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Best sponsor we've had since LD Sports....

The twattish new trend of painting a red cross on mini roundabouts when England do moderately ok at football. It's made where I live look a right shit hole (more than it usually does). No doubt it won't get repainted white anytime soon so just looks like crap EDL graffiti indefinitely (I should clarify, I have nothing against the St George's cross, but it just looks shit when painted by a bell end with a roller).

Main observation from the first half is that the referee has his name on the back of his shirt. Is that a new thing? There's some Premier League refs who'd love that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cljy6yz1j6gt?post=asset%3A33116aab-baa2-4626-ae05-9a87cba205db#post Cameraman forgot to tell Gary O'Donoghue that the shooting was over. Instead left him to do a piece still ducking for cover whilst everyone else around him gets on with things.

It's probably handed him the election on a plate. Can see there being more violence, bordering on civil war, in America because of it soon too. I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist but something about it just doesn't quite seem right though from the limited pictures I've seen. I know the secret service are being blamed already but seems too much of a school boy error to just leave him exposed shouting "fight" for so long before being dragged to the car. Feels like it's either a staged photo op (probably a very successful one) or an inside job. Elon Musk is also using it as an opportunity to endorse Trump more than ever. My Twitter homepage is littered with posts from him and pro-Trump rhetoric, despite the fact I don't even follow him.

Don't recall that ever happening before...

Great news. We won the Euro's last time we played in white in the final.

Call me mad, but I'd love that.

We won the Euros in 2022, remember.

Given it just to make the ref woman on commentary look like a mug.

Nothing wrong with that design in itself and no real problem with using an old template (you've got to be a real football nerd to notice, remember it or care) but who on earth signed off on the colours (assuming it's legit)? Oh, and the sponsor looks shit too.

Is that the one near Bargate? Agreed, good place to take some shelter and have a cappuccino. Staying there for a few days seems excessive though.

You're thinking of the Hokey Cokey, not Ring-a-ring O' roses. No need to thank me for the correction.

The media being amazed every time a goalkeeper has details of penalty takers on his water bottle, despite the fact that pretty much all keepers have done it for years.

Blue shorts, I'd hope...

https://x.com/paddypower/status/1807862532251812072?t=o-a3E0ZmJ6BMct1V3P9SrA&s=19

Bloody hell, could you imagine if Jack Stephens broke down in tears like this mid-game?

Couldn't see a thread on this. Permanent move complete. Are we the first professional club ever to sign two Taylor's on the same day? Feels like an opportunity missed to release the new kit and have some kind of 'tailor' pun on social media. https://x.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1807776179413278838?t=LzFJLCJPYY3lGYLE-iGm-Q&s=19

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Bellingham? More like Belling-end.

Zero chance of England being able to break down a side defending a lead. Roll on the World Cup...

So, after about 20 years of solid rejections I have finally got a place in the London Marathon for next year. Annoyingly I had also signed up to Manchester Marathon (which is on the same day) a few weeks ago on the assumption that I wouldn't get in to London. Who here has done a marathon and how does London compare to others? Any top tips for training? I've done a few Half's in about 1:45 so have set a target of 3:45 for the full...

I had to turn my volume up. She was speaking a bit too quietly for me.

We are the only PL club not to have announced any friendlies yet according to this...https://www.premierleague.com/news/3916186 Seems odd that there's not been a sniff of anything much yet.