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JohnMcGreal

Just like the start of the 23/24 season, Lyle has looked excellent at this level. Long may it continue.

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OK We're talking taxes, but deflect away and find any excuse you want The only deflecting being done is by people who are keen to defend very rich people making themselves even richer whilst turning a blind eye to the atrocities taking place around them. If all a person cares about is how much mone...

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It's a miracle we're still in this game. We should be 3 or 4 nil down.

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GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 30, 2025 2:24 pm
It's still 100k a week in a country that doesn't tax people to the hilt

Anyone with half a brain would take it given a chance

Doesn't tax people to the hilt but does murder innocent people based on their sexual orientation.

No thanks. A grim 'state' for grim, soulless people.

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 28, 2025 11:25 am
I can’t believe there are actually real people that want to pay tax.

No further questions, your honour.

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GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 27, 2025 10:18 pm
100k a week tax free?
He'd be a fool not to take it

Maybe it's just me but I think there's something morally questionable about someone who wouldn't want to pay any tax at all on their earnings.

It's sociopathic.

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Just go through Holcombe drive, be no difference I don't park up there, but I know that a lot do. The route through the memorial gardens onto Holcombe Drive and joining Belvedere Road is about 435m longer than it is from the west side of the JH stand and walking up Ormerod Yard. That's a fair bit o...

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I think people should see how it goes before deciding they are no longer going to games, or leaving earlier because of an extra 3 minute walk. For all we know this has been recommended by the police. I'm sure it's been thought about. It's going to take a lot longer than an additional 3 minutes for ...

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Idiotic.

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jrgbfc wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 17, 2025 5:02 pm
How was the atmosphere in the away end yesterday? Generally find London away games very hit and miss.

Raucous on the concourse before kick off but pretty subdued outside once the game started.

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Very strange game

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A strange reply, but typical of the unwarranted adoration the NHS receives. As to irrational a state only obligations are that provide defence for the citizens (so yes we need the forces), enforce the laws that the citizen agree and ensure that any contracts between parties are honoured. I find it ...

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The NHS is a socialist ponzi scheme. You are basically stuck in a system with no choice of service provider. But even worse the NHS have no choice but to treat you even if you are drunk or a drug addict. It is an ideological scam, inefficient cult. The re-branding of it as my NHS is horrifying it i...

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Claretnick wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 11, 2025 2:27 pm
Yeah the chap at Anfield is first class, he always sounds calm and relaxed

George Sephton. He left Liverpool at the end of last season after 54 years.

Definitely worth a cheeky bid.

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What they should be doing: 1. New migrants into UK to pass a UK driving test 2. Banned drivers retake a UK driving test after the ban 3. Adverts on proper driving practice (no undertaking, middle lane hogging, drug driving etc) 4. Everyone retake a test every 10 years including a health and vision ...

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Firthy wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 10, 2025 6:55 pm
If you don't like the National Anthem then go and live in another country.

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Outrageous prediction. Any football writer worth their salt knows this team will finish in the top half comfortably.

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Very nice!

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Leisure wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:14 pm
Agreed, it could but hopefully minimal number of fans will be affected.

Even if it is a minimal number, it's not good enough. Those people have coughed up for another ST just like thousands of others. They don't deserve to be messed about.

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Chairman Alan Pace is excited about the enhancements

Well, if Alan is excited then that's enough for me. Who cares if you're being moved away from friends and acquaintances if you've sat with and talked to for years?

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Salas

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Good news for Spurs who can now sell an additional 1000 tickets at full price.

Poor do for Burnley fans who would easily have sold the 3000 allocation.

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This precisely echoes my own experience of X which I deleted from my phone and feel much better for having done so. Horrendous hate-filled content completely at odds with how I want to feel about life. On this basis , and my opinion that Musk is a truly weird and badly-intentioned individual, I don...

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Will Espanyol become everyone's favourite underdog?

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Not sure on the accuracy of this report around Espanyol being the parent club given we are far bigger than them in financial terms. But whether it’s true or not I’m still massively against the multi club ownership model irrespective of whether we are the parent club or the feeder club. If Espanyol ...

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Tbh i'd rather we loan fringe players to La Liga on say 50% salary contribution vs Championship on 100% I think the players will benefit, and i think it makes us a more attractive prospect for young development players Why would a club like Espanyol be interested in taking our fringe players on loan?

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Good booking for the pod and some nice bits of insight there, even if it is a bit rehashed at this stage. He could have done with a few more challenges. For example when he wheeled out his clever saying about a philosophy based on winning games, one of the podders should have said 'like Moyes at Eve...

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Hi Bordeaux, my source is Private Eye and that publication has been running with the Letby case for quite a while. The latest iteration is Part 23, and I quote from the that issue. Please be assured this is but an example. "Evans initially suggested babies had died from injected potassium chloride....

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CyrilEbokiPoh wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 22, 2025 9:03 pm
This is going to be emotional. Out the freezer for tomorrows dinner at work. The last ever corned beef pastie

Might have been worth a few quid if I left it a bit!

Has that been in your freezer for 20 years?!

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A Season with Verona by Tim Parks is still one of my favourites.

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Lol. "Russell Brand" indeed. Other posters might know who I've really copied with that post. It's a fairly famous passage. Clue: It isn't Russell Brand. It's George Orwell. A man who despised the nationalistic, far-right politics of the fascists so much he actually signed up to fight and kill them ...

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Not sure about Frank being better to stay put at Brentford. Lost Toney last year, looks like they’re about to lose Mbuemo to a team that finished five places below them. Tottenham massively underperformed in the league considering the players and budget they have. I think he's probably taken Brentf...

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The honours system is all a bit silly, really.

As for Beckham, he's spent a lot of money on crisis management and PR agencies over the years so it's nice that he's finally made a return on it.

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Claretitus wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 02, 2025 7:53 pm
Funny, they all take to the streets “ fighting “,and “ demonstrating “, against what? God only knows. Where was their show of force when the Nazis were around? Yet another meek surrender from the Gaels. Horrible people.

Christ almighty....

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There was only going to be one winner last night.

PSG have been the second best team throughout the competition after Arteta's Arsenal.

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There’s a pretty good chance we would not be one either if it were not for the play off system in which we finished 6th when we first got promoted to the PL. Pretty sure we finished 5th in 08/09 and Preston snuck into the play-offs in 6th place. I really thought that United would do it this time. M...

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Longsidebovril wrote: ↑
Sat May 24, 2025 8:09 pm
If you like factual books.. i highly recommend Killing Thatcher. A book about the Brighton bomb and the before and after. One of the best I’ve read.

I took this on holiday last year and finished it in a few days. Couldn't put it down. Fantastic read.

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Scott McTominey might just be the greatest player in Napoli's history.

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Usual reminder, it's nowhere near as filthy as the sport you follow, with it's human trafficking, racism and misogyny on and off the pitch, large scale violent disorder - remember Burnley fans have killed 2 people in the last 20 years or so and domestic abuse reports rise massively after a bad resu...

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Time moves on is a statement of the obvious. But things don’t have to change for the worse. Nor do clubs have to chase money for the expense of their soul, for a sum that doesn’t really shift the competitive dial. The “product” is an intangible glue that binds together that local community like a t...

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£10m a year can go towards our compensation I suppose :lol: But how dehumanising can it get? Goodison, like Anfield and Turf Moor, is so iconic that it could never be renamed for a few pieces of silver. Now, it feels soulless. Next they will be renaming the whole football club itself. So sad. But i...

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Your McManaman reference is very odd. Owen yes, but McManaman won more at Madrid than we would have at Liverpool, even getting MOTM in the CL final. Liverpool weren't even qualifying for the CL. His book 'El Macca' is a brilliant read about his time there. He really settled well there and enjoyed s...

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I think it's pretty shitty of Alexander-Arnold and don't think booing him is unfair. Don't think it's comparable to players leaving us because that's necessary to move upwards in your career, this isn't. I don't think it even matters if it's an upwards move or not. He's won everything at Liverpool ...

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Wasn't that new winner done for match fixing a while back? He won't be a popular winner in the British Isles, but I doubt he'll care having just won the trophy and half a million quid! I don't think he was involved in any match fixing himself but he was banned for having knowledge about it on the c...

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Say what you like about Virgo but he's still good for a classic 'where's the cue ball going?!' when the cue ball is clearly not going into a pocket.

Timeless.

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Cash? That's just another man-made concept designed to control people.

I use the bartering system.

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If he was as good as he claims there would have been other Premier League clubs ready to snap him up once the West Ham deal fell through, instead of him having to drop down to the Championship. He was great for us at the time but he's an absolute belter and I wouldn't want him anywhere near the club...

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First episode was good and I thought 'Plaything' was OK. The rest, meh.

I don't think it's ever hit the same level since it moved from Channel 4 to Netflix.

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There's still a way to go but I feel like we won't let this slip now. We've come good at the right time and don't look like dropping points, there's a real confidence about the team. Parker has been patient and it's paying dividends.

I think we'll go up as champions.

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We've been very fortunate to have 4 promotions to the PL and each one has given us something a bit different. But the first one in 2009 was so unexpected and dramatic. It has to be the best for me. That season, with the incredible cup runs, was phenomenal, at a time when it felt like we were destine...

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