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Reply | Interesting Mary Earps documentary on BBC iPlayer.
at 12:26 3 Jul 2025
broadly correct, but Hoddle was right to leave Gascoigne out of his 1998 World Cup squad as at 31, his lifestyle was beginning to take its toll.
Graham Taylor left Gascoigne out of a Euro qualifier in 1990 in favour of 32 year old Gordon Cowans for "tactical reasons", which sums up how inept Taylor was. |
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Reply | The 1975
at 11:56 28 Jun 2025
Big venues are the thing these days, because tours are how artists make a living. But most big venues are fairly soulless, even though technology has made the sound way better than it was. If you're watching a huge video screen, you might as well be at home, especially at well over £100 a ticket, plus extortionate food & drink prices.
Yes, I am a grumpy old man. |
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Reply | If it is Millwall Away on Boxing Day...
at 11:16 28 Jun 2025
True, but will be only a Sunday service on the tube (if the drivers can be bothered to get out of bed) and no British Rail on Boxing Day.
Very annoying that our Boxing Day fixture is an otherwise accessible London game. |
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Reply | The 1975
at 11:13 28 Jun 2025
Does anyone ever give a well known band or musician a bad review these days?
Oh for the days when "name" bands like Pink Floyd could be given negative reviews. |
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Reply | Cricket
at 17:03 23 Jun 2025
Another magnificent Test match in the making. England will still fancy chasing under 400 at Headingley as the pitch doesn't seem to deteriorate, but as it's been so dry, spin will surely be a factor tomorrow, although the forecast isn't great. Reduced overs would help India as it would put the target out of sight & I wouldn't fancy facing Bumrah under lights on a cloudy day. |
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Reply | The Cambridge United kit reveal
at 14:52 19 Jun 2025
Yes, I lived up the Cowley Road for a year and the motto was "on a /Saturday night, don;t be on the last bus to Blackbird Leys". The Cowley car factory now employs 4,000 or so; some of the site has been turned into a business park. Cambridge still has a slightly smaller population than Oxford but, as you say, it never had much manufacturing. However, it's been a boom town & I'm told this has boosted property prices in towns as far away as Thetford. |
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Reply | Quiz ⚽⚽
at 13:49 19 Jun 2025
Respect! I thought my 3:36 was quick. |
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Reply | The Cambridge United kit reveal
at 09:37 19 Jun 2025
Yes CUFC won't have had a huge budget so that's a nice job, especially as I'm a grumpy old man who generally hates promotional stuff. |
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Reply | Football quiz question
at 13:35 17 Jun 2025
I was close with Wimbledon - they lost in the final of the Amateur Cup in 1947. |
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Reply | Britain is spending £24k a year on every adult
at 13:31 17 Jun 2025
the Greek government was running out of money & had to be bailed out by the rest of the EU.
A government doesn't suddenly "run out of money" but the bond markets act as "policemen" & continually borrowing more money (which is happening) becomes more expensive each year. |
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Reply | Britain is spending £24k a year on every adult
at 13:25 17 Jun 2025
dead right. Indirect taxes on necessities such as fuel hurt the lower paid much harder.
Money to cover government spending has to come from increased tax revenue or from borrowing. Neither of those seem attractive options (borrowing more would actually be counter productive - ask Liz Truss).
So basically we (or the younger generation) are screwed. Other Western /European countries are actually in as bad or a worse position e.g. France, which has a huge number of state employees. |
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Reply | Delap
at 12:42 17 Jun 2025
And playing for a team which has 65% possession, rather than the other way around, when you are feeding off scraps. |
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Thread | Britain is spending £24k a year on every adult
at 12:34 17 Jun 2025
https://www.cityam.com/britain-cant-afford-to-spend-24000-on-every-adult/
If you hate austerity, please read this article. Our government (whatever the political colour) is slowly going to run out of money
This can be funded by borrowing, but the bond markets are already making this prohibitively expensive.
Higher economic growth would help, but how likely is this? Not very.
Higher taxation - there aren't enough super rich to fund the gap & if you tax middle to higher earners, you hurt the economy & your tax revenue falls.
No politicians are being honest about this as no-one votes for higher taxes or austerity.
The furore and u-turn over winter fuel payments show that the government doesn't have the political will to take even small, unpopular decisions.
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Reply | Israel & Iran
at 17:45 16 Jun 2025
I disagree. Whatever one's view on the rights & wrongs of the formation of Israel (and its religious fundamentalists are every bit as nutty as extreme Islamists) the country has long been surrounded by its sworn enemies, many of whom refuse to recognise its right to exist. |
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Reply | Swansea, didn't see that one coming!
at 16:40 16 Jun 2025
Greaves is aged 24 & presumably the type of player McKenna felet he could mould into a PL player. The jury is still out on that one, but didn't everyone love him after his first couple of games?
Burgess is 29 & has spent his career knocking around the lower leagues. He's a decent Championship level player, but if Town are to get back to the PL & survive, we need to take a chance of players like Greaves, rather than fill our team with the likes of Burgess. He would have been a good squad player for next season,l but I guess the contract we offered him reflected that. |
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Reply | Israel & Iran
at 16:35 16 Jun 2025
There are lot of metropolitan, educated, liberal Iranians who have access to independent media & they abhor the current regime. However, the uneducated, rural poor vote for the religious fundamentalists. |
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Reply | Israel & Iran
at 16:00 16 Jun 2025
Armed with American technology, Israel could probably obliterate most of Iran if the Americans allowed them to do so. Many Americans still regard Iran as the "great Satan" & a lot of reasonable people would be fairly happy if the Iranian theocracy was obliterated & it might be convenient for the USA if they used Israel as their proxy to do so.
However, turning Iran into yet an other failed state would be very dangerous as it would be entirely unpredictable what sort of leadership would emerge in its place. I'll bet anyone that it won;t be a liberal, western-style democracy.
So , my guess is that with Iran on the verge of producing nuclear weapons, Israel felt it essential to neutralise Iran's military machine, along with creating a chance of Iranian regime change. |
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Reply | Tuchel - get rid
at 18:11 11 Jun 2025
"Experimenting" with Jordan Henderson & Kyle Walker? |
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Reply | Tuchel - get rid
at 14:33 11 Jun 2025
100% this. Even the FA blazers could see that Southgate wasn't the smartest tactician so they went for Tuchel. He's on a short term contract (good - paying huge sums to failed foreign mercenaries stuck in the craw) but he's definitely going to be a short term manager, judged purely on how England do at the World Cup. That's the only justification I can see for picking the likes of Walker & Henderson. |
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