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RicardoMontalban

I'm sorry for the delay in responding but I would simply point to the Wikipedia article "Crowd collapses and crushes." All is fine until an exceptional set of circumstances precedes the disaster. I think the point is, for two of the examples you cited, Ibrox and Hillsborough, all was not fine. Ibro...

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I think that might have been a joke, lads.

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Anyone any experience recently ? Bought our current house in November last year, no mortgage and am still waiting for the land registry to finalise the matter. Solicitors are telling me that it's just the way it is these days. It just seems a long time. I worked in property all my life and never, e...

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Jakubclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 12, 2025 11:31 am
Years of wisdom & plain old common sense in spades. I don't need fancy qualifications I know the world & society generally speaking is in a mess.

Prof Dunning-Kruger reporting for duty, I see.

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Joe Cole on TNT has us finishing 17th. Presume he’s pretty good mates with Parker.

At the end of the day preseason predictions are a bit of fun, and I’m not sure many neutrals would have us anywhere other than bottom 3.

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Been scanning twitter on Ugochukwu, and most Chelsea fans seem to rate him highly, and other fans can't believe we've got him. Read a Reddit thread on the transfer and the Chelsea fans obviously rate him and a few were surprised he was coming to us. Something of a backhanded compliment but I’ll tak...

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PenrithClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 02, 2025 3:50 pm
The ref is Steve Martin.

The Jerk?

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Row x wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 30, 2025 5:10 pm
We're playing both

Stoke away, weds at gawthorpe

Missed that.

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Row x wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 30, 2025 5:01 pm
Weds fans suggesting players might refuse to play against us on Saturday.

Are we not playing Stoke?

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Sounds like the Fan advisory Board have been involved throughout. I guess they support fans having to change seats ? Thing is, a consequence of all the vagueness is we don’t know what information they have been party to and what the rationale is behind these changes, beyond ‘improving fan experienc...

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It won’t be built in 3 weeks. Doesn’t the press release suggest the first phase will be in place for the start of the season? In which case I expect a relocated tunnel and home and away fans to be switched. It’s doubtful the new concourse will be built in time to be used at any point this season. T...

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Is there any chance the Brazilian press are perhaps making this up / agent shenanigans?

Sounds a bit bizarre to be honest and not what we need.

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FeedTheArf wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:19 am
£27m is the equivalent of selling him elsewhere for £32.4m i.e. less the 20% sell-on - assuming that is the case!

That sounds about right.

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I wonder if we are trying to create a sort of production line of coaches that can then step into the managerial role once one manager leaves. It seems odd that we are paying for these coach's, similar to when we got Jensen in last year, baring in mine we also have Cork, Jackson, Hill and possibly M...

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I’d personally want the Serbian lad from Millwall over any championship striker. Granted only ever saw snippets of highlights of him but always looked a handful and can shift for a lad over 6ft. Plenty of growth too with him only being 20. Is a Serbian striker from Millwall not a championship strik...

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Wasn't the rumour he'd been threatened by the owner if he left? Seen himscore some good goals for them in CL. Something like that. All got a bit weird with DZ ultras setting up shop outside his house, Pace flying out to convince him and so on. Then he signed for Southampton in the summer and floppe...

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We were after another Rijeka player a couple of years ago, can't remember his name. He never signed obviously, but I think he used us as an excuse to get a pay rise. You’re thinking of Oršić from Dinamo Zagreb. Didn’t he turn up at Southampton the summer after we’d tried to sign him in the previous...

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This thread is a pretty good example of why partnering with X is a pretty risky venture. Whether people like to admit it or not, for a healthy number of people X is a pretty toxic brand, just look at the tanking ad revenue the platform has. It’s not just a handful of ‘snowflakes’. The back and forth...

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Some talk of Koleosho going to Espanyol. Be interesting if it is more than a loan deal. Would it be a case of paying Paul by robbing Peter or vice versa? Isn’t that where we got him from? I suppose it’s how far up or down the pecking list Parker sees him. This time last year we thought he’d be one ...

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It was certainly a power thing, but even if it was, the salute wasn’t really the main problem with Nazism and i’ve seen nothing to suggest he subscribes to their philosophy, in fact his stance on free speech is very much the opposite of what they were about. If you think his views on free speech ar...

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Maybe if they'd just pleaded guilty from the off and thereby saved lots of Police and court time and costs, etc they might have received a lesser sentence. This is the bit I don’t think people are grasping, and I’m not sure why. It’s not complex. There’s the act and all that’s considered in that, t...

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I think there’s a couple of things going on with the sentence that probably puts it at the higher end of the tariff. Firstly the offence, it’s not just criminal damage. It’s criminal damage to a prominent landmark that was chosen precisely for this reason. And then there’s the additional damage to U...

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:46 pm
Winger apparently. Could be Odobert on loan after Spurs’ business in the past day.

Phew. Thought we looked a little light there.

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Two team coaches already go down and turn around this way. They could easily make them reverse down so it's easier to pull away afterwards or simply make the coaches wait until home fans have left the area behind the James Hargreaves and take them out and away that way I suppose that’s easier to ac...

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ŽižkovClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 10, 2025 2:41 pm
Couldn't tell you, but its about risk assessment and management

Would getting the coaches turned around not be a more pressing matter?

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Another shout out for A Confederacy of Dunces. Very funny. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh is also up there. I’ve recently read The Unfinished Harauld Highes, by Richard Ayoade. Not strictly a novel, more a fictional account of Ayoade working on a documentary of a fictional playwright (Harauld Hugh...

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Thanks both. It looks like I may be going to court then as these are exceptional circumstances and I shall leave it upto the judge if I am issued with a CCJ. I would add be persistent in chasing up the appeal. It does sound like you have some exceptional circumstances which should be taken into con...

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I think what’s telling about it is that he has decided a move to the Bundesliga is better for his development than a season in the Premier League, which I would say is a much tougher division. There’s a few factors there, not least that he’s going to an established and competitive team in Germany. ...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 05, 2025 10:49 am
Not with Colin McDonald on it

The kit they’re wearing would also suggest 60’s.

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That’s correct, sorry, used the wrong word there. More than that. There’s quite a distinction between ‘arrested’ and ‘charged’ as part of the process of an investigation. Perhaps what you have suggested to be the case is correct, or perhaps there’s information that we’re not privy to that means it’...

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He’s been charged with multiple offences, including dangerous driving, as I understand. He stopped, reversed at someone damaging his car, then accelerated into crowds of people not implicated at all in any the initial fracas, driving right then left to hit as many of them as he could. Unless it’s p...

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Winstonswhite wrote: ↑
Sat May 24, 2025 5:17 pm
Everyone said that about Luton and they put up a better fight than us.

That’s not a high bar and only finished 2 points ahead of us. Anyone saying it about Luton last season were broadly on the money.

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Tue May 20, 2025 10:42 am
No and he did say young prospects so maybe development players.

Lack of names and/or any media buzz suggests so. That said, with recent Cat 1 update it may still be exciting, if a little bit of delayed gratification.

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Tue May 20, 2025 8:46 am
Left back?

Would be a bit worried we were another left CB for first team.

Is there anything in this rumour to indicate they’re for the first team?

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nyclaret wrote: ↑
Tue May 13, 2025 1:29 pm
I'd be very surprised if Strasbourg can offer better financial terms.

Aren’t Strasbourg part of the same ownership group as Chelsea?

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Mon May 12, 2025 12:14 pm
Well they wouldn’t do it again…

Although that’s what they do in some countries that unsurprisingly have much lower crime rates than the UK.

There’s that winky face again that BVK alluded to...

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Sat May 10, 2025 12:26 am
They’d have no hands to play on their station, put it that way

You’d chop their hands off? A tad OTT maybe?

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Conroy92 wrote: ↑
Sat May 03, 2025 9:39 am
Unfortunately sometimes rules have to be broken before they are accepted as rubbish.

There will be thousands of Emily Davison's running into the field of play this afternoon.

Comparing the need of some to run onto a football pitch to the campaign for women’s suffrage is quite the look.

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PNE could be a massive story, their GD is one worse than Hull so if they lost then Luton and Hull only need a draw each to relegate them. Some slide down the table that! :o Weren’t they on 47pts after 38 games? That, and their win in the cup against us meant they got the deckchairs out a wee bit pr...

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And why is St George our patron saint, its to do with religion and him being tortured and put to death for being Christian, I think it was the week after he slayed the dragon Richard 1 adopted St G when he was on crusade in the Middle East, possibly in a nod to his martial prowess, possibly due to ...

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Getting strong Gazza vibes from that JJS performance.

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Born in Burnley but my parents had only arrived from Edinburgh the year before, and my Dad’s sporting love is Rugby Union. Got into playing football at primary school but never really settled on a team. After my brother and sister arrived when I was six, dad looked for something to do that was just ...

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Every single story I've heard about him away from a movie set has been exemplary. On set, it's clear that he was interested in making the best film possible and for his characters to work properly. There are again many stories of him questioning directors to explain something - the aforementioned T...

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It was one of his later roles, but his performance as Royal Tenenbaum was immense.

Not always the easiest to work with by all accounts, but what a body of work he left. Fantastic actor.

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5,000 is a ninth of the 45,000 United were getting..! That would mean to be similar United would have to get gates of 150,000. Even a gate of 25,000 is 5 times bigger, which would mean the average PL team would be getting 80,000. Forest would have to be getting 50,000 gates. Mama mia Ricardo, you a...

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Youre simply not trying to understand....yes, I know attendances generally were lower then, and thats totally irrelevant to my point....Blackburn were 41st....that's the point ok?....41st....so a very little deal in football terms..and not a big deal. Don’t worry. I get perfectly well what you’re t...

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With respect Ricardo, any knob measuring is just in your head. I pointed out figures that clearly any perception of Blackburn as some kind of serious big deal in English football pre-Walker is utterly fatuous. Eighties or not...clubs such as Swindon Town in the fourth tier were getting far higher g...

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[quote=RicardoMontalban post_ The point I was making is everyone’s attendance levels in the mid 80’s were rubbish. The chart I shared was just the first division. Look at Arsenal and Spurs. Villa packing them in at 15k! And the second division was even worse! Getting into a knob measuring argument ...

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In 1985/6 season....playing in what's now the Championship, and not that long before the coming of Walker, Blackburn, with a reasonably successful team had an average attendance of not much over 5k. That's how big a club they were before Walker bought them 20,000 prem-only supporters. In no way a d...

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Damo wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 21, 2025 1:17 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26079957

For anyone thinking this all started in 2022

Nobody thinks it started in 2022. Or that your link is some sort of damning new evidence.

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