The Kraken

I find it really easy to have all mine in the same place. And to feel like I’m in control of what’s happening. With managed funds you’re taking a good amount of risk out of it. It may well be that your previous investments are doing ok. But I found with one from my old work that the management fee per annum was higher than what I’d have been paying via HL and the fund(s) and the performance had been pretty shoddy, so it was well worth my while moving.

I did this with my pensions quite a few years ago. I use HL for my SIPPs and my ISAs. HL are very good but their platform fees are a bit higher than other competitors so it’s worth shopping around. The front end is super simple though. Im fairly risk averse and usually have 5 or 6 managed funds on the go at any time, I review them fairly often and end up switching if a particular one is underperforming. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to performance in the past two months. Depends what type of funds you’re in (uk only, Europe, USA, worldwide) but when Trump went tariff happy a few months ago my funds lost about 20% within a week. I’ve just about clawed that back by now. So if you looked at a two month performance chart you’d say my funds have gone up 15%-20%, but in reality the market has just reset itself somewhat.

The second link points out the very obvious fact that 15 year olds playing for an academy are likely to be stronger and faster than the women’s side. A very basic comparison is sprinting, the times that top women in the world set in the 100m these days is comparable with those set by some 14 year olds and quite a few 15 year old boys. Top women footballers *may* have a skill advantage but the speed and power disadvantage will outweigh that quickly. So it’s not really a controversial statement to point it out, it’s just biology. As the interview shows, the USA player says herself: “Haha. They should beat us. Bigger, stronger, faster! Boys always gave us a run for our money! It was great prep.”

This. It’s a bit of a reach, unless you want it to be.

I hope Still Will has been using the factor 50. Poor fucker could combust in this heat.

Assuming you pay tax and therefore HMRC have your details, and assuming you have a passport, what additional data would a national id card require you to provide? Just a personal thing yes. Personally I could give a fig about carrying ID, I always have my driving licence plus my irish passport card on me. If I had a uk passport card rather than the actual book id probably carry that too.

Labour have been poor but I’d much rather a few u turns to get to the right decision than the past ten years. Gideon and call me Dave’s austerity, we all need to tighten our belts and make shit public services much much shitter. Boris and his uncountable outright lies and ineptitude. Lettuce Liz and Quasie killing the economy in sixty days. And little Rishi just doing what the big boys (and his paymasters) told him to. Please don’t try and convince me that this iteration of Labour is worse than that. Just not gonna wash.

I may be wrong but I thought when the stadium was built that the club put rows of seats in as close as they could be per the regulations. Sure I remember something along the lines that they were the closest seats to the pitch of any new build stadium.

Those sites often don’t show the logo in their photos of the kit. I haven’t bought a kit for years now but used to get one or two every year for playing 5 a side. The quality and likeness to the actual kits was absolutely spot on every time.

Yep, that was the word at the time. £1K per seats build cost but £3k per seat extension cost according to Lowe. Up to 8000 seats on Kingsland, 4000 each on Chapel and Northam.

Q: Where did you get that figure? A: It was in the link you just posted. Lol. Couldn’t even read past a headline

How is releasing individual information like weekly wage not a massive conflict of interest and a breach of GDPR?

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Played football against Claus in a five a side competition, and played against Warren Aspinall in Sunday league (seem to recall he played centre back and was an absolute gobshite, but we spanked them anyway).

Two teams from one country is the max. I assume the table in the link is correct but it shows the clubs that miss out. Seems like winning the Champions League takes precedence, then club rankings. https://www.fotcalc.com/4-year-ranking

Whats the point of the whole tournament? Other than to line FIFA’s pockets. An absolute sham of a competition.

Probably needs to say which “premier league wage site” is being used for the info, then we can judge how accurate it is (or not).

We’re being run like a crap seaside B&b and no mistake.

Many years ago now, but David Armstrong once delivered stationery to our office. Think he set up the business or was a director of it. Jimmy Case also sometimes used to do deliveries for them.

Bearsy.

Barry Fry outside Wembley. Carlton Palmer in a bar on Salema beach on the Algarve. Also Paul Scholes in a beach restaurant at Praia da Luz. Graeme Souness and Paul Walsh on a plane from southern Spain (Souness sat in the row opposite). Jan Bednarek and Gavin Bazunu on the golf course, they were the group behind us. I also once played with Neil Maddison in a charity golf day, so maybe not so random (most of the Saints team at the time played that day). Seen MLT loads of times down the years, last seen in the Duke on the Test a couple of weeks ago.

Was listening to the radio earlier about it, it’s so utterly grubby, in fact corruption in plain sight. From the Guardian…. It is no secret that the Club World Cup would not be happening in the way it is now happening without Dazn. In December 2024 Dazn offered Fifa a jaw-dropping $1bn (£787m) for the broadcast rights, all the more startling in a market that was, to that point, also Uncontested. A month later Saudi Arabia concluded its own deal to buy a 10% stake in Dazn in return for – guess what – another $1bn. Two months after that Fifa announced its vast tournament prize fund, also, by coincidence, $1bn, thereby ensuring full compliance from its invited guests. In the middle of this, around the time the soon-to-be-Saudi-part-owned Dazn was concluding its Fifa TV rights deal, Fifa awarded the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia via a show of Uncontested applause from its members, thereby completing what is no doubt an entirely illusory circle of hand-washing.

Don’t particularly like the solid white back but it’s better than a solid red back.

Thought it might be.

How much does shampoo cost in Poundland? Pantene.