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I could do this all day long Sing a song, a pretty little song Blah-blah, rah-rah-rah
Well I thought our Third kit was shirt of the season but... Vampire bats FFS
Now time to give a deadline to all clubs to end any Multi-club ownership.
MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.
More than 500 people arrested after Palestine Action protest - with almost half aged 60 and above Some 522 arrests were for displaying a placard. Around half of them (259) were aged 60 and above - including almost 100 people who were in their 70s. news.sky.com/story/more-t...
Nunez will be hard to replace. Finding someone who can hit the woodwork from 6 yards 27 times a season will be a tough ask.
Best team won
Wonder if Joey Barton is watching the Penalty shootout?
So Liverpool can play basketball in their penalty area and no penalty. No change then
Do they do blood/urine tests after frendlies? Havertz would be hooked as he came off the pitch. Looks like Arnie and ran like Bolt.
High price to pay
The labour of love that is my alphabetical record listening has underlined the multiples of underlining of how effing good A day in the life is. Stunning song raised by the production and Ringo being Ringo with a drumming performance exceptional amongst exceptional. Bliss
Badoom tish 🙂
My alphabetical trawl through my LPs leading down an Associates rabbit hole and onto Yello. I'll be back B-X, I have not abandoned you
No Paul, would have gone with London Calling 😄
Kings of the wild frontier is a corking album and sounds even better dressed as a highwayman or pirate when listening. Just saying.
Dame Chloe
I often have Pants on one leg. Nothing clever about it, just a few drinks
RIP Ozzy, didn't hold back, didn't do things by half. Bats everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief. What a performer
Not Jealous at all. Nope
Who would have guessed www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/wil...
The word is 'shoot'
Either, I can do either and pull it off
Kevin Rowland looking and sounding great on BBC this morning. Gruesomely underrated artist who has produced some superb music. Oh, and outfits 🙂
Visited when the FC Zurich v Arsenal game was swapped there due to the Diamond league at FC Zurich's stadium. Lovely place although the locals were not overly distraught at the half time news.
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Well Bryan and me, both style icons so not surprising
yep, me and Dirk
trying to put a coherent argument together as to why I prefer The Style Council to The Jam. I know, I know but I just do. Ah, got it, they were better
My wife received a text acknowledging her call but nothing since
Indeed, although last one was best season for a while. Those are good reasons but my question was purely about the expectations of people about this situation of the charges. I believe they are based in a good place but are translating into a witch hunt. The charges are awful but keep a evel head
For all those demanding AFC come clean CPS “We know there will be significant public interest in this announcement, but it is absolutely vital that there is no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.”
Could be but CPS say.. “We know there will be significant public interest in this announcement, but it is absolutely vital that there is no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.” AFC will say nothing. I should be a lawyer 🙂
No it is not, we agree on that. Enjoy your weekend
Now they are doingthings the legal way. May not be popular with some but they will not be drawn into a legal battle
I am not sure how many ways to put this. They will not say anything. Instructions from legal will be that. Live case, say nothing until iover. If they say the contract did not have a morality clause then the press will conclude AFC did not sack him because of that and would have if they could.
It does, of course it does. If the prosecutor calls the CEO, Manager etc to court to ask about what they heard, why they investigated etc it would be a huge impact and certainly prejudice the case. AFC lawyers would have been handling the whole thing from the day it came to light
We are going back to morals again. You believe your morals are right and others not. This is an opinion, not reality. Reality is 100 different things (and I am not going into a sixth form philosophy discussion on subjectivity now 🙂)
We are going around in circles. As my original answer said..why? They certainly will not be able to comment without prejudicing the case and they will not disclose details of contracts anyway. No player would want that. All this questioning does is reflect people's anger rather than improve.
Well, because it is a live case and they will blank it all. They cannot comment. It's a live case.
That would be an oiled tightrope over a minefield. Imagine if the press got hold of that and certainly the prosecution would use it, if only to drag the club into the middle of mega court case. Legal would have put a stop to any ideas of that I presume.
They could do nothing about his contract. Legally he is innocent until not so, unless there is a very strange clause in it, his contract will come under Common law. No sacking without just cause and accusations would not fall into that. Again I think Mendy would have underlined that for them
They won't. Don't have to and, legally a minefiled when the court case arrives. They will blank it all because it is a live case.
Well again they could not approach either for that unless a final ruling had been made, otherwise the contract would not have been breached.
The club could not approach either court until the Police had concluded their investigations. Not the women. Also, thinking about it, I would presume they would have been advised not speak to anyone due to prejudicing any case. Prosecution would have a field day
Hearing from the club? Tt will be asked many times by the press. Answer will be no laws broken, internal investigation/review taking place. Which it will as they certainly do not want anything like this again. It will liaise with the PL to get a cover-all for all clubs. Sign Sesko it's chip paper 😞
It appears it heard from at least one woman. So did the Police. It has taken them nearly 3yrs to collate everyhing to lay charges. The club is certainly not in a position to legally act on that. It would, without doubt, have taken legal advice as to what it could and could not do.
There is but still needs proof of a level. Neither could be approached until the Police concluded their initial investigations, so the club could do nothing. If the case is a serious case in a Crown court it may not be permissable to go through Civil court depending and the out come is compensation.
That's fair enough. It's not that I do not believe them, I do not not believe them. I believe it's not my place or anyone else's other than those given as much evidence and background as possible. How do we increase conviction rates for these crimes? A lot of changes for certain but blind belief?
Agreed
Of course it is but if you do not use that measurement of guilt then what? Public opinion? Jeeze, Trump, Johnson, Brexit etc. Damned if I am going by that. The criminal justice system is hardly fit for purpose but it is the only system we have. Otherwise chaos. Otherwise Twitter wins
You didn't watch his last season then? If you are going to go down that route I should point out I am a ST and watched virtually every game, home and away for both. After Auba renewed his contract he was appalling.
Indeed and that's awful.
It would have to be a policy within the current employment laws. Look at City and their actions with Mendy. Basically the law of the land will always supercede any PL ruling or guidelines. Suspending or ending contracts is a tricky thing and a slippery slope.
Yeah, I did, you're right. My bad. Still think it is all about this but I retract that and apologise. I am not being obstinate, I have a different view to you. I am making an argument for it. Doesn't make me right as it is my view. Same as you, your argument, as yet, has nothing to prove it right
So if I accuse you of rape your company should sack you?
They were not frozen out, they didn't play because they were not good enough and an agreement was reached to end their contracts early. You don't remember how awful they were?
You keep repeating that. I truly have no idea what to say. I have agreed. Are you saying people are guilty by Twitter?
I didn't presume anything, probably why I asked "why". Anyway the club, like any other business, is not obligated to go through the process with anyone, but I am sure the Press will push anyway and the Club will give the response it wants. For certain an internal review will take place.
Your right thing
Agreed, but they still have to be proven guilty, absolutely in a legal court or by probability in a Civil court. None of this has happened. What has happened is you presuming guilt without due process. He may be guilty, but that's to be decided. Your opinion, like mine and the OP is irrelevant
Your right thing. That's irrelevant
What is happening here, and across SM generally is a moral position of guilty until proven innocent, which the club cannot act on. So, my reaction to the OP is not to do with Partey and his guilt. If guilty I hope he is sentenced accordingly. My view is that the OP presumes guilt and club complicity
Suspension is only allowed if they have carried out a full risk assessment. Now this also includes potential harm to the company. The assessment must show a strong risk for suspension to take place. There is a more tenuous opportunity relating to charges and police investigation but difficult
Ok where to start. Yes we do know what they could have done, it's employment law. The Athletic printed the options when this first came to light. Sacking is not allowed until the point is reached where guilt is established. Morally they would be presuming guilt as it is not proven.
No, but what is your reason for them not doing so?
Laws are morals formalised. Societies values made legal. It's why they vary. So, as they could not have done much legally what action should they have taken?
Which is why I said they are also being sued. Suspension is only allowed if a risk assessment is completed and it shows reason to suspend. It is not just about the money. As he was found not guilty then City must have had a hell of a good reason to suspend or be in breach.
It's a criminal charge he has received. Civil court may follow. You believing is irrelevant. He may be guilty, but not yet. Morally you are taking a contrary position to the law of the land. There have been one or two cases where the charges have not led to a guilty finding. The CPS is not faultless
City were found guilty for stopping paying. Common law works on innocent until guilty. They had to pay him back pay but I believe, will check, he is suing them. He was found not guilty anyway but even if he was found guilty employers are not allowed to stop paying people unless it's self inflicted
Indeed. Is he guilty of rape?
Well it's bound to happen then
It is but morally is subjective. The club would be in a difficult place deciding morals. They probably decided that the law was against them taking any action and morally there wasn't a solid basis to do so
Probably legally.
Why?
Chloe Kelly confirmed. Nice
Not a fan of all the crap (literally) that comes with festivals but have to take joy in the deep, deep shade of purple the Gammons are turning over the comments of a couple of bands. Glastonbury reaching Notting Hill levels of hate amongst the hard of thinking.
Nah, Suede won 4-1
If you buy or sell vinyl do not use Evri either way. 3 months arguing they have confirmed they are so awful they can not guarantee to deliver it safely. Ebay cover them but you take the risk of Evri destroying it. Selling you risk the record being detroyed before reaching the buyer. It's awful.
Yep, have to go through all the averts to reach the issue. Journalism needs to be paid for I suppose
Congrats Palace. Love it when the Underdoped win.
He we go. Enjoy everyone. Be safe, be happy and be good. Well, as good as you can be 🙂
Don't worry, Jack's only 9
To be fair to LFC that is his total value now. Why add to the loss? Well, apart from comedy value. Sod it, play him
Yeah, was slightly better in the stands 🙂
Adios Madrid, one for the memory banks.
You missed Lee Chapman
For those going to Madrid official instructions from the club on their website. All very useful and good, also includes ''Please sit in the seat allocated to you and detailed on your ticket'' 😀 help.arsenal.com/support/solu...
Don't mess with the Penguins
For those who follow the true faith Happy St Totteringham's day. 🙂
We paid for a rubbish recycling plant too. Works perfectly. We got Sterling.
I actually believe they can. They were three levels better than Liverpool first leg.
Look I was bored ok?
Considering I will be getting there about 15 minutes before KO I won't even have time for a drink 🙁. Nevermind, still drying out from Eindhoven 🙂
Sold out. Club will not lose out as far as I can see. They are opening to family and friends on TX but that's because thousands are trying to offload
