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[I'd also have kept King as I thought he looked dangerous when he did get a chance but with one up top he didn't get much opportunity..]

Rodriguez and Mossy Kean are not the issue for Rafa. Building a central core of the team is what he has to do. Pickford seems to have found form, Keane and Yerra Mina are a bit meh, MF is solid, functional but aging, DCL is a good CF. He needs to build a better engine room, Rodriguez and Kean will only contribute to that from a financial perspective and I don't believe they will raise that much money to be honest

Ben Godfrey is a good CB...

Need a new RB as Seamus is getting on and Holgate isn't a RB and not great cover. Need shot of Gomez and Iwobi as soon as. Iwobi has and was a risk buy and proved to be dung.
I'd keep siggy though even if he's getting on in years and get a few halfs out of him.

I'd also have kept King as I thought he looked dangerous when he did get a chance but with one up top he didn't get much opportunity..

Told you so..

I thought the lineup was wrong. Greenwood is better coming on, stretching defences. Rashford just back, thought he might have been better coming on too. I've no idea how Fred gets a game. Then I looked at the bench and who would replace them? Matic, Pogba, VDB, Sancho? None of them any better.

And I'll be happy if I never see that Pogba clown in a United shirt again. An absolute waste of space.

Ronaldo coming back has proved to be a disaster...

He trotted back and forth between the two centre backs not putting either under pressure whereas Cavani goes full belt at them...

No pressure on the ball meant that the runners were picked out at will by Liverpool..

[Wee Scholesy not impressed]

Said it when Atalanta went 2-0, a win after that is just papering over the cracks.  As poor a utd team as I've seen in a long time.

It's a poor team considering the personnel on it. They don't play as a team and are very disjointed.

Wee Scholesy not impressed 

Wee Scholesy was bang on the money...

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-40726065.html

Try too hard to be the Kevin Cashman of the 2020's that lad.

Surprised they allow Kilkenny to vote on this.

"Why did ye throw it away"
"Cos i thought would maybe look bad me with two phones"
Fcukin right it did mate...

At a guess would the Mo boy be out in around 8yrs if he behaves?

Said he needed the old Nokia as the phone signals in Denmark were poor but the Nokia still worked...

Why he kept the battery we'll never know unless he wanted to dispose of it responsibly.

Wonder how many runs they did before this one.

Greed got the better of them it seems and had too many in the container and with the delay in the crossing it was never going to be good.

Could be a smart move by Galway.

It's the better option than Davy Fitz even if Shefflin managing at this level is an unknown entity.


Fitz's man management style went out years ago.

Should be big sales today, double page spread in the sports pages for a board member. Good article.

I enjoyed it too.  I like those articles.

so do I. Always good to hear from the unsung hero's on those types of successful teams.

Fifteen Oisin McConvilles would win SFA.

Said it when Atalanta went 2-0, a win after that is just papering over the cracks.  As poor a utd team as I've seen in a long time.

It's a poor team considering the personnel on it. They don't play as a team and are very disjointed.

Wee Scholesy not impressed 

[Statement from the family of John Pat Cunningham;]

4 soldiers have been been convicted in the North due to killings, Lee Clegg being the most high profile who had his conviction overturned and he continued to serve for many years. The campaign behind him by people within the establishment was unreal. The attitude up here was that certain lives are less important, and we know which ones. It sickens my hole

Its ridiculous the tories, the daily mail, the sun etc will have you believe its a witch hunt and why are the Terrorists not being charged completely ignoring the fact the prisons were rammed full of paramilitaries for decades whilst the soldiers remained untouchable

Statement from the family of John Pat Cunningham;

Following the death of former soldier Dennis Hutchings, the family of John Pat Cunningham wish to acknowledge that this is a difficult time for his family and they should be given time to grieve.

No family member will be giving interviews at this time.

When the time is judged appropriate the family will respond in more detail to the issues surrounding the prosecution of Dennis Hutchings.

In the meantime, it is important to correct the false and factually inaccurate claims that have been made in the media by some political leaders.

It should be noted that none of those who have commented have actually attended the trial and are clearly unaware of the actual facts of the case.

We respectfully remind the public of the facts that were pronounced at the trial, which were uncontested.

The Facts

1. John Pat Cunningham was shot and killed by 3 bullets fired by a British Army patrol on 15 June 1974, in a field in Carickaness Road, Benburb County Tyrone.

2. He was shot through the back and shoulder and endured an injury to his right hand.

3. He was described by a doctor to have been born with an incomplete development of the mind and was declared to be a person requiring Special Care within the meaning of Part 3 of the Mental Health 1948. In today's society would perhaps be described as a vulnerable adult.

4. He was said to have had the mind of a 7 year old. He was known to be anxious and fearful around men in uniforms, and was known to have run from army, police and Priests.

5. A British Army patrol came across John Pat, which was led by Dennis Hutchings. He was in the front seat of the vehicle and was the first to get out. He chased John Pat into a field, closely followed by another soldier.

6. John Pat was shot in the back from a distance of 90 metres.

7. Soldier E, who was in the rear of the landrover, made a statement to say that he saw Hutchings follow John Pat into the field. Soldier E stated "By the time I reached the gate, Solider A (Hutchings) had already climbed over and was standing in the field." Soldier E saw Hutchings stop in the middle of the field and said that he warned John Pat to halt, and that when John Pat kept running, that Hutchings cocked his rifle. Soldier E said he heard 3 or 4 shots and John Pat fell to the ground. Soldier E said he could state who fired their gun.

8. Upon the attendance of the Royal Military Police, the weapons of the soldiers who fired them, were seized. Sergeant Alan Mews seized the Self Loading Rifle serial number 59A.25891 with Sute sight number 5312 and magazine from Dennis Hutchings. When examined, the magazine was found to have only 17 bullets, from 20. This means that Dennis Hutchings fired 3 shots.

9. Sergeant Mews also seized the Self Loading Rifle serial number UB60 A81084 with Sute sight number 5263 and magazine from Soldier B. When examined, the magazine was found to have only 18 bullets, from 20, which means that Solider B fired 2 shots.

10. A report from RUC Detective Sergeant McBurney dated 10 October 1974, found that from the locations where spent cases were found at the scene, they indicated that Soldier A (Hutchings) had fired 3 shots and Soldier B had fired twice.

• It is factually inaccurate to claim that Dennis Hutchings had previously stood trial in connection with the death of John Pat Cunningham as has been claimed in the media.

• It is factually inaccurate to claim that the killing resulted in an Article 2 ECHR compliant investigation. Nothing could be further from the truth, as emerged at trial.

• It follows that it is factually inaccurate to claim that Dennis Hutchings had been 'cleared' in any previous investigation since no proper investigation took place until recently.

• It is factually inaccurate to allege that this prosecution was politically motivated and part of a fictitious 'witch-hunt' against British soldiers. This claim by senior politicians impugns the professional integrity, independence and impartiality of those involved in the recent investigation and prosecution.

• It is factually inaccurate to claim that the shooting of John Pat Cunningham was as the result of a 'split second' decision. Anyone who actually followed the evidence would have been aware of this.

Many people will have noted that much of the negative reaction to this case within unionism and in sections of the British press has been determined by the fact that John Pat Cunningham, who posed no threat whatsoever, was an Irish catholic.

It is the status of the victim that has framed the reaction not the detail of the case. Shame on them.

No-one will be available for interview.

Looks like a few posters here have bought into Sky's pro-Saudi propaganda.

In reality, there's no difference whatsoever between Mohammed Bin Salman and the murderer of David Amess.

It's just that certain posters here, most of the media, the Premier League and the UK Government think one is an appropriate person to own a football club and the other isn't.

You can hardly sell the man billions of pounds worth of "defence equipment" and then complain if he wants to own a football club FFS..

They might think that they are being politically clever by making agreements, hailing them, then reneging on them. Attempting to renegotiate those same agreements, seeking additional concessions from those originally agreed, then threatening to rip them up altogether. But they are just simply talking to themselves. Internationally they are embarrassing themselves and must be scraping the barrel when it comes to having any credibility left.

Frost and Johnson have been playing to their own rules and they have seen that it has had no impact on their polling figures, so they will continue onwards even if this exacerbates the economic self harm of their own country. Providing there is no self harm to those influential Tory MPs in positions of power, they will not care one jot.       

A lover scorned and all that but Cummings is going in hard on Boris being useless which I think we can all agree on, but it does beg the question who's calling the shots at the heart of Westminster??

The vested interests - as always - call the shots.  Dominic Cummings is the technical definition of a maniac, which of itself deserves some sympathy.   All the latest developments are only byproducts of regulatory alignment.  Role of ECJ is the latest herring.

ECJ is about power
The EU has more power. International arbitration would rebalance this somewhat.
It is not going to.fly.

No ECJ, no single market access according to the EU ambassador to the UK.

The ECJ is more about trust and you couldn't trust Boris and Frost as far as you could throw them.

Would the Tories try to force the EU's hand in putting the sea border in the Celtic sea rather than the Irish Sea

Dunloy hurling the perfect example Flanker. 15 out of 30 SHC's. Amazing statistic.

From small acorns....

in Ulster its much easier to excel in Hurling not football - them boys all pay Mageean no doubt

how so?

When you talk about the success of Dunloy you need to mention they got to two AI club finals, really had SMB for the beating on a terrible day and were one of the top teams in Ireland and that's with them geographically isolated from the hurling hotbeds in Munster and Leinster.

There's not the same geographical issues in relation to football, FFS the current AI champions are an hours drive down the road.

Tory MP stabbed to death...


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58929453

They might think that they are being politically clever by making agreements, hailing them, then reneging on them. Attempting to renegotiate those same agreements, seeking additional concessions from those originally agreed, then threatening to rip them up altogether. But they are just simply talking to themselves. Internationally they are embarrassing themselves and must be scraping the barrel when it comes to having any credibility left.

Frost and Johnson have been playing to their own rules and they have seen that it has had no impact on their polling figures, so they will continue onwards even if this exacerbates the economic self harm of their own country. Providing there is no self harm to those influential Tory MPs in positions of power, they will not care one jot.       

A lover scorned and all that but Cummings is going in hard on Boris being useless which I think we can all agree on, but it does beg the question who's calling the shots at the heart of Westminster??