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Jones is utter shite and does absolutely nothing apart from run around. Dyche is overrated aswell, bit of a hype job who won’t be able to achieve anything at a club with ambition. Which explains why Jones has made loads of dosh playing for a succession of managers over the years and Dyche makes som...

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Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, to give them their correct name, play in Bergamo, near Milan and have still not announced Malinovskyi as a signing. Looks like it may not be happening.

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Matt Parkinson had career-best match figures of 10-165

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Remember, there's a whole country out there that didn't vote how you and your friends and associates did in the referendum! I thought it was slightly over 50% that didn't vote how he and his friends voted? And the result was statistically close enough that another referendum on the same day may hav...

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wembley94 wrote:Surely there cannot be a closer.more knife edge game in any sport

wembley94 wrote:FactualFrank Not sure Man City won the WORLD CUP

You said any game not just world cups

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Just seen a clip showing a Brady free kick curling away from the keeper for JayRod to head home. Linesman's flag up so no goal. The club's own report says McNiell came in and played central midfield alongside Cork in the 2nd half with Benson going wide left. Vydra came on after Fulham made their 11 ...

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You need to edit the x-x scoreline in the 1st paragraph Tony

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Sooner or later a club or two has to be allowed to go bust. I recall Darlington being allowed to and they weren't playing in an area overloaded with clubs unlike Bolton or Bury. Football cannot continue to condone malpractice nor continue to bail clubs out from their excesses. All this, "It was...

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I thought the US one was brought in as they were avoiding state taxes (the equivalent of VAT). It's not really an extra tax, it's putting it in line with the bricks and mortar retailers whereas in France it is extra to the tax that is already being paid. It has been brought in to put online sales i...

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That's state tax though isn't it on actual sale of goods. The French tax is exactly the same - adding a 3% sales tax onto every order. Amazon, BooHoo and their ilk will just charge it directly to customers based on their location when purchasing. I wonder if it will on goods purchased elsewhere for...

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The US is very anti this. If we expect to sign a trade deal with the US one of the conditions would be that we don't introduce such a tax. Several States in the US already have their own internet sales taxes. I was chatting to a friend from Illinois yesterday who said he would have to pay 4% tax to...

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Sam would not have gone to Stoke if Crouch had not signed for us. We would have received less money now for Sam if he had gone in this window Sean knew what he was doing so Crouch an excellent signing for us Vokes wanted to move on, allegedly he had agreed with the manager that any reasonable offer...

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Big Ben may be just the Great Bell inside the tower but to 99% of the world the whole tower is known as Big Ben. It is just a question of semantics, pedantism v general usage. To say different is like saying my hoover is not a hoover because it was made by a different company!

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gsyclaret wrote:Better off with Fiona Richmond

Weren't we all!

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Quickenthetempo wrote:Just seen a tweet stating a third of Burnley's last 12 signings have been from Stoke.

Why didn't Dyche just apply for the job there and keep them up?

Errr ... you do realise it is a couple of seasons too late for even the Godlike Sean Dyche to manage that feat!

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211/4 at stumps, Smith 124* with Croft 38* have an 80 stand going into the 3rd day

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ClaretTony wrote:Was only announced around a week ago. With no game for the first team in Portugal I considered this but by the time the match was confirmed the flights were too expensive.

You can fly to Berlin then get a train - it isn't that far into Poland

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Bordeauxclaret wrote:Thanks for the updates.

Well done to ‘Houses’ pro.

Our 'now amateur former pro' I think you mean. Our current paid player top scored in our innings.

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1 lion v 1 tiger = tiger wins every time.

Lion + mates v tiger + mates = lions win every time because tigers don't have any friends

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And so, yet another thread degenerates into a personal slanging match!

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This would seriously interfere with wingers - every time the winger beats his man and pulls the ball back, he will be offside when the forward puts the ball in the net. Glen Little wouldn't have been half the player if this rule was in. Also the rule in Glen Little's time didn't differentiate betwe...

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This would seriously interfere with wingers - every time the winger beats his man and pulls the ball back, he will be offside when the forward puts the ball in the net. Glen Little wouldn't have been half the player if this rule was in. Ah, yes. I forgot about them having the ball played forward to...

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I had thought that VAR was intended to right 'clear and obvious' mistakes which would take seconds for the referee to determine. However, it seems to be being used to check whether every part of the action was OK however minute and barely noticeable - which is what is taking several minutes.

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It would make sense to extend the line from the corners of the penalty area to the touchline and say that if you are on or past that line and do not have 2 players CLEARLY beyond you and the goal line then you are OFFSIDE. If you are between that line and the centre line you are NOT offside. None of...

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Apparently Milnrow has joined the GMCL from next season so hopefully they can rebuild. However, I fear they may not be the last to resign their League membership. I hope I'm wrong! So do I have this right? They are resigning from the Lancashire League because they can't guarantee to be able to fiel...

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Southampton stalling over Adams. £14m bid rejected may see them move on to new targets. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/birmingham-city-theres-new-twist-16492683.amp Reading things on here you would think BFC were the only club to ever bid low and then stop bidding at w...

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Shows the dire quality in that England got a lucky break with a complete air-shot that turned out to be the perfect dummy! :) Agüero hit an air shot right in the centre of our goal at the Turf a couple of months ago that dummied all our defenders - unfortunately it hit his other leg and he got to k...

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dsr wrote:So if we play Stoke in the league cup, will it set a record for players who have played for both teams?

I don't believe we have any ex-Stoke players in our 1st XI any longer. Can't even think of 1 who would be in the 25 next season

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A team of lard-bellied 30 stone 60 year olds playing walking football would tear any women's team a new one without breaking sweat. The world's largest walking football club, Birmingham (where I play) has lots of women members and has just won the women's People's Cup (FA Cup equivalent). We have l...

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Scarborough away when we, I think, lost 3-1 was the coldest I have ever been when watching Burnley. Had to go in the stand as I was with friends and the wind was strong and raw and was laden with frozen sea spray I believe. Portsmouth for the January 0-2 defeat was close - wet, windy cold and no war...

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Defour has had his feet up on his yacht for the last 6 month. So he should be all good for july camp.. I'm sure he has been living in a bubble all these months and BFC, Sean Dyche and the medical team have not been tracking his progress nor communicating with Steven Defour or the medical team he is...

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from trying to make sense of a potential loss of a key player, and looking at the monetary stats that other posters supplied. I am no economist, but wolves are a rival, and maybe losing a tried and tested successful player who has proved his worth, and then having to hit and hope we can secure an e...

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Ade's top 10 goals for BFC https://youtu.be/2pRCjcIzUXA

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It also gives automatic entry to the Europa League Group Stage - so no July entry into the competition.

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I apologise to everyone - I swapped my winter 10.5 tog off the bed to the 4.5 tog summer duvet last week - It has been wet and cool since then. Down here in Solihull we have had a very dry year to date with less than 2/3rds the average for Jan-May. I am a believer in long-term averages being about r...

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claret2018 wrote:Ex-offenders are eligible for free TV licences for up to 36 months after release too.

Unless they are over 75 I presume

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He first became eligible for parole in 1993 and then was up for review every 3 years since. So the decision to release him now, aged 68, has not been unduly rushed. Whether this decision is right or wrong it is in line with UK laws put in place, and reconfirmed by various Parliaments over 60+ years....

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Quickenthetempo wrote:Palace have players that take you on at pace.

Whereas City try and pass it round you.

City usually pass it round you into the net!

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Love Hamilton Lowbank,but you have to admit he's had the best equipment all his carreer ....even at McClaren he had the best car,no doubt about it he's the best driver in F1 at the mo. Every 'best driver ever' has had one of, it not THE, best cars on the grid at the time they were competing. Who ev...

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Bosscat wrote:Vettel is and was big enough to accept it (sort of) and does not blame Hamilton (how could he)

But his team isn't: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/143995/ferrari-intends-to-appeal-vettel-penalty

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Driving on slicks on grass would be like driving on ice. You can see how much he is fighting to prevent any kind if crash/collision. At those speeds and being on grass perhaps using brakes wouldn't be the best course of action.... Had he tried to do that he would probably have taken both himself an...

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Nothing, if the same standard was held against people like Corbyn when he promised to wipe off student debts 2 months before an election then immediately retracted after the result, or if it was Osborne for his "emergency budget" etc etc. I'd be all for it. But Corbyn didn't win the elect...

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How long will it be before the police and the courts get a grip on these scumbags that besmirch the name of true British football fans and come down on them really hard. We are way way too soft in this country. They should be birched until the cowards cry for mercy. Harsh perhaps, but that is the o...

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I have seen the Villa Acorn's Hospice shirt used as an example of a club taking a stand against using a gambling advert on their shirt a few years ago. That was not the case at all. A club statement at the time said, " The club approached Acorns, which cares for life-limited children and their ...

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JimMcDonald wrote:I said WE not he

Sorry, totally missed that 'we'!

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A far inferior league but on 30k a week. Not much off our top earner now. When he was here we was that sh1te he would of been lucky to get 5k. Well done to the lad. Wikipedia states "The contract is for two seasons commencing in the 2014–15 season and is worth $1.5 million" which is Au$75...

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He was bought as a back up - he was used as a back-up. SD said he wasn't properly fit having missed the whole of pre-season. needed time to get bedded in and Dyche-fit. We have seen quite a few players brought in late and not be used in season 1

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Now I have retired I get free life membership of the GMB which entitles me to legal help, a stay at a holiday village to recuperate from an illness, cheap life and funeral insurances as well as other services provided by the Union to members

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I was a member of a union for all my working life. Sometimes working in places where the Union was recognised other times where it wasn't. They were like car insurance - something that was there to provide help and support when things went wrong. I see other comments that spoke about the Union not d...

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More specifically, you have started a thread saying that 73% of our fuel for the last fortnight came from gas, nuclear, and wind, and 27% came from other non-UK coal sources. The source of the other 27% is critical to the discussion, because if it is imported electricity made by coal, then the orig...

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