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I've no time of autocratic and theocratic leaders so if the people of Iran want change then that's for them to decide.

The questions around CIA involvement and more to the point the Mossad who have openly admitted involvement is a concern as we've seen in both Syria and Libya where there are open mass shootings and reprisals on a daily basis post regime change and no democracy in sight.

Israel craves a weak Iran so if the Ayatollah does topple they will bomb the shít out of the place just like they did in Syria and no one will give two shiny shítes for the ordinary Iranians getting bombed to death like they didn't care one jot for them when the US was bombing Iran at the behest of Israel last year.

Who now for regime change? The Saudis? The Emiratis'? Egypt?

Nice that millions of 'the people of Iran' got a short cameo role at the start there.

As usual, they don't count, it's all about Israel, the US, the West.

It is when the main actors in this region are "Israel, the US, the West".

Just look at Libya and Syria in particular.

Is that what the Iranian people want there as well? Will they get a say?

Iran is a 'main actor' in the region as well.

Don't you think it's odd that millions of people are protesting and being brutally murdered by a horrific regime and it's barely a consideration for you?

They also removed the US backed Shah for the very same reasons and ended up with the Ayatollah's.

What they don't need is US freedom and democracy like the Syrians are now experiencing.

Let's not kid ourselves, the US via the CIA and the Mossad won't accept any government in that region unless they support their will, democracy is nothing but a smokescreen.

This has nothing to do with the wishes of the Iranian people.

Yet there they are, on the streets.

And you have no thought or concerns for them or their lives, it's all just CIA, Mossad, great power games for you and those like you.

Are you saying Mossad aren't involved?

I've no time of autocratic and theocratic leaders so if the people of Iran want change then that's for them to decide.

The questions around CIA involvement and more to the point the Mossad who have openly admitted involvement is a concern as we've seen in both Syria and Libya where there are open mass shootings and reprisals on a daily basis post regime change and no democracy in sight.

Israel craves a weak Iran so if the Ayatollah does topple they will bomb the shít out of the place just like they did in Syria and no one will give two shiny shítes for the ordinary Iranians getting bombed to death like they didn't care one jot for them when the US was bombing Iran at the behest of Israel last year.

Who now for regime change? The Saudis? The Emiratis'? Egypt?

Nice that millions of 'the people of Iran' got a short cameo role at the start there.

As usual, they don't count, it's all about Israel, the US, the West.

It is when the main actors in this region are "Israel, the US, the West".

Just look at Libya and Syria in particular.

Is that what the Iranian people want there as well? Will they get a say?

Iran is a 'main actor' in the region as well.

Don't you think it's odd that millions of people are protesting and being brutally murdered by a horrific regime and it's barely a consideration for you?

They also removed the US backed Shah for the very same reasons and ended up with the Ayatollah's.

What they don't need is US freedom and democracy like the Syrians are now experiencing.

Let's not kid ourselves, the US via the CIA and the Mossad won't accept any government in that region unless they support their will, democracy is nothing but a smokescreen.

This has nothing to do with the wishes of the Iranian people.

I've no time of autocratic and theocratic leaders so if the people of Iran want change then that's for them to decide.

The questions around CIA involvement and more to the point the Mossad who have openly admitted involvement is a concern as we've seen in both Syria and Libya where there are open mass shootings and reprisals on a daily basis post regime change and no democracy in sight.

Israel craves a weak Iran so if the Ayatollah does topple they will bomb the shít out of the place just like they did in Syria and no one will give two shiny shítes for the ordinary Iranians getting bombed to death like they didn't care one jot for them when the US was bombing Iran at the behest of Israel last year.

Who now for regime change? The Saudis? The Emiratis'? Egypt?

Nice that millions of 'the people of Iran' got a short cameo role at the start there.

As usual, they don't count, it's all about Israel, the US, the West.

It is when the main actors in this region are "Israel, the US, the West".

Just look at Libya and Syria in particular.

Is that what the Iranian people want there as well? Will they get a say?

I've no time of autocratic and theocratic leaders so if the people of Iran want change then that's for them to decide.

The questions around CIA involvement and more to the point the Mossad who have openly admitted involvement is a concern as we've seen in both Syria and Libya where there are open mass shootings and reprisals on a daily basis post regime change and no democracy in sight.

Israel craves a weak Iran so if the Ayatollah does topple they will bomb the shít out of the place just like they did in Syria and no one will give two shiny shítes for the ordinary Iranians getting bombed to death like they didn't care one jot for them when the US was bombing Iran at the behest of Israel last year.

Who now for regime change? The Saudis? The Emiratis'? Egypt?

[Why no 5cm rule here?]

As I said last Sunday about the Wirtz goal, they've picked and chosen when to use this 5cm rule
In fact it was actually unheard of before last Sunday
Did they just make it up to cover up a mistake?
Haaland was millimeters off if even after the VAR checks it with a magnifying glass for seven minutes

Why no 5cm rule here?

The games finished

That's a valid question there.

The other part I keep hearing about VAR is that it's there if the referee made a "clear and obvious" error.

If they need 5 minutes, dozens of different angles, slow motion etc then it can't be clear and obvious!!!

For me that goal should have stood as the Newcastle defender was holding Haaland as much as Haaland holding him, so how could Haaland be onside when he's being held in an offside position?

As for Michael Keane pulling the pony tail, utter stupidity and Moyes should be fining him for it and Grealish maybe as well for the sarcastic clapping.

Yes, the referee was a tad inconsistent, but you can't be doing either of those things.

Carrick back as the merry go round continues. He did ok with three tough games on paper on his short spell the last time

lost away to Watford on Nov 20th with Ole.

Away to Villareal - Nov 23rd
2-0 win (1.14 to 0.56 xG), 49% possession, 11 to 13 in shots.

De Gea
AWB Lindelof Maguire Telles
Mctominay Fred
Sancho VdB Martial
Ronaldo

Subs: Bruno, Rashford, Matić, Mata.
Unused subs: Henderson, Heaton, dalot, Bailly, amad, Lingard

Away to Chelsea - Nov 28th
1-1 draw (0.90 to 3.11 xG), 34% possession, 3 shots to 24

De Gea
AWB Lindelof Bailly Telles
Mctominay Matić Fred
Bruno
Sancho Rashford

Subs: Ronaldo, Lingard, van de beek
Unused subs: Henderson, Dalot, Jones, Mata, Martial, greenwood

Home to Arsenal - Dec 2nd
3-2 win (1.94 to 1.44 xG), 44% possession, 14 shots to 17

De Gea
Dalot Lindelof Maguire Telles
McTominay Fred
Rashford Bruno Sancho
Ronaldo

Subs: Lingard, Martial, Van de Beek
Unused subs: Henderson, Bailly, Jones, Amad, Mata, greenwood

Rangnick came in for the game vs Palace on Dec 5th.

Doesn't get any tougher than to play Man City,Arsenal in his first two games on his return. I expect a 7th or 8th place finish to the season at best.

So Fletcher was the interim, interim manager.

Cheapskate Ratcliffe will be hoping he does a decent enough job so that he can pay him buttons to take it on over the summer.

Eoghan Campbell is a big loss.

What age would he be?

Only got to see parts of the Toureen/Upper Church game and thought it was evenly matched the whole way with the goals in extra time being the difference.

If Toureen come out of Mayo next year are they still intermediate in Connaught?

Kilkenny refused to play on a 4G pitch even after the referee deemed it fit to play on.

I really don't like 3/4G pitches especially for competitive games and can sympathise with Lyng and Kilkenny but the referees decision should be final.

 Westmeath won the toss so probably fair but the GAA needs to make a call on the use of these pitches

Yesterday was the first time I've heard of this "tolerance level" of 5cm that you're allowed to be offside now. They used it to explain why the Wirtz goal stood. Apparently it's only in the premier league and the goal would be offside in other leagues.

Firstly he looked more than 5cm off and secondly, why have they used it here but not in other incidents this season were goals have been ruled out for an armpit or toe being mere millimeters off?

1) The frame chosen by VAR (the correct frame) showed him within 5cm. The TV coverage used the following frame (incorrectly) where yes he appeared more than 5cm.
The actual frame is available online and shows Wirtz is clearly onside. The TV cameras have a frame rate half that of the VAR cameras, hence the discrepancy.

2) The fact that it would be offside in other leagues is completely irrelevant. Would have been a forward pass in rugby too.

With my engineering head on me I always wondered what tolerances were possible with VAR technology and +/- 5cm isn't bad.

It was that tight the attacking team should get the advantage.

Just be consistent

Not sure how Venezuela is going to play out for Trump and the US in the immediate term let alone the long term.

This new Venezuelan leader hasn't toned down her rhetoric during the inauguration.  That may be for the die hards loyal to Maduro but for Trump to get his oil there will almost certainly need to be US boots on the ground and then the fun begins in the oil regions heaving with heavily armed militias  .

Guerilla warfare in terrain these lads know like the back of their hands could make this an expensive and yet another stupid foray for the US army as the body bags start arriving back in the US.


Trump is yet another evil **** to be in the hot seat of the US presidency and military interventions in Latin America, coups funded by the CIA have been going on for decades so this is nothing new, he's just more brazen.

I thought it was getting resurfacing work done.

It was awful for the Hurling final

Tullycarnon

Where exactly is Tullycarnon?

A quick search online shows there are two townlands in Down with the name- one in and around Portaferry, the other about Ardglass.

Bottom of the peninsula. Think they were a junior club in the 40s and 50s.

Tullycarnon is a townland outside Portaferry.

They and Carrig Uladh were the two teams who merged to become St Patricks, Portaferry as they are now known.

The parish priest at the time insisted on the name having religious connotations as the pitch was on parish ground.

Is Ballyvarley and Banbridge not one and the same thing?

The thing about the Epstein files is that it should implicate both Republicans and Democrats in equal measure.