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Reply | Favourite living guitarist
at 12:39 4 Apr 2025
Any from the last 20 years? Or even 30?
I love guitar music, but kids don't seem to listen to it much anymore, just that autotune RNB stuff that I can't stand.
I feel like someone from the 80s who still listened to 1950s skiffle. |
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Reply | Taarabt's genius lights up top of the table clash - History
at 12:37 4 Apr 2025
Ah yes the goal where he floated the ball through an eye of a needle into the far top corner from the narrowest of angles. So many goals that would be goal of the season these days.
He was totally unplayable that season. |
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Reply | German Football
at 10:37 3 Apr 2025
Yes they don't have anywhere near the lower league depth that we have and also have those ghastly second teams in their league system.
I think they also have something of an image problem, just look at their kits. Here everyone knows Man Utd are red, Everton blue, Newcastle black and white stripes, we're blue and white hoops etc.
Compare to German kits such as Eintracht Frankfurt, this season they are in white shirts with black and red trim. Last year it was black and red diagonal stripes, the year before all black with some red trim. They've also played in all white with black trim, black and white stripes, red and black stripes and many others:
https://www.footballkitarchive.com/eintracht-frankfurt-kits/#2010s
Come on you various combinations of white, black and reds.
Even Bayern Munich played in white with red trim last season and had the same shirt as Crystal Palace a few years ago.
Also a lot of the identity of clubs particularly in the East was messed about a lot, with mergers, name changes etc.
And they have a club a few years old based on a fizzy drink as one of their biggest teams now.
I think England is quite unique in that there are teams like Sunderland that won stuff years ago and have been pretty crap ever since, but they still get massive traditional support almost a century later. |
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Reply | German Football
at 12:00 2 Apr 2025
German football is great, good fan culture, terracing, beer at football, massive crowds and great atmosphere.
Then Bayern Munich win the league 90% of the time  |
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Reply | Scunthorpe United
at 17:17 28 Mar 2025
I think you need to cap the spending at the top end as well, as otherwise the only way to compete is to get a rich owner and you'll just get the teams owned by oil countries just winning everything forever.
Let owners put money up to the cap for the division to let smaller teams compete, but the big teams wouldn't be able to spend billions which currently pushes up costs for all clubs. |
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Reply | Scunthorpe United
at 11:45 28 Mar 2025
Clubs need to pay their players less or they will always be in financial danger. It's madness that a team that gets thousands of paying supporters every game and not be financially viable.
There should be a proper salary cap from top to bottom and more even distribution of TV money down the football pyramid so teams don't bankrupt themselves gambling everything on going up.
Also introduce mandatory relegation clauses in all contracts at X% of the original salary, maybe proportional to the difference in income between the divisions. Get relegated again and their salary goes down again.
If you want fan ownership you could say 1% of equity is transferred to a supporters trust per season until eventually they reach majority ownership.
While we are at it cap agent payments from clubs or ban them entirely. Agents represent players so they should be the ones paying them not the clubs. |
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Reply | Declining Morals in Football #5639
at 17:26 25 Mar 2025
It's absolutely disgraceful the change in that time, now with up to 5% of clubs being sponsored by Ed Sheeran. |
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Reply | Man Utd stadium
at 21:30 22 Mar 2025
Isn't the idea that public money would help regenerate and add infrastructure around the surrounding area rather than directly fund the stadium itself?
I suppose the club would benefit as it would also raise the value of the other land they own.
Would the relocation of a rail freight hub really cost £200-300m though? |
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Reply | Tommy Tuchel's blue and white army????
at 17:20 22 Mar 2025
Routine win and we'll probably qualify with ease, but not much to get excited about. About as good as we can expect I'd say.
I really don't think the English players are as good as everyone seems to think though. Bellingham and Kane are very good, but apart from that pretty average all over the pitch. |
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Reply | Good luck son of pugwash
at 15:36 22 Mar 2025
Really sad to hear that, he was one of the good guys :(
RIP Blob, best wishes to his family on here. |
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Reply | Liverpool Newcastle Cup Final
at 18:57 16 Mar 2025
I still can't believe they cancelled that final and then went further and removed that whole weekend from the calendar |
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Reply | Liverpool Newcastle Cup Final
at 18:46 16 Mar 2025
ha ha yes exactly, Newcastle are annoying, but Liverpool are insufferable. Only second to Chelsea in the cnt stakes. |
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Reply | World Cup Final Half Time Show
at 11:55 6 Mar 2025
How can they fit anything into 15 minutes? Actually it's less time as the players have to get on and off the pitch. Answer: they can't so half time will no doubt be increased. Lovely. |
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Reply | VAR
at 11:53 6 Mar 2025
Yes some tolerance for offside is needed and if it's in the grey area then go with the online decision like cricket or just give the benefit of the doubt to the attacker (my preference).
They don't know exactly when the ball is played exactly anyway, so when it's that close then it's stupid to rule it out.
No one used to see a goal like that and thought it was offside before VAR got involved, that was always called level. |
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Reply | The Beatles were a bit crap...
at 11:15 5 Mar 2025
I must be the only person on the planet that doesn't like Hey Jude much and it goes on for about 4 business days.
I think Yesterday is a bit overrated as well, it's ok I guess, but nowhere near their best. |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 12:38 4 Mar 2025
I don't think there is an ideal outcome from here.
Sign a peace deal, avoid WW3, but lose 20% of land and hope war doesn't break out again in a few years is about the best that can be hoped for.
Why prolong it further without the prospect of any of these options improving while losing countless men? |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 11:48 4 Mar 2025
The US can't give security assurances against Russia, because say Russia continue to attack then you are in WW3 and the nukes could start flying shortly after.
The minerals deal was to get US "security" into Ukraine as a form of soft power to protect US interests which would deter Putin from attacking further without the danger of it triggering an official direct conflict.
The way people have lost their minds at Trump having a go at Zelensky on TV, but are happy for the Ukrainian people to continue to be slaughtered daily for a few years completely baffles me. |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 16:36 3 Mar 2025
I'm sure with enough extra men and firepower Ukraine could do better and maybe win the war, but where are those extra men going to come from?
If you are between 25 and 55 I believe you can sign up yourself or if you're too old you might have a son or other younger family or friends you could encourage to sign up instead. It would be hell on earth and you'd almost certainly be killed, but if you think it's all worth it you could put your own life on the line.
If suddenly you don't fancy it (and I wouldn't really blame you) then why should the young Ukrainian men be forced into it instead?
"What if Russia had invaded England and they had 20% under their control"
I'm probably the wrong person to ask, I walk around parts of London these days and it feels completely alien to me. I certainly wouldn't be getting myself blown to stop Russia from owning a part of it, even if it was remotely likely. |
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