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I'm not convinced with the idea that Ben Mee can only play on the left side because of his silky skills with his left foot. I reckon he tackle anyone, anywhere, his positioning is fine, and he doesn't have Stones-like overconfidence so he knows how to play the ball to safety with either foot. As for...

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It's a mess for sure but wasn't his foot in front of the last defender, as in scoring part of the body? Harsh but offside. 100% certain to be a goal pre VAR as would the disallowed one yesterday because the match officials didn't raise an issue. I'm dreading getting back to the Miners at 6.15 from ...

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As for it being free for the over 75s, like winter fuel allowance, like bus passes, IMO it should all be means tested. Why does a millionaire pensioner need a winter fuel allowance and a free bus pass. All benefits should be means tested. People will say it will cost too much to means tested but su...

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How much is a licence nowadays? Looks like I might have to raid my mother's pension fund to pay for one!

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Comment overheard yesterday: 'England should have been in the Final. We were robbed of a goal because Lingard was only just offside, it should have stood'. Until some grasp the fact that offside is offside, it's going to be a long uphill struggle to win people over. But until the laws are rewritten...

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The main thing is that we have an away game in London on August Bank Holiday Sunday, or Monday night. Then (while I'm down for the RL Challenge Cup Final) I can take in the game. Last year Fulham (A), moved to Sunday for TV; two years ago, Spurs (A), moved to Sunday because it was at Wembley. Next y...

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They won't sell for £6m. If they sell Vydra, they need a replacement, and there's no guarantee (in fact, it's unlikely) that a £6m replacement would be as good.

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I have no idea why Sarri got the Chelsea job, but it wasn't to do with race. If Chelsea were determined to employ a white man and only a white man, they could still have found a white man who had won trophies. It's not as if he was the only white man available.

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I'll need to check but Sarri wasn't, and still isn't, a world class manager, nor is Solskjaer yet they're at two of the top English clubs and Sarri is about to takeover at Juventus apparently. White managers just seem more likely to get interviewed and hired for managerial jobs at all levels. Sarri...

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The worst bit of the Gove cocaine thing is that he claims he can't recollect a cocaine party at his home. How much drug abuse was going on that he can't remember? Not necessarily that he addled his mind with it; more that there was so much cocaine abuse going on that it was normal. So normal that he...

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I take it this vote is purely for form's sake? There can't be any doubt about the winner, surely. Though a man not called Trippier has already got one vote.

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Didn't you once suggest I had a neurodegenerative brain disorder? He certainly uses at least one term of physical disability as an insult. One of those insults that was common forty-fifty years ago but in a more enlightened society is taboo. So no reason why mental illness wouldn't be "fair game" t...

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Cyclist Beryl Burton could whip most of the men around back in the day. And neither was she an out and out munter like you'd expect. Granted she was no oil painting either, but you get my drift....at least she really did look like a woman. I'd never heard of her - thanks. Right, that's cycling off ...

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AlargeClaret wrote:Can’t deny that but it’s a pity that generally factual observations on women’s sport /football etc are howled down as sexist

I assume he, she or other was being facetious. Hope so anyway!

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The first thing they need to do with head injuries is to get the players to take them seriously. I reckon more than half pf players who go down claiming head injury, don't have one. I wouldn't be surprised if it is 80-90%. When substitutions were first introduced, they were allowed for injuries only...

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Another win for the mighty Colne!

Most wins in a season since 2009. What is going on?

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bodge wrote:I'm arranging a cavalcade of an estimated 50 vehicles to Barley next weekend so i hope the car parks are not as busy when we get there.

I hope you're including several caravans and at least one old Transit with a dodgy exhaust?

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Parliament could revoke Article 50 without any permission required from the EU. They shouldn't but it is possible (and much more likely than Raab's plan). I don't think Parliament can revoke Article 50 as such, because only the government can revoke Article 50. But Parliament can instruct the gover...

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Defour plays best in a 4-5-1. When Defour isn't available, Burnley play best in 4-4-2. Has Defour done enough to justify building the team round him - bearing in mind his injury record? No. IMO.

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Within the next ten years a woman footballer will break through to play in the Premiership. I bet they won't. Look at all the other sports where women have been able to compete without restriction for a lot longer than they have in football. For example: Cricket Sprinting Hockey Golf Snooker Darts ...

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Best player? If I was told that Defour would be fit but the devil's bargain would be that Barnes would not play, I wouldn't feel the side was improved. (Or Mee. Or Tarkowski. Or Heaton/Pope. Or McNeil.)

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Call it what you like. The brother in law is a sergeant and I often challenge him on speed, cameras and annoying 'boy racers'. He is so looking forward to retirement next year and when these conversations crop up, often tells me as he has friends who work in road traffic, that they go off accidents...

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Sigh Dsr is going to die believing that. He really is. I can't be arsed telling him again why he's wrong, and that he's wrong and its been proven wrong on numerous occassions. It is UKIP ******** paraded as "fact" You don't say which bit is wrong. Is it that free trade is not best for the EU, or is...

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I always thought a managed withdrawal made the only sense and yet they seemed determined to make it complicated. We leave with all current legislation as it stands. We become Europe light until Uk legislation supersedes it. We leave Europe and become self determining. We avoid being dragged any dee...

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Speed cameras are fitted where there are the most accidents - not where people speed. It's because as soon as a notice goes up that there's a speed camera ahead, drivers slow down, so they go off the stats of accidents/deaths to determine where they go up. I live off a main road where people genuin...

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Can any of you who oppose prosecuting politicians for lying please present your counter argument to the argument in favour of prosecuting them that Marcus Ball makes here. https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1137255619751227393" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; A policeman fabric...

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That's one place where they ought to have speed cameras because speeding genuinely is dangerous. And it would be profitable too, so the powers that be would like it.

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The right to lie is indeed an important one in a democracy. But lying in public office should be illegal. And if a court decides you win an election based on a lie, a bald-faced, provable lie, then the election should be voided and re-run. Just for clarity, would the court have to prove that more t...

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I suspect the police have decided they have better things to do.

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But that is the sound bite.... it has no bearing on reality. As I just discussed with Lancaster above. Even on election night AW was insisting that brexit should now be involved in any negotiation... by definition that suggests there has to be a further negotiation. Exactly. "Compromisers", even Th...

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Lancashire League website has it in full. http://www.lancashireleague.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Colne or Littleborough are at home to Rochdale. The official third round day was 15th June, but now that's been pushed back to 22nd June.

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ClaretTony wrote:Age? I’d suggest attitude above age.

And a good attitude too!

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You're implying that all leave voters are prepared to leave with no deal, which is false. The few dozen MPs you mention are representing the small minority of Leave voters who are completely insane. These are the political extremists who are prepared to do an unlimited amount of damage in order to ...

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All people do is touch the card (contactless) Lets face facts Frank ... have you ever had anyone check the name on your card if/when you use it that way.... Contactless payments are fraught with danger because of the easy way stolen cards can be used in that way.... They don't check the cards if yo...

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All 4 Worsley Cup 3rd Round games have to be put off another week, because all four have an unfinished match. But two of the four 2nd XI Cup quarter-finals are already fixed, not waiting for a replay - will they go ahead on the scheduled date? T20s are just rained off, a point apiece. They used to h...

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Paul Waine wrote:You have a toilet in your kitchen?

Off the kitchen. There's a door between.

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This girl forgot to buy insurance and has to fork out $118,000 for having an accident. Imagine living in a country where if you can't even afford insurance and you have an accident you have to pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for something that might not even be your fault. That's what ...

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Was quoted £50 to sort the antenna on my PS4 however went on YouTube and just needed to buy the part which came to £2.50 from Amazon and the rest they guy explained on YouTube. All sorts of stuff on there. It was Youtube that showed me how to turn off the water on the downstairs toilet after the bo...

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The assistants are told to keep their flags down so how do we know whether the assistant would have flagged for Lingard or not? Because that's not what the linesmen are told. They are told that if it's close, wait until the play has played out before signalling for offside. If the linesman had thou...

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No deal is going to be as good as what we currently have so that can't be a reason to not vote for it. May's deal, regardless of whether you favoured it or not, had us leaving the EU. That isn't quite right. It's true that the future trade deal with the EU would not be as good as the trade deal we ...

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People seem to have completely forgot the fact that for a change in decision to happen it needs to be "clear and obvious " There was an incident tonight where France scored a belter of a goal only then for it to be ruled offside after a two minute delay due to the goal scorer having the big toe of ...

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I think most would agree that if May hadn't suddenly switched to pushing a much harder Brexit than the referendum result justified we'd be out of the EU now. I find it difficult to believe that she was such a master tactician that she pushed for that hard Brexit as she knew it wouldn't go through t...

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From a very cyncial point of view here but here goes.............. I assume Burnely CC is 'owned' by its members - therefore, what would stop say 500-1000 Clarets joining the cricket club, forcing an EGM, and pushing through a motion to sell the cricket club land to the football club????? Your assu...

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They have a duty to represent the 16,142,241 people who voted remain just as much as those that voted leave. The beauty of a Democracy is that the Representatives can change their mind, it’s not a fixed point. Democracy relies on that win elections and referenda to accept, gracefully, that whilst t...

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If only they had remembered whose name was on the card, they could have offered to split the cash three ways ...

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Sausage wrote:Surely the big news here is that St Andrew's has been renamed the Trillion Trophy Stadium which has got to the most ironic name for a club whose trophy cabinet looks like this:

If they ever win anything, will they change it to the "Trillion and One Trophy Stadium"?

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Not looking great for the replayed Worsley cup games tomorrow either! If no cricket is played will they be some kind of bowl off to decide who goes through? My guess would be to play the second round games on 3rd round day (15th June) and then the 3rd round games on 3rd round replay date 22nd June....

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I think he decided on his story and then went looking for facts to support it. Essentially, Trippier hasn't played as well as Alexander-Armstrong or Walker this season, and he's better suited to wing-back than full-back. That's all the story says. Going into rambles about playing on loan for Barnsle...

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If Camelot know that it was paid for by a debit card, then they surely know which debit card it was. Presumably this information will come out in court (though possibly not made public).

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Personally, I find dishonesty (eg - claiming that folk who believe women should have autonomy over their own bodies are “pro-abortion”) more offensive than a few asterisks, but each to their own, I suppose. That's not dishonesty. That's you being unable to understand that you don't have exclusive r...

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