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VFFT is genuinely ITK and shares it on here when he gets it. It's worth saying that most people only hear snippets in certain situations so it'll come through in dribs and drabs, and sometimes be out of date before it's even posted.

For Everton away i'd be amazed if you couldn't get a ticket as a member, it's a ground we've done loads, the away end is a pile of sh*t and we're up there a few weeks later for Liverpool which a lot of fans will think is a more "glamorous" game.

This is an absolutely poetically beautiful level of mental. Starts with comments on tax, progresses to talk of a western country diverting funds from the military they don't need being used elsewhere and ends in a crescendo of WELL PUTIN SHOULD INVADE IRELAND. Truly a thing of mental brilliance, fit for any satire

He definitely is better informed than most. But as I keep saying the bits you hear are only ever right at the point your hear them (if that makes sense) things change very fast behind the scenes Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I knew there was wrangling on the fee, and a knew early terms with the player had been agreed in principle, but i was led to believe it was all but there. Surprised it's not gone through to be honest, but i guess that sell on bit makes sense as it sounded like everything else was in place.

1990, 1986 and 1998 for me are the most enjoyable, think this one is fast becoming a classic though, not sure i can remember many world cups where so many goals were scored. Plus seeing the Germans go out in the group stages has to be one of the sweetest things in a long time.

I did say a while back he hadn't got the England job. Not sure why it's a surprise to anyone.

Like being party to the biggest free trade market in the world you mean? And gaining the educational and scientific grants from that body that allow us to excel in the fields that benefit business growth? If only something like that existed, and we could join it for the benefit of the people in this country. If only.

I've been hugely sceptical and worried about Gao's ownership from the start, fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you see it) i've seen behind the curtain of what's going on and have said many times i don't think it's good for the club in the slightest. Personally the point we should've protested (in my opinion) was the point at which he failed the first FPP test and then went to get it overturned, obvious or not to most at the point about his credentials the idea of someone with links to people being killed for dissidence isn't someone we should ever want around our club, surely you can agree on that?

You often get accused of being a wind up on here but i can't disagree with a word of that. It's a sad state of affairs because our support wasn't always this way, the branfoot protests and protests against Lowe prove that, but in recent years there's been a huge influx of the kind of people that are customers not fans, lots of nicely, nicely types who re-tweet club PR and marketing and copy childish things like "the high press" or "we march on". It'd be great to see some b*llocks back to our support again but i sadly think that time has passed, the young lads are priced out and the middle class women and families have taken over. There's nothing wrong with them being there by the way (as i'm sure some people will jump all over that part) but our support, especially at home, has changed and there's very little backbone to it now.

Pepe the frog was a well known meme appropriated by the far right in the US and adopted by similar groups in Europe shortly after. There was no campaign to reclaim it the original artist Matt Furie decided that he'd had enough of his creation being associated with political beliefs he found abhorrent and started to use copyright laws to stop it being used. It has been added to the anti defamation league's list of hate symbols in the US and identified as a hate symbol for the far right/white nationalists. Frankly anyone using it must know the history of it, even if they might like to pretend otherwise. It's a bit like using a swastika these days and claiming that you associate with Hinduism, you know f*cking well what it represents and you're using it totally knowingly.

Given Boro have put in a bid for Flint i'd imagine there's a chain of events that needs to happen first.

We'll see

So then your lack of understanding of their brand guidelines is even more embarrassing

People on here are incredibly clueless about design and the design process, it's almost like they think a global brand would allow their brand guidelines to be broken just because they sponsor a provincial english football club. So you have an idea of the restrictions that are in place here's some old brand guidelines around usage of the logo for their mobile brand (i'm sure there will be some for the media brand too but i don't think Wolf Ollins the agency behind the branding have made them public). https://www.virginmobile.com.au/Global/virgin-mobile/static/images/style-guide/pdf/VirginMobileAUS-Print-Styleguide.pdf So fundamentally i'd assume that the only alternate that can be used for their logo is the white, which on a yellow shirt would be nigh on unreadable and therefore negate the point of them sponsoring us. Also i'd imagine the "bendy stripe" is also a result of UA brand guidelines (http://www.samanthalynnproductions.com/under-armour-brand-book/arhjbfjoh2jpuulya02q1nj1irh0go), since most dictate a degree of clearance around the brand (for the sake of legibility and brand recognition) as well as a minimum size it can be used at.

House prices are dropping fairly steadily which given we haven't left yet is a worry, London (the canary in the coal mine) saw the first slow down to flats this month and houses above a certain amount have fallen. As for job loses well Land Rover are moving to Slovakia and multiple companies have shut down or are planning on moving, in my industry this year is the first year where wages for graduates has dropped from the year before and most of retail is scaling back or making redundancies (house of fraser the most recent, but tesco's and debenhams not far behind and the current figure is around the 65,000 mark across the retail market since the vote). Then also take into account airbus, honda, nissan, the impact on fishing and agriculture and the rehoming of large sections banking, in particular at JP Morgan who've downgraded their figures from ~10k to ~4,500 job loses in the next 2 years and i'd say that a lot of the warnings are coming true, albeit slowly. And this is all BEFORE Brexit has happened. For what it's worth too i actually want Brexit to be a success, we're going ahead with it now and the idea of it being a failure is not something i want for this country as it'd mean a huge amount of pain and suffering for those that can least afford it, the elites that imposed it on us to avoid paying taxes will escape scot free if it's a failure, the normal people that were lied to are the ones that will bear the brunt.

Yeah me

The lot i know despise the Olympic Stadium and feel like they've had their club sold out from under them, they also hate the dildo brothers and think most of what comes out of their press team is utter b*llocks.

Actually knowing supporters of three of those clubs, Man City, Everton and West Ham, i know many of them feel the same way about the Premier League a lot of us here do. Ok they're an "older generation" (my kind of age who remember the days before the premier league), but they're all roundly p*ssed off with the money (yes even the City fan), the lack of atmosphere, the moved kick offs and things like VAR. Also the City fan i know says that they've now entered a place where the club hold back a number of tickets to AWAY games that they sell via Thomas Cook as packages for tourists coming over... Can you imagine how galling that must be for their fans that've followed them from league one back to the premier league? From the many other club supporters (and by that i mean people that actually go) that i've spoken to it feels a pretty general malaise from fans in the Premier League. In fact i honestly think we're on the cusp of a big fall out from fans in the top flight, and wouldn't be surprised for attendances to generally start falling off in the next few years.

There's lots of talk on here about renewing season tickets or not but it does seem obvious to me that many are really starting to wonder what the point is of going to games anymore. I'm not just talking about the quality of football here either but far, far more. If you take into account how the game has gone it does make you wonder if we're all just so addicted we're blinded by the mugs we've become. I mean this week alone we've seen 1. Overseas TV deal weighted in favour of the already rich clubs. 2. Amazon getting the TV rights meaning people have to fork out on anther service. 3. League cup losing extra time and gaining VAR in premier league grounds. 4. Winter break in the premier league from 2019/20 5. 5th Round of the FA cup moved to midweek making it harder for travelling fans. and this is without all of the details of the Premier League AGM being leaked yet. On top of that you have the ticket pricing for the FA Cup at Wembley, the tapping up scandal with VVD, the constant loss of players to richer clubs, the pre-season friendlies on different continents, a World Cup final coming up in Qatar, a league (and government) against us even standing up to watch football, kick off times changing at short notice, or times when there's no trains/transport back. And then added to that next season (i think) is when the price cap for the away games runs out and clubs can put them up to above £30 again. All of that and i'm sure i've missed some too. Which does make me wonder, why bother? Are there any real positives left beyond a day on the **** with your friends and catching up with family? Maybe it's different for a younger generation, they didn't experience what we had, so their expectations are set lower than ours, but all things considered there's far more stuff that's unattractive about going now than there ever has been.

Exactly, it's dead easy. A native European citizen is someone of Moorish, roman and celtic descent in spain, mongol, Scandinavian and chinese descent in eastern europe, celtic, Scandinavian, roman, greek and huguenot descent in northern europe, jewish, roma and north african descent across most of Europe. I mean how can it be so difficult to understand?

Pretty big whitewash of facts to say he only has two convictions, one for punching a neo-nazi and one for punching a person burning poppies. His convictions include, Mortgage fraud, Travelling on a fake passport (twice), punching an undercover police officer after an argument at Luton airport, Football violence, incitement to racial hatred, Using recording equipment in a court of law and breach of the peace, and obviously most recently breaching the terms of the last suspended sentence he was given out (contempt of court is the actual charge although he was also arrested for breach of the peace again).

There's been multiple people posting about what it looks like, if anything i think it's the most widely known kit release in years, hence why this thread is pretty boring.

But no other players and no full team. Your "enjoyment" of football seems to be totally joyless. Because i've never seen you make a single post ABOUT a game. You're quick to try and correct people, and quick to try and talk about stats, but any art, any passion, and bit of joy and skill, or even fun, that most people talk about are completely devoid from your world. You are a long way from normal when it comes to football. Where's your favourite moments? Most people have them and they're not just about results, they're things like the fans streaming in through the back of the Milton after Barry Horne scored, Le tiss writing his fairytale finish by scoring the last ever goal at the dell. Hell even little things like remembering Saints against Forest at the Dell in the early 90s (towards the start of the season) and Matty being surrounded by three players and lazily just walking the ball out the pack have done them all with skill. Or tales of trips round the country (or Europe) following the Saints, p*ss ups with mates, getting stuck in god knows where northern towns having almost (or even having) missed trains back. You have a strict set of mathematical criteria you MARK players against, a trained monkey can do this job if they're shown exactly where to tick the box. Ranking players from now and before on things like natural skill and the art of football are nothing like judging "how many arial duels" they've won, or how many completed passes they made. Of course you know my atypical friend, you "understand" football through spreadsheets and numbers, i'm going to guess you've never played a single 11 a side game in your life.

Because Football Manager only goes back as far 1992 and without stats he has no idea about football, let alone how to rank players or talk about the game. He's probably running queries against his spreadsheet now to find out who has the highest "scores" for each position and highest "potential" so he can post something. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/14/09/2784941600000578-3036912-Loughran_became_known_as_Statto_when_he_worked_alongside_David_B-a-5_1428998760159.jpg