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1 minute ago, Riaz said:
He said he's one of the quickest players he's seen
And that he couldnt keep up
I showed him the Southampton goal where he pelted by the defenders when the keeper went up for a corner. As pacey players go in my city supporting lifetime, very few would have been faster than he.
Anyway, back on Trundle, loved watching him play, even at Swansea with all the tricks, flicks etc. Just something different back in the day. Delighted when we signed him. One would assume he spent most of his career in lower leagues (league 1 and below) bar his time with us? Even when he went on loan to Leeds, they were division below us at the time.
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My colleague came in to work this morning and told me he'd listened to this. He asked me about Ivan sproule so I'm guessing he got a mention somewhere.
Great era for City around this time.
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13 minutes ago, CyderInACan said:
There's a name that rarely crops up. He wasn't particularly good was he? IIRC his nickname was "Chicken" (not sure why)
I thought he was a decent player, for both us and Swindon. Just very injury prone. But maybe that's just my nostalgia showing. He would have played for us in what is now league 1.
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53 minutes ago, Mark barton said:
Off the back of wiemann,s comments about triggering a contract clause with us I would say your source is bang on.
I imagine there's lots of small print in deals, both with players directly and transfers with other clubs.
Famous one of course was when we signed Robin Hulbert from Swindon. Good player that never played for them after a while, turns out there was an agreement in place where Swindon would pay Everton every number of games and 1 more would blow their budget so eventually they sold to us on the cheap.
Not saying every agreement has it but unless we have the contract in front of us, we won't know for certain.
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Install early 90s Real Madrid mode.
The opposition can score 3, as long as we score 4. We have the attacking talent. Let them off the leash. Go out there with the mindset to outscore the opposition as opposed to not wanting to concede.
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10 hours ago, redkev said:
Looked well off the pace , I know Luke shaw was injured aswell but chillwell should have been nowhere near that team tonight how long he has been out surely there is another left footed left back in the prem somewhere, I would have given that Luton fullback ( Doughty think his name ) a go , but hang on he doesn’t play for one of the big teams
I've been a fan of Rico Henry since his Walsall days. Still in his mid 20s. Plays regular for Brentford. Southgate very much sticking to his favourites though, as he does with all the positions.
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44 minutes ago, 2015 said:
Yeah ask those on X that have EU, Ukraine, Palestine and Ireland flags all on their handles, the absolute weapons.
Click in her profile, she has 3 flags in her bio. Hard to see who the parody accounts are nowadays
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11 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:
Forget the whole flag outrage.
That purple kit is the most beautiful England football kit I think I’ve ever seen. Part of me wants to buy one. Then I remember the price and the fact that I’m 43. But it very nearly had me.
It is a belter but the side parts ruin it. Shame it ain't the same colour all the way around.
That Narinder Kaur skank is on Jeremy vine at the min saying how it's solely a flag of bigotry, fascism and racism and nothing else. Obviously it's one person's opinion and probably just saying it to get people to call in but you never know.
She's subsequently said that nobody is proud of this flag. Well I'm someone with not too distant Caribbean ancestry and dating an Indian lady. I'm proud of it, come throw the race card at me.
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1 minute ago, Robbored said:
If they have it hasn’t been reported.
Woke gone mad, either that or the design was decided over a liquid lunch.
That's the thing. Nike wouldn't just do it (ba dum tss) , it would have needed sign off from the FA. Whether the FA went to Nike with the idea, or vise versa, it takes 2 to tango.
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Yeah flashed up on my facebook memories this morning. A great day. A great team.
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9 minutes ago, Robbored said:
I see on BBC a news that Starmer is urging Nike to reconsider
England kit: Keir Starmer urges change over St George's Cross design https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68632034
Has Southgate or someone from the FA spoke about it yet?
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26 minutes ago, phantom said:
I'm sure this would help speed up the peace process
That's the badger. Wasn't that account I saw it from but it's the same pic.
As Germany have announced a deal with Nike, I did see someone do an obvious "playful update" harking back to Germany's history. Think you don't need me to post it on here to know what it is
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9 minutes ago, Lewisdabaron said:So you probably wouldnt mind if we just changed City’s kit to blue & white quarters then? Then anyone who objects you would probably call a small minded racist bigot.
Was going to post something similar earlier. Say SL sells to a Vincent Tan equivalent and he does to us what tan did to Cardiff by putting blue seats in Ashton Gate and changing the kit to the blue and white quarters.
The important question to ask is why they felt the need to do it and who is the target audience for it. Just some nonsense buzzwords on a tweet means nothing.
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6 minutes ago, Harry said:
Are there any versions out there with a picture of career criminal George Floyd replacing the 3 Lions?
You know, just playfully, like!Not that I've seen, although I've seen people say replace the lions with other animals, elephants & unicorns as examples.
Someone has also put the star of David on the Palestine flag, that might put the cat amongst the pigeons. After all, it's just a playful update of a flag. What's the problem?
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13 minutes ago, Harry said:
I’m surprised they didn’t put the Ukraine flag on it!
A fair few examples of "playful updates" are doing the rounds already.
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Eugh, maz-ball fits. Yep. That's what it's called from now on.
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17 minutes ago, glynriley said:
Yep. We asked Christopher Colombos to guide the ship to find a brave new world, now we’ve got Uncle Albert bringing it home.
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1 minute ago, Lrrr said:
Need the PL to come out and say any club who wants to compete in the super league will not be welcome to be a member of the PL
Absolutely but money talks.
Villa loving it right now if that's the case.
As for the same clubs being in the CL year after year, Liverpool ain't in it this year, Newcastle were. Earned the right to be there. Not always a given it will be the same clubs year after year. Gone are the mid 2000's where it was Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool every season.
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5 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:
Early goals also can assist with it, both in terms of perception and in terms of getting the crowd going which in turn pushes the side on.
Peak Mourinho mid 2000's. Go in front early, see out the game by being immensely organised as a defensive unit, hit on the counter and save energy for the next match.
My first experience of Manning-ball tomorrow. Back home for the weekend so making most of it by watching City play.
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Mine renewed not too long ago. Was with them for many years. Never any issues. Went from 580 to about 900. Called them and explained I work in insurance industry, know how it all works etc, asked them what justification they had. May as well have asked her in Latin as she had no idea.
Anyway, got an alternative around last years price, went with them. Called back my old insurers to lapse, they said there's no way they were that more expensive, gave them policy info. They said they'd look in to, told them not to bother, just let it lapse and call me next year with new quote. They said that was fine and low and behold, they auto renewed it . Be careful and check bank statements when it comes to renewal in case they do try renew it. At least they paid it back once they'd listened back to the call. Cheeky buggers asked me originally to prove I'd told them to lapse it. They're the ones with call recordings, can't expect the public to record the conversation.
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2 hours ago, Swede said:
As much as it seems justified, for me it just goes to show how football finances are absolutely ruining the game.
If Man City, as an example, are found to be be in breach then presumably they are stripped of their titles/Champions League win? Does this mean that Arsenal or whoever are beaten finalists or runners up are retrospective champions & what a hollow feeling that would be for all concerned. It would be a complete and utter shambles.
Immediately I thought of the Juventus match fixing scandle from the mid 2000's. If you look at the league history, you'll see it says "not awarded". Probably because Milan finished 2nd and they were involved in it as well.
However, the year after when Juventus were relegated despite finishing first, inter were awarded the title and the league will show juventus relegated on 91 points. That's a rarity. They didn't deduct points. The authorities just outright relegated them
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I watch the United Stand YouTube channel when they lose as Goldbridge does love a good rant.
since Jan 2020, they've played 8 matches and the aggregate score is 25-7 to Liverpool.
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31 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:
Like watching Petite and Vieira in their pomp.
That's a hell of a stretch. But I'll take it.
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Belter and I'm all for it. Old but gold.