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Similar boat. Right, there we go. Blind date. Sorted.

Playing your reserve keeper. Disrespectful.

Do it.

Vladimir Smicer has a right to feel aggrieved.

ah knaa. But he's now instantly worth £15m in the English market. Maybe we have sell on clauses.

BST... no?

this is amazing

Sold a future England keeper for pennies

Players can be easily booked if they're clearly wasting time. The clock is stopped for various reasons in Rugby and it works just fine there. It will quickly become apparent if there are issues with ball boys, and it could be dealt with very easily (in the same way they dealt with Stoke giving their ball boys team-specific instructions). The "opening doors to x" argument is nonsense and holds back the game. Theoretically players can be booked for dissent (as mentioned), but do they? No. Refs have limited power as it is. Rugby isn't football - differnet ruling bodies, enforcement culture, etc. The only real action I have seen against SToke (like pitch size) were made by UEFA and FIFA with the FA rolling over like the subserviant bitch that it is. If there are to be real changes I would start with enforcing the rules that already exist. I completely agree. Nothing will ever change until we have people in charge that can control a game properly. Whether that's because of their lack of power/incompetence is irrelevant really. But as a overall theory, I think it would be good to have a more representative clock. It'd also be nice if they made a change like this before there was an incident/big team losing out. But obviously that's never going to happen.

it's erm whey aye... man seems legit

Aye. Just a fuck load of passes in general. My assumption is that Brendan knows something we don't, and FIFA about to drop a huge bomb. 1 goal allotted per 300 passes is my guess. That kind of rate might be just enough for them to steer clear of relegation.

Players can be easily booked if they're clearly wasting time. The clock is stopped for various reasons in Rugby and it works just fine there. It will quickly become apparent if there are issues with ball boys, and it could be dealt with very easily (in the same way they dealt with Stoke giving their ball boys team-specific instructions). The "opening doors to x" argument is nonsense and holds back the game. It really does come down the enforcement. Refs need to start doling out cards for blatant time wasting (and diving). There's all sorts of shit in the game that could be massively improved if the refs were competent. They should be sending fuckers off all over the shop for dissent for example.

Players can be easily booked if they're clearly wasting time. The clock is stopped for various reasons in Rugby and it works just fine there. It will quickly become apparent if there are issues with ball boys, and it could be dealt with very easily (in the same way they dealt with Stoke giving their ball boys team-specific instructions). The "opening doors to x" argument is nonsense and holds back the game.

I played for a pub in north shields a couple of times . the refs job was to stop fights and keep some semblance of a football match moving- he was at his fucking whits end- like he had a spare second to keep starting and stopping a watch- half the time he wasnt even aware of where the ball was. add to this, theres no assistants, so he has to judge the offsides as well. So it's already completely different to the professional game then?

Refs in lower leagues cant read, write, speak, see or tell the time. Apparently.

Fucking old man 40. I thought it was a shocker. It would not be impossible to have a stop watch that was stopped by a ref when the ball went out of play. Fuckers would ask the ref how long is left, like every other game. There is nothing stopping this being implemented everywhere, with about 10 minutes notice.

could be done on the qiet. just a tiem keeper, radio controlled to ref... tells him when its ft. 'Hoy ref times up blow the whistle after this attack- or if man u are losing the next couple of attacks' If old man 40 can accept such a change, then all you kids should be able to embrace it. Fear of change for traditions sake holds the game back. And tbh, sticking to out-dated laws on the basis of tradition alone is about as American as you can get. Keeping players/managers in the dark about how long they have to affect the game? Eep. Nah, that's shit, but cp40 was the only one showing support. Just use the clock. 4th official stops it when the ball goes out. When it hits 30, ref blows whistle. Done.

could be done on the qiet. just a tiem keeper, radio controlled to ref... tells him when its ft. 'Hoy ref times up blow the whistle after this attack- or if man u are losing the next couple of attacks' If old man 40 can accept such a change, then all you kids should be able to embrace it. Fear of change for traditions sake holds the game back. And tbh, sticking to out-dated laws on the basis of tradition alone is about as American as you can get.

Shit like this should be implemented. There's the grand total of 0 reasons not to have it in place.

Not his. The club lease the ground. They lease the land but own the stadium. I know that sounds backwards. Be awesome if they lost the lease. You'll have to move your stadium. Ha.

http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Gold-Port-Vale-Kit-2012.jpg http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Port-Vale-Pink-Kit-2012.jpg Lush That shit must be tailored for the individual. There's no chance they can produce such a good cut en mass. No way.

Shame that the company that makes it are massive cunts and pissed all over the region. Because a business chose to move out of the area? Having been bought out?

http://i.imgur.com/iZC2D.jpg

Are you suggesting that renaming the stadium and putting up place holder ads is pointless other than simply to advertise Sports Direct. Because no it isn't, and not because it show cases the idea of stadium advertising to prospective sponsors either. But because it takes the brunt of the bad feeling away from the future sponsor. .... there is no future sponsor.

He knows we hate it, so why put it on the stadium, on the season tickets, on the roof, in the tunnel around the 'Howay the Lads' sign... May well be something else, but people must have learned there lesson from all the other times we've said "Ashley wouldn't be that stupid." Because we haven't gotten a good enough offer for the stadium rights yet.. what else would you suggest he puts there as a place holder for the future naming rights? "You're ad here"? You must be the only man on the planet that believes the "showcase" bollocks. I've got some lovely magic beans i'd like to sell you. I suppose you were also one of the people who thought Ashley would put us into administration to "get back at the fans". There is no conspiracy you loon. He's done it to showcase Sports Direct. That's all. No conspiracy, but certainly little expectation that a blue chip company is going to see all his fucking awful signage and immediately throw him a cheque, because it just looks so fucking great.