Jools

We have a new leader in Hairy Canary [Y] Could be temporary - haven''t done 3rd best placed points as yet [:$] nutty nigel''s doing well [:|] PREMIER DIVISION Hairy Canary -- 8ptsHissing Sid -- 8ptsAJ --     7ptsFuzzar -- 7ptsHector Brockelbank -- 7ptsJools -- 7ptsKatie Borkins -- 7ptsLessingham Canary -- 7pts CHAMPIONSHIP[:D] SwindonCanary -- 7ptsTettey''s Jig -- 7ptspaul moy -- 6ptsZippersLeftFoot -- 6ptsLord Horn (again) -- 5ptsParma Ham''s gone mouldy -- 5ptsThe Walking Man -- 5ptsnutty nigel -- 4pts  [:P]

[quote user="Lessingham Canary"]Yep, and amazingly McGovern doesn''t have a club for next season, won''t be long though would think.[/quote]Didn''t he use to be in ''The Office''?

[quote user="im spartacus"]Jordan Henderson is so rubbish I wouldn''t even want him in our midfield on a free transfer.[/quote]Awful, as was Wilshere for the most part - Slovakia were content to play for a point and a best 3rd place tonight and we couldn''t capitalise on that!

PREMIER DIVISIONAJ --     4ptsFuzzar -- 4ptsHairy Canary -- 4ptsHector Brockelbank -- 4ptspaul moy -- 4ptsJools -- 3ptsKatie Borkins -- 3ptsHissing Sid -- 3pts CHAMPIONSHIPLessingham Canary -- 3ptsLord Horn (again) -- 3ptsSwindonCanary -- 3ptsTettey''s Jig -- 3ptsThe Walking Man -- 3ptsnutty nigel -- 2ptsParma Ham''s gone mouldy -- 2ptsZippersLeftFoot -- 2pts

[quote user="lake district canary"]85 minutes, seen most of it but yet to see decent shot or header on target.  A lot of jigging around, but little in the way of intelligent runs off the ball or composure in front of goal. [/quote]Absolutely - we''ve made the 2nd Round, but may as well come home before the Quarter-Finals. Well done, Wales [Y]

[quote user="nutty nigel"]No Winky though :( Did you forget about him....[/quote]He didn''t enter, nigel [:|]

Okay, if you insist - the current ''THE PINK ''UN GOD OF FOOTBALL'' League Tables:PREMIER DIVISIONAJ --     2ptsFuzzar -- 2ptsHairy Canary -- 2ptsHector Brockelbank -- 2ptsHissing Sid -- 2ptsJools -- 2ptsKatie Borkins -- 2ptsLord Horn (again) -- 2pts CHAMPIONSHIPpaul moy -- 2ptsSwindonCanary -- 2ptsTettey''s Jig -- 2ptsThe Walking Man -- 2ptsLessingham Canary -- 1ptnutty nigel -- 1ptParma Ham''s gone mouldy -- 1ptZippersLeftFoot -- 1pt

[quote user="Vanwink"]PINK ''UN GOD OF FOOTBALL nutty nigel wrote the following post at 19/06/2016 10:30 PM: I''m in exalted company then Jools. Although I''m sure they''ll soon leave me behind. But we''re all above the majority of posters ;) Are you going to publish one of your famous league tables? Subject Nice one Jools. What are the league tables you''re famous for?[/quote]I''m sure I have no idea, Vanwinkerton - there''s going to be too many entrants on similar points to make League tables [:|]

Tettey''s Jig ~ [quote]Don''t know a thing about him[/quote]Aye, we all immediately visited Wikipedia [Y]

nutty nigel, ZippersLeftFoot, Lessingham Canary & Parma Ham''s gone mouldy have scored 1 point after selecting Romania who finished bottom of Group A [:|]

With France & Switzerland through, 12 of us have notched up 2 points thus far [Y]

In a bad news week, this is good news [Y]

[quote user="Molly Windley"]Is that a Laurie Penny opinion piece from the New Statesman, it`s behind a paywall so cannot read it, but it sounds like one of her disjointed rants.[/quote]Is that the same Laurie Penny who defended war memorial vandalism and spitting protestors at a Tory conference?She put an awful lot of effort into that article for the New Statesman, yet on the 49 Orlando killings she gave the world: "Love wins, actually" [:$]Why didn''t she make the same effort where Omar Mateen was concerned?

[quote user="Indy"]No Brexit isn''t a far right agenda, but it''s bought out the far right extreme and also started the fragmentation of the sanctuary we''ve had in the EU.[/quote]Contradiction much? You admit Brexit isn''t far-right agenda yet go on to say it''s responsible for right-wing extremism in the rest of Europe [:|]Wrong, Indy - Brexit, right-wing and right-wing extremism has been brought about by the EU''s induced austerity measures and mass, uncontrolled immigration.In the event of the UK remaining in the EU, things will get a lot worse where extremism is concerned - both left & right.

[quote user="Rock The Boat"]Brexit is not a far-right agenda[/quote][Y]

[quote user="Katie Borkins"]Mind you, if you look at the Daily Mail today the killer was merely mentally ill. First law of British media: Muslim kills someone = muslim extremist White person kills someone = lone wolf with mental issues[/quote]Can’t we show some decency about Jo Cox’s death? ~ by Douglas Murray Despite the ‘Leave’ and ‘Remain’ campaigns rightly halting as soon as the news of the savage murder of Jo Cox MP came through, some people could not pass up the opportunity to press what they saw as a political advantage.  The campaign for Britain to leave the EU may have been silent, but EU officials were not.  A day after the murder the German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a call for all sides in the referendum to respect the opinions of others:‘Otherwise, the radicalisation will become unstoppable.  Exaggerations, and radicalisation of part of the language, do not help foster an atmosphere of respect.’Was she thinking of European Council President Donald Tusk’s warning, only a few days earlier, that voting ‘Leave’ could be ‘the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also of western political civilisation in its entirety.’  I suspect not.  Yet what might one not do if you believed your opponents were poised to destroy civilisation as a whole?At least Chancellor Merkel left it a few hours.  Within minutes of the announcement of Jo Cox’s death the EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos Tweeted out:‘Jo Cox murdered for her dedication to European democracy and humanity. Extremism divides and nourishes hatred.’In the US it was not an obscure figure, but the person most likely to be the next US President – Hilary Clinton – who sent out a message saying that Jo Cox’s life had been cut short by ‘a violent act of political intolerance.’  I wonder who she was hoping everyone would think of?All this before we knew anything very much about his motives or mental state.  Since then a clearer picture has emerged.  It shows a man with a history of mental illness, a loner, who family and others said never had any involvement or interest in politics.  Yet there are also now reports of Nazi regalia in his house and of connections to neo-Nazi groups.  Information is emerging that the killer may have in the past purchased books (including on how to make explosives) from a South African racist organisation which advocates, among other things, the eradication of the Jewish people.Yet even before this came out some people were off.  At the New Statesman Laurie Penny insisted that ‘We owe it to Jo Cox not to write off her death as an act of affectless terrorism or meaningless.’  This is because the killer appears to have had links to ‘far-right’ groups.  And yes, this is the same Laurie Penny who only three days earlier – after the massacre of 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida by a gunman shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ – insisted that there were no lessons to be taken from that massacre other than that ‘love wins’.  That and the claim that people who politically disagree with her, ‘are pleased about the slaughter of 50 souls in a gay bar.’Closer to home here at the Spectator Alex Massie didn’t leave many minutes between the murder of Jo Cox and a decision to place blame for the murder on Nigel Farage, a campaign poster and everybody else involved in the ‘Leave’ campaign.  Not only did he accuse those on the ‘Leave’ side of not-so-covert racism, he also claimed that there had been a disrespectfulness in their arguments.  All this from a writer who 24 hours earlier had been decrying some of his political opponents as ‘mad’ and others of spreading ‘bullshit’. Temperance is always what one demonstrates oneself.  Intemperance is always other people.Three other things are worth saying.The first is this.  Obviously, as with any Islamist gunman, it is vital to track down any network of contacts and guides that the killer might have had.  What swamps did he swim in?  Were there any network that helped supply him with his weapon?  Were there any far-right, neo-Nazi or other ideological group that encouraged him to kill an MP?  All this must be chased down, and I am sure will be.Secondly, although Jo Cox is the first MP to be murdered in Britain for more than two decades, tragically she is not the first.  Those who were murdered before include Sir Anthony Berry, who lost his life in the Brighton Hotel bombing in 1984.  Perhaps in the weeks ahead we may discover a real neo-Nazi network around Jo Cox’s attacker.  If we do then I trust the entirety of the British public would be not only surprised, but appalled were any serving MP to invite the MPs killer or colleagues to the House of Commons as their guests.  Such events have occurred in the past.  And if there are those who now recognise the consequences of legitimating political violence all that can be said is that it is a tragedy that they never recognised them before.Finally there is the question of the referendum.  From what we have already seen, those in favour of ‘Remain’ will find it impossible not to attempt to make political capital from this brutal murder in a campaign that the polls previously showed them losing.  Is it too much to ask for some decency?  Perhaps.  About 50% of the population have one view of our membership of the EU, and about 50% have another view.  I can already see the temptation of some ‘Remainers’.  They may keep it subtle.  They may insist that a vote for ‘Remain’ is a vote for ‘the future’ and ‘Leave’ a vote for ‘the past’.  Or they may try to say that a vote to stay in the EU is a vote against ‘hatred’ and for ‘hope’ or the politics of ‘unity’ over those of ‘division’.  If they do then they should be aware that they are using the actions of a madman, extremist or terrorist (or all three) as a means to further their own political goals.  They would be doing precisely what we try so hard, unanimously and generally successfully to stop Islamist gunmen from being able to do.Such a move would bring about the triumph of the assassin’s veto in our society – something which could not only have appalling short-term consequences, but bloody long-term ones as well.  I trust that those campaigning for ‘Remain’ recognise that a victory achieved on those terms would be the sourest and most divisive victory of all.

It is an abomination, to put it incredibly mildy, that the EU & the establishment has seen fit to politicise this dear womans death [:@]

Thoughts and prayers to her family and friends- especially to her husband and children. God bless

Now Polish fans are on the rampage in Nice - a 100 cars have been valeted & waxed, 50 boilers repaired and 5 walls built.

There were times tonight Sterling reminded me of Lee Crofts.

[quote user="Herman "]Well ain''t that fucking typical.[/quote]Oh well, Herman, we never win an opening game [:@]

That was always coming.

At f*cking last!!

[quote user="Katie Borkins"]I am expecting England to put n a disjointed performance tonight and get counter attacked very easily as our midfield keep giving the ball away. Sorry to be a doom merchant but I don''t think Hodgson knows how to set the team up and is too worried about shoehorning Rooney into an unbalanced midfield.[/quote]You forgot to end that post with "But I hope I''m wrong" [:|] 

[quote user="Katie Borkins"]Watch Payet win this 2nd half.[/quote]  [Y]