Media thread 2022/23

[Centurions]

Will you lot fuck off on a Saga holiday somewhere.....

Leave them alone, I'm in my 60s and they're making me feel young in comparison :)

 

[TueartsCossackSpray]

Can anyone hear the Hovis advert tune or is it just me?

 

[asahartford1]

I'm a bit older 81, but you must have done your research on the reply

when did the teleprinter begin on Saturday afternoons ?

And it's live !

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

My understanding is that "Buy Out" clauses are illegal in the UK (i.e. player buys out his own contract to leave). Probably the best recent example of this was Neymar from Barca to PSG. Legally he paid the £222M himself... that PSG had given him that money is irrelevant. This is what is mandatory in Spain.

A "Release" clause (i.e. buying club meets a certain contractually agreed selling price) is allowed.

The two types are completely different.

In what way is it illegal or contrary to UK contract law?

 

[Colthekid]

In what way is it illegal or contrary to UK contract law?

"One major issue with the buy-out clause is the belief that this type of clause would be unenforceable in the English courts. In English law, though the courts have allowed parties to pre-agree damages for a breach of contract, they have taken it upon themselves to limit the use of penalty clauses. The English courts have generally held that a clause imposing the obligation on the defaulting party to pay an extravagant sum for the breach of contract is a penalty clause and hence is void and unenforceable."

Buy-out Clauses in Football Players’ Contracts: A means for greater player freedom?

Since the commercialisation of football in the late 19th Century, the sport has continuously grown so as to become an industry which attracts a lot of investment and generates massive revenue. Due …

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Several years old though, so may have changed to be honest & unlike you, I believe, I'm not an expert in the law. :-)

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

when did the teleprinter begin on Saturday afternoons ?

And it's live !

It was originally called the teleprinter and I think it began fairly soon after Grandstand began in the late 50’s. The Press Association used to have a rep at every ground and they phoned the results in, which then appeared, like magic.
The BBC then collated them and gave rise to the ‘classified results’ being read out by 5 o’clock.
Interestingly, only 3 men have read the results on grandstand since it began.
I rarely got to see it as a kid though as my dad was a World of Sport man, as he loved the wrestling, for some reason!

 

[mexico1970]

I rarely got to see it as a kid though as my dad was a World of Sport man, as he loved the wrestling, for some reason!

It was the only sport my Nanna used to watch live, Belle Vue the venue and she even took her own packed lunch :)

 

[asahartford1]

It was originally called the teleprinter and I think it began fairly soon after Grandstand began in the late 50’s. The Press Association used to have a rep at every ground and they phoned the results in, which then appeared, like magic.
The BBC then collated them and gave rise to the ‘classified results’ being read out by 5 o’clock.
Interestingly, only 3 men have read the results on grandstand since it began.
I rarely got to see it as a kid though as my dad was a World of Sport man, as he loved the wrestling, for some reason!

When we were not at Maine Rd it was moto x for us.
When it was a home match was we got back for Jimmy Clitheroe

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

It was the only sport my Nanna used to watch live, Belle Vue the venue and she even took her own packed lunch :)

My mum used to go to Belle Vue for the speedway. I was amazed when she told me that..

 

[mexico1970]

My mum used to go to Belle Vue for the speedway. I was amazed when she told me that..

My sister in law loved going to watch the speedway too, those sneaky women sports fans liking the sports we least expect ehh?