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He's been excellent and is now looking like the player with all the international caps for France we spent a lot of money on. I get why Moreno was picked ahead of him when Emery first bought Alex, but having been forced to get the best out of Digne, he's now repaying that faith. It's good because we don't have to rush Moreno back, and then we'll have two similarly excellent but different left backs we can call on depending on the type of game.

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Wordle 859 3/6*

No, of course not. But there are "events" that happen in the course of conflict, then there's choosing to behead children. And that's obviously, far, far worse than just about anything, surely?

The "events" of 7 October were the widespread murder, rape and and butchery of civilians including children and babies. So if the UN chap had said "the beheading of babies doesn't happen in a vacuum" then all of a sudden it doesn't sound quite as reasonable.

Indeed, can see Digne playing more in tight away games, Moreno more at home, but as I've often said, we'll be in the happy position of having two top class left backs. And anybody who suggested selling Digne in the summer smells faintly of wee.

In his last pre-match conference Emery said two to three weeks for both Moreno and Ramsey. I would say after the next international break in that case, which would hopefully make them available for Spurs.

To be fair, unverified Twitter claims about injuries to Villa players usually become verified on an annoyingly regular basis.

Spot on with this assessment. I like Emi, but with everybody fit next season he won't be a regular starter.

Wordle 858 4/6*

Going to take some beating!

Wordle 857 2/6* A two compared to Tony's four. That makes me twice as intelligent by my reckoning, and infinitely better looking.

You might have been through the keeper thing before but it's still nonsense. If it was a good idea, why doesn't it happen all the time, and why don't all teams do it, instead of just about nobody? And where was it reported that Villareal wanted him?

Although Unai does often put players on the bench who don't have a chance of playing, eg a second kepper or players who aren't fully fit. Dunno, it just seemed a very strange, overly expensive signing from the word go, and not one that Unai had anything to do with. He just doesn't seem like an Emery player to me.

He's been very good at home lately, and importantly seems a good team player happy to come on and do his bit. He's been most hopeless away though, so that's his next challenge to add some consistency. Some less difficult away trips coming up, so a good opportunity for him.

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I guess that most people would look back at their teen years and early 20s as the 'peak' decade(s). That for me was mid 80s to mid 90s, so all the stuff that got me into indie music in general, eg The Housemartins, The Smiths, New Order, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Pulp etc, plus some good mainstream music like early Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson. Back then was very different in how we consume music, so I'd suggest we valued music much more than our kids do. Buying music meant saving up to buy vinyl or cassettes, actually going to the shop to buy them, then playing the bejaysus out of them when you got them home. Taping from the charts on a Sunday evening and trying to cut the DJ out. There's still some great music being made now, but it's a lot more dispoable with the likes of iTunes and Spotify. Anyway, time for another Werther's Original!

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I'm never changing mine, the day I do is the day it'll be that day's answer.

Same starting word as me I see! That feeling of "here we goooooo" when the first two letters are right!

Wordle 850 2/6*

No worries, offer stands if you need them!