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Memory Lane U.K I knew a place called Yesterday, Where once I used to live. Nobody there would turn away Their time, they'd always give. Everyone looked out for you ,As you did the same for them, In that place called Yesterday, I can still remember when. People never had anything much What they did have, it was shared. They always waved and gave a smile, That's how we knew they cared. We used to call it mucking in, That's what it was all about. It was easier to help each other When all you had was nowt. Now I live here in the Present, In a street of those unknown, Whose life is so much easier they keep it close to home. Yes, I was raised in Yesterday Where we always had respect. Here in this place called Present I find it suffering from neglect.

I realise that nothing will but it increases the playing area hopefully opening up the game more. The line of offside will always be there it might even reduce the number of offsides being called.

The difference in quality is massive and arsenal are 5 points adrift of Chelsea.

How far was the Ref Asst. behind the play for the 3rd goal no way could they tell off side or not and it wasn’t clear cut.

On a sunny day this it’s called chasing shadows

Probably already been asked but why have the FA put this mostly on TNT when the only football fan subscribers are going to be PL team followers in Europe?

When you're off side by running back into your own half to try to win the ball something definitely needs to change. I seem to remember when I started watch you were offside if in and offside position when receiving the ball.

Sammy missed his penalty - oops!

As it was introduced to stop goal hanging move the line from halfway to the edge of the penalty box or even just in the penalty box.

Not points that’s for sure

Header against the crossbar to down on the line was close

2-2

Penalty

Looked onside on the tv replay as the defenders leg was trailing but a decision that would have taken VAR 10 minutes to decide and still get it wrong.

Not sure how true this is. https://www.sportbible.com/other/amazon-fire-stick-change-block-vpn-341563-20251101?fbclid=IwY2xjawNzEihleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHgWOVlxND39ZNkhh-bwyGODJAWxoFGT9aVtfSmSsXqWysg9d5vIel3ixHSek_aem_zOgLU3WN-tmz_pV5y8SWuA Amazon's Huge Fire Stick Change to 'Block' Illegal Sports Streaming Starts Today Even your VPN subscription won’t circumvent the block Ben McAleer Dodgy apps that allow Amazon Fire Stick users to watch live sports and Hollywood movies illegally have been blocked. Amazon sell Fire Sticks, which has allowed users to stream content both legally and illegally. While Amazon have been keeping illegal TV apps off their store for years, users have managed to get around the block by “side loading” apps onto Fire Sticks. The unofficial apps are installed from outside of the app store are has allowed football fans and movie enthusiasts to stream high profile matches and the latest Hollywood blockbusters illegally for years now. However, Amazon have since instigated a crackdown and will be blocking these apps for the first time. 'We'll now block apps' “Piracy is illegal, and we’ve always worked to block it from our Appstore,” an Amazon spokesperson said via The Sun. “Through an expanded program led by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition fighting digital piracy, we’ll now block apps identified as providing access to pirated content, including those downloaded from outside our Appstore. “This builds on our ongoing efforts to support creators and protect customers, as piracy can also expose users to malware, viruses, and fraud.” This won’t affect users who use a Fire Stick to legally stream apps such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video. The block will apply at device level, which means even if you have access to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) you won’t be able to use a side-loaded Fire Stick to access apps downloaded outside of the Amazon approved app store. A VPN won't save you from the block There has been a rise in popularity in VPNs in recent months in order to watch football matches outside that wouldn’t nominally be shown on TV in England as a user’s location and internet activity is concealed. The UK’s decision to implement a block on porn earlier this year means those looking to access pornographic content must undergo a robust age-check, which resulted in a 77% decrease in UK users accessing PornHub and saw the number of people using a VPN spike to 1.5m people daily. However, if an app is identified as providing access to pirated content, then it won’t work. The crackdown is not just restricted to the UK, but is a global block on illegal apps. “While there will inevitably be some user backlash, streaming content illegally is against the law,” expert Paolo Pescatore said. “But there is a broader problem: consumers are forced to pay escalating subscription fees to watch content. “Broadcasters are spending more to secure live sports rights and passing these costs onto consumers who can’t afford them, leading to a messy, fragmented experience. “The privacy problem can only be solved by a cohesive effort by everyone, from glass to glass, including telecom companies that own the pipe and block any potential illegal streams.” The issue has been that a number of subscription websites have increased their prices in recent months, with Netflix and Disney+ among those to raise subscription fees. A number of users have been forced to cancel subscription services due to the ongoing cost of living crisis, which includes sports packages available via Sky Sports and TNT Sports.

Who were the two defensive midfielders we were playing according to a sky pundit?

Even if they do decide to leave it's better for the club if they've played a few games as surely that will increase their value they're worth next to nothing as just ex academy players.

Newswatch This week, is BBC News giving too much priority to violent crimes committed by asylum seekers and foreign nationals? https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002lxs1/newswatch-01112025

I think January will be the turning point hopefully a few of those will move on and as you say we'll know by then where we stand with the points deduction. Frankly if they don't start to blood some of the Academy from January onwards it'll be too late they need experience this season to enable them to make an impact next season whatever league we end up in.

Facts That will Blow Your Mind · Follow He built a guitar from a fence post in his garage—and accidentally invented the sound of rock and roll. Today marks what would have been the 110th birthday of a man whose name you might not know, but whose inventions you've heard in every song you've ever loved. June 9, 1915. Waukesha, Wisconsin. Lester William Polsfuss was born into a world where music still meant orchestras, pianos, and acoustic instruments that could barely be heard past the third row. Electric amplification was science fiction. Recording studios didn't exist. The idea that one person could layer their voice or instrument multiple times on a single track? Impossible. Young Lester didn't know he was supposed to accept those limitations. As a teenager in the 1920s, while other kids were playing baseball, Lester was in his garage building his own amplifiers from radio parts and telephone components. He taught himself guitar by listening to records and slowing them down to figure out how the notes worked. When existing guitars couldn't produce the sounds he heard in his head, he started taking them apart and rebuilding them. His neighbors thought he was strange. His mother worried he'd electrocute himself. He was just getting started. By the 1930s, performing as "Les Paul," he was playing jazz clubs and radio shows. But he had a problem: acoustic guitars were too quiet. Even with a microphone, they got drowned out by drums and brass. And the hollow-body electric guitars that were starting to appear had their own issue—they fed back and howled when amplified too loud. So in 1941, working in his garage in Queens, New York, Les did something that seemed absurd: he took a 4x4 piece of solid railroad pine—basically a fence post—attached a guitar neck to it, mounted some pickups, and connected it to an amplifier. It looked ridiculous. Musicians laughed at it. He called it "The Log."But when he plugged it in and played, something magical happened. The sustain was incredible. The tone was clean. No feedback. No unwanted vibrations. Just pure, amplified sound that could cut through any band and sustain for days. The Log was the first true solid-body electric guitar. And it sounded like the future. For years, Les tried to convince guitar manufacturers to produce it. They all said no. A solid chunk of wood with strings? That's not a guitar. Nobody would buy it. In 1952, after rival Leo Fender released the Telecaster and started selling solid-body electrics successfully, Gibson finally approached Les Paul. They asked him to help design and endorse their version of a solid-body guitar. The Gibson Les Paul was born. Today, it's one of the most iconic guitars in history. Jimmy Page played one. Slash plays one. Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Randy Rhoads—some of the greatest guitar moments in rock history came from that instrument. And it all started with a fence post in a garage. But Les wasn't done revolutionizing music. In 1947, he married Mary Ford, a brilliant singer and performer. Together, they started having hit records in the 1950s—"How High the Moon," "Vaya Con Dios," songs that sold millions of copies and topped the charts. But something about those records sounded... different. Impossible, actually. Mary's voice would harmonize with itself. Multiple guitar parts would interweave in ways that shouldn't be possible for one person to play. The sound had depth and dimension that no one had heard before. Here's why: Les Paul was inventing multitrack recording in his home studio. He built his own 8-track recorder by stacking tape machines and synchronizing them. He pioneered overdubbing—recording one part, then playing it back while recording another part on top of it. He developed tape delay effects. He invented close-miking techniques. He experimented with phasing and reverb. Every single one of those techniques is standard in every recording studio today. Every pop song, every rock album, every podcast uses methods Les Paul invented in his garage in the 1940s and 50s.The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper"? Built on Les Paul's techniques. Every hip-hop track with layered samples? Les Paul's multitracking. That guitar solo that gives you chills? Probably played on a Les Paul guitar, recorded using Les Paul's methods. In 1988, Les Paul was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a performer. In 2005, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his technical innovations. He's the only person ever inducted into both. Think about that. Celebrated equally as an artist and an inventor. A musician who could hang with the best jazz players in the world, and an engineer who held multiple patents for audio technology. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's permanent exhibit about him calls him an "architect of modern music." That's not hyperbole. That's exactly what he was. Les Paul kept performing until he was 93 years old, hosting a weekly show at a jazz club in New York City where legends would drop by to jam with the man who'd invented the tools they used. He died August 12, 2009, at age 94.But here's the thing about Les Paul: he never really left. Every time you hear a power chord ring out at a concert, that's The Log—his fence post guitar—echoing through time. Every time a singer records harmonies with themselves, that's Les in his garage, figuring out how to layer tape tracks. Every time a guitarist bends a note and lets it sustain into infinity, that's the solid-body design he pioneered. Most people who shaped the 20th century did it through politics or war or wealth. Les Paul did it from a garage in Queens with a soldering iron, a 4x4 piece of wood, and an unshakeable belief that if he could imagine a sound, he could build a way to create it. He proved that you don't need a laboratory or a corporation or a fancy degree to change the world. You just need curiosity, determination, and a willingness to look ridiculous building a guitar out of a fence post while everyone tells you it'll never work. Today would have been his 110th birthday. The best way to celebrate? Turn on any song you love. Listen to the layered vocals. The sustaining guitar notes. The way each instrument occupies its own space in the mix. That's all Les Paul. That's his gift to every person who's ever loved music. Happy birthday to the man who taught us that innovation doesn't happen in boardrooms—it happens in garages, at 2 AM, when someone who refuses to accept "impossible" decides to build the future with their own hands.

Bump, £70 short of £4k come on lads let's round it off.