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blue footed boobie posted:These usually seem to get shifted around so the team can prepare for them and also reduced, so they don’t usually end up having much impact. But this could be bad for Chelsea if Roman is looking to sell and they can’t get out in front of any ban. Didn't they have a ban before or was that lifted?
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Paul Scholes has been charged with placing 140 bets on football. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/16/paul-scholes-charged-fa-bets-football The bets were placed between 2015 - 2018. Did he even have a job in that time period?
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sassassin posted:I think I learned everything I knew about Hitler as a kid from Allo Allo and Dad's Army. That's all you need to know, really. Maybe some Fawlty Towers.
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Crazy Ted posted:Neymar's always been a Bolsonaro supporter hasn't he? Heurelho Gomes too, I think.
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Zaodai posted:Why do they have a child ref at a game anyway? She wasn't a child. She was between 14-18 (officer...).
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Wouldn’t a teenager also qualify at 13 or 19 Yes, but I read an article from another source (can't remember where) that had those ages. The Times article on it said that refs need to be 14+ to take charge of a game.
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Byolante posted:Except there is no evidence there are more people in this story than man city fans per day calling into talk sport to say why raheem sterling is a bad person because of a tattoo Why would Man City fans give out about Sterling's tattoo? Also, there are years and years worth of evidence showing Zenit fans being racist.
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Look at this northern European, not understanding things...
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Ungratek posted:Marco Van Basten has been suspended for saying Sieg Heil on air Wasn't it off air?
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So it was broadcast?
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Ahh ok. The report I read the other day read like it was off air, but picked up on mic like Keys/Gray.
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trem_two posted:Plus his teammates tried to prevent him from leaving When I first saw the clip with no context last night, I thought they were trying to keep him on in a "don't let these fuckers win" sort of way, but I think I was giving them far too much credit. Anyone know what the coach was shouting when he turned around? Was it at the 4th official or the fans?
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Oh my... https://twitter.com/JayIlori/status/1235339243322593282 https://twitter.com/MUFCinc/status/1235335530407178241
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Lol https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/27/james-mcclean-fined-by-stoke-balaclava-history-lesson-post-instagram quote:James McClean has been fined two weeks’ wages by Stoke City after his club took a dim view of an “inappropriate social media post” on Instagram.
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Bundy posted:lol at McClean getting in bother for that I can imagine that the tossers who give him abuse every November are seething over it and that makes me smile. jre posted:lmao. lol Any excuse to watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UhXivPyw4
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Der Shovel posted:But hey, at least something entertaining is happening at United right now! Has been for the last 7 years or so.
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CyberPingu posted:Could Sky make more money if they made individual games purchasable? I really doubt it. What would they charge per game? I wouldn't think it would be less than £5 and probably closer to £10. Even at £5, that would be 6 games for the price of the Sky Sports monthly sub which gets you that many in a weekend probably and all of the other sports, too. Maybe they could offer subscriptions where you get all of 1 club's games, but that would mean televising every game which obviously wouldn't work what with the 3pm blackout and BT having games.
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Der Shovel posted:Apparently the leading option is a dedicated PL streaming service, but the problem is producing content for that streaming service in-house. The PL currently offer in-house commentary on all the matches for foreign services that don't have their own commentary teams as well as their own weekly magazine shows, but that's still a far cry from the studio setups, pundit lineups and other filler stuff you'd need to sell a dedicated streaming service to people. Most/all US sports have this setup and it's pretty great. The problem for the PL is Sky and international broadcasters. Anything like this would have to wait until the deals with broadcasters are up and aren't new one starting this season? They would need to be sure that they'd make up the money, because naturally broadcaster deals would shrink dramatically if people had a streaming option. jesus WEP posted:Iirc sky tried this once before waaay back in like 2000 or 2001 and it didn’t last more than a season Do you mean Prem Plus? That ran for a while, 2001-2007. Iirc, it stopped because the package that had been the ppv games was sold to Setanta, not necessarily because it was a failure. They used to have a special offer where you could get all of the ppv games for a one off payment, which made it a bit pointless.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Prem Plus was actually even worse than that, the idea was you could buy individual games rather than the (ludicrous) 4-channel Sports package - but you still needed a Sky HD subscription *and* a basic Sports package, if you bought more than 2 or 3 games it was pointless and if you bought less than that you were paying monthly for poo poo you never used. This was Sky's somewhat hilarious attempt to get around the EU competition case against winner-take-all rights auctions and the effective monopoly they gave broadcasters - "See! We're not quite as predatory as we could be!". In theory at least, because of the equal-matches clause (each Premiership team got the same amount of live matches, guaranteed) it was cheaper for someone to only buy the individual games including their team, which did address one of the main thrusts of the complaint I suppose By Sky HD do you mean just a Sky digital (as it was then) sub? That's what we had when I remember using it. Didn't know you also had to have sports, that's a load of shite. Sky having a monopoly sucked, but once it was broken up, it cost the viewer much more to get the same amount of games. goddamnedtwisto posted:Setanta coming along the season after was a result of that breakup, not the cause of Sky dropping PPV games. Yeah, that's what I meant. I worded it wrong. I think the PPV games were the shittier package, which is what Setanta bought. Mickolution fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Aug 27, 2020 |
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CyberPingu posted:Sky Already have the day passes for Now TV which is basically the same as a PPV package. I don't know why they don't make it available on the set top box too I think they're classed as separate companies under the one group or something like that. I used to work in support for Sky and asked someone still working there about Now TV a while ago and he said they didn't deal with it at all. Possibly some sort of competition laws or something?
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The one minor positive is that the replies aren't the poo poo show I might have expected. He also posted this in response to someone, though. https://twitter.com/mattletiss7/status/1301811850292719616
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He won't be in charge of the upcoming Wales games. Not sure if that indicates that this isn't going away or if the Welsh FA are just covering themselves.
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Hang on, why can't we say who it's rumoured to be here like we do in every other situation like this?
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Bape Culture posted:https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/12016/12124460/phil-foden-recalled-to-england-squad-but-mason-greenwood-left-out Lol.
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I think she claimed it was someone working for her or something like that.
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Jose posted:today i learned not to take 3 viagra at once Whatever you do, don't take 10 https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-lamar-odom-las-vegas-brothel-20151013-story.html
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CyberPingu posted:Ireland? The player who said it is Irish.
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:What did Haaland do Invaded Poland.
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Not the point, but "installing"?
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Isn't that just a description of America?
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pik_d posted:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c345ffe6-ebbe-11eb-baaa-861dba20d87a https://www.independent.ie/world-news/ryan-giggs-kicked-ex-girlfriend-and-threw-her-naked-from-hotel-room-court-hears-40684562.html I assume the info in this article came from the one you posted, but no paywall.
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McFlurry Fan #1 posted:They must have some seriously backwards doctors if they are using benzos as night sedation. Unless there is some performance athlete thing I'm missing you are asking for trouble and withdrawal is awful A lot that article uses benzos and sleeping pills interchangeably. It does differentiate in the part about the manager, but not when speaking generally. There are effects to sleeping pills, but nothing like the blackouts described. goddamnedtwisto posted:Most (UK) doctors will give you a prescription for a couple of valium if you tell them you're scared of flying and going on a long flight, the combo of anti-anxiety and sleep aid is still pretty much unbeatable if you genuinely are scared of flying, and I assume they started off by (ab)using that, then the fact that almost all clubs now have a doctor on the staff (and said doctors have been sacked just for coming on to the pitch too quickly) I guarantee that they'll have no problem at all getting anything they want prescribed. Doctors will give you a fairly low dose for this, though. I wonder what the players are getting. I have been taking Xanax for years, but at 0.25mg or something. That amount a couple of times per week (the article seems to say they're taking them in specific situations, rather than all the time) isn't going to lead to massive problems, imo. goddamnedtwisto posted:Are there any legit drugs to help with insomnia between the various antihistamines you can get over the counter and the big bad bennies though? AFAIK anything that helps you get to sleep is potentially abusable and addictive, and I know some of the sleeping pills they use in the US have some pretty severe side effects. Personally, I have found melatonin helpful. I get it on prescription, not sure about the UK.
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Jose posted:I've got some I ordered online though this is a couple of years ago now. I sleep like poo poo taking it because it gives me such insane dreams I wake up a ton lol If you're taking it regularly, the dreams stop after a while. Did for me, anyway. They're so loving vivid, though. Cannon_Fodder posted:Cut out drinking and I sleep like a Wayne Rooney, but in a bed. You mean with a hoover running in the room? https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/rooney-reveals-a-bedroom-secret-1035916 Mickolution fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Sep 8, 2021 |
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African AIDS cum posted:It was given for simply disagreeing with ninpo lol i don't care if its 5 minutes its stupid, its ninpo ffs At least you didn't say something mean about United, that would have been a ban.
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Total Meatlove posted:McDermid Ladies played their first game against Livi yesterday; Not the point obviously, but are they going to take the place of the old team or have to start from the bottom of the pyramid?
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I hadn't considered that, maybe.
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greazeball posted:I can imagine that quite easily actually Yeah, in fact I assume it's what's happening.
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Troy Queef posted:remember the 3 or 4 weeks when Joey Barton was being held up as some sort of tortured intellectual who transcended football? I think it was QPR, because I remember him going to the Tate Modern in London. I like how that and posting some Smiths lyrics made him an "intellectual"
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