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Wayne Rooney doing a great job on the BBC punditry of sucking all of the atmosphere out of every single conversation.

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Who would have guessed www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/su...

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

Can the second half and just spend it talking about the first half. LOVING THIS. Have VAR dropped two clangers already? SIDEBAR: The absolute atmosphere and vibes of the Palace fans has been immense. South London shining.

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Absolute and ultimate limbs at the Stadium Of Light. My wife to be may well be heading to Wembley the weekend before the wedding…

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If this carries on, Mark Williams will be cancelling his eye surgery and just cracking on as he is.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I’d love to see us sign players who can do what he wants. More pace. More players who are composed at the back. Someone up front who can hold it if necessary. Maybe someone else to help out coaching defensively. I’m rooting for him but he’s made errors.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I think if you look at where we sign players from, we’re where we should be. I’m not sure we had the players to play how Carrick wanted (especially after January), our defensive howlers all year show that. He’s also at fault for not offering alternatives to injuries and a one paced limp attack #utb

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

That is absolutely that. A better second half but still lacking punch. January recruitment leaving us far worse off than we hoped. #utb

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Coventry creating problems out wide in a way we don’t look like doing with clever passing and confidence. Whittaker looks like a shadow up there, Howson stood too deep to allow Rudoni the free header… Need a rocket and some confidence injections. #utb

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Regardless of whether we scrape into the playoffs today or not, this excellent section of writing by @jonathanliew.bsky.social is absolutely bang on. Boro are bang out of luck geographically, financially and chronologically. We’re probably doing well to be where we are. #utb

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Power Game on repeat. Wore Boro shirt to Park Run. Will wear my childhood Boro sweatbands during the match. I AM DOING MY BIT #utb

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

My view on Starmer @mrjamesob.bsky.social is that he's the person the country needed after 14 years of chaos from the Conservatives And while policy ideas may be good, policy implementation has been a disaster eg WFA threshold being set too low Or 50k kids into poverty with welfare reforms

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

Sometimes a conversation with an aging parent can have absolutely zero focus on you and your life and a good 5 minutes of material from my mam on her cleaner’s step dad and how he functions without a stomach.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Starmer: "If you're a Tory voter who doesn't want a pro-Russia foreign policy, how does a merger with Reform work for you? If you're a Reform voter who thinks the Tories failed for 14 years, how does it work for you? Both sets of voters are being conned. It would be a disaster for the country." ~AA

submitted 23 days ago • 39 comments

I’m ready for there to be a line drawn in the sand and say no more poems prior to or after matches or sporting achievements especially if they do fast cutting between past/present footage. At this rate we’ll get some before the second legs of the playoffs.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

A season in the Premier League would be absolutely grim whichever way you spin it. The excitement of the playoffs COULD still happen, I’d love us to grasp more opportunities and be more aggressive but there we are.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Been pointed out to me that AI will make up the back story to a phrase if you type one into Google and add the word ‘meaning’ at the end.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is sort of magnificent. Concrete-growing tit & Oakeshott beaming in from Dubai (full of Easter Gardens, I'm sure), spent weeks claiming Starmer won't say a thing about Easter, bc he hates Christians, but now criticise him for doing Easter all wrong and implying he was forced to by advisers. 1/2

submitted 28 days ago • 33 comments

Liz Truss: 'i killed the Queen' JD Vance: 'hold my lettuce'

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

It’s hard to be sour at Leeds or Burnley getting back up, two more Northern teams in the Premier League again. Hard to ignore that their seasons next year will be ruthlessly grim by and large unless they spend unreasonably vast amounts of cash. Leeds perhaps best equipped to scrape up?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

If we did scrape the playoffs, then magically went up, we could spend £200 million and still comfortably be relegated. Should have capitalised today but ahhhhh well.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Just a totally normal Easter message then.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

An excellent piece on how Ipswich have pragmatically set about their Premier League return and how fans have pocketed this season for possible greater achievements in the long term. Being pragmatic and building for the future without busting the bank doesn’t have to feel negative.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re a Tory, cover your eyes. Because as well as making lots of new laws, Labour is scrapping old Conservative ones too. 6 terrible laws going in the bin:

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

Villa fans, I think I speak for all Boro supporters when I say you simply need to find a way to get Massimo Maccarone on the pitch.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

That Hull goal could be crucial for us… Three points at the weekend please #utb

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Well, that missed putt means I’m going to be much later to bed…

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I do feel for the bloke because he’s bang out of form, but I also just don’t think he fits in with our style of play. We thrive on connections and he’s not found any yet, and he’s not got the pace to stretch a defence. I think McGree plays there if fit.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Leeds are a very good side but we definitely had them rattled. Tanaka as excellent as he was at Elland Road and, as always, we look a bit shaky against pace and a good press. That said, we had as many decent chances as Leeds, we just needed to be more clinical. #utb

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Leeds again showing they have a killer pass and finish in them… They should have had 3 but we’re still swinging punches… I think our hot spell deserved a goal once we’d settled into the second half but our finishing has been WILD. #utb

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Two very even sides, Leeds the quicker, we seem more able to bypass them with a trick. Just need to take a half chance… COME ON BORO #utb Our disallowed goal was offside, their’s was not offside… Can we take that rub of the green?

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

We’re still absolutely in this, could have been 1-1, Leeds should have been 2 up but it still feels quite even. When we move it quickly, we can get in. Iling-Junior growing into his role, we need a killer ball from someone #utb

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Why are they doing this quietly?

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

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