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For me, an investor is needed to give us the extra boost in the transfer market. I agree that the policy we have in place has served us incredibly well so far, but to push us on (which to me means top half finishes consistently) we need extra funds beyond what keeps the club safe. The best bet of t...

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You'd think the person least qualified to throw his toys out the pram was Grayling. Doesn't say much for the commitment to the committee from Johnson's man.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... signs-from

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What do you get when the EU are worried about no deal but remainers tell you that the EU don't need the UK? Screenshot 2020-08-28 at 19.56.13.png I don't think anyone had said that. Just that in the big scheme of things the UK needs the EU more than the EU needs the UK. Plus it's pretty telling tha...

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So what you're saying is that insults based on skin colour are acceptable if the person making the insult is of the same skin colour? I'm still surprised. I would have thought such a committed anti-racist as yourself would have avoided all skin colour insults, not just some of them. But if you real...

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Sterling says he is now considering his position wether to stay or leave. This stinks and looks political and not in the interest of the show. I hope Sterling resigns enough is enough. The country has been set back years with this BLM movement and is creating division within our communities. The ma...

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revealed the number one target by formally requesting permission of Sheffield Wednesday to interview their boss Brian Laws, the former Burnley right back. Permission was refused What a sliding doors moment that was. Who knows where the club would have ended up if they had granted permission, admini...

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From what I’m told, the broadcasters would but it’s the Premier League clubs who have said no. It would be interesting to hear what the clubs' reasons were. I can certainly think of some good reasons but I wonder what reasons they'd give. I can imagine broadcasters are concerned about people headin...

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It's an irreconcilable difference. you believe that if the EU makes all the rules then it's a level playing field. I don't. It's like the boy who owned the football deciding who plays and where - you might accept it if you don't have a football of your own, but that doesn't mean it's all fair and e...

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No, because in those circumstances people who had most loyalty points would get a ticket. Now lets not get into a debate on the less than perfect loyalty point system but at least tickets would be awarded on a basis that isn't completely random. If it's based on loyalty points then it's always goin...

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Dont the U21's try to build teams in 2 year cycles so players who wont be eligible for the next big tournament are left out from the start. I know with Covid this may have changed the dates and schedule a bit but I always thought this is how they approached the U21s and was a good way of doing so A...

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That's a fair point and I've had this happen to me before and it's creepy... But they don't 'listen' to your conversations, it just picks up if you've said a brand name for example. It's not okay, but it's not as bad as some make out. They are changing the laws on websites to make it an explicit op...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:45 pm
Prime can't step up and neither can Sky or BT - blocked by the Premier League clubs.

The campaign is asking the league and broadcasters to make those games not selected for coverage available to supporters

Has there been any inkling from the broadcasters whether or not they would want to do it?

aggi

You couldn't sneer at me anymore if you tried :lol: Disregard me all you like, I'm fine with it you pompous arse. If you make things up then people will pick you up on it. I did used to give you the benefit of the doubt on your whataboutery whenever anyone criticised the tory party but given this i...

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I see the top civil servant from the Department for Education has also stepped down (even though some were vociferous that exam results were nothing to do with the DfE). You've got to wonder what Williamson has on Johnson to still be in his role. Although Johnson seems to think that the "algorithm" ...

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The Left- When you supply facts and information from "right wing" websites they have no validity. Supply information and facts from the Left wing BBC its hypocrisy ! You've got to take yourself really seriously if you don't find the irony that you copy and pasted a BBC article whilst complaining ho...

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Some of what you say may be true, but it is up to interviewers to interview, not interpret or put a spin on anything. Even if they think a politician, of whatever colour rosette, is lying through their back teeth, they should put on a show of impartiality. They can interview the opposition to pick ...

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Excess deaths are excess deaths. Only one figure is currently being used to beat the gov though for some reason Well you've succinctly illustrated that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about there. I think it's pretty safe for people to disregard any post you make regarding statistic...

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I’m not sure I agree that the license fee should be compulsory - however 91% of people use BBC services on a weekly basis. I’m guessing the other 9% includes people who use the services but less frequently and also people who don’t pay the fee. Do those of you who refuse to pay the fee honestly nev...

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Everything is here. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/excesswintermortalityinenglandandwales/previousReleases Isn't that a different measure than that being used to estimate Covid deaths? They are the figures I'd already found. That 45k in...

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Jeez, I missed this news. Tony Abbott, who was a pretty poor PM for Australia, is set to be become the president of the UK's Board of Trade.

aggi

The reason so many 'Conservatives' have turned against the BBC is obvious. It should be apolitical. It can't ignore politics, but it should give a balanced debate. The last few years it has been blatantly biased towards the left, wether daily politics or Brexit. Wether this was as a directive from ...

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GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 26, 2020 10:12 am
52k excess deaths up to July this year according to ONS.

That's 7k more than 2015 when we had 45k excess deaths without Covid.

Can you share where you got these figures from? When I looked up historic excess deaths previously I could only find winter figures.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:08 pm
Mings in - Tarkowski out - makes no sense at all to me. I know I'm biased but I just don't get that at all.

When Mings was first called up I remember some comments from Southgate about wanting a left footed centre back which may explain it a little.

Although I'd rate Mings higher than Dier.

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Heathclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 25, 2020 12:32 pm
I don’t agree with you.

Fair enough. You can ignore the overwhelming number of statistics out there and stick your head in the sand if it makes you feel better. Personally I'd say that's facilitating institutional and societal racism but hey ho.

aggi

Perhaps not, but seeing as I only work for a tiny % of the population, perhaps people of all colours are doing well . His view is if you work hard enough, you will achieve. If you expect wealth and luxury to be given, you won’t get either. I don’t think society is perfect, poverty exists, that, to ...

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Thanks aggi. You seem to be the only "left wing liberal" on here (apologies if you don't consider yourself as such) with the confidence to agree that ignoring skin colour is even an acceptable way of defeating racism never mind a desirable way. Isn't that amazing and depressing in 2020? (I know Kat...

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A customer of mine, he is half Bangladeshi ( father ) and half Bulgarian, completely disagrees with you. His parents came to Britain when he was a young child as his father was felt he would never be accepted in Bulgaria, and they both got jobs as engineers working for London Underground. To cut a ...

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Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:52 pm
Why is this a left v right issue?

Because in some people's eyes everything is. Modern politics, and seemingly life, for some is like football where you pick your team and defend it regardless of what is actually happening.

aggi

It's always amusing watching all these people who are so vocal about people getting worked up over nothing getting worked up over nothing.

aggi

To call a shareholders' meeting, it needs a request by 5% of the shareholders by voting power. (Alternatively, a court could order it at the request of a single shareholder, but unless they were given a good reason to, they wouldn't.) The only instance I can think of that would be likely to cause a...

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The last AGM was in 2012 just after the arrival of Sean Dyche as manager. A shareholders meeting was held a year later but it wasn’t an AGM and I recall shareholders were not permitted to send a proxy. Yes, when I said recently I meant recent to BFC making the change, not recent to now. I wasn't ve...

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How much extra. Let’s say we sell 20,000 at £80. Which we wouldn’t. That’s still nowhere near what we get in sponsorship money. The sponsors don't care that much about being on the shirts that are sold to fans though. The reach of those, particularly to their target audience, is pretty limited comp...

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Interesting that this got zero response. I assume it's a negative from Peter and a thumbs up to punishing a Fox (all the while remembering that cancel culture does not exist). Would any of the left wing liberals on here be open minded enough to accept the counter argument? The one that says ignorin...

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You've taken my post somewhat out of context I don't think so, the post you first replied to gave some of the same reasons as I did. Regardless, there are reasons why screening every game may cause football, and Burnley in particular, problems further down the line. They may be remote enough that y...

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Rubstuds wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 21, 2020 4:24 pm
My experience and some others on here, just leave it to clear by itself. A few days at most.

Mine's been a few weeks as well.

aggi

I think that decision was to allow them NOT to have a yearly meeting where everyone was allowed to turn up and complain about the pies and NOT have to send a paper copy of the accounts to everyone as it cost a fortune TBDG The rules had also changed pretty recently to allow the opt out. If it hadn'...

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Can’t imagine any supporters who want to attend wouldn’t want to go back should things get back to normal. The genie, as you put it, would be back in the bottle with tv coverage back to how it’s been. And would you really prefer to watch from your armchair? I imagine there will be loads. Not every ...

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Could one of the more learned gentlemen briefly surmise what an investor group would require earnings wise from us and how they’d go about that ? I’m presuming adding perhaps around 6-9k capacity ? and of course increasing our worldwide appeal /tv /advertising revenues . Though this still seems “ p...

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Well can somebody with a better memory tell me what did happen then? Because I very definitely did get notice, sometime in the early 2010s, of a Special Resolution and EGM, the crux of which was to change the voting terms. I very definitely did get issued with a new share certificate and I very def...

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There was something said a while ago that very much contradicted that. Not as though it matters, it’s a good few years since we even had an AGM. There's definitely only one class of share. I don't know what the comment was. Could be that the non-board shareholders have such a minority shareholding ...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:32 pm
Is it really one vote per share or is it one vote per voting share?

There's only one class of share. All shares are voting shares.

aggi

How much investment is needed? City have spent £1 billion ish under Pep. Everton have spent a good few hundred million since their new owner rocked up. Villa spent over £100 million last summer and only just survived whilst Fulham went down after spending a similar amount the year before. It's all ...

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Seems the government is starting to panic: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-offers-desperate-draft-deal-to-break-brexit-logjam-9srgwm5kh Personally I think it's a reasonable tactic. Bypass the current negotiation with a tempting offer and hopefully sow some discord amongst the EU countries' le...

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He did really well when he first came in, significantly improved the squad whilst cutting wages. Quite lucky in that there were a lot of players that could be moved out at that point so he had something of a clean slate but did well to bring new ones in and get them to gel. It went downhill after th...

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Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:44 am
Do any Brexit supporters question what happened to the “Oven Ready” Brexit deal that was parroted throughout the election campaign?

It's probably in the same place as the social care plan that he claimed to have ready.

aggi

easy fix, should allow drive thru voting - we do that to pick up prescriptions etc. Would solve social distancing issues as you would remain in your car I remember the surprise when I first went to the US and discovered everything was drive thru. Walking through the drive thru ATM as that was the o...

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Hi Rileybobs, if there's no competition to sign Jeff Hendrick, then I don't expect he will be offered/paid a signing-on fee. Take a look at what The Times is reporting, today, re Spurs signing Joe Hart. I've underlined the bit about possible wage it's suggested that Spurs have offered. Tottenham Ho...

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Looks like the unblocking doesn't work either.

aggi

It's a tricky one this. With a lot of areas to consider. I imagine the EPL is wary about giving away a load of games to broadcasters because of the impact it may have on future negotiations with a severely devalued price per game and also the difficulty in putting that genie back in the bottle when ...

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I watch a bit of rugby and one of the most annoying things is the constant up and down of people going to the bar, going for a ****, going to the bar, etc I wouldn't mind being able to take a beer up to your seat bought pre-match or half-time (probably with some restriction on the number) but bars o...

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