Raja

Jesus, friend. I'm glad you're okay! That sounds rough. Sorry about your car though - car trouble/ repairs are my worst nightmares given that I know nothing about cars and it is expensive as fuck On my end of Small things - My favourite pair of shoes are on their last legs, I've had them for about 9 years, so I am loathe to part with them but a random person told me I need new shoes today so they must *really* be showing their age. Edit - I am almost tempted to post a picture of aforementioned shoes

All to be decided next week in our yearly 5-1 spanking from you lot

Also, I don't know if this is true for all the stadiums but they need to be *so* much better with VAR in the stadiums. So many moments at the emirates today where we had zero idea what was going on

No.

Yeah - I don't know. I think there's a combination of a lot of things but putting it down to Trump seems a little far fetched. I would put Trump's effect fairly down the list of reasons as to why this has occurred, sure it *may* have had some effect, but it's like the 5-6th thing on the list, imo. Firstly, Modi's hard line approach during the first term hasn't helped and has slowly turned the heat up since he was first elected, in addition the BJP ( Modi's party) has always had this in it's manifesto ( and has been for years) and the resounding victory that the BJP had in the recent election with *terrible* results for the opposition has allowed Modi to do this without any fear of a proper push back, Congress barely has a functioning head of the party at the moment. I'd also read Arundhati Roy's piece for the Times on this ( Imo, a lot of regional conflicts are looked through the lens of outsiders i.e. people not familiar with the history of south asia ( more bluntly by reports/ historians that are on the other side of the world), but I think Roy does a really good job of giving the required context from the ground so to speak) It's pretty grim at the moment. I don't know how this gets better for the people of Kashmir. The election and my vote a couple of months ago felt so useless given that the state I vote is pretty much the BJP heartland. Sigh.

He's a bit of a tool, tbh

They'll finish 8th without him.

We need to tell them about a certain german defender that has played in seria a before

But we all know no criticism of Holding is allowed on this board

Lol - the resident AFC fans on this board ( me, jeor & mexal) regularly criticize players all the time. That's part of being a fan!

It's in London , at the prince charles cinema, it's a nice little space. Calling themselves that is certainly a choice though. And I guess you call it a double feature, as opposed to a marathon, though the run time is like 300 minutes! I missed both of these when they first came out, so it'll be nice to see em on a big screen.

I didn't get to see 2049 on the big screen, so it should be fun

There's a blade runner marathon screening in the first week of september close-ish to where I live and I am much excite.

They have extra time for this stuff??? yikes