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We have needed a pacy wide man who can beat opponents with ease and supply decent crosses for our strikers Lennon Brady and unfortunately injury prone JBG don't do this consistently enough And nor will anyone else in our price range. You're looking for someone like David Beckham but with pace. The ...

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Glad the Brexit thread is back. I want to ask all those who voted for Boris what they thought about Northern Rail being nationalised after the campaign from Boris against nationalisation of rail companies? It's not actually all that difficult.. Labour's position is that all railways should be natio...

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Thoughtful of his parents to spell his name with an Italian accent. That's planning.

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I noticed in the second half that the commentators said that Powell had failed the concussion protocol and wouldn't be coming back on. Well, duh. If a man lies on the field for 5 minutes not moving a muscle, flat out cold, then you don't need to be a doctor to spot that he's a tiny bit concussed.

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9thMay1987 wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:23 pm
Is it possible we are stuffing the balance sheet to sell the club?

No. The most valuable asset is Premier League status, and that doesn't appear on the balance sheet.

At the sort of levels Premier League clubs are sold for, the odd £30m in the bank is neither here nor there.

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Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:54 pm
Apparently its the elderly that are most at risk from this virus. 12 months too late to save us from Brexit!!

The elderly are most at risk from virtually all viruses. Good a reason as any to laugh at people for getting old, I suppose.

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There was a mathematician on the radio 2 at lunchtime. Based on rate of infection figures from Chinese hospitals, there will be 11million infected worldwide and 2million deaths this year. 😬 There was also a virus expert on the radio. He's been out to test the virus. He said the masks most of the pu...

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Papabendi wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:45 pm
What an incredible signing for Sheffield Utd who have only been in the prem for five mins. Real ambition.

Why on earth doesn't Mike Garlick spend money like Prince Abdullah? Is it lack of ambition?

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claret2018 wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:06 pm
Funny how only WWI fighter pilots and transfer-linked footballers are ever described as “aces”

Apparently an ace is a pilot who shot down at least 5 enemy planes. There are still one or two pilots left from the Battle of Britain, but not official aces.

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Yes, funnily enough. The thing about Twitter is that all Burnley's signings are revealed, or at least rumoured, in advance on Twitter. So are all the signings we don't get. I bet if you look hard enough we will have been linked with all of Bristol City's first XI in the last few months; if you get ...

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But even with injuries, was Wells ever likely to be good enough? many on here at the time didn’t think so. In my opinion I’d like to see us sign first team ready players and use the current squad as replacements. £15M on a 3rd choice defender was never an astute signing really regardless of how goo...

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Well, that might be a bit much. Austerity, Sudanese conflict and genocide in Darfur, Actions against the Rohingya people and The European migrant crisis all rank above twitter as the worst thing to come out of the 21st Century in my opinion... Probably quite a few other things i didn't list that ar...

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I'm disappointed with the cash figures being mentioned though. £4m for Wells is extremely cheap, given that we paid £10m for Jay in the Summer ( who is of a similar age, and had a less impressive goal scoring record for last season, when you take out the soft penalties ). £6m less, in the window th...

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People giving a [deleted] about the EU was at nearly it's lowest point right around the time Cameron, the Conservatives and some dark money decided to make it the countries biggest diving issue. At the 2015 general election, more than 1 in 8 voters decided that voting for UKIP and a referendum was ...

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He's scored more goals at Everton than both Wood or Barnes have scored as out and out strikers in the same period - plus 6 goals for Brazil. But you are arguing against 'classic Spijed' logic There's quite a big step from "scored more goals than Barnes or Wood" to "£85 million". I can only assume t...

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"“But man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd - His glassy essence—like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven "As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.” The black man who he was conve...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:50 pm
90+2: Michael Mellon on for McGlynn

Bringing a bit of experience on to shore up the defence?

Is he any relation of the other one?

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Not really. Because they are just a tube ride away from a Liverpool Street before and after the game. It’s not like Spurs play in Vladivostok! It's a strange justification for charging £1,000+ for 98% of their season tickets - that Liverpool Street Station is only 20 minutes away. The price of 2 ad...

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Everyone has their own tastes. And I love the outer Hebrides as much as I love London as much as I love the alps. But there is a reason why London is the most visited ‘western‘ city in the world ahead of Paris, New York, Rome, Amsterdam, Berlin, Sydney, Los Angeles, Barcelona... and most expensive ...

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Yes. And I’ve seen the standard of players they pay to watch at the incredible stadium they play at in the greatest city on earth. It is an impressive stadium. And the seats face the pitch just like they do at Turf Moor. As for "the greatest city on earth", I went there earlier in the year for the ...

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have a suspicion that if a man had said that we shouldn't talk about football in the workplace because women don't get it, there article would have had a significantly different slant ...

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Other than Wigan and cheating Portsmouth how many clubs outside of the big 3 or 4 have won the FA Cup in the last 30 years since the Premier League began ? Even in the EFL cup it’s the big 3 or 4 teams winning it and reaching the final almost every single year. Wigan winning it was not far from the...

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We choose to prioritise the league over the cup in the same way as 90% of the teams in the Premier League and even in the Championship do. We won the Championship - that’s silverware ! That's pretty much the point. We won the Championship, which is silverware, and it appears that we have set a targ...

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tarkys_ears wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:53 pm
Can we do the same with Merseyside?

Unfortunately no, because it's on the wrong side of the country. We could push it into the Irish Sea.

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wrong, it was a game the club didn't want to play. The risk to key players is obvious, two great league results, but we are in no position to have a meaningless cup tie ruin our chance of staying up. Fielding first team players in a ridiculous cup comp could be catastrophic. It would be equally or ...

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claret2018 wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:46 am
With our squad, absolutely not. We are 1 or 2 injuries away from almost certain relegation

That's a bit melodramatic. You seriously think that if just one player gets injured (I presume you mean Wood? Or who do you mean?) we would be unable to get the two wins that would probably mean safety?

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If we average 1 point a game until the end of the season we finish on 44 points. The "big" 6 have lost 14 more games and drawn 12 more than this time last year so that's 54 more points floating around the table i think 18th place will have 40 points this year It's not as bad as that. The top 6 migh...

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No - people did say they would take relegation if it meant a cup final. It's nothing to do with the chances of reaching Wembley and going down. So we're very much going off track. My question to you: Would you be relegated and win the FA Cup? Or would you not win the FA Cup but stay another season ...

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claretdj wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:49 pm
If he"s a Russian or an Arab then sell please..

I think Portsmouth had both. Is any Russian or Arab acceptable, or would you be slightly selective?

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The way I saw it, is that people wanted a cup final. And if that meant relegation, then it's fine. So it was people who wanted a good day out, even though it meant we'd drop down to the Championship. It's down to mentality. I'm seeing it from a business side. Others may see it purely from a spectat...

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And these business men ( because let's be honest that's what they are first and foremost) stand to make more overnight than they have in 2 decades of business. I must be a different type of fan to the ones on our board, as I'd be doing everything possible to establish this team, win a cup and build...

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Darnhill Claret wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:37 pm
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3. I am counting games to the end of the league season; the FA Cup Final won't cause either tiredness or injury that could affect any league game.

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The winner of the fa Cup gets £3.6 million the runner up gets £1.8 million, staying in the Premier league is worth £120 million why would the club worry about staying in the Cup at the risk of injuries or fatigue and more games, we would all love to win the cup but the club really are not intereste...

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Some of you make me laugh. We’ve just beaten Leicester at home and Man UTD away and you want to complain about losing, what is these days considered by most, an insignificant cup match. The primary focus is to stay in this league. Let Norwich continue the draining cup run. We concentrate on surviva...

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A lot more would take 17th as opposed to going down with the possibility of never coming back up. Are you implying that if we finish 17th there will be no possibility of going down next year? You seem to be implying that bad things might happen in future if we go down, bu there is no suggestion tha...

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It's a matter of what we want in football. If we had won today, we would have looked forward to the chance of a Cup run, the probability of boring nothing-much-happening-in the league, and the faint possibility of relegation. Now, we have the probable nothing-much-happening in the league and the fai...

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And for the people that want Ben Mee out of the side, if they still exist: today is what the defence looks like without Ben Mee.

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If either team wins and keeps winning, they'll have to play an average of a game a week for the rest of the season. I supposed they're bound to wilt under that workload.

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Not really about humble pie, how can a team go from the Villa home performance to that at Old Trafford. Absolutley polls apart, and questions do sometimes need asking. Theres no denying he has had to change tactics because of Ash injury, maybe that change has energised the team...who knows ? I reck...

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If we win tomorrow, and keep on winning, the players will have to play an absolute maximum of 18 more games in 17 weeks. I can't be the only one that thinks that's not an impossible ask? Even if we win 5 games and win the cup, will it make the task of winning two -perhaps even three - of our next 14...

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Tall Paul wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:42 am
You can still file accounts with Companies House by post. Most companies don't because filing online is much more efficient.

You can't with HMRC though, and their electronic tagging is far more onerous than Companies House's.

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Burnley CC won the Lancashire League in 1893, 1897, 1901, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1913. Then the war intervened and they nearly went bust (possibly because they couldn't sell car parking space for Burnley FC home games, and away supporters weren't using the bar.)

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Given it was an article about the difficulties in agreeing a deal then obviously it focused on the problem areas. Which specific issues did you disagree with? I assume the article didn't specify the forms as they don't exist yet. Until the deal is agreed it won't be possible to know what will be re...

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Nail on the head there DA, it's all one big game of give and take until both parties are happy with the result. I've always failed to understand how one human being can defend another human being, in cases like this, in the knowledge that his client is one hell of a danger to society and in their h...

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Get Brexit done! https://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2020/01/23/brexit-2020-everything-you-need-to-know-about-johnson-s-trad An article that claims that every single thing aboutr Brexit is bad, is clearly nonsense. If they want to be balanced, then they might be worth reading. One thing that did inter...

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Is it considered to be more serious than bird flu, or less serious? What about swine flu?

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It might also be worth mentioning that he won the header against Matic for Wood's goal, even though Matic is four or five inches taller and a stone and a half heavier. The commentators mentioned that Burnley have big players to aim for when taking free kicks and corners - but if they looked properly...

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Stay of execution until the winter break, perhaps.

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At least one Man Utd fan on Redcafe would like to swap Mee for Maguire.

(If you thought our site was manically depressed after Villa, you need to take a look at this one!)

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Almost 4 years on and you’re still unable to grasp the very simple power dynamics at play here. The EU will decide how much or how little access we have to its market depending on how closely we’re prepared to align ourselves with them. They are the rule makers here, whether you like it or not. I k...

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