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  1. Spurf

    Spurf Thread Mover Forum Moderator

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    A Limerick

    There was a young lady of Tottenham,
    Who'd no manners, or else she'd forgotten 'em;
    At tea at the vicar's
    She tore off her knickers
    Because, she explained, she felt 'ot in 'em.

    <party>
     
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    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Arseway's grounds for appeal: WHL2 might not be built, because of our bid for the White Elephant.

    Now let me underline how easy that line of defence is to boot out of court:
    1.) Anyone with half a brain would see the coincidence in our bid: the day before Haringey Council made their final decision on a new stadium, we submitted a bid for the White Elephant - almost as if we were looking to force their hand...
    2.) Since the White Elephant was given to Wet Spam, trying to say that we'd move elsewhere is ridiculous
    3.) Phase One of the stadium build was completed yesterday
    4.) The only thing holding up the building of the new stadium is one NIMBY, which is why we applied for a CPO

    They're also trying to say that a CPO doesn't apply to sports stadiums - but since Liverpool council approved a CPO for Liverpool's new stadium, there's a legal precedent and it weighs in our favour.
     
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  3. The Huddlefro

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    I have no idea if what you said is true hbic, I'm no lawyer. Hopefully you're more Harvey Spector than Louis Litt :)
     
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  4. humanbeingincroydon

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    Points 2 & 3 both easily obliterate anything that Arseway claim - when part of a stadium is built, trying to claim the stadium won't be built is incredibly flimsy. Their claims that a new stadium won't do anything for the area is also incredibly easy to disprove: Phase One of the stadium includes a supermarket and a technical college, therefore is providing the area with jobs and education - plus local businesses make a fair amount of money on matchdays that they simply would not if there wasn't a stadium there.
     
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  5. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Not a bad idea going pub en route to Wembley, I usually just drink in the ground but pints are like £4-£4.50 if I remember rightly. On away games, if I'm going via Liverpool Street I'll stop off at the Railway Tavern, you get loads of Spurs in there usually, especially for the derbies and then from there we're escorted to the rival's ground.

    Yeah me and three others have tickets but about four or five of my mates have missed out, two of them by one sodding point! I couldn't believe it when the cut off was 185 and they text me saying they had 184. I'd never have predicted the cut off point being that high though, past years it's been between the 125-150 marks I think.
     
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  6. O.Spurcat

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    The cut off was 151 for the last final we were in against Man United. Given there is now an annual cull of loyalty points at the beginning of each new season, there is absolutely no logical reason how the number of points needed has risen.
     
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    I see Timmy has removed First team coach Scott Marshall from Villa. I wonder how long it will be before Steffen Freund will be announced as his successor.
     
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  8. No Kane No Gain

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    Those 2 might get tickets yet! I missed out on the Pompey one by a point and about a week later got offered a seat by email. Presumably not everyone that applied had paid so they may just get lucky like I did.

    Yeah Liverpool Street's a good place for home and away games. I tend to go to the Hamilton Hall because it's cheap and so am I but in the past I've been to the Railway Tavern and a couple of the other ones around there. Worth stopping off for a pint on the way back from a game too, usually some nice girls out and about on the weekend ;)
     
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  9. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Fingers crossed then, though you've gotta be a complete and utter twat to bodge up a cup final ticket for yourself <laugh>

    We used to go Hamilton Hall as well but they closed it both last season and this season when we faced West Ham at Upton Park, apparently there was trouble the time before when we played. Can't beat London for a bit of eye candy, I usually go Leicester Square after coming back from an away game, go Yates and then onto Empire Casino - which is where the day can end up being a day and night to remember or a complete disaster... Usually the latter in my case lol.
     
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    Sir Alex and Becks looking very matey at the PSG/Chelsea game.
     
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  11. No Kane No Gain

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    Haha true, it was a restricted view seat so maybe they had visions of being stuck behind a column like in the East Stand. At £20 I can't understand why you wouldn't go for it either, I could see the whole pitch just fine from the seat.

    I steer well clear of casinos, I'm bad enough betting on my phone drunk. A mate of mine went to Vegas for work and on the last night he went to a casino with a work mate, they both got plastered and lost all their money(we're only talking hundreds here) and overslept missing their flights. I had to send him a hundred quid and his sister booked him a flight back <laugh>
     
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    Is Mark Pougatch really an improvement on Adrian Chiles ?
     
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    Don't you fellas have interesting lives!!!!!! Things have surely changed since my trips with an egg sandwich and a cup of friggin' Bovril!
     
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    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Yeah not sure where the actual restricted view at Wembley would be, for the Chelsea final I sat about 3 rows from the top and the view was perfect, for Utd the following year I was in similar rows but on the other side of the stadium where again the view was fine and then for Pompey and Chelsea semi's, I was about 15 rows from the front. To be honest I'd sit on the arch at Wembley if it meant being able to see the game live!

    Haha what a nightmare! Vegas is actually somewhere me and my mates want to go, looking possibly at going in 2016 providing everyone can get the substantial finances and time off required.

    I usually go casino once a month/ every other month regardless of whether I've gone football. Last visit was about 2 weeks ago for my younger Cousin's 21st, his brother went onto the £5 min black jack table with £150, after about a good 4-5 hours of playing he got up to £1,300 (by this time I was wiped out by the sodding roulette tables), was about 4 in the morning and the supervisor said they're closing the table so I said to him I'll walk with him to the cashiers to change up, I walked in front for a few steps, turn around and he's sitting on a £25 min table, does the lot in 3 hands, £400, £400, £500... I felt sick to my stomach, let alone how he must have felt, although technically he only lost £150 of his own money he's in a situation where that £1,300 would've done him the world of good as he's looking to start driving and starting up his own freelance gardening business... Safe to say he'll still be waiting a while for that to happen now <laugh>
     
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    My "restricted view" seat was front row of the top tier on the goal line towards the corner. Basically if I sat back then I wouldn't be able to see who was taking a corner beneath me but that was about it. You could lean forward and see everything fine.

    Yeah I sat at the back for the Wembley Cup(my mate has a habit of buying us stupid seats) and it was decent enough for a view, not that we had many in the way of us. I could see that ginger defeder Celtic had walking through our whole team just fine :(
     
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    Bovril,love the stuff,have it spread on toast every morning,yummy,do you know Greavsie used to advertise it?
     
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    Bovril is a drink isn't it ? How do you spread it on your toast then ?
     
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    From memory, it's a paste in the jar, or used to be. You add hot water to make the drink. I suppose you could eat it straight from the jar - never tried it. Marmite for toast! <ok>
     
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    I seem to remember "I wish you an interesting life" is an Irish curse.
    Isn't "Have an interesting life" an Irish curse?

    Too dull isn't good, but too interesting is much worse.
     
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  20. bigsmithy9

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    I didn't mention an Irish curse! Mind you,I'd put a curse on Arsenal........
     
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