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Who’s @watchmychops? I’ve just had a PM from them telling me not to be a dick

I agree. While I’m not defending the likes of Keane, Winks and Delph in the slightest, I can’t offer alternatives that are better than those three at the minute.

It’s all well and good slagging players off but there’s many instances, most in fact, where the alternatives are not anywhere near good enough or the suggestions people make are not players who even play in the same position or role as said player. I’ve just spent ten minutes or so reading the comments section to the England squad announcement. I’ve seen Jack Grealish and Phil Foden suggested as replacements for Fabian Delph and Harry Winks by a lot of people. Neither play in the same roles as Delph or Winks and these are genuine suggestions. There’s not a lot of depth in England’s central defence or midfield, so you get people like Michael Keane, Delph and Winks in there.

Don’t get the “balls” shout. It’s complete rubbish, in honesty. Like that squad, though we’re lacking a top centre back. It’s probably our weakest area these days.

Agreed to go to Birmingham with the girlfriend while she does a work course thing on a Sunday. I agreed thinking I could get tickets to Wolves v Sheff Utd, however, I’ve just realised that it’s going to be pretty hard to get tickets to, so now I potentially have most of a day to kill in Birmingham. I now have to pray Walsall, Coventry and Solihull make it to the 2nd Round of the FA Cup and one plays on the Sunday.

Mrs’ neck/back were fine after we had a smash the same day. Pain really hit her a few hours later when the adrenaline of a foreign lorry driving into the side of you stopped.

We’re back. I hope everyone dealt with having to communicate via talking okay and John’s wife hasn’t killed him for printing off 275 links to BBC articles for her to read.

Tried a variety of veggie sausages, burgers, Quorn products and that absolutely divine fake doner meat and I’ve got to say it’s not all bad. Some are better than others but on the whole, I could probably give up meat.

Won 4-0. Annoyed that Bishop’s Stortford have lost in the FA Cup. They’ve now not won an FA Cup game since 26th October 2013, against Forest Green Rovers.

FA Cup Second Qualifying Round today. Those following TFF’s side Boston United, have a potential banana skin to avoid in Stamford Away.

He’s been with the England set-up at different age groups for a while now, so I think it’s a case of the face fitting and being seen to be part of a bigger plan, which to be fair, you can’t really knock as we’ve had success at different levels and now see young players emerge into the main side.

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Northern Ireland v Germany Estonia v Holland Over 1.5 Goals - 0.33/1 International Football produces some rubbish odds for this bet type.

England v Bulgaria Iceland v Moldova Over 1.5 Goals - 0.33/1. Pretty small odds but I do fancy these two games to deliver.

Bristol Rovers v Accrington Stanley Boreham Wood v Dover Athletic. Over 1.5 Goals - 0.61/1.

It’s actually mental how blind these people are. Some people feel the need to boo players and it’s seen by some as a mark of respect. This clearly wasn’t booing and clearly wasn’t a mark of respect. In some respects, Lukaku knew what he was getting into in regards to Italian football, it’s been pretty well publicised over the years that there is a huge problem in their game with racism. It doesn’t mean he deserves such abuse for going there.

Shite like Twitter doesn’t help. Absolutely no proof there that anyone has actually said it or a link providing facts but it’s got at least 3,500 likes, however many RT’s and nearly 1,500 engaging with it despite there being no proof and people are daft and believe anything they see on social media. I’m not in any way defending the Cagliari fans here btw.

Having played and managed in Italy, he’s probably aware of how Italian clubs were run in the 80’s and 90’s and if they’re this blasè towards racism in the 00’s that it’s not heavily criticised or on the front and back of Italian newspapers, I can only imagine what racism would have been like there in the 80’s and 90’s.

Considering Serie A and Italian Football as a whole didn’t do anything when Moise Kean was racially abused and actually disciplined Kean, why are we shocked?

What’s that now, eighteen years? Remember that game vividly.

Mings the biggest surprise there but worth a go against Bulgaria and Kosovo.

Amsterdam doesn’t interest me at all. Sure it’s great but it’s nowhere near top of my places I want to go.

Bloody hell, that’s come round quickly. I’d have done Bulgaria but I’m not about next weekend. Can’t wait for people to lose it when AWB gets called up.

They make you do it for betting sites yet Twitter is the world’s biggest free porn site. It would certainly make more sense.

Fully expect to see Micah Richards in a state akin to that Michael Johnson fella City had on their books for about five years, after they got rich as fuck.