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PeterWilton

Post pandemic I’m totally out of love with the beautiful game. It’s every aspect that has changed but for the worse. The constant changing/rearranging fixtures has things feeling disjointed. I’ve zero interest in international football. El Classico has lost it’s appeal with sub standard teams which...

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"Just got invited to a bring-your-own-beer board meeting"

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Not just BFC, of course, unless we’re the only club who can’t get a game on. I’d just rather not have them sitting doing nothing for 6 months on their full salary. Doesn’t seem fair to me. Doing it my way, we may even get to recruit some better players, IT. You understand we'd have to payout their ...

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I think when the season is called off, players and football staff should be laid off until we get another season going in August. They ought to be made redundant like they would be in any other profession when their role is no longer viable. So you think BFC should payout redundancy and then releas...

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minnieclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:28 pm
I still don’t get this obsession with his tax.
He is employed by a German company and resides in Monaco.
Live with it guys.

Corporate interests like it when we focus on something other than their actions. See also: climate change.

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A series that should have quit at one season. Mr. Robot's another.

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Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 21, 2021 1:26 pm
Let's hope he doesn't have the front to claim a pension as his tax avoidance tactics are legendary

I'll care about individuals once something is done about corporations and their tax evasion.

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CBT wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 19, 2021 9:52 pm
Just won the cazoo world grand Prix beating Robertson in the final well done great snooker player
But why does he have to come across as such a nob afterwards

Because that's what he is.

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RMutt wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 17, 2021 9:49 am
Cricket fans?

They don't deserve football.

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Just stop the season and resume in march/april.

I don't see why we don't just have our football seasons running from February to December with a 4-5 week break in the summer every two years to account for WC/Euros. Who the **** wants to be watching football in January instead of July anyway?

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GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 16, 2021 2:47 pm
Not really, because Schumachers wasn't after he smashed into Hill

The very fact that when we think of controversial champions and Schumacher's is the first name on everyone's list is solid evidence that his first title is tainted.

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Lowbankclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:32 am
I think you have taken my post out of context, I think I was answering a question or a query from someone.
I understand he has them options and needs them.

Ah! My apologies.

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Obviously Max isn’t world champion. The history books may say he is but it will always be viewed as a fraud. Not his fault, but he’ll be tarred with it forever. I suspect the farce will be overturned in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (after Mercedes lose the appeal in Paris). I also suspect 202...

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Doubt it. However under a safety car he needs discretion to make decisions. Like drive through the pits not on track. Red flag. Plus many other scenarios that could happen . He decides in VSC, or Safety car or red flag. What we going to say, Red Flag for every crash no matter how minor it might see...

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Alternatively if it’s not changed then it opens up the race director just making up rules as he pleases to decide who wins every race. I suspect Michael Masi will "resign" before next season and a quiet word will be had with the new one. something along the lines of "don't make up rules. kthxbai."

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They deemed it “unsafe” during the craning out of the Williams and “safe” once the track was clear . Balanced ? open to interpretation indeed, illegal? almost definitely not . It is what it is . Then if it was safe why do only the 5 cars between 1st and 2nd benefit from that decision? Why does the ...

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Plus Massi got two decisions wrong, the first lap, in every form of motor sport and every drivers view they spoke to on Sky Sports. Lewis should have given the position back. But you not bleating about that one being wrong. That wasn't Masi's decision. That was the stewards decision not to take any...

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Great season and a well deserved title to Max who took this with a slightly inferior car . Shame it had to be via a safety car, and awful luck for Lewis .The unlapping etc during a safety car is the standard practice ,so the decision was technically correct despite the incessant wailing of the Lewi...

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I'm a Hamilton fan but I don't really get how you can say race control is corrupt given the decision in the first corner. Decisions this year and mostly favored Mercedes. It's usual for every car to overlap, they wanted the best chance of seeing some racing and let only the ones near the front over...

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They didn't know, they just took a stab in the dark pretty much. Yeah. Pretty much. And it was probably the correct gamble to make. The choice was between Lewis on very used Hard types versus Max on moderately used Hards at a point when Max wasn't really gaining much time on Lewis any more. And giv...

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I'm not so sure. Why would they pit Max and put him 5 places further back knowing they would only get one laps racing (at best) unless they knew that those 5 cars would be moved out of the way. Because they wanted Max to be immediately behind Lewis with softs. They won't have had time to calculate ...

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There weren't enough laps for it to be anything other than a safety car finish or get those 4 cars out of the way for a proper end to the race. Max chose to pit. He didn't have to. He chose to do that, and that put him behind lapped cars. If he'd stayed out then it'd have still been a 1 lap race bu...

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Firthy wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 12, 2021 5:34 pm
Bullshit. Nothing to do with tactics, everything to do with inept (even corrupt) stewards.

I don't think Masi's corrupt. He just made an awful decision.

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1. He was 11.5 seconds clear of Max prior to the crash 2. According to the rules there should not have even been a final lap so the winner of the race would have been him 3. There should not have been the 4 cars moving way in between Max and him making him a sitting duck #2 is incorrect. According ...

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I wonder if they'll consider making it a shared world title. It'd be unprecedented (i think) but that clearly doesn't matter any more.

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Of course I don't, it's not like I've watched lots of races since I was a kid including that Senna race, but it's clear people wanted the race finished behind the safety car. Why does it have to be that we wanted it finished behind the safety car and not just that we didn't want the race director g...

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 12, 2021 5:02 pm
Disagree it would be tainted. He was the deserved winner of the race and therefore Championship. Plus he’s already won 7.

"deserved winner of the race"

Just how?

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On the flip side if the appeal is successful and it's overturned (whatever that means) Hamilton will be tainted. Better letting it go and making sure they're better next year.. I mean they've got to appeal it right? What Masi did wasn't right and they have to push that point if only for future situ...

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Max has been robbed as well, especially if this ends up being his only championship. He'll pretend otherwise but will know his title is tainted. I wouldn't appeal if I was Mercedes. None of it was red bulls fault. It's done. It's all on the official. Yeah. I was thinking that one of the reasons he ...

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Double protest from Mercedes. This rule was clearly broken. Can’t just let the cars between 1st and 2nd pass for the fun of it. Yeah. I mean, the word "all" is clearly written there. Twice. Masi invented a rule. And what's ironic is that I think it was Horner who recently said that the FIA shouldn'...

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I see Mercedes have lodged an appeal over that last lap. Problem appears to be that the rules aren't really very clear so it could well come to nothing It should come to nothing. The FIA have already rigged the race to make for an exciting final lap. To then change the result from anything other th...

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GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 12, 2021 3:17 pm
Horner has just said Mercedes have the stronger car after improving year on year.
I think his opinion is relevant.

I'm not asking about Horner's opinion, i'm asking about KF's opinion and would be interested to understand their thinking.

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Best driver in the world in the 2nd best car wins the title, congrats Max, well deserved I don't think it's easy to justify the argument that RB is the 2nd best car. The two cars are the strongest two but in different areas. What makes you say that the Mercedes is the stronger car? I'm interested t...

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How can they only let 5 cars through. It's completely contrary to sporting fairness because those 5 lapped cars were also racing with the other lapped cars. So 5 lapped cars get to secure their positions against the cars they should be racing with behind them just to manufacture an exciting finish t...

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A ******* scam. An absolute ******* scam.

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What. The. ****. Was. That.

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I don't think Hamilton's going to win this without Max making a mistake. This is going to be very tight.

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Looking unlikely barring a puncture or safety car. I'm still nervous of shenanigans involving an SC, like Perez parking it somewhere strategic. I'm hoping Perez and Horner are bigger than that, and i think they are. But still... it's happened before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Formula_On...

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If Verstappen ends up winning this championship he owes 49% of it to Perez.

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Lewis is maintaining a 2 second game on the slower tyre.

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When is Max going to learn. You can't divebomb, force the opponent off and then claim the position.

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Pole usually converts to race win in Abu Dhabi but with Max on the softs and Lewis on the mediums, it adds an extra layer of intrigue into the race. Lights out at 1pm tomorrow. It's different this time because RB might have to go for a two-stop strategy or go very long on bad types in one of two st...

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Just had a cheeky fiver on each of Bottas, Perez or Lando winning today, just incase i'm disappointed by Max wiping Lewis out.

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Max is the more skilled of the two, he's just in a factually slower car. He's pushing that RB to the absolute limit tho I've read this a couple of times and the argument in favour of it is that Max has been quicker in the slow and cornery sections of races but I'm fairly sure those people are forge...

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"However, it was obvious that neither driver wanted to take the lead prior to DRS detection line 3. The driver of Car 33 stated that he was wondering why Car 44 had not overtaken and the driver of Car 44 stated that, not having been aware at that stage that Car 33 was giving the position back, was ...

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Pearcey wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:54 pm
2 penalty points on his licence. Is that the same as championship points?

nah. They go on their super licence and last 12 months. If you hold more than 12 penalty points then they get banned for a race and the penalty points removed.

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I hope they don't disqualify Verstappen (even if he does deserve it) ... next week is set up nicely for a cracker 🙂 I don't think he deserves DQ from the race. At worst a grid penalty next race and points on his licence but for the excitement factor i wouldn't mind seeing it just be a warning. This...

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Anthony Davidson's just made the same point i made about Max trying to get into the DRS zone <1.0 seconds behind Lewis after giving the place back.

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Tell me you're a Hamilton fanboi without telling me you're a Hamilton fanboi! I know it's tough for some people to understand but it's entirely possible that other people can disagree with you for actually valid reasons. Is this how you go through life, just thinking that anyone who disagrees with ...

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He slowed massively to give the place back and Hamilton went into the back of him, not Max's fault the communication between Merc and Hamilton was bad. He left Lewis space on the inside and then moved towards the inside. He was definitely ******* around. I disagree with Lewis that he brake-checked ...

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