orangecity23

No need to worry, it's a position we have loads of cover in, the fee we get will definitely be substantial and agreed quickly, and we have a great record of signing players quickly and efficiently in January so there will definitely be some top drawer replacements sorted so we don't have to play the crucial end of the season with the financial wellbeing of the future of the club at stake with a massive depletion in a key position and a hacked off manager. Oh, wait....

Having done quite a lot of travel to the states, often arriving at a similar local time - do you need anything the first night? By the time you've travelled down to Heathrow, done the 3 hour pre getting on the plane airport bullshit, transatlantic flight, plus perhaps an internal US flight, hired the car and got to the hotel - you've normally done 18-20 hours travelling and been up 22+ hours - I find I fall asleep OK at that point, it's been an incredibly long day. The not being able to go to sleep thing doesn't really kick in until the second night. The real jet lag problem tends to hit me on the way back, when you end up losing a nights sleep because of the time skip when flying USA->UK, plus you arrive in the middle of the day. I always find I need a nap immediately after getting home for a few hours, then I'm OK for a bit, then should get to sleep OK at bedtime if i'm lucky. The week after tends to be quite hard work though. Never had to do such a quick turnaround, the shortest journey I've done was a 3 day work visit.

We could be a lot better at time wasting and slowing the game down. Warnock in the studio today with Sky Sports, should invite him down Seagrave for a seminar on how to take a minute to take a throw in, or the ability to spend 2 mins per goal kick and mysteriously have a different player go down with cramp every time the ball goes out of play.

Here's my suggestion for formatting the new game. Host reads out the player name. Everyone has a set amount of time to write on their bit of paper what the club they came from was, and what club they went to. During the writing time, Cotton Eyed Joe chorus plays like it's the countdown numbers game or somethig like that. Everyone reads out their answers, one point for each correct answer (so max 2 per player) Do 2 or 3 players per episode, whoever gets most points wins. Could always tally the cumalitive points through the season to crown an overall champ on the last show of the season.

The old design of the junction was left lane woodgate, middle lane fosse road, right lane groby road/fosse road. then there was a merge in turn immediately to drop fosse road down to 1 lane. So it's probably people still thinking it's the old design, or approaching it, assuming left lane was left into woodgate so moving over, then remembering there is no left turn and panicking. So the council's expensive scheme to make the junction less confusing, is ironically enough, causing more confusion. It's clear road signs Vs decades of habit of getting in the middle lane approaching the junction. Will take a while for people to get used to the new layout.

I definitely think Deeney day did harden the attitudes of the players, which stood them in great stead later on. It was such a slap in the face, that it gave everyone the burning desire to never go through something like that again. Something like that was notable in that Michael Jordan documentary on Netflix a few years back - the guy was a serial winner, but you could tell he was stil pissed off about setbacks that happened decades ago. I definitely think there is an element in elite sportspeople at the very top that harnesses the motivation that comes out of sheer vindictiveness and spite about past wrongs! Might explain the Liverpool/Klopp point as well - he permanently likes to foster some kind of victim mentality, where the officials/scheduling/weather/curvature of the earth is somehow biased against them and keeps them in a constant state of being riled-up, so when they suffer a setback it ticks them off, and motivates them again that someone is trying to screw them over.

The biggest clubs also have a massive advantage in terms of commercial revenue as well. Look at Man Utd, achieved nothing for over a decade now, play shit football, appalling transfer record, win no trophies. What do Adidas do? Give them almost a BILLION pounds over a decade. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/manchester-united-renews-adidas-partnership-another-10-years-2023-07-31/ Where is a club like us getting that kind of cash? The more FFP takes hold, the more it might as well not be a competition for playing football, and they just rename the Prem to the "FA Trophy for the club with the most glory hunting twat fans who get the most about of slurping on Sky Sports Award for excellence in covering their ground with sponsors".

Or averaged a home attendance of 2300 when they were in Northampton...

Did you ignore the bit where it says if its aapplies if it is an offence that denies a goal scoring opportunity? This foul wasn't one that did that, he wasn't the last man. If a red would be given it would be for serious foul play/endangering an opponent. So the double jeopardy wouldn;t apply BECAUSE IT WASN'T DENYING A GOAL SCORING OPPORTUNITY. Edit - did you read the ref forum thread? Quotes below:

I suggest you do so yourself. The double-jeopardy law states: "Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball; in all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.) the offending player must be sent off." The red would have been for serious foul play, not denial of a goal scoring opportunity. Plus here's a ref forum discussing it: https://refchat.co.uk/threads/two-footed-jump.22501/

1. Direct free kick A direct free kick is awarded if a player commits any of the following offences against an opponent in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless or using excessive force: charges jumps at kicks or attempts to kick pushes strikes or attempts to strike (including head-butt) tackles or challenges trips or attempts to trip If an offence involves contact it is penalised by a direct free kick or penalty kick. Careless is when a player shows a lack of attention or consideration when making a challenge or acts without precaution. No disciplinary sanction is needed Reckless is when a player acts with disregard to the danger to, or consequences for, an opponent and must be cautioned Using excessive force is when a player exceeds the necessary use of force and endangers the safety of an opponent and must be sent off A direct free kick is awarded if a player commits any of the following offences: a handball offence (except for the goalkeeper within their penalty area) holds an opponent impedes an opponent with contact bites or spits at someone on the team lists or a match official throws an object at the ball, opponent or match official, or makes contact with the ball with a held object See also offences in Law 3 https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-12---fouls-and-misconduct

She'll be Nigel's girlfirend if he's done a proper job explaining it

Lost his head completely after the penalty and set about"evening things up" to the extent he fixed the entire game in their favour. And the decision he was "making up for" was completely correct, and by the laws of the game should have been a straight red anyway, was way worse than that one Vardy was sent off for vs Wolves a few years back. Appalling, absolutely the worst performance of the entire season, made Keith Stroud look like he knew how to ref a game

Turned it off. Not watching those disgusting cheating twats and their tosser ref pal celebrating.

Eccles should have been booked there

Man United away fans chant "you've only come to see Yanited" at home fans every game unless they are losing, so they are as guilty as anyone.

The academy also produced Calvin Bassey who went on to become a big money player, just it wasn't us who ended up with the money. D'oh.

Sounds like he spoke to his agent, who told him he was waiting for Torino to ring him back about potentially considering making an offer as soon as they borrow a dictionary from the Library and find out what the words "offer" and "bid" are. Then the library dictionary loan offer fell through as Torino were trying to come to an agreement on waiving all the late book return fees they owe. At that point, Sensi started to reconsider that the Championship might not be such a bad place to be after all, if you want to get a transfer out of Inter sometime before the heat death of the universe...

I'm at Segrave It makes me shiver My knees get weak It's my ACL They see me walk They hear me screaming They start to dial Number nine nine nine [Chorus] I'm just a Sensi boy (sensi boy)....

If you fancy an indie title that does something different with it's storytelling, signalis is well worth a go, especially if you like Resident Evil.

I'm not sure the percentage of overall goals conceded from set pieces is the most useful stat - a team with a very good record from open play is always going to have a greater proportion of goals against being set pieces. The most useful measure of set piece defending would be number of set pieces faced Vs goals conceded from set pieces. I would expect that would still be bad, mind.

Catching up on the goals at half time - the state of this Millwall loving commentator. Honeyman's "great ball" intercepted and Millwall end up 2-0 down. I don't think it's that great if your pass is quickly followed by it ending up in your own net

They actually bidding this time, or just phoning up Calcio Mercato for a chinwag before doing feck all again?

Young Vardy meets current Vardy and the resulting paradox tears apart the very fabric of time and space itself.

Performing a key role there