Stan

Does this do more harm than good, when your owner begs fans to support a manager...? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40454116 How long have they been looking to sign 'top-class' players? Maybe it's time to face the reality that they can't attract those 'top-class' players like they used to be able to because there are other clubs in the division (CHelsea, City, Utd mainly) who are more attractive. And obviously many other clubs around Europe who said players would prefer to go to.

Live cricket to be shown on BBC from 2020 (first time since 2005) and Sky Sports looking to create a standalone cricket channel for their coverage. Glad they beat BT Sport to it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2017/06/30/exclusive-live-cricket-will-return-bbc-sky-keeps-hold-rights/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw

Don't worry, that's just @Tsubasa. Harmless.

ah man, Takeshi's Castle was superb.

got a lot of TV to catch up after being away for a week. Started watching First Dates USA. Got 24 Hours in Police Custody - love this documentary series. Glad they've done it again. Highlights how difficult it can be for investigators to pin enough evidence on an individual(s) to charge them with a crime. Really admire the work that gets put in to that. Also glad there's a new series of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. One of my favourite programmes. And definitely will be tuning in to Crystal Maze which has returned with Richard Ayoade presenting.

Maldini lost on his debut https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40424320

A police officer in Venezuela has taken a helicopter and fired grenades and gunshots towards the Venezuelan Supreme Court https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40426642

@Anton beat me to the comment I was going to make Must have had a good view of the fountains as that's the Bellagio opposite you?

haha I've done it enough times so maybe I don't feel the effects of it. Having said that, for about 45 minutes as we approached Luton it was just fucking clouds and rain out of any window you looked well observed.

back home from sunny Mykonos. Greeted by torrential rain in Luton. I don't think it'd be a proper end to a holiday if I didn't come back to rain in the UK.

Great news for Afghanistan and Ireland. If you look at the success and competition Bangladesh has provided since they got test status then this is only a good thing for the game.

Just ditched my missus for the holiday to be with this legend

Me and the missus

Mykonos is a lovely and beautiful place, much more than I imagined...

Luckily only delayed by 20 mins but that was just air traffic and us not being able to get on the runway. A few people must have taken the compensation and chosen a later flight. If we hadn't already booked our accommodation, we probably would have taken it. Compensation offered was 300 Euros plus a meal and hotel stay for the night near Gatwick. Meanwhile, when we got here, the hotel got our booking mixed up after a couple of requests were made few weeks ago and they upgraded us without charge to their brand new suite, which has a view like this

At Gatwick Airport now. They just announced that there's more passengers than seats xD. Hope there's not another United Airlines situation

so was Fakhar. Used to be in the Pakistan navy but quit to focus on cricket.

sure meanwhile everyone is in hysterics at yours...

@LaSambadeStGermain when he comes crying to admin after an argument with Teso

Well done Pakistan

FFS Jadeja so selfish there. Should have crossed.

well done to Pakistan and anyone on here supporting them though. Credit to them for turning the tournament on it's head from the loss in their first game against us and now battering us in the final. Been much better than us on the day and deserve to win. No-one would have thought they'd get out of the group let alone win the bloody thing so fair play to them.

game's done mate. Too much to do and just need to do some damage limitation now.

well this is embarrassing

thought we could have been better. Bowlers (aside from Kumar mainly) were underwhelming. Can't let Pakistan get any early wickets as that'll just increase the pressure.