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That one and Black lodge are absolutely awsome. And a few more.

Another old one.

I was going to the store to buy some food earlier. Decided that I was too tired so I stayed at home. Had spaghetti and hamburger with ketchup and mushrooms. Tasty.

Took it one too far.

Not wanna hijack the thread, but which pub will everybody meet up at pre game? Asking for a friend...

Are we signing Totti? Isn't he a bit old, now?

Marvelous?

Almost spot on. But this post won't be about that. What do you think about Niclas Eliasson? He's from my hometown, which is a small town on the swedish west coast. I think he was quite good when he came on yesterday. He made things happen and got an assist. Would love to see a guy from Falkenberg to make it in England. Met his father two days ago. My brother knows him and went with him and stayed at Niclas' place when you played against my borther's club stoke.

Milner. Barry And the obviously best, God. But yes, definitely one of our best players in the last 25-30 years. I too find it very hard to believe that any of our new wingers is better than he was. I know El Ghazi isn't, but I like him anyway. I'll be happy if one of them reaches his level.

I don't know about this. There's always the risk of sending a fax (or fox) to barcelona asking for that player Misses and then we'll have #metoo all over us.

I know as much about this guy as I know about women. Absolute nothing, but they both make me excited. Good times! If we don't sign another player it's ok by me, but we could do with another keeper and perhaps another striker. Bring on spuds! (I'll be there)

Exciting signing. I kind of feel like DDID that he will either be the new Tonev or the new Salah in temrs of succes. Nothing in between. But I can't help wondering. Had we failed to go up, would he have gone to them Ramses instead...? At least I tried.

It certainly isn't. Sweden solid in the defence, but that's about it. Hope for a better second half.

I guess I restarted it. Sorry.

It might be that now, but it's been so for a very short time. But I think it wasn't untill 2012 that english women teams were allowed to play on the men's stadiums. And as such they're a few years behind, to say the least. The english team has developed enormously in the last few years or so, as an example. When FA started to invest in their football. Yes, if they were to play against each other I think men will always win. We're stronger and quicker and all that. I have no doubt about that. But they won't have to play against each other. When it comes to entertaining, depending on what you like with football, I think women's football can be quite as entertaining. I've enjoyed this world cup more than the last few men's world cups I've watched. Not because the football has been better, it hasn't, but it's felt more honest and even More exciting in a way. But of course it's not better. Just not that bad..

Yeah, I've heard that but wasn't sure it was true. But then you realise how ridivulous close that call was. Even closer than the England call from yesterday. I think it was in the '90's that they changed the rules a bit saying that being in line with the defender was ok, and then they also said that it should always be for the benefit of the attacker as it would generate more goals and goals is what the audience wants to see. This is slightly going against that, IMO. But that's another discussion. And the things is, when Sweden played USA there was a situation on one of their goals where it was clear offside. Did they check it on vAR? Did they ****.

I see full professional PL teams do the same when under pressure. How many times did we give the ball away the season we went down? I agree that England gave the ball away too easy too many times last night, but that happens a lot in men's football too when a bad teams plays against a good team that puts a high and collective pressure. I watched England against Norway and was very impressed apart from a period in the 2nd half when they gave away the ball for fun in very dangerous positions. But for the rest of the game they kept the ball very well. But of course there are more misstakes in women's game. en's football is the undisputed biggest and most popular sport in the world, which means that most young boys in most countries will play football, which makes it easier to find the really good ones and train them and make them good. In women's football there is a lot more competition from other sports that might pull some girls that could've been fantastic in football. And clubs have more money to spend on young boys that might have some potential then they have to spend on girls with potential. As I said earlier, they put up money for boys to become good, they put up money on girls that have come good. Anyway, if you don't like their football you don't have to, and you don't have to watch it, and you certainly don't have to talk it down either. I mean, what's the problem in women playing football?

I know, I exaggerated a bit, but controlling if the ball is out is a task easily done by the technique. If we can have hawk eye on the goal line we can have it on the sidelines. But I guess that might be a bit expensive. But in general I'm just fuming a bit about some offsides call that were really close so the point in AR's calling for offsides is heading towards totally pointless. They can just let it go and then VAR will decide if it was or not. For me, the old git I'm turning into, it takes away a lot of the fun. And the offside Sweden got against them against Canada, well, the picture that we got from VAR was that the canadian defender's elbow was over the red line but apparently it didn't count. So which part of the body counts?

You seriously believe that? In the swedish national team most players are part time professionals and can't live on playing football. The english league is the first women league where every team is full time professionals. And I highly doubt that they're paid as much as the players in L1/2. ybe in Lyon, but not in most of the professional clubs. They really don't get the same economic possibilities to develop as men do. There is absolutely no genetic reason for why men should be able to control a ball better or understand the game better. Run faster, tackle harder, jump higher, yes, shoot harder, yes, but not the rest. If anything women might be better suited to control a ball better as they're at controlling their bodies.

Time do ditch the linesmen? I mean, what's the point in having them when there's technique to call offsides and to tell when the ball is over the line? I've seen twooffside calls not given by the assistant referee, yesterday's and Sweden against Canada when we were about to get a penalty, that was literally just inches offside. Then VAR stepped in and corrected the call. So, if we're going to VAR check every offside call then there's no need for an AR. Hawk eye could be used to give throwins too. And corners. And apparently only France's penalties will be checked really hard when it comes to the keeper's moving her feet. And to change the rules for handball just beofre a big tournament is just pure wrong. Anyway, I've watched a few games of this World Cup and been surprisingly entertained. Yes' the pace is slower and there are far more misstakes, but the entertainment value is high, IMO. Their game has improved very well. And for those who compares women's game with men's game and have it down to physics: Don't forget that they started to play football appr 100 years after men did, so they should be behind. And all men on top level are full time professional, which isn't the case for women. Also, they throw money on young boys to become good, they give money to young girls that have become good. There's a huge difference there.

Old shows: Hill Street Blues Newi(ish) shows: 24

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Probably behind eveyine as usual, but I've just finished S1 of Animal Kingdom. Not really my kind of show, but I liked it. Looking forward to watching the rest of it. Also inclined to watch Chernobyl after the reviews on here.

On a more serious note. How does DS normally act in the transfer windows. Many early signings or does he do like MON? There's been some talk about getting ex Villa players back, but there's only one player I'd like to come back and that's Milner as a DM. He's still fit, he's experienced, he still works harder than most players, he's intelligent. I'd say he's exactly the kind of experienced player we could do with, especially if we're mostly signing young, up and coming players.