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Bigger bell ends are the ones who put horses unnecessarily at risk tbh. 7 times more likely to die over jumps v flats. Totally unnecessary and yet you hear the usual bull**** from the owners who claim to care for their welfare.

As true as that is, I think this is purely an excuse to save face. Fact is once the Etihad reaches 60k, even with a lower capacity it becomes a far more suitable tournament venue than Old Trafford.

Surely if they are relying on the developer (who will want as large a margin as possible) to build a ground for them in exchange for land, they will be looking at a full on barebones stadium in the guise of the Kassam or New Meadow rather than anything better? Possibly something like Rotherham's at an absolute push?

What a farce this is

It's the lack of consistency that's unfair here. 99 times out of 100, you're waiting for them all to form a wall and no one is allowed to take it until the ref blows his whistle. If they try to take it early, the ref stops it. In this instance, for some inexplicable reason, the ref has seemingly allowed it. I'm all for allowing them to be taken quickly, but they have to be consistent with it. Not just change the rules whenever they fancy. I think the defending team can feel hard done by there.

Sorry I meant to write 'don't rate', but missed out the don't! Yeah I'm 100% in agreement with you to be fair.

I should be clear, I don't 'rate' today's players as being better, or as having made bigger achievements. Maradona and Pele are the same as a Ronaldo or Messi, I just meant if you picked one up and plonked them in a game from another era it would be a bit different. But when it comes to football stats and observations I am not the most clued up, and I will quite happily bow to your superior knowledge ?.

Somehow I doubt that. I think @Rob k would be right - he'd get steamrollered by today's opposition. Just watch any highlights of the 66 World Cup and it is just so slow. While he would have had the benefit of today's medicine/sports nutrition, etc, there are a few things working against him. First, the elite were generally not as athletic back then, which is proven by the sheer amount all the world records that have tumbled across the board in all sports/disciplines since Greaves made his debut. Add to that the pool these days is bigger to choose from, so the best are likely even better having worked their way to the top, and scouting is likely improved since then as well. I'm off on a tangent here, and it's nothing to take away from players of the past. They were still great players and the greatest of their era, but I think it's fair to say that the players these days are far better, and the players of 50 years from now will be better still. It's yet another reason why it's basically impossible to compare players of different eras.

Bit late but we went to The Ivy in Kensington and couldn't believe how bang average it was for the price. Definitely felt like you were paying more for the experience and the venue than the food - not to mention being treated p*ss poorly by staff.

He did before, his cars there won a couple of drivers championships and 1 constructors, probably could have been more were it not during the period of Ferrari dominance. The story around his development of the MP4-18 is actually a fascinating one. At the time it was supposed to be his most advanced design and super compact, particularly at the back which is the norm today. But by all accounts it was a dreadful car reliability-wise, would very rarely not catch fire, sent Wurz into the barriers in an enormous crash during testing, also made Raikkonen crash in Barcelona (which was blamed on him!). Pedro de la Rosa said he was scared to get into it, it was about as dangerous as it gets at the time and it never raced. It shows that even the best get it wrong sometimes, perhaps he had a few ideas that were ahead of his time back in 2004.

Seems it's finally hit Mercedes that their concept is not going to work - think this could be a write-off year for them as they're obviously going to have to re-think it. Pretty embarrassing to be beaten by their own customer team in Aston Martin. They pretty much changed the rules to stop the Mercedes domination over the past years, and in doing so they've gone and created a Red Bull domination instead, changing the rules to benefit ground effect cars which is Newey's speciality. Considering that man can design amazing cars under any set of regulations, switching to what he is best at means having him is pretty much a cheat code. That combined with Red Bull managing to spend more than the other teams, and this is result. This could genuinely be a 23/23 for Red Bull at first glance, they seem so far ahead. Shame they're such a dislikable lot.

Yep, out of 5 Glasto's and as such 15 headliners I think I've only ever seen 3. I actually think it's a really good poster, there's a ton of good stuff on there, and it's only the first 50 or so acts. Tons more to come.

They have 10 or so between AG and Glasto, but I think AG is the first of their tour.

Fewer names than usual at this stage but as solid as ever. And 3 confirmed (and already predicted) headliners that will be sure to send a certain festival forum owner into a complete spiral...

But even IF we did that, for 70 to be enough you'd need either Millwall or Luton to suffer basically relegation form from now until the end of the season, us to better all 6 other teams above us (which we are currently not doing even in our 'good' form), and hope it's one of those freak years where 70 is enough - over the last 10 years or so you typically need 75 minimum. It's fun to see if we can make it, and it is technically possible, but it is not happening.

So hang on a minute, Let's get this straight for a second . You make a point that we could make the play-offs, because our form since Boxing Day has been so good. It's then pointed out to you, that despite our 'good' form since boxing day, we are now further away from the play-offs than we were then and that it is nowhere near enough. And you think that if we continue that form, maths will magically rewrite it's rules and we might make the play-offs? Robbored with his outstanding logic as ever .

QPR were on 34, we were on 27, is that not 7? Play-offs are too far away. Just out of reach even in an insane run of form.

I mean, we were 7 points off the play-offs on Boxing Day, now we're 10. By that logic it is anything but an ideal position

Pretty sure he did.

Proper weird post this.

He hasn't even been that bad, and that's forgetting it's against the champions ffs.

Proud of the team, can't knock them. A few mistakes but you're not going to play against the champions without making any. Brilliant performance and we're not at the end yet.

Ref is giving us nothing.

Fair enough. At least they're saying nice things about Alexander Scott.

We've called Andy Cole by that name for an entire career despite him actually preferring and used to being called Andrew. Not sure Cam v Cameron is a huge deal