Recent content by pace89

Weston-super-Mare is fucking horrible.

That's not really true. The VAO would take into account a range of features and amenities including developments such as patios and paved driveways to inform council tax banding decisions and this applied all over the UK. The Tories instructed the VAO to end this work as part of their agenda...

There's a weird Stockholm syndrome that afflicts people that makes them think they should be grateful for paying through the nose to watch the thing that ultimately only exists because of them. It's not the same as everything else in life. The club exists - and Sheik Mansour had an investible...

I assumed added time wasn't played because both managers agreed to knock it on the head and as others have said it's at the discretion of the ref. It did cross my mind, however, that it might have suited ITV to have 5 or 6 more minutes to play with.

I’m not an academic but even by scanning the research I could pull the methodology apart in seconds. It’s self selecting confirmation of the researcher‘s bias dressed up in enough academic terminology to get it published. Published by the press that is, it would collapse under substantial peer...

I don’t get the impression that Harvard, Oxford or Cambridge are going to come calling for this dweeb any time soon.

Huddersfield away 1997. 1-1 draw. Their ground had 3 stands at the time and we had all of one of them, something the inbred sheep shaggers forgot with all their WWYWYWS nonsense a few weeks ago. The atmosphere and support that day was a revelation. Think it was around that time that City ‘till...

Mrs Pace89 saw this unfold. Apparently after the initial altercation the old fella' in front of the woman turned round and gave her a piece of his mind, she responded by trying to knock his cap off, and he slapped her. Despite being a fully paid up card carrying feminist the missus' thought it...

Anyone know what happened with the fella who got slung out near the front towards the end of the game? Seemed like an altercation with some lad who looked to be more of the tourist variety of supporter. Took loads of stewards to get him out and he went down swinging.

Loads of reasons but the English / British traditional working class and lower middle class suspicion of expertise and intellectualism has a lot to do with it. Bourgeois middle class university educated types were never part of English football so we never had much of a culture of curiosity in...

1990 -1992 my primary school kit was the orange Luton Town away top, Plymouth Argyle home shorts, England socks.

It was Mancini's own fault. He wanted five strikers and didn't want hear about FFP. He could have signed Van Persie but refused to sell Balotelli. Van Persie won the league for the rags and Balotelli went on loan in January, but only after having a public bust up with Mancini having contributed...

Aguero.

Not sure about that. We had some poor players but dreadful management aside our best 11 could and should have been mid(ish)-table: Coton, Edgehill, Curle, Symons, Phelan, Summerbee, Lomas, Flitcroft, Beagrie, Kinkladze, Rosler, Even Symons was alright in the Premier League. It was only after...

Iain Pattinson who wrote these jokes had a brilliant comic mind. Really sad that he died relatively young. Can't believe it's 20 years since the two men of Verona joke was first broadcast. Fair to say they wouldn't get it on the radio now. Over lockdown a few late 90s episodes were repeated...