Gloucester Saint

Night watchman Coad 0, 37-3.

Whiteman out for 14, 37-2.

Bean baked by Abbott for 1. See if we can get one or maybe even two more tonight.

He reminds me of the goby kid at Wednesday afternoon snooker who got whitewashed 3-0 at Pot Black every week and always said ‘I’ll be back next week with my graphite cue and I’ll thrash you’. Next Wednesday, no graphite cue and the same outcome.

Need early wickets tonight, at least a couple. Hard to tell if 251 is competitive until both have batted on it, but bar Lehmann, lots of starts and few finishes. Agree @Window Cleaner that Weatherley is crap. Waste of a spot and means Yusuf was coming in as high as 7. Brown is far from undroppable at the moment. Not seeing his influence on the side either so he needs runs and catches. Opening bowlers need to be fuller at Headingley - good economy but not getting their openers forward enough. You might get driven a couple of times but worth it to get a wicket.

It’s pure distraction. What an absolute mess Trump and MAGA. Vance trying to prop up the ailing Orban in Hungary whilst blatantly briefing behind the scenes so he’s distanced from Iran, Trump, Kushner and Mad Ben. Unfortunately for him, we all remember the meetings with the AFD during the German elections and we know he’s as far right as Trump. Would be brilliant to see Orban toppled at the weekend, one key populist domino falling and further weakening Trump ahead of the mid-terms. He propped up that twat in Argentina with a big bag of money but it would reassuring if European electorates are unable to be controlled in the same way. Mad Ben himself under a hail of criticism domestically for the war not bringing the regime change he promised in Iran and the depleting of Hezbollah. He’s fucked up and he’s fucked Trump and the rest of us up with him. Moron.

Apartheid Elon will have some company then.

He’s an inverse Owen Jones, another writer I can’t stand. I read his book the Madness of Crowds but it was so one-eyed it became a chore to get to the finish https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1472979575/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm?ie=UTF8&pageNumber=2&nextPageToken=MjAyNi0wNC0xMFQxMjowNzo1OS4wNzE5NTk0ODRaADEw I would add my own review but CrackedActor and Khaled Jhail summarise my thoughts neatly between with theirs on the link above. Patrician provides a balanced review as well. Murray clearly doesn’t have much grasp of women’s hard earned rights in workplaces and was 30 years out of date on #MeToo. He made some decent points on cancel culture, free speech, but they got drowned out by a drum beat of anti-‘woke’ and anti-liberal tropes in every single chapter. Another white Christian fundamentalist and nationalist text. Nothing there to help bridge yawning societal divides. I think I’ll give his Israel book a miss from last year… I prefer Conservative thinkers who can survey both sides - Hague, Hunt, Buckland, May’s book I’m currently reading and enjoying. Ditto Liberal-leading texts.

There seemed to be an anti-Semitic element when Corbyn was Labour leader, less so now. Nick Lowles was out of order on the Middlesbrough acid rumour, need to check facts better. The exposure of vile human beings like Peter Crawthorn in Clacton as elected politicians I don’t have an issue with at all though. And Farage had to settle on the libel case. Douglas Murray is also a cunt with a capital C. They’re not my cup of tea as people - too judgemental - but if push came to shove, I’d prefer them to EDL or Reform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_not_Hate

American capitalism is the worst in the world. I don’t mind it elsewhere. FIFA are in on it as well, every bit as corrupt.

Flippin heck - could you actually see the goals properly? Loftus Road can be like that as well.

Antifa is very much an American thing - here we have Hope Not Hate, Anti Nazi League but they’re rarely violent whereas Antifa in the States certainly can/do deploy violence and cover their faces. More about them here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/X56rQkDgd0qqB7R68t6t7C/seven-things-you-need-to-know-about-antifa Sounds like Wayne the plumber in Plymouth has got overexcited reading a radicalised SM mix from the states, incel culture and MAGA and seeing things which aren’t there. And certainly not in Devon! I don’t know how/where Soggy finds this stuff?

https://www.skysports.com/football/video/34072/13529081/wrexham-1-5-southampton-championship-highlights

Azaz booked not Flynn

Azaz deserved for that to go in, had a great game.