Status Quo Just Supposin ok not the greatest but amazing how music can take you back in time!

Especially when you have hardly heard it since then!

Quote from: Slim on July 12, 2023, 07:18:44 PM

Quote from: dom on July 12, 2023, 06:12:28 PMNo criminal activity occured according to the Met. Confirmation that The Sun is a shit of a newspaper

That's not quite what they said. The implication is that there's insufficient evidence.

I'm pleased to see News UK doing its best to hold the BBC to account.

Yes that's sounds fair. 5 days of "news" from that rag and the Met state that there has been

Quoteno information to indicate that a criminal offence has been committed

And it's the BBC being held to account?

Ridiculous

No criminal activity occured according to the Met. Confirmation that The Sun is a shit of a newspaper

Not me!

About time we had a proper resurgence in French Cycling.  Too many Brits and American types thinking they can cycle, just won't do!

Went to see Ricky Gervais last night as he hit Dublin with his Armageddon tour.  Very funny.  His niche seems to be just how shocking and offensive he can be.  How many people can he upset. He keeps pushing the boundaries to see just how far he can push them.  Once crossed, he pushes again!

After a while you become a little immune to it all.  If you heard some of the things he said in isolation, it would be truly shocking, but when everything is shocking it washes over you to a degree.  Fun night!

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 11, 2023, 04:58:13 PMCycle racing ought to be quite simple. Today was a Dude WTF day! I missed all the fun at the start as well. Would have been nice if they'd kept the Peloton split to force Bardet and Gaudu out of the top 10.
Hopefully the Yates brothers and Pidcock can reclaim the positions they lost.

And just what were WvA and MvdP up to?

Kept forgetting to mention last week about the Giro Donne going on, won by Annemiek van Vleuten, a young whippersnapper of 40!

Bardet and Gaudu are 2 fine cyclists.  Why did you want them to drop out of the top 10?

Pretty sure I know too

This is beginning to look like it could backfire badly on The Sun and Murdoch.

He was probably rubbing his hands with glee with a chance to embarrass The BBC.

I like it. I think Boehly will probably want out if that comes to pass as it will mean (in all probability) that Chelsea have had a terrible season

You have to admire Woods though. His attack was timed superbly.

I'm sure they'll all enjoy thd rest day

You have to wonder about Potter. Considering the disaster he made at Chelsea and the fact that Ze Derbi has made Brighton an even more impressive unit since he was appointed. Brighton's biggest difficulty under Potter was scoring goals. This continued for him when he took over at Chelsea. He may also have had difficulties with managing the egos that come with as big a club as Chelsea. I really think they let Tuchel go too soon. Be interesting to see what Pochettino makes of them. With all the transfer activity they are going to be a completely different team.

A real pity, really thought he was going to do it

Was a little nervous heading out this morning as 9am was slap bang in the middle of a yellow wind warning. I'm sure I've been out in worse without a Met Eireann warning. Nice spin although it was blustery, the sun came out for the second half and it got increasingly warm. Watch battery packed up after 37kms but I noticed within about 4km and switched to strava on the phone.

Not as many weekday spins this week so dropping off the pace a little compared to last month. Planning another 50k tomorrow so shouldn't be too far behind.

On paper Chelsea had one of the strongest squads in the league last year.  And yet they spent most of the season playing like a lower mid table team.  They were atrocious and plenty of the players involved were on as much, if not more, than Havertz.  Of course nothing is guaranteed but Arteta's judgement has proven to be pretty good recently and he has a lot of credit in the bank for last season's performance.  I'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.

This is a player, after all, who scored the winning goal in last but one Champions League final .  Bear in mind too that Chelsea seemed to insist on playing him as a centre forward which I don't think is his favoured position.