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Nope.

 

If I had won it I would have done that. Then shut them down and built houses on the space.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/euromillions-210m-win-makes-you-35755232

 

Would they be 'massive' houses?

 

No, small ones. Very basic as Sheffield people would be living in them.

 

Mud huts then

 

Ah, so that’s what they mean by ****housery?

 

It will be gated community. But with a difference, the gates will be to keep people in and have machine gun towers around the site. Imagine a Stalag Luft. Or the East German Border.

 

Ah, we call them sheds!

 

The address would be Lemmings Lane...

 

Burstow scores for Bolton

Bit of a deflection but they all count

 

Barstow scores again.... bit of a deflection, but ...

 

Next time I see the scores I'll know...

 

They've pulled that excuse out of their arse. Obviously not the sort of look they want on their TV show.

 

Interesting decision


Grassroots football will trial cooling-off periods to tackle rise in bad behaviour
Paul MacInnes

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The Football Association is to introduce cooling-off periods in grassroots football in acknowledgment that more must be done to contain bad behaviour at that level. Selected leagues are to trial the system this year, a move that will allow referee to order players of both teams to stop and retreat to their penalty area in order to prevent “escalation during heated moments in a match”.

During 2023-24, the latest season for which figures are available, the FA received 4,277 allegations of serious misconduct at grassroots level, a 13% increase on the previous year. The governing body is committed to “creating safe, respectful and inclusive environments” in the grassroots game, according to its director of football development, James Kendall.


“We’re clear on our position that all forms of unacceptable behaviour, whether on or off the pitch, have no place in football,” he said. “We’ve made good progress on addressing these issues, but we recognise there is still more to be done and we need to constantly adapt, develop and evolve our procedures in line with changes in the game.”

The International Football Association Board (Ifab), which determines the laws of the game, authorised trials of cooling-off periods in 2024. It argued the measure could be used in instances of “significant confrontation” to “prevent further confrontations and the need for the match to be abandoned.”

Any player who does not adhere to a referee’s instructions regarding a cooling-off period will receive a yellow card. Captains and coaches will then be charged with calming down their teammates before reporting back to the referee, who will use their discretion to restart play. The FA’s aim is to keep any break brief, “based on the seriousness of the situation and conditions”.

Cooling-off periods is one of several measures that will be deployed in a new crackdown on discriminatory behaviour, abuse of officials and more general misconduct. They include an extension of the use of referee body-cams in all leagues with persistent disciplinary problems and the introduction of the captain’s-only protocol, whereby only the captain can discuss decisions with the referee, which is also to be adopted in the Premier League and Football League.

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The FA will also continue its “behaviour improvement programme”, introduced last year, by which clubs are ranked according to behaviour.

 

Theres a big problem with threatening behaviour etc towards refs at grassroot level

Theres less and less people willing to give up their time to be refs which ultimately makes it worse for everyone

 

Fans United Day, 2005, Wrexham v Doncaster when fans from scores of football clubs attended to show support for Wrexham's plight. How soon they forget.
Abridged version, ****ers.


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Thing is
Wrexham fans are calling their club wrong for this

 

I know, I've just done a 'Dave', and fired an email off to Wrexham.


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I hope you cc'd in Trump and Vance. You gotta do it right.