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My source at Bristol City Council had a meeting today where they were advised that there are almost 150 December 2022 planning applications that have yet to be assigned to a planning officer and overall almost 1200 applications that are sat in BCC's backlog. So it's irrelevant when the next planning committe sit, as the application hasn't even been processed and is unlikely to be looked at until well into 2024. This state of affairs will have been (is) well known by any professional dealing with planning applications as its been building up since Covid, so I can only assume that Billy Smart & Co. are advising the Sags.

Crook: BES’s owner Andrew Pilley, pictured with football manager Joey Barton, was jailed for 13 years after being convicted of a £15m fraud

Clicked on the "show more" and this happened! Are they at long last onto him or does Twitter think WTF are you doing?

Listened to about 10 seconds of the interview before I could take no more of the Mark Ashton tripe and switched off. Perhaps the rest was OK, but really, are Birmingham City the best thing since sliced bread?

Condolences to his family and friends. RIP to my first footballing star. And thanks to RedEd73 for posting this, hadn't seen it before and whilst not the greatest quality, very interesting. How many Chealsea players today will be working as a greengrocer when they retire?

For all Windows users, right click and select "open link in new tab" A new tab will open with the picture you selected. A right pain, as you have to do this for each picture. Amazed that what looks like a fully turfed pitch is only 5% of what will eventually be the finished product. It looks like they apply a mixture of soil and seed over the top of the "astro turf"

Go to Reading and head 40 miles south or 2 hours cross country. As you say pillred, a b****ocks of a place to get to.

Wally on 20p tonight. That should be interesting

Does he live near us then, or did you venture outside of the confines of Downend?

And Mr Linaker is still paid £1m plus to present it - complete value for my TV licence!!

Interviewer “second defeat in a week and away from home” ??? - Joey agrees. The referee gives a penalty to them, contentious!! Joey says that the lad throws himself on the to floor, the referee gives it. His Bartonsh*t then says. “not long after that, an incident down the other end and a stone wall penalty, but the referee doesn’t give it” Followed by (and a classic in scouse maths) Tide turns on that – we get to two two (assuming of course, they would have scored the penalty!!!) and we fancy our chances of going on and winning the game. So in summary, to draw a game, the Barton logic is that you only need to score half as many goals as many goals as the opposition and to win, well who knows?

Memories of our famous Liverpool FA cup match at Anfield. Parked about half a mile from ground in a suburban street, when confronted by an eight year old asking me (when I eventually deciphered the accent) “look after yer car mate”. I said no chance, you’ll just FO with the money. Then I said I’ll pay you when I get back. Arriving back at about 10:30 to a deserted street, my car was still in one piece, Hallelujah. Get in car and suddenly a knock on the window “where’s me money”. Fair play to the kid for hanging around and despite such blatant extortion, happy to pay an enterprising extortionist. They learn early in Merseyside.

Listen to the 90min interview and you will realise that he is not your typical pro saying all the expected and insincere buzzwords. As Fevs notes, not a product of the academy system and he seems all the better for it, that is from his development perspective, although I agree that for most the academy is the way to go.

What's crackers do you buy? ?

I don't think it's autism that is making him fidget, but that's another story.

It's actually Dutch and you need to register and have an associated tv account, so probably wont work with or without vpn

I think you might need a vpn. Tried it without and it didn't work. Tried it with vpn and what appeared to be german said This is an upcoming event and hasn't started yet

Sheriff Fatman ?

Yep, anyone shopping at Screwfix at Lyde Green can’t have missed their presence and I did previously Google them to see who they were (and still don’t fully understand!!). A significant local employer and apparently good company to work for, for so two positives. Bristol Sport supporting (or vice versa) a Bristol based company can’t be a bad thing and I’m another who thinks gambling sponsorship is tainted and will hopefully go the same way as cigarette advertising. If you personally know people who have a gambling addition, you will understand such a comment.

There was a mention of Chasers on the Graham Norton show Friday night

Interesting comments in the Matt Mills podcast about “our Joey” at around 40 minutes onwards regarding Ishmael Miller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9-0kbc_X1Y Following a bust up between Barton and Miller, Barton comes running past Mills, cracks Ishmael (from behind) in back of the head, attacks him whilst on the floor, then runs off and gets in his car and f’s off! Who would of thought that of Mr B and so out of character, as was no doubt alluded to during the recent trial.

Have you ever seen such a nervous, twitchy and unconvincing interview with a supposedly lucid and sober person? The “body language experts” say that whenever you touch your nose you are lying. Whether you believe this or not, look at how many times he touches his nose when answering questions and whether you are a body language believer or not, it’s certainly far from convincing. And how often does he raise his head and look straight into the eyes of the camera and/or interviewer? But somehow he convinced a jury of ten; net of two sendings off, that he was innocent! Hopefully he will keep convincing the wheel of fortune that he is the right man for the job for some time to come, or at least until the next court appearance.

Are we still one of only two teams (believe Huddersfield were the other) that have plumited through all leagues (from 1 to 4) in consecutive seasons?

The point, I believe, that the OP was making was that these incident have (sadly) always occurred, but the match/interval, was never suspended.