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Bethell drove England to a good win today despite all the hype around wonder boy - he clearly is very talented but hadn’t played on a proper wicket like Old Trafford’s before. All part of learning. That surface ought to be the standard Lord’s is held to - no excuse for the slow, low crap they’ve produced for years. I know it won’t happen but I’d make it a white ball only venue if the MCC won’t dig it up and get a surface where the keeper isn’t taking the ball at their ankles. Can use a drop in pitch next summer if needed. As for England, that doesn’t cover over the cracks of pure disorganisation. Won’t get any better with Harry Bungalow as Test captain.

France deserved to win. I think they were too keen to show they were ruffled at the end which might encourage Morocco and future opponents, although Morocco are x100 more talented than Paraguay and capable of turning anyone over. Paraguay - well done on beating Germany but you can park a double decker bus every so often and your petulance and attitude actually undid all of the defensive discipline as that was a really silly penalty. He wasn’t scoring from there.

MLS I reckon. He won’t go to the Championship even if Wrexham offer daft wages. Besides, he didn’t exactly leave on great terms.

Argentinian shithousery without Argentinian flair and technical ability = Paraguay

Only started 6 games so Saints recalled him in January,

Dom Shaw outdoes Neil Factless Allen and Sam Fishyface on the cunt scale x10. As for that Radio Tees presenter who called our fans scum…

Interesting, thanks. Looks a good place https://lifeontheroam.com/budva-montenegro/ although Budva in need of some Budvar by the sounds of it.

Fuck off you cunt https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wy26p5lexo PS - if there’s an option to increase his sentence, do it. Ellie Reeves has appealed it for being too soft already. Rot in hell you little shit.

Was on loan to Red Star in Ligue 2 for first half of last season. Not bad progress for a 19 year-old CB. Has played for France at age levels but so did Yoann Folly.

The word long-term Brexiteers (not the people who turned up in June 2016 to vote, I mean the ERG/UKIP/old Labour left) have never understood, from the ones in my life I suspect coming from a position of English exceptionalism in some cases, is reciprocity. It’s a fundamental aspect of any trade negotiations and although May botched the initial Brexit mechanisms, she did at least understand this and had no hand to play after the 2017 GE. Even if a larger US deal was ever in the offing (it wasn’t), UK already had redlines around food standards and the NHS which would be unpalatable to the overwhelming majority of the public to waive. And it wound up large Commonwealth players such as India for obvious reasons, another deal which might have moved the dial.

I see your point and it makes sense, and an independent judiciary is a key part of democracy. But that was a shocker, it’s the worst recently but far from the only out of touch/soft sentence that’s had to be overturned in rapid order.

One of the opportunities might have been a blockbuster trade deal with India, but as May found out that would’ve meant large scale freedom of movement from Modhi’s perspective which would have been unacceptable to most Brexiteers. The US bumper trade deal was never on the table, certainly not with an America First MAGA nor with the Democrats really. Look at the state of the Australia deal - UK farmers lost out on that big time (you’d think they’d learn their lesson…). The biggest trade deal and market by far was the one we were already in on the single market discount rate Thatcher negotiated at her peak before the early onset kicked in later in the 1980s.

Agreed, the boys committed an adult offence, one of the most serious, and will remain a danger for quite some time, if they ever aren’t frankly. The judicial system needs to firm up around this aspect. As for the original judge, this is why there needs to be a retirement age of 65, perhaps up to 70 for exceptional judiciary, because we can’t have doddery old men sitting on important cases like this who can’t keep up with social change. And yes, I’ll probably be one of those at some stage!

Good https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4807pn9lo

Who on earth knows why - not even sure he does. As for the smuggler, get a police van and Home Office out to Leicestershire tonight (if he hasn’t gone to ground), cuff him for the UK offences he’s committed since he snuck in, and the Home Office can tell him his asylum outcome on the way to the airport on a one way trip. His expensive lawyer will go nuts but there’s nothing he can do about it. And if the authorities say it can’t happen that quick, some of my family are ex-police and it can and has happened like that.