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Leaving next month. https://www.afc.co.uk/2025/09/16/director-of-football-steven-gunn-to-depart-afc/ Sounds like a polite sacking. Chance to get a "proper" DOF/Technical Director for @RicoS321

Given that what the countries in Europe used to do for the 2000 years prior was go to war with each other pretty much constantly, I'd say that the EU is working out very well indeed. It's far, far from perfect but given the alternative it's good enough and, given the enormity of the problem, good enough is a pretty overwhelming achievement. I think that part of what makes the EU work is the ability and willingness to fudge things around the edges where no clear cut solution exists. That's why Norway is kind of in the EU and kind of not and why several countries can be in the EU without being in the Euro, and how you can deal with the whole Ireland/N.I. etc. It doesn't need to be perfect, just good enough to stop people from shooting at each other, and let us try to figure out the rest from there. I'm not talking about overnight dissolution. I don't think that such a sudden and dramatic change would happen peacefully. Nor do I have the answers to your questions about whether a solution that fits around existing borders would work. I'm not an expert in any of this, it just seems to me that smaller countries more readily governable in a rational manner without resorting to Authoritarianism than larger ones. As to whether any changes could be achieved without violence, yes, I 100% believe that. It might not seem evident to an outsider looking in at the politics of the place, but the overwhelming majority of people here are rational and just trying to go about their day. Nobody wants to be at war with their neighbours, and anyone trying to push for that is going to find themselves standing alone very fucking quickly.

Robert Redford, American actor and producer aged 89. Loved his films Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, The Sting & All The President's Men.

Is Rico actually qualified for the job

A true great, one of the last true movie stars. Three cracking films there Al.

Statement season starting early this year.

Funny as that would be, unfortunately I can see the obvious flaw in that plan

Appreciate the discussion and your take. You’ve scolded me before for using the term far right, I’m not looking to debate the definition of right wing now. More often than not you’ll now hear me saying right and left leaning. I appreciate your insights though and the friendly debate. you’ve clearly got a knowledge/experience in politics I dont have, and dont really want to have. I can only speak to my experience living here and the change I have witnessed. I also think living in LA then Florida I can provide decent insight from two politically differing environments. I certainly hope experiences over the last week will change things, and judging by the world wide response, what happens here is certainly far reaching. Like we all are though, I’m pessimistic. More chance of us beating Motherwell 6-0 this weekend perhaps.

I thought they were fine on Saturday, and really didn't get the reaction that Nilsen received. Palaversa, on the other hand, was absolutely dogshite. The idea of having a dynamic front four and fullbacks going outside the inverted wingers makes sense. Shinnie put in a lot of work in midfield, but he wouldn't have managed that without Nilsen there. There was very little that got through to the back four with those two there. There's a good argument to be made that we should be more adventurous at home, but there's an even better argument that says that our front four plus fullbacks should be scoring from the solid base offered to them. The fullbacks not getting forward quickly enough was quite a problem. Not sure it's in either of their games (wait to see more of Gyamfi of course).