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Reply | New stadium for London
at 10:26 3 Dec 2025
Oh good, a discussion about our own stadium situation. Not had one of those before.......
(yes, I'm being facetious! All questions have been covered at some point or other, unless there is any new information we're just going around in circles) |
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Reply | Eastward Ho ! Match Fred
at 16:26 29 Nov 2025
Was at my son’s football training this morning and was asked if we had a good chance at Norwich considering their poor form.
“No chance. No home wins, can’t score and a club is visiting them that they have a great home record against. Nailed on home win.”
It’s painful to see that come to fruition. |
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Reply | Electric cars to be taxed per mile.
at 14:08 26 Nov 2025
I think all vehicles should be taxed per mile (and do away with VED and petrol tax).
For example, many moons ago I had a Mitsubishi Pajero 4x4 but used it occasionally and covered about 2k miles per year.
Yet because it was considered anti-environment I was taxed to the hilt in terms of VED and my parking space at home.
My flat mate at the time had a nice eco enviro-happy Toyota Yaris yet she did 60 miles a day, 5 days a week covering some 15,000 miles a year.
Which one of the two vehicles is doing more harm? |
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Reply | Football - lost its sparkle?
at 13:38 26 Nov 2025
"Academies sucking up players from 6 years old, fake academies promising they can get your kids into real academies ......."
I was talking about this with one of the other parents just this week. He (and me) is getting sick of having it rammed down our throats to join the local 'Star Player' club. "It'll be really good for their development blah blah blah". Fk off, they're kids. It's just meant to be fun on a weekend.
Of course, it's just a money making scheme at £70+ a month (plus probably all sorts of extra costs on top) and these kids all think they're going to be the next Messi/Ronaldo and all swank around in their club branded duvet-coats like they're the dogs bollox when in a few years time they'll be told they're not good enough and "thanks for the £thousands your parents have just spent".
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Reply | Football - lost its sparkle?
at 12:19 26 Nov 2025
Possibly an age thing but it's diminishing for me as well. it's completely over-saturated, over-hyped, over-expensive and so on and with so much money at stake it feels to me the authorities are so schit scared of making a mistake and the whole VAR thing is just becoming a farce.
It's as though they will do anything they possibly can NOT to award a goal (you know, the very object of the game) because giving a goal that shouldn't have been is more rife for complaint than not giving a goal that should be given.
I enjoy more watching my sons youth football, it's certainly more honest...for now.
Sorry but no one, and I mean no one, deserves to be 'earning' the sort of monies they get paid for kicking a bit of leather around. Yes, it's a short career (blah blah blah) but most normal people probably earn around £1.5m in their lifetime (and that's just based on average salary) yet you have the average PL footballer getting paid that in 6 months. Even as you go down the Leagues they'll still get paid £1.5m a lot, lot quicker than most of us mere mortals.
Every time there's a new TV deal the extra income is a great opportunity to be used to make tickets, merchandise, catering, tv subscriptions etc all more affordable but no, it just means it gets spent on giving a player yet more money they don't need as well as then increasing all the aforementioned prices even more so we just stand still.
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Reply | Scotland
at 09:33 21 Nov 2025
Apart from “…..some of the crowd are on the pitch”, David Platt v Belgium, Beckham v Greece, Munich 5-1, Holland 4-1 and others i’m sure, but no, we’ve never had moments like that 
I was chuffed to bits for them but fk me, we really do live rent free in their heads. Guys…. just focus on yourselves and don’t get wrapped up in what others are doing, makes you look petty.
They spend more time desperate for us to lose. The last two Euro’s must have been agony for them. [Post edited 21 Nov 9:34]
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Reply | EV’s to lose congestion charge exemption
at 13:20 13 Nov 2025
As obvious as night following day. As others have said, it's "buy diesel" Mk II.
Just proves it's fk all to do with lowering congestion (i.e. if everyone paid the fee there would still be the same amount of vehicles/congestion in London) or reducing pollution, it's a cash-cow.
Same with online TV subscriptions. I pay per month for the stuff such as Amazon Prime etc. They add adverts (extra income) then you have to now pay extra on top of the monthly subscription if you want it to be 'ad free'. It would be like having to pay a licence fee to ITV.
Fk right off, we're getting fleeced left, right & centre. [Post edited 13 Nov 13:24]
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Reply | The BBC
at 17:20 10 Nov 2025
I haven't seen the Panorama programme but did they mention the clip was condensed/segmented? If not, that was a bit silly as they way it currently looks, it's ripe for misinterpretation hence the top dogs at the BBC standing down and Trump looking to sue.
Of course it's a distraction, Trump will look at every conceivable possibility to do just that and the Beeb have handed it to him on a plate. |
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Reply | Draws That Felt Like Wins
at 10:59 10 Nov 2025
5-5 against Newcastle after being 4-0 down at half-time.
Port Vale away.
2-0 down at home to Brentford and we then scored 2 goals in injury time. |
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Reply | Manager
at 10:57 10 Nov 2025
I dunno.... drawing 5-5 with Newcastle after being 4-0 down at half-time was pretty good!
Those at Port Vale were probably happy too.
Being 2-0 down at home to Brentford and we then scored 2 goals in injury time probably didn't go un-celebrated.
I'm sure there are other examples over the years. |
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Reply | The BBC
at 10:47 10 Nov 2025
It's more than lazy editing IMO, it looks very much deliberate and excerpts from an hour apart spliced together. Watch the whole video but the main points starts at around 1:00.
https://news.sky.com/video/the-trump-bbc-controversy-explained-13467808
Did it go unnoticed/unchecked and allowed to be published? Was it known and deliberately published?
Either way, WTAF did the BBC think? I'm amazed none of Trump's administration noticed it and it took another news outlet to spot it. The Telegraph have just fked the BBC right over.
Maybe it'll be the catalyst to get their house in order as there has been a lot of suggestion for years that the once proud impartial BBC has descended into a political tool which it absolutely should not be especially being predominantly public funded.
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Reply | The BBC
at 10:13 10 Nov 2025
Anyone editing something to make the outcome look different or to follow a particular narrative deserves what they get if found out. It's lying and it's fraudulent IMO and it's almost become the norm and acceptable, especially on social media, which it is not.
I'm no Trump fan by any stretch but the BBC have shot themselves in the foot and just fed on a plate Trump's belief that MSM is fake news which he will milk to death as the victim. |
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Reply | 'They played on Tuesday, and we played on Wednesday' wah wah
at 12:43 8 Nov 2025
I stopped listening to Manager’s interviews before and after the game because it’s a waste of time.
They’re not going to give anything away beforehand and unless they’re vying for the sack and a nice pay off, they’re not going to throw players under the bus after.
It’s all very performative, cliched, repetitive. Not worth getting wound up by it IMO. |
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Reply | Lloyd
at 10:21 4 Nov 2025
Caveat emptor.
Sounds like this is on Orient IMO. |
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Reply | The how many managers will get sacked this season thread!
at 09:31 4 Nov 2025
Best job in the world. Sign a 2-3 year deal, guaranteed income that most of us would love to have, get sacked half way through (if not sooner). Ker-ching.
Stress, what stress?
Stress is having a mortgage, two kids, cat, dog, car, motorbike and god knows what else to pay for knowing you're potentially only ever a month or so away from having no income. |
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Reply | Sheffield Wednesday gone into Admin this morning
at 17:05 24 Oct 2025
New TV deal = player values & salaries increases = back to square one
Club builds new stadium = increased match day & non match day revenue = player salaries increases = back to square one
Clubs signs new lucrative sponsorship deal = player salaries increases = back to square one
Clubs sign new lucrative kit deal = player salaries increases = back to square one
And so on.
Clubs basically stand still while salaries go through the (leaking) roof and if any of those maxed out/peaked commercial opportunities lessen, then they are in a deficit straight away.
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Reply | Sheffield Wednesday gone into Admin this morning
at 14:03 24 Oct 2025
Something has got to be done about player salaries. They, IMO, are the biggest thing killing the game. Stadiums falling apart, regular staff getting laid off, contractors not paid, etc etc just so the club can go and sign some cnt on stupid money who probably then phones it in the moment the ink is dry.
Yes, there are dodgy owners but there are good owners too who just can't cope under the pressure of player (agent) wage demands.
As much as i love football, no one 'deserves' £10,000 a week (ave. Championship salary) for kicking a football around.
Don't give me this "it's a short career' bollox either. Injuries are part and parcel of any sport. My missus (ex Int'l gymnast) retired at just 17 after she had a double-fracture in her arm. 12+ years down the drain. |
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