Dr. Gonzo

Glad I got out of going to China last week

Jaguar Land Rover to cut 500 jobs from their Merseyside plant. Here's a quote from their statement regarding it: "Until the government ensures that there is long-term frictionless trade and no tariffs with the European Union along with meaningful investment in the infrastructure to ensure the success of electric vehicles, the UK's car industry will continue to experience severe challenges."

Does it belong in the Middle East thread the news that Mr. Bone Saw, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, had Jeff Bezos's phone hacked?

Lovren is back in training - Shaqiri, Milner & Keita still out

So apparently Bayern Munich are declining the option to sign Coutinho at the end of his loan deal. Sort of feel bad for him, but at the same time sort of think lol - a great player, but he's found himself in a situation where nobody really wants him and he went out of his way to engineer it.

Definitely seems like we kept him around only until we heard from Klopp that he was ready to end his sabbatical from football - so yeah, all for the best.

It was an Iraqi base, but with mostly US troops & some Danish and Norweigian forces as well. But neither Denmark nor Norway reported any casualties. I think any country would have a hard time covering up that many of casualties, especially considering the media was at the sites where the missiles hit less than 24 hours after. Especially if it's true what's been reported that Iran and the US were using their Swiss embassies to establish a back channel & they gave early notice of the strikes.

Still drives me mental he was given time after that 6-1 loss to Stoke. I am so glad we have Klopp now, those were some bad fucking days

I can’t remember much about those days other than hating the shit out of Brendan Rodgers

It’s mental Alisson is in the running for another golden glove despite missing quite a few matches compared to other keepers in the running.

Looks like bullshit to me. There are still plenty of people in the US that want to go to war with Iran, so it’s probably a fake document to stir up some “let’s go to war” sentiment. US soldiers call home from time to time, I think there’d be more outcry in the US if 100+ families suddenly stopped hearing from their son/brother/husband stationed at the base that was all over the news. And the US press has been to the bases. It’d take a massive coordinated cover up for that to be real.

Thought this was a pretty good lesson:

And that's why you can expect fans of European sides to bitch about the competition being held in the middle of our season. Especially fans of sides that play in the most watched league in the world, many of whom don't give a shit about ACON and won't be watching anything in that tournament.

You're right on both counts. Usmanov is dodgy (and so is Moshiri by proxy of having close business ties with someone so dodgy - regardless of how well his wife is regarded in the UK Persian community - dodgy is dodgy). And yeah, his investment is pretty clearly you trying to work around FFP in the same way that City do, just on a smaller scale.

Football does though tbh

So is Instagram... and Instagram is probably the most used social media platform in Iran. Satellite TVs are also illegal in Iran, but if you go to Iran and look around at apartments you'll see loads of people have satellites to get satellite TV. Shitloads of people are using VPNs to get around internet restrictions.

Morales is calling for armed militias In Bolivia like they have in Venezuela https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bolivia-evo/bolivia-exiled-ex-president-morales-calls-on-radio-for-armed-militias-idUSKBN1ZC066

Warning: Some of the videos I'm about to post have a lot of blood - people were shot, there's a lot of blood that leaves them when that happens. So the protests against the government are back in full swing in the aftermath of Iran shooting down a plane full of Iranians after the recent escalation of tensions. So Iran sent out it's Basijis to do what they do to protestors: Pretty horrific stuff. It's not surprising, as it seems to be the case with every protest in Iran. But horrific stuff. So far 2020 has been an awful year for innocent Iranians that just want their country to be run properly and not by incompetent shitheads that keep them economically weak.

10 years ago (or around then), I used to think Barca were one of the classiest clubs in Europe. Two Presidencies & boards later... and my opinion of them has changed entirely. Seems like they're completely incapable of doing anything behind closed doors.

Mourinho says that Kane might not play again for Spurs this season. Spurs fans rn:

Tbh, I do think it's a bit funny Valverde could survive the embarrassing loss to Roma and the embarrassing loss to us... but he couldn't survive denying the Saudis El Classico that they paid for.

The US has decided to expel some Saudi trainees after the shooting at a Navy base in Ft. Lauderdale was deemed a terrorist attack by these trainees. These trainees, by the way, are a part of the Saudi military. But the West will continue to do business with the actual largest state sponsor of state terror. Actually, if the US is giving so much aid to Saudi Arabia... does that make the US the biggest sponsor of state terror? Always interesting though that the US will fund adversaries as long as it's got access to that Saudi oil - the generally West always turns a blind eye to repeated instances where Saudi actions are more than troubling. The West should be pushing Saudi Arabia to end the flow of money to Wahhabi terror groups. But it won't because oil.

I think he's better out wide than as a normal striker. Which is just what you need, tbh.

Klopp's said they're expected to be "normal participants" in preparation for Man Utd - so it looks that way. What a couple of weeks for Nat Phillips though. From Bundesliga 2 to beating the shite (as one of our more senior players lol - he's even older than Gomez) while the shite put out a strong side against us.