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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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For me, nothing beats the Roadman/Mandem accent for inducing vomit. Worst accent I've ever heard. I was watching that particularly grim episode of 24hrs in Custody on Ch4 this week and I must admit, one of the questions I’d have asked the murderer guy was why is a 33 year old man from Bedfordshire ...

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Surprisingly, we did actually beat them at home in 86/87 when they won the league easily. A win which later turned out to deny them a 100 pts total and was also a fairly important 3 points for us in the end.

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bigdavethemaddog wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 10, 2024 9:22 am
does anybody think Joey is close to a breakdown?

I hope not, it's a shame to see him where he is now. However, it's more likely he's close to bankruptcy, everyone needs to do something to pay the bills and once the League One / Two manager jobs dried up, I guess this is his chosen path.

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GetIntoEm wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:34 pm
glad a TV show has got people wound up on a topic they had no interest in before. love to see it

They should get Sarah Lancashire or maybe James Nesbitt to head up neatly packaged 3-part ITV dramas on climate change or crumbling public services.

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I was kind of hoping he was just going down this route to grift some easy money off people with flags in their bios but unfortunately it appears he has genuinely fully lost it. He'll be protesting 15 minute cities with Rickie Lambert in a week or two.

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Faultless tonight, our best player. O’Shea improving fast too. Shame the season is half finished.

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Respect and sympathy to anyone putting themselves through this again.

I think my personal GD tally in this one is 19-1, I’m sure plenty have much worse.

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No way any football authority is going to back down now but VAR has ruined top level football. It’s a much poorer ‘product’ and the decisions are no different.

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It's a bit difficult to understand people still thinking a player of DIer's calibre wouldn't be a massive upgrade for us. To have seen us this season and not noticed the gulf between an established top 6 player/England international and our players is astonishing, regardless of if you're a negative...

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It's actually a pretty interesting topic but little chance we'll get into it before it gets derailed. My grandad in particular was a staunch socialist / union man.. borderline Communist. Voted Labour from 18 until he died. But he had certain views which would place him 'far right' today. That's not ...

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Wish her all the best, great achievement. Hope it goes well.

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Shame he left Barnsley, they loved him there and were making progress. One step forward and two back going to Swansea.

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The bubble hasn't burst but TV income has definitely peaked. The only option is to give more and more games away to try and keep the same money coming in. The 'unofficial' streaming services were inevitably going to hit the value of these deals eventually.

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Spijed wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:42 pm
The worry still lingers that two of the Sheffield United chances today would have been scored by many sides in the Prem.

You’re right, but I’ll happily take a 5-2 win in the next one.

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Today definitely confirmed one thing, we’re still the best team in the Championship.

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jrgbfc wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:25 pm
Don't really understand why you'd bother travelling to an away game just to get on your own teams back.

Totally agree.. but we’ve been there. Remember Barnsley away in 2010?

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Couldn’t care less about Newcastle but VAR has made a North East Counties League match more enjoyable and exciting to watch than a top end Champions League game.

It’s like there’s two different sports now and I know which one I prefer.

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There’s a pub in our town in South Yorkshire where you can still get a pint for £1.60. A few yards away there’s a bar where it’s £6 for a lager. All depends on your clientele I guess. I like both places, the cheap pub isn’t rough, just an old man type pub where they have horse racing on all day. Rem...

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He was a 34 year old, depressed alcoholic with numerous other physical and mental issues. The blame should lie with our club for that fiasco.

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He seems a top guy, very popular in Sheffield and loves football at any level despite playing right at the top. But even though he was poor as a manager for us, it could have been worse. Got really lucky with Andy Payton falling out with his Huddersfield manager mid-season. Without that, we'd have b...

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I remember waiting for team news pre-match, watching the cricket on the big screen, and most people were disappointed Jay Rod was out and Barnes would be starting. Then he turned in one of his best performances for us and established his 'legend' status. I told the kids after that seeing them being ...

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True enough, John. And I know I'm boring myself as well as everyone else saying this, but the idea that 'VAR isn't the problem, it's the people running it' is absolutely ridiculous. You're literally saying 'it's not the Video Assistant Referee that's the problem, it's the Video Assistant Referee'. A...

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George Oghani’s goal being disallowed v Luton in the League Cup.

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I would be interested in the findings as how/why accents change The scouse accent in particular. It's so exaggerated now, compared to 30 years ago. Watch any old footage of Liverpudlians being interviewed and it's so much softer than how they speak today. Perhaps a deliberate show of identity. (Not...

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This would absolutely be the worst thing to happen in the world right now.

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Hopefully they'll be non-league in the next year or two.

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Mine won't be going on. I have air source and it is horrendous. It costs an arm and a leg to run, especially when it is freezing outside, as it has to heat the air, and the radiators go cold pretty much immediately. I can't even set it as there is no timer so the house is freezing when I get home. ...

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Heath was a class player for us, made you appreciate the difference in the level we were at and where he’d come from.

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Seems a very nice chap. That red card against Argentina still looks a bit harsh now, ludicrous the reaction to it in England. Hoddle doesn’t come out of that at all well either. He seemed to spend most of his career with people saying he was overrated but he played for a great Man Utd side under Fer...

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mdd2 wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 05, 2023 11:42 am
Split into two groups
Group 1 declared bankrupt due to poor financial management
Group 2 Live a life of Riley having managed their affairs in an orderly manner

I was going to say that, going bankrupt seems to be by far the most popular post-career move for them.

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Never going to happen, like Man City getting punished. Just go after Reading or Southend instead.

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:20 pm
1 min 157 onwards here, you may need a VPN though as it's NBCSN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exoziCl-5Z8&t=227s

Cheers for that, first time i've seen it. Nice build up play there.

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I'm not sure it's a favour to Liverpool, it's just that they're pursuing it further. Good luck to them, it won't change anything about the result but if it further damages the reputation of VAR then i'm all for it.

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My daughter was at a tournament in Sheffield this summer when the officials took everyone off for half an hour as a lightning storm passed right over. Some parents were grumbling, unbelievable. A long while back, but a lad who worked with my missus was killed by lightning just sat having a brew on s...

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I’ve spoken to a few Wednesday fans round here about it this weekend and given the strength of feeling, I kind of hope these two do turn up at Hillsborough for the next match.

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