Lighthouse

"Look guys, I know we invaded your country five years ago with the expressed intention of wiping it out, saying you don’t have any right to exist, blowing up schools and hospitals, committing war crimes, raping teenage girls and dumping their corpses in the streets. We’re still really keen on doing all of this, we’re throwing every man we’ve got into the Donbas meat grinder to try and conquer your land and launching as many drones as we can get into civili buildings with no intention of giving up and leaving you alone… …. But these retaliations are just completely unfair. Blowing up our oil refineries is really bad for our exports and where the f**k are we supposed to get our waffle makers from if you keep blowing up our Wildberries depots?! From now on, please could you only employ retaliation we don’t actually care about, like a pop concert where everyone is waving flags or some strongly worded #nomoreinvasion tweets."

I assume most of these players have got some decent holidays lined up because they’ve completely checked out of this season.

That’s about the most ludicrous take on regional politics as I’ve ever seen. Russia having its buttons pressed? How about maybe, you know, not invading a peaceful democracy and blowing up buildings full of civilians for five years? Just a suggestion, maybe stop trying to wipe an entire nation off the face of the map and see if that improves things a bit. NATO and the EU are supplying weapons to Ukraine so that they can keep existing as a country. Iran is supplying drones to Russia so they can blow up children in their sleep. You’re asking why I support one and have a problem with the other? I’ve no idea how a sane adult can hold that option bout Russia.

Israeli is a very distant fourth on the list of countries destabilising the world. Russia, Iran and the USA are all far more problematic.

So Iran destabilising the entire region, supporting fanatical militants, supplying drones to Russia and having a stated aim to exterminate the entire Jewish state don’t count?

I did think about that season yesterday. The problem with your argument is that City got a draw with United, so if you’re applying the same logic and give United the win, they have 68 points and we still don’t get CL football.

I would be curious to see how many Haaland scored in the National League North, if he stayed.

Feel a bit sorry for Thomas. I also got arrested for getting my dinghy out and having a slash, on Netley beach.

What consequence exactly is it you feel is attributable to Boro's social media and media campaign?

Perhaps we could bring in that mush with the bleached hair who got banned for drugs, to offer emotional support.

Meanwhile on Easyjet…

Good lad. Delighted for him.

It is my understanding that MB is a poster on Saintsweb.co.uk

Man City have the best accountants money can buy, finding every loophole there is in the rules, so they can file their accounts in a way which they can argue is legal. We’ve got a bloke with a camera, stood next to a tree.

I’m not convinced that arguing one of our interns missed his flight up to Eastleigh is going to have them convinced TBH.