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Apparently they did a draw for this earlier in the evening. But what was weird was that the teams in Europe couldn’t be drawn against each other. Not sure if that’s a new thing this year?

That’s fine. But then he has to give up on playing a front 3 who stay high the whole time. He can’t have both

The start to the season is giving me Southgate vibes. Players are definitely better than they are showing. And seem to be playing massively within themselves and without any freedom to go and do anything remotely risky. Which makes us hugely predictable. And very very dull.

Very disappointing today. Better team for first 25 minutes but that goal completely killed us. I do think that if we want to play 3 up front then we will need to change to 4 at the back. With the current system the 2 in the middle are being completely overrun.

It’s a fair point. I guess for me I’m just not sure I consider something a sport where the entire outcome is simply who likes something more.

Just got in from the pub. Nothing says Olympic spirit quite like Snoop telling us to drop it like it’s hot in front of a scantily clad woman twerking in a micro bikini

Totally agree. Anything subjective should be out

Rooney already working his magic

It certainly wasn’t perfect today but I thought it was a decent performance. When they closed off Sheehan we didn’t just play keep ball between the centre backs. Our forwards and wide players were making good runs and we found them with some threatening longer balls. Collins, Schon, McAtee and Matete all look good. And that Baxter save was something else. 3 points. Job done.

2-tier…… Four men are being sentenced at Leeds Crown Court over their roles in recent disorder Sameer Ali, 21, is sentenced to 20 months in prison for affray, while Adnan Ghafoor, 31, is sentenced to 18 months for the same offence, plus an additional 12 months for breaching a suspended sentence The two men, attending an anti-racism demonstration while an anti-immigration protest was also happening in Leeds, took part in a group attack involving in excess of 10 men the judge said

Heartbreaking and heartwarming.

Hopefully some serious jail time for the idiots on both sides will help calm the situation and allow some serious discussions about issues which are clearly worrying a large number of people.

Those are brilliant. I haven’t got an artistic bone in my body and my son is exactly the same. My daughter on the other hand is a great artist. It seems like some people just have natural flair

I don’t know what you mean by your last question? I still don’t know what should happen once I’ve decided enough is enough. Every atrocity is one too many for me and any perpetrators must always feel the full force of the law. I have many Muslim friends who I would consider to be way better citizens than the knuckle draggers we’ve seen representing their country over the past few days. Nothing will ever make me think that we should tar an entire group of people with the same brush.

They need to be tracked down and punished.

Clearly I misunderstood. Sorry. If someone could let me know what the ultimate goal of the protestors and the supporters of the protest is then that would be great please.

Well according to some on this forum, the current uprising won’t be stopping until the country is only inhabited by pure whites. I suspect the threat of being thrown out of your own country might get people’s backs up.

“Bolton’s Cindy Ngamba made history today by guaranteeing the Refugee Olympic Team a first Paris Games medal as she reached the women’s boxing 75kg semi-finals.” On the same day that we had people smashing up their own City to say that immigration is wrong. I know who I would rather have as my neighbour.

Well it’s not burning people alive

And this seems way too simplistic an approach for me

Thanks very much. As you say, it feels a more difficult one to judge given they were born a woman.

Can’t seem to find a good explanation anywhere of the situation with the boxer. They’re obviously identifying as a woman now but have they confirmed whether they were born as a man or woman? Or is it unknown?

I’m sorry but anyone who isn’t simply condemning last night’s rioting should take a very long hard look at themselves.

Spare a thought for my son. Over the past 2 months he's been involved in 7 finals. Lost every one of them. Brutal. We're definitely ready for a break!

it’s not as though Kane looked just sightly off the pace. He looked completely fucked from minute one of the first match. We know he’s dropped deep in the past but would then bust a gut to get back up with play. This tournament he was dropping deep but then unable / unwilling to sprint at all. How Southgate and Kane himself allowed it to continue is ridiculous.