Child references football names in many of his books. Good fun spotting them.
Hopeless romantic in 2019 believing that Lab and Everton could both come back from the dead. I'll take 1/2.
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Child references football names in many of his books. Good fun spotting them.
In the UK 14 year olds have been vaccinated in school against TB for many decades. Against HPV for about 20 years. Parents can opt out. I can't recall anyone doing so in schools I taught in.
And how desperate the GOP is for any kind of backing for Trump's spiteful, unfocussed and, largely, illegal tariff "policies."
Observer has 5/20 pp devoted to men's footy, 7 if you count a 2 page spread on TV football. A page filling fluff from Paul Hayward, a full page preview of shite v arse, 1 on the connection between Blyth Spartans and Viz. 2 full page reports on ... Well, you knew it would be Manure and Chelski.
When Thatcher died the top song was "Ding, dong the witch is dead."
First bit is true. The second is nonsense.
Behaving decently towards strangers, as you might hope you would experience if displaced, accepting that some will take advantage but those in real need will be cared for is, surely, a Judeo-Christian "founding principle."
Given we are hours from kick-off and contact with EFCBO is next to impossible ... Check your account for purchase of ticket for tonight. If it's there ... Delete ST from your wallet. Reload from original email re ST. Works on Android. But yes, this is shite.
So now he's the only correct, (non-church-going) interpreter of the Gospels. Even the Pope doesn't claim that.
Mine still says Brighton, although my account shows I have bought the Mansfield ticket. 🙆
That went well.
Last Tuesday at BO GP to check. Told card registered was out of date. Not so. No email to say until after day for own seat. Bought it and paid on Tues last at BO. Told I'd get email receipt. Money taken, no receipt. At BO today since seat not on phone. Told I'd get it sometime today. Still waiting.
Can't judge Barry yet. Pretty clear that Beto can't trap a bag of sand and aerially he's poor too. Give him a ball over the to top to run on to and he'll be okay. Until the oppo sit deep.
Looks like we're going to go with Barry, Beto and Chermitti. Hmm. Beto isn't up to lone striker. Barry better but lots to learn. Has Chermitti been written off? He needs game time.
Much under-appreciated. Great record at Sheffield Wed. Built 3 teams at EFC. Cheated out of EC at Inter, eventual winners, kicked, literally, out of EC by Panathanaikos. Applied for England job 1977. Never got a reply, Ron Greenwood (FFS) appointed.
Indeed, but they are looking to test the water wrt what "tourists," etc. might be prepared to pay. If, as I suspect, blocks of seats have been bought at a premium from EFC with an eye to selling them on in packages, the block purchaser won't want to be left with unsold seats.
There was a block of West Stand seats empty for the Roma game and half empty for Brighton. Business logic would suggest that they were unsold Premium packages. It would further suggest that they might be sold cheaper nearer the day. Trouble a-brewing.
They're not. Most have more understanding of the challenges. Trouble is, too many of the fans on social media are a little short on that. And many other things besides. Keyboard warriors are not the fan base.
Duties are not the problem for chain pubs it is rents/tied beer prices. Wetherspoons doesn't have a problem. The huge growth in micropubs further gives the lie to this argument.
The T shirt wearing supporters are saying, in effect "We know that members of the proscribed group have been charged with over 300 offences, including assault and ABH, and they have no intention of ceasing. We support them in all this."
I was about to observe how typical that comment was by the simple solution instant gratification entitled brigade and then saw the first 2 comments. Get a life
I wasn't criticising Parrish for the job he does at Palace, quite the reverse. I say it through gritted teeth because I can't stand the man. What do you mean by "he has interest other 14 teams in PL"?
Knowing what he can/can't do playing him rather than Chermitti or Barry speaks volumes about Moyes' assessment of both. I suggested that this season we'll be no stronger than last. Don't see reason to revise that. Starting, as last year, with just one of a first choice back four didn't help.
He was so poor last night. I'd make two points. Balls played up to him were, for the most part, shite. His immobility and inability to cushion a ball, let alone trap it, meant playing any kind of ball when he was isolated was pointless.
Just how do you clear room at a corner? How do you stop players making a beeline for the six yard box from a more angled free kick?
I think you're agreeing that Arsenal were poor yesterday. The UMM will offer some reasons for why. What's your take? United were poor too so the opposition didn't make it difficult.
Got to feel sorry for Palace. A really well-run club (hard to say because I think Parrish is a real Knut who, for some reason takes every opportunity to disparage anything & everything Everton) with great organisation and spirit on the pitch. Losing best players, (Guehi too?) Europe will kill them.
He's almost as brave as Tommy Robinson.
UK SPS checks were in full alignment with EU and still are. FFS we largely wrote them. All that's needed is agreeing that the EEC inspectorate is the final arbiter of any dispute. Reform will die on that hill. Impact on food prices will be minimal though.
"Sign of a good side, etc. ..." ... is BS. If a team plays poorly and wins it's a sign the other side was poor. In truth, neither manager would be happy with that performance though both are realistic enough to know that both are settling in new players and it's the first competitive game.
The US has been happy to provide a country with advanced weaponry to destroy a weaker adversary which has kidnapped 250 innocents. It's President just shook hands with the President of Russia. Russian armed forces have kidnapped thousands of children, often after mudering their parents.
Assembling state control over all of those entities took 200 yrs and 2 World Wars. The circumstances varied from necessary national innovation, to security issues to industries becoming moribund due to private failures to invest. Renationisation in short order is a pipe dream.
This is nonsense. The agents provocateurs behind the riots will be able to "justify" their actions by, rightly, screaming "immigrant" should one transgress. Laws/rules made in a panic are always poor.
No, they have listed countries which will do as I outlined. They will accept their citizens. There will need to be acceptable evidence of citizenship. "Right, prisoner 123456, where are you from?" "Canada." "Right, off you pop." Really?
This rhetoric is counter-productive. Those who have served sentences, indeed anyone, can only be deported to their COO if there is evidence, acceptable to the native country that s/he is a citizen. It's in the interests of that person not to have such evidence.
You clearly didn't like being called out on inaccuracies in your comment and weren't prepared to respond. Sad.
Ah! A person keen to engage with the issues.
I asked a question about an untruth in your first post. You've dodged that. Care to respond? You do understand "inference?" If there are 7/8 candidates discussed for the top and 5/6 for the drop that infers that the rest will be somewhere between 9th and 16th, ish.
You said that no other clubs were mentioned outside of the top six. That wasn't true, was it? With regard to EFC's prospects, like other unmentioned clubs, the inference is same as. A mid-table finish, 9th - 16th is what Is most likely.
Not entirely fair. The concentration on the likely contenders to win the championship is to be expected. It wasn't a club-by-club review, although doubtless that will come. There was a good deal about candidates to go down, and clubs in difficulty. EFC wasn't featured.
The UK govt, nor any other bar the US, can do nothing to benefit Palestinians. Palestine Action is futile. Some of its actions are seriously dangerous. Much of its support comes from disgruntled voters of the left, unhappy with Labour and taking a pop.
It's a cashless stadium. If you weren't when you went in you will be when you go out. If the prices are accurate that 45 minutes between games tomorrow is an opportunity for everyone to bugger off and show the club what they think about prices.
I was puzzled as to why the fitting out happened so late on. If EFC were negotiating with Budweiser to fund it the delay, and the prices, make sense. The all you can drink hospitality is beginning to look like a bargain.
The local outlets will be overjoyed. With Everton charging more than London prices their margins can be much sweeter. And as for staying for a drink in BM after the game to ease congestion, dream on.
Given regular surveys over the last 3 yrs EFC have a fair idea of what supporters think about prices. That said, the last drink I bought at GP was a bottle of Higson's brown ale. We spend c.£40 each in pubs on a match day. Hic!! Price & Guinness aside, we'd not touch any of the offerings.
Merseytravel's response to the need to manage rail users leaving EFC home games, with 24 trains an hour using 1 platform, those heading north from the city already busy, is a dereliction of duty of care, in my view. A second platform north of Sandhills Lane is an urgent & the only safe solution.
Don't buy it if you don't like it. If you've already got the first and second strip why do you need this too? If you collect this stuff you've got way too much money. Donate to food banks instead.
Different circumstances. There was no financial plan wrt both fees & wages at that time. Richarlison had 112 1st team games & 31 goals behind him at that stage too. Trying to impose a sensible structure now brings it's own constraints. Thus far there's been little talk of anyone else in for him.
Enjoyed it Kenny, thanks. Starting shortly in Hoylake, c. 8 mile circular. Less than usual to meet less ambulatory mates for a pint around 5.
All politicians lie. The cleverer ones do it by omission. It goes with the job if you're in a senior position. Sad, but true. Starmer has never said, as far as I know, "I am an unapologetic Zionist." If he has I'd want to know what he meant by Zionist. Him, not you.
I always thought I was a decent bloke at work. Those I made redundant or students I excluded, and their parents, thought differently. There weren't queues to do my job.
The trouble is that we tend to judge people as decent by the way we see them behave. This is fine in most of our experience. I think all of the pantry vols are decent people. It's when people are under pressure that we may see things differently. Leading a country is the most stressful thing.
Communication skills are also critical these days. As is ruthlessness. Starmer is weak on the first. It's difficult to think of any major Labour figure since Blair who was the complete package. Of the current crop Streeting is the coming man for my money.
Read "What does Jeremy think?"for an apolitical view of the relative strengths of PMs & LOLs from Thatcher onward. He wasn't impressed by Smith. PMs, & LOLs need to be leaders who manage. Neither can be delegated £ the strength of those qualities determines success or failure.
Aside from the whatboutIraq diehards, many on the left who hated him for years are now using Blair to beat Starmer. Different times and circumstances. Brown was much more of the left, Blair managerial. If roles had been reversed 97 would have tight & the Tories would have won in 2001.
B&B, whilst exceptionally able were flawed. They did have a much stronger wicket to bat on though. Kinnock had seen off the dissent in the party, Major had settled the Europe issue & sorted the economy out. Starmer has to do all 3, against a much more hostile media & an economy the Tories mined.
We're both old enough to know the UK will never elect a party on a pure socialist slate for the reasons I've outlined. 5 yr parliaments. I'd have to say that the current standard bearers are thick as mince. Sultana, Corbyn? Really? Corbyn hasn't developed his thinking since he was a teenager.
PR avoids the swings in policy we see here. In 1960 the Japs were making plastic toys, the Germans Messerschmidt bubble cars.
The problem the Tories deliberately created was that the current picture for borrowing is tough. A long term strategy is needed which our political structure militates against. As does our media ownership. Other successful countries have had PR or command economies. China and Japan, in effect.
The only other route is via govt borrowing to fund an investment bank. This, alongside cleverer tax breaks for industry, can begin to redevelop what was lost. So many opps have already gone. Batteries and pharma for example.
It's not true that it is captured. Taxing corporate profits and indeed the earnings of senior people is a ten year job, at least. Costa, as an example, has never made a profit on its £5 coffees. It is offshored to, I think, Holland. Until that job is done govt needs investment from big corps.
They said that about Germany, & Japan. Although he's bonkers & if he wants to maga he's going to need to take money off his mates & use it in a socialist way, Trump is right about tariffs. If we don't make stuff & sell it abroad then redistribution of a fixed pot, even if viable, won't last.
Most beer is brewed by multinationals creating their profits in tax efficient areas. Most eating out is done at big chains with a multinational at the end. I'll give you spending going to a concert to reward aging millionaire hasbeens stays in, erm, the Caymans. We need to make things again.
It took less than 10 yrs to destroy the British industrial base which took 200 yrs to build. The decline had been going on for over 100 years but the 80's devastated what was left. Rebuilding that will take decades & govt can't do it. It can only create the seedbed. PS It can't do that in the EU.
All true. M&S making more money selling clothes from India doesn't shift the dial & the cash ends up with investors. Film chains are international as are the distributors and the pt staff are on min. wage. As are most you refer to. The key to growth is value added. It matters what is bought.
Justify your answer in relation to Lescott Stones Rooney Arteta Fellaini
You're still not getting it Kenny. If people are comfortable, or flush if you like, and they've covered their living costs it's what they spend the rest on that matters. Bigger house - pushes up house prices. New car - likely foreign built Foreign holiday - 🤷 We don't make anything here.
Sadly, it's true. Everyone has a price and many players seek betterment. Tell me I'm wrong.
It appears to have escaped people's notice that in order for a person to be accepted by the UK there needs to be an assessment made of them in France in order to check that they meet the criteria. If this assessment were ramped up it would cut the demand for access to illegal routes.
If he has an outstanding season there will be clubs sniffing, and if he is ambitious ... The same is true of Branthwaite
Vast majority charged with criminal offences of all kinds are white & born here. They never receive much attention. Announcing ethnicity may or may not be a good thing but if the perpetrator is non-white there will be demands for more information which if not provided, will be fabricated to suit.
I don't but you're not seeing the point. It's not about spending, but what's bought. Buying a new TV online does almost nothing for the economy. Neither does using your heating a bit more. Buying more food doesn't either. GB's a net importer of food. If more is bought it comes from abroad.
I wouldn't drink it if it was free.
Good plan. But if you can't then sell Isaak PSR will get you.
I've never met anyone who was either encouraged or discouraged to watch Everton because of the choice of food or beer available. I except my daughter's, now STHs, whose highlight of the game, aged 5&7, was a sausage roll.
Doesn't matter where it's spent, it's what it's spent on is my point. Pubs aren't a good example. Chain pubs have closed because of the greed of the pubcos. Locally, two out of nine have closed, another has opened as has a Wetherspoons. Additionally, six micropubs have opened.
The critical point is what money is spent on. Ideally, people having more money spent on stuff made here by British workers, stuff that is not in limited supply, will grow the economy. Housing and home grown food is limited. Other expenditure grows other countries' economies or fuels inflation.
Economic growth happens when lower value resources have value added by the application of financial, physical & human capital. Given that physcap is most often derived from human, and fincap is often the product of both, having an economy which develops human capital in the widest sense is a +ve.
Judging £25m as not so bad because Soton are trying to take us for a ride on Dibling doesn't make sense. Neither is worth the sums quoted.
People, many, are none of those things but feel that their legitimate expectations of a social/political structure fail to meet their expectations. They look for people to blame, mainstream politicians & others they judge to be no better than themselves but seem to have a better deal foremost.
I know she's being deliberately provocative but if she had a modicum of intelligence you'd cover your back. Christians can be found in virtually every country but few countries would define themselves as "Christian." Does she advocate those Christians in a minority being sent back to, erm?
If my time at university is anything to go by they're wasting their time.
Neither. I'm commenting on the sentiment expressed in the post. Suggesting that UBI is a means by which people can indulge themselves is hardly likely to garner support. If you're suggesting the level it's set at needs to be comfortably above basic need that isn't a selling point either.
A typical middle class view. Let's pay "talented" people not to work to do things they'll enjoy. Better arguments for BI than this confection.
"Expected prices to increase but not this much." Kenwright kept prices low, you moaned about lack of "investment." Moshiri largely did the same, you moaned about wrong "investment." Didn't you think that US businessmen would follow the same model as shite, citteh, manure, etc. If not, why?
I stand corrected.
If the level of fury, measured by SM posts, is a metric for judging player quality and value then desperation isn't a strong enough description.
And you said this when the appointments were made? No? But now, with Moyes himself saying we aren't an attractive proposition, you pile in.
Reform will do anything to avoid deep scrutiny. Mainstream parties do themselves no service, and provide oxygen for Reform, when they bite on the distractive nonsense that is the stock in trade. Trump.has done it and continues to do so as a matter of policy.
I'm sure you're a lovely person. You may well have learned from our exchanges that, other than personal interactions, life, and taxation, are rarely simple. Which is where I started from.
You cannot assess, for example, the situation vav share options I described. There are much cleverer people than you and I who can come up with others. By the way, did you know that it's capital gains tax, at a lower rate than IT WRT share sales? Thought not. About time you went to bed.
Not saying we shouldn't. If you think back, you seem to have forgotten/ignored in your desire to prove ... who knows, my original criticism of people who think taxation is simple. As you agree above it's so simple that it will need further legislation to close loopholes. 😘
I have an answer for many things. By no means all. It's a pity that the people with simple ideas don't have a clue about what they're saying. There are no simple answers. The main answer is taxation of income and wealth. Both are fiendishly complex. Not simple.
Suppose Tata created a company which owned all its car production, and which bought in "executive services" from from another Tata owned company, thereby outsourcing everyone from group manager down. Nothing to do with low paid workers.
A friend, now retired from HMRC, was often part of a group which scrutinised supposed "simple" measures for unintended consequences. Nothing was ever simple. How do you assess the cash benefit of share options which will be realised, in the millions, at a future date at an unknown price?
The FCO policy on recognition has been the existence of a stable govt. This enables the establishment of embassies and diplomatic relations. Palestine has never had a stable govt. It certainly has none now. At times Israel has ensured that this is so. Recognition is, therefore, meaningless.
When Melchester Rovers were drawn wearing similar after a Roy of the Rovers reboot I thought "As if."
Not preventing it. Expressing an opinion. There's a fair chance there'll be more along the route of Ozzie's courtege than the Mall.
Given EFC's wages to turnover was an unsustainable 81% last year, improved from 87% 23/24, there were many. Two great examples, reported £150k a week for each of Doucoure & DCL. Equivalent to take at 15 home games. £100k should be tops, for the cream. Comfortable with JP on reported £80k.
As the beginning of the season approaches there appears to be rising anxiety. Moyes didn't help. He knows we're looking for bargains/unpolished gems & that we're unlikely to get "9/10 in." EFC can deal with 3 games to the end of the window & the 2 wk break with little more than we have.