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Utterly disgraceful lack of effort from Zaniolo. No better from Moreno either, to be fair.

I imagine he'll miss most of the rest of it anyway.

Yep, he shit the bed totally today.

Usual Villa. "Not sure if he'll be fit for Spurs." Then out for the next two weeks at least..

Easy. Rubbish.

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Same, I'll check it out in April after my half.

New parkrun 5K pb today. 23:41. 38/291

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Almost certainly something to do with his recurring foot injury. I expect he won't play again this season.

I'd guess he's not 'normal' like us lot in that we're just people who enjoy running as a way of keeping fit. (even though there are some great times on here). The people who get those sorts of times are the sort who usually went to Loughborough uni, then to an American uni to do a sports scholarship, but weren't *quite* at the level to be an international class athlete after that. So they go round all of the regional amateur races and clean up in those instead. Sort of running equivalent of Brad Young. Not good enough to be a Villa player but now smashing it in the League of Wales.

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Agreed, amazing!

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And this, set of wazzocks: "Who has ultimate accountability for FFP decisions under the new structure? The Premier League’s Profit and Sustainability rules set out a process requiring the reporting on an annual basis of each member Club’s financial status. There is no such thing as “FFP decisions”. The Club carries on its business in the ordinary course and reports as required under the aforementioned rules." There is no such thing as FFP decisions. Oh yes there f***ing well are, decisions that if taken, will impact on FFP. You know, like buying and selling players, salary level etc. Stop trying to be clever and just answer the f***ing question, you know full well what was meant!

This is a right arsehole's response: "The Club has been in extensive discussions with the FA since beginning the process to review the Club Crest. At no stage during those discussions has the FA informed the Club that it is in breach of the Heritage Asset rules. Following the Club’s stated discussions with the FA, what was the outcome and the plans to announce the new crest? The Club will follow the FA’s outlined process requiring the registration of the Club Crest and will roll out its usage thereafter." Have the FA bothered to check with the Villa fans if they think that the Heritage Assets rules have been followed? Because we're about to end up with a badge that 99% of people think is shit.

Good advice. I just bought a cheapish one off Amazon. It's quite small and unobtrusive, with a variety of handy pockets for phone and keys etc, and two pouches that hold a couple of flexible rubber water bottles at upper chest level. The bottle spouts aren't far off mouth level, so getting a drink just requires a slight bend of the head and a squeeze of the bottle. Used it for the first time last weekend and it was great, hardly noticed it was there, unlike running belts. I think if you were to make sure you'd had a decent drink before setting off, and then used something similar on the way with a sports drink with electrolytes, you'd fare much better.

Same here, New York would be top of my list.

Happens all over the place. Used to be at least a couple of my locals in Wigan and Bolton that had blokes coming round with tubs of cockles and whelks etc.

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I'm sorry, but I disagree with the entirety of this post, and in my opinion it's really, really bad advice. Firstly, I looked up that study you posted. The actual results state the exact opposite to what you say, ie the low carbohydrate group lost 1.77kg in 14 days, the low fat group lost 1.09 kg. In any case, this was over 14 days, so no conclusions can be drawn about the "long term" but even so, more weight was lost eating high fat/low carbs than was lost eating high carbs/low fat. There are just some basic, factual inaccuracies in your post. Weight loss in a keto diet is not just water at all. The very word 'keto' comes from 'ketogenic' which means fat-burning. Basically, you massively restrict carbohydrates; the carbs which your body usually uses to turn into fuel. Because thse carbs aren't available, your body turns fat into ketone molecules. It's true that you'll lose water in the first week or two, but after that it's burning fat. It's also absolutely nothing to do with starving yourself. There is an obesity and diabetes epidemic in the western world, and it's mainly caused by processed sugar, but includes other high carb rubbish like fructose, which can cause high levels of triglycerides (which if high can lead to heart disease). Triglycerides fell for the high fat, low carb group in the study you mentioned above, they shot up in the high carb/low fat group. And there's loads of research that a restricted carb/keto diet has positive benefits for diabetes/cancer/epilepsy/alzheimers outcomes. From a personal point of view, I've been on a low carb diet (mostly) since 2020. In that time: I've lost 5 stone - down from 18.5 to 13.5. My blood pressure was dangerously high, it's now normal. My blood sugars were considered pre-diabetic, they're now normal I've never counted a single calorie I'm never hungry My resting heart rate has gone down from 74 to 52 I eat a wide and varied diet, just no bread/pasta/sugar/starchy vegetables I run 4 times a week and am training for a half marathon

Emery goes absolutely ballistic at every slight misplaced pass and any other error. Despite his nice guy image and unerring politeness in interviews, on match day he's an absolute winner, and anybody not listening to what he says 100% is going to be told. And it clearly isn't any sort of problem, because the players all love him to bits, you can see that from all of them.

Did a 16K long run yesterday. Didn't enjoy it as I didn't fuel properly I don't think, and I also did it the day after a parkrun into which I put a fair bit of effort. Also did the 2K junior parkrun with my two daughers in the morning. Felt like every last bit of energy had been drained out of me. I think I therefore need to make sure we have a rest day, and also eat properly beforehand.