RandoEFC

I hope Reform don't get into double figures. Seeing Farage win in Clacton on his own would have been bad enough. Labour now need to actually be a decent government and hopefully not get too tied down with "seeing off" Reform by being even more non-commital on immigration and other issues.

Just making this a general PSR thread here but I have a genuine question. Why is this what happens with Leicester and the PL just proceed with the case but they can't just do the same with Man City?

The Premier League is out of control. An absolute moral vacuum which has now infected every club that has anything to do with it.

Seen a lot of reports that Southgate is planning for a back three and a change of formation for the Swiss game. Changing things is clearly what needs to be done for England to start looking effective, but no competent international manager comes into a tournament like this and ends up having to do a complete overhaul of the formation halfway through. It's like when a manager has to make first-half substitutions because it isn't working. Clearly something needs to change so good but how did you get it so wrong in the first place.

Yeah, the Isle of Man does actually have its own elected Parliament but it isn't overwhelmingly independent these days. The UK government has quite direct impacts on us even if we don't vote in the General Election and aren't technically directly governed by them. For example, I'm a teacher and we've had a lot of staffing issues over the past few years because teaching in the Isle of Man is very largely similar to teaching in the UK. At the moment very demanding and not very rewarding. However, Labour's promise to train up 6,500 new teachers, if they manage to follow through with it, would have a very big impact on us because we recruit most of our teachers from the UK and that would therefore go some way to fixing our staffing issues. We do also have a lot of differences in some ways. For example the UK has a school inspections organisation called Ofsted which is largely deemed toxic and not fit for purpose by the teaching community in the UK. Indeed a primary school headteacher even committed suicide last year, mostly due to the pressure of her school being inspected. On the Isle of Man, we don't have Ofsted at all and have the freedom to organise our own inspection system internally. So yeah, it's a bit of a grey area overall really. We have some independence to do our own thing but generally follow what the UK does. Either way, the Tories have been corrupt, dishonest and incompetent in their time in power, each Prime Minister worse than the one that came before them. From a simple "right thing" perspective, it will restore some of my faith in humanity and the electorate to see them get absolutely decimated. 11 hours until the exit poll.

Happy Tory extinction asteroid eve. Austerity, tuition fees, Brexit, social care mess, Boris Johnson, illegal proroguing, Barnard Castle, Covid mess, PPE mess, lockdown mess, sex pest MPs, lying in parliament, Partygate, lobbying scandal, Truss disasterclass, slimy Sunak, national service, D-Day dodging, corrupt cunts, all going on the bonfire tomorrow. However uninspiring Starmer may be, and however much of the damage won't be repaired any time soon, tomorrow should be savoured and I personally will be staying up late with a few beers toasting every single result that sees those odious, corrupt, self-serving, private school, posh pricks lose their seats. I was 17 and not politically aware when Cameron became Prime Minister 14 years ago. Waking up on Saturday with the Tories out of power genuinely will be something worth enjoying. It's been far, far too long. I daren't let myself hope for it but there's an outside chance they might even come 3rd and the Lib Dems become the official opposition .

Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3 AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS? NOR Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS? 1. NOR 2. PIA 3. HAM Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Zhou Guanyu. 19th Bonus Question - Who will be highest in the Drivers' Championship after the British Grand Prix out of Perez (currently 5th with 118 points), Piastri (6th with 112 points) and Russell (7th with 111 points). Piastri

What a fucking save that was!

Predictions - British Grand Prix Deadline is ahead of qualifying on Saturday. @RandoEFC @Stan @MUFC @Tommy @nudge @Whiskey @The Palace Fan @Coma @DeadLinesman @OrangeKhrush Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3 AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS? [INSERT DRIVER] Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS? 1. [INSERT DRIVER] 2. [INSERT DRIVER] 3. [INSERT DRIVER] Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Zhou Guanyu. [INSERT POSITION] Bonus Question - Who will be highest in the Drivers' Championship after the British Grand Prix out of Perez (currently 5th with 118 points), Piastri (6th with 112 points) and Russell (7th with 111 points). [INSERT DRIVER]

That was at least interesting but there's been some dour football served up in this round after the beautiful chaos of most of the group stages.

Ronaldo is having a very public mid-life crisis here. Weak as piss from Martinez like I said to play into this display of main character syndrome. Ronaldo is making the Portuguese national team into a mere sideshow.

Martinez is such an embarrassing manager. The Portugal manager at the last World Cup wasn't scared to drop Ronaldo in some matches to benefit the team. Martinez has never been able to challenge or manage egos in his dressing room which is why we're treated to Ronaldo taking every free kick and shooting from any distance or angle. His ego and desperation for personal glory comes before the team effort.

It's a crime really that Spain vs Germany is a quarter final. Guarantees one of the two sides that both look like contenders and aren't horrendous to watch will be eliminated before the semi finals.

Someone was saying that he shouted "who else" after he scored. I'm not sure I believe it, whether it's provable, or whether it's just annoyed punters trying their hand at some lip-reading, but if that did happen then along with this "we showed them" stance he seems to be taking in the interview, it's all a bit of an ick for me.

Results - Austrian Grand Prix No points for @Whiskey who didn't predict. The first points of the weekend were given out in Qualifying on Saturday, where the vast majority - everyone except for @Coma - went with the meta "Norris" pick for non-Verstappen pole and were duly rewarded with 5 points each. Things didn't quite go to plan for Norris on the Sunday. With everyone picking him as the non-Verstappen winner, a race-ending collision means that everyone ends up pointless for this prediction. There were still a reasonable number of points given out for the unusual Russell-Piastri-Sainz podium. @OrangeKhrush can consider himself unlucky having been the only person to put Russell 2nd on his podium, but he has to settle for 2 points along with @MUFC and @nudge for having the eventual race winner in their top three. @RandoEFC, @Stan, @MUFC and @Tommy all bag 5 points for Oscar Piastri's second place, while @The Palace Fan and @Coma picked up 2 consolation points having picked him for 3rd place. @DeadLinesman was the only person to put Carlos Sainz in his top three at all, and he nailed the position to boot, picking up 5 points to make up for Norris and Hamilton letting him down. Onto the random driver of the weekend, Carlos Sainz, and an exhibition in hedging your bets sees @Stan as the only one to score here, correctly predicting Sainz' 3rd place despite not placing him on his non-Verstappen podium earlier on. Finally, almost everyone successfully picked a driver who finished higher on Sunday than they did in the Sprint Race. @RandoEFC, @Stan and @DeadLinesman all counted their lucky stars when the Verstappen-Norris incident promoted Sergio Perez to 7th as he was on track to only match his 8th place from the Sprint. Both Mercedes drivers were on track to improve their results without the help of Norris' relegation, rewarding @nudge and @OrangeKhrush, who backed Hamilton, and @The Palace Fan and @Coma, who backed George Russell, with 5 points each. @Tommy's pick was Daniel Ricciardo whose point-scoring drive in 9th on Sunday eclipsed his 14th place in the Sprint. Only @MUFC was left empty-handed here, with a strong 10th place for Lance Stroll in Saturday's Sprint proving too high of a bar to improve upon in the Grand Prix. Here's what it does to the standings: Top scorer for the weekend, @Stan, goes from 4th to joint 1st, as he, @OrangeKhrush and @RandoEFC are drawn into a three-way tie heading into the middle race of the season next weekend. @Tommy remains in hot pursuit. @The Palace Fan, @nudge and @DeadLinesman have their own private battle going on in the midfield, all covered by only 3 points. @MUFC overtook @Coma this weekend in their battle for 8th. McLaren were this weekend's top scorers in the Constructors' table, and return to the top of the table. Aston Martin also fall behind Red Bull having led going into the weekend, while Mercedes can't be ruled out either. Ferrari bag a solid haul of points this week thanks to @Stan's top-score and 6 insurance points for his missing team-mate.

Southgate is genuinely just a luckier version of Frank Lampard. It's mad to say that about an England manager who has reached a World Cup semi final and a Euro Final but I'll stand by it. Comes into an unhappy dressing room, instantly raises the floor because he's seen by the players as a decent lad who gets them. But he can't coach and doesn't understand tactics so after an initial boost the team gets stagnant and starts to decline. It just happens more slowly with an international team because the games are so spread out. England might be through but the management and execution of this tournament has been as poor and uninspiring in my opinion as any of the efforts served up by Hodgson, Capello, etc.

I'm an England fan, in theory, albeit an uncaring one. But I'm almost actively annoyed that they look set to get through this now because the performance of this manager and most of the senior players at this tournament would have fully deserved to get dumped out by Slovakia in the first knockout round .

Bailed out by a moment of individual brilliance. Even if England scrape through this, Switzerland will put a stop to them unless Southgate changes his entire management philosophy in the next few days.

Kane slows down an attack when he could have played Palmer in. Bellingham then falls over when picked out in the area. England would not be worse off if they were both substituted..

Saka to left back might actually help. He used to play there and might actually get beyond his winger.

Amazing the linesman doesn't flag that. Not even close. Better play though.

Southgate's management continues to beggar belief. No changes at half time and England spend the first three minutes passing the ball around the back. Genuinely what is even their plan here.

Mainoo excelling because he's used to playing in a poorly coached side with several team mates underperforming or out of position. Players like Foden, Saka, Rice all look completely ineffective because they're overly dependent on having a nerd manager like Pep or Arteta creating a system that makes their job as simple and straightforward as possible and they can't adapt when it's taken away. Then you've got the out of position mess. Trippier and Foden are both out of position on one side completely nullifying any width. It's like when Everton were fielding Godfrey at right back with Ashley Young in front of him at times this season. Might as well not bother.

I'll be more surprised if England even score here than I was when I turned the television on and saw Slovakia were leading after 30 minutes. Since the moment Bellingham scored in the opening game, England have done nothing at all to justify their place in this competition beyond this stage let alone be contenders to win it.

The stewards are culpable as well. Norris track limits hanging over him. Verstappen's dodgy weaving in the braking zone not dealt with decisively. Ends up in tears because both of them kept pushing the limit too far.