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Good to write something not about football.... It's a great place to visit in my opinion. As others have said not too many sites as such but you can visit some nice countryside, have good food and enjoy the welcoming atmosphere. I always feel it is as at least as much Japanese as Chinese which...

Me neither. Isn't the pretend reason for these rules supposed to be that owners could run up huge debts and then walk away leaving the club insolvent which can't be allowed to happen because football is "special"? IMO this is nonsense on so many levels. How likely is it a really big club like...

You're right. Even worse. Terrible to lose at home to them. Dale missed one right at the end didn't he?

Good win. They were bad but then again I also thought they were bad in the reverse fixture and we only drew that. We didn't look like conceding today. We have improved somewhat. Marv and Coulson very good. Grimshaw's distribution and all round competence very welcome!

I agree with you. I think most of the problems come from his total and utter lack of mobility. He can't run! Scared to take a risky pass because if it gets intercepted he will never get back and so on. He clearly did have some sort of pedigree so can only really think the cruciate injury that...

I think the most disappointing thing in some ways was that in the original 3-5-2 there was not a single bit of good combination play between the 2 forwards I can remember. It was a waste of time to play 2 up front. We were a bit better at the start of the second half and then the switch to 3-4-3...

Don't like to single players out but he is so ponderous it beggars belief. Not of a mind to defend Critchley, and the starting formation didn't work, but not possible to press aggressively with players as slow as that. No quality on the ball in midfield either. We'd be better with pretty much...

I make it 2 points won from losing positions and 12 points lost from winning positions over the course of the league season (someone can check that). That is....not good.

I only saw the second half but Toney's performance was sensational. A masterclass of football. No problem with England for back up strikers and if he carries on improving his ceiling might even be higher than Kane's. Really pleased for Toney. Remember watching us play Peterborough when in Asia...

I haven't seen too many games recently. How often have we played 3-4-3? We did against Bristol Rovers at home. In that game Beesley was narrowish on the left and pushed up high. On the right Dembele worked up and down the pitch vertically more than CJ against Forest but overall not a dissimilar...

I think if both members of the couple already work in the UK then combined earnings count otherwise only the income of the UK citizen counts. I can't quite remember all the details in our case but my wife and I both lived overseas. I think my earnings could be counted because I was on a...

Good luck to you Svennis! From my experience with my wife for a UK spouse visa a few years ago it is the kind of process that makes you a bit paranoid. Obviously there has to be a process but only natural to wonder if you missed something. I think in reality if you miss something minor they give...

It is very revealing how many people just assume we are a "soft touch". The minimum income requirement before this change (which I actually doubt will go ahead) is indeed £18,600. Median salary in the UK for 2023 as per ONS was £29,669. You'd have to be close to the 70th percentile (which is...

A truly abysmal performance. We still should have had a point out of it which is no consolation as I thought they were poor as well. Overall standard about National League level. I would say mainly a lack of basic skill on the part of most of our players but the tactics didn't help either. Need...

I think this is very, very different to anything that's happened in the UK. His party manifesto (correct me if I'm wrong) was still calling for the banning of mosques and the quran. It is of course perfectly possible to argue reasonably that you think immigration is too high (I disagree, but...