tom_widdows

Arbitrarion as I understand it means any document relating to the disagreement must be handed over by law. Hearts and Thistle are relegated however they will no doubt be compensated and the SPFL will need to fully explain what happened with Dundee etc and the other alleged claims they made about TV contracts etc Wonder how long Cockwomble will hold on to his main job and/or his new role at UEFA?

VAR at it again Lucas Moura fouled running in on goal. To stop himself faceplanting into the ground he puts his arm out and it touches the ball just before the Sheff Utd defender kicks it back into his upper arm Ref plays advantage as the ball lands at Harry Kanes feet who after a pull back scores. VAR official declares Moura handballed it after he was fouled. Kane goal and foul on Moura 'cancelled' and Sheff Utd get a free kick?!

West Ham supposedly in the shit too which is bad news for the London stadium. At least QPR had the good sense to keep hold of Loftus Road when they briefly moved the previous London Olympic stadium.

I'm surprised they have managed to avoid it this long. Soon as Whelan left they were in trouble as he effectively bankrolled them from 1995 - 2018. Wigan historically is a Rugby League town and as soon as Premiership football went away the football attendances dropped by about 40% within a couple of seasons and with less SKY TV money and no 'sugar daddy' the Covid possibly sped up the process. That part of England is potentially a football graveyard Bury - Gone Bolton - Struggling (nearly vanished last year) Macclesfield - on Life support Blackpool - Struggling Rochdale - Club been quite vocal on how worried they are.

Have all the scousers cleared out of Wellington then? Plenty of them around during the 2006 world cup

So apparently the cup hasn't been abandoned but has to be squeezed in among the new season fixtures presumably before Christmas or the league cup (if that isnt cancelled)

In 2008 there was a film called Doomsday in which I believe a deadly virus is released and Scotland is used as a quarantine zone for the infected Mad Max style. Given the leaked report from Health England and the scenes on the beaches of Dorset today (and yesterday apparently) fuck building the bridge to Northern Ireland I think a wall from Gretna across to Berwick Upon Tweed similar to that used in the film, might be in order.

I give it till July before they sign him up

Neilson just quit the Arabs to return to Tynecastle. Interested to see if he can actually turn them around again in the championship or perhaps just find himself added to the every expanding list of recent managers should they fail to get back to the premier at the first try That is of course unless the courts rule in the Jambos favour (which no doubt will result in another law suit raised by Arabs, Raith & Cove)

Ian Holm - 88

Strange effect of having 'crowd noise' at Villa Park whilst being able to hear the players clear as day. Goal-line technology and VAR and yet a goalie holding the ball after falling into the side netting doesnt even equal a 2nd glance.

Couple of comments Ive seen suggest their demise started after they spent nearly 80million rennovating the stadium for the 2006 world cup. Had they filled the additional 10000 capacity it would have paid for itself but the conensus is their old capacity was about as high as they could expect.

Watched 2 Aussie Rules games over the last couple of days. One played at the MCG to complete silence other than the players voices/ refs whistle etc. Another players at the smaller Geelong stadium but they either played crowd noises through the tannoy system or dubbed it onto the TV coverage. Whatever they did it really made a difference to the point I thought they had opened the stand underneath the TV cameras. Few suggestions that the crowd noise could be used at EPL games. I really hope they do and the same with the SPL when it returns

And he won it https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52993954

Nope

Appears the current record is held by Benfica (who took it from Bordeaux) when they played Kairat in the group stages

Their PR deflectors have stepped up a gear. Announced a couple of days ago they are selling off part of the car-park next to the ground for a housing project (wonder how the planners will respond to that given they could actually ask 'OK so where are you putting these parking spaces yer losing) and use the money to convert the office block at the back of the Copeland Road stand into a Seveco Museum and conference venue. As far as I'm aware they have been trying to sell or at least rent that office block for the last 8 years but no-one has touched it. Now its putting a B team into the lower leagues and they will supposedly buy 200 away tickets for each game (cash upfront ) and also fork out £1000 a match to stream them so the 'smaller teams don't miss out'. The other week they were allegedly top of the list of UK teams to go bust with closed door football. I wouldn't be surprised if the alleged 3million they paid for Hagi (notice it started at 5million and then went down each week) was a lie to try and convince their hordes they are actually capable of competing financially with Celtic and maybe even following their recruitment strategy. Difference being the Tic seem to be able to sign up young players for a few 100k and then sell for a few million. By no means an expert in judging players but something says to me if Hagi Jr was as good as his Dad he wouldn't be at Sevco.

The question for me is as Military trucks roll into washington DC (and perhaps other cities) will this be the point where the personal moral codes of soldiers result in the next american revolution? Its one thing to fire on enemy soldiers/ terrorist groups but to fire on your own citizens on the orders of someone who 6 years ago was essentially a tv personality is one of the things their great grandfathers, grandfathers & fathers were sent around the world to supposedly stop the likes of Hitler & Hussein and generations were raised to despise Stalin and the communist regimes. If the soldiers refuse to shoot the civilians and indeed the army generals say 'enough is enough' then they can look to the declaration of independence But then again thanks to the right wing and their ancient constitution some of those civilians they could be ordered to shoot at may have similar if not more powerful weapons then the soldiers. There are also the many 'militia groups' - which I reckon in any other western country would have been arrested as terrorists- who may side with Trump or even have their own agendas as a further factor. The closests the UK government has ever come to ordering military action on UK citizens was January 1919 in Glasgow. Should Trump (or whoever is actually in charge) choose to do what the Brits didn't then the morale high ground they proclaim over China, North Korea, Hussein's Iraq, The Taliban, Stalin's Russia, Hitler's German, Pol Potts Cambodia and so on is gone and will never return. Would Europe & Asia with the support of Mexico & Canada chose to invade the USA to intervene?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/rangers-celtic-top-list-at-22113286 oh dear

Seems the Daily Mirror and Guardian have found witnesses saying he effectively did a small tour of the local area. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/23/new-witnesses-cast-doubt-on-dominic-cummingss-lockdown-claims

As far as I'm aware a big aspect of the draft system is to ensure the top teams do not just take all of the best players and therefore just keep winning The team which gets first pick in the draft is the one which finished last/ bottom of the table whilst the team which finished first is the last to pick. For that to actually work you need to serious level the financial playing field and also completely revamp the league to ensure each team is made up of mainly 'home' players - One of the claims as to why the scotland national team is so bad is the best young scottish players are hoovered up by the Tic & Sevco and then left to rot in the youth and reserve teams before eventually getting let go. Some might carve out a career in the lower leagues but many end up quitting.

Release the evidence or shut it!

School and University (NCAA) sports play a massive part in how the draft works. Some NCAA games get bigger crowds than the NFL. Uni's make a lot of money out of it meaning it is in their interest to give scholarships to kids who would never get there based on their academic abilities. The additional advantage is while at Uni effectively being a professional sportsman you are getting a qualification which you can fall back on should the sports thing not work out. Now lets have a look at the school and Uni sports situation in Scotland (or even the UK as a whole).