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I didn't say you were obsessed! Just find it interesting that people often feel like they have to apologise for being interested/claim they're not interested in something which the whole country is talking about, and anyone can have an opinion on. This very thread is a good example.

What do you reckon is the best system for selecting the head of state then?

You said you weren't arsed three weeks ago! I don't think people should be embarassed about being interested in them. Especially given the amount of coverage they get, and the amount of power they have.

I remember another forum I was on years and years ago had a death pool competition where you picked ten names and got points depending on how young the dead person was. That is, until one year someone picked the ten unborn children of various pregnant celebrities...

Sorry, am I wrong? You've argued more times than I can remember against having a presidential system instead.

Clive pronounces it Bid-well most of the time in fairness

I mean that you’ve been a vocal advocate of the monarchy being the best way to decide our head of state, even though the same system very nearly granted that power to a couple who you seem to despise. (And would have gifted that same power to their offspring for ever and ever amen of course)

(It’s ok if you don’t/can’t go to every game, pass it on)

I think Denilson had a ten year contract when he signed for Real Betis. It…..didn’t end well.

Well, all it would have taken was one bad helicopter crash for Wills back in the day and we’d be sitting here planning the coronation of Queen Meghan in a decade or so. But glad you have faith in the system!

How do you pronounce the full name then? My dad goes with ‘Djokovic’, which I should really call him out on, but then again I still haven’t landed on a consistent pronunciation for Hamer after three years, so I’m no better.

You must be deeply concerned at any system of government that would allow Harry and Meghan to be one bad car accident away from significant constitutional power?

Think it’s scientifically impossible to be more obsessed with the royals than the BBC tbh

As well as the growing number of people who definitely don’t care about the silly old royal family, but are for some reason also tracking every latest development and frothing about it.

Very classy of you.

May as well put this in here as it probably doesn’t merit a thread, but a truly batshit story about the US team - someone allegedly tried to blackmail the manager over a domestic violence incident when he was 18. Turns out that someone was Claudio Reyna, the dad of Gio Reyna who the manager had...

Looks like Kenny Jackett can cancel that haircut appointment https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64161503

I’ve seen some artful/skilful goals scored from corners, but never from long throw-ins. It seems like the most crude way to score to me. Not saying they should be banned, I just don’t find them good to look at!

Our former MD Chris Anderson wrote a book about it - Stoke basically used Delap’s long throws to waste time on a historic level. They spent something stupid like a third of the game collecting the ball, drying the ball, setting up for long throws etc - the rationale being that if you minimise...