| Forum Reply | Rail strikes announced for day of the narwich game at 14:18 28 Mar 2024
not so, it's because the ASLEF train drivers have kept negotiating downwards the number of hours per week that they HAVE to work. They have got it down to 35 hours per week and while they often work more hours, they get very generous overtime rates and as this is on a voluntary basis, the service often collapses at times when the drivers aren't keen to work overtime, e.g. around Christmas. |
| Forum Reply | Bring me Sunshine at 12:27 28 Mar 2024
indeed and quite common among comedians I reckon. The pressure of having to be funny almost every day must be near unbearable. Not surprised many of them have issues with depression, alcohol etc. |
| Forum Reply | Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... at 12:24 28 Mar 2024
Yes, I read that recently on a friend's recommendation & it was good. I feel it's necessary to read something related to the holocaust from time to time to remind myself of how brutal man's inhumanity to man can be, while it also provides a (very) small excuse for some of the recent Israeli behaviour. |
| Forum Reply | Tories taking on the big issues again at 18:38 27 Mar 2024
Indeed, high streets are slowly dying across Britain, populated largely by estate agents & charity shops. The advent of out of town shopping centres & then the internet are the reasons, as well as sky high business rates in some areas (especially Radlett). |
| Forum Reply | Not a single river healthy at 18:08 27 Mar 2024
Water is another example of an industry which should not have been privatised. It's a natural monopoly & privatising water created a huge conflict between making as much profit as possible & protecting the environment. |
| Forum Reply | Bring me Sunshine at 17:26 27 Mar 2024
I believe Morecambe was a keen supporter of Luton Town & was a director, but he was never Chairman. I used to play a bit of golf at Harpenden GC & Morecambe's old house overlooks the course. I once played with a guy who used to date his daughter. He said Eric could be either as nice as pie, or extremely moody. |
| Forum Reply | England playing in dark grey shirts at home at 13:04 27 Mar 2024
It's balls. The extra amount made from entering into contracts that involve wearing 2nd or 3rd choice kits a certain number of times will be miniscule in the context of a club's annual finances. Protecting and preserving a club's identity by wearing its traditional kit wherever possible is intangible, but in my opinion of a far greater value. |
| Forum Reply | Settle a debate please at 09:11 27 Mar 2024
more importantly, why weren't England playing in their proper kit? |
| Forum Reply | Ten thousand for the women's team today at 18:31 23 Mar 2024
Arsenal Women have been getting in excess of 60,000. Probably attracting a very different demographic from the men's team by using differential pricing, which is the obvious strategy for the women's game. |
| Forum Reply | England new kit has enraged Joey Barton and the gammons… at 08:57 22 Mar 2024
He's not wrong though, is he? If international sport is to have any point, at least countries should play under their real flag. My only guess is that Nike did this deliberately in order to get attention about another launch of an over-priced, mundane kit. |
| Forum Reply | Happy St Chaplow’s Day at 19:02 21 Mar 2024
The Moon Under Water is a terrible pub, but that's about par for the course for Watford. |
| Forum Reply | Is Paul Cooks Chesterfield promoted tonight? at 17:07 21 Mar 2024
Indeed, this was a big chance for Cook given that Gamechanger arrived just after he did (a truly bizarre decision, even by Evans's standards). Identifying some good League 1 players when you have the biggest budget in the league isn't hard & Cook's complete failure to knit them into a decent team shows how out of his depth he was. I'd rate him marginally above Paul Hurst. Jewell has also taken Bradford into the PL, but the trouble was that, when he came to Town, he'd also had dreadful spells at Sheffield Wednesday & Derby. He did a good job as a fire-fighter, lifting Keane's gloom & getting Bullard in on loan, but he had little idea how to build a team. |
| Forum Reply | Poor Harry. at 16:23 21 Mar 2024
There's probably a Michael Jackson one that could also be re-cycled. |
| Forum Reply | Happy St Chaplow’s Day at 15:52 21 Mar 2024
Post of the day. Town have been a tough watch for most of the last 20 years, but enduring that & continuing to support the club makes the good times all the sweeter, in contrast to the armchair supporters of Man U & Chelsea, who still continually bitch about how inept their owners or managers are. |
| Forum Reply | Steve Harley RIP at 11:14 18 Mar 2024
I saw Steve Harley live twice in the early 1980s. The first time he had a relatively anonymous backing band, still styled as "Cockney Rebel"; the second time Duncan Mackay was on keypobards & guitarist Jim Cregan came onstage for the encore. I played "Best Years of our Lives" a lot in the 1970s but thought Timeless Flight was a very under-rated album, despite only reaching #18 in the UK charts & not producing a hit single. |
| Forum Reply | RIP Glastonbury at 09:45 14 Mar 2024
Indeed. Dan the Hat, a hopeless juggler from West Sussex whom I saw perform on a cruise ship, will be there. |
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