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FourFourTwo · Follow When FIFA tried to introduce four quarters in football 32 years ago, but were 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 Hydration breaks have gone down badly, but splitting matches into four has been in the works for longer than you might think Ahead of USA '94, American television networks were terrified of a sport with 45 minutes of uninterrupted play and absolutely zero commercial breaks FIFA were also panicking after Italia '90 averaged a measly 2.21 goals per game and produced a dreadful, foul-heavy final ¼ To ‘fix’ the game for American audiences and increase goals, FIFA seriously considered several radical changes. 4x 25-Minute Quarters were one… FIFA President João Havelange dropped a bombshell, suggesting football abandon its traditional two 45-minute halves in favour of quarters. The Goal? To blatantly accommodate American television networks like ABC and ESPN, who held the 1994 rights UEFA, backed heavily by the traditionalist British Home Associations on the International Football Association Board (IFAB), fiercely guarded the sanctity of the game's clock and flatly refused to butcher football’s structure for advertising dollars It'll come eventually.

According to that report it's the TV media causing the problem with their in-depth multi camera views of every incident hence stirring up the TV fan as experts.

The problem is they've stopped the 'fake' goalkeeper injuries from allowing tactics talk and then introduced a worse case of it with the hydration breaks. why not put the drinks, cold cloths etc at the pitchside and let the players use them without manager and coaches talking to them.

I think that would be a big plus, if you're a far left voter and your MP is Reform it hardly gives you confidence in any sort of action, vice versa of course.

The advantage of this is that you'd have a better chance of getting an MP who matches your voting intentions, I'm assuming that those 11 would be based on votes so you'd get a number of different parties within that 11.

We had a vote in 2011 via Con/Lib coalition but it failed miserably probably because it was the wrong version Wiki Choice Votes % Yes 6,152,607 32.10% No 13,013,123 67.90% Valid votes 19,165,730 99.41% Invalid or blank votes 113,292 0.59% Total votes 19,279,022 100.00% Registered voters/turnout 45,684,501 42.2% The referendum concerned whether to replace the present "first-past-the-post" system with the "alternative vote" (AV) method and was the first national referendum to be held across the whole of the United Kingdom in the 21st century. The proposal to introduce AV was rejected by 67.9% of voters on a national turnout of 42%. The failure of the referendum was considered a humiliating setback for Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who had acquiesced to the Conservative offer of a referendum on AV rather than proportional representation (PR) as part of the coalition agreement.[1][2] The referendum was linked to the ongoing decline of his popularity and that of the Liberal Democrats in general.[3][4]

Curtin Radio · Follow Born on 23rd June 1940 Terence "Terry" Nelhams-Wright known as Adam Faith, was a British teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist. He was one of the most charted acts of the 1960s. He became the first UK artist to lodge his initial seven hits in the Top 5. He was also one of the first UK acts to record original songs regularly. Terence Nelhams-Wright was born at 4 Churchfield Road, Acton, London, England. Known as Terry Nelhams, he was unaware his surname was Nelhams-Wright until he applied for a passport and obtained his Birth Certificate. The third in a family of five children, Nelhams grew up in a council house in a working class area of London, where he attended John Perryn Junior School. He started work at 12, delivering and selling newspapers while still at school. His first full-time job was odd-job boy for a silk screen printer. Faith began his musical career in 1957, while working as a film cutter in London in the hope of becoming an actor, singing with and managing a skiffle group, the Worried Men. The group played in Soho coffee bars after work, and became the resident band at the 2i's Coffee Bar, where they appeared on the BBC Television live music programme “Six-Five Special”. The producer, Jack Good, was impressed by the singer and arranged a solo recording contract with HMV under the name Adam Faith Still 20 and living with his parents, he bought a house in Hampton Court for £6,000, where he moved with his family from their house in Acton. In December 1960, he became the first pop artist to appear on the TV interview series “Face to Face” with John Freeman. Faith became one of Britain's significant early pop stars. At the time, he was distinctive for his hiccupping glottal stops and exaggerated pronunciation. He did not write his own material, and much of his early success was through partnership with songwriters Les Vandyke and John Barry, whose arrangements were inspired by the pizzicato arrangements for Buddy Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore". Faith became an actor by taking drama and elocution lessons, and appeared in the film “Beat Girl”. The script called for Faith to sing songs and as Barry was arranging Faith's recordings and live Drumbeat material, the film company asked him to write the score. This was the beginning of Barry's career in film music. Faith's success on Drumbeat enabled another recording contract, with Parlophone. His next record in 1959, "What Do You Want?", written by Les Vandyke and produced by Barry and John Burgess, received good reviews in the NME and other papers, as well as being voted a hit on Juke Box Jury. This became his first number one hit in the UK Singles Chart, and his pronunciation of the word 'baby' as 'bay-beh' became a catchphrase. With songs like "Poor Me" (another chart topper), "Someone Else's Baby" (a UK No. 2) and "Don't That Beat All", he established himself as a rival to Cliff Richard in British popular music. A UK variety tour was followed by a 12-week season at Blackpool Hippodrome and an appearance on the Royal Variety Show. His 1960 novelty record "Lonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop"), to coincide with his Christmas pantomime, gained a silver disc. Faith made six further albums and 35 singles, with a total of 24 chart entries, of which 11 made the UK Top Ten, including his two No. 1's. Faith's last Top Ten hit in the UK (in October 1963) was "The First Time" (UK No. 5), which was also his first single with his backing group in 1963 and 1964, The Roulettes. Faith married Jackie Irving in 1967 and they had one daughter, Katya Faith, who became a television producer. In 1986, Faith had open heart surgery. In 2003, he became ill after his evening stage performance in the touring production of “Love and Marriage” at Stoke-on-Trent, and died of a heart attack early the next morning, 8th March 2003, at North Staffordshire Hospital.

We're all football fans at heart - thinking anybody that has never had the job played must be better.

I believe there's plans to have a rail link to a massive warehouse complex near Hinckley AI The proposed £750m Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange (HNRFI) was officially refused planning permission by the UK Secretary of State for Transport on March 10, 2025. The controversial development aimed to build a massive, multi-purpose rail freight hub and distribution centre spanning 662 acres of farmland near Burbage Common, southwest of Elmesthorpe. [1, 2, 3] Despite a recognized national need for rail freight infrastructure, the Department for Transport ultimately ruled that the proposal's negative highway safety impacts and local traffic strains outweighed its expected benefits. Major concerns included the inability of M69 junctions to cope with increased lorry traffic, safety risks in nearby Sapcote village, and severe rail delays at the Narborough level crossing caused by the proposed 775-metre-long trains. [1, 2] What the Proposed Project Entailed Had it been approved, developer Tritax Symmetry's plan for the Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange included: [1, 2, 3, 4] Warehousing: Up to 850,000 square metres of high-bay logistics and distribution space. [] Rail Infrastructure: A dedicated "railport" intermodal terminal with parallel sidings connecting to the Leicester-to-Nuneaton line, capable of handling 16 freight trains per day. [, 2] Road Infrastructure: Direct dedicated access from Junction 2 of the M69, adding a new northbound off-slip and southbound on-slip, alongside a new A47 link road. [, 2] Job Creation: The project was projected to generate roughly 8,000 jobs across various skill levels. [1] Existing Distribution Centres in Hinckley While the major rail-linked terminal was rejected, Hinckley remains a prominent hub for road-based logistics due to its strategic position near the M69, M1, and A5. Major distribution centres operating in the immediate area include: [1, 2, 3] Amazon BHX7 Fulfilment Centre: Located at Unit 2, Avery Way, Burbage, Hinckley LE10 3FF. DPD Hub 5 & International Gateway: A massive parcel sorting network situated on Logix Road, Burbage, Hinckley LE10 3JA. Tesco Distribution Centre: Located at 10 Dodwells Road, Hinckley LE10 3BZ. GXO Logistics: Located at Orchard House, Dodwells Road, Hinckley LE10 3BZ. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] There's a massive distribution park, Magna next to Lutterworth and the town hasn't got a station or rail line anymore https://www.google.com/maps/place/Magna+Park,+Lutterworth+LE17+4XH/@52.455617,-1.230387,7495m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x487743c773a01755:0xc39bb2fcda8fb6d1!8m2!3d52.454783!4d-1.253028!16s%2Fg%2F1hjh069p8?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D AI Lutterworth railway station and its corresponding line were permanently closed on May 5, 1969. Originally opened in 1899 as part of the Great Central Railway’s London Extension, it became a victim of the rationalization of duplicate railway routes, famously known as the Beeching cuts. [1, 2, 3] The closure and fate of the station unfolded in a few key stages: Closure: Freight and goods services ceased first, shutting down in May 1965. Passenger services continued temporarily until the entire line between Rugby Central and Nottingham closed completely in May 1969. [1, 2, 3] Site Redevelopment: The original station and goods yard were completely dismantled. Today, the site is built over by a residential housing estate (Marylebone Drive and Faringdon Avenue), although a few remnants like the stationmaster's house on Station Road and overgrown pieces of the old bridge structure remain. [1, 2, 3] Potential Reopening: Decades after its demise, there have been active community and political campaigns, such as proposals from Sustainable Transport Northamptonshire, to reopen the Lutterworth line and restore the railway station as part of a revived direct route between Leicester, Rugby, and Northampton. [1, 2] But as we know we can't even get the go ahead for the Ivanhoe line and the track is mostly there being used for freight from the quarries. Leicester and Leicestershire bottom of the government pile. I can't see it improving under Burnham as it'll continue to go north and bypass the East Midlands

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Some Amazing Facts · Follow Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 with a simple mission — fly past Jupiter and Saturn, send back some photos, and that would be it. Nobody told it to stop. On November 18, 2026, this spacecraft will hit a milestone no human-made object has ever reached in the entire history of our species. It will be exactly one light-day from Earth — 16 billion miles away. So far that a radio signal, traveling at the speed of light, takes a full 24 hours just to reach it. If NASA sends a "good morning" on Monday, Voyager won't hear it until Tuesday. And NASA won't get the reply until Wednesday. Think about that. A two-day conversation. With a machine we built in the 1970s. Here's what makes this even more remarkable. Voyager 1 is dying. NASA shut down one of its last remaining science instruments just this April — a sensor that had been running nonstop since the day it launched, nearly half a century ago. The spacecraft now runs on roughly the power of a dim light bulb. Engineers are attempting a last-resort fix they've nicknamed "the Big Bang" — a risky all-at-once overhaul — just to keep it alive long enough to see its 50th birthday in 2027. And still it flies. At 38,000 miles per hour, deeper into interstellar space, with no destination and no plans to return. Here is the number that should stop you cold. Voyager 1 has spent 49 years traveling one light-day. The nearest star to our Sun is 4.2 light-years away. That means after nearly five decades of non-stop travel, Voyager has covered just 0.0027% of the distance to our closest stellar neighbor. Space is not big. Big is not even the right word. Strapped to its side is a golden record — a disc containing music, greetings in 55 languages, and the sounds of Earth — placed there by Carl Sagan, just in case someone out there ever finds it, millions or billions of years from now. The loneliest object humanity has ever created, carrying the best of what we are, sailing into a silence we will never hear the end of. The Ghost Flight of Helios 522: A Chilling Sky Mystery. https://epiola.com/the-day-a-plane-became-a-ghost/

This Is Football · Follow The 2026 World Cup is proving to be a huge commercial success for American broadcasters, with Fox Sports and Telemundo both reporting significant jumps in viewership compared to Qatar 2022. According to Nielsen data, Fox and FS1 have averaged 6 million viewers across the first 16 group stage matches, a 128% increase on the last tournament. Telemundo, whose coverage is also streamed on Peacock, has averaged 7.5 million viewers across their first 12 matches of the expanded 48-team tournament, a rise of 234%. The standout figure came from the USMNT's opening game, a 4-1 win over Paraguay in Los Angeles, which drew 18 million viewers on Fox and its streaming platforms, plus a further 9.5 million on Telemundo. The combined total of 27.5 million set a new record for the most-watched World Cup match on both English and Spanish language television in the United States. It is the first time the tournament has been played on US soil since 1994, and numbers are expected to keep climbing the further Mauricio Pochettino's side progress. Patrick Rishe, director of the sports business programme at Washington University in St Louis, said hosting the World Cup in North America has clearly had a major impact on ratings. Fox Sports president of insights and analytics Mike Mulvihill added that for many years sports audience numbers were under-counted, and that capturing viewing at fan fests, bars and watch parties is hugely valuable, estimating that more than 150 million people will have watched at least some part of Fox's coverage by the end of the tournament. Fox paid $485 million for the English-language broadcast rights and has already recouped $250 million through in-game advertising tied to the controversial 3-minute hydration breaks introduced in each half. Mulvihill described the impact as being like having 2 NFL seasons in a single year. By comparison, Fox pays $2.25 billion annually for its NFL rights, meaning the World Cup fee represents just 21.5% of that figure, a bargain unlikely to be repeated when FIFA next sells its broadcast rights. FIFa are going to make these Hydration/Advert breaks standard for all International games I'm convinced. With a view to making it 4 quarters eventually with 10-15min quarters and 30 mins half time. It's coming.

A team of players that want to be part of LCFC first on the list after that it depends on the quality of the team so who knows?

...and hampered by his own backbenchers who forced him into U-turns and probably knocked any confidence to push through as everything had to have 100% backing. After all with such a large majority you only need a small percentage to put a block on the PM as the media latch on to a minor scuffle and turn it into a full blown catastrophe.

To be a successful PM now you need to have popular celebrity type following as well as being a good decisive politician orator. I'd suggest that of all those clamouring for Burnham a large proportion will know absolutely nothing about him and what he stands for.

JOE.co.uk · Follow Australia fans have made their feelings known about tipping culture in the United States, calling on businesses to pay their staff properly. Some businesses have reportedly increased prices by as much as 20% automatically, citing lower-than-expected tips from travelling fans. Maybe if the cost of attending the tournament wasn't already so expensive, it wouldn't be happening.

The Curacao goalkeeper has tied with Tim Howard for the most saves in a single World Cup match in 90 minutes https://www.facebook.com/reel/2567375057032554

LEICESTER TRANSPORT HERITAGE TRUST · Marc Sharp Seen on another page (Leicester Born and Bred), Caption copied from there. Leyland bodied Leyland Titan PD 2/1 115 (FJF 154) was returning from a football special duty on Saturday, February 22, 1958, when the driver decided to take a short cut underneath the 12ft 6in-high Lancaster Road railway bridge. “The bridge won the contest, as the bus was decapitated, the whole of the top deck being peeled back and left in the roadway behind the bus

Because he's still ours to love and cherish (or to get as much for him as we can but not at the expense of not getting him out the door)

Well I wish we had changed last season I was fed up seeing Fatawu and Mavividi coming inside to a dead end of defenders. I'm also sure Daka would have scored more from crosses from the goal line, sure he would still have missed some but when you only get one or two crosses a game the failure rate looks massively worse, with 5, 10 + crosses you only need one to go in and you're better off that our and Daka's continual failure to score.

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Are there more teams playing with right and left footed on the right and left wings so that they can cross from the by-line. There certainly seems to be more goals being scored from crosses like that. I don't know why clubs have been so entrenched with playing wings on their unnatural side forcing them to cut inside.