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Not any more. Going back quite a few years the councils used to sell the rubbish to recycling companies; now (and even in 2023 when this was posted) they have to pay to have the companies accept it.

Dyche's best performance with Burnley was finishing 7th in 2017-18 and qualifying for Europe. True, he only had one other top ten finish, 2019-20. Unfortunately by then the chairman had stopped investing on players, and by the time Dyche got sacked Burnley FC had £80m in the bank. (Now we have negative £60m because the outgoing chairman took it all with him and replaced it with an IOU from the incoming, skint chairman). He only had two full seasons at Championship level with Burnley. 2013-14, P46 W26 D15 L5, F72 A37, 93 points, second. 2015-16 P46 W26 D15 L5, F72 A35, 93 points, first. The first of those seasons, we had finished 11th the year before under Eddie Howe and were forced to sell our only saleable asset, Charlie Austin. All Dyche could sign were free transfers from Bristol City, Huddersfield, and Wiigan. (Admittedly they were Tom Heaton, Scott Arfield, and David Jones, and a better free-transfer window there has never been.) And as Leicester supporters know perfectly well, if you have a side less inclined to fanny about at the back and more inclined to get the ball to your goalscorer in prime position, and it wins you the league, it is entertaining. Incidentally, for those who think he isn't the man to build, in his first PL season he demanded that his transfer budget be reduced and the money spent on a new training ground (cost £11m, incidentally). He was not happy that the first PL promotion had done nothing for the club infrastructure.

Must cost a bob or two to keep the glass polished.

Alex Ferguson had 9 assistant managers while at Man United. A great manager can cope with not having his own players, so surely he could cope with not having his own backroom staff. The problem with RVN is not that he hadn't got a great backroom staff; it's that he isn't a great manager.

I checked mine over the weekend and it's up several thousand pounds over the last year. Either I have a genius pension company or else I have failed to take the short term view!

It's complicated, but after two or three goes at it, the laws committee have made it make sense. It's part of section 2. https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside Broadly speaking, if Smith the defender has time to see the ball coming and no particular pressure, and chooses (say) to head it back to the goalkeeper having not seen Jones the forward in the way, then it's not offside. When Bloggs the goalkeeper lumped it forward, Jones was in an offside position but not interfering; when Smith deliberately played the ball in a controlled manner, it became a new phase of play so Jones was not offside. If the ball had been wellied at Smith from five yards so that he didn't have time to adjust and it flicked off his head in an uncontrolled way, then Jones would still be offside because Smith hadn't played the ball in a controlled manner. The law is specific that attempts to block a shot don't count as deliberately playing the ball.

It did, but the old rule about being played onside if it touched a defender was abolished in about 1972, and the new rule is specific that it doesn't apply to a blocked shot. It only applies if the defender has time and space to control the ball.

It would be even better if they hadn't got the colon and semi-colon the wrong way round.

You can (at least sometimes) get home without a passport. I came back from a trip once with a man who left his passport in his camera bag on the station platform on the journey home, but (with the help of lots of phone calls to various places) they still allowed him through eurostar to get home.

Rumour has it that when it gets closer, they could ram it with a spaceship (unmanned, unlike Hollywood) that would give enough momentum to change its course.

Might be worth remembering that if the majority of professional investors felt the same way, the price would be higher than it is now.

1.2 is fine. I've got a 13 year old Corsa that does about 45 mpg over that sort of distance and it's easy peasy driving up to 75 mph or so, which is plenty. If you want to push it to 80 mph then you have to hold the wheel firmly and your mpg goes down.

The graph, so far as I can read it, is based entirely on the model figures. It does mention in the detail of the article that the model started in the past so they could compare model figures with the actual figures, but I can't actually see in that article where they have done it. Thanks for the info, anyway. The second article is interesting too. The raw data can (I think) be found by putting together the various bits of info scattered around the article, but what I think it amounts to is that the number of days with more than 2 inches of rainfall, for any given part of the country, has gone from about 3 every 10 years to about 4 every 10 years. I wonder how much variation would be expected on a purely random basis? From personal observation, about floods not rainfall this time, there is a certain caravan site in Eckington, Worcestershire which used to flood every winter without fail in the seventies. In the eighties this stopped happening, and people replaced their old fashioned tin box caravans (no electric or plumbing) with newer ones with all mod cons. In the nineties the site flooded once, and in the 2000's, after the caravans had been replaced, it flooded once more. The site has now moved to the next field on higher ground, but the original site is still flooding only rarely. There are multiple causes - I doubt that lower rainfall is the cause, but improved river management of the Severn and Avon probably is. (The 2000's flood was a summer flood, which is unusual, but the figures from your second article suggest that summer rainfall is not increasing anyway.) There is also a bridge in Worcester marking the height of the River Severn floods. There are numerous examples from the 1600;s, fewer from the 1700's, then nothing until the second half of the 1900's. There is clearly more to flooding than just climate change, and studies need to be very much in depth to get to the bottom of it all.

No, that's a prediction. Even the so-called historic data is a prediction working backwards of what it might have been. Is there any actual recorded data that shows number of extreme rainfall events?

Are there statistics for that?