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sjb wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:50 pm
Dixon didn't play for Huddersfield. Went to Chester before Bury.

Ah, not surprised. I got the blue and white stripes right in my memory.

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Dyched wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 25, 2025 1:42 pm
This is the trained method. If you want even finer, the Pierre White method is the one!

Thanks, I’ll have to look that one up

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Culmclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 27, 2025 12:55 pm
Lee Dixon wasn’t bad

I think those mentioning Bond releasing Lee Dixon are very much using hindsight. I can only remembering appearing in the first team once at Turf and he went to Bury and Huddersfield (if memory serves) before he really shone as a prospect.

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I was shown by a chef many years ago a technique; first cut chop off one end. Cut a series of slices into the onion almost to the stalk. Once you have a grid of slices in the onion turn it onto its side and chop through it… hey presto as the slices fall off the core it is ready diced and no time for...

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Brimfull - the point of overflowing (teeming)

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It’s all a cunning plan… sell more seats knowing a quarter of the crowd will suffer epileptic fits and another quarter migraines before even reaching their seats…

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Bullabill wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 23, 2025 1:52 pm
He did, indeed, 'dispense the cherry' well before the white ball. And he had a cheery disposition.

Indeed, spotted it afterwards…

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Never really got into watching cricket, but would often watch if I noticed Dickie Bird was umpiring as I channel hopped. His enthusiasm and good humour poured out of the screen. A real eccentric and old style gentleman whose cherry dispensation made the world want to be his friend. He will be sadly ...

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Made me laugh tbh, it has been the same every time we’ve been on. It isn’t half going to p!ss a lot of people off when we finish comfortably outside the relegation spots.

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I’m not a regular for takeaways but the last time I physically visited one was before COVID

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Maradona is the standout at the League Centenary celebration game, the year before we played Wolves. In fact it was obviously full of stars, but it seemed special to be seeing him in the flesh at Wembley, even though his ‘Hand of God’ tainted it somewhat as it was still raw and fresh.

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Transpennine wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 17, 2025 8:30 pm
Harry Kane 'buying a pen' for Bayern?

Swansea just denied a penalty by Marley. You can bet had it been at the other end it would have been given.

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Biggus wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 15, 2025 10:09 pm
Couldn't hear a thing in the CFS, the system is a joke!

You are obviously among the lucky ones.

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BigF wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 14, 2025 6:38 pm
?????

Are you American? lol mom man of the match, it would be ‘mum’ here.

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The key remains goals, but a very encouraging start. Two fairly inexperienced players at this level making mistakes is gutting after the teams efforts but so long as they learn quickly it stands us in good stead. At the very least I think we’ll be strong enough to test a few chins and provided we ke...

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that'll be because the Scousers always somehow get tickets in the home ends. We criticize the club for letting it happen so I guess they are trying to combat it. You could just as easily ask them a question, the accents aren't similar ! Accept Liverpool fans don’t necessarily come from Stanley Park...

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Some 15 months ago, I wrote a tribute to my beloved Dad who had passed away due to complications from, " vascular dementia, old age and fragility ", which proved cathartic in my grieving process ... On Sunday 24th August, neither my two sisters or I were able to contact our Mother at her home in Cl...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 09, 2025 12:00 am
I’d think that’s a likely one

That could well see the dismantling of the rise and rise of Forest. It is appointment that I would expect to be short and not very sweet. Can you imagine any scenario where those egos will not clash? I’d be extremely worried if I was a Forest fan.

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Thanks for the update. I don’t follow the youths closely so it’s nice to see it on here.

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Audacious effort, although I do wonder if he'd have tried it had the whistle not gone I remember there was a debate at the time. The question was settled after a compilation of him doing the same thing in other games was put together; ie it was not the only time he did it, just the only internation...

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Is it me or over the last month there has hardly been any new programmes on TV. Even the quiz shows like millionaire and the 1% club are repeats showing in primetime slots ATM. Bit of a shambles Not a shambles, it is something we will have to get used to. Terrestrial TV can no longer generate the b...

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What people seem to miss is that this all came in after there was a spate of food tampering attacks at supermarkets. Like the pressurised caps they are made to be tamperproof.

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I was all for it when they suggested VAR in games. It has been implemented appallingly, way beyond what was originally floated. It has been an absolute car crash and needs scrapping. They had a chance to introduce a system that advanced the game, they blew it through ego and allowing pedants to cont...

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Wow, did not see that coming.

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I only know a couple of West Ham fans, both are regulars at games since the mid to late seventies. While both are likeable and intelligent generally when it comes to West ‘Ahhm it does seem their Claret and Blue shades blind them to reality. When I point out that when Brooking won them the FA Cup th...

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evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 2:10 pm
Oh dear. Time of the month?

I have no idea what your reason is, I didn’t even know you were female. Maybe see a doctor.

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evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 1:55 pm
It makes more sense than yours, pal.

Do I know you or is ‘pal’ another example of your articulate use of language?

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Row x wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 5:33 pm
So am I....seeing that Fulham said no to the deal.

I hope so. That would not a signing I’d want to see DL making.

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Burnley Fotball Club has never just hired from Burnley… in fact the original idea of forming the team was to encourage weavers from Blackburn to move to the new cotton boomtown. One of the first mentions of the club in the newspapers was Burnley scouts being railroaded out of Dundee while scouting p...

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Seems to be even more unrest online about VAR this season, hopefully the rising number of dissenting voices will finally start to have an effect.

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We are three games into a new season at the elite level, why don’t we let the lad find his feet before writing him off.

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evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 30, 2025 1:05 pm

Very succinct argument, well done.

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Rowls wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 29, 2025 3:15 pm
I got turned down for a credit card last month. All Jim bloody Callaghan's fault.

More likely the backlash to the Credit economy of the Blair years… a case in point of the supposed ‘left’ adopting boom and bust policies usually the domain of the right.

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Apologies, I should have posted my message on the Society thread, but it was going through my mind at the time of typing. I do think that a lot of today's problems within society go back to Thatcher. I also believe that people like this moron are a symptom of society's breakdown, but not the only o...

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What struck me last night was the first time he was on the ball he was taken out by a Derby defender. Had it been Benson he’d likely have been on the treatment table a month. Mike rubbed his knee got up and carried on. I have no more real knowledge than anyone else on here offering opinions. I want ...

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Like I said, I'd prefer not to move, but would happily put up with it if meant we'd been successful over a number of years and had outgrown turf Moor. It is difficult to envisage any time when we will outgrow the Turf. There is ample room for further expansion on two sides of the ground should it b...

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It’s just bricks and mortar, I don’t think it has a preservation order on it. If you knocked down each side gradually to replace it with more appropriate stands over a period of four years, would that still qualify as an ancestral home? It’s similar to Triggers broom. As a historian I could not dis...

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Both felt like really big clubs in the nineties and probably into the noughties as well. They had some big names in football like Larsson, Laudrup etc. Then Rangers had massive financial issues and were relegated to the third division and suddenly Celtic no longer had the same competition driving t...

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I find it strange that Burnley supporters would ever pine to leave our ancestral home. It’s like wanting to leave Buck House to build a Trump Tower.

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TG Jones is a rebranding (apparently). Nothing has really changed, except a number of stores have (or will be) closed. The news article I was reading a few weeks back poured scorn on the firm because the name TG Jones is entirely made up by "marketing people" and has no historical significance what...

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Just watching the brilliant Roy Orbison,didnt know the Bruce Springsteen was in his backing group. Elvis’s favourite singer. My mum saw him in the sixties, she said it was surreal; used to screaming masses watching the Beatles et al. Yet for the entire Orbison concert you could hear a pin drop. The...

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Game just got a lot better

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I think it’s been in the main dreadful. Reminds me of a kids game all at hundred miles an hour with the odd decent passing move.

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Really odd. Guardiola insists on keepers who can pass a ball. Donnarumma's one major weakness is...his passing. I’ve read reports suggesting Guardiola will be changing City’s formula quite a bit next season; much more direct, to counter the passing style that has become the norm and he feels they n...

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I had the misfortune of working with loads of band wagon jumpers in the nineties when Walker was throwing his money around,for me the more times we can beat them the better. Most of us had similar experiences. However, we have a difficult season ahead why would you want a hollow victory against a v...

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The use of ‘academics’ as a slur against reason is hilarious, and typical of the current brainwashing trend seen most often attacking the humanities departments in Universities both sides of the Atlantic. The reason is not hard to understand Humanities is based on education and reasoned argument… th...

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Some similar diagrams show Tourette’s syndrome in there as well - and indeed Tourette’s is mentioned on that website I believe… Thankfully not something I struggle from in daily life. I was taught swearing demonstrates a restricted vocabulary… although just occasionally when tired my partner has be...

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IMG_0053.jpeg From this website https://differentlywired.co.uk/what-is-neurodiversity Love this diagram, and completely agree with it. I’m actually pretty sure I was not diagnosed in my afternoon in Leeds with the experts (sorry the name of the practice escapes me for the moment) with the forth aut...

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The thing with ADHD and autism - the burn out from social interaction is usually far worse - the autistic difficulty of social interaction (ie masking in public, the enerfy required, anxiety etc) coupled with the drive of ADHD we never give ourselves sufficient rest - in my case I have my special i...

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My lad starts high school on September. One benefit we’ve had is that he can wear PE kit as opposed to a blazer and shirt. He really struggles with buttons and can’t stand the noise of fastening them. While I want him to start addressing the issue I am happy that they’ve taken the stress away in hi...

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