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Taken from a match report on the night "Baggies striker Rodriguez was seen pinching his nose before wafting a hand in front of his face" sorry but jokingly gesturing to a person his breath stinks is childish at best but one million percent never racism I make no comment on whether the incident was ...

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I know Jay and his Dad Kiko very well ( i played football with him for years) and i can say you are wrong and talking absolute rubbish. What part is absolute rubbish? Taken from a newspaper report of the time: The Football Association announced last Friday that an Independent Regulatory Commission ...

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Is ‘different drugs’ the new ‘alternative facts’?

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What a gent

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Be interesting to get Gary Lineker's view on the cheating and possible corruption involved. “Leicester have obviously got that thing hanging over them as well, a points deduction, which if they do go up they could get right at the start of next season, so they could start with minus six or somethin...

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dougcollins wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:21 am
Would the evidence of your own eyes support that?

Muric is broader and has more presence, but I’d say they are the same height.

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dougcollins wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:05 am
Sometimes, size matters. It just does.

You seriously think Trafford is taller than Muric?

Both are listed as 6ft 6in

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Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:36 pm
Failed to strengthen in cm in January too many lightweights giving ball away with no fight or challenge. Worst performance in a long while.

Have you been hibernating the last few weeks?

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why give them a point's deduction in the first place it's a joke and to me shows how corrupt the league is. Not sure what you mean. They’ve still got a not insignificant points deduction which may still have some impact come the end of the season, especially if it’s then repeated for the second cha...

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Stay.

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Venkys4eva wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:22 pm
Not accepted relegation? I think hes totally deluded now

If you are expecting him to say “yeah, we’re down aren’t we” in a post match interview I fear the delusion is not all Vincent’s.

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Nailed on we’ll cling on until injury time, then lose 1-0 to the 50th corner. Probably go in direct as well.

Aside from that we’ve possibly been even worse than last year. The lads are utterly bereft of confidence. Basic motor skills appear a bridge too far.

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Some interesting reframing of people who aren’t conspiracy theorists going on here. Far more subtle.

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aggi wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:22 pm
Is George Soros still popular for this kind of thing or has Bill Gates now overtaken him post-covid?

I think they operate as a tag team.

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If there’s one thing that makes me question VK as a coach it’s picking Vitinho. Yes, plenty of effort and commitment but seriously out of his depth. It’s veryclear the opposition have identified this. And now we’ve signed a better (hopefully) right back. Whatever Kompany’s view on Vitinho, he clear...

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Might be getting games mixed up, but wasn't that 4-2 loss in a big way, down to Nicky Weaver pulling off a few worldly saves to keep us out? Seem to think he did that a couple of times against us. There was a 4-2 win for City early in the season. I was at uni in Manchester at the time and came back...

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LongsideClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:52 am
That’s him, don’t take long for that to come out. Flying over shortly.

Galatasaray were looking at him to replace the lad that went to PSG. Think they’re getting Serge Aurier instead now.

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Since VK joined us 😝 I remember waking up on 29th December 2001, the day after my 22nd birthday. Off to watch us at Maine Road, we were top, City were 2nd in what is now the Championship, 4 points behind. Everything seemed right with the world. We got smashed 5-1, 4-1 down by half time. And we’d al...

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I’m struggling to get too downhearted about losing 3-1 at City. We’ve watched enough of those fixtures to know they don’t ever seem to have an off day against us, whether it’s Dyche or Kompany in charge of us. Not under Pep. Tick it off, be happy that our GD didn’t take the pounding it could have, a...

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Strange when you speak to any American they all agree DT done a good job last time. I mean you only have to look at the carnage the Biden Admin has caused since. The establishment detest him and are throwing as much nonsense as they can at him yet it’s only making him stronger. All Americans. Let’s...

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Lewis Taylor plumbing and heating did a great job for us. Based here in Colne so pretty local for you.

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I've had numerous accounts over the years to keep 'in the loop' but it always ends the same way - deletion. Algorithm driven crap on your timeline to wind you up. Joined Mastodon recently (open-source, community driven social media platform) but really trying to stop with Social Media - it's crap, ...

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Yes, you're right. I mean the ones that engage with him and seemingly get more wound up by Barton & co than other stuff. Yep, which is why I refrain from centralised platforms like that now as much as possible. Twitter always needed a bit of self curation but it was pretty clear what direction it w...

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Just his engagement numbers vs other matters alone tbh. I just find it strange. The minute people stop replying is the minute he stops. Agree that people should really just leave him to it, deprive his ramblings of the oxygen he’s after and get on with their lives, but I have no idea how we can qua...

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:29 pm
It is a bit of an indictment, isn't it, that JB's shite on twitter gets people more worked up than actual injustices and wrongdoings in the UK/world.

Who’s to say that’s not the case?

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:47 am
Look at my post above - from the Dundee Courier

Hadn’t seen that when I posted. Hardly surprising given Alan’s adventures in Belgium, though seems there’s a few obstacles to overcome before that happens.

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Not from Dundee - it refers to a partnership between ALK and Dundee as does the one on Burnley's site although it explains Football Partners Scotland which is an American company based in Texas. It then refers to both ALK & FPS with this about the latter. Football Partners Scotland is the Scottish ...

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I note it is ALK who have the partnership with Dundee and not Burnley FC - very strangely worded release. The Athletic article suggests it’s the same for Dundee.. “The clubs’ respective owners ALK Capital and Football Partners Scotland have entered into a relationship to promote player development ...

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It's interesting we often refer to "the commonwealth" here without always realising just what that meant back then. I was absolutely amazed to find that practically every other grave seemed to be a fallen Australian which I hadn't appreciated before and there's even a dedicated (huge) memorial and ...

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The Germans had the higher ground and had spent months digging tunnels so the bombardment had little effect. The miles of barbed wire was virtually untouched. It was a disaster waiting to happen from the start without our lads being asked to walk forwards and wait in no mans land. The commanders sh...

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There’s been a century of military historians debating tactical approach but two things always stood out for me. Firstly the army of the Somme was Kitchener’s army of volunteers. Not the small but highly trained BEF, but a much more rudimentarily trained force with limited experience. Undoubtedly th...

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Family
Music, listening to it and playing guitar
My dogs
Reading
Computer games
Climbing hills.

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Jambounchained wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:29 am
Made 33 league appearances last season. Hell of a long campaign if that's 5% of it.

To be fair he does say this season.

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BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:18 pm
Barton and Aluko are a pair of nasty pieces of work.

Hopefully they’ll both sue one another into bankruptcy.

Would be interested to know what Eni Aluko has done for you to suggest she and Barton were on a par.

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I had this too! Wow - brought back some memories of 10 year old me playing this (and hoping it would load up first time). Thanks for posting the link. Don’t ever recall having an issue getting it load, what I did have an issue with was getting to play more than one season! Took me a couple of years...

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I see your Sensible Soccer and raise you Emlyn Hughes International Soccer on the Commodore 64. Great game. Great memories. I had a succession of proto champ manager ‘style’ games on the C64 that I would play for hours. I had one called Football Director which came out in about 1986 and was so basi...

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Ineptitude. The standard of refereeing is so poor, whether it’s the official wheezing their way around the pitch, or up and down the touchline, or sat in front of a monitor at Stockley Park gorging themselves on cheesy puffs, they’re just incompetent. We have definitely been on the wrong end of some...

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"Grift" seems to be a weird buzz word on here and tw!tter. Especially when it's levelled against a millionaire who is falling out with the "buy me a coffee" and "lets crowd fund a lawsuit" brigade. Weird to say the least Odd. I’d have thought a reasonably well known individual who has just found th...

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Home to work for me is 46 minutes according to google, and work to home is 50 minutes. The presupposes that the climb up Colne main street (which you may have spotted the pros struggling with in the Tour of Britain a few years back, admittedly at the end of the run) is supposed to make very little ...

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While your point is correct , I think it’s the case that it was the Guardian leading the story , and even the most swivel eyed leftist wouldn’t argue with their “ woke “ credentials. That said, he’s a very public figure and instead of just starting a mildly controversial debate he’s gone “ full gri...

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How off beam do you have to be to consider a Conservative minister a member of the ‘wokestapo’?

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RickyBobby wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 09, 2024 1:19 pm
He didn’t want to come as he thought he was better then he was. Seems like many on here think the same.
If he is so great defensively, why are Chelsea sending him out on loan?

To Borussia Dortmund, a side in the last 16 of the Champions League. Bit of context is handy there.

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One of Barton’s problems, of which there are many, is that by going in two footed (true to himself at least) from the off with his crass Fred and Rose West comments is he’s got nowhere left to go. Every subsequent rant, rather than ratcheting up his shock value schtick, has just highlighted what a s...

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Barton is and always has been a gobsh!te. His new iteration of GBEEBIES ready grifter should surprise nobody.

And let’s not kid ourselves, look past the crass, shock value, West comments and he’s not saying anything some folk on here seem quite comfortable posting.

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ClaretsPadiham wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:57 am
No it was definitely Outside Forward, just did a quick check and it says John Connelly was an Outside Forward.

A very old term for a winger when they played in the WM formation. Wing forward etc.

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This happened to me yesterday, just abruptly logged me out. Logged back in and clicked ‘stay logged in’ again and it all seems fine again.

Thought I’d been sent to the naughty step for getting embroiled in a pointless back and forth with our own resident Frank Spenser.

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Ooh, almost a full house. You got the "barely over the limit" in there no problem, the suggestion it's a moneymaking scam was textbook, but the "why don't they spend their time catching real criminals" was only implied, rather than stated. Close but no cigar. I find it intriguing that his reaction ...

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Whatever method whether it's FPN or the speed awareness courses it's a lot of money I'm sure you'll agree. It's not costing 5/6K+ to rent a small room a day & pay a bloke to put a TV on & talk about driving & the detrimental impact of excessive speed.. the other quote I included expanded on that, t...

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https://driveprotect.co.uk/police-get-paid-45-per-speed-awareness-course/ You can x that by the odd million or so, that's some serious wedge that was going into road safety. Yeah, I read that too. Not sure that’s the most objective (or coherent) source and I certainly wouldn’t be using that as the ...

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I'm not disputing it's the better option that isn't in dispute. It's where the money goes & does the money get spent on road safety after all that's what the all shebang is supposed to be about. Anyway I've said enough on the matter & I feel I'm going around in circles labouring the point. Have a g...

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