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I’ve been lucky enough not to have had to watch Micah Richards on any broadcasts until today. What a complete idiot. Apparently he thinks beeing a loud, jolly lad is a good substitute for having something of substance to say.

I’ve counted at least 3 times that Rodri has given the ball away cheaply. Why can’t he do that against Villa instead of when we need City to win.

Real v City is a cracking game for the neutral

“I’m sorry, but I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.”

Did his teacher reassure him that you do but it’s just very small?

So if you don’t disagree with everything the CP has to say you’re a Marxist? In that case, there are a shit ton of closet Marxists in this world, including the thousands of wealthy residents of that bastion of Marxism, Silicon Valley, who showed up at a Black Lives Matter march shortly after George Floyd’s death.

4C here a couple of nights ago. It's supposed to top 26C tomorrow. It's been a crazy spring.

They're all different accounts for Rod Stewart.

How else are they going to hire baristas?

Nice for Man U to be undeservedly on the losing side of an late goal for once.

We didn't play the normal high line and, more important, they didn't get any goals or chances from playing an attacker in behind our not so high line, so I have no idea what you're on about here. We pretty much followed Arsenal's strategy. Their $200m midfield were able to keep them out. Our injury-depleted midfield using an 8 as a 6 and and a youngster starting his first PL game weren't. Our 2 most experienced midfielders who would still have started if we fielded the best available 11 are the ones who conspired to gift them a lead in first half stoppage time. We scored and drew 2 fantastic saves from their keeper. Arsenal had 2 shots. We didn't lose because Emery blew it. We lost because we had limited players to choose from and a lot of important games coming up in a short span and because City and their 115 FFP violations had much better resources and did what's expected in the stadium where they never lose.

The goal in first half stoppage time changed it from a game we looked well capable of getting something from to one that we were almost certain to lose. I don't like to say "if only xxx..." when a great save or the woodwork denies a goal or even when poor excecution or simple lack of ability causes a player to gift a team an easy chance or a goal. But when players just do stupid things and it turns the game, I can't help it. You simply cannot give a free kick just outside the box when you're trying to see out the last couple of minutes and unexpectedly get in at halftime level. And turning sideways in the wall is schoolboy stuff. Unfortunately, Dougie has previous for losing his head at the wrong time. And we then had to listen to Peter Drury suck Foden's c*ck over a poor free kick that by all rights should have been straight into the wall at chest level. Even with the compounded mistakes of Luiz and Zaniolo and the hit to the confidence and morale, we came closer to levelling in the 2nd half than they did to increasing their lead until they finally got the 3rd. I think it would have been a very tight match if Villa had gotten to halftime at 1-1.

Where’s the whistle??

FFS. Just knew they would get one right before HT. That’s huge, mentally

Ref is letting them maul Durand and Zaniolo when they’re holding it up.

An old favorite.

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Joe Flaherty, best know for the Canadian comedy show SCTV in the early 80's with Eugene Levy, John Candy, Catherine O'hara and Martin Short. 82 y.o.

It’s just a repeat of what happened with the term “politically correct” ~35 years ago. It started as a acknowledgement to fellow progressives that something they said/did/liked wasn’t entirely in tune with their progressive beliefs (e.g., “I know it’s not politically correct, but I actually like Ted Nugent’s music.”) and somehow got co-opted by the right to describe any tolerant, inclusive attitude and claim that the left were branding them as “incorrect” for having different opinions. Cancelling and cancel culture are similar. It started out to describe a few people being completely ostracized for despicable behavior that should have been checked long ago like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey…oh, and Ted Nugent with his teenaged girls! Now the right complains of being cancelled when someone rightfully calls them out for some racist, sexist or otherwise intolerant and offensive behavior.

His outrageous posts on Trump Social all get reported in the news anyway, so his exposure isn't limited to his own subscribers.