Danny

I get that replacing top wing backs with Alonso is bad, but considering you’ve spent £250m (according to transfermrkt) on attacking players since the transfer ban ended and you’re still so reliant on a home grown wing back and Ben Chilwell…that’s not great planning.

With how much money you’ve spent on forwards it’s mad that you were so reliant on him and James

I do get that but I just feel like you can replace big club for big club and oil club for oil club and nothing really changes

When is it ever competitive? Other than Leicester the only teams in with a chance of winning it are oil clubs or Man Utd/Liverpool. Tbh competitive should be the quality you can produce on somewhat of an equal playing field, not which team can spend half a billion to the title first.

Sydney and Melbourne are good in fairness, Aus had the tap and go payment system on bank cards before the UK had a widespread roll out so you have some technological advancements haha

In fairness I'm just taking the piss but it didn't seem like there was much of a card option when I was there. Anyway Perth's biggest problem is that there aren't enough flying rolly polly stations

Paper tickets on the train I will not get my head around in this day and age Beaches were lovely though

Ironically a WW3 based nuclear fallout would actually bring Perth into the 21st century, so a positive for them

Yeah there was a lot of international pressure to close it…which is why it’s baffling our government have looked at it and thought they should replicate it in one way or another

It's genuinely horrifying. I remember a few years ago when I first went to Australia (cough cough @Toinho) and I heard reports there about Manus Island. Was genuinely in shock that a country would take people trying to seek asylum etc and then stick them in a detention centre that caused and contributed to suicide, murder and child abuse. And the British government have seen that, taken inspiration from it and decided to not only replicate the plan but do it in a country where government opposition are apparently being silenced, killed etc? It's crazy how conditioned we all are to essentially just let things like this, the Windrush scandal etc happen.

Choosing war today Stanley

I'd like to think he'll never play in England again...but you see the case of Ronaldo and United fans ignoring a transcript of him admitting to rape. Away from rape but still on domestic abuse...Danny Simpson was convicted of beating his girlfriend and still played for Leicester during their title winning season. There needs to be a code of conduct implemented by the Premier League imo.

You can try and throw me under the bus but you will never get away from mentioning Japan in every other sentence

howys it goooowen

Fair play to Vieira, I had Palace down as relegation fodder when he took over. The scenario seemed a bit dire at the time, from afar he hadn't exactly set the world alight in France and seeing the turnover of players in the Summer it just seemed logical, but he's performed really well and midtable is a good position for Palace. The result against Arsenal a really good one that could help them end the season on a high. The rebuild will be interesting, especially if they lose Zaha, but we'll see how it goes. Any talk of Vieira at Arsenal is completely premature though, not proven at all.

I found Wheel of Time to be a bit meh, started well and then just seemed to do whatever it wanted without much reason. Didn’t finish it

It is a very Chelsea thing to say though so he has that on his side.

It is a very Chelsea thing to say though so he has that on his side.

Does the job. Chuck a bit of garlic and lemon into the mash and chuck an onion into the pan before you put the gravy on. Lovely jubbly

Little sympathy for Chelsea tbh, their fans have absolutely lapped up what Roman has done for the club the past decade and a bit. If this is a natural consequence of that then they can have no quarrels. Though I’m sure some billionaire will buy them soon anyway

Cheers lads I’m fine, just a cough and feeling a bit groggy. Nothing compared to when I had it 2 Christmas’ ago.

I’m positive atm

Nelly is hands down one of the best written and acted out characters I’ve ever seen, proper London, hard to come by on screen.

Made a topic about it a while ago but just finished Save Me Too and it is genuinely one of the best pieces of television ever made imo. Obviously it’s much shorter than the American 10-15+ episode series, think it’s either 6 or 8. But the writing, acting and general story is phenomenal. Was pleasantly surprised.

Jordan Gill….take a bow, mesmerising