Recent content by Stephen230

All these suggestions are great apart from the fact you will have no choice but to include genuinely injured players in them. DeBruyne gets taken out in the 85th minute by some clogger and he has to sit out the rest of the game while the culprit gets to carry on clogging.

The English FA can’t get rid of international friendlies or UEFA competitions. I also think some people would be in a for a bit of surprise if you gave players an ultimatum between a club game and a ‘pointless’ international game.

Maybe. But that doesn’t mean we would have lost a shoot out.

Were you also against the scrapping of unlimited replays on the grounds that could have denied a hard up lower league club an extra three or four or even more money spinning games?

Also insist you navigate around…No I don’t wanna give a tip thanks, £7 is quite enough for a pint, on the card reader, before it lets you tap.

Don’t think that’s really a pub anymore. More just a music venue I think.

Sainsbury’s campaigned for years for the introduction of Sunday opening with the promise that all current staff would keep their old terms and conditions and not be forced into working Sundays. And those that chose to would be paid at the existing extra rate. As soon as they thought a suitable...

There’s probably over 50 bars within a 10 minute walk of the station in the NQ area that cater for your real ale types. In fact apart from The Milly, The Crown & Anchor and The Wheatsheaf, pretty much all of them do. Maybe not Tib St. Tavern either.

It does if we’d won those games in extra time or pens. If they’d scrapped final replays a few years earlier, we might well have won it ‘81.

Are you advocating a return to unlimited replays out of interest?

Yeah, they’re celebrating drawing a game of football. Imagine how much bigger and better those celebrations would be if they’d actually gone on and beaten them on penalties? I’m sure they appreciate the money earned from the replay and how it maybe contributed to future success. But nobody will...

I’m sure a better memory would have been seeing them beat United on penalties in the first game, rather than seeing them getting an inevitable 5-0 tonking in a replay.

It seems a bit contradictory that the one and only reason I’ve seen for opposing scrapping replays is so smaller clubs can make more money. Isn’t this normally the complete opposite view that most fans have? That the game is all about money these days? I’ve not seen a single argument to keep...

What motivation would the FA and the Premier League have for enabling some of its member clubs to fuck off and join an independent organisation?

I’m well aware the Premier League isn’t everything. The vast majority of FA Cup replays don’t involve glamour sides or live TV. They probably cost the away side more money in expenses than prize and gate money in the early rounds, more often than not if they’re not local. Also in the vast...