KentVillan

Need to clarify whether you are eating these as standalone biscuits or as tea biscuits. Some biscuits that thrive in a standalone biscuit environment wilt under the pressure of tea biscuiting

An interesting conflict to take a look at is the Tamils v Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. Tamils are regarded as “non native” etc. Tamil majority in the north of the island. Think these arguments about historic ownership of lands and “cousins” and whatnot get pretty indistinguishable from old fashioned racism in the end.

Ah right, so there's no place for Jimmy Anderson in test cricket. Haha, engage brain before posting

He played well. Got 8 wickets and nearly saw Foakes through when the game looked lost. Not his job to light the place up with his batting.

Incredible match and fair play to New Zealand, they never panicked.

Oh for word removed sake Ball before was a blatant wide as well

Oh my days. Lovely bouncer from Southee, top edged by Folkes on 35, great catch in the deep… 7 to win off the last wicket but neither of these batsmen can score.

Nothing better than ruining a day of work with a test series down under

Go on Foakes !! 16 to win. Taking it to the bowlers

Ah Root tries to force it and caught for 95. NZ v clear favourites now

Spoke too soon, Stokes has absolutely succumbed to the injury there.

The problem is, when people make it their life’s mission to achieve something or prevent something, it can be very hard to persuade them with logic or reason that their life’s mission has been a massive waste of time.

I think like a lot of people it's one of those debates, like Israel-Palestine, where you prefer not to get involved, because it seems like a mess of competing claims and counterclaims and historic grievances. But I did spend a lot of time listening to the Troubles podcast on Spotify, presented by Oisin Feeney. I thought he did a good job of letting all sides give their accounts, and letting you empathise (if not sympathise) with everyone involved. Would really recommend it. I personally feel as Ireland and the UK become much more similar, less religious, less sectarian, more liberal societies, the people who still want to fight to the death for Republicanism or Unionism seem a bit unhinged to me. I'm sympathetic to the non-violent, pro-compromise people on either side, and it's a shame the more fundamentalist, no surrender types are coming to the fore again. Edit: and as to your original question. I don’t think many Brits, if they’re paying attention at all, have a lot of time for the DUP. They are so far removed from mainstream British politics and society, seem more typical of the US Bible Belt. Seem like the type of cretins Danny Dyer would do a doc on. But the old UUP were held in fairly high regard I think.

We've seen a clearly injured Stokes win tests before, the man is a lunatic. You have to worry about his long-term health, but I don't think it will be the injury that does for him today. And Foakes is a good partnership builder in these kinds of situations, regardless of what he did in the first. Think you're right though, an early wicket (especially if it's Root) makes this very unlikely.

The thing that bothers me about these fights is people say they help to attract new fans to boxing. But how? The quality is so bad, it’s like getting into football by watching Soccer Aid. Wouldn’t it put you off if anything?

He looks to me like a lad whose heart isn't really in boxing, but is trying to prove a point because it's in his blood. It's very Romeo Beckham. He's more clued up than Jake Paul because he's grown up around it, but he still doesn't look a natural at all. Better off being a professional influencer husband.

He did but surely a "proper boxer" knocks Paul out, or at least lands a few more punches? It's actually Paul who comes out of this being able to say he can mix it over 8 rounds with a pro boxer... which he clearly can't.

That was a load of wank. At least the scoring was legit in the end, but the commentators hyping it up as a proper fight humiliated themselves. Proper load of wank. Have seen better white collar amateur fights

Yeah sorry it *is* smaller. Got to say neither of these really look like they can box to any standard worth watching on TV

Why is the ring so small edit: oh think just the camera angle

Can’t believe I’m watching this shite

It’s amazing really how quickly Potter has destroyed his reputation. Just shows how hard it is to step up from managing a mid table Moneyball side to handling a squad full of big money Champions League players. Emery is ideal for us because he’s done a bit of both, so he’s a good short term option but also a good long term option if we keep progressing. He’s one of the few managers around at the moment who seems to be comfortable handling either type of situation.

Said it before, McGinn is a flawed player who can still be a very solid PL performer if you play to his strengths - which we are at the moment. What he’s not equipped to do is receive the ball in tight spaces in midfield facing our goal. That’s not his skillset. Give him the ball in a bit of space facing opposition goal, and he is a very useful player. He gets that more in the wider position, playing the third man off Dougie or Kamara.