Eddie Howe trying to compete with the cartel

With all the quality players, they & the agents have a career & money path mapped which includes moving on for wages, transfer fees & and agent commission. Right now we are a step along the way rather than a destination.

Exactly this Steve. It’s systematic harvesting of the best talent by a select group.

In football terms Scotland will not do much here. But if we switch to the World Cup of National Anthems who can get near? If the Welsh were there, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, would make a great final with Flower of Scotland.

Anyone thinking like me? Brazil will achieve nothing at this WC while Bruno has to carry Casemiro and Paqueta

Anyone who watched the Mexico game last night. Can you explain to me how being in NYC with that backdrop, helped ITV’s coverage more than say a studio absolutely anywhere showing the same backdrop behind Neville, Keane and Co.

So, I’ve just sat down, is it worth watching the opening ceremony on plus1, or skip to live

November 1971. Chiswick, West London. Erin Pizzey is 32 years old. She is not a lawyer. Not a politician. Not a doctor. She is a woman who talked Hounslow Council into lending her a cold, rundown building on Belmont Road — a former community hall — for almost nothing. Her original plan was modest. A warm room. A cup of tea. Somewhere for mothers with young children to simply get out of the house. Then the door opened. A woman stood in the entrance. She was covered, head to foot, in bruises. She was holding two small children. She was shaking. She didn't want tea. She needed somewhere to hide. Erin let her in. She didn't turn her away. She didn't tell her to call the police. Because Erin had already called the police. They told her the same thing they told every woman in Britain at the time: they could not enter a private home over a "domestic dispute." That was the law. The home was private. What happened inside it was a family matter. When Erin contacted a female civil servant to report what she was seeing, the response was astonishing. The woman told her flatly: "There wasn't a problem of battered wives until you made one." Erin put down the phone. Then she went back to her residents and made sure they were fed. Within weeks, 40 mothers and children were sleeping in four tiny rooms. No funding. No staff. No legal authority. She didn't stop. By 1973, word had spread through quiet whisper networks — one woman telling another, "There is a place. Go to Chiswick. She won't turn you away." That same year, Erin hosted the first National Women's Aid Conference in the UK. Women from across Britain arrived, and they all recognized the same thing at once: what she had built needed to exist everywhere. In 1974, the council set a maximum of 36 residents. At peak times, 150 women and children were living inside those walls — sleeping on floors, on chairs, in hallways. The building smelled of cooking, fear, and something else entirely: relief. Erin was taken to court for overcrowding. She appealed all the way to the House of Lords. She kept the doors open the entire time. That same year, she wrote a book. Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear. It was the first published account of domestic violence in British history. It used real stories from real women inside the shelter. Overnight, a problem that had no official name was on front pages from London to New York. The movement spread. Refuges opened across the UK. Then Australia. Then Canada. Then the United States. The pattern she created in four small rooms in West London — no blueprint, no permission, no funding — had been replicated in hundreds of shelters across the Western world. MP Jack Ashley stood up in Parliament and said: "It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical." She was ranked 14th in a poll of the 100 women who shook the world. She was awarded the Italian Peace Prize. She received a CBE. The charity she founded — Chiswick Women's Aid, which became Refuge — grew into the largest domestic violence charity in the United Kingdom, with over 460 employees and an annual income of more than £33 million. Erin Pizzey passed away on October 4, 2025, aged 86. She never stopped. It all began with one woman, one borrowed building, and an absolute refusal to say no. Forty women and children showed up with nowhere to go. She made room. Share this if you believe one ordinary person, refusing to look away, can build a shelter that holds the whole world. Follow us Lost in Yesterday

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review. They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆. Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

This ChatGPT toy is very clever Left out the Southampton kit red and white stripes don’t work for me

Thought I’d invite ChatGPT to play around chatgpt.com/s/m_6a22ba460648…

He he ever get his Oscar for this performance

Seems to me that this is part of training. Touch & Tumble. If you feel any contact go down and complain. Doesn’t matter who or where, feel it and fall

KK made one of our best signings of that era on the back of a World Cup Everyone knows his name

I’m guessing he’s probably aware but if anyone is in touch with Len it might be worth giving him a nudge. He’s either been hacked or he’s gonna be the next Adam P

Let’s take a look at what you could’ve won

Are there any English teams PSG have failed to beat in the Champions League. Who Ah yes. Newcastle United