lapal_fan

I use cruise control when I fancy a nap. It's tiring on A roads and motorways, and a bit boring.

Like @GeorgeVilla82 said, its a balance. Your entire day, is not a typical day for a working adult. My day is up at 6.30/7, kids downstairs, breakfast, dressed, make lunches (if I've not done it the night before), school bags sorted, teethbrushed and get myself ready for work. Finish work at 5, go pick up from afterschool club, back home around 5.30. Make them dinner because they're hungry. If I don't want to do fish fingers again, then it takes longer to prep/cook everything. Dinner usually served for 6-6.30pm. They are slow eaters, finish anywhere between 7-7.15pm. 4 year olds bedtime, go upstairs, get ready for bed, read 2 stories and downstairs for 8pm. 9 year goes up when I go down, usually a bit of reading with him for 15-20 mins, leave him at 8.30-8.45. Meanwhile, my wife has made our dinner and I eat around 8.30-9pm everyday - way too late and not entirely practical. So yea, my kids usually want to watch TV or play their Switch/Tablet or PS5 whilst they're waiting around for those things to be done. So they probably have 1.5-2hrs of screen time per day. Weekend we're always out doing something, so not much screen time on weekends. I very much look forward to the days where I get more time, but with things the way they are - costs for everything from after school clubs etc etc etc etc - we don't and we work full time. What I'm saying is, is don't judge too harshly, because there are reasons for the increased TV time and its not usually the parents fault, its a lack of time. I'd like to know what your family structure was when your daughter was a child - both working full time? If not, how did you achieve the day you listed with her?

I don't want Spurs to beat us to the CL, obviously. But my God I'd prefer them over Chelsea or Man United. At least Spurs (a bit like Arsenal) have earned their CL places, by being fairly astute in the market and earning good fees for their players when they move.

Ty is built for the Prem. He's big, powerful, quick and dominating. He might not be as technically gifted as Pau, but he has the right mentality and physicality to deal with what we couldn't deal with yesterday. He might not be the same Ty as the one who got injured at Newcastle anymore (who knows!) but I can't wait to have him back.

This is it for me. For as much as the players and Pep aren't cheating, the fact that they can field these stars and have such quality back is blatantly foul play. Added with @pas5898's points about other teams financial issues (partly due to teams like City trying to "keep up", then it all makes so much sense. If they get away with a financial penalty, I'm done with football. And it won't be that hard to do either as things stand. They should be like the Harlem Globetrotters and stick to friendlies.

As someone with a powerful left foot shot myself, I adored Hitz

Today's the day!!

I'm having this played at your funeral @Xela, you big car bummer.

Literally, all I need to be able to do is say "would you like to bum?" like Leigh Francis did, whilst dressed as Elton John on Bo Selecta - that's it, I swear. I know it's not nice, but it really makes me laugh, even when I do it.

Can you see it as somewhat of a tipping point for being too "controlling"?

The new laws passed in Scotland feel a bit Wokey, don't they? Not sure I like the idea of being able to report someone saying something to someone else and me being able to have them arrested for it. Albeit, I'm not entirely clued up on the new laws (which is an absolute ignorance on my part), but it seems a bit Orwellian.

Then I shall continue to annoy! Woohoo, my favourite thing Whenever I message one guy, he'll often give me a huge message with an update on himself, but the other? very much "yep, not too bad thanks" which makes me feel as though I'm stepping on toes. But my thinking is "at least he knows I've given him a thought". It's hard!

I always read this topic and I've never considered myself depressed or suffering with mental health. But my overwhelming question (and one I've never wanted to ask out loud) is: How do you know you're depressed or suffering with mental health issues? What is it that makes you think "I need to see a Dr about this"? I understand this probably a very rude question, but I feel the need to ask it - apologies if anyone feels as though I'm making light of the situation, I promise I am not. I suppose the reason I'm asking now is because there are a couple of people I know, who have been "fine" from the outside looking in, but have recently told me they are going through some difficult times and I often check in with them to make sure they are ok. Is there anything I can do to help, or is it very much "give them space, they probably don't want to be asked about it"?

Yep, another for the "kids a quid" gang. My uncle was a season ticket holder. I never went with him, I'd always go as a 13/14 year old with my brother, but I imagine it was my uncle who told my brother that was the deal and hey, it was football (kind of). Probably went about 5/6 times in total. Darren Purse/Stan Lazaridis/AJ era I think. Definitely Darren Purse, he was an absolute thug. The best thing about it was regardless of what opposition player was coming onto the pitch, before the announcement the crowd "Shushed" and then screamed "WHO?!" when they came on. Thought that was quite funny. But its definitely a pretty depressing place to go, and that would have been about 2000/20001!

To be fair, all of their goals were avoidable We just didn't try hard enough. There weren't any beautiful passages of play. Fodens second was alright, but even Rodri got lucky when the ball bounced of X and into his path so he could lay it off to Foden. I guess that means the secret is: you make your own luck

A couple of things I'd like to get off my chest. A wall is designed to block an area of the goal, he was in the wall. Phil Foden isn't aiming for what he thinks will be a hole in the wall, he's trying to go around the wall. Zaniolo isn't jumping "out of the way", he's jumping and turning his back (which IS a mistake, just take a ball to the nuts/face), causing himself to "open up" a hole in the wall. The free kick was shit really. It was bollock high and going somewhere between Zaniolo and Konsa. An awful effort in any other game, as it just bounces harmlessly away. It was just unlucky, albeit if the hole doesn't open, its not a goal. So he's at fault slightly, but that goal was pretty shit.

I feel really pleased for him. If the wall does what it was designed to do, we go in 1-1 at half time, it's a different game in the second half. We'd likely go on to lose anyway, but I doubt it would have been 4 (as Callum Chambers wouldn't have been brought on ). He made some good stops at 1-0 and 1-1 and he kept his distribution simple. After some of the grief he gets, I'm glad he can hold his head up high against Man City.

If Pep came up to me after the game, I'd ask him if he was the bloke who cameo'd on Ted Lasso

the slow-mo of foden celebrating in the corner and a few fans staring at their phones

Always a freebie, but sometimes you wish we had a bigger set of bollocks than to let this happen.

If Tim can do for Jhon, what Isiah did for Chris Sutton, we'll be alright

Tim "Isaiah Osbourne" Ibrogum

I was also alluding to them being essentially Nazi's.

I went to haden hill park with my kids on Monday and there was an Indian family of about 12 (cousins etc I suspect) and every single one of them (mom's, dad's, kids) had this years man united shirt on! It was literally a squad! Shame it's United, not villa!