icouldtelltheworld

Think probably a bad edit from the Athletic - he wanted to get to the PL by getting the club back promoted to where it belonged

Thanks for posting this mate, really appreciated. Easily the best period I've had following the club and has to be one of our most likeable squads ever. That sense of togetherness still shines through here, and a few of these lads will always be Villa cult heroes

Got dragged to both Lourdes and Knock as a child, but sadly the Holy spirit did not enter me

The irony for me is that the northern PUL community would likely become a sizeable voting bloc in the Dáil and could well end up king-makers in future elections, with the power to stop SF taking office in a way that is clearly impossible to them under the current compromise of the GFA

While this is true, ultimately NI is a basket case economy by virtue of being an artificial state specifically designed to maintain a fragile status quo that barely made sense in 1922, let alone 2022. There's no reason that the six counties can't be fully integrated into a whole-Ireland economy over time

They make even the most radical elements of the modern Tory party look like a student socialist society. They have more in common with bible belt fundamentalists than they do with anything/anyone in GB politics

Family from Derry so I have a few opinions on this topic to say the least. IMO a United Ireland is almost inevitable in my lifetime, and when it comes the unionists will only have themselves to blame - you have to wonder how long the UK government will commit billions to propping up a dysfunctional system that increasingly represents a manifestation of a minority view even in NI. I think if the DUP keep on refusing to return to power sharing under a Sinn Fein first minister then the UK government will soon start to battle game for a united Ireland. I thought the warm welcome extended to Michelle O'Neill by Charles when the queen died, compared with the frosty reception offered to Jeffrey Donaldson really spoke volumes.

This is my problem with Ollie, we need a little more action please

Terrible news. I thought he was much older than 77 as well, probably due to already seeming quite an old man to me when I started watching football nearly 30 years ago. RIP.

There may be an argument here, but I suspect it would be strengthened for her were she to form a legal challenge to prove her Bangladeshi citizenship, which was then in turn rejected. To the best of my knowledge, that hasn't happened (could well be wrong - must be honest I'm sick of the whole media circus around her). The facts are that at the time her British citizenship was revoked she was a Bangladeshi citizen, so she was not made stateless by the decision to revoke her British citizenship. Thus its all a bit of a moot point and certainly not unprecedented

Does it though? Setting a precedent in case law implies this is the first such instance of a dual national having their British citizenship revoked. It isn't, and has been used on others recently too - same happened to Jack Letts in 2019 as one recent example. I think this is a really complicated debate, but there's a desire from some commentators to present the Begum case as some complete outlier which is frankly a bit odd.

Kevin Spaine, who is he? Link - Daily Mirror

It was a joke mate

That the second part of your initial post about Sherwood looking for winners didn't exactly come to fruition

Playing for Watford apparently. His brother is at SHA

With the likes of flabby Gabby, Bacuna and Sinclair in the team? Not like we were short on winners in our squad

You'd be hard pressed to find another post on VT that aged as badly as this one

Comparing Archer and Watkins is a bit silly, different players mature at different times. The argument does work both ways though - at 21 Ollie managed 6 goals in 52 games for Exeter City in League Two. Archer has demonstrated he is more than capable of scoring at Championship level much earlier in his career than Ollie did. But then Ollie was playing out wide back then and managed 13 assists as well in those 52 games, it remains to be seen whether Archer will ever be as good at creating chances and bringing others into play. Silly argument to make, nice problem to have.

Increasingly convinced this lad can mature into the player we thought Ings would be for us

Posh grub for the daytripper prawn sandwich brigade. £80 match day tickets incoming

Said it before but I'd rather Liverpool win every trophy going for the rest of time than see City win anything ever again. Will never get over them emptying out of Wembley in the League Cup final before the trophy had even been presented, while we stayed to applaud the players off the pitch. The very definition of plastic, I hate them. Edit: for the sake of staying on topic, Gerrard is still a word removed and I loved it when he slipped on his arse

Only way to solve this if there were more guns in society, clearly. Mental. And depressing.

How many of the 2% of all sex offenders who are female abused someone alongside a male partner. I'd wager its a good chunk of them It's a bit weird because you seem to be much closer to the position of the women who have concerns about this issue, but then can't admit the feminists have might have a good point about something

98% of sex offenders are men. On this issue, men are most definitely the problem. Edit - as per data from the Crime Survery for England and Wales

Their away fans are generally pretty good IMO