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I can't remember the last time I ate something at football which wasn't a steak pie, a balti pie or a bar of chocolate, because they're literally the only things they sell at football that I'd even consider. I would probably eat other stuff if there was any kind of option at all, but any time I'm even thinking about watching what I eat and go to football, forget it. They have healthy food takeaways in service stations now, how hard can it be?

I expect we'll get a couple more at least through to the first team squad before he's being farmed out to the likes of Oxford.

Car parking at the stadium is for permit holders only and most of the immediate residential areas around the stadium now have 'residents only' parking schemes in place. However away mini buses and coaches can park behind the North Stand in a fenced compound, at a cost of £20 per coach and £10 per minibus. Don't be tempted to park on the nearby Retail Park as you may well end up with a ticket, or worse still, clamped for your trouble! Away Fans Park & Ride Facility Away supporters are being encouraged to use the Park & Ride facility located at the Felindre old steel works site, which is signposted off Junction 46, shortly after leaving the M4. The cost of parking there including transport by bus to and from the stadium is £6 per car. Away supporters have their own separate buses to and from the stadium, with the buses waiting outside the away stand at the end of the game to take supporters back to the car park. Simon Wright a visiting West Bromwich Albion fan adds; 'The park and ride is located in the middle of nowhere, but curiously has a high fence. Apparently the facility is also used as a park and ride for the DVLA so the fencing may be for the benefit of their staff. There are toilets on the site although they do look rather ancient. All the staff were friendly and the buses frequent. After the game has ended, the park and ride buses leave the compound with the away coaches for fairly obvious reasons. In my case, this meant a wait of around 20 minutes'. There is also some street parking to be had. If coming from the M4, you pass the stadium on your left and continue straight on towards Swansea, then after going under a bridge, then there are a number of roads on the right, where on street parking is available. It is then around a 10-15 minute walk to the stadium. However, please note that after the game has ended the Police close the A4067 road running past the stadium, meaning that you can't go back up to the M4 that way. You need to instead go back up to the stadium and where the road is closed turn right at the roundabout onto the A4217. At the next roundabout turn left continuing away from Swansea City Centre. At the junction with the A48 turn right and this takes you up to Junction 44 of the M4. Andrew Bartlett a visiting Southampton fan adds; 'I intended to use the park and ride and followed the signs but found the site to be desolate wasteland with flooded potholes, not very inviting at all. Instead I drove on to the stadium and despite the dire warnings found free on street parking only a few minute's walk away and almost traffic free after the match. The level of security and large Police presence was completely unnecessary for such a low key game'. http://www.footballgroundguide.com/leagues/england/premier-league/liberty-stadium-swansea-city.html#adirections-and-car-parking

I expect them to freeze prices again, and sneakily put up how often they charge booking fees, postage fees and any other fees they can think of to make the real cost higher. If the club's watching, I'd rather the money off the cost of a laminated box and you email me telling me to come and collect it than pay admin fees that should already be included in the cost, and which are a drop in the ocean compared to the new tv money. Ideally I'd like a free one, but within reason, what I'd like to see is a 10% drop in renewal costs, with an additional 1% off for every consecutive season that person has been an ST holder up to a maximum of 20% more. Just because.

It's exactly the same thing. West Ham have publicly stated they initiated contact over a new deal. They might be spinning it because they want to keep him and they know fans won't like it if they think the player is trying to leave. But either way, the club wants to keep him and are trying to do so by offering him more money, which his performances have entitled him to ask for. Just as West Ham could in theory tell him he has a contract and they're the terms, but won't because that would be a massive disincentive to him staying or continuing to perform at that level for them.

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"Had Vic made a decent connection with Payet" he'd have had to have made a completely different challenge rather than one attempting to play the ball which was a good yard away from Payet when Wanyama went for it. The challenge he made had no chance of causing injury to anyone, Payet wasn't injured and continued to play having gone off purely for appearances' sake, and any temporary injury caused was from him throwing himself upside-down on the floor, as Wanyama's contact with him did no such thing. It was a poorly-timed lunge at the ball but there was no intent to collect the player and that only happened because he missed the ball, which I'm in agreement was probably in over-eagerness to win it back having mis-controlled it moments earlier. The rest of it, completely agree. The "refs hate us" thing is childish and nonsense, and the ban stuff is accurate.

That's because he keeps picking the reserves to give them experience. Which is fine if it's not the only competition you're left in. They still have the Europa League, so makes sense in terms of his usual MO and likely plans.

Any competent club that wants to keep hold of a key player when everyone knows wages are about to rocket, I'd say. Completely understandable that West Ham wouldn't want him to leave and that they'd offer him more money, especially with new tv deal money. And as much as we all know players love bigger wages, if it's only about a few weeks' wages here and there over a couple of years then they might not want the hassle of relocating. It's when there's a huge difference in wages players will move. West Ham are trying to close the gap between existing deal and hypothetical Man U deal in the hope he likes it where he is.

I agree with the first sentence, but there was no concern whether the player would be injured because the player who was injured was nowhere near the challenge when it was made. Wanyama missed the ball because he misjudged where he needed to slide in order to be able to swing at it to clear it, had he made contact with the ball Payet just would have tripped over his prone body.

It's still irrelevant to the likelihood of getting the decision overturned, which is the only criterion the club will be using to determine if they should appeal.

You don't even have to make contact, which is just as well for Clattenburg, as he barely did. At no point did Wanyama have "both feet off the deck", he slid with his right foot outstretched and his left leg underneath him. When he swung and missed the ball with his right leg, his left leg came around in front of him so it wasn't trapped under his body as his momentum stopped, so he appeared as if sitting with his legs out. Payet ran into the swinging leg whilst trying to get to the ball, and Wanyama's swinging leg AND his left leg ended up between Payet's legs. Nothing from the minimal contact with Wanyama caused Payet to thrash upside-down like he did other than Payet's desire to make it look as bad as possible.

Fairly sure that is our business model, whether that changes when we get more tv money and can afford to buy more finished products from other leagues will be interesting to see.

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Nope. It's not going to be considered as evidence by the appeal board, who will just look at the incident.

To MLG it, 5 match ban at a time when fixtures are fairly well spread out, partially for getting sent off and partially for doing so 3 times in one season.

We've had plenty of these opportunities already thanks to Wanyama's red cards. I'd be inclined to think he's been told they won't have a detrimental impact on his value or he'd be doing a lot less of that kind of thing - I think he's weakened his reputation in many ways over the past 9 months but buying clubs tend not to think "he could do that with us too" for some reason. That kind of recruitment flaw at other clubs is one of the reasons we were able to get to where we are from where we were.

Which of course if it HAD been on the ground, would have been a much worse tackle anyway, as he went clear over the ball, and Bertrand's foot would have had to have been planted and he could potentially have had his leg/ankle broken.

Are they still using that? Given that they've changed their logo again at least once since then.

I hate going on about the comparisons with Newport's Fan Takeover (no I don't) but the process of "selling the Supporters' Trust shares" and recovering any initial investment is clearly documented in Newport's offer, because, you know, actual transparency. I can't imagine anyone's going to want to actually do it of course, goodwill and all that.

Flooded pitches and FA Cup runs, he says to CumbrianSaint.

Current "Key Passes" stats for the top 10 (basically assists which aren't scored): Ozil (Ars) 100 Eriksen (Tot) 77 De Bruyne (MC) 67 Payet (WH) 66 Willian (Che) 54 TADIC (SOT) 52 Hazard (Che) 50 Moreno (Liv) 46 Sissoko (New) 46 Albrighton (Lei) 45 Add to that to the Top 10 assist stats (key passes actually leading to a goal): Ozil 16 Mahrez 10 De Bruyne 9 Eriksen 8 Silva 8 Deulofeu 8 Barkley 7 Hoolahan 7 Milner 6 Albrighton 6 https://www.whoscored.com/Regions/252/Tournaments/2/Seasons/5826/Stages/12496/PlayerStatistics/England-Premier-League-2015-2016

Yep, he was either going to book him for persistent fouling or recklessness as opposed to dangerous. He then saw Payet chucking himself about and the West Ham players rushing in and decided it was dangerous.

Quite. Either that or they have very specific criteria outlined under which teams can appeal, and it doesn't meet any of those. There's also the possibility of the ban being extended for a spurious appeal, but that would be unlikely in this case. It could also be that Wanyama having already been sent off twice weighs against him in the process too, which is a bit of a double-whammy when you consider that it's adding to the ban as well as reducing the likelihood of changing the decision. Or, conspiracy theory here, there might be the possibility that Wanyama has refused to attend or support his own cause because it's not in his interests to have to run around for an extra 450 minutes he's getting paid for anyway...

I haven't read the Daily Mail article, but there's nothing in that pull-quote which has any relevance to the discussion. Plus they called it a "horror tackle", which is laughably OTT when the player wasn't injured and most people don't think it was a red card. Clattenburg already having warned him is irrelevant, because you can't get a red card for cumulative fouls so it didn't play into his decision, and all it shows is that nothing he'd done to that point was even worthy of a yellow card.