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@Khan of TF365

Last match in the old Schwarzwald this weekend against Augsburg. I'll miss that view

Yeah, I agree, they will likely go where they can make the most money and that's not Ukraine. Although if it were to be held in Ukraine, the venue would be sold out as it was for this fight in Tottenham.

I don't see it being in Pakistan tbh

Hearing nothing but bad news and divisions coming out of the Labour conference. Starmer and his team pushing for unnecessary further power grabs while the unelectable far left of the party continue to undermine the leadership and convince themselves there's a hope in hell that they'll ever get close to the power they need to help the people in the country they claim to want to help while calling each other "comrade" on stage. I'm sick of all of them. The country desperately needs someone to get Boris Johnson and the Tories out of power. It shouldn't even actually be difficult after all the calamity they've presided over and there's two more years of Brexit fallout down the tracks before the next election. It should be a walk in the park. Yet the Labour "Centre" are too paranoid about being associated with Corbyn in any way or being dubbed Marxists to offer any sort of progressive or coherent vision (and several of his policies remain actually quite popular) while the aggrieved Labour "Left" have spent the last 18 months barely hiding their desire to see Starmer fail because it makes the 80-seat drubbing their holy Messiah took look less embarrassing. And that's not to say the Labour centrists were any better when the man they didn't want was in charge. Wake up and smell the coffee. The current prime minister, the people around him and the Brexit chaos that comes as a part of the package need to be cleared out. Get together, find a compromise, clear them out and when you have the power to actually help people, decide how to do it. As long as Boris Johnson is in Downing Street, neither wing of the Labour Party has any business pretending they're any less bad than the other.

KArachi?

Tbf, I think US policy has indicated they're currently rethinking relations with China - with the trade war starting 4 years ago and continuing even with a president from a different party. I know from some of the clients my company has at work, companies that have relied on trade with China are having to make serious adjustments with their international business to shift with US policy. More and more businesses are looking to India and Indonesia as alternatives to China as well. And it's clear China's also rethinking their relations with the US... and much of the west tbh. And I think moves like banning cryptocurrencies entirely are in part a reflection of that (as well as keeping in line with their current policy of keeping as much of China's RMB in China as possible).

I'm just going to wait now until the 4th and make sure it's not on the red list, then book it. The problem is, there might not be flights by then. But I'll work something out. When this pandemic is truly over, we need to hit Latin America, I'm being serious as well When you take the test on arrival back to the UK, do you order it and take it at home?

I guess everything with Roman Reigns was going too good. WWE decided we can't have that. Vince McMahon has lost his damn mind.

Manta rays inspire new device to filter microplasticsClose Wastewater treatment plants release microplastics into the environment, where they accumulate and pose a threat to wildlife. But by studying the way a manta ray feeds on plankton, scientists in the US have designed a filtration system that captures the tiny fragments without getting clogged.

Usyk was too quick for Joshua to land any huge swinging punches, but Joshua did catch Usyk a couple of times with some powerful hits. Every time Joshua swung with an attempted big punch, he missed and Usyk countered. However, as I said, Joshua did catch Usyk with some strong punches(not saying they were his most powerful punches) and Usyk took the hits well. You ask about Joshua not using his big right hand punches enough in the early rounds of the fight. The thing is it was too much of a risk for him to swing often with a huge right hand punch, because Usyk dodged these attempts as we saw in the latter rounds of the fight. Not only did he dodge them, but he countered superbly. This is one of the reasons why I think that Usyk will beat Joshua 9 times out of 10. Some people have said that Joshua should have essentially brawled more in his fight against Usyk, instead of boxing. But if he swung more often than he did, he would have also exposed himself more often and would in theory get counter punched more often. Because we saw how quick Usyk is and how excellent he is at avoiding big punches. Sure, in a brawl style boxing match, there is the odd chance that Joshua would catch Usyk flush with a huge swinging punch, which would likely do serious damage, but I just think that Usyk is just too quick for those types of shots to land often. So if Joshua mainly approaches Usyk with a boxing mindset and approach, he gets outclassed by Usyk as we witnessed. If he decides to go for a brawl against Usyk, he will more than likely get hit more often by Usyk's counters. So either way, I think Usyk wins more often than not. I think that Joshua's first fight against Ruiz was very strange. Joshua had his guard down on several occasions and he seemed to tire towards the end as well. The second fight against Ruiz saw Joshua outclass him by boxing intelligently and utilising his jab. It could be that the loss to Ruiz has made him more cautious, but as I mentioned previously, I just think that Joshua's approach to the fight is thought out before the fight. If Ruiz is able to counter successfully against Joshua's big swinging shots, then the more quick and speedy Usyk would likely find even more success against AJ.

I am a bit jealous that the German electoral system forces the larger political parties to always have an open mind to working with each other while the far left and far right parties can never claim that they aren't fairly represented because they are supported by such clear minorities. There's always the fraud arguments I guess.

On the domestic front, we are blessed to have world class boxers such as Fury and Joshua, who give us great boxing displays. Even the likes of Whyte and Chisora bring quality to the table. All 4 are a million times better than the the crap we had to watch and endure about 15 years ago, when the likes of Fraudley Harrison and Sprott were fighting each other. That was the best that the UK heavyweight division had to offer back then.

Visit our daughters and get attacked by a bloody cat!!!!

That's the agent fee your talking about right? The agent always gets a fee when their client is renewing his contract don't they? Or are you talking about something else?

@Bluewolf

@Carnivore Chris: "Fully vaccinated travellers returning to England will no longer have to take a PCR test two days before coming home. They will still have to take a PCR test two days after arrival. However, from later in October, they'll be able to take a cheaper and simpler lateral flow test instead." https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-52544307

Bloody hell