Politics and football - again.

[ClaretinBudapest]

I don't disagree with you on much CiB, but I do on this. Sadly we're too far apart to get together over a couple of pints and put the world to rights. Take care.

I agree Sinkov.As long as I can remember since I have been on this forum you have been right on nearly everything but you could be wrong on this one.Lets agree to disagree.
Just to compound things Parkerball was out in force again today at Craven Cottage.

[sinkov]

I'll bet you never came across the aftermath of a Tomahawk missile strike in Nelson though mon ami?

Couple of Tomahawks might improve the ****hole mon ami. How I managed to live and work there for 14 years I'll never know, although the General Gordon was OK and Hawthorns on a Friday night wasn't bad for a few years. Some top totty in there.

[sinkov]

I agree Sinkov.As long as I can remember since I have been on this forum you have been right on nearly everything but you could be wrong on this one.Lets agree to disagree.
Just to compound things Parkerball was out in force again today at Craven Cottage.

I could well be wrong CiB, wouldn't be the first time. We'll just have to see how it plays out. Mrs S forgot to get the duck breasts out of the freezer today, so halfway through the 2nd half I had to nip out to Lidl to get some fresh ones, or no tea. On the way my phone pinged, we'd gone 1-0 up, happy days. I was in and out of Lidl in no time at all and on the way back I checked my phone again, we were 2-1 down already. FFS, it's a joke but he surely has to go soon, if Pace doesn't sack him he'll surely walk. There can't be a single Burnley fan who doesn't want to see the back of him now.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The US administration is now about to charge 5 - 15000 dollars to African nation players and fans to enter the US and participate in the World Cup.

Given the fact ICE might arrest and imprison you either on entry or exit, or the plane you are flying on ends up in the Potomac or crashed and on fire on the airfield tarmac it might be best to stay home I reckon.

[sinkov]

The US administration is now about to charge 5 - 15000 dollars to African nation players and fans to enter the US and participate in the World Cup.

Given the fact ICE might arrest and imprison you either on entry or exit, or the plane you are flying on ends up in the Potomac or crashed and on fire on the airfield tarmac it might be best to stay home I reckon.

Trump Derangement Syndrome, No Known Cure. Posts from sufferers are simply nonsensical. As above.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Trump Derangement Syndrome, No Known Cure. Posts from sufferers are simply nonsensical. As above.

No plane ended up in the Potomac River after colliding with a helicopter?

No plane ended up tits up on the La Guardia runway with the pilots killed.

I'm staying home and pfhuck the US.

And no Visa for African nation participants in the World Cup for games located in the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/25/fans-and-players-from-five-african-world-cup-countries-face-15000-bond-to-enter-us

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Sorry Alfie, but should there be a massive boycott of the US hosted World Cup, in protest to this warmongering MAGA administration under Trump?

Of course there should IMHO.

BREAKING NEWS: A Republican senator just confirmed what many people suspected about the TSA shutdown.

Senator John Kennedy admitted that TSA workers could already be getting paid, but Trump personally told Republicans not to make a deal with Democrats. Kennedy said, ?He said ?No deals with the Democrats.? We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the President said ?No deal.??
That means this shutdown isn?t about negotiations breaking down or Congress being stuck. According to a Republican senator, the deal was there. The votes were there. The funding could have happened.
It was stopped on purpose.
So, TSA agents are working without pay, airports are dealing with delays and staffing problems, and millions of Americans are dealing with the consequences ? not because a deal was impossible, but because the White House didn?t want one.
This isn?t dysfunction.
This is a decision.
A four-hour wait at Bush Intercontinental in Houston stretched lines back to the airport subway. Atlanta was still advising passengers to arrive four hours early. Over 30 percent of TSA workers called out sick at JFK and Baltimore-Washington airports on Monday. The NTSB chair said her air traffic control specialist was stuck in a Houston security line for three hours while trying to investigate the LaGuardia crash. A TSA officer in Phoenix put it plainly: ?I don?t think we need them here. We need to be paid.?

Who in their right mind is going to get involved in this Trump inspired madness?
Pfhuck Trump.

[Supersub6]

It's all part of Trump's plan for the USA to win the World Cup.
Simple really, just stop every other nation from entering the company and playing games ---that's a winner.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It's all part of Trump's plan for the USA to win the World Cup.
Simple really, just stop every other nation from entering the company and playing games ---that's a winner.

At last some logic. My cousin spent four hours on Wednesday trying to get through security in Atlanta - he missed his flight and is still stranded there. His brother said he will never go to the US again and he works there!

[sinkov]

At last some logic. My cousin spent four hours on Wednesday trying to get through security in Atlanta - he missed his flight and is still stranded there. His brother said he will never go to the US again and he works there!

It took me three hours last time I flew into Orlando and that was ten years ago. I said then I wouldn't be going back, and I haven't.

[Supersub6]

My son, who is an officer in the RAF, was asked to go to the USA a couple of years ago, in order to give instruction to some USAF officers relating to various things.
He was in a party of 12 officers who flew into Atlanta on a civvy airline and were being picked up by USAF helicopter for onward transmission to their base. On arrival in Atlanta the other 11 sailed through immigration, however, my son was taken away into a room and interrogated because his passport showed that he had been in Afghanistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia and various other places were he had served the UK. In spite of his being in charge of the party he was kept for over one hour before the helicopter pilot came in to insist that he was allowed to complete the journey.
HE was advised that, should he wish to go to the USA in future, even though he could be instructing their armed forces, he should obtain a Visa. That was under Biden's lot so I don't think that he will risk this lot.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I had 10 glorious years of doing business in the US in the 1980s and loved every minute of it.

Why has the Evil Orange Emperor of the New World Order dismantled all of their institutions?

It's pfhucking madness, Operation Epic Pfhuck Up is what it is.

[sinkov]

I had 10 glorious years of doing business in the US in the 1980s and loved every minute of it.

Why has the Evil Orange Emperor of the New World Order dismantled all of their institutions?

It's pfhucking madness, Operation Epic Pfhuck Up is what it is.

The only institution that I know of being dismantled in the US is the Democratic Party.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The only institution that I know of being dismantled in the US is the Democratic Party.

I don't know in which glorious right-wing paradise you are residing in mon ami, but it ain't reality...

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/29/no-kings-rallies-a-red-flare-for-trump/89306058007/

[sinkov]

I don't know in which glorious right-wing paradise you are residing in mon ami, but it ain't reality...

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...p/89306058007/

Maybe California is about to become that glorious right-wing paradise mon am. You'll remember Steve Hilton, Cameron's erstwhile Director of Strategy, he's leading all the polls to become California's next governor. Like I said, the Dems are being dismantled, bit by bit.