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Kevin Friend. Southampton v Liverpool about 10 years ago!!!

Sort of signing we should be after although he might need a good pre-season to work off all of the complimentary carbs at PNE….

Yep, that’s what we do as well at the Brewhouse Quarter cinema in Cheltenham.

Does depend what fish you’re having https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v92v4l8nzo - some chippies offer cheaper alternatives. I’ve been a ‘never mind the Pollock’ advocate for a long time. A lot of people, especially boomers and older get fixed on cod but approximately it’s also true that fish and fish and chip prices have doubled since 2020 so it’s not just you and Turkish.

You had me agreeing with Charles/Jander but lost me with Azaz.

Yes ridiculous how the bill can mount up

Well worth staying in there for all those hours, until you needed one. I prefer ale, and trying out new ones. It's not my fault that the local Wetherspoons stocks the best range, and it's much cheaper. I live minutes away from my town centre. Buying any coffee, or anything else from a Costa, is madness with a kettle so close. Equally mad to sell an organ that you might need to process cinema food. Given two similar things, I'll pick the clubcard deal one. I begrudge my local team putting the crisps up by loads, when I can see the giant box of golden wonder sitting there. But, in company, if someone really wants to do something, then that's fine. The last thing I want to do, is go on about it. 🙂

Good man. I hope you went heavy on the paper and got vfm.

I'm with you. We popped out last night, just us 2. Diego's, basically an indy version of Nandos in Bedford Place. 2 mains, nothing fancy, 1 side order of prawns (from the starters), 1 bottle of water for me, couple of ciders for my wife. No starters, desserts or nibbles on the table. With service, £90. In fairness, it was good for what it was, service and atmosphere were great, but for a single course meal, only 1 person having a couple of cheap drinks, almost a ton spent. Pleasingly they were busy in there, but many places weren't. Not long ago we'd have got a really good meal for that.

Needed a wee whilst out and about in Cornwall last week. Public toilets were 50p to use. Bit miffed, but I stumped up the cash as I was desperate and once in there made sure I got my money's worth by squeezing out an unnecessary poo.

Yep, can rack up easily. Showcase is very expensive during peak times.

This would work more subtle at the back of the shirt where they have the football and halo 😇 just below the neck in the middle shoulders.

Drink and popcorn for the kid and wife. I'm more than happy bringing my own bottled drink in.

You didn't witness Anthony Taylor against Leicester a few years back??

They did go overboard afterwards, I agree. I don't blame Paraguay for trying to rough them up a bit, that was the only way they had a chance. But the ref was the main one at fault, he was really poor, that game needed a few yellow cards to knock some of the antics on the head or at least make some of the main offenders think. France are certainly not blameless especially with play acting, but suspect there would be a greater outcry if England were on the end of the Paraguay "tactics" if they went unpunished by the ref in that way.

Wait until you hear about all the “men’s” football teams that are also losing multiples of that.

Yes. "England will not just be fighting against the fierce passion of an entire nation when they face Mexico in the iconic Azteca Stadium..." That's from Beeb's Phil McNulty, so I spared myself reading any more of his drivel.

Last time I went to the cinema properly was to see Top Gun Maverick, decided to make a night of it and go to the Everyman, tickets, couple of drinks and a few snacks and spent over £80 for 3 of us

I’m definitely getting tighter as I get older. Tend to look at the prices of stuff a lot more than I used to. Don’t eat out anything like we used to, mainly because I object to paying best part of £100 for very average pub food. I’ll go somewhere if there is a deal on but tend to avoid it. I know people say the hospitality industry is really suffering but it’s a vicious circle where the price has gone up hugely whilst the standard has gone down which forces the price to go up as it’s a lot quieter than it used to be.

I'm an unashamed tight sod and take snacks and a drink with me. I'm not paying cinema prices. The cinema ticket is usually a freebie from the bank as well.

Pretty sure the BBC sounds effects team add the "Dum Dum Dummmm" sound every time someone says Azteca though

Bethell did well but a single Indian bowler lost that game single handedly. India bat well but their bowling is sub standard overall.

Is it mandatory to say ‘iconic’ before Azteca stadium?

JWP could compete for the Charles/Jander role, as well as the Azaz role, probably do a job on the right, and potentially at right back if needed. If he would take sensible Champ wages and isn't physically degraded then he'd be a great signing and would offer a lot to the match day squad, even if it's as a utility option.

This french team are always victims of something or other, well in their own opinion anyway. I saw a couple of french fouls that a good few refs would have sanctioned with a card. It was a feisty match from the start. Ref could have got a better grip from the start but he was ineffective in both directions.