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I would first of all handpick my coaching staff from this forum as goodness me there is no limit to the tactical nous, expertise and man management available.

In electoral terms it is a heavy defeat. You look at all the winning margins and they are all getting bigger every time. This is simply an attempted coup by a bunch of failed crooks.

A keeper, surely on a date you want a striker 😂 I'll get my coat 🤷‍♂️😂

What does the above sentence,if it actually is a sentence, mean?

Fair point, you want to score, not keep clean sheets...

Ooooh. Mission accepted 💪. While it's normally a breeze to beat the Forum Neighbourhood Watch at just about anything, I will need lots of help from you PUPs to uphold my reputation. So lots of suggestions please 🙂 I think it would be appropriate to run a side bet too dont you @TIL 1010 ? In fact two. The loser donates an extra £10 to Eddies fund. If I beat you, you undertake to avert your eyes in a gentlemanly fashion for the rest of the season in the unlikely event I get the date of a fixture wrong. If you do of course, another tenner will be winging its way into Eddie's pot. I'm sure all the PUPs will be on the look out for this and alert me in the event of a transgression. If I lose then I pay a £10 fine if I **** up. I will be back on here Friday tea time with my selections (although high noon would be more appropriate). Bring it on.

Fair enough I'd say - Keir Starmer isn't very good at football. 😉

Re. the bit in bold, you'll not find too many Finnish national team players in their native country. Finland's league is professional but the best players basically do the same as in Iceland and move early on. If they stay in Nordic countries, they'll go to Sweden, Denmark or Norway as all three leagues are generally better. Finland had its own Leicester City moment regarding underdogs piling it on to glory back in 2016 as well, when IFK Mariehamn somehow won the whole shebang. We're talking about a club where they all speak Swedish, from a town with a population of just over 11,000, on a group of Swedish-speaking islands between mainland Sweden and mainland Finland (remote, basically) - and they won the Finnish title. Which brings me to one of my favourite football stories. Did the half-marathon there in 2017. Turned down a hot date to pick up an IFK Mariehamn shirt with my name on the back but the day before I'd wandered around Mariehamn, wandered into the stadium, and only ended up chatting to the Director of Football for about ten minutes (I'd ordered the shirt then, but had to pick it up the day after).

The more I think about it, the more stupid I think this is. We’ve not just come out of a dismal cup campaign and need to refresh the squad and bed in some talent for the years ahead - we have the Euro’s next year and plenty of talent in all areas ready to win it, or at least do very well! Maddison should be playing these friendlies, not Jude Bellingham who has done nothing except become the most overrated player of the modern day - he doesn’t need to prove his quality to anyone but a blind man, so why not get the likes of Madders and a few other players that are further down the road in their development ready for the tournament - gel a solid talented squad together. Southgate isn’t doing a good job anymore is my feeling, time for him to hang up the waistcoat. Utter madness.

I'm a bit surprised that "coloured" isn't universally recognised as not ok. To me, it's linked to the categories used in apartheid but there are plenty of other negative connotations. But if other people aren't aware, then it's good that this has highlighted it. On Greg Clarke specifically, I can't help thinking that in his role, he must have had numerous briefings and/or training sessions on diversity given its importance these days, and on media management too. If he said what he said despite all that, it's either hugely provocative, or downright stupid.

The FA now have a chance to actually employ someone who gets the game at all levels and who fits the current agendas - perhaps an ex-player instead of yet another corporate; perhaps a woman. Whoever they choose, I do hope it's a progressive move rather than more of the same.

My wife and I sit in the Barclay upper next to a couple of really nice women older than us. They watch the game with 1 headphone in each, listening to Radio Norfolk. Smart move. They update us if there's anything contentious on the pitch or with anything we happen to miss. They're really nice and took a keen interest in my wife's pregnancy, then when she wasn't there one week they got super excited that the baby might be arriving soon. Just kind of a nice thing really. The other side of us is a couple similar age to us and they seem spot on whenever we chat. Then we come to the set of 3 absolute madmen a couple of rows behind us. All they do is moan. No matter what's going on in the game. They are also extremely clueless. They have no knowledge of who is playing or in what position etc. I mean my wife knows her stuff now, but learned only a few games into coming that she can kind of attribute shirt numbers to players. These guys were supposedly there long before us and still have no idea. They just love a good moan! A personal favourite of mine was them F-ing and blinding at something sh*t that Kenny did a couple of seasons ago. It was Trybull. I can block that kind of spectator out. But it's the repetitiveness that can be little dull though. One just constantly moans 'Nooooo, you can't do that' - over and over. Another says 'Ere it come' whenever ANY opposition player gets near our area. Between them they like Max Aarons. And that is honestly it. I don't know why they pay to go, I cannot figure it out. However, my wife, the other couple, the ladies and I do find it all very amusing most of the time, there are frequent side-eye smirks. Honestly, I've suspected at least half the members on this forum of being the moaning guys behind us at some point 😉 EDIT: Sorry, didn't realise how much I had rambled on!

This letter has been submitted to the Archant letters editor today. It is highly critical of the lack of understanding that drives the mistakes at NCC, very costly mistakes and cronyism nobody ever learns from. I salute Alex Sidleys actions over last weekend, it was non violent and he did not endanger anybody but himself. He climbed down himself on Monday, and after 72 hrs. 100ft. up in the air, the last day with no food, the 17 year old minor ended his action. here is my letter. Climate change demands action Alex Sidley has taken courageous non violent direct action, in an honorable historic manner, to highlight the stark inactivities that marks Norfolk CC. sly reactions. Cutting down hundreds, possibly thousands of trees, destroying bat roost and endangering our chalk streams which supply our drinking water, is an outrageous act which cllr. and farmer Wilby is determent to pursue. Those who bemoan the cost of emergency services, ordered to attend over the weekend, should remember the 34 million Conservative cllr.s wasted on an incinerator that never was, or the massive overspend on the NDR, which bulldozed its way through Broadfland, peculiarly without any environmental damage, so they say. But truth has never come past Con. cllrs. lips easily. The two trees cut down in Tombland during lock down news, experts say that this could have been avoided, point to a wrecking agenda that has to stop. Alex's Action will give impetus to many others of his age and NCC's cllrs.costly mistake's, they never seem to learn from them, does not take any note of the requirements a global climate change demands. Lastly, after 72 hrs. 100ft. up a crane, does it really need five burly policeman to walk a normal minor to the car that took him away? Now is the time to halt this farcical power play using the police and courts to excuse and cover up Cllr.s drastic failures. The Wensum valley link road must be stopped now!

There's a Carrie Symonds 😉

Always liked him as a character and player, right from early on when he played at left back. Great to see him back to goal scoring form. His goals were crucial last time in the championship and his passes and now goal, shows he still has that ability to affect games positively. Top bloke.

- folk + groovy fùckers 😎

1. Yes. 2.No.

Again, making stuff up. Are you trying to say that there are more headlines about Greg Clarke than COVID?

Daisy Chainsaw on The Word, many years back. Sound quality shít performance pretty lively

Ah, you made a mistake there. Should have asked the girl if she'd be up for having a nosey around a football stadium, if she said yes and didn't moan you'd have found a real keeper!

That is a great version of the Last Post. Thanks.👍 Here is something appropriate and rather lovely too.

Shoot the lot because they're useless. 😉

As usual, I hope it was uncomfortable. ....and burnt your mouth when you drank it.👍😉😇

Beautiful version for Armistice Day And on the subject of remembering, here is Viola Smith, one of the first female drummers, who recently died aged 107:

I think there is an element of truth in that. I have black friends some of which are ok with black, some of which don't care one way or the other and some of which wouldn't find coloured to be offensive. I grew up with a close friend who didn't know whether he preferred male or female, he made the choice that he preferred males, his choice and he'll tell anyone he chose that and finally there are some young ladies who don't like being hit with a football, in the same way some young men don't. The point I'm making is that everyone is different and everyone wants something different when you get to the crux of it. What Clarke is guilty of is not taking into consideration that no 2 people are the same so using any phrase or tag now can be/will be seen as unacceptable or wrong. My black mate laughs that so many get offended by the use of some words and that he can call his black mates the N word but I can't, not that I would.

Correct. This is a coup. Plain and simple.

The guy was ham fisted in his replies and that’s being generous. Probably for the best that he has gone if his views and thinking are that outdated. Having said that I see Cardinal Vincent Nicholls has decided against resigning even though he has been heavily criticised over child abuse cover up in the church. Double standards all over the place in public life.

Not sure what their logistics plans will be. I know it was the first thing my mate pointed out when discussing the great news the other day though. GP surgeries clearly don't generally have -80 storage but id imagine there will be a set protocol for transfer from -80 to patient use. Would imagine that hubs would negate the problems there so that a localised stock could be easily accessible. Not sure how long it can stay stored at -80 though as this will have some bearing on how it'll work. Its a cold chain supply question though. We have plenty of -80 freezers at work and i know what a nightmare it can be for the lab services coordinators keeping them in spec. Things like people overfilling them or not shutting them properly can very quickly filter through to deviations if not kept on top of. I just hope our government leave it to the people that know what they're doing. This really isn't something they can just "let their mates do". We should be alright for this relatively small first rollout but next year could be interesting to say the least!

I'm not even going to try to work out what that means.

I think I'll wait for the final reports to have a proper read about cohorts etc. but that is essentially it in layman's terms. We don't have details on how bad the patients "got it" or how infectious they are but this is as strong as we can have hoped for evidence that it will significantly work. The transmissions effect will only really become clear on mass immunisation really, at which point we can decide whether we go for a proper "Covid Zero" strategy or just look to stop future waves of hospitalisations. If it stops transmissions significantly enough then we will have a fairly obvious way to herd immunity the proper way without the need to gamble with killing/harming the vulnerable. I still haven't necessarily written off "natural herd immunity" as a concept but its a complete gamble as to what sort of immunity we get once infected and indeed what preexisting immunity there is in the population and sadly its not a computer game where we can reload the save if it goes **** up. Considering how much it still spreads even with us all locked up, I'd suggest we're a long way off that and we can't get people to realistically sheild for years on end. I do keep an eye on news from Manaus and South Africa in particular though as far as this is concerned. One of the problems they are finding in Manaus is that the virus is now spreading to the wealthier people that largely avoided wave 1 so it shows how unhomogeneous the population is. Yes there may be some level of herd immunity amongst certain sections of their population but it then just finds a new group of susceptible people to target. A vaccine will put this control back in our hands Just waiting (im)patiently for the Oxford/AZ results now as having both available would make a massive difference...

And further to the above, roll out may be supported by other professions (other than GPs and armed forces potentially). Quick note here about dentists' potential involvement! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/covid-coronavirus-vaccine-news-pfizer-test-uk-lockdown-cases/

Didn’t he also suggest women don’t like being hit with a football, gay men have made a ‘lifestyle choice’ to be gay, and his IT department is made up of more south asians than Afro carribeans because of different ‘career interests’. Was he playing some kind of offensive stereotype bingo in front of a parliamentary select committee? It really is like he was trying. Those individual remarks in isolation would have passed without comment but the whole performance was unacceptable.

Sounds like you either sit near me or there are lots of folk who do this 😂

Oh don't even go there. Every time a team attacks towards our box, some guy to the left of me, in total 100% confidence, states "goal" so everyone can hear him. Of course, he's wrong 99/100 times but the one time he's correct he then follows up with "See, I could tell that was coming a mile off".

Very true @Barbe bleu, Starmer has plenty of time to build his name recognition, put the ghost of Corbyn to bed and build a narrative. As for May I suspect the electorate will be looking to give the Tories a good kicking from across the spectrum: Remainers, Leavers, Left, Right & Centre.

Nancy Astor to Churchill - if you were my husband I would poison your coffee Churchill - if you were my wife I'd drink it

Having just witnessed Jon Rahm pebble skim the ball across water and hole it, in what must be one of the most amazing shots ever, perhaps he is the man to back.

Not defending Clarke and I think he's a footballing dinosaur anyway, so lets get somebody who can progress the game and who understands the modern industry.... but if you ever watch unedited episodes of Only Fools and Horses or Minder from the 80's, you'll hear "coloured", "wog", "paki", and "half caste" which were all broadcast on the BBC. So i'm not sure that word was considered as inappropriate by wider society as you think.

or Mark Twain?

Greg Clarke was idiotic in four respects: 'Coloured', which has been recognised as inappropriate since the 1960's! Disrespectful to woman footballers when referring to a ball being struck at them. Referring to gay people as 'choosing a lifestyle'. Making a broad generalisation about South East Asian players, based on what happens in his IT department. It's what you might describe as the most chaotic involuntary resignation speech ever written 🙂 His colleagues let him face the committee on his own, without adult supervision, and the cynic in me wonders if they deliberately left him to throw himself under the bus, which he succeeded in doing. Four times.

Some will require much smaller doses than others😳

John Ashcroft Stephen Kinnock seems capable as well (although of course not as capable as his wife), but I am unsure why he has never progressed. His Brexit solution from last year looks superb compared with the ****show that unfolded.

Christ, he's been going so long he might have seen them beat us..

You get a new lease of life and somewhere to hang your coat.

I find it funny that I’m really starting to get behind Kings Lynn but I’m kind of doing it because I’d quite like them to be our rivals. I’ll back them all the way h till we face them then I can’t wait to take those West Norfolk heathens down a peg or two “ooh look at us, we’ve got more convenient transportation links to other parts of the country than some towns, ooh look how fancy we are” I don’t think we should rest until they fully replace Ipswich as our direct rivals and the Suffolk lot are a distant memory. A footnote. A quasi-memory of a drunken improvised primal chant into the cold night air. Loud and impactful at the time but ultimately petered to nothing. Insignificance. It never really mattered, it barely existed at all. got a bit carried away there but, yeah, f@&£ Ipswich.

Farke's subs have been rightly praised but it helps having a bench full of quality at championship level. Farke's subs were often unjustly criticised when he didn't have a bench full of quality at PL level.

Probably when he didn't have the players on the bench to make the difference? Or it could also be that a young manager, who already won a league title in pretty much miraculous conditions, is learning and improving?