Nik

Would also hurt FIFA as a major bonus - might make them think twice about handing out peace awards and cosying up to regimes.

Free header, centre of the box, has to hit the target

Leeds United's last 37 FA Cup draws. #lufc

Away, Away, Away, Away, Home, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Home, Home, Away, Away, Away, Home, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Away, Home, Away, Home, Home, Away, Away

There was absolutely no mention in of it in Sky commentary either, which nearly boils my piss as much

DCL’s goal v Brentford with ESPN South American commentary.

He’s developed his Calvert-Lewin song. 🫡

Hard to argue with. Saw two different classes with regard to in-game management today.

Had enough of him now. Hes gotta go. Baffled by in game management. Just compare to Emery.

So slow, no ideas on how to break teams down, and now we’re starting to leak goals at the back. All confidence now drained from last season.

Roll on January when we still lack a playmaker and excuses of it being such a difficult window to deal in come round again

10 years today since the FIFA top hats were dragged out of their beds and eventually shipped off to the US or on the run. Led to major shift in leadership. How have things gone since?

The Square Ball, season 35, issue 08

The sweet sensation of promotion, the new play 'Through It All Together', crying while listening to 'Play All The Way', and advice on how to get rid of stress piles.

Get it at Elland Road tomorrow or online now! ✏️ Rob Palmer

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Tree Shadows on the Park Wall, Roundhay, Leeds, 1872, by John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836-93 (Leeds Art Gallery). #NorthernArt

They just guess…

😳

Fact Premier League allows clubs to pass own rules is a disaster. The recent Chelsea situation highlights this. Backed by a few clubs thinking they may face similar situation, ban on selling assets to self not imposed. Not a chance Chelsea’s women’s team can be valued at £150m, and yet here we are.

Had the same with Norwegian at Xmas when flight was cancelled. Never got back in touch with replacement flights and had sort own accommodation - still waiting for them to all reimburse flights, expenses etc, 3 months on.

Patient praised for talking down lone hospital bomber Duncan Gardham a knife and a handgun that fired blanks. He waited outside the en- A judge has praised a patient who trance to the hospital. persuaded a trainee nurse to abandon Newby was returning from a walk a suicide attack with a home-made when he saw Farooq. He later told bomb on the hospital he worked at. police that he appeared "depressed Mohammad Farooq, 29, was arrested outside St James's Hospital in and upset" so he tried to cheer him. "T'm quite good at reading people's Leeds with a bomb made from a pres- body language," he said. "I thought sure cooker and low explosives. would go over and see if he's all right." Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb Newby said they had a "totally nor- praised the patient, Nathan Newby, mal chat" before Farooq opened a when she sentenced Farooq to life in bag to show him the pressure cooker She said he was a man ero a man, and wires. He moved Farooq to a bench away from the hospital en- "prepared to do the unthinkable". trance and, after three hours, con- Sheffield crown court was told he vinced him to let him call the police. had followed a terrorist manual for Newby later told officers: "I was "lone wolf mujahedeen" and created shocked I had managed to talk him a device similar to the bomb used at out of it. I gave him a hug and said the Boston Marathon in 2013, which mate you've done the right thing." killed three people. Detective Superintendent Paul Farooq had first planned to attack Greenwood, a head of investigations the listening station at RAF Menwith for counter terrorism, said Newby Hill in North Yorkshire but found had performed an "act of real brav- that the security was too tight. ery". ". He added that the explosion Jonathan Sandiford KC, for the would have been devastating. prosecution, said he then went to the The judge told the court that New- hospital "to commit a terrorist atroci- by was a "modest and gentle man, ty and seek his own martyrdom". whose evidence was…

give Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero

A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew If ‘New Trafford’ is such a nailed-on wealth generator, then why aren’t Ratcliffe and the Glazers funding it themselves?

as the late economist Allen Sanderson put it: “if you want to inject money into the local economy, it would be better to drop it from a helicopter than invest it in a new ballpark”. column on the facts and the fictions of New Trafford www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Nasser Hussain’s cricketing truth-bomb fights back against march of AI robots | Barney Ronay The Sky Sports pundit deserves an award for his accurate assessment of India’s Champions Trophy gerrymandering

barney's column this weekend is sensational

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I wish Jesse Marsch would stick to politics and leave opinions about football to others.
#lufc

Spot on - for me lacks the football intelligence to play no.10 emphasised by a self-awareness of his deficiencies as a player and certain undercurrent of entitlement in interviews.

was hoping someone would dig this out 😂

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