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Judas Priest - Living After Midnight

I blame the English for everything though

Living in a Box - Living in a Box

Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer

Nah, that was responsible for goal line technology. They solved that one. A technology that works perfectly, because it gets used once or twice a season, and it's conclusive.

Nobody has seen our Labour MP since election night, so he would absolutely stroll it up here At the risk of sounding like @RicoS321 theres no point anyway. Burnham can’t change anything if he did get in. There’s too many there that could suffer some very real consequences if he did and that will not be allowed to happen. The folk running the Labour Party would see it die first. Then you’ll still get Luke Akehurst crying it was because they never shifted to the right enough

Makerfield at the last GE, saw a huge swing, basically a straight shift from Tory to Reform. The Labour vote share only dropping by something like .15%. The result was based on a 52% turnout. If Burnham can get out knocking on doors and get people engaged and away from the poison of Reform, then he has a very good chance of keeping it Labour. I am sure if he can tap into some of the 48% that didn't vote, he has a good chance of winning the seat, as I don't think someone not voting in the 2024 GE, is suddenly going to vote Reform. I don't think there is a seat safe enough, that they can parachute him into at the moment, where a Labour win is 100% guaranteed.

I always blame Frank Lampards goal against Germany for it

England has gone fucking mental

There won't be an uproar though, that would only occur if it was the other way round. The rules around handball were changed specifically for VAR. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the deliberate handball rule. However, if you have still shots and video evidence then the closer you can have to it being "any touch on the hand", then the easier it is to identify handballs, to the extent that the obvious trajectory would be for an algorithm to do it. That is the goal of the VAR guys, ever increasing involvement and automation. Of course, in the interim, it benefits the big teams. It takes the existing bias in the game, and amplifies it, because there are more opportunities to give decisions and more procrastination, and thus doubts, over decision making. You can (incorrectly!) make the case for it being a Tim's pen, as @tlg1903 has, but only an absolute fool would try and pretend that a penalty would have been given at the other end of the pitch. To think that we had people suggesting VAR was essential because it would stop the scum cheating! There was an official from down South on BBC Scotland yesterday, who correctly dissected why VAR should not have been involved. His answer was more cameras, and less VAR involvement. He repeated the absolutely ridiculous statement that "VAR was only meant to be for the really obvious mistakes"! I nearly punched the radio. As was pointed out by people like me well before VAR existed: there is no definition of obvious, ever; if we could agreement on the indefinable, there would not be enough decisions to ever merit the expense of the technology and additional cameras to make it work (which is why we don't have goal line technology in Scotland). When I pointed this out years ago and asked for any decision that met the threshold of absolutely obvious error, I suggested that there is always one, and only one, incident that everyone goes back to and seems to be the entire reason for VARs implementation. Lo and behold, the chap on the radio went all the way back to Thierry Henry versus Ireland to make his absolutely woeful case for "better VAR". It's a failed experiment, that was always going to be. In the next year or two, it'll be expanded to checking corners. Then it'll be free kicks and yellow cards. Edit: with advertising alongside each call.

JoBoxers - Boxer Beat

Not great. @Mason89 I suspect you are possibly correct.

Suspect the Tories are impotent in this (and most things). It’ll be all about the right aligning behind reform to try not to let him win, as Mason says. Tories just dilute that effort.

Just shows that the rules and VAR are both shite and need binning. Perhaps it mean if Hearts fluff it, we may get a real crack at changing things due to the uproar?

The The - The Mercy Beat

The other thing is, if he does win, he shows that Reform can be stopped, which I suspect pretty much guarantees him the party leadership. That said, I imagine there will be all sorts of funny business going on with eg the Tories being desperate to stop him. Definitely a gamble.

Suppose it’s about speed rather than perfect fit. The time to strike is now so he’s probably got to take what chance he can.

I just think there’s safer seats. Always a gamble parachuting someone in, especially in a place as Reformy as there. Half the party, including the guy stepping aside, will not only want him to lose, they need him to lose

A trap in what way? He’d skoosh it as it will be a referendum on SKS. Greens probably won’t even put a candidate up. Problem is it’ll take months to organise the whole thing. SKS was crowing a bit yesterday. Wes becoming Was and UK topping G7 on growth.

if it is was ever required, this is just another example of us having without a doubt the best fanbase in Scotland. The fans continue to do their bit week in week out and we are without a doubt the best fans in Scotland. Shame we cant say the same about the team on the park. Next season will be better the only way is up

I wonder if the guy vacating the seat (a Labour together chap and Mandy fan boy) will end up in the Lords any time soon? You know, the place Labour pledged to bin Burnham must be off his tits going for that seat. It’s a trap

Makerfield has a deliciously apt ring to it.

Streeting boxed himself in. Other resignations in his name forced him to have to resign or lose credibility. He gambled on getting the numbers to mount a campaign but chose to sit in the background and wait for the momentum to build and it hasn’t. Well, not enough for him anyway. Starmar is so pig headed he’s probably going to make a royal shit show of the next few weeks (even more so). He has no awareness of the need to play to the crowd when you are doing all the dull, technocrat style ‘fixes’ in the system. The more people criticise and challenge, the more he gets irritated that nobody understands what he is trying to do and the harder to like and understand he gets. He has a determined arrogance about him that won’t relinquish control or acknowledge error. He has surrounded himself with others in his mould. Streeting and Reeves being classic examples. I’m not at all convinced that Burnham is the answer from an administrative perspective but he does feel like the best solution from a political figure position. Lewis Goodall’s piece on Miliband on Substack is a decent and interesting read, speculates about him being the clear candidate to come in if AB can’t engineer a seat in time.

Just had a quick look on YouTube and I remember the intro but not much else. We used to watch it in the tv room at primary Also remember champion the wonder horse, rocket man, that strange talking orange thing and the show with the conveyor belt at the start Looking back on it, I suppose it was just so the teachers could get out for a smoke

Must have been just before my time.