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Reply | Iran is falling to pro democracy protestors
at 09:41 7 Jan 2026
I've dealt with a few Iranians over the years, but they were mostly Christians doing a runner from the regime. Nice people. Some of the womenfolk were stunners. |
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Reply | The Truth Comes Out on Maccabi Fans Ban
at 09:40 7 Jan 2026
Probably nobody.
Advancement in the civil service has little to do with ability and connections these days. You just need to be able to say the right things in your application and at interview in order to hit the buzzwords they're looking for. Hard to imagine it being much different in the Police. Learn to play the system and you can go a fair way.
Coming across more like a social worker than a copper and doing your best to "maintain community cohesion" is probably also quite useful. |
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Reply | The Truth Comes Out on Maccabi Fans Ban
at 07:30 7 Jan 2026
It's also probably worth stating again that we're pretty insulated from the worst of it down here. In places like London, the Midlands, parts of Yorkshire and elsewhere in the North, tensions are escalating. |
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Reply | The Truth Comes Out on Maccabi Fans Ban
at 07:15 7 Jan 2026
The Chief Constable is a fast track type with a degree in Geography. Spent only 18 months as a street cop. This is the sort of person running Police Forces these days.
Whole system is rotten and has been since at least 1997. Again, Blairism and the refusal of the Goverments between 2010 and 2024 to rip the whole mess up by its roots and start again have led us to this point. |
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Reply | Former Swansea City boss reveals alarming '£100m black hole' he found at club
at 14:52 6 Jan 2026
Every manager could say that they were backed to the best of the clubs ability and then some, which would be true.
I'd have thought we'd be long past the point where people would've been making excuses for the likes of Russy by claiming that he wasn't given ample time and funds to succeed but apparently not.
He had everything he needed to make the playoffs just like Cooper did. One managed it, the other screwed up royally. [Post edited 6 Jan 16:59]
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Reply | Goalscoring
at 20:22 5 Jan 2026
I dunno. There were some serious practitioners of the defensive dark arts in years gone by.
For me it's still mostly tactical. Mordern philosophy tends towards an "all team" possession approach. If you've got a striker who can still bang in 20 goals despite all that you've got a rare one.
Arsenal don't have a player past five league goals this season yet they're still the second highest scorers in the PL. |
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Reply | Venezuela
at 17:49 5 Jan 2026
I wouldn't really call it a precedent because there's probably not another Nation on Earth with the capability to pull it off. For all people have speculated about "what if China did it with Taiwan's leader", in all likelihood the simple reality is that they can't.
Besides, the US did it before with Noriega and the World just moved on.
What happens after will probably decide whether it turns out to be a net good or not. They need to help Venezuela to become the prosperous nation it once was before the Chavezists got hold of the place. Fail to do that and history won't look kindly on them. |
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Reply | Goalscoring
at 12:32 5 Jan 2026
In fairness wingers everywhere seem to be coached not to take players on, but to play it back inside or cut in if they can. The old art of hitting the touchline and crossing seems to be reserved for overlapping fullbacks these days.
It's a subject that stuck with me a bit when I started doing some digging after the insistence that we "need a 20 goal striker" became a bit deafening in the Summer. Like you say, the days when forwards were the focal point of attacking play and service seem to have come to an end.
Vipotnik is doing about as well as we could possibly be asking him to so far this season. We do need others to chip in more. |
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Thread | Goalscoring
at 12:05 5 Jan 2026
In the top four divisions of English football only one player (Haaland) has scored fifteen or more goals so far this season. In the entirety of last season across the top four divisions, only seven players managed to score 20 or more, five of whom were in the Premier League.
Is this a sign of poorer quality strikers or just the ongoing rise of tedious play driven by tactical systems instead of playing ability? |
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Reply | Venezuela
at 07:31 5 Jan 2026
The US doesn't need Venezuela's oil. As per usual the Socialist thickies (and the BBC it would appear) have jumped to that conclusion. It has more than enough from its own sources to meet its needs.
It's more important to the US that China, Cuba and Russia don't have it. A US friendly Venezuela will not sell oil to any of the above (for all their own reserves, Russia has been making good money buying and reselling Venezuelan oil to fund its war in Ukraine). For all its wealth in other areas, China is oil poor. Cuba is basically screwed even more without it.
There's also the fact that Chavez stole US owned assets when he nationalised the industry, plus the fact that Venezuela's output is a fraction of what it could be because it's gone to shit since, as Communist run things invariably do. |
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Reply | Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread
at 17:47 4 Jan 2026
I'd be hard pressed to agree that we were unlucky today just down to the sheer volume of saves that Vigs had to make. Millwall would have been kicking themselves had they not won, regardless of how improved we were in the second half.
We should have got something at Coventry. |
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Reply | Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread
at 17:01 4 Jan 2026
Five games played between 19th Dec and 4th Jan. Three wins. Nine points from Fifteen. Only defeats against the team top of the table and the one currently in fifth.
I'll take that. |
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