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ChrisG

ecc wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 08, 2025 6:23 pm
I find paying money for a 14-year-old immoral.

But then I don't think it's right a 15-year-old should be playing professional football

Surely if they are good enough, they are old enough. Rooney was playing in the premier league at 16

ChrisG

aggi wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:07 pm
I'd imagine 1950 and earlier.

I think you might be right there, I initially thought Shilton as he was born in 1949 but he never played in the Premier League. The other was John Burridge, but he was born in 1951.

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dougcollins wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 06, 2025 3:39 pm
I walked from Minori to Ravello, now there's a walk when it's 30 c!

Ischia is great, something of a hidden gem.

I saw an article on the BBC website the other day about Ischia, and the restaurants that cook food using the red hot sand. I'd love to give that a crack

ChrisG

It's definitely not as bad as Jermaine Defoe's bin lid when we played Spurs away in the league cup semi final

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No ,I was saying will this mean the East Lancs area finishes up only having one mp if Blackburn,Burnley and Pendle are lumped together. No because this isn't a change to the general election constituencies I don't think? You have roughly one MP per 92.000 people, these new authorities have a minimu...

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Audacious effort, although I do wonder if he'd have tried it had the whistle not gone

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We drove down to lake Garda last year, and did 2 weeks there. During that time we got the train to Milan and spent a couple of nights there, then a few day trips including Verona. First time I've ever been to Italy but we were absolutely blown away with how nice it was. As we had the car we were abl...

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I genuinely don't see it. £45k a year + more for the PL or £100k a year for what's clearly going to be a year max in the Saudi League... No one will want him when he's back. It'll be a low wage Champ team tops. Hope he manages to eek 8 years out of it but this rarely happens. What the **** has he d...

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 04, 2025 2:28 pm
An even better luxury appartment in the posh bit of greater Manchester, perhaps.

The money he'll be on at City it'll be a detached house in Hale never mind an apartment

ChrisG

I guess it depends on your tariff and usage. Your usage will naturally fluctuate every month, so your bill in terms of what you actually owe will vary from month to month. However most companies average your usage over a year and allow you to pay the monthly average, and of you use less than the ave...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 3:41 pm
Not really. They all, or most of them, live around Manchester.

Yeah always found that an odd take, do away fans think that the players are all living on Leyland Road and spend their free time cavorting under the Culvert?

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ClaretFelix wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 3:36 pm
William Osula from Newcastle has offer of £28.5million from Frankfurt!!!! 22 year old striker with 4 professional goals!!!!!

That's only 4 more goals than me!!!!

Hopefully they can turn him into another Marmoush or Ekitike and make that 35m€ look like pocket money!

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:08 pm
3-1 up against ten men at the weekend and didn't win

Der Spiegel are saying that the players were unhappy with his training and tactics, and the board are unimpressed with his outspoken comments on transfers.

Clearly the wheels are well and truly coming off

ChrisG

They've only played 2 league matches, seems very premature. Clearly something gone on behind the scenes

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Tw@ wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 31, 2025 2:13 pm
Bay Horse Worsthorne, excellent food.

Was going to say this. We went a few weeks ago, and the food was far ahead of normal pub fayre, and they do a belting offer for 2 courses

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This has been troubling me all day. Their first goal, from the free kick that wasn't a free kick, bounced off Cullen, and given as a goal by the 'goal line technology' sending the signal to the ref that it was over the line. Now normally, in fact, always, they show us the pictures or graphics that ...

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While it wasn't the greatest set piece defending in the world, it was a jammy own goal. Dubravka was very unlucky not to claw that out.

The comment about Casimero being their smallest player made me laugh, he's 6'1" and a reyt unit.

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Clovius Boofus wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 27, 2025 6:42 pm
I wouldn't call him a character.

Criminal history - Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Aki

Perhaps character in the sense of the likes of Noonan climbing the wheel as opposed to "he's a decent lad".

Infamous character is maybe more accurate.

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quoonbeatz wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 27, 2025 5:30 pm
Gone but not forgotten. He touched so many.

Some proper characters in town over the years.

Is the man with the ghetto blaster who rides the bike still knocking about?

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Funkydrummer wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 27, 2025 5:51 pm
Could look it up, but thought I'd ask on here.

Who is he/her/it/them ?

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... d-32361203

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BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 25, 2025 8:33 am
Surely it’ll be Frankfurters that they sell?!

Ha, you can usually get one of those too!

ChrisG

Might be worth researching which team has the best in-ground food & supporting them. :) I can't think of any public events where the food & drinks aren't overpriced & of poor quality. I went to an LAFC game recently....$68 to park... $20 Bud draught & $12 hot dog. On the flip side, Eintracht Frankf...

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Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 24, 2025 1:35 pm
Grinds my grit that the comms were claiming he was making an error rushing out, when I thought it was brilliant. He forced the lad to shoot wide, a great piece of goalkeeping.

Top goalkeeping that, forced the striker to shoot

ChrisG

Thought he did very well to narrow the angle from a one on one and force the striker to shoot wide in the first half

ChrisG

Is it me, or is the camera angle all weird? It looks like it's on a fish eye lens and the edges of the screen are curving upwards. You notice it when you look at the touchline and the advertising boards in the Bob Lord

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It's what happens at most prem grounds, we watched the players arrive at city a couple of years ago and it was rammed. It'll gather momentum. Kids will love it It's not all about how cheap a benny and hot is and wether it's powdered milk in the brews. At City though there is absolutely bugger all e...

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The well known hearsay that the CC has been difficult to deal with. Even if it’s nonsense the FC should try to attract fans away from the CC to its own bars, food stalls etc. it’s literally next door. If I owned a bar and I noticed the bar next door was packed I’d be trying to entice all the punter...

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Of course you do because you support Burnley CC……I don’t I think it’s shocking that the CC is unlikely to offer an inch to the club because it’s bank rolling it. The CC is a parasite. The FC is the host. The FC could and should try its best to remove the financial benefits the CC gain from being ne...

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Tella started the other day for Leverkusen so that looks like a no go. I mentioned it on another thread but Ings ability on the ball and goal threat could be perfect for that role. He works his nads off as well. He did, but it was in the equivalent of the FA Cup, and they were playing a non league ...

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I'm guessing the keeper can still drop the ball and keep it at his feet as the ball is then in play?

Surely there's no huge difference to how it always was then?

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Can recall both ends and part of main stand on Boxing Day. Possibly biggest following to Bury was in the FA Cup with 1000s in the Manchester Road End. Rochdale , think we were supposed to having 3 sides of the ground however we didn’t have the Sandy Lane end, think that was 1991. Yeah bit of an ant...

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NL Claret wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 16, 2025 10:38 am
When did Burnley take over 3 sides of Gigg Lane?

I remember 2 sides at Walsall circa 96/97, but I don't remember it at Bury

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Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 12, 2025 8:23 pm
It’s on if Donnarumma signs for City, as rumoured.

Premier League rules say you can't loan a player you have acquired in the same window to another PL club, so that's out.

https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/464747

ChrisG

Frankfurt is very similar to Burnley in that all you see anywhere is Black, red, and white and the Adler badge. A proper one club city

ChrisG

I saw the Spitfire and what looked like a Dakota transiting over Carrington way yesterday afternoon presumably heading back to base.

Was louder than the A380 that had just passed over from takeoff at Manchester a few seconds before!

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He said migrants, not someone on holiday There are plenty of people who've migrated here and have clearly never taken a uk driving test Our driving tests are some of the most stringent in the world but we allow huge numbers of much poorer quality drivers loose on our roads when they've moved here I...

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Apologies thought you meant in the Premier League ! Thought he was ok last year but scored 3 in one game and then like a lot of City players struggled in lots of games. Had in my FPL team for a while so kept a close eye on his stats and he missed a lot of big chances. Didn’t he have something like ...

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What I can't quite understand is that the away games last year I went to for instance QPR, Derby and Coventry etc, we walked out of the grounds and were amongst home supporters and not once did it really bother us. In the current system fans not on the organised buses have to walk to cars and train...

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Fair point, I do get why you view it that way. I would class breakout as someone breaking out from there current status into a new one. So Marmoush for example could be breaking out from being a good player that’s relatively unknown to being a world class talent Yeah fair point, that makes sense to...

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Big Vinny K wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 11, 2025 9:14 am
The only accurate part of that is that he’s 26 !

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How so?

ChrisG

I would say he’s still in the bracket of a breakout. Only been at city for 4 months of a season. I get that, but like Ekitike, if you've been signed for 60/70m, then you're generally pretty proven somewhere. I've always thought (rightly or wrongly) that breakout was more of an unexpected star like ...

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Burnley Predictions: Breakout season: Hartman Player of the season: Esteve Most goals: Flemming Most assists: JBL League finish: 20th Premier league in general: Breakout season: Marmoush Player of the season: Palmer Most goals: Haaland Most assists: Wirtz League winners: Man City Relegated teams: L...

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ClaretsPadiham wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 09, 2025 9:33 pm
George Boyd (Wythenshawe)
Pascal Chimbonda (Skelmersdale)
Brett Ormerod (Padiham)

Boyd played a couple of games for my old pub team, Libero in Altrincham

ChrisG

"I hear you're a racist now father"

ChrisG

This will impact me severely. I park in the car park beyond the Queen Vic pub and I’ve always just come out of the Longside upper, walked past the cricket ground onto Belvedere Road, and up to my car. Now, presumably, I’ll have to turn right on leaving the stand, and walk round three sides of the g...

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ŽižkovClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 07, 2025 3:04 pm
Hell of a book about the Vulcan raid on the Falkland's air strip

Cracking programme on Channel 4 about it a few years back too

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ecc wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 07, 2025 5:39 am
I really hope he doesn't go there although he would be ideal for them - a genuine leader with all the right values - and it would suit him distance-wise (presume he lives in Cheshire).

He lives in Sale (or he certainly did when he was at Burnley) so straight down the M56

ChrisG

A real opportunity to take kids on for this one lost for some because of the pricing. My brother, like me, is paying £10 for a senior season ticket holder but the cost for taking his 6-year-old grandson is £15 because he's not a season ticket holder and that's the concession price for non-season ti...

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Leisure wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 06, 2025 9:20 am
Longside and BL are reasonably full but JM very poor.

At 20 quid for an adult and 15 quid concession for non ST holders to watch a friendly I'm not in the slightest bit surprised.

I was weighing up going with my wife and lad, but I'll give it a miss at that.

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ElectroClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 04, 2025 9:35 am
Will always remember him for that tidy finish against
R*vers in the 3-0 win on the Turf.

Good luck to him in the future.

And the delicious cross for the infamous Barnes goal

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