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As someone who once took similar advice as being a tempting offer I made the mistake of searching "lemon party". Oh my word, do not search for this. I am not joking here. Ever since I have taken these warnings at pure face value and will cetainly not be searching for blue waffle. Not all knowledge is good.

This is ******* terrible

This display of violence must be massively underwhelming for the Saudi princes in the crowd

Stone adult dult dult dult dult dududult dulter ers

That's one of the reasons I was confused about their ground sale yesterday, see my post below: I had thought it was earlier this year, but it seems it was actually in December 2018. My 'very big trouble' bit was paraphrased as eight figures seems very big trouble to me! But breaking it by an eight figure sum doesn't fit with their accounts from end of July 2018? They were also under an embargo from April until mid August 2018, according to this BBC article. Would the EFL not have immediately lifted their embargo once notified of the sale?

Not sure if this has been answered, but it was Steve Neville

You should have worn it around your neck not holding your trousers up.

Bristol Post’s view on the video..... Wael al-Qadi reminds Gasheads of his passion for Bristol Rovers F@vk me ? No wonder they think of themselves as the worlds greatest set of supporters with such passion shown from that Lovely bloke at the top all the way down to the loyal and true masses. Imagine the passion coming from Wally if they’d of beaten a team better than one from the Irish 3rd division. With the incredible amount of support that followed them over it has also now been confirmed that supporters from Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers and St Patrick’s have all been converted to Sags and all hate the Shit and love the Sags after being constantly pestered with ‘who you prefer us or the shit?, we took 40k to the non league final, and were the bestest loyalist fans in the world, and 82’s. Dublin hates the shit. FTG

So true,you get fighters like brook where it’s about being the best and then you get people like Khan

Certainly earned more respect with those fights than Khan will with this circus

He must look at this shit show and the serious money Khan is getting paid for it and wonder why on Earth he had to get his eyes shattered by GGG and Spence to make his wedge.

If drinking is banned over there then this lot in the crowd must be on crack cocaine dancing to crap music and loving Khan

Billy Dib?! Billy ******* Dib? I still thought he was fighting the Indian fella. This is the worst card of boxing I've ever seen. I feel a bit dirty watching it, and I'm only continuing to do so as an astonished rubbernecker at a hideous accident.

It’s so bad it’s good

The Saudis need to execute someone double quick, try and save this farce.

******* state of that ?

Did Peter just pop his shoulder trying to punch the ref? And wtf has happened to the rules of boxing here? edit, all time great shit fight that hahaha, Peter has bust the ref's nose hahahahaha

Did Hughie actually just do a BJS against 38 year old Samuel Peter? Cringe.

Forest's recent history means they are unlikely to rock the boat I reckon. Leeds appear to have their own financial issues so may want a get out in future perhaps. Boro are the only ones to put their heads above the parapet and got zero support. The bad guys have already won I think.

Of course they could, the EFL is the clubs. The signs are that, Steve Gibson aside, they are not interested in doing anything though. Perhaps other clubs are not pressing the case either because they have their own dubious practices they want to keep hidden or because they want the option of circumventing FFP themselves in the future. As you have pointed out, they quietly changed the rules to allow the sale of grounds to count against FFP. Entirely coincidentally of course, this turned out to be convenient for a number of big clubs. We know that some clubs wanted to further weaken the rules and I expect that to happen in due course. What is needed is a reputable investigative journalist from the national media - like David Conn at The Guardian - to get their teeth into this kind of stuff. Problem is it involves clubs who are media darlings so nothing is likely to happen. .

Hmm, what will happen? I fear not a lot- maybe Sheffield Wednesday soft embargo will continue until the end of the summer window on the principle that if their accounts come in late, then the EFL will take a long time scrutinising them and oops transfer deadline will pass. I mean is there definitive proof they have been registered by EFL, could Chansiri have not just released all this ie player announcements and "interesting" accounts as a distraction technique to boost morale what with Bruce maybe leaving? Aston Villa- really hard to say. I fear nothing but there were rumours at PL were looking into their deal as though it may well be acceptable within EFL regulations, EPL ones are not so clear- @Coppello if he hasn't covered it already maybe best placed to answer if the EPL could dock Aston Villa points for it breaching their rules? Derby- I had them down as big in breach but their accounts make it less clearcut. A big difference between the first 2 and Derby is they sold 7 players between 2016-17 and season just gone. Did they sign too? Yes, but these were a mix of first team and useful squad that they sold, plus e.g. Weimann and Vydra out Marriott and Waghorn in likely a reduction in total wages. Lee Grant- Squad. Cyrus Christie- First Team, Tom Ince- First Team, Will Hughes- First Team, Jeff Hendrick- First Team, Matej Vydra- First Team and Andreas Weimann- Either First Team or In and around. @DerbyFan may correct me on their status. My point is they're certainly not as bad as the other 2. To me as a starting point what should happen is that the valuations should be lopped down to a 32.5% profit on NBV as per Reading- precedent, benchmarking. Maybe that Derby pass with that, certainly not the other 2. Remove for FFP purposes the rest of the profit for all 3, then assess afresh. Sheffield Wednesday probably should be looked at for this and more, hopefully Mike McCarthy at BBC Radio Sheffield will continue his interesting work.

Thanks @Mr Popodopolous for posting these. Really interesting. Based on what we know of EFL's handling of Birmingham and whatever else, what do you think will (as opposed to ought to) happen to Wednesday, Villa and Derby?

Can clubs not bring about some sort of pressure for this- especially this one because of the set of circs surrounding it? Aston Villa too if they return- this one seems even more pressing and more "interesting" though- I'd argue regardless of FFP that a serious EFL misconduct hearing is due unless they can produce documentation proving that the accounting period and the transaction were aligned, in real time and in real terms. Mike McCarthy BBC Sheffield is looking into this/covering it on Twitter. Indeed there is a possible "smoking gun" so to speak- found on Twitter and Owlstalk. This if accurate surely means that the transaction demonstrably DID NOT take place in financial year ending in July 31 2018- possible backdating job?? Tweet with time and date.

I'm intrigued to see if this is still going but there's not chance I'm clicking that in the office! Remember getting done with that about 17/18 years ago at school ?

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Or just got through the first round of the European Cup knockout stage. Awww bless, what a nice man.

Who says cheats don't prosper eh? While Sheff Wed fans may wish to kiss Chansiri for this, Gibson too should have given him one- of the Glaswegian variety. On a serious note if I was a club who had abided or even tried to and I saw this, especially the gross inflation with no real mitigating factors, I would struggle to have cheats in my boardroom at games or to share it with them and remain civil, calm and professional- I really would. Genuinely think ones like this, who effectively cheat the competition should be treated accordingly- as pariahs. Sounds like Chansiri has kicked Sky out of the training ground over the Bruce stuff- has he banned then? To me, no Sky access, no Sky money. Your club are arrogant and despicable. @Owl Visiting

He thought he was in Ireland to watch Frank Lampards Chelsea. He ran up thinking that was Frank.

Never know he may have a blue waffle? * Never, ever google ‘blue waffle’

Get a ****** room ! (or tent )

As I said earlier in the thread, I can supply the cable ties

I think I've found their two tier Lansdown stand concept, only due to budget constraints imagine this with no front, back or side panels.

icegas First Team Posts: 695 Posting Level Next Level in 305 posts 11 hours ago via mobile Quote Post by icegas on 11 hours ago This afternoon I met up with my best mate who is a shithead for a drink along Glos rd. We popped to the Mem as I wanted to go to our shop to buy a shirt, but it was closed when we got there. Anyway we had a quick look around the Mem and he said while its a dated stadium it has such a unique character and feel about it. We both agreed that if we could build a Lansdown 2 tier like stand where the Blue stand is 7- 10k and a Atyeo sized stand where the south stand is then then we could keep the West stand and Blackthrone end as they are and have a great looking ground that could hold 20-24k. I know Glos Rd lefties/Rose are the problem,as is parking.But there is a huge area still at Mem for development if funding could be found. If planning was granted how much would that construction cost? £10-£15m. I hope its been looked at.

The younger OTIB members might also care to note that terraces are something many older OTIB members wish were still around when they bore you with tales of 'the good old days'

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