Lord Duckhunter

Agreed. Look how mugs like you fell in love with The EU. The most consistent lie the past 40 years has been the nature of our relationship with it.

Clinton Morrison is the new Garth Crookes. I defy anyone to claim he’s got all these gigs on merit. Him and that Scott bird are on bloody everything. At least she’s a bit of eye candy, the only talent he’s got is god given, his colour.

Has anyone got the crowd noise on sky tonight? Both my channels have stadium sound only

Another prime example is.......you.

Had he not given away a needless freekick, there wouldn’t have been a penalty decision to make. Interesting take on officials following the rules. I presume you want them to make their own rules up. It’s sort of like clinging to something to throw at them for no real reason.

One swallow doesn’t make a summer and he still gave away the cheap free kick that led to a penalty.

Good to see proper speakership back in action. Hoyle was advised against allowing the Brady amendment so didn’t call it. Showed his displeasure with his words, but took the advise clerks gave him. Totally different from the poison dwarf . Good to see.

It’s pretty obvious that for 99.999% of anything “days” applies to working days only.

The police investigated Dom and took no further action. They said a “minor” breach of the regulations “may” have taken place. Let’s see what they conclude when they’ve finished with this sweaty.

Martin Samual hits nail on head. In 2018, Peter Lim was described by Forbes as a billionaire. He owns 40 per cent of Salford City. Peter Swann, who owns Scunthorpe, has estimated wealth in the region of £400m. Michael Eisner at Portsmouth is another billionaire, while Marcus Evans of Ipswich is not far short. And these are just a sprinkling of the owners outside the Championship. Not representative of all, but not wholly unrepresentative either. As for inside the Championship, the new consortium that owns Barnsley has a collective wealth of approximately £7bn, while the Coates family own Stoke, and Bet365, where chief executive Denise Coates has paid herself £588m over the last two years. Stephen Lansdown, owner of Bristol City, is another in the billionaire bracket, as is Lakshmi Mittal at Queens Park Rangers. Operating at more than 10 times the estimated worth of Mike Garlick at Burnley would be the owners of Birmingham, Cardiff, Derby, Nottingham Forest and Preston — and maybe Huddersfield, too. So it is not as simple as pointing to a pyramid, and saying Garlick's club has to cut costs, to help out Lim at Salford. The Premier League has a pyramid, too, and those at the base of it, over by the corners, are much closer to the Championship clubs than those at the apex. They fear going short and empowering hungry rivals who will take their place. They resent the pressure being applied from below over curtailed seasons and relegation. Why should they help richer owners who would swap places in a heartbeat? Brentford collected £27.7m from Aston Villa for Ollie Watkins last month. Do they need a bail-out? Norwich, boosted by parachute payments, fought off Barcelona to keep Max Aarons. They can't be needing further Premier League largesse, surely? In fact, while recognising the moral imperative, it is easy to see why the Premier League clubs look after number one: so they don't end up back in the Championship, needing a bail-out.

She voted remain, so will never be a guilty as Cummins in their eyes. The virus is much more contagious when contracted by leavers and particularly so in people who organised leave campaigns. Therefore, driving in your car when infested is far worse than going to and from Scotland on a train after attending work.

What’s % of turnover is spent on wages?

The hoodie I got with my voucher was shite. Terrible quality.

But we didn’t piss our money against the wall. We invested in decent training facilities, academy and a new ground. This made us attractive to an investor, which meant we were able to return to the elite. Market forces dictate what’s sustainable and what’s not. why should Manchester Utd give up anymore of their TV money, revenue from match days and their millions that their brand earns, so that small provincial towns that attract 2-3k can stay full time. And don’t give me any old pony about football not existing if the lower clubs weren’t there. The top teams already subside the saints & Palaces of this world (via the tv money that they drive) if they had their income cut by more to do so for the Rochdale, Eastleigh & Exeter’s of the world, a super league would be here quicker than you could say sustainability. You’d then have about 85 odd clubs scratching around for a share of pitiful crumbs left after the big clubs had hovered up their share.

Spot on. It’s as if every success was nothing to do with Les but every failure down to him. Cakeism

Fuck em. There’s way too many professional clubs in this country as it is. No other country has as many. All this pony about “the pyramid “, German & Spain seem to get by without Micky Mouse clubs from one horse towns, having a professional club. The third and fourth division should be regionalised and part time, as should the National League, or whatever it’s called now. If 50 odd lower league clubs went part time, I doubt it would make a scrap of difference to English football or the health of the national team. I read that there’s league 2 players getting over 50k a year for clubs on gates of less than 5k. It’s not sustainable, Covid or no COVID. Why should we bail out The Skates or Sunderland just because they pissed their premier league money up the wall. For sustainable businesses there’s Government schemes to help with temporary Covid issues, but bailing out badly run clubs is not down to bigger clubs.

It’s not just Ralph, it’s every single manager he’s had in England. We had the Gasronettes waxing lyrically about the wonders he can perform, having wet dreams over “The Villa game”, wondering how managers could overlook their hero, how could they not see what these hipsters could. Of course the dream faded and died ....... in Hull, as he was shite. Now we have the Boufonts, writing poetically about “The West Brom” goal (at least Gaston had a whole game to wank over), rallying against 5 managers who dare to leave him out. Like The Gastonettes they’ll end up disappointed and deflated. 2 show ponies destined for the knackers yard.

With such consistent credible polling it should be very easy for remoaners to get together, create a mass movement that forces a third referendum and then win it. For all their intelligence, superior education & compassion , I doubt they’ll be able to. It’s not as easy as Nige made it look.

That’s funny because Alan Shearer said “they’re both good players”, when discussing Ings & his partnership on Saturday night. Still, what does he know about being a premier league level striker.

Whether it’s a foul is still a subjective decision, the referee with the help of VAR decides if it was a penalty in his opinion . Hand ball isn’t, VAR is used to check whether the ball hit his hand or not, it doesn’t matter what the refs opinion is.if the hands away from the body and the ball hits the hand/arm, it’s handball as the rules stand now. I agree. I didn’t want VAR, don’t confuse my posts for support of it. I’m just pointing out why we’re where we are.

That was the rule for years, the referee decided if, in his opinion, it was deliberate. However, all we got was managers, pundits the media and players complaining, all we got was manager (like Roy) calling for consistency. Instead of just accepting the referee had made an honest decision, they moaned and whined. So now we have a rule that takes subjectivity away, a rule that ensures a far higher level of consistency, and guess what, they don’t like it. Its only simpler if you accept the referees opinion, as football didn’t, we’re where we are now.

It’s not a lottery. A lottery implies that sometime they’re given & sometimes they’re not, that’ll be a pen every single time this season, unless the referee makes an error. Not an error of judgement, but the error of not following the rules. The way the rule is written, it doesn’t make a blind bit of difference whether it was impossible to avoid.

Forget a dedicated hospital. The Covid patients in our area could be treated in a box room, there’s that many of them.

They’ve moved Sunday supplement to podcast only, but I thought I’d have a listen. Looks like he’s now a regular on there now, he’s been on every week. Fucking awful. It used to be journos talking about football, now it’s journos plus that incoherent plank.

The ref did make the decision, what’s the chump on about? Did he miss the bit where the ref ran over and checked the screen