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I was at the Norwich game, his last stand. It was pretty shocking and did have an end of an era feel to it. But as above, the squad had been starved of investment and stagnated for 2 years, you can't do that in the Prem. Hard to call how good / bad a decision it was, as two years on we find ourselve...

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Villa were really good there.

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Just amused myself by watching the goals. Proper pub league defending. That lad at full back, Hyam is it.. he can’t be a pro surely?

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Thought the ref in the Arsenal game was excellent Let the game flow and wasnt falling for the antics of the players I said this after the Wolves ‘free kick’ in our game. European matches are much more physical contests than in our country. Refs actually need to see a foul, rather than someone falli...

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Forgot about this, the far too late substitution was expected but Fofana staying on was baffling. He was treading water for the last 30 minutes, and wasn't great before that. When we should be pushing for a winner towards the end, we were basically playing with 10 men again.

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Can't go back after the restart, that's why the issue at Spurs v Liverpool happened.
Don't think the video ref gets involved on free kicks. I imagine they were pretty desperate for a reason to disallow after seeing the 'free kick' back, but there was literally nothing there, other than poor marking.

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The one at Forest is the worst, and it was the telly ref behind it. One of those where they went trawling through footage for anything which could get a perfectly good goal disallowed. Not even a Forest fan appealed for it, totally killed our mini-revival, Foster got (deservedly) sent off soon after...

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I'll need it translating, as accounting stuff may as well be in Chinese for me. But if the wage bill has been reduced as suggested above, that's the biggest deal. Everyone loves those 'they spent £100m' headlines, but we all know transfer payments are structured and staggered over years, and of cour...

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Why would he need to ‘own up’? He’s just a normal fan gone out to support his team. Not everyone needs to have a favourite German 2nd division team or know about the next big thing in some regional French league. Must seem mental to the permanently online that people go and watch their local side fo...

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That was absolutely dreadful, a half arsed 90 minute rondo training drill.

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I'll be happy if we ever see a player of his class for us again.

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Eloise Laws wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:53 am
I renewed my passport in Aug 2022, it now expires in Aug 2032…..the added months that were on my previous passport were NOT added onto the new one…

Yeah, they don't do it anymore. This problem only applies to passports issued before 2018, although there are about 30 million of them.

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On the bright side the passport office seem to have got their act together as we got a new one issued within 2 weeks of making the application just this month. Compared to the chaos we faced 2 years ago… Same. I know the preferred vibe on here is angry exasperation, but the application was simple, ...

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I had a look at parking at Meadow Hall shopping centre one year. Trams and trains go into Sheffield from there. I never used it in the end though, so you would have to look into it Not a bad idea that, easier getting train from Meadowhall, it’s only one stop into centre. My local train on Penistone...

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Picking on 17 year old girls now. You'd think this was the low point, but I fear he'll go further yet.

Bit gutted really, my lad loved him at Burnley, sad to see what he's turned into.

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Logged on to agree with this. Always remember it, as a youngster it opened my eyes to how little some football fans know about football. My dad and his mate had him down as one of our best players at the time, but loads seemed to slate him every week on the Longside. Turned out when he left, he was...

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Brendan O’Connell, first name on the divisive teamsheet.

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Seemed fairly obvious why she wanted to be left alone at the time, but some ghouls can't help themselves. Don't know the lady, but good luck to her, hope she's ok.

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I still maintain the 'worst season ever' tag applies to seasons like 1989-90 or 2005-6 where almost nothing seems to happen at all.

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Someone will be on in a sec to explain why, actually, we should all either be poor or cold and why 0.2% of the population deserve to cream all the profits from a natural resource. Then you'll understand better.

The intriguing twist is, they'll also be one of those choosing between being poor or cold.

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It’s as hard / easy to stay up this year as any other year. The idea the quality of a league of 20 teams varies that much from one season to the next is weird. It’s like when you say the Championship is a poor league one year. As if it’s anything other than a division full of players not quite good ...

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BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:53 pm
I like Wrighty, but he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Same, he seems a pleasant, genuine bloke. Just got this wrong, lacked understanding of the issue but that’s all it is.

As for White, totally respect that. It’s his choice.

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I remember a year or two ago, AI seemed totally mindblowing / terrifying. Now it seems really obvious and a bit s***. Disappointing.

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Fretters wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:41 am
When have Lincoln, Oxford or Cambridge looked light years ahead of us?

Oxford in the 80s, Cambridge early 90s. I doubt Lincoln ever have, could be wrong.

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Steve's alright, don't think Fofana will fancy the Championship, Assignon can return to wherever he came from.

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It's nice having that record but I'd rather play them. We've all seen us lose to them loads before, the world doesn't end. Them being in League One would be funny, and we'd be guaranteed to keep the years building up on our unbeaten run, but you don't get days like that glorious 3-0 last season that...

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Rohl has done an amazing job there up to now, they were as cut adrift as us not long ago.

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Almost certainly the lowest standard 'top flight' game you'll ever see, and I'm 100% there for it. Get it first on MOTD. Backpasses getting sliced into the crowd, three consecutive passes getting 'oles', hapless defending. Genuinely looking forward to it.. proper lower league football but in the big...

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I knew we didn't win there that much, and having been at off top of my head the FA Cup game 2-2, a 3-2 win there and a 3-3 draw I would never have guessed it was that bad. Oh well it's either 19th or 20th we finish then The 3-2 there under Coyle was brilliant, comfortably Chris Eagles best game for...

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Semenyo is definitely a man, I don’t care what the IOC say.

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Everything tells you to concentrate on our own problems and increasingly miserable season. But it requires real discipline not to find this a bit funny.

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Heckingbottom touched on it there, about the difference in athleticism and physicality too. If you're going to have a lot of young lads, or diminutive players in this league, they better be absolute world beaters. You can understand Dyche always having an emphasis on that side of it. Even so, it doe...

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He lives near us, never heard a bad word about him although I didn't warm to him as a manager either. He talks a lot of sense here.

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When we went up with Dyche, our best players hadn't been on loan either, which is a factor. There's more gone wrong than that, but after Forest went up with a load of loan stars, they spent £150m and just about made it. Tella, Maatsen and Harwood Bellis were all big players for us. I probably agree ...

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Tall Paul wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:43 am
Chelsea squad average age: 23.9
Liverpool squad average age: 25.8

Only just caught up on this stat, you would never have believed that if you only skimmed the coverage as I did yesterday.

Chelsea started and finished the match with a younger side than Liverpool.

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We’ll have a completely new team again by August. No idea if they’ll be any good this time.

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A few references to non-league here, but honestly that's what we should aspire to at half time. You can easily get warm food and a pint without queueing for 20 minutes. You can check the scores. You can talk to your mates / family. It's actually enjoyable.

Just recreate that on a much bigger scale.

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The Lives of Others
Dead Man’s Shoes
Hot Fuzz
Festen / The Celebration

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There isn't an option to consistently be a top 6 championship club. You either get promoted or you get worse. Unfortunately, that's true. You get maybe a couple of seasons at most, from then on you're fighting against League One while juggling debts if you're a club of our size. We got a bit lucky ...

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It was quite often a nervy watch last season every time we conceded a set piece.. particularly at Bramhall Lane. We got away with it partly because we had so much possession and also Muric to his credit improved noticeably over the season. This season it's been ruthlessly exposed. We have less posse...

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I was just thinking that what the game needs is some more added layers of complexity, ideally around rules and officiating.

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Always hard to know if you’re really ‘falling out of love with football’ or we’re just having a bad season. Not many people are saying this when we’re winning the Championship. That said, even last season, although it gave me some of the very best moments following Burnley, i still found myself look...

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To be playing to that level, away in India at 41 shouldn’t be possible in this modern era of super fit young athletes. Agree with all the above, Burnley should be making more of it.

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I actually think he’s a good manager, properly had his hands tied there, which is great.

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Nice video, everything right with football is still going on at non-League. Find myself watching more of it these days.

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Yeah, all the ones mentioned like Wright, Cole and Heath really showed the sobering difference in levels as they could still look a class above as they neared retirement and dropped down the leagues. McMin was a good shout also. For us Defour was different as he wasn’t showing the lower leagues what...

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I’m all for embracing change but as the OP says, this is crossing the line. It’ll be a cold day in hell before a goddam pineapple ends up near my breakfast.

Why try and fix the one perfect thing in this country.

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Crazy that they’re doing this. Over a 23rd minute disallowed penalty over encroachment. Wouldn’t even make the top 20 bad VAR calls in our league. Hopefully it sets a precedent and we see it happening in the Prem and Champions League, then everyone accepts it’s ludicrous and killing the game and we ...

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I was thinking about this the other day as the missus was saying how many people were off ill at her work. Made me realise I've not had so much as a cold since having Covid in 2020 (which was pretty mild). That's a decent run of dodging stuff.

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Whatever the worst case scenario is, that's what I'd like to see happen.

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