Rob1742

Builders eh - I love em. I like it when you talk to them and they say things like “ didn’t really want the job so I put in a silly quote and they accepted it” Then there are the crap ones that are now getting work as people just will accept anyone to do it. The worst time ever for getting the builders in, well worth avoiding if you possibly can. Builders come with baggage and problems, a potentially nice project can come with problems during and after. Take your time and hold off if you can.

I bet the club shit themselves every time they make an announcement. There is 450 tickets available, 450 opportunities for people to see Leicester City in an FA Cup Final. This is good news, congratulations for those 450 lucky people.

It’s not us. Reviews of the Carabao Cup only took place late on Tuesday. Not sure when we found out as a club, but the allocation will need to be looked at in detail. The allocation will not have been indicated before so that will come as a complete surprise. I think they will be thinking that they best get it right than rush it out. Those wanting to go will find a way if they want to go whenever the timing is released. They also need meetings with Chelsea before they all release information together so both clubs are aligned in what they do: If they rush it and get any detail wrong then there will be the “ why did they get that wrong” brigade out in force. Generally as a club we are better than the others at most things. We have a really well run club, so trust what they do and why they do it.

Just feeling a little apathy towards the FA Cup Final. Obviously everyone happy that we are there, but a number of people happy to be watching at home. A few years ago I would have sensed people selling a vital organ to be able to get tickets for games, but now I just get a sense of acceptance of watching it at home. So the question is, next season, will we fill the ground or will fans decide not to go anymore? Have you changed your thoughts on attending games, or will you be back like a shot like you were pre-pandemic? Just be interesting to gauge views. It’s just that I have heard comments about the FA Cup final that I wouldn’t have expected a few years ago and I am thinking a good percentage of people won’t revert to their old habits.

But you will have to have a test at a test centre the day before you arrive.

I think you are right, but if we are only going to get 4850 as some suggest, the club may well have to re-think what their original plans were. I don’t think they were expecting that low figure.

No decision could be made as the FA and government only sat down yesterday to discuss what was going to happen. Both clubs as of yesterday have not even been told numbers and are waiting for guidance. The FA Cup final detail, with regards to number of fans and age range etc was all dependent on the follow up meeting from the Carabao Cup Final which was late yesterday.

Just heard, following the meeting at 3.00pm today there won’t be any Under 18’s allowed and this will likely be the case in any Premier League fixtures where fans are allowed before the end of the season. Absolutely gutted.

The NHS workers do a great job, but it doesn’t mean we should put them above and beyond everyone else in every situation. This is a cup final where the day out will mean a great deal more to the fans of the individual clubs than the neutrals, so now the experiment has taken place it would be a good idea for it to benefit the fans of those individual teams. I think your comment that it gives those who have seen death and despair a break for 2 hours to be well over the top, over dramatic and not atall balanced.

Just been told by my contact at another club this maybe reviewed. It’s a moving feast and not sorted yet. It’s not set in stone yet and the age thing may not apply

So this is what I have just been told by someone at another club. 1. No under 18’s 2. You will have to take a proper Covid test the day before the game. Not the home version. 3. You must supply the email with the result of the test on the day to gain entry. No email paperwork, no entry whoever you are. 4. You must take another test within three days of the end of the game. 5. Tickets will filter down to genuine fans as box holders etc will only be allowed two tickets. The good news here ( if any) is that you will have to jump through hoops to be allowed to go Covid wise, so plastics are less likely to want to go if they have to go through all the testing. The above applies to everyone, owners the lot, no email of result no entry, even Roman Abramovich. This person says these rules are set by government so they have to be followed, so you won’t get LCFC not allowing under 18’s and Chelsea doing so. It may change I suppose, but when I asked someone at another club this is what I got back last night as to what is going to happen. It mirrors that of the carabao cup final he says.

Wrong thread

What number is it for interest?

Just didn’t look like that on the picture. The players version of it were embroidered. if your neighbour wanted to sell that Umbro players shirt there would be serious money in that for him if he is interested.

Are the scoreline badges embroidered on your one?

Yeah it was just a leisure shirt. I nearly bought one, crikey, glad I didn’t. The red one was the same as the blue one but red??? Don’t get that comment?

Dreading the queen passing on. If this is what we get when he goes, it will be unbearable for a month or so.

Maybe you are one of those who I pass in the street who about jump in a hedge when people walk by.

Young lads break lockdown shocker !! Think most on here, live in some sort of high moral bubble. I would have preferred it didn’t happen, but you have got to expect young people doing what young people do. I can’t believe what a massive thing people think this is, get over it. Concentrate on your own lives rather than bother with everyone else’s

Gutted they got shopped. Someone must have spilled the beans. The amount of people breaching lockdown rules is not minor, so they are only doing what lots of others have done. Wonder the percentage of people on here who are saying they have acted irresponsibly but were around their mates house last night. Not many long haired folk wandering around this lockdown, particularly not in the football circles which show the majority of them have broken the rules.

I own several houses with these service charges. I don’t put the costs of them onto any tenants, I take the hit as they are obviously charges that people don’t like and can cause issues. However it’s another cost along with a raft of others coming in that now make being a landlord a less desirable occupation. I think it was basically a way for councils to reduce their costs, but also long term business created for companies so you can see why they have been created. The councils would have enjoyed passing plans for building approval where they don’t have to mow the greens monthly or trim the bushes. For this to ever be reversed the councils will need to take back responsibility. Communities will need to rally around and councils will need to accept the costs. Will it happen? Not sure as the house buyers are made fully aware of their responsibilities when buying, so there will have to be some landmark case for all these service charges to fold. Its very wrong though in my opinion, not because I have a load of these, but because councils have decided it is good for them to not have the responsibilities and have basically put an extra cost in the homeowner which previously would have sat with the council. It will take the government to step in and sort this. At some point it will be a vote winner for one party or another to insist councils take back control. I think as I am writing that it must happen at some point as it really is an issue where some people pay to have their green areas looked after and others have them looked after by the council. This being the case, councils should reduce their council tax accordingly to estates where they don’t maintain the park areas. I am sure it will get sorted at some point, and yes the councils need to be careful as you could get situations like PPI where we are allowed to claim council tax back as we haven’t had the benefits that other estates close to us have enjoyed. Maybe an angle here.

As a kid he was my hero, and I mean real hero, everything was centred around Frank Worthington. I would watch his every move he made, even in the warm up. I would be outside after school doing keepy uppies for hours, I just so much wanted to be him. I drew pictures of him and often had my hair flicked back to go to school to try and look like him. A proper hero, a proper footballer who entertained the crowd and it was very easy for kids from Leicester in that era to be drawn towards him. I am so pleased I had someone like that to watch and he was a great footballer to grow up watching and wanting to be like him. I was once lucky enough to go to Birmingham City to watch Leicester in the corporate area. We got to the area and the lady offered us a table sitting next to Frank. Unexpected but absolutely remarkable day. I just couldn’t believe I was having lunch with my first hero. RIP Frank. As a kid you were a great hero to have, you couldn’t have asked for better. A legend, entertainer and great great footballer.

I started my own business and when it started doing well I used to dream I could fly. Just about a foot or two off the ground, but I could actually fly. It was great and was reoccurring, brilliant time dream wise, and personal wise. If I am ever really ill I have the same dream, had it all through my life. In a field, and the field moves, hard to explain. Think I had it initially when I was about seven with measles, then about half a dozen times since. Chicken pox, flu once, a bug that knocked me out. When it turns up it makes me think that it’s the dream I may have before I die, as it’s related to ill health and its when I am battling through a bad illness.

The company doesn’t have the resource and has made a decision not to invest in it, despite the implications of losing all the business. The paperwork and red tape involved is ridiculous, it’s not a one off, it’s with every delivery, it’s not easy and companies have to decide on whether they employ someone to do it or walk away from it. It’s that much work involved. The company is huge by the way, a brand that is in every major supermarket and corner shop. I myself have walked away from some export business as we don’t have the resource and the profit of what we are doing won’t pay for the resource needed. There are lots of things companies do at a very low margin just to keep things ticking over for everyone involved. But once you then add a cost to that, it then doesn’t become worthwhile. It’s a real problem out there for business.

The red tape is horrendous and there are real issues. So I have supplied 450 UK stores with a product for years, of which 20 of their stores are in Northern Ireland. We can’t now supply the Northern Ireland stores as the owner of the product won’t supply the paperwork as it’s “only” 20 stores and so too much hassle for them. But the retailer is saying if we don’t supply their Northern Ireland stores we will lose the listings in all 450 stores. So it’s likely we lose this business full stop. There is now a border between us and Northern Ireland that didn’t used to be there. I am not reliant on this, but other businesses are struggling massively and for others it could be the difference between jobs and livelyhoods. I will be honest there is another bit of business I have walked away from as it’s too much hassle for us for little gain and so that’s another bit of business we all lose. Interesting is the fact that the government is shrugging its shoulders and saying this is how life is now, they are saying there is no other options, which I understand is fine as we were lead down this path but people didn’t realise what the implications would be.