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Their away fans are generally pretty good IMO

FTFY

Must be a decent proportion of his entire career total scored against us

Can never manage to embed Twitter posts on here, but there is an account dedicated to pictures of mascots at minutes silences which is IMO one of the best things on the entire internet. Link

I'd had my doubts about him, but the last 7 or 8 months he was here he consistently looked our best and most committed player every time he managed to get on the pitch. Would do more in 20 minutes than the rest of the team managed over the whole 90, then wouldn't get on til the 85th minute the next week. Given how shit we were around then, I suspect lots who didn't particularly rate him as a world beater had come to the conclusion that he deserved a new contract. He clearly offered a lot more than the players he was competing with for a squad place. Whether it was Lambert being stubborn, Lerner refusing to cough up the funds or a combination of both, the whole thing stank

Yes mate, tbh there is a lot to be said for an older babysitter. I reckon the problem is you've been employing younger ladies in the hope of getting some teenage kicks

Nah, I'm Feargal Sharkey

Would you rather have a finger for a penis, or penises for fingers?

Would be a good move for him. He's always stayed local and is settled with his family round here, so may just be he doesn't want to relocate as much as anything

I've always doubted whether he'll ever establish himself as part of the first team here, but have never once picked up on any indication that this might be the case

Congratulations and all the best

You've got a point here. Think playing the Jack Black role holds him back from being as good a musician as he could be though

When the Indices of Deprivation gets published every four years or so, coastal areas around the south east and south west of England always feature heavily in the lists of the most deprived neighbourhoods/local authorities. Coastal towns are interesting because in the UK urban poverty tends to look very different from rural poverty, but coastal towns and cities generally have features of both

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Especially if we signed him in Jan when looking to push on and secure a CL place

Can anyone give me a clue as go what Anthony Gordon has done to be worth £40m? Has a lot of similarities with Howe's past transfer mistakes tbh

I look at it the same way as I did with Jack when we got promoted. Think he's here for a few more seasons but will likely move on in a couple of years if the club is unable to match his ambitions. Do think Emi is genuinely grateful to the club and feels a sense of loyalty as a result

Yeah any comparison between UK and US cities/regions is obviously going to be limited by the sheer depth and scale of contextual differences between the two countries. It's all relative though - homicide rates are obviously much lower on the whole over here. However, at 24.5 incidents per 100,000 people, the West Midlands police force area has comfortably the highest rate of gun crime per capita of anywhere across England + Wales Data from the England and Wales crime survey here in case it is of any interest.

Don't blame me, I voted Lee-Kodos In

I've not been to America but I've heard that you basically need to drive to get anywhere in LA. That's true of Birmingham as well, and a lot of the current work going on in the city that people are talking about in this thread is geared towards making the place easier to navigate without needing to drive. I'm sure you are already aware, but we tend to get compared to Detroit because of the importance of the car industry here and its decline over time

I am utterly convinced that everyone is just pretending to like The Smiths as part of some inside joke I'm not wise to

Greater Manchester has had devolved powers for 5 years longer than the West Mids which probably makes a difference. The GM elected mayor is a once quite prominent politician who might have once fancied himself a future PM and is enjoying a fairly successful comeback special. WM current (and only) elected mayor is a guy who made his money in retail. I would say they probably have more cohesive local governance up there in general as most of the region would generally vote Labour, whereas the West Mids has traditionally had a few more Tory voters than you might expect for a large English conurbation, and so possibly a bit harder here to get things done and work collectively. I've never lived in Manchester though so that might be bollocks. Yorkshire has a longstanding and fairly unique identity and Leeds perhaps benefits a bit for being its biggest city. Tbh though I've always thought Leeds is the most similar city to Brum, my sister lives just outside Leeds and travelling from the city out to the smaller industrial towns of West Yorkshire feels a lot like going from Brum to Walsall or Dudley. Birmingham is also a ridiculously large city council. It's by far the largest local authority in the UK and I believe in the whole of Europe. Whereas London has lots of different boroughs, the whole of Birmingham comes under one very lumbersome and inefficient council, which has to deal with lots of the issues that arise from having high rates of poverty. By comparison, even what most people would consider to be part of Liverpool, a city with a population a third the size, is split into different council areas.

There was a study recently which proved that US soldiers deployed to Afghanistan were less likely to be killed than men in certain areas of some American cities Link

Thing is Chambers has probably cost as much in wages in his one year with us than Hause has since he signed in the Championship

It doesn't