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  1. 1 hour ago, RuffRob said:

    Funny you should say that - I think the original three that basically forced the PL to get the ball rolling on this Burnley, Leeds and Leicester are now by far the three team I most despise with the teams jumping on the bandwagon not far behind them. 

    Those shit stirring fuckers going after a single club (which could basically ruin it) to try and feather their own  nests - Their name is shit in my eyes now and I hope the 'smell' of those clubs being 'shithoueses' followes them around to every set of opposition fans the play against. 

    I am convinced they have causeed all of this. We have spent next to fuck all this past two years working with the PL, sorting out our FFP over what has been and still is a unusual period in global history. Even after this enquiry, the final FFP overspend is only £19.5M and even that seem to be down to subjective opinion of interest payments for the construction of a new stadium. 

    Like you said I now want to see us smash those clubs each and every time we play them. I really hope this gives the team the ammunition to take the full 12 point of Burnley and Forest when we play them this season. I am sure our fans will be doing everything they can in these game to let these teams know what we think of them. 

     

     

    I've definitely felt a dislike towards Forest since they came back up, even before I realised they were instigators in the case against us. I think it's something to do with how many players they've bought, and the fact that some players seem to have chosen them over us (Gibbs-White, Elanga), which seems like madness to me (although granted we've not exactly been a particularly attractive prospect for a while!).

     

    We play them at home at the end of April. Hopefully they are still in danger then and by smashing them (again) we can put them in trouble. Would love them to go down over Luton.

  2. 11 hours ago, Romey 1878 said:

    Just as an aside, how is it even possible for three clubs to sue us anyway? I mean, I know we're fucking massive and all but we could still have only occupied one of the relegation spots.

    I've just read that it's actually FIVE suing us.

    Leicester, Leeds, Southampton, Burnley and Forest.

    Forest?? Cheeky fuckers! What possible reason could they have? Plus they must be sailing close the the FFP wind themselves having signed over a million players in the past 2 years 😠

    We play them after United. Hope we smash the cunts.

  3. 3 minutes ago, Johnsy said:

    I only live 25 mins from the ground - obviously couldn't get any tickets in the away end, & by the time I heard our fans were buying home tickets in the home end next to the away fans they had all sold out 😔

    Probably for the best to be honest as we have a 6 year old & a 12 week old at home, so bed time is a bit tricky for one person,  plus with us being on form & Watford having most of their first team out, we are obviously losing anyway!

    Although having said that, if anyone has a spare I can be there in 25 minutes!!

  4. I only live 25 mins from the ground - obviously couldn't get any tickets in the away end, & by the time I heard our fans were buying home tickets in the home end next to the away fans they had all sold out 😔

    Probably for the best to be honest as we have a 6 year old & a 12 week old at home, so bed time is a bit tricky for one person,  plus with us being on form & Watford having most of their first team out, we are obviously losing anyway!

  5. 19 hours ago, Palfy said:

    I haven’t met anyone who voted remain telling me the wished they had voted leave, but on my life I have met individual’s and couples who voted leave and have regretted it. In the next 10 years I believe we will be voting to go back into the Union a much poorer country than when we left. 

     

    Would anybody on here who voted leave change their vote now if they could?

    If not, do you believe Brexit is going well, or will still benefit us at some point in the future?

    Genuine question - I can't see any benefits at all to any of us 'normal' people, now or in the future, except for maybe a few lorry drivers who got a wage increase (which will probably mostly be negated by the rising cost of, well, everything).

  6. With the new handball rule & VAR we've already seen lots of penalties this season - hopefully then it won't take until the end of the season for us to get our first again, but I still wouldn't be surprised!

    Anyway, assuming we do actually get our fair share this time, with Baines gone & Gylfi a bench player now, who do we think is going to take them? Richarlison? James? Or just keep with the left back taking them & give them to Digne?

  7. 5 minutes ago, RPG said:

    Very funny indeed. But the sentiment I posted still holds good. I normally pride myself on my spelling (usually after 3 or 4 corrections) but this one did slip through the net.

    Here is what I really meant!

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kowtow

    How long did you have to search to find that pic? I'm impressed.

    It was literally one of the first images that came up when searching "cow towing" - there are a surprising amount of pictures of cows being towed on the internet to be fair!

     

    Apologies, I'm quite a pedant & that really jumped out at me when I was reading through the thread last night. I do utterly disagree with you about Brexit though & think it will be a complete disaster for the country, but I'm just a London lefty who works in the public sector so I would!

  8. On 14/01/2020 at 22:13, RPG said:

    I find it amazing how so many European companies that had threatened to pull out of UK if we dared to implement brexit are now falling over themselves to extol the virtues of continuing and expanding their business in post brexit UK.

    More project fear exposed as nothing more than cow towing to their EU masters.

    The latest company to do a complete volte face being non other than Airbus!

    https://ukupdates.co.uk/airbus-sees-great-potential-to-expand-after-brexit/

    Image result for cow towing

     

    🤔

  9. 3 hours ago, pete0 said:

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/03/hes-got-a-battle-on-his-hands-could-uxbridge-unseat-boris-johnson?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3j1mXhSHCNXDhsdAVOnAO4PaHzm1dJRnD6J1igYu1CL-4Bxp0byLFhDOc#Echobox=1572797536

    Boris' rival Ali Milani, campaigning as the local vote. Iranian born migrant who moved here at the age of 5, but as he says about the hospital he's a proper local. Would be sweet if he got the town on side, give the rest of the country hope. 

    This is my constituency!

    I'm excited for this election as it actually feels like my vote might be worth something this time in what has traditionally been a Tory safe seat. There is talk of Johnson potentially running away to a safer constituency as he knows he's under threat here, but I really hope that doesn't happen - I'd love it if he came knocking on my door! (though there's no way he'll be out campaigning like that, he'll probably just hide in the local hospital or primary school if he even bothers to come out here)

  10. 3 hours ago, MikeO said:

    But they're Welsh, if you can deal with that fair enough:otvwhistle:.

    Westcountry Blues down here are great also and I've used them many times, but I prefer membership privileges and DIY trips personally given the option; don't like to be held to a bus timetable. Was an ESCLA (London) member for many years back in the day, they were very good.

     

    I was an ESCLA member too Mike, in the mid 90's when I was around 15 & Pat Slavin was organising things. My Dad used to drop me off at Watford junction & I'd pick the train up from there.

    I'm tempted to join again as I haven't been to Goodison for years - getting married & having a young child  put paid to that for a bit unfortunately!

  11. 40 minutes ago, Palfy said:

    Nothing comes to mind about the gear box to me but the Missus remembers that she use to struggle finding reverse, I can't believe that price and that was exactly like ours colour as well, but the wheels on that one don't ring any bells.

    Those are the standard BBS wheels - maybe being a professional football player your neighbour got a special edition or something? (Probably worth even more!)

    As for the gearbox, it's a bit weird as reverse is where first is on a normal 'box, 1st is straight back where 2nd usually is, 2nd is where 3rd usually is etc etc.

     

    Good luck with your bike test by the way - I did mine a couple of years ago & really enjoyed it!

  12. 2 hours ago, MikeO said:

    Haha, you posted while I was typing, fancy an A3 Cabrio? I'll give you a good deal:P.

    Haha, that does sound like a nice car Mike, but sadly it's not one that is likely to appreciate in value so it doesn't fit my criteria! 😉

     

    19 minutes ago, Palfy said:

    We bought it off our neighbor in 1988 it was 2 years old and red, the neighbor was Swindon Town captain called Ross McClaren,  to be honest Johnsy  I haven’t got a clue what number it was and even when I owned it I wouldn’t have known, to be honest mate I buy cars for there looks and haven’t got a clue about the technical data. 

    It was the last of the squarer shaped models but your probably know more than me and could tell me what model it was. 

    That was an E30, the first and probably the most desirable M3! They were notoriously hard to handle in the wet too, as you noted. Can you remember how you found the gearbox? It's a dog leg, so the gears are in a different place to a conventional 'box.

    This is the cheapest E30 M3 on autotrader at the moment! You could have bought an awesome Harley for that if you still had it! 😜

  13. 2 hours ago, Palfy said:

    The fastest and hardest car to drive that I’ve owned was a BMW M3, I’m not what you would call a racer that car use to scare that shit out of me, it was like I’d filled up with Kangaroo juice for the 1st few weeks I had it, the throttle was so sensitive I’d put my foot on slightly to hard and it would shoot off I’d shit myself and first reaction was foot off the gas then you would jerk and bounce along. 

    Also rear wheel drive which in Swindon with all our roundabouts was a nightmare kept flipping the back out which in the wet wasn’t very good for the heart or anyone near me. 

    Which M3 was it Palfy? I've been thinking of getting a nice car for me as a second car to do just a few miles in (in addition to the family qashqai) as sort of an investment too. Would love an original E30, but prices are through the roof now! I've always likes the E46 & you can get a decent one for about £10k now, and prices seem to be rising....

     

     

    3 hours ago, johnh said:

    The most ridiculous high powered road car I ever drove.   The director of a company we dealt with phoned me one day and asked me would I look after his car for a month as he had been banned for speeding.  It was a Ford Escort RS with a 2.9 Cosworth engine turbocharged.  He said to use it as much as I wanted.   When you accelerated, you actually went back in the seat.  As I didn't want to lose my licence I kept within the speed limit but used the acceleration which was phenomenal. Never got held up as I could overtake everything!   Happy with my Nissan  Qashqai now, plodding through its 3,000 miles pa!

     

     That must be worth an absolute fortune now!

    (if it's still in one piece!)

  14. My first car was an F reg Fiesta 1.4 ghia! I wanted to put an XR2 bodykit on it but I never got round to it in the end - would love an original XR2 now!

    I do quite like cars, and when I was in my 20's and single I had one of the original Focus RS's, then an imported twin turbo Toyota Supra, which was ridiculously fast. Both didn't lose very much depreciation-wise which is one of the reasons I bought them - the Supra cost me £6500 for a '94 reg in 2006, and I sold it to somebody in Germany in 2010 for £5500. Didn't cost too much to run either really - insurance and servicing were surprisingly low, and it was 100% reliable, but petrol cost a LOT! I should have kept it for longer in hindsight - they go for more than £15k these days!

    When I hit 30 I decided, like Haf, I'd rather spend money on securing the future for my family, so I got a Skoda Fabia vRS, which was still a bit sporty but really practical & cheap to run, and now I'm married with a little one I have an extremely boring, extremely practical diesel Nissan Qashqai +2!

    Living in London I quite fancy a small electric car like the Renault Zoe as a run around too.

  15. 3 hours ago, jofanon said:

    I chose it.  I'm a southerner born to a Gooner.

    Been my club since I was 4-5 and I'm now 40.  Long time to be in pain!

     

    2 hours ago, Blueherts said:

    Same. (literally, in every detail!)

     

    2 hours ago, Newty82 said:

     

    80's glory hunters 😉

     

    Roughly the same for me, except my Dad didn't really like football but was was nominally a Tranmere fan, but I am a proper glory supporter because I became a fan during the '84 cup final at the age of 4. Went well for a couple of years too......

    😐

     

  16. 13 hours ago, Matt said:

    Me neither. Give me peace and quiet any time!

    My bit of London is quiet! I'm only 5 mins from the tube & then 25 mins into the centre too, so best of  both worlds, although if I didn't work here I'd be tempted to live elsewhere.

     

    On topic, Wolves can fuck off!! I'd be disappointed but could understand if he went to Lyon, but Wolves?!

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