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That could be more of a shout. Maybe also Latitude?

Nvm both are out. Leaving Aston Villa as England's sole outstanding representative in the Europa League this season, with Emi Martinez doing a classic shithousing his way to the glory.

Tbf I thought there was a premium when Muse played a very expensive warm-up show there in 2018. Then they did Hammersmith Apollo in 2022 and that was slightly more, so... pfft. St Vincent is pricier than her own Hammersmith show two years ago, but that could just also be partly the fact there's about a dozen different ticket price points available.

In fairness it's about the same number of tickets as their stadium tour two years ago. But yeah. 3 of the London shows look sold out, 3 others do not.

I'd written it off and accepted England has missed the boat for this season. Although Liverpool and West Ham are both winning as I write this so maybe I was hasty, depending on how the rest of the games go.

I'm surprised they went so far to cut them in the rounds Premier League clubs aren't even involved with.

Tbf to Jurgen, it is insane to twice top the 90 point mark but just be unable to stop Man City. Indeed one of those was thanks to John Stones clearing the ball off the line in a Man City v Liverpool game in 18/19 when it had failed to cross by about 2mm at best.

There were a few games in December 2020 with sub-2k crowds when they were doing the brief and failed experiment with tiers. Plus yes a couple near the end of the season. Both seasons were compromised by covid but I think 2020/21 got it worse.

It hasn't. Some of the Manchester and London shows still had quite a bit of tickets available.

Was this taken during one of the naps he's alleged to have had during his trial's first day yesterday?

So double what I paid to see them at Wembley Arena in 2018 back when the thought of seeing them wasn't sullied by what we know now about Win. Ouch.

I wasn't aware St Vincent was doing more festivals in Europe but a 4 date European tour seemed on the skinny side.

I thought it was just the one hotel. Saying that it reminds me of a cavalcade of clubs like Derby, Sheffield Wednesday, Reading, Stoke and Aston Villa who tried to circumvent FFP in the Championship by selling their stadiums to subsidiaries of their owners. Given the first 3 of those clubs have all had points deductions for financial trouble in the last few years and Stoke have yet to finish in the top half of the Championship since their 2018 relegation, it isn't exactly the great company to keep.

I mean, 2020/21 is the covid title isn't it? Least for Liverpool it was practically won when March 2020 came along.

I was wondering if they'd announce something for here. Not that I'm planning to go anyway.

I mean, I'd take such a trophy haul as a fan of a club that hasn't won anything big in a while. Also more than Man Utd have won since Klopp arrived in England tbf. If for different reasons. But I get the point that he arguably could, maybe perhaps should, have won more, even if Guardiola's winning machine was a bit of a substantial opponent.

They'd have to beat Man City as well to help with that idea, even moreso after their faceplant against Villa just now.

Neither, clearly, does this loss to Crystal Palace where could've scored 4/5 but couldn't even get one in. Maybe the path is opening up for another boring old Man City title after all.

I saw a note during the Japanese House's set that "had technical difficulties for entire set". Take it they've not been much better for others?

It certainly feels that way for Coachella, which had slow ticket sales and seems to have more of a "Eh, so what?" quality to it this year. I'm not as well versed in LDR's music, so I won't jump in on that argument. Though I was under the assumption her recent releases were well received.

I'm perfectly aware of this. I will note there were ME wars during Reagan's decade (notably Iran-Iraq that raged on for most of the 1980s) but the way this situation has escalated in the last six months culminating in the scenes overnight are really far from ideal. Certainly, it will be an extreme test to get them from going further. Much as I'd feel less on edge if the rest of the world would stop going on about their wish to de-escalate tensions in the region and actually f**king do something that would keep everyone from jumping over the ledge.

Trump ruining a deal Obama signed that reined in Iran's nuclear weapons programme just because he wanted to undo Obama's legacy is not ageing well.

I did get that joy with a Spurs fan I've known for years that I've on/off spoken with. And a little modicum of getting one back after we conceded four at Spurs back in December. It was a good result for us tbf, coupled with Manchester United failing to win at Bournemouth later as it means we jump them in the table. Given how much injuries have ruined our season, and during the last international break I genuinely thought we might sink into the bottom half, a top 6/7 finish would be a pretty great result.

I don't think it's unreasonable to fear a Trump encore because the Republican party base is mad enough to give him another shot at winning an election and the policy looks, if anything, more hare-brained than before. Equally, some of the discourse in the last few months has talked about a Trump win as inevitable, and given that several people's hunches at this stage of the 2016 & 2020 ballots proved to be wide of the mark, and my suspicion is that it's still 50/50, I don't think it is worth jumping to conclusions just yet. Sure, Biden is not exactly in the strongest condition. But the fact the Republican party is still besotted by Trump when he has an insane amount of baggage and where I think another candidate could well be an easier ticket to them winning in November means I'm not embracing a defeatist outlook on Biden just yet.

Or indeed for however long it takes to reach a deliberation. Admittedly I'm surprised this is coming to trial first before his various other things, but clearly it's serious enough to possibly put a thumb on the electoral scale.