BenKayWriter

Former player with by far the worst, laziest, most outdated takes on today's football?

Paul Scholes. No contest.

Measles cases have soared by 20% worldwide in the past year, with 742 cases in the UK alone. In August, shortly after a 10-year-old girl in Liverpool died from the disease, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health stated that the UK’s child vaccination rates have not met the World Health Organisation’s target of 95% since 2021. This rather undersells the situation. Sky News reports that “the England-wide rate for the final quarter of 2024/25 for MMR was 88.8%, down from 92.7% 10 years ago” and that “uptake in some local authorities is as low as 60%”. Far be it from me to weigh in on an issue that has become so politicised, as merely a parent who wants my children and those of others to stay alive, but I have a sinking feeling. A feeling exacerbated by a single red box on a perfunctory form and the idle chatter of concerned parents who no longer get their vaccine sceptic news from insane websites and specialist cults, but from prime-time appearances by the country’s most prominent politicians and journalists. A feeling that our children might wonder how we all lived through a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime global virus that killed millions, was effectively cured by the single most rapid and successful vaccination programme in history and which, immediately afterwards, gave way to anti-science posturing that drove vaccination rates to historic lows.

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A club statement from Blackpool saying Steve Bruce has been sacked along with coaches Steve Agnew and Stephen Clemence. Stephen Dobbie and Steve Banks will take temporary charge.

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

The grief thing here doesn't feel like an emotional hollowing out. I quite like the idea of being able to speak to a loved one after they pass away. Perhaps it's an even better way to process grief.

Is this deliberately ambiguous?

Found this on Reddit.

I loathe the Saudi-funded violent twats of 2025 Newcastle. makes this win all the sweeter.

ANT AND DEC, JIMMY NAIL, ALAN SHEARER, KEVIN KEEGAN, DONNA AIR! YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING! A HELL OF A BEATING!!!!!!!

FUCKING YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

Now let's get the fucking winner!

The irony of the fans of Tonali, Guimares, Joelinton, Burn etc. singing 'same old Arsenal, always cheating'.

Such an obvious penalty. Just because it touched Pope's foot? That's still a foul. #NEWARS

Joelinton is such a pathetic little coward #NEWARS

Such a Hanna-Barbera style change of direction from Glasner

Why do people say 'their game in hand is against...'? All their remaining games could be said to be their game in hand. If, say, your Chelsea fixture has to be rescheduled that just makes it one of the games you have to play.

Whack it in my veins.

Football.

Forget that. Palace just scored lol

A more skeptical person than I might start musing about Liverpool bringing back some form of Fergie Time.

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Hey! You have to come out and try to win all the time! Or is that just Arsenal on occasions when that would be suicidal?

You could try shorting Nvidia etc. (if you don't know what this means, don't ask me. I have now reached my limit of stock trading knowledge. Watch The Big Short. It might make more sense).

Thanks, Mr Starmer.

My friend told me he and his brother shared a fleshlight when they were younger. I haven't stopped throwing up.

I did the same with my slippers. I mean I didn't get round to complaining, but I was confused and my wife had to explain how stupid I was.

... which they threw away immediately, causing only three seconds of actual annoyance.

Professor Snape when Ron and Harry crashed the Weasley’s car into the Whomping Willow:

Woman's rape in Oldbury was racially aggravated, say police The two men involved are reported to have made a racist remark during the attack in Oldbury.

Fully expecting to see all those hotel "protestors" who are concerned for women and girls being sexually assaulted out on the streets about this right?

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