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Destroying mobility in the football pyramid
at 08:32 19 Mar 2024

I’m not sure FFP is a means to restrict ‘small clubs’ from breaking through a glass ceiling rather than a means to stop state-sponsored Sportswashing rendering the sport pointless.

It’s not perfect and will take time to have an effect - but the effect of Forest cheating last year is one reason why the Championship is top heavy with slightly better than usual Premier League dross this year.
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Our best ever academy product?
at 07:30 19 Mar 2024

This raises an interesting point with school kids being hawked to the highest bidder for a dollop of cash. It’s still going on with a 14 year old being touted at present - so genuinely ‘top prospects’ will never come through the academy under the current system.

Going back a few years the more gifted youngsters like Ambrose and Bent, let alone Wickham were actually given game time for the club before moving on in their teens So it’s several decades since top players actually stayed with the club that nurtured them.

I suppose Pope is the most recent good player to slip through the net. Butcher or Wark possibly the best ever.
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Looking for D-Day veterans
at 12:47 18 Mar 2024

You’ll be doing very well to find any. There were not many left for the 75th anniversary - and a couple of them had passed away before the IWM featured their stories.

If you haven’t seen any of Rishi’s WW2 interviews they are worth watching on You Tu be whilst you’re waiting to find a Normandy veteran
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Birders...
at 11:19 17 Mar 2024

Whatever you do don’t say where you live. A pair has bred in Suffolk for the first time since the 1800s and last years chicks, of which I think there were five, will be top targets for gamekeepers as they attempt to find a territory.

IF it was a raven the easiest way to tell is the massive bill. Carrion crows are quite large up close but have a much less business-like bill
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European draws
at 08:35 16 Mar 2024

The Chumps League draw sort of confirms why they want to seed it - with the top four teams in one half of the draw ensuring a dud, presumably Paris Sportswashing Project reaches the final…..presumably against our very own Sportswashing project.

It’s an odd hybrid at the moment with meaningless league games for months on end before it becomes a luck of the draw cup event
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Victor Meldrew maybe
at 08:28 16 Mar 2024

Exactly what I was pointing out. The yoof of today don’t know how lucky they are.

Mind you there ARE advantages eventually to not owning a house. Your kids won’t have to sell it whilst watching you decline catastrophically in a rip-off ´Care ´ Home.
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Friday quiz
at 08:22 16 Mar 2024

You dress as a woman, pedal conspiracy theories and prostitute yourself to the far right?
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A few threads today have had me thinking
at 13:56 15 Mar 2024

A ‘project’ for “sir” Jim and the Ineos team?

A Qatari sportswashing project?

A Clearlake Captial comedy club?

A mafia money-laundering operation?

Plenty of buyers of other clubs since the 5% gang rode into town
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Victor Meldrew maybe
at 12:32 15 Mar 2024

I’ve changed my eating and drinking habits which helps no end - though there’s a finite end fast approaching to those little benefits

I also put us on a war footing, growing fruit and veg and getting to know the local hunters which puts some free meat on the table on the few occasions we eat meat nowadays.

I’m fairly sure it was ever thus. My parents bought their first house for £2000 - yet couldn’t afford a car for seven years after that massive expenditure - and my dad walked nearly three miles to work and back… though people used to stop and offer lifts. On the plus side that generation produced probably the richest pensioners there have ever been with huge house inflation and final salary pensions to cushion the aches and pains.

Things seem expensive now because the financial crash brought zero interest rates - which meant nobody bothered to save. The came the perfect storm of leaving the EU, Boris Johnson, Covid and Liz Truss - but I doubt things are anything like as bad now as when I fixed our mortgage at 10%…
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ITFC Hall of Fame
at 11:17 15 Mar 2024

Seems a bit odd having so many nominated each year - there’s some relative barrel scrapings already

How about a hall of infamy? Plenty of options there.

Or a woke section. - Steve Stacey first ´player of colour’… although the first gay player and chairman are already there…. And Mick Hill lived in a caravan.
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Victor Meldrew maybe
at 11:08 15 Mar 2024

Imagine what it’s like for younger people who have massive mortgages, kids to feed - and have to pay for your free prescriptions whilst fretting that the world is about to end because summer is on the way.

And the conservatives are doing their level best to ensure that they will never qualify for a pension
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RIP Glastonbury
at 16:48 14 Mar 2024

Went downhill as soon as they started charging. Bring back Gong
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Car insurance
at 10:25 14 Mar 2024

The risk of being hit by an electric car and dying in the subsequent inferno is going up every year. As is the cost of repairs.

I find it difficult to fathom why insurers choose to rip off existing customers with no claims in preference for new customers. But it has been the industry model for decades.
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Frog spawn!
at 10:21 14 Mar 2024

At the risk of being a killjoy it is extremely ill advised to move frog spawn between locations There’s a virus that is transmitted via spawn and its lethal - so best to let those frogs and toads find their own way.
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What were peoples expectations for this season?
at 12:40 11 Mar 2024

History suggested Town would go up as champions this season and be surprise winners of a very open top division next season - with the key competitors otherwise engaged.

Obviously Norwich will knock Town out of the FA Cup at Portman Road yet again - but it’s a small price to play - especially as it will be a reserve fixture.

I see no reason to change my mind - the other teams will be to focused on the champions league.
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Green un wanted
at 12:33 11 Mar 2024

I recently binned all mine from that era. At the risk of stating the obvious have you tried asking the EADT , or Tony Garnett
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Beginning of the end for Blue Action?
at 12:31 11 Mar 2024

I think you can relax. The Blue Action obsessives were patronised whilst they were useful - but by chasing more money the owners will distance themselves from fringe obsessives and ally themselves to where the extra cash might come from - milking families, corporate, better overpriced facilities etc.

Not sure if thuggery in Wales has a Blue Action stain on it - but screaming abuse at a pair of geriatrics in a car did - and I am not sure that goes down well with Roy Rogers and the other ´owners’ either.
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Norwich away
at 12:48 10 Mar 2024

Norwich will knock Leeds leading to Farke’s dismissal. Cruel irony
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Our defence...discuss
at 07:34 10 Mar 2024

Perhaps you should consider the possibility that players improve with experience and that for most this is the highest level they have played at in their entire careers. At least two of them ‘had to go’ in the blinkered eyes of some TWTD posters in the third division - and the goalie was being prised out of the club.

Personally I think they have been doing remarkably well given the changes in personnel - and the goals against has a lot to do with the style of play
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I've not really seen anyone mention this
at 07:27 10 Mar 2024

Lunchtime kick-offs at the weekend are not exactly convenient for most home supporters either.

But nobody cares - follow the money

In terms of playing I suspect the away team want to get the match done and dusted asap - and get home a bit earlier. 1230 kick off might even favour the away team as there is less hanging around in unfamiliar places, less time to lose money at cards etc.
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