The General Football Thread

It gets everywhere and isn't very biodegradable.

 

It gets everywhere because it's good.....

 

http://news.sky.com/story/kia-oval-cricket-ground-aims-to-go-plastic-free-in-three-years-10961701

#resistsurgetogetonsoapbox#

 

Plastic is bad because humans are filthy and too lazy to recycle properly?

Let's ban plastic. Love to see how hospitals, just for one example, will look after their patients without it.

Plastic isn't bad. Humans can be.

 

I just bought my grandson a fleece made from recycled plastic bottles. It's amazingly soft and warm, just goes to show what can be done.

 

At work the plastic cups we use in the vending machines gets recycled into picnic tables for the outside break areas.

 

I agree , nothing wrong with plastic itself , but we use FAR to much of it IMHO , esp in packaging .

 

Yes I agree. Too much ends up chucked in the sea and sent to landfill. Humans are to blame without a doubt. I would like to dump some of the rubbish I pick up back in peoples gardens and see how they like it. Plastic definitely has good uses but there is far too much of it being used unnecessarily.

 

Agreed. However, how much much energy and pollution does plastic cause in its manufacture.? We need to be looking at all materials and products in that way, as well as how we deal with them once their operating life is over - temporarily or otherwise.
For example, a typical FF [fossil-fuelled - I can't be bothered to type out the full title anymore] car produces as much pollution in its manufacture, from base materials to the finished product, as it will ever produce in its operating life. The bigger, more complex the FF vehicle, the more pollution it causes over its manufacture and operating life. And even if it is 100% recyclable, how much energy and pollution does that cause to make it into something new, once its old life is over.?

In my opinion there ought to be stricter measures over the public's attitude to recycling. This isn't a case of personal freedoms being eroded. It's a duty and commitment to the environment in order to minimise the negative impact that the public makes on it. We have laws on littering [which are largely not enforced] which ought to be extended to recycling. The return to broadcasting public information films [PIFs] and radio, so important in giving a guide to everyday living within a society, would be a very good thing. For those who might object to being 'controlled' in some way, just flick through the past British PIFs on everyday life, on Youtube or elsewhere, to see what a light touch they brought. There would be no argument for someone to claim that they didn't know.

Long subject which might be better discussed on the MMM thread.

 

Looks like our academy is getting a rival...?

http://braywanderersfc.ie/bray-wanderers-fc-statement/

 

Anything Saints or any other team does wrong pales in insignificence compared to the mess at Bray! What a statement from Gerry Mulvey! My team Finn Harps travel to them on Friday, hopefully they don't give a toss, roll over and let us win...we need it!

 

Martina and Rooney could be making debuts for Everton tonight - it's a funny old world!

 

Did anyone hear about the wrong horse that won a race today? It wasn't the horse it was supposed to be. 50/1 winner too... mmm I wonder!

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/40740691

 

Cuco getting stick ...

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=cuco martina&src=tyah

 

With AC Milan, PSV Eindhoven, Athletic Bilbao not to mention Aberdeen and Everton in the 3rd qualifying round of the EL, who is there in final qualifying round let alone the group stages. Dinamo Bucharest v Athletic Bilbao at this stage of the competition? These are two teams with a goodish European pedigree and should be in the group stages automatically, let alone the two teams with the highest profiles, AC and PSV.

Funnily enough I do not see a German team there.

 

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  Everton 0-0 MFK Ruzomberok
  
  Posted at52 mins
  That's more like it! Goodison is rocking again after two good chances in close succession. First Davy Klaassen spins on the edge of the area and is inches away from finding Wayne Rooney in the middle, and seconds later Klaassen heads wide from a peach of a Cuco Martina cross.
  
  Is that the spark Everton needed?

 

Edit: Freiburg are there!!!

 

They're basically French anyway.

 

They need a player called Mark Hughes!!

 

Tim Kleindienst!!! Such an interesting name!!! Sign him up immediately, just for his name. !!