grobyfox1990

It definitely won’t

I have general, glass, cardboard/paper, plastic. Then I take soft plastics to the supermarket at the end of every week. It’s really not that hard

Fair point, possibly, but I really do not think it's that deep. People prefer their phones to singing. Also I don't think 23-year old Brenno from Coalville in his sports direct trackies is thinking of the implications of foreign born, offshore-asset based wealth owning his football club. he's just scared to do anything that might make Jonno, Lobbo, Henno and Cobbo laugh at him and film him on Instagram

Also all this 'sanitised game' 'modern football' 'aaaaahhhhhhh' nonsense makes no sense.The atmosphere would be exactly the same if we were lumping it forward to Steve Howard/4ft 2 inch Patson Daka all match every match. It's a stupid excuse.

What!!!!!!!!!! You are living in single figures?! How the hell are you coping, I'd be dying. I'd live at work if it was that bad

That was my main point but I have NO backing and it's purely an anecdotal opinion, so thanks for saying it for me. We live in a commoditised world, where 'rent' capitalism dominates. You tend to become a billionaire by being the middleman, broker, agent, fixer, useless person in the middle collecting a fee for doing no work. Not typically through sheer hard work and building a business from scratch, those days are long gone.

The second line is my point. Inheritance in completely unearned, billionaires today are mainly just lucky. True, it may have been earned at some point.

I don’t get this ‘sanitised’ argument. Last night was simply two appalling football teams that couldn’t be arsed. The quality was non existent. The atmosphere is terrible because young people prefer TikTok to singing at the football, I wouldn’t read much more into it. When we play well we rip teams to shreds, see soton and Blackburn away, that’s the modern game, and fans still don’t sing!! You can’t blame everything on ‘sanitised’

The greatest city in the world, where people flock to chase their dreams and find love, hope, despair, dejection and everything in between. Everything and everyone is available to you 24/7. Long may it be overcrowded, lord forbid it becomes like…Paris…

People who don't understand that billionaires are mainly just lucky, not smart hard-working amazingly skilled people. As proven by the below. https://www.ft.com/content/3944234e-e3b4-46fa-8c2f-cadec780ecb4

Why worry about them? Despite all the coach 1 blanket comments on here our away ends always appear to be rammed full of boogie bus boys in trackies on their phones and recording voice notes on whatsapp. As you say, our home an away attendances are always sold out, so there's no worry about succession of fans. You got into football because of the atmosphere, quite clearly these days young people go to the football to say they've gone to the football. Things change.

Good point that. You see some of these shakedown uni courses run by private companies rinsing kids for money, surely there needs to be safe guards against it. Even masters courses at 'private' uni's preying on those who are thinking of a second career or upskilling.

You don't need a Uni degree for 95% of jobs probably. Operations business development technical manager at a 200 person family firm operating across the South West of England. No need to spend 3 years at Strathclyde Uni to do that

Haha, mentioning Cummings in a negative light, you are defo in that cohort! That darn Northerner should never have been in Govt!!

I guess you aren't in that circle then? What you describe is a massive cohort. You could have gone to Soton Solent Uni to do canoe management, a phony masters at Birkbeck, grown up in a nondescript suburban commuter area near a large town and then gone on to be a middle manager at a FTSE 250 on about £45k, with a family car in a 4 bed house in some metropolitan hell. Or you could be born into a family of 'thought leaders', worn tweed jackets from day 1, understood what the BMW system of dining is, been proficient with top shelf wines, call dinner supper, 'read' a degree at OxBridge, and work as an advisor or think tank generalist with a Jan chalet in Verbier and a November time share in Barbados. That is the real middle class I think a lot of people in the former category, think they are in the latter category, when in fact they are just another working class schlep

Glad I’m not the only one! The match coverage has been really good otherwise, I’m beginning to like the fact radio and tv commentary is the same as it’s more descriptive

No delay so far in the coverage. What on earth is happening in the studio?!? Matt Elliott is surely drunk. Iwan Thomas in dirty white trainers and charity shop clothes just been dragged off the street?

Yeh lots of variables like type of drink and expiry date (inflation obvs gonna have an effect) but in the bear future I can confidently say I won’t pay more than £8.20 for 568ml of beer in England

It defo is out of control but not sure what the dude expected ordering a Guinness at a train station pub. £7.05 isn’t bad considering. Having this convo on Friday, what would your limit be? It’s approaching that time in London, £8? I’ve paid £8.20 for a beer in London and I’ve vowed never to cross that

1. Global solutions are not achieved overnight, although in this case they need to be given the suffering already happening. 2. I understand what you are saying but that is not my point. As stated, almost every listed has a transition plan. if you don't believe in it, I'll ask again, tell me by whom and why. Because that info should be leading your fact-based opinion. Much like covid, we are not in an opinions arena here, you can't just say 'nah don't believe in covid mate because we always stuff things like this up and I read something in the Daily Star about it' much like you can't just say the transition is not working without direct evidence and going on a BBC article. 3. Yeh fair, personally I read it as more fuel to the fire to whip up rage against those eViL sCaRy OMG Arab people who are coming for your sport, your human rights and now your climate!!!! But, this is an opinions arena.

1. Yes, Bloomberg HQ London, they have driven standards to a new level. 2. That's not evidence, that's opinion. As I said, almost every listed has a transition plan towards net zero, you are saying there is no tangible evidence they are being met. I'll ask again - What evidence do you see for this, and by whom? 3. It's possible, but not certain. And as we are talking about 'being a good human' here, why would we whip up media-driven hate when we don't have any of the facts?

But, it can. Making money and saving humanity don't have to be mutually exclusive. if every big player in the game wants to lead the transition, that will drive standards higher and quicker to achieve a better result for everyone. Net zero targets run to 2050 at the latest and almost every listed has a transition plan, what evidence do you see for them not being met, and by whom? That is a libelous statement lol. Anyway, my main point is we have no idea what Abu Dhabi's negotiations are about and there is no point fueling more hatred and division via targeted media headlines. If COP ends with no end result, get angry then.

There is absolutely a need for cloak and dagger. The renewable energy transition is one of the most competitive races we've seen in business, ever, and is only going to get more so once more players enter the game. This is how business runs, you don't give away your market secrets to make you look good in front of Western media who hold you up as the new bogeyman anyway. Having a group of ignorant placard-wavers in Slough approve of you means nothing, money in the bank and positioning yourself as the global leader does.

Once again great work from the media, fantastic headline to further stoke up the Middle East hatred rhetoric, with scant detail. What are the discussions about, could they touch on the new sustainable improves tag? Alignment with the SDR/SFDR II? The work oil majors have to do to transition? The transition framework laid out in the TPT which is being rolled out globally? Instead, let's stick to 'Middle East = bad' and make the people ANGRY at our new enemy.

Haha likewise, apologies!