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GideonShandy

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  1. Really need some clarity on this. I always thought shirt pulling/grabbing was a foul, full stop. Often refs will play advantage if the player whose shirt is being grabbed pulls free and maintains possession. But otherwise it's a foul, and if it happens in the area it should be a pelanty. But now apparently it depends on how hard the pull is and/or how long it goes on for. In that case there should be some sort of guidance so that players know just how much shirt pulling is OK. The obvious solution is to do away with shirts and have the players spray painted in their team colours, but I don't see that happening. And even then they'd probably just resort to pulling opponents' shorts instead.
  2. Crate of eggs for the wife too, probably.
  3. How many chicken wraps did he buy?
  4. Tried to watch this all the way through but it was giving me PTSD so I stopped.
  5. Right-footed version of HBA v. Everton.
  6. Not quite as casual tbh.
  7. Interviewer: "Who do you think may have perpetrated this awful crime?" Detective (Peter Cook): “We believe this to be the work of thieves, and I'll tell you why. The whole pattern is very reminiscent of past robberies where we have found thieves to be involved. The tell-tale loss of property — that's one of the signs we look for.”
  8. "Darren Eales, who read law at St Edmund’s in the 1990s, and is now President of Atlanta United FC, saw his team defeat Portland Timbers 2-0 last weekend in front of over 73,000 fans in the final of the US Major Soccer League (MSL) Cup - the culmination of the US professional soccer season. Darren was appointed President of Atlanta United in 2014 before the team even existed - its first game was in 2017. Darren has helped the owner build the team from scratch to the point where it is now one of the 15 most-followed teams in the world, with average crowds of 54,000 at home games in the 1.5 billion dollar Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In a recent interview in The Times in October, Darren explained that “we are pioneers here, we’re trying to grow a sport”. Darren grew up in the UK and as a teenager played some of his football with the Cambridge United academy. He moved to the US for his first degree with a soccer scholarship at Brown University where he was feted as Ivy League Player of the Year, NSCAA First-Team All-America, COSIDA Academic All-American of the Year and USA Today Student Athlete of the Year, before graduating with a degree in economics. He then played professional soccer in the US for the Hampton Roads Mariners and the New York Centaurs before returning to the UK and St Edmund’s to read law and win a football blue in 1998. Following Cambridge, Darren qualified as a barrister in 2000 and then spent six years practicing law at 2 Temple Gardens Chambers in London. However, he couldn’t keep away from football and became a Director and Company Secretary at West Bromwich Albion and subsequently Executive Director and Club Secretary at Tottenham Hotspur before moving to Atlanta."
  9. GideonShandy

    Nick Pope

    He seems to have very thin legs. Sort of Bambi-like.
  10. Probably did it for a bet.
  11. Not sure why they left out this bit
  12. It's International Geordie Day. Happy 160th.
  13. GideonShandy

    England

    So my country can be free.
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