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At a random point each half, a siren sounds, and five other identical balls are thrown onto the pitch. Only one of them is the genuine match ball, and there's a small transmitter in it that will emit a beep in the referee's headset if it ends up in the goal.
If a team gets a four or more goal winning margin at any point, the centre circle retracts, and a giant 30 foot high bar billiards skittle emerges for the remainder of the game. If the winning team hits it at any point, they lose a goal until the margin is three or less.
Instead of red cards, players have to wear remote controlled boots after serious foul play that are controlled by the opposing manager.
"And Sargent's through on an open goal and... Oh, it's OK, McKenna is using his remote control and Sargent is now running across the Cattle Market car park"
Each team has four joker cards each season, which when deployed, means the opposing team must play Ben Godfrey.
Yep, been up here 30 years, and never had any hassle, just the bantz.
Remember being in the Trowel and Hammer on St Stephens Road by the old hospital (think it's now an Italian restaurant) watching us win 6-0 at Swindon. Admittedly I wasn't exactly a whooping and a hollering as each goal went in just to be on the safe side.
Problem was, also there were the flower stall twins, and they WERE doing that. Fortunately it's well known up here who they support, and so there wasn't really any grief.
That was a baffling appointment really. He'd never really done anything apart from keep Hull up last season and most of the time it had all gone wrong.
I mean, at least when we appointed Paul Hurst he'd had some success at Grimsby and Shrewsbury.
This would be a dumb thing to say at any time, but given the events of the last 72 hours, to do it on camera would not be the move of anyone with a functioning brain.
"Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated, someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer."
I think this might be incitement to violence rather than Free Speech.
Wasn't there a similar fuss with the proposed conversion of the Rose & Crown at the top of Bramford Road into a mosque, which then came to nothing when the building just basically crumbled into dust?
Isn't this exactly what just happened? Have people got mass fkn memory loss? Five years ago an ethics investigation took SEVEN MONTHS, resulted in a finding of several serious breaches, which was then ignored by the PM and resulted in the ethics advisor AND the bullied employee having to resign. 1/
If you're found to break the ethics code, then off you go, simple as that. It's a great shame as I think it is a genuine mistake on Rayner's part, but them's the rules.
Better to have a government that acts upon the ethics code than what's gone before. Owen Patterson, Priti Patel (remember "form a square around the Prittster"?), Boris Johnson himself, God knows how many others, were all found to have broken the code, and the recommendations ignored.
That's probably a spot on assessment. He wants to be seen as the brave resistance against the system. The thought of actually having any responsibility terrifies him.
We've seen this before elsewhere - look back to the morning after the Brexit vote. Gove and Johnson hold a news conference minutes after Cameron announces his resignation.
The expression on Johnson's face can be summed up as "Crikey, what have I done? This was supposed to get a jolly jape that ended in heroic defeat casting me as the plucky underdog in an act of brave defiance against the seat of power!"
One clever thing Theresa May did was to put Johnson and other leading Brexiters in charge of sorting it out -" You made this mess, you deal with it" and we know how that turned out.
Farage, Johnson, Trump - cowardly inadequate insecure men, too spineless to take responsibility for anything.
And yes, Haw Haw Farage is a treacherous snake and no patriot.
What you said about SBR is a very good point. By my reckoning he built four teams here:
69-72 To become a stabilised top division team 72-75 To build on that, to become established, and to progress in all competitions 75-78 To start pressing for honours, culminating with the FA Cup win 78-82 To make a concerted effort for honours, establishing us one of the top teams in the country.
Each one about 3 to 4 years in length, so changes happening now is probably about right on that sort of timetable.
It'll be like the scenes you see of spy exchanges in Cold War thrillers.
Thrown out of Manning's car at the northern roundabout of the Scole bypass. Then has to walk the length of the bypass to the southern roundabout were McKenna picks him up.
Be damned if anyone should take lectures about keeping women and children safe from someone who hangs out with Donald Trump and says Andrew Tate is "an important voice".
In a simar vein, second tier football didn't exist before the Championship apparently. Or at least that was the impression that was given earlier during Cov hitting seven, with lots of shouts of "eight is the record."
No it isn't. For a start off I can remember Man City sticking ten past Huddersfield, and a search in the record books show the record at this level is Newcastle beating Newport 13-0 in 1946.
Imagine being a Newport fan at that. Other end of the country, no motorways. Ouch.
About 15 years ago, the EDL showed up in the city and were outnumbered heavily by the counter demo. Went on the counter demo myself, with late grandfather's WW2 medals in pocket - reasoned that if he was willing to put his life on the line to punch Nazis, me standing behind a police cordon with 1500 other people to let Poundland fascists know we weren't going to stand for their crap in our patch was really a minor effort.
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