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Yer man is obviously Chris from Leicester but realised that wasn't exotic enough for the producers so has come up with a whole new persona. Problem is he can't remember where is accent is meant to be from.

Honda are going to Aston Martin in 2026. I think they were meant to pull out around 2021/22 but that coincided with them starting to win so they thought they'd hang around. By the time they'd decided that, Red Bull had joined up with Ford. Horner has said they'd have been happy to stay with Honda if they'd known they weren't quitting. 2004 can no longer be classed as recent - something I struggle to accept Ford sold Cosworth after the Jaguar disaster and can't really be held responsible for what happened after that, especially with the diddy teams of the early 2010s. Even if they can, it's still a decade ago. Presumably the guy who asked who "this guy Ed Irvine" was and why he was Ford's highest paid employee is no longer there. Not sure how involved Ford are with the initial Red Bull engine anyway as a lot was being done in-house while they were trying to get Porsche involved.

Don't want to be accused of shit stirring but I take it everything is OK at SMiSA? One of the directors on the club board stood down last week, now someone else has left the SMiSA board. Probably total coincidence but after the nonsense that went on a year or two ago I thought I'd ask the question.

Yeah, it's hard to tell whose arm it came off first so seems fair enough to give it - would have been furious if we'd scored a goal like that and it was ruled out. More annoyed at our marking of Miller.

That is similar to my view. He was out on loan last season in Northern Ireland - a level I'm assuming is better than League One - and did very well. I expected him to at least be on the fringes of the first team this season and yet has now been punted out on loan to League One. If we're not going to play him, he should be at a Championship club. Can only think we're hoping it'll toughen him up a bit. With Taylor, Offord and Jamieson out on loan and Dunne's return pushing Luke Kenny down the order, fair chance that's the last first team action any of our youth products will see this season, which is a real shame.

Can only go based on what's on here on Twitter but no surprise to see folk slating the ref. As soon as I saw during the week it was Lloyd Wilson I knew it was going to be trouble/fun/chaos. Pretty much every club in Dumfries and Galloway had moans about him when he was coming through the ranks - seems to be the new Collum, just as we'd got rid of the old one.

He was great when he got the move to Red Bull and the rules changed. Think he then decided it was going to be impossible to beat Verstappen with the team rallied round him so went elsewhere, except he made a ridiculously bad move. Came back to Toro Rosso or whatever that mob are called these days in a bid to get back to the top team and never looked like it. He can't have many complaints about being ditched, but they could at least have confirmed it was happening ahead of Singapore.

Club has suspended Rooney following an alleged incident in Glasgow at the weekend (the statement has broken the website!).

Schedule for the rest of the season is a bit mad. There's now a month off before three races in three weeks - then another three weeks off before another three races in three weeks. The summer break has always made sense but this is a bit weird.

Fair enough, just seemed an incident that would automatically have the safety car out. Doesn't make any difference in the grand scheme of things.

On a slightly related note - why was it a VSC and not a full safety car? Normally it would be the latter - was it because there was only a few laps left? Colapinto has also managed more in two races than Sargeant managed in 18 months - admittedly not difficult! Shame we need to wait until next season for Bearman and Colapinto will probably be back in F2 or off to Super Formula.

Newey going in High Performance should be a bigger concern than anything he’s said about Hamilton.

It seems incredible the number of time things seem to conspire against Piastri out of a good result through no fault of his own. Silverstone last year was the first time he’d been in a truly competitive car and he got some out of a podium by the safety car. Since then there’s been numerous occasions he was on for a good result or a win and then something has happened he couldn’t do anything about that has cost him. Even when he finally did get his win he almost lost it to Norris because McLaren screwed the strategy.

Burnley have signed Ronaldinho’s son. Get Tom Hendrie to broker a loan deal.

I think that would probably be a few years before Man City were taken over - making the figures even more nuts! Some of Michael Calvin's more recent books are a fascinating and depressing read into youth football and academies in England.