Ben Zalin

Course, if he does look good for perhaps a 2500 min season, ramping up from a gentler start to play more, that’s different for squad building to if he remains an occasional impact sub.

We’ll know more as the season goes on but it’s hard to see him playing a regular part by the start of 26/27, even if he’s played quite a bit more. Simply isn’t time to get his workload up to more than the occasional full game in six months, I don’t think, without being irresponsible about it.

I mean, sure, would be hopeful he can improve his heading and other aspects of his game but he’s been really good overall, especially when the plan presumably was to play him early season while Isak got up to speed, then use him relatively sparingly.

His finishing overall and heading especially were highlighted as areas of his game that weren’t great when he moved, albeit he’d only had one season below his xG so probably just natural variation. His finishing has been really good and he’s buried a few headers, so don’t think we can complain.

Want trying to imply you said they were, just that they’re good enough to do it with that cushion. I hope they don’t (well, not at expense of LFC, obvs, v happy for them to finish ahead of Chelsea and United) but it’s a lot of good runs from other teams needed to get several past them.

They’ve got a big cushion and aren’t a *bad* team, so are pretty likely to cling on.

Yes, it’s an odd one. Don’t think Villa are the best run club but they usually do a decent enough job of getting Emery players he’ll use, even if they max out the credit card doing it.

This has gone badly for all involved. Presume Emery, who doesn’t like a wide forward, thought he would use Harvey quite a lot narrow, which is his game but deal structure then loomed large once he turned out not to fancy him v much after all.

Oh yeah, v much so.

I know, they’ve been a mid table standard side!

Does it really count if Villa themselves have created even less?

So there is quite a bit of irrationality. Don’t get me started on some of the Brexit markets. But it’s not quite as insane as all that.

At that point Biden was behind in all of them and Trump winning was v possible, although the blue shift phenomenon with postal ballots did mean Biden’s chances looked good to the cognoscenti.

Trump’s Betfair predicted chance of winning was in in about 10-20 even once all states counted.

I don’t think this is right. The betting markets had quite a lot of irrational beliefs about the American presidential election, including that Trump *might* win when he’d officially lost but Biden hadn’t mathematically won anything by the day after the election. Several states were still counting.

This is the nerd equivalent of the line from “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole” where he says he’s an intellectual but not v clever.

Lol, rechecked and looks like I was right initially, when I did it in my head and screwed up checking it on the calculator, because 350m is too big a number to write in correctly.

It turns out percentages are hard and I meant about 40 thousand!

Don’t you reckon the public really think there are nearly half a million ultra rich, transgender, atheist Jewish New Yorkers?

Not even close either, only 3 teams did better than half as well.

That or no theory of mind for 99% plus of the population. Well, could be both, I suppose.

Being too online, I read a whole argument provoked by this before coming across a post enlightening me that this was a *pro* comic, not one mocking prison abolitionists.

Oh those people with v valid questions I’d prefer not to answer? I ignore them, obvs.

If only there were some remedial action she could take at this stage. Ah well.

Yeah, odd situation where at times he’s held better distance from v obvious racism than the Tories, while happily blowing the right dog whistles. It’s a skill but not easy when under pressure from the right.

There’s also a risk to not running a one man band forever, given he’s hard to work with.

You must be at least somewhat proud. I certainly would be.

Could not recommend.

Grew up near there. Lubo is correct,
I’m afraid.

Incredible that Spurs finished 4th, even with the favourable draw which most of the EPL teams had (as not having to face one another). The really amazing thing is that they weren’t even all that lucky in doing it. The EPL is a stupidly strong league this season.

Third! Admittedly, amounts to the same thing.

Yeah, that’s v fair.

I think the conversation generally about the spectrum from diving, through buying fouls up to being unambiguously fouled is discussed in a pretty thoughtless way, especially as player reaction to the foul can be on a slightly different axis, which makes it quite complicated.

Well, I think it’s fair to say it was very good attacking play and he quite likely timed going to ground well. I don’t mean that as a criticism: in general he gets given far fewer fouls than he deserves.