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I used to really enjoy using Twitter / X for #twitterclarets, but I came off it last year for the reasons mentioned above. I found my timeline was being filled with divisive content that had nothing to do with who or what I searched for. I was getting drawn into black holes of vitriol and hatred, i...

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Great header of the ball

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Phil Eastwood.
Remember him playing in Chris Waddle’s first (?) game as manager away at Watford. Was a baking hot day and we had a big support which was put in the end which is now the home end. At least that’s how I remember it.

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TT , please do the Black taxi tour when you are in Belfast , if you like recent history from both sides of the devide you will find it and more . Do not bother with the Titanic museum to be honest . Have to disagree...I did a day trip to Belfast last year and thought the Titanic museum was really e...

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Having just caught up with this thread I honestly can’t see how anyone can seriously argue with Rileybobs’ view of things. We have to keep him and hope as things stand but we really do need another decent striker option in.

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I’m late to this discussion but surely the answer is “neither”.
A foregone conclusion with the inevitable winners being lavished with OTT praise or a Saudi-financed vanity project of a corrupt FIFA. No thanks.
Good test match on atm.

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PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves books…. He is the master and impossible to read these without laughing and generally feeling more cheerrful.

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Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:59 am
A class act who was one of our greatest players.
Interestingly Max Esteve has been compared with Martin as a ball playing defender.

Really ? Don’t see any similarity at all between the two either positionally or in terms of how they play.

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It’s a decent kit with a nice retro feel and anyone surprised at the price must have been living under a roach for the past few years. Surprising how exercised some people get about this stuff….feels like they just love a moan.

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willsclarets wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 26, 2025 11:00 pm
He obviously didn't like Flemming behind the striker, preferring someone with more defensive nous/athleticism.

Flemming WAS our striker wasn't he ? I mean we really didn't have anyone else who could take that role on so Flemming had to play as our no. 9.

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The man, the myth, the legend . Purely for dressing room presence and coming on to win free kicks in the final 10 minutes of games where we’re hanging onto something you’d think. I don’t begrudge him it.

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We have snatched a draw from the jaws of victory. Still no win in div 2 this season.

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215/7 !! Only 50 behind now and if we’re not careful we’ll have to bat again and there might not be time to win it !

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Spike wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:33 am
Bothered enough to comment on the thread so I was just wondering if he was in agreement or not perfectly reasonable question

He simply offered the perspective of a Boro’ fan he knows !!!!

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I can genuinely remember very similar comments (not necessarily on here) when they appointed Thomas Frank .

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Fantastic game this ….will be a massive shame if the weather spoils it tomorrow.

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Hi Stalbansclaret, thanks for this. I had seen your brothers company online, his work looks very good, but it looked like more of big projects like new builds, big conversions etc. So thought this wouldn't be big enough for him, understandably. However I will drop him an email to see. Thanks Great....

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My brother Peter is an architect, and fellow Claret. I’m sure he would love to help. Based in Whalley and typically does jobs all over the Ribble Valley, Burnley and Pendle

https://www.peterhitchenarchitects.co.uk/

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Kieran Maguire has just said on Talksport that the FFP rules mean that established Premier League clubs are allowed to make a loss of £105M (last 3 years in the PL @ £35M pa) this year and remain within the rules as each season in the PL in the last 3 years permits you to lose £35M. A Championship s...

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Intestingly Kieran Maguire the football finance academic/expert is about to be on TalkSport (6pm Tues 17th) to discuss how teams promoted to the PL can mage their finances to compete (or something like that anyway !).

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BigGaz wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 12, 2025 9:26 am
No doubt one of the directors distant relations was a paella farmer or part of the Catalan independence movement and feels a deep connection in his blood.

I have logged on just to thank you for introducing me to the expression “paella farmer”

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Stayed overnight at a great pub the other week not far outside Huddersfield … The Rose and Crown at Thurstonland. It’s the wrong side of Huddersfield I suppose but a lovely place and the food was top notch so thought I’d recommend.

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Terrible coverage. Next to no discussion about the penalty decision. Why ?? Looked nothing like a penalty !!

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All I can think about is him learning of this news and looking as smug as he does when sitting at the bar in those bloody Stella Artois ads. Still remember the emails which were disclosed a few years back expressing his disgust at not receiving a knighthood when other lesser mortals were being honou...

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Not at all surprised he's gone...for Spurs to finish 17th and lose 22 games is ridiculously terrible, even taking into account they had a lot of injuries during the season. Yes they won the Europa League but in all honesty they didn't have to beat a great amount of quality along the way. They were a...

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Ah . I can’t see it on my TNT channels anyway !

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On TNT …… yes OK it sounds like one for the “desperate for any football at all to watch” fan only BUT I’m thinking Hannibal might be playing ?

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Michael Calvin's Living on a Volcano. Do not read a of sport books but this is a very interesting look into management. Stuart Mcbride's Cold Granite. Aberdonian crime dramas. Darkly humorous with great characters and interesting plot twists. Easy reads. The Slow Horses books are outstanding and be...

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dougcollins wrote: ↑
Thu May 29, 2025 11:03 am
Having six teams in the Champions'(sic) League pretty much means the European Super League has arrived by stealth.

At least it means that more of our opponents next season will have the distraction of midweek European games. We need all the small advantages we can get !!

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Hi Stalbansclaret, Yes, Utrecht is a nice place. The weather was good and the streets were full. We spent a day there. Took in a visit to the ground as they had a sale on in the club shop. Tidy ground, slightly bigger than TM but more modern. Just two stops on their overground metro. They beat Ajax...

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Utrecht is very nice though isn’t it.
Not really comparable but paid £570 for a double room for 3 nights in the posh Karel V Hotel there (via booking .com) over Easter weekend. Thought this was not too bad given it was Easter and comparing to better class hotels in England’s “tourist cities” nowadays.

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Anything by Mick Herron ….author of the Slow Horses series of novels. A very clever , funny and entertaining author. Just finished his compilation of short stories , Dolphin Junction. Takes of the Unexpected came to mind. I really like the series of detective novels set in Venice and featuring Commi...

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Went to Boundary Park the other week to watch a rugby league match. It’s in good nick and they’ll be a good addition to the EFL. Hope they do it.

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I'd bite the and off anyone paying that kind of money for him. I'm another who thinks Zeki is definitely NOT what we need next season. Yes he is capable of some good moments but he is the absolute definition of a luxury player, prone to terrible decision making and frustratingly losing the ball.

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https://inews.co.uk/sport/things-i-lear ... 92-3713551

A good article written by someone who visited all 92 club grounds in this past season. Turf Moor gets two nice mentions amongst his observations (see 20 and 72) . Point 57 is also worth highlighting .

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Met a Rangers fan whilst watching the FA Cup Final last week whilst on a Greek island. Scotty Arfield was the obvious topic of conversation and it was interesting to hear how much respect and affection the Rangers fan had for him. He went so far as to say that even Celtic fans couldn’t really bring ...

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There really are some weird people on here at times. It’s a bit of harmless fluff and three interesting stories. If for some bizarre reason you object to it just walk on by.

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ANGE needs to walk into that press conference, with his cock out - and **** in the trophy He's been ruined by the journos for some time now - comes across as a top bloke Eh ? He’s lost 20 league games this season and got Tottenham in 17th. You think he’s been unfairly treated ? Bizarre. No one has ...

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Dressinggown wrote: ↑
Mon May 19, 2025 9:34 pm
He lived around the corner from me in the Rosehill area during the 70's & 80's. I went to school with his two sons.

Jim and his wife were always welcoming to any visitors.

Top bloke.

I remember my Uncle Neville lived opposite him when I was growing up in the early 70s

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Dressinggown wrote: ↑
Mon May 19, 2025 10:42 pm
Does anyone actually watch county cricket ?

I sometimes go to OT …an excellent way to spend a nice sunny day with a friend or two.

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People who drop litter will be first against the wall when the Glorious Day of my revolution dawns. Like Leadbelly, above, I regularly walk a semi-urban environment (Basically between Colne and Barrowford) and it constantly cheeses me off to see discarded cans, food-wrappers, tissues and plastic bot...

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The state of the bloke with his enormous gut, scruffy XXXL T-shirt and unshaven chins. Nuno is a dignified sort of character and was supremely professional in the circumstances.

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I agree about the locals seeming friendlier than is perhaps typical in France. Forgot to mention that there is a nice little understated “Irish bar” called The Celt close to the main square in the new town. They had Sky Sports !

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I went for 3 days last year and also briefly visited in March when I went over with friends to watch St Helen's play Catalans Dragons in Perpignan. Its definitely a good place to visit and spend time in. The intact walled medieval town is up the hill on one side of the river and is brilliant to visi...

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Reading reports of the case they both come across as utter morons , not least for the pathetic attempts to plead not guilty.

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They have indeed been a really good team over the past two or three seasons but it would seem this was built on sand financially and they have now had to lose most of their best players and look under very real threat of a winding up order. The takeover has turned out to be an absolute sham and rais...

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Was hoping this was about the RL club where there have been some optimistic rumours that the NRL club Sydney Roosters would come in and save the day. As it stands liquidation looms with HMRC owed a shedload of money.

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I’m wondering if Bosscat’s photo in the second post on this thread is correct as apparently the bloke they’ve picked has “spent much of his time in Peru”

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I find it incredible that any Burnley fan can have any kind of downbeat opinion on Tarks… he was a phenomenal defender for us, alongside Mee with Heaton/Pope behind them. Magnificent and at Premier League level. He’s continued in this vein at Everton where (at least) 3 managers have had him as a sta...

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I’m impressed that this thread has got this far without a tin-foil hat clad contributor telling us that they only use cash because it’s the only way of stopping “them” controlling our lives. I use cards for virtually 100pc of my spending, partly because those bank notes are damn slippery and easy to...

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