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Putting that much money in a pension fund would be silly. They'd still only have 12,500 tax allowance like the rest of us. They'd just be paying a fortune in tax. They could get a much better return investing it, only spread it about rather than bet the lot on a 3 legged horse. It would reduce the ...

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Old way good. New way better. (Orwell).

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karatekid wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 03, 2025 2:55 pm
Burnley&Pendle FC ?

I believe the 1960 Championship team will be retrospectively named Burnley & the North East FC.

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I dare say it's the same with lottery winners as it is with footballers. Apparently about 1/3 of lottery winners don't want financial advice because they' know they have more than they can ever spend so they're just going to stick it in a bank deposit account. Others take advice and invest cautiousl...

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I could imagine a scouser desperately trying to get his wife home in time and not quite making it - so his son gets a place in Burtonwood Services FC.

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Targetman wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 3:28 pm
Cardiff play away at Exeter on 16th September in the Football League Trophy.

Perhaps they'll send a reserve team to Turf Moor.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 1:48 pm
Our match will be on the telly. All League Cup games are televised. If not one of the main games it will be on Sky Sports +.

Thanks.

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My Dad had joint pain etc after retirement (probably because he took up bellringing and you need to start younger!). He cured completely it by about a year's diet of nothing but natural foods - nothing processed, or as little as possible. Butter not margarine, no tea or coffee, ordinary meat cooked ...

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beeholeclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 12:53 pm
He would be up front in a 4-3-3 with Jack Whitham and Albert Cheesebrough. Both good players back in’t day.

Harvey Barnes would be up front.

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Does anyone know why it is taking so long for the club to announce on what date this game will be played? Is it due to sky dragging their heels with picking their games? We're playing week commencing 15th September, according to Sky. And we won't be on telly, according to me. They will pick (if the...

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He's thrown himself under Pep's bus. If he didn't know that Man City have unlimited funds and that they'd be happy to pay £27m for a reserve keeper, then he should have been paying more attention. It was pretty obvious to most of us that staying at Burnley would have been better for his England pros...

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If those player hadn’t performed, the clubs would be forcing them out of the door this summer. Can’t have it both ways. Player contracts are guaranteed, however well or badly they played. Isak signed a 6 year contract because he wanted the money and was (apparently) willing to take the bird in hand...

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Dressinggown wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 6:52 pm
Recently, I prepared to cook some New Jersey Potatoes to mash with lashings of butter and chives to accompany a Sunday roast.

I boiled my own feet.

I admire your agility if you can get your feet (or even just one of them) into a pan boiling on the stove.

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My wife (who couldn't be less interested in football) recently announced that you should only be allowed to play for a football club if you were born in that town or city. Jay Rod would be playing for us well into his sixties, I Reckon. A bit rough on someone born in Brierfield. Puts a blight on th...

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Condumble, noun = a state of minor confusion over trivialities (example = putting down glasses and forgetting where they are). Origin - coined by Dressinggown on 31 August 2025, possible portmanteau of "conundrum" and "bumble".

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It’s in here: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/46087098/the-var-review-fulham-man-united-chelsea-josh-king-penalty-foul Thanks for the link. That picture, though, looks like the shirt pull was outside the area. But the article says that as Amad's upper body was inside the area, it's apenalty....

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Have they shown a photo that clearly shows Anthony was pulling the shirt inside the box?

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Dressinggown wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 31, 2025 10:58 pm
I once got off a train in Newcastle from York without any shoes.
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Luckily, most Geordies wore little clothing at the time and the British Transport Police turned a blind eye unless you had been involved in a murder.

Were you wearing shoes when you got onto the train?

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Offside would be easy to sort. First, acknowledge that the law hasn't changed, which means that "level" is onside and that "level" is to be judged by normal human eyes. Second, give the replay official a single still frame, with no lines drawn, and give him 5 seconds to make a decision. If he can't ...

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3 main points about VAR abd it's inconsistencies. 1) The whole premise of correcting decisions that affect the outcome of a game just isn't being implemented correctly. United were given a free kick, incorrectly, that they scored from. Why is VAR not reviewing and disallowing the goal. 2) The clear...

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aggi wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 31, 2025 12:48 pm
It isn't captured by the camera now, there's a sensor in the ball that measures 500 times a second

I'd be surprised, but who knows what's possbile nowadays. There are a dozen balls round the pitch - how does the automatic sensor know which ball to track?

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Yet since VAR was introduced in 2019/20 the total number of goals scored per season in the PL has increased. I suspect there are more penalties. In the old rules, refs were only supposed to give penalties when they were sure. Now, they give them willy-nilly, and VAR adds a few more. And there are s...

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I think we all felt ‘cheated’ in the immediate aftermath, but in retrospect the penalty that was overturned and the one given were both the right decisions. It felt unfair given how we clawed our way back into the game on two occasions, but VAR, flawed as it is, got the decisions right. The offside...

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VAR is so flawed in my opinion. I don't know why they keep up the pretence of having the referee look at the monitor after VAR tells him too, they told him today for example that it was sustained holding etc, then they only show the ref the specific stills and slow mo angles that back up the decisi...

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The thing that I object to is that it was only a foul because the United man threw himself down. For United's second goal, the winger pulled back Ekdal by his shoulder, but Ekdal didn't fall over so it was no foul. If Ekdal had flung himself down, preferably with a loud shout of pain, VAR would at l...

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If there was no VAR the two penalty decisions would cancel each other out and the offside would still have been given. Then Match of the Day would analyse it in minute detail and everyone would be calling for VAR. The offside probably wouldn't have been given if VAR hadn't been there. If there was ...

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 30, 2025 6:02 pm
The picture is exactly what they showed.

It makes no sense to me, both Dalots and Foster’s sleeves are in colour.

So a double error, then. One, Foster's sleeve wasn't in front; two, even if it was it couldn't be offside.

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Feels like we have been robbed. It was daft of Anthony to hold the shirt but the giving of it as a penalty is unbelievably soft. However, if that is the rule, so be it, penalty.So let's see that rule applied all season to all teams. Let's see a penalty given against Arsenal at the Emirates, City at...

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VAR did its job today. 1. It corrected an obvious refereeing error. 2. It disallowed a goal that would have been perfectly legal in Championship or below, and in PL from 1990 to 2020. 3. It created a penalty out of nothing. It also achieved its secondary purposes: 1. It delayed the game by several m...

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It’s onside - Maguire deliberately played the ball They changed that rule. Now the defender plays the attacker onside only if he plays the ball under control, with the opportunity to clear or pass the ball. Deflections when the ball is never under control do not play him on. It's pretty shabby that...

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If any of those teams were drawn to play each other it could well clash with their European fixtures meaning the League Cup tie couldn't be played on the intended date. This problem was caused by UEFA delaying the announcement of their fixture dates. The 3rd round of the League Cup will be played o...

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My dad never went on against Sunderland due to these daft changes. It took him all his time to navigate Ormerod Yard due to serious, grade 4 arthritis in his knee. The best thing is he could cycle to the Turf as it's low impact but there's no cycle stations....even though we have this fantastic "to...

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Cooclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 25, 2025 9:02 pm
The club will move, that’s been a plan for the club for a decade or more. We haven’t had the finances, we do now.

We had the finance under Garlick. We're now mortgaged to the hilt.

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And finally-finally the referees all wear microphones for transparency. There's no shame in the onfield ref saying over the mic to the VAR-referring official, "I didnt see that properly. Should we refer it?" or "That might have been a penalty but X player was also clearly making a meal out of it so...

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True, but it's not even primarily a personnel problem. It's how they've set it up. It's almost as if they've deliberately set it up to "rubber stamp" bad decisions instead of doing their best to get things right. This isnt just incompetent; it's moral cowardice. Referred decisions need to judged 'b...

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The TV screen at the ground gave an explanation of the Foster goal VAR about 10 minutes after it happened (not hyperbole, it was way after the play), while play was going on. I only just caught it and it would have been very easily missed. It said that Seelt was clearly fouled from behind and the re...

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Corky wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 22, 2025 1:36 pm
THIS ABOVE and his earlier post are why you should never believe everything you either read in the papers or are told by casual acquaintances.

So how does it work?

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That’s interesting. Do you still or did you used to work for the GPO. Interesting that they only make money out of parcel work. No, it's all from newspaper reporting. The problem with the delivery system, so I'm told, is that some court decided that the cost of a stamp should be split half between ...

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There seem to be conflicting stories about the Land Registry and other government bodies. One being that covid and working from home made the system grind to a halt, and the other being that working from home is just as good as working from the office.

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You could probably get a Penny Black for less than they charge for a first class stamp. I keep postage to an absolute minimum these days. Fortunately the second class service is just as good* as the first class, in that second class stamps will take a fortnight to be delivered while first class can...

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Just because I pointed you to the BFC app, which you didn't realise assisted you with your tickets makes me arrogant, I apologise. But you should also accept that you shouldn't be critical of the ticketing system, when you didn't know that the main point of it even existed, until I pointed you in i...

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I don't know if it's been mentioned on this thread, but last year I went on a Turf Moor tour and the tour guide (and former chairman of Burnley Football Supporter's Club) said that the reason they swapped home and away fans originally was because the then manager (can't remember which one) didn't li...

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The point about "arm in an unnatural position" is that when the ball hits a player and he can't do anything about it, it's a penalty only if his arm is out in an unnatural position where it shouldn't be. If Tarkowski had been stood there with no time to get out of the way, it wouldn't have been hand...

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JUst to clarify that this is what is written in the interpretation of the 8 second Law by IFAB. The referee will decide when the goalkeeper has control of the ball and the eight seconds begin and will visually count down the last five seconds with a raised hand. If during the counting process an at...

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Companies house filing records show £40m debenture loan was taken out in January 2025 The lender (debenture holder) has the right to appoint an administrator to take control of the company if it defaults on the loan. This follows the lender calling in the loan for repayment. Maybe we could have a n...

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I suppose all the people on here who have a better understanding of finances may be able to explain? I am quite certain of something though the anonymous investors who have put their money into the club will expect a return on their investment. Some of them will probably have invested large sums an...

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That is the problem. A & E = ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY Feeling under the weather or lacking a plaster/bandage, A&E is no place for you - you are possibly endangering the lives of others. Pharmacy - like people do, all over Europe at least. They are highly trained and under used. It's all very well sayin...

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 16, 2025 5:54 pm
No but for most things people either feel really bad and think something is wrong, or just feel under the weather.

That's what GPs used to do. But now that GPs are unable to provide that kind of service, A&E is the only recourse.

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There is a need to explain to most of the population, when to visit a hospital, when to visit a doctor and when to go to a Pharmacist, who can help with so many things that Drs/Hospitals are weighed down by. "I have a cold/scraped my knee/sneezing a lot/ headache" etc The difficulty is that not eve...

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One thing I saw about the US system with all its many faults, is that the surgeons do far more surgery. They tend to operate for 7 or 8 days per fortnight, wheras UK surgeons perhaps 2 days. Obviously the motivation is money, but it has the same efect as a more altruistic operation - more people get...

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