General Football Thread

For those of you wondering what the hell 'modus vivendi' is, this may help.

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You're welcome!

 

Cheers Gandy .

I thought it was a type of Italian shampoo

 

England footballer Jack Grealish has been banned from driving and fined more than £80,000 for two motoring offences.
The Aston Villa captain, 25, previously admitted two counts of careless driving at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.
The offences relate to a crash in Dickens Heath, near Solihull, on 29 March, and a second incident near Villa's training ground on 18 October.
Prior to the convictions, Grealish already had six points on his licence for a speeding offence in 2018.
He has been banned from driving for nine months.

I know he is a bit of a twat,but £80k fine!!

 

There are three bands of fines for careless driving, depending on the seriousness of the offence and e.g. whether there were any prior convictions. The fines themselves are a percentage of "relevant weekly income" (50%, 100% or 150% depending on band). So basically he is paying exactly the same, pro rata, as what you or I would pay if convicted of the same offences.

 

How long has the UK been doing this? Any idea on how it's working out/being accepted? (Probably the wrong thread to ask, but I feel like living dangerously. )

 

I was summarising a Sentencing Council document last revised in 2017. Can't really answer your questions about effectiveness or acceptance. The Sentencing Council was set up 10 years ago, partly in response to perceived inconsistencies in sentencing, and widespread ignorance about how the courts reached their sentencing decisions. If you want to enquire further, I guess that would be the place to start: https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/

 

Thanks for the link. I'll take a look.

 

You been drunk driving mate ?

 

Not lately, but there was a time in my life...

 

I was just going say gamekeeper rather than poacher would be my guess; have to amend that now to poacher turned gamekeeper!

 

No evidence of drink driving.
The Judge later said a witness had found Grealish “intoxicated”, adding: “He said he could smell alcohol on your breath, your speech was slurred and you were unsteady on your feet.”
But he added: "I do not have any evidence you were over the proscribed alcohol limit on March 29."
The fine is believed to be one of the largest ever fines handed out for careless driving.
TV presenter Ant McPartlin was fined £86,000 and given a 20-month driving ban after pleading guilty to drink-driving, which is a separate offence.

No way would I condone drink driving,but where is the evidence.
The judge is obviously a Baggies supporter.

 

The only mention of drink driving was DD's joke reply to Canary Spring. Grealish was fined for aggravated careless driving offences, not drink driving.

 

Another vagary of this current season - 6 PL fixtures this evening (Wednesday) with two different kick off times.
Yet on Saturdays, the traditional football day, there are only four games, all kicking off at different times.
Go figure.

 

Maybe this can be used to fill in some potholes.

 

West Brom manager Slaven Bilic has been sacked after 18 months in charge, with the club 19th in the Premier League.
The Baggies have gathered seven points from 13 league games, with eight defeats, though they earned a surprise 1-1 draw at Manchester City on Tuesday.
Assistant coaches Dean Racunica and Danilo Butorovic also depart, as does first-team coach Julian Dicks.

Big Sam to the rescue no doubt.

 

More likely to pay compensation for injuries due to not filling in potholes -- this from Cycling UK:

"156 highways authorities have spent a total of £43 million (£43,322,360.20) on pothole compensation claims between 2013-17, with an average spend of £277,707.44 per authority. Based on this average, Cycling UK estimates that highways authorities across the UK incurred direct costs of around £72 million (£72,444,910.42). This £72 million figure represents 28% of the government’s £250 million, 5 year ‘Pothole Action Fund’ announced in 2013.
The £43 million in costs were incurred by a total of 31,563 individual claims – and therefore from (a maximum of) 31,563 potholes. The failure to fix these potholes therefore cost authorities an average of £1,372.57 per pothole, whereas fixing these potholes would have cost an average of just £53 each."

I appreciate that any, even general, connection between this post and football may appear remote to some, but when you think of how many players have been injured over the years from non-football related accidents such as tripping on the stairs, the mind boggles at what the consequences might be of damaging one's Porsche or Maserati by driving into a pothole at speed.

 

Kind of amazed at this. They're one win from safety, and in 13 games they've played 5 of the top 6. Villa and Leeds in their next 3, they could be out of the relegation zone before they appoint a new manager. It's not like they backed him with huge investment in the summer either.

 

West Brom have appointed Sam Allardyce as their new head coach.
The former England boss has signed an 18-month contract, which includes a break clause at the end of the season if the Albion are relegated.
Allardyce, in his first managerial role since being sacked by Everton in 2018, replaces Slaven Bilic after he was dismissed on Wednesday following West Brom's 1-1 draw at Manchester City on Tuesday night.
West Brom sporting and technical director Luke Dowling said: "In Sam we have a man who has a proven Premier League pedigree with a track record of improving every club he has managed.

Same old,same old