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I used it in the past and wouldn’t again. Better to look for Federation of Master Builders in your area if you have a bigger job to advertise as they can have their own trades who work with them regularly who also tend to pretty good as well. Our builder is a 💎. But even FMB accreditation isn’t a panacea, I’ve had other FMB companies turn up for both home and work jobs (the latter a biggie) chewing Wrigley’s like it’s going out of fashion in the mistaken belief that skunk only makes your breath stink and doesn’t go onto your work clothes. And make you glass eyed.

Yep, through my involvement with CAMRA I see fantastic breweries and pubs doing well, some good ones earlier in their business plan struggling with big rent hikes and cost of stock/staff availability in more rural areas (esp from the big pub cos, get managing tenants in a lower rate and hike it hugely when they are getting established after 18 months) and some shysters. On the latter, here is a prime example from the Midlands earlier this year

In a normal employment scenario I’d agree with you but this is far more high profile and the club has a highly paid employee from another country who may not fully understand UK laws yet and a court case would not reflect well on their duty of care. Of course, he’s from an English-speaking country and that would be a thin excuse. This is all one person’s account and given he subsequently admitted liability, I am really not sure she should have put it in the public domain like that let alone the histrionics. The club would get a lot of hassle though and PR to clean up if they hadn’t have advised him on what to do as I suspect they and his agent did. Either way, although accidents happen, if he looked remotely awake on the pitch I doubt it would be paid attention to at all, but he’s looked comatose and the worst outfield player I’ve ever seen for the club - and I was at the Leeds/Dia game.

Matterface is a prick but he made that exact observation on commentary and it’s impossible to argue against. If they had better than Colby Bishop up front we’d have lost that 0-2 on national tv.

Liverpool had some bad times in the 1990s - by their standards - but I don’t remember them losing 9 in 12 or shipping 7 goals at Anfield in two games against opponents they’d be strong favourites against.

Their owner moaning about the cost of the EFL today. Shows you how crap Still was that despite having to bring a shaky reserve keeper on that he was never tested and we didn’t score against them. Mind you, we also were the only side to lose at Ewood Park this season as well. Ginger Mourinho Will was not.

The video is cringey and self-pitying, typical Next Door app type slop, but him - allegedly as we only have one side of the story - driving away from an accident, the club would have had to report it to the police as that’s actually a criminal offence with some serious penalties attached (not that he’d ever be able to score one himself) https://www.draycottbrowne.co.uk/motoring-law/failure-to-stop We’ve not heard his side or the club’s, but if it’s true that he’s not stopped then he should be looking at a driving ban or very close to it. We’ve had stupidity with cars before (Hurlock, Beattie, Lemina) but driving away from an accident scene he’s been involved in or possibly caused, that’s serious. Combined with his absence of any professional football ability and a broken Ross Stewart almost certainly there will be a loan striker coming in January, at least one, and I suspect Damion will be packed off on a long-term subsidised loan somewhere.

Adding to the porn https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62l3j34772o https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/26/reform-uks-small-business-champion-supports-tommy-robinson-and-peddles-conspiracy-theories/

Out for months, tear rather than strain or pull https://southwarknews.co.uk/sport/football/millwall/millwall-boss-reveals-timeline-for-when-will-smallbone-might-be-back/

I quite liked the Coalition but there’s a big caveat - that involved the sensible part of the Conservative Party with brains. Not the ‘Swivel Eyed Loon’ ERG wing who have destroyed it over the last decade. Not Impossible they could recover to 200-250 seats where that would a possibility but they’d need more Jeremy Hunt type figures, new blood like Andy Street, and a cleaning of the stables with plenty of departures to Reform.

That was a far more impressive save than Wrexham. That was a good save but the forward scuffed it. Last night was a firm header downwards, low and travelling in the corner. That’s easily Gavin’s best save in a competitive fixture for the club. Not a fan but that was a superb stop when we’d only just taken the lead.

That was the price of voting Leave in 2016, sharply restricting access to the world’s free market and was always going to be thus. As Badger says, it has been the case for some years now. The Red Wall want higher public spending on services and places, the original Brexiteers want Singapore on Thames, the two are incompatible. You’re paying for a hard Brexit which was a choice and paying off Covid (not a choice but at least with furlough, business kept trading). If you want to break the cycle, campaign to rejoin. It’ll be no different at best and likely far worse under Reform.

Couldn’t have afforded the wages of both I suspect, probably needed THB to leave if Ramsdale could be accommodated, if he had wanted to stay (unlikely). Still no excuse for not getting a new keeper on far less wages than £120k or so per week though.

Another reunion with a former club for Nathan Jones tonight. Will he fare better than Saturday lunchtime?