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One or two posters above suggesting he wasn't such a bad chap, but basically him and his crew ( 3 other BES employees got jail terms) were pirates plundering small businesses. They should have made him walk the plank but now the taxpayer will have to feed and shelter him for circa 13 years.

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I think there is a parallel to the Bairstow dismissal in football. Consider when an opponent goes down injured and the defending team put the ball into touch. The etiquette is for the opposition to take the throw in and return the ball to the goalie usually and then carry on as per normal. Haven’t t...

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The utter irony of Aussies complaining about sledging.

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Three MCC members suspended for sledging the Aussie players in the Long Room.

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Extras second highest score in the Aussie second innings.

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Sproggy. I’ve never heard of external and internal dividends. Would you be kind enough to enlighten me as to what the difference is please?

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TW is apparently £14 billion in debt and hasn’t paid out a dividend for six years. I am not sure if this is the case at Thames but my experience in dealing with Anglian Water is that in their case they are owned by a Canadian hedge fund. AW borrows money from another company in the hedge fund portfo...

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Bearing in mind Prigozhin is a mercenary I wonder if the Allies/US/Ukrainians have just simply bribed him in some way to stage a coup? 400 Wagner vehicles on their way to Moscow allegedly and Russian military vehicles on the streets of Rostov and Moscow seem to indicate something is definitely afoot.

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Good question Stayingup. O’Shea has had more experience at a higher level including EPL & International appearances however that doesn’t necessarily make him a better player.

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Going off the home match vs Swansea, the "Swansea Way " seemed to be passing the ball a lot and then getting hammered. Duff will soon put a stop to that.

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According to the Molineaux fan web site Collins is likely to go for circa Brentford for £25 million so there won’t be much profit for Burnley even if there is a sell in clause.

Of more interest is that Wolves seem to be offloading players to “balance the books”

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Leicester could be in some serious difficulty if they don’t go up at the first time of asking. I would imagine that they will have made a loss last season as they didn’t sell anyone and their wage bill was in the top half of the EPL was it not?

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Personally I thought the declaration was daft, however Root could have been out next ball. Another decisive factor in this encounter was the difference between the spinners. Lyon took eight wickets Ali three for plenty. Lyon also played heroically in the Aussie eighth wicket stand. Not sure what Eng...

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That funky first innings declaration is looking rather reckless now. With Root in full flow and two wickets in hand and the Aussie’s tongue hanging out another 50 runs were potentially available. That 50 runs is looking a very forlorn hope at the moment with only Jimmy to bat.

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Not sure if you picked this one up: Vinnie Steels has moved from Shildon who were relegated to The Northern League to Morpeth who are in the Northern Premier League.

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Scored some great goals for us. As well as the Ewood winner, he scored the first one on our comeback to the EPL vs Chelsea, an absolute belter at Brentford and I remember a late winner that he steered home vs Everton.

It was a sad day when he left TM I hope all goes well for him in the US.

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They’ve got Lyon with 487 test wickets, we’ve just dragged Moeen Ali out of retirement. I think this underlines the difference between the two protagonists.

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However some of those places like Nottingham News refer to Teamtalk as their sauce and I turn they “ understand” that Burnley are interested. It’s the way the rumour mill works. However I think we can deduce that a few players are on their way out of Southampton and ourselves and Everton need strike...

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£20 million for Toure a young kid who scored 7 goals for Almeria in La Liga also we will probably have to match his six year deal as well.

Crickey!

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Always difficult to rank the importance of specific goals but I think you are bang on the money with this one CT.

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Frank Casper & Ralphie Coates

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Personally I wouldn’t be unhappy with Adams although he is a bit like Foster who, in all probability, isn’t ready for EPL yet whereas Adams is tried and tested & knows the ropes. I wonder if it’s the case that if we are in for Adams that it implies that we have given up on Tella? The only way I can ...

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I’d rather have Nathan Tella back instead of him. At double the price. Thing is Dermotx2 if Southampton don’t want to sell him then Burnley can offer all the tea in China and it makes no odds. It looks to me like the Saints want to offload the not very prolific Adams, cut their wage bill and hope T...

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According to the Nottingham local paper Burnley are vying with Forest to sign Che Adams. It seemed we are in pole position as we can offer Adams a first choice slot whereas Forest can’t. Last season he banged in a meagre 5 EPL goals in 23 starts but did get five in their extended League Cup run. App...

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Nice snippet of news. Thanks for posting this.

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Swizzlestick wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 10, 2023 11:26 pm
Scored big goals in both legs against Bayern and put five past Leipzig, one of the top teams in Germany - they were both pretty big games. Never mind the numerous PL games.

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Swizzle - You forgot to mention the hat trick he scored against Burnley.

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Nixon saying we are making a new 7m + bonus offer for Jack Clarke. Sunderland want 10 guaranteed. At £10 million I think this would be an excellent signing. He’s a young lad who looks a very good footballer I’ve seen him three times now for Sunderland and he has perhaps been one of their best playe...

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This war is becoming extremely destructive and problematic on a global scale. Wheat prices went up 3% immediately after the dam was breached. That's because the consequences are that water supplies for irrigation, drinking and other uses will be affected damaging Ukraine's agricultural production ca...

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There was a Q&A organised by Katy O’Neil on the Clarets Bar International page just over a couple of years ago. This is how the great man himself remembers this fabled goal. “Got the ball on the half way line, knocked it through George Bests legs. Beat four Man Utd defenders crashed the ball with le...

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One small consolations for us is at least we went out to the winners.

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Here is another fact:

His EPL strike rate is lower than Ben Mee’s.

Get rid a.s.a.p.

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Some Everton fans will be a bit embarrassed by this feat. A few weeks back it looked like the vast majority of them wanted him out.

He has done a great job with what he had to work with. If only he could have got more of a tune out of McNeil last season.

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Will Luton be the only side not to sing the “ Shithole” song at our ground next season?

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Will Luke take a pen.?

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I did a little piece in the London Clarets mag. on Brian O’ Neil inspired by his daughter flagging up his birthday on Facebook.

I found a really great picture of Brian with George Best staring enviously in his direction. I captioned the photo “One of the World’s best footballers & George Best”

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One name I can think of is Wilf Wrigley who was centre half on the youth cup winning team. Wilf was at St Mary’s College in the sixth form and if I remember rightly played in the first team whilst he was still there. He subsequently went on to a long and successful career as a geotechnical engineer.

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arise_sir_charge wrote: ↑
Mon May 22, 2023 10:14 am
Do you fancy attending each day of all 5 Ashes Tests this summer?

I’ll pay

Does that include travel accommodation and expenses?

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Clocked this on the BBC web site, he is actually part of a team of six who will swim the circa 22 miles distance in relays.

Nevertheless 3/4 miles in the English Channel for a 70 year bloke will be some feat.

Also he has already raised £500k for this charity.

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By a stroke of luck a friend of mine had a ticket for the Lords England vs Zimbabwe test match third day but couldn’t go so I took his place and was able to watch Jimmy clinch his fivefer. By another remarkable fluke I got a ticket for the England vs Pakistan ODI at the Oval where he became the firs...

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Let’s hope this time they cop it.

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He has worked miracles for Fleetwood and has done much good for the town and Blackpool. In the same way that Jimmy Saville did a lot for charity. Pilleys company are BES. Go on to Trustpilot and read the reviews, assuming they are genuine it looks like BES over charge their customers then prevent t...

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Coventry and Luton were both promoted the same season that Accy Stanley won Division 2. Coventry City via the play offs.

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Whilst we are on the subject of Rover’s free transfers, I note that Luton’s regular left back is Amarii Bell, a player they let go on a free a couple of years ago who could be playing Premier League footy next season.

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I'm pretty darn sure we've taken legal advice on this, if the story is true there would be no benefit to "ah lets just have a go lads" - there will be a confidence otherwise we (and others) wouldn't be doing it Vegas, lawyers like court cases, as even if they lose they still make money even if it i...

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Re Leicester’s finances the owners recently converted £194 million debt into equity as they did previously in 2013 (£100m)

Apparently this was accrued largely to cover the costs of their new £200 million training facility.

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Robert’s winner at Boro. Clinched promotion and we are back in the big time. Boom!

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The other disappointment about Waddle was that he didn’t really adapt to lower league football as a player unlike Tommy Hutchinson or Tinman.

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Don’t forget, he’s an investor.

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Born and bred in Haslingden. Spent most of my life living in Suffolk but moved to Whitley Bay 18 months ago.

Got my season ticket for next year in the middle of the Longside Upper tier @ £15 per game.

Happy days!

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I was at the Reading game and was miffed when I found my seat was two rows from the front just to the right of the goals with a very poor view. However I’ll never forget that shot from Pato arcing towards the goal from what looked an almost impossible position and hitting the back of the net about 1...

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