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Good job it’s 22 players playing the match and not the two club bank balances then isn’t it.

LOL I see they’re trying to flog the LD sports shirts for £15

No Corporate company Who advertises cares about individuals. They are there for one thing only, to make money. Where do you draw the line? Should Cadbury’s be banned from advertising chocolate because some people are addicted to it, eat too much Get fat which can give them heart disease and diabetes? Gambling is a normal part of life and has been for centuries, same as booze, millions of people do it, for a small minority it Can become a big problem. I would guarantee that someone not addicted to gambling is going to still not be addicted to gambling If saints were sponsored by sportsbet or Unicef

A very simplistic view. Of course it encourages new customers and of course it is something people do compulsively but there is a huge leap between being an addict, an addict would be an addict regardless of what was written on a football teams shirts.

I don’t think it’s a scam as a very good friend of mine almost died because of it. But there is defiantly something strange going on with an awful lot of scaremongering. For example we never heard anything about new variants Of concern until just before they started rolling out the vaccines. The roadmap seemed sensible when it was first announced, no more lockdowns, led by data etc, all good but now we’re hearing reports of huge new waves when everyone is going to be vaccinated, it just doesn’t ring true.

Played 3 times since they opened, even my mate who plays off 2 was smashing it all over the place and picked up on two holes, it’s a great leveler 😀

Yep, would agree with this, we certainly have had a fair few big decisions against us by refs. Maybe we’ll get a big one go for us in a if a big game 😉 I suppose this list is just what VAR decisions have been overturned, it doesn’t include dubious onfield decisions being upheld by VAR such as the wolves And VIlla penalties.

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How have you got access to the embargoed bit of the press conference?

Interestingly we’re net neutral when it comes to VAR this season altbough it doesn’t take into account obvious errors like the penalties in the wolves and villa games or the offside in the home game v villa which although weren’t given were impacted by VAR. it also doesn’t include the cock up at Leeds with goal Disallowed https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.espn.com/soccer/english-premier-league/story/4182135/how-var-decisions-affected-every-premier-league-club-in-2020-21%3fplatform=amp

He’s also been unlucky with marginal offsides and ref weirdness. Man U, Leeds sure there was another? He could quite easily be in double Figures with a bit more luck and composure. Definitely a player in there. I’ve got a feeling next season it might all Come together

Perfect for us then

Two good goals but done very little else really.

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What’s more likely to make someone gamble? Seeing something on a football shirt or having a dozen bookies in every high street or being able to open your phone and gamble within seconds. There are a lot more things that need to be regulated before advertisements

Obviously it does work. For example when Carling premier came out In the days it was the FA carling premiership I drank a few pints of it, even though I’ve always Carling. It didn’t mean I became alcoholic, because addiction is much more complex than simply trying to convince a market to buy your product over the others out there by putting your name in a place people will see it. I repeat once again no one ever became an addict because of something they saw on a football teams shirt.

There have been a huge amount of studies done on what makes someone an addict, look it up if it interests you. I can tell you what it isn’t. It isn’t seeing the name of a company on a football teams top.

Interesting point. I wonder how many people in the UK bought dimplex or Sanderson (still no idea what they are) products because they were a sponsor of saints once. Have we all got Aon insurance on our Chevrolets because they sponsor Man U? Do we fly eithad everywhere because they sponsor Man City? Sorry but it’s all bullshit virtue signalling every saying it’s a disgrace a betting company sponsor a football team. Not one single person has ever become addicted to gambling because they saw a company name of a football shirt, the issues that lead to it run far deeper.

I’ve never meant anyone who has became a compulsive gambler because they saw an advert on a football teams shirt. In the same way I’ve never meant an alcoholic who became an alcoholic because of something written on a football teams shirt. Be interested to know if anyone else has.

I’ve no idea. But to say one minute get a vaccine that’s the answer to getting out of this, no more lockdowns, let’s get back to normal then a few weeks later to say stand by, it’s going to be as bad as it got in 5 months time doesn’t ring true particularly when the evidence of last Summer suggests the virus almost died out with the better weather last year. It’s either extreme scaremongering or something else going on.

Why bother with the vaccine then if all that’s going to happen is a new variant avoids the vaccine and attacks everyone who hasn’t had one? They said there would be thousands of variants from day one and it’s only when the vaccines started rolling out they started going on about variants of concern. everyone get a vaccine it’ll all be fine, now even with that we’re being told in September there Will be as many people in hospital as there were in January. Nah not having it. I’m not even convinced they’re properly tracking the variants anyway, I asked my mates wife to ask the hospital which variant he had, they didn’t know it was just down as Covid, surely if you’re going to test anyone it’s someone who’s been on life support for two months with the damn thing. as I say I’m under no illusions how bad it can be, but it’s not stacking up now. Especially as this is what the third or fourth time we’ve been down this “only a couple more months” line for the goalposts to them be moved

It’s all very strange and starting not to ring true to me. I’m under no illusions how bad Covid CAN be, but with half the country vaccinated how can there be a wave as bad as January.

Why are people saying it’s a disgrace?

It’s the same old method isn’t it. Just a few more months they say, then we get their drip fed articles about how we aren’t there yet, new variants, vaccines are our way out of it, now testing it our way out of it, it goes on and on and round and round. This latest news from Sage is particularly baffling though, there seems to be absolutely no reason why we’re to expect a late summer wave as bad as January. I also don’t get the look at how bad it is in Europe rationale either. It was really bad in Europe this time last year, films of vans full of bodies being carried away in Italy, the french having to carry documents to prove why they were out the house. Yet despite all that last summer life was relatively normal here with minimal infections. Now with half the country vaccinated and saying herd immunity on Monday they’re saying prepare for another big wave back end of the summer, Not buying it. None of it stacks up

Agree on KWP. I’d put Tripper ahead of Alexander as well, think he offers more all round.