grobyfox1990

No it didn’t. Frequently lost mine as a teenager after 2 cans of fosters

Best make sure I’m around all bank holiday weekend then!

Won’t we lift it at the game where we’re confirmed as champions? I always thought that was standard but can’t recall an example now.

I don’t get how they stay in a job. They are so bad and often appear drunk. Sol bamba is on Saturday

Agreed and yours and others posts on the groundhopping thread are excellent.But I would counter for every one of you that makes the effort to try new things, there are 5 who are ambivalent head-nodders simply posturing online about how much they hate the 'modern game' but doing nothing about it, and 10 who actually like football. Agreed to an extent that UK fans have failed the game, but I reckon most fans (other than Germans) would love our quality of football and league competitiveness. I'd say about 80% of PL games are competitive, most of Europe can't touch that. Regarding young fans, interest is growing according to the 'young and beautiful game' report. 19% of 18-29 year olds say the PL is one of their top interests and that is growing. Older people are static at 21%. This is in contrast to other sports where the opposite is true. Posters like that Dags or whatever their name is write a lot of unsubstantiated waffle which sounds convincing, but actually means nothing.

He's hinted at it loads of times. His comments after Swansea were stark. I think there was a loud reaction at Stoke away from the fans, which appeared to push the players to play at a higher pace, which appeared to push the fans even more,....and the virtuous cycle is in full spin. Maybe I'm being too ambitious with my assessment here.

But the change has resulted in growth. Non league is growing (not checked any stats for this) but elite football is undoubtedly growing. If a material group of people are missing raw football, it is not showing,.You'll have plenty on this forum proclaiming they're 'done with it' like last season, but will still be on their knees gagging for STs and away tickets next season. And if others switch to non-league, how long until they are bored of that and move onto ice hockey, then bored of that and move onto XX. You get my drift.

Overthinking it IMO. It's the slow decline of Western culture into lazy humans unable to do anything for ourselves. Lost all drive and ambition, see some people leaving at 80 mins, start to get FOMO and also leave. Suddenly you have a trend. If you look at videos, posts, comments from the 70s onwards, there is lots of content from old and tired people who are sick of life complaining about the 'game being lost.' It will be exactly the same for generations to come. Football will forever 'be gone' even though right now we are statistically in a boom period.

Politicians all lie, and in this new age of Western decline, none of them are going to make our lives materially better. The stakes have been high for a long time, Trump coming in for four years is not going to make the world go pop, our gradual decline set in long ago and he's not going to accelerate that. Might as well invoke gallows humour rather than tie ourselves up in doomsday rhetoric for another generation. I find Trump rallies far more interesting than listening to Sunak spinning his way out of yet another malfunction.

Watching trump rallies is my guilty pleasure. This campaign they have taken a new level of humour, South Carolina yday was amazing. The way he mocks Biden and his grandiose statements (under me we had the greatest economy in the history of the world) are brilliant. When I worked in the USA during the 2016 campaign I could never attend one, would love to see it in person

The ref, who was awful, was the lino who elbowed Andy Robertson last season.

Good day out at jersey bulls, lost 3-0 v Falmouth in the last 16 of the vase. 250 away fans and a 1500 attendance. Hospitality was for once done v well. Enjoyed it

Agreed, never minded the commute, 1.5 hours each way at worst (if everything is running fine) but it was some time to do my own things. I now live a 10-15 min walk from the office and it is weird. The cost of commuting in London was far worse than time spent. And like you said, the reward of being in a city where you can do anything you want 24/7 is worth the commute IMO.

https://www.ft.com/content/165f9aee-1180-4be8-903b-b166dc4e4fa1 Absolutely crazy how far our standard has dropped across so many metrics, whilst we sat idly by.

Yeh agreed, easy to say it but not practical to do. And yeh early-mid 30s, don't think we'll have a state mandated retirement age or state pension when we get to these ages, it'll be work until you drop unless you can afford it.

Fair. I see where you're coming from and a football forum is not the place to go into the nuts and bolts of the report, especially around provision of care which you allude to, which is not strictly true but is logically true. When my generation retire in their 90s, we will likely need care because there will be no state pension and no million dollar unearned wealth for us to call upon, unlike those who are approaching retirement now likely do have. Main point of the report is, probably everyone needs to put more in their pensions now which hopefully came across amidst the clickbait headlines

Not only have I read it, I know members of the PLSA external taskforce that were involved in writing it through a previous life in helping them put together the annual 'financial lives' survey. It's a rigorous assessment based on a lot more than what person on the internet sees in his own echo chamber life. I presume you have not read the report but just skimmed a bbc article and figured you know what you're talking about from that. You've worked hard your entire life and want to help your grandchildren, that is entirely reasonable and is a goal for many of having a 'comfortable' retirement, Maybe not for you, but clearly for many others. Do you have any idea how much care costs? Do you know how far £3600 a month gets you? Again you are missing the definition of 'comfortable.'

Haha, touche!!! Love it

Numbers don’t compute with person on the internet. Let’s ignore the experts then. Where is the foxestalk science club, you literally have a study which is being ignorantly dismissed!!

Only way to make this happen is to apply pressure to them in a co-ordinated way, which no one can be arsed to do in this day and age. I'm still wrangling with them over my travel costs for Blackburn away, which was moved from Friday night to Sunday midday with very little notice meaning I missed the match

Soton home KO will be announced before Chelsea are confirmed to be in/out of the cup QF. I think they will plan our fixture on the proviso that ars v chels goes ahead.

Good point. I guess Sky won't mind competing with Ars v Chels and a QF on other channels.

But they do care about playing extra games. Scrap replays, they are totally pointless, in return you pay for the privilege by funding smaller clubs.

Arsenal v Chelsea 12.30 on the Saturday, Fulham v Spurs 17.30. Plus there will be fa cup QF matches. It won't be Saturday, and feels like too big a game to stick on a Sunday at 12.00. It has to be Friday night but who knows with Sky

Pay the fee and sort it before you get to the airport and get done in. Lodge a claim and/or get creative if you want it back