceded on the Protocol: it will ensure that nearly 100 per cent of goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will pay no tariffs. As it had secretly planned, the Government duly withdrew the relevant clauses from the UK Internal Market Bill. In the current negotiations, Boris enjoys what could almost be called a luxury. Of the three possibilities – a real deal, no deal, and the deal currently proposed by Michel Barnier – he would be happy with either of the first two. He would prefer the first, because a deal would bring more peace and less disruption than no deal at all, but he is content to accept the logic of no deal if a bad one is the alternative. The one thing he cannot say is that he will accept automatic EU control of any new trading rules which it may decide to make, and of our fish. As both sides agree, our decision to leave the EU is a decision to diverge, not converge. We haven’t got this far out only to go back in later. The EU negotiators, and especially the French, may have reckoned, as they hardened their positions ten days ago, that the fear of no deal would force Britain to back down at the last minute. If so, that was a psychological misreading. Perhaps I am being oversanguine, but I think the public see this. They think – and in essence, if not in detail – they are right, that the key decision has been made. They are irritated by delay. Literally years of scare stories about no deal may have depressed the spirits, but they have also vaccinated people against what might come. The problems are real, but not eternal. The preparations, though still not good enough, are better advanced. It is not going to be pleasant for us – or, indeed, for the French – if President Macron tries to coerce local officials in the Pas-de-Calais to impede our goods, but it is hardly going to rekindle our enthusiasm for EU membership. Most Conservative MPs see all this. Perhaps they cannot have their cake and eat it, but they know which side their political bread is buttered. Besides, they have not got the mechanism to reject no deal, even if they wanted to. It is what will happen if nothing else does. Politically, the situation reminds me of the miners’ strike in 1984-85. Appalling and prolonged though the contest was, the most dangerous bits for the Government were whenever it seemed to wobble on the principles at stake. It was a fight it just had to win. As in that struggle, Labour MPs today, under their fairly new leader, are visibly confused about which line to take. Even hard-line Remainers, after years of fighting talk, are now becoming retrospective and recriminatory. In a recent article in the Guardian, Lord Mandelson lamented “the price [we] in the pro-EU camp will pay for trying, in the years following 2016, to reverse the referendum decision rather than achieve the least damaging form of Brexit”. In other words, they lost quite a long time ago. What of EU leaders themselves? In the longer term, they would do better to be flexible. The United Kingdom, even outside, will remain a major market for the continentals. The sooner that can be maximised, you would have thought, the better. There are more intractable problems for them to consider – Covid, lack of growth, mutualised debt, quarrels with Poland and Hungary, threats from China. At present, however, the protectionist club seems to feel it must punish the British rebel. The mood is brittle, as if the EU fears that an independent Britain could actually succeed, thus exposing its own economic and governmental model. It is acting like an empire that grows old and starts losing colonies, rather than an internationalist model for more backward nations. Which only confirms we are right to leave altogether.

They already currently patrol our waters 275 days per year, more important to negotiations is the figure of 700k European jobs at risk with a no deal and that’s on top of already high rates of unemployment in many EU countries. Hold our nerve and a deal is coming.

No way bolty. We all have our disagreements and debate, some can handle it and some cant... Dont you be going anywhere my friend. Be a sad day if you ever fucked it off. Theres nobody Id be happy to see fuck it off.

Bolty I reckon we'd get along - I love the 'oo, bought a Lambretta at 17. Love BWFC. And a shared admiration for Italian girls. As long as politics were off the menu we'd get on fine.

Falling Down is on Netflix. A cult classic