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My youngest was mad for the partying with her friends at college in Liverpool, but I'm not sure who that girl is now.. All fresh food, no calories, cooks her own stuff which is great, running, at the gym and not looking to go out as the after effects aren't worth it, prefers to get up and goes with me on the 5k walk with the dogs at stupid 0'Clock in the morning!

The other daughter not bothered either, in fairness one night out for her and she was toast for 3 days or more!

Kids are soft now! lol, brunch, coffees, holidays, looking after themselves, the onset of the likes of social media and online influencers have created a different kind of people, for the good and the bad in a lot of areas

They're not all like that! I had to escort #2 son to his pit early Saturday morning! He had a late tee time and said was having a couple after in the clubhouse. I heard a commotion downstairs at 2am as a car pulled away from the front of the house - him lying comatose on the sofa with sofa cushions etc. piled on top of him by his mates! Had to manhandle him upstairs to bed. Up the next day not a bother! He's way up yesterday to the gaff in the Holylands for Freshers Week. Oh to be 19 again.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. All he was missing was a curry chip.

Some whinging yesterday on the radio about the change to the nursery school entrance criteria, was he piping in on that too or was that just Givan?

Tell him to join the DUPeedos. 60k MLA salary for doing nothing, bonus pay from the local uda drug dealer, fill your boots with RHI or whatever the latest taxpayer scam is....

Any of the parties. Shinners doing nicely too out of the tax payer. In fact outside those holding a ministry Emma Sheerin and Aoife Finnegan are the biggest lifters on over 200k apiece. Value for money I'm sure  .

200k a year?

Gentlemen season 2 brilliant.

Doubtless it was a testimonial for Katie with there being 6 degrees of separation between her and her opponent. But Katie has had her many battles in the ring, some of them truly fierce, she has never taken a backward step when it came to taking on the toughest of opponents in her class and putting everything on the line. She has had some career in women's boxing.


Does she get to keep all them belts?

She keeps all the belts she has ever won.

80+ thousand singing Grace, magical moment in fairness

The arse has been ripped out of that song the past few years.

Nick name is the animal and their game plan worked to a t.

Itauma beat himself. Needs to switch trainer ASAP to get the best out of himself. He was unreal apart from the last round and showed that he has a chin and heart too.

Yes, he was unreal until he wasn't ie about 5 power punches in. He was that unreal he punched himself out against a guy who could take everything he had and continued down the a path that obviously wasn't working.
If the bout was a 7 rd fight you have a point, but it was 12, so saying Moses was unreal is unreal.

But he was unreal until he was exhausted. Hrgovic didn't show anything that suggested he was an animal. He hoped he could take him into deep waters but nobody expected the tank to run out as suddenly as it did.

Nick name is the animal and their game plan worked to a t.

Itauma beat himself. Needs to switch trainer ASAP to get the best out of himself. He was unreal apart from the last round and showed that he has a chin and heart too.

On cold reflection the only highest rank (Ballon D'Or territory) player who joined an EPL team whilst hitting his peak years was Dennis Bergkamp.

Who flopped at Inter and they wanted rid of him. Arsenal didn't swoop.

He *became* a world class player, but he moved as a damaged goods/rebuild his career player. Same with Henry from Juventus

Bergkamp:

1992: 3rd in Ballon D'Or when at Ajax

1993: 2nd in Ballon D'Or when at Inter

1995: joined Arsenal and spent a decade there, finishing 4th and 8th in the Ballon D'or awards.

I'm sure of course you'll have your own criteria for world class. Or you could just admit you got this one wrong.

What happened in 1994?

He wasn't ranked in 1994.

On cold reflection the only highest rank (Ballon D'Or territory) player who joined an EPL team whilst hitting his peak years was Dennis Bergkamp.

Who flopped at Inter and they wanted rid of him. Arsenal didn't swoop.

He *became* a world class player, but he moved as a damaged goods/rebuild his career player. Same with Henry from Juventus

Bergkamp:

1992: 3rd in Ballon D'Or when at Ajax

1993: 2nd in Ballon D'Or when at Inter

1995: joined Arsenal and spent a decade there, finishing 4th and 8th in the Ballon D'or awards.

I'm sure of course you'll have your own criteria for world class. Or you could just admit you got this one wrong.

Ozil was ranked higher in the year before his move to Arsenal than Bergkamp was. Donnarumma was too. Both were approaching their peak years also.

Juninho and Torres weren't superstars at their peak when moving to England, neither was Zola. Ravanelli was a big one though, and so was Klinsmann.

Bergkamp was seen as a bit of a flop after his time at Inter but things did change when Chelsea started buying the like of Shevchenko, Crespo and Ballack etc.

Now I believe Itauma when he says he has never done 12 rounds even in sparring before.Knackered himself when he went for that finish and never recovered. Hrgovic didn't do much the whole fight and was completely outclassed. Itauma throws everything into all his punches and obviously has never had the experience of 8/10/12 rounders to know how to pace himself.

The PL has become soulless,  the players  dull and robotic,  and the  quality of football dire.

Is there  any player you  would pay in to watch now? I'm really  struggling to think of one

Yeah said this a while ago.

Bruno, Haaland, after that you're struggling. Odergaard when he's on form but that Arsenal team is horrible to watch. 

Just go through the top scorers list from 20 years ago and look at the players scoring lots of goals. The past few years it's usually been a big name in Haaland then a relatively unknown/average enough player like Toney, Tiago, Watkins or Wissa on the list with them.

Manchester City reach agreement with Lille to sign 18 year old Ayyoub Bouaddi.  €95m + €5m bonuses.

One for the wtf thread nearly

Talk of a star for the team at the World Cup had me thinking of their star from the last World Cup and how crap he turned out to be in the PL.

You only have to look at City's starting 11 to see they aren't winning the league.