OrangeKhrush

Liverpool are good in attack, salah has to win the Balon dor

Leicester getting tonked by a manager less team is a bit poor but Man United getting tonked at OT again by Bournemouth is great

The midfield without Rodri is old and needs to be rebuilt, they all look stale.

Nice run of form for a difficult run of games with Villa next week at SJP then two away days to Man United and Tottenham. With City looking on toast this season has opened up for a lot of teams to make a play. Liverpool can still open a nice gap but Chelsea are keeping them honest. Top 4 is all to play for, for about 8 teams.

It was not dead for a while and watching Isak miss that easy one on one made me get feelings we are all to familiar with where we boss the game and dont put it away. Brighton and West Ham were two games we failed to turn dominance into goals and got punished. The problem with this season is we cannot build a string of games, we can go from a good result into an abject performance. How did get it right playing Tonali as a 6 and letting Bruno play more.

Could have put up a rugby score today, we really put Leicester to the sword. Lewis hall is probably the best english left back and he can still improve. Jacob Murphy gives us the best balance at the moment, bar any improvements. It's hard to say if Leicester are terrible or we just showed up for a change.

Syria is a land bridge country, it holds strategic and geographical value to enemies and friend. Iran and Russia have been using it to prop up their militarization through Lebenon, Gaza and Russians as a land pass to get to Africa. Would imperialism not have helped, sure, the way Russia, France and the Brittish dealt with the post WW1 middle east was not good but we can also remember that the predominant religion is Islam and Islam has a rather deep history of imperialism and conquest. At the fall of the Ottoman empire you had the Hasemites wanting their empire, you had the Greater Syria players and they didnt want the creation of new states, they wanted empires. Yemen is a strange one as it wasnt imperialism but rather religion that destroyed the country, they were anti monarch and pro theocratic islam with a religious head of state. They sided with iraq then flipped to iran. Oman on the other hand has thrived while Yemen is in the grip of a famine. The golf states could help Yemen but after decades of terror attacks, there is no love lost. The day after issue is a touchy one, I am pretty sure Turkey has no desire to have a Kurdish state bordering them and what will the other factions think, will it lead to a holocaust style event. I would be open to the Druze getting a sovereign state in the Golan heights but the Druze are hated by islamic groups, the druze will also be supported by Israel which will create friction. As for the last, 2 nights ago threats were made on live television of HTS intending to march on Jerusalem and the Ka'aba, I would regard them as humour if it wasnt amidst a 14 month conflict, moving troops into the buffer zone is intended to be a deterrent. The peace talks in Gaza are ongoing with Hamas having played a wait and see game, they are more interested in HTS starting a new front, but in recent weeks they have dropped a few terms, they are prepared to cede the philadelphi line but a transitional government is better for the chance to create a new outlook, hamas, fatah, PA all the same brush and paint, there needs to be a real government and civil society being created and propped up.

Pre-emptive attacks are not war crimes, they are conducted against military targets and weapons facilities. Moving troops to re-enforce the Golan Heights is more deterrent than intended to be an invasion and here is why; 1) Israel does not have the population size capable of expansionism 2) the entire Syria region is full of people that will be impossible to govern. The operation is purely preventative and ensuring that the rebels cannot use these left overs. Maybe you can go spare your pity for the Kurds who are already under attack.

In Australia there was a arson attack on the Chabbad Shul in Melbourne, we have seen pogroms on the rise throughout Europe and North America and in Cape Town an explosive device was thrown into the Jewish community centre. How is attacking Jewish people in these countries helping anything other than enforce that anti semitism and stigmatisation is rampant.

Taking out weapons before they end up in the hand of Jihadi's is sound policy, those weapons will be turned on Israel so causing as much damage will take away that ability. there doesn't seem to be any proof of the IDF pushing beyond the DMZ.

Saudi and Turkey have been cozying up together. Saudi want to use Turkey as their arms provider with the US not making it easy for Saudis to get the good stuff

The Syrian situation is volatile, it has a chance to be for the better but if HTS and Al Julani cant unify the factions it will end up like Libya and Iraq or it may lead to the creation of new states out of the carcass of Syria. There are some distressing things coming out with Jihadis already attacking Christian's and Kurds and certain factions already breaking away with their own jihadi aspirations. It was always a risk, it was a counter balance against Irans state terrorism that has led to a high risk situation. Turkey has everything to gain here. Erdogan has spoken about the Ottoman Caliphate even if somewhat lofty but he has now made enemies out of Tehran and Moscow. I dont think the rebels are as well armed or dangerous as made out. The syrian government was just very weak

Spurs, Newcastle, Man United and West Ham all in the bottom half all struggling with various issues, this season has been wild.

He may have a period of gardening leave attached to his contract.

Dan Ashworth may be the best grifter yet, dude is balling, he can go back to gardening for years with man united paying him out. Ratcliffe is worse than the Glazers