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foxinsocks

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44 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Pie and Mash shop in Brentwood.

How much can you make tunning a pie and masg shop?  Say takings of 5k per week at 50% margin is £125k pa less rent 10k and staff wages say 30k leaves say £85k pa .... any idea if this is right?

now if you have more than one its easier to get the staff to cover each other.

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4 hours ago, foxinsocks said:

How much can you make tunning a pie and masg shop?  Say takings of 5k per week at 50% margin is £125k pa less rent 10k and staff wages say 30k leaves say £85k pa .... any idea if this is right?

now if you have more than one its easier to get the staff to cover each other.

You're thinking a bit much into this. 

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No doubt what Shinji will be doing this morning - he'll be glued to the TV watching his old international colleague Yuki Abe in the Asian Champions League Final. Kick off is 10.15 am UK time if you fancy trying to find a link. 

 

The Asian Champions League is a little different to the European version - teams are either in the Western region (where clubs from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iran traditionally dominate) or the Eastern region (Japan, China and Korea). This division exists all the way to the semi-finals, largely to save travel expenses. Yuki Abe's Urawa Reds have made the final from the east, Saudi Arabia's Al Halil from the west. The semi-final was massive for Urawa - beating the expensively assembled Shanghai SIPG team. The final is over two legs - the first leg was in Saudi Arabia last week and Urawa were very lucky to come away with a draw.  

 

There is a little bit of ill feeling after the first leg - Urawa's Brazilian Rafael Silva on the end of racist messages on social media, seeemingly from opposition fans, and the Urarwa goalkeeper having been subject to the old 'green laser beam' treatment from behind the goal.

 

Would be lovely to see Yuki Abe lifting the trophy (he is the captain) but the Saudis are probably favourites after looking far superior last week, despite the result. Here he is in action in the first leg:

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Well, they did it. Urawa won 1-0 and Yuki Abe lifted the Champions' League Trophy. He was so emotional at the end - in tears for about five minutes after the final whistle, and just about got himself together in time to lift the cup:

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Just a quick one but Bruno Berner was at Oldham yesterday watching on as Wellens' Oldham win again.

 

Great picture of them both in Wellens' office. 

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Yuki Abe's adventure is over. By winning the Asian Champions League last month, his team Urawa Reds qualified for the FIFA Club World Cup, which has just started. If they'd won their first game (v Al Jazira of UAE), they would have faced Real Madrid in the semi-final later this week. But they lost 1-0. Still, it was worth it just to find out that Al Jazira means 'the island', and so does the alternative spelling Al Jazeera, the TV station.

 

 

I'm going to shoehorn into this post a few bits of news from Japan, some of which have a tenuous (at best) connection to Leicester, but it's been a fascinating few weeks so here goes:

 

The World Cup draw was the big news, with Japan being drawn in a group with Colombia, Senegal and Poland. Pretty tough. If they get through that, England might be there opponents in the last 16. Shinji v Harry Maguire, anyone? Except, of course, Shinji's chances of making the squad seem pretty slim at the moment. Colombia will be quite pleased if he's absent after the cracking header he scored against them at the last World Cup:

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There was an amazing end to the J-League season. Remember the feeling of being five points clear at the top with a handful of games to play? Well, this is how the race for the title between Kawasaki Frontale and Kashima Antlers played out:

 

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As you can see, in this particular two horse race, the chasing team (Kawasaki) got their noses in front on goal difference on the last day of the season, winning 5-0 while their rivals could only draw. Kashima would have scraped a 1-0 win and won the title had it not been for a very smart refereeing decision. They had one of those well-planned corner moves where one forward's job is to subtly block the run of a defender so he can't track the movement of another forward. It worked perfectly, the only problem being that the ref was wise to it (unlike, for example, Kevin Friend on Saturday, who failed to spot the foul on Jeff Schlupp that left Jermaie Defoe in space to score for Bournemouth at Palace). 

 

Further down the table, rumoured Leicester-target Chanathip Songkrasin continued his good from for my local team Consadole Sapporo, as they finished a very respectable 11th. If he does join us he'll be the smallest player in the Premier League at 5 foot 3. Here he is with Jay Bothroyd, who has had a truly sensational end to the season.

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It feels weird to have Shinji at Leicester, and an Englishman at my local club here, as if it were some kind of student exchange programme. Bothroyd is old enough to have scored at Filbert Street, for England under-21s against Mexico. A goal, by the way, that I captured on film, in a photo that makes up for in nostalgia value what it so clearly lacks in basic photographic competence. That's the double decker in the background! 

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OK - I'll round off this rambling round-up with a question. Apart from Bothroyd, how many other players that scored at Filbert Street are still playing professional football? (Wish Paul Taylor was here to give us an answer).   Edit: Realised that I mentioned one earlier in this post - Jermaine Defoe, who also scored in that U-21 game. Any others?

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Yuki Abe's adventure is over. By winning the Asian Champions League last month, his team Urawa Reds qualified for the FIFA Club World Cup, which has just started. If they'd won their first game (v Al Jazira of UAE), they would have faced Real Madrid in the semi-final later this week. But they lost 1-0. Still, it was worth it just to find out that Al Jazira means 'the island', and so does the alternative spelling Al Jazeera, the TV station.

 

 

I'm going to shoehorn into this post a few bits of news from Japan, some of which have a tenuous (at best) connection to Leicester, but it's been a fascinating few weeks so here goes:

 

The World Cup draw was the big news, with Japan being drawn in a group with Colombia, Senegal and Poland. Pretty tough. If they get through that, England might be there opponents in the last 16. Shinji v Harry Maguire, anyone? Except, of course, Shinji's chances of making the squad seem pretty slim at the moment. Colombia will be quite pleased if he's absent after the cracking header he scored against them at the last World Cup:

okazaki_diving_header.jpg

 

 

There was an amazing end to the J-League season. Remember the feeling of being five points clear at the top with a handful of games to play? Well, this is how the race for the title between Kawasaki Frontale and Kashima Antlers played out:

 

IMG_1039.jpg

 

As you can see, in this particular two horse race, the chasing team (Kawasaki) got their noses in front on goal difference on the last day of the season, winning 5-0 while their rivals could only draw. Kashima would have scraped a 1-0 win and won the title had it not been for a very smart refereeing decision. They had one of those well-planned corner moves where one forward's job is to subtly block the run of a defender so he can't track the movement of another forward. It worked perfectly, the only problem being that the ref was wise to it (unlike, for example, Kevin Friend on Saturday, who failed to spot the foul on Jeff Schlupp that left Jermaie Defoe in space to score for Bournemouth at Palace). 

 

Further down the table, rumoured Leicester-target Chanathip Songkrasin continued his good from for my local team Consadole Sapporo, as they finished a very respectable 11th. If he does join us he'll be the smallest player in the Premier League at 5 foot 3. Here he is with Jay Bothroyd, who has had a truly sensational end to the season.

IMG_1035.jpg

 

It feels weird to have Shinji at Leicester, and an Englishman at my local club here, as if it were some kind of student exchange programme. Bothroyd is old enough to have scored at Filbert Street, for England under-21s against Mexico. A goal, by the way, that I captured on film, in a photo that makes up for in nostalgia value what it so clearly lacks in basic photographic competence. That's the double decker in the background! 

IMG_1057.jpg

 

OK - I'll round off this rambling round-up with a question. Apart from Bothroyd, how many other players that scored at Filbert Street are still playing professional football? (Wish Paul Taylor was here to give us an answer).

Peter Crouch?

 

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