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The designers of Everton's new ground are at the crucial stage of deciding where the bank-rolling corporate hospitality seats should be situated.
The middle ring of boxes around the ground at Wembley is seen as diluting the atmosphere and the preference now is for restaurant hospitality to go with the corporate ticket rather than boxes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4412978/Doubts-arise-600m-TV-deal-FA-Cup.html
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Here's the trailer for a little-known indie film.
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Essentially, it boils down to whether it's like Man City's Commonwealth Stadium (good) or the London Olympic Stadium (bad).The Commonwealth Games is a two week event. Personally speaking, I've rarely watched it and can only remember watching the bowls at Glasgow in 2014. It's not worth hamstringing a new build football stadium for a two week event.
I'd rather Birmingham won the hosting the rights if it meant no athletics track.- rubecula and Romey 1878
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Guardian's deputy sport editor Ed Aarons says Everton have offered a contract to him.
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Atomic Blonde looks pretty good to me.
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So what happens if Mrs. Matt makes $76k and decides not to pay? Is it just the passport that is revoked or citizenship too ? Can she essentially become nationless?
Do they send this guy?
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Someone has kindly corrected the link.
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I remember Richard Branson had to sell his stake in one of the companies because he didn't want an American passport.
Incidentally(!), I think US passport holders have to send a % of their income back to USA even if they don't live there. I'm not 100% on that though.
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Is this the same competition we were cheated in a couple of years ago?
I think you're thinking of the Guiness International Champions Cup which was a pre-season event for the first team. This is a youth cup.
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The Thor Ragnarok trailer looks promising.
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A new competition is to be ratified today (CONCACAF Nations League) that would see CONCACAF national teams be placed in to tiers with promotion and relegation.
I imagine USSF and FMF are not happy with it as it could decrease their income levels due to some friendly dates being used for the new competition. -
I like this by Texas.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0AdpoGYRT4KqDGWWyeWiaN
I can't put my finger on it but it sounds like George McRae's Rock Your Baby
There's something else in there that I've recently heard on a Daft Punk song. It sounds like Niles Rodgers. -
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The comment that Moshiri plans to remove the Liver Birds and replace them with statues of Duncan Ferguson made me laugh.
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He was found guilty.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/reckless-oap-pilot-guilty-towing-12844950A “reckless” pilot was fined for flouting flight safety law - by towing a pro Bill Kenwright banner dangerously close to Goodison Park.
Alan Elliott , 68, was paid by an Everton fan to display the banner, which stated: “Thank you Mr Kenwright” in support of the club chairman, but flew as close as 400ft to the packed stadium.
The pensioner, who ran banner towing firm air-ads.com, was prosecuted by airspace regulation body the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) after an amateur pilot spotted the plane from the stands and raised concerns.
Elliott, of Leigh Road in West Houghton, Bolton, was today convicted of breaching the Air Navigation Order 2009 after a trial at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court, and was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £8,500 in prosecution costs.
The regulation, also contained within EU law, states that no aircraft should fly over a congested area at a height lower than 1,000ft within a 600m radius of the highest obstacle.
Elliott claimed he had been forced to breach the regulation to avoid flying into cloud, due to rapidly deteriorating weather, – an exception allowed under the law.
But District judge Wendy Lloyd found Elliott guilty, and said she was sure he had made the “reckless decision” to fly so close to the stadium for “commercial purposes.”
She said: “We of course know that nothing happened, and I’m not told that anything was about to happen in regards to an accident or mishap of any kind, but the reality is the rules are there to be followed to ensure the safety of those in a congested area.
“I find that you flouted those rules because you had an overwhelming desire to get that job done.”
Elliott had taken off from Blackpool Airport on December 19, 2015, intending to fly the banner over Goodison Park shortly before the Blues kicked off against Leicester City at 3pm – a match attended by 39,000 spectators.
The court heard he had been paid £800 by fan Steven Brydon-Kenny, who disagreed with previous banners paid for by other fans calling for Mr Kenwright’s resignation.
He told the court: “I could quite clearly see the lights at Goodison Park. What I could also see was that the weather behind me had turned very very dark, it closed in very black.”
Elliott said as he was approaching the stadium he encountered “the most rapid deterioration of weather” he had experienced in “30 years of flying.”
He claimed: “The conditions were bad, it was difficult, I had my hands full controlling the aircraft. My sole concern was maintaining visual references..I felt then and I still feel now I took the safest course of action.”
But he was contradicted by his own co-pilot and defence witness Andrew Nicholls – who said the severe weather had not set in until the Cessna light aircraft had almost completed it’s first circuit of the stadium.
Jonathan Duffy, prosecuting on behalf of the CAA, produced screengrabs from Mr Nicholl’s Twitter account – which showed a picture of the stadium posted at 3.05pm on the day with the caption “#Kenwright #banner #Goodison.”
He suggested that it was unusual to post a picture on Twitter moments after escaping a “life-threatening” emergency.
Mr Duffy suggested Elliott could have flown towards the Mersey Estuary or to green spaces away from the 39,000 fans gathered at the stadium.
He asked: “Was it a coincidence that the one place that you thought was the best place to avoid these potential dangers, was the very place that you were commercially instructed to fly to?”
Elliott told the court he had “no intention” to display the banner and was merely using the lights of the stadium for reference.
Amateur pilot Peter Smith, watching the game from the Paddock area in the Lower Bullens stand, reported the incident to the CAA after seeing the plane flying “significantly lower than 500ft.”
Appearing as a witness, he told the court: “My initial reaction was ‘gosh that’s low’. It was also noticed by a couple of people around me who have no interest in aircraft; my cousin sat next to me said ‘that’s low isn’t it?”
Derek Pye, defending Elliott, said his client had never been convicted of any offence before and had received no cautions or reprimands from the CAA for flying offences. -
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/pilot-trial-accused-flying-low-12840304
Tangentially related, a pilot who was paid to fly a banner over Goodison Park in support of Bill Kenwright is on trial for flying the plane too low.Someone in the Padock reported it to authorities.
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A Liverpool University lecturerer blogs abot the Council's involvement in the scheme and compares it to parents on their child's mortgage.
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I think you're taking it too seriously.
All he said was just because she was a woman, it doesn't mean she wouldn't get away with not getting a slap. They both laughed at the situation too. Then, he later apologised, the journalist accepted the apology. Non-story.
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I used to work with a geordie who wold say "belter" when something was good.
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His dad has been on Bosnian TV saying he will sign for Arsenal or AC Milan.