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Wow. I might actually end up supporting Red Bull sometimes if Albion goes there. Wonder how Ricciardo and Tsunoda are feeling if true.

Can't believe you'd dismiss Emile Heskey like that.

Yeah it’s a shame for Sainz because I think he’s pretty much done as well as he could do at Ferrari. But I think everyone’s aware of that so I’m sure he won’t have any shortage of options.

I guess Mercedes were more consistent than Ferrari last season but Ferrari got much closer to challenging Red Bull for wins and obviously won in Singapore too (although Mercedes should have probably won that). I think since the regulations came in Ferrari have definitely had the better car but they've also still been so far off Red Bull so it's definitely a gamble.

I would like Hamilton to go clear of Schumacher in world title wins and if he's going to have a better chance of doing that in a Ferrari than a Mercedes then he should by all means go for it.

On the last FM I played regularly (2021 I think) this guy would have become the best player in the world by now.

When I was about 8 or 9 Ally McCoist came to my school. He took a permanent marker and autographed my school bag. I did not ask him to sign my school bag.

IS this the guy that did the thong song?

This is a novel approach to stealing data from everybody's phones.

I have a very vivid memory of watching Newcastle play Blackburn in the 2000 FA Cup when I was a tiny little baby. Bit of a weird thing to remember but there you go.

I like Klopp. He was an interesting and engaging (and sometimes a bit annoying) personality in a league that really depends on them to sell itself as an entertainment product. The Premier League will be a lot weaker without him.

so surprised to find out the billionaire tax exile that owns Tottenham Hotspur FC isn'r a sound upstanding guy https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/24/joe-lewis-billionaire-tottenham-hotspur-pleads-guilty

Sad that this Visa team up means we aren't going to get Daniel Rimastercardo.

why are so many young people called Alfie these days?

You can get AI to write an article but can it draw an athlete in a bikini?

m8 its literally a game about a diver, obviously its got depth to it 😕

Do you think the Sheffield team will be any less terrible now that they've merged?

I am going to submit two from 2010. Alicia Keys is very good and Jay-Z is quite mediocre so it makes mathematical sense that putting them together would yield the quite good Empire State of Mind. What doesn't make quite as much sense is that the sequel version - Empire State of Mind (Part II) - without Mr Knowles is extremely bad because it is just piano and wailing. Love the Way You Lie is really bad because Eminem is shit and Rihanna has never been very good at ballads. Love the Way You Lie (Part II) is also really bad because Eminem is shit and Rihanna has never been very good at ballads. One of these versions has a bit less Eminem (can't remember which) and it is a bit better than the other one. Obviously. I'm also a bit surprised that Sweet Home Alabama and Southern Man aren't here because that immediately struck me as one of the more renowned examples. In Genesis's Man on the Corner Phil Collins tells us what it is like to be a homeless man at the start of the 80s. In Another Day in Paradise Phil Collins what it's like to be a homeless man at the end of the 80s. Great to see the third highest-selling artist of the decade keeping it real like this.

How is that possible? That's more hours than I work in a year. And I do a full-time job.

Linekles, can I request that once this story ceases to be ongoing news you merge it with the general NFL thread so that future EWB historians after we're all dead and gone will be able to build a complete picture of NFL talking points from this year by looking at the NFL thread alone? They are likely to think that it will be a one-stop shop for NFL discussion and overlook the existence of the other thread and this could be disastrous for future generations' understanding of what went on.

I could see Dier getting a decent amount of games. The league’s full of diddy teams that he can play against while they keep the big boys fresh for another Champions League semi-final exit.

I don’t really see how tinkering with agent fees would make much of a practical difference. Let clubs pay agents and it’s a world where the clubs with the most economic power have a ridiculous advantage over everyone else. Prevent clubs from paying agents and …it’s a world where the clubs with the most economic power have a ridiculous advantage over everyone else. What does it really change? The teams still have the economic advantage and the money they don’t spend on agent fees would otherwise just go to inflating the wage packet. Something more fundamental is required. This is just vanity tinkering (which is why FIFA were willing to do it).

Oh well that leaves absolutely no reason to be interested in Haas then.

Linekles is not following the BBC style guide. Makes me wonder if he's really one of them.

Are Emirates paying us to advertise them in the thread title?