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Also Callum Wilson is likely to be sold on. Surely better than Championship level, even if he doesn't command as high a fee as two years ago.

In theory yes but we will also have had 6 or so months off so match sharpness may not be there, despite pre-season. Focusing on doing well in pre-season will be key - no need to worry about other teams so long as Robins gets recruitment right.

I once worked with someone who was caught shoplifting from, ASDA, yet his son is very high up in the police force...

As much as I'd love to make the trip over to Villa Park next season, I can see Villa staying up if they hold onto this lead. I think they'll get at least as good a result at West Ham Away as Watford will at Arsenal away.

Aaron Evans Harriott was brought in from Cheltenham Town. When the signing was announced on the Twitter page, someone said 'Just announce that he'll be signing for Norwich in July 2022'. Which was probably not a bad shout at the time, but now we're in the same division as them they won't, I...

Problem is that as a nation we are all so selfish that everyone wants a share of whatever pie the government offers, but doesn't want to contribute. Like for example plenty of people would be willing to have their taxes go up unilaterally across the board to help fund better pay for health...

Indeed. It's partly a product of the fact that kids (and adults) nowadays socialise online rather than in person. And now a lot of criminal activity is instead driven underground. Like how that £2 million of cannabis was found in Riley Square a few years back.

I did the papers for 'the other side' of the Black Pad on Woodway Walk - I remember delivering to a lady at the edge of Woodway Walk and thinking how isolating/scary it must be to be on the edge. I think there's been much less antisocial behaviour in that neck of he woods in recent years, but...

I would say that's a very good rate! One of my jobs I got via an agency. I am being charged out at over £40 an hour but I'm only getting £15. The agency is pretty greedy, but I'm happy to do it, as I'm building up my experience. Ah I don't mean BA/BSC Mathematics. I'm more on about degrees...

Academically difficult and financially easy I think is the saying, as a criterion for the worthy funding of a degree. So scientific/mathematical and medical degrees and, if an arts degree, then at a highly selective university. No need for subjects that do not exist as traditional academic...

Must have been a nightmare. Christian values and all. Almost exactly my situation in one of my previous jobs - I was being charged out at £500 a day and pre-tax I was earning something in the region of £15 an hour. The attitudes of some of the people I worked with towards those who actually do...

Definitely do if you have the time. The only way that people people in positions of financial power get away with it is by using the argument that 'without us employing you, you wouldn't have a job'. When in reality the lowly paid worker could easily spin it back on them and say 'without me you...

There is a really good book which has garnered renewed interest during the crisis called 'Bullshit Jobs' by David Graeber. Basically, he exposes the idea that in general, the higher the remuneration, the less useful to society a particular job is. That is to say; we have an economy where...

Haha! ;) I am mostly referring to the small but sizeable minority of schools where there is such a dearth of talent that there are Heads of Department who are trained in PE or other subjects. A school is considered lucky if it has a qualified teacher of Physics, for instance, else some joker...

This is a consequence of the appalling teaching of science we have in British schools. British scientific standards are behind Germany, the Scandinavian countries, you name it. It is only because of foreign researchers that the British scientific head is above water. Rather than regarding...

To be fair everything is related in some way. Self-sufficiency in terms of cooking has been poor in the UK and US (I can't comment on other Western countries), but I know that even in other countries where people eat out a lot, the basic cooking skills are emphasised, whereas here we tend to...

It kind of shows just how poor people are at cooking that the economy is so reliant on the health of restaurants. I know in other countries a high proportion eat out quite often too, but given how expensive the average meal is here, it shows how bad we are at educating people on things like...

Knew I'd get my lefts and rights wrong somewhere!:joyful:

Great shot stopper, but makes some silly mistakes at times. Was at fault in the youth team's FA Youth Cup defeat to Cogenhoe United back in 2018 when he dropped a clanger. That said, mistakes often o happen at youth team level. I've seen Cian Tyler slip up a few times with his footwork. At...

Exactly. As a society we worship money makers as the gold standard definition of 'success'. It consumes society to such an extent that most people are happy to characterise the disabled as 'benefits scroungers' but won't bat an eyelid at the tax evasion (which is, to be fair, legal) or tax...