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I hoped that there was going to be a twist or something so was disappointed. The acting was brilliant for the scenes with the psychologist but the last episode was a bit drab imo.

When you need cash to fund your spending plans and you’ve ruled out raising income tax, VAT and NI… you box yourself in and that’s exactly what this Labour government did. The way they needed to spin this as ‘not a tax on workers’, of course it was. If businesses need to cut back on bonuses...

Rachel Reeves has been a disaster chancellor, she’s done. She’ll be asked to make more difficult decisions that would break a manifesto pledge, such as increasing VAT, income tax and/or NI and then get the sack down the line. She undermined confidence in the economy before the budget by talking...

Yes for the same reason we don’t play Liverpool, Man City, Crawley or Maidenhead FC. The Nations League is organised into leagues based on promotion and relegation and has been leveraged to allow lower ranked teams to have playoff spots with the top teams. The Nations League could genuinely...

It’s got nothing to do with convenience. The international game is no longer the pinnacle of football and a large part of this is because there’s too many dead rubber games. There’s also the wider issue of player welfare over the amount of games they play. So it makes sense for a shorter...

This is a dumb argument. Should Germany, France, Spain and Italy have to play the likes of Andorra, Gibraltar, Lichtenstein and San Marino? My answer is no because these fixtures are as mismatched as anything you’d see. If they made it through 2-3 rounds of prelims, fair enough but otherwise...

It’s not competitive, is it? This is why the Nations League exists in the first place. The current system tiers teams according to world ranking and puts them into pots. So taking 2 or 3 of the lowest pots out and having a preliminary round makes sense and is the norm for the other...

Firstly, not what I said. Second, the point was the ‘lesser teams’ should earn the right to play the mid and top tier nations. So this applies to the semi-pro teams like San Marino and Andorra… not Denmark who are a top tier nation in Europe! 😂

Why are you fixated on England? I said highest ranked teams and/or Nations League Group A teams. Which includes Denmark, Scotland and Hungary. If England were 20, 30 and 40th (and so on) in the world rankings, we’d have to play more qualification games. It’s inherently meritocratic and the best...

Like who? My point isn’t just about England. Malta should not be playing Spain/Netherlands or the Faroe Islands playing France/Croatia. Why not have 2-3 stages of qualification where highest ranked teams enter qualification at a later stage?

They were and there’s no denying that. However, there’s no ‘magic of the cup’ in these fixtures and the Nations League has played a role in developing the smaller nations than the traditional qualification format. What do teams like San Marino get from their annual 5+ goal drubbings? I don’t...

It’s no different, in principle, to how the FA Cup has staged entrance. When we played Maidstone, they earned the right to play us despite it being a complete mismatch. In international football, we’re forced to play against teams that aren’t fit to play against us or the other elite of European...

In the international game? Yes and the structure already exists via the Nations League. I would structure qualifying around this somehow so the level of international fixtures reflects this. We want to see big games like: Spain v Portugal France v Italy Germany v Netherlands We’re one of the...

There’s a massive need for reform to the international qualifying process. We’re not getting anything out of playing teams like Albania who just want to sit back and defend with 11 people all game. The question is more often ‘how much will we win by’ as opposed to ‘will we win’. We playing...

This team in 23/24 and 24/25 is overall better than the playoff team, overall. However, the star quality in Hamer and Gyokeres meant we had the arguably the Top 2 players in the league that season. If you put Hamer and Vik in this team, we’d be in the automatics. Doyle would start over...

Feels good to be in the top sale date for this one! 😂

This cracked me up man! 😂 Electing an activist solicitor to lead the Labour Party was a huge mistake. I felt that Starmer in particular is very poorly equipped to govern the country in this moment. His biggest weakness is on immigration and that’s the biggest source of discontent in this...

I’m the same. I do not trust the tories and do not find Reform to be credible at all. If an election was held tomorrow, spoil your ballot. We’re coming to the end of the ‘Blairite’ consensus, that’s for sure.

The ONS is reporting that the treasury has borrowed £63bn more than forecasted before Labour came into government and £20.4bn than the OBR projected (the ever reliable OBR). Growth projections have been halved, the £ is down 0.2% on the dollar… this government is utterly clueless. Cheer up...

Draws work for us if we keep winning! 🤷🏻‍♀️