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Glass was a different kind of wide midfielder than what had preceeded him. He was more of a Sheedy type than a  Ginola type. He was a decent passer of the ball. Like 'Polic says not strong enough but I'm a tad blinded by his great performance in the 5-1 stuffing we gave Coventry at Highfield Rd under Gullit. He was absolutely magic that day.

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Mind reading a WSC article on that a while ago, I think the north/south balance has been pretty horrible for the last few years a that level, just with promotions and relegations leaving a heap of southern teams. Think their example at the time was Bishop's Stortford being in the North.

 

God, I'm fascinating.

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Why are Gloucester City in the conference north?

 

Mind reading a WSC article on that a while ago, I think the north/south balance has been pretty horrible for the last few years a that level, just with promotions and relegations leaving a heap of southern teams. Think their example at the time was Bishop's Stortford being in the North.

 

God, I'm fascinating.

 

This is true. There are a huge number of teams in and around the south east which slants the balance of north/south. Gloucester, Worcester and Bishop's Stortford have both been in Conf North. When Hampton were in Conf South we didn't really have too many long trips, unless one of the West Country teams got up. Even then Bath City isn't that bad a trip from West London. Worcester to Gateshead or Blyth though. Ridiculous.They've tried to find a better way of doing it but the organisation in non-league footy is so bad, they'll never get it right.

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What's it called when a player lays a penalty off for another player to score?

 

And I don't mean retarded, I mean is there a proper name for it.

 

I thought there was - it's a brazilian-y name like a flaffeffa or something with 'f's and 'v's that isn't flavela.

 

The Filipao

 

I thought that was the word for touching your sister?

 

Ah hell that escalated fast.

 

:lol:

 

Stumbled across this now. :lol: :lol:

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Almost certainly someone has played in both. Not sure if it's from going up to premier and then back down, but they've been switched across between seasons. Bishop's Stortford certainly have. They play about 30 miles north of the M25, near Stansted airport, and got stuck in the north for a couple of years.

 

Non league footy is crazy, there's always a team that goes out of business so somebody gets reprieved somewhere which causes other moves further down the pyramid. No promotions or relegations are final till after the league meetings in the summer.

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The border between north and south being in Essex is a bit silly though. Like I said, they really should have given it an overhaul years ago and split everything  in to north and south. The Isthmian league is the problem though, they'd never accept being merged with the southern league.

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This must have been asked, possibly by me.

 

Has anyone been sent off for taking his shirt off twice?

 

Not the answer but one of my favourite things ever in football was when Paulo Sergio scored for Bayern, whipped off his top to give to a disabled fan but had another shirt on underneath. Think it was pre-bookings but I'd be interested to see what would happen if you did that now.

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This must have been asked, possibly by me.

 

Has anyone been sent off for taking his shirt off twice?

 

Not the answer but one of my favourite things ever in football was when Paulo Sergio scored for Bayern, whipped off his top to give to a disabled fan but had another shirt on underneath. Think it was pre-bookings but I'd be interested to see what would happen if you did that now.

 

The booking is only because the sponsor isn't being shown, so if there was another shirt on underneath then you're golden.

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This must have been asked, possibly by me.

 

Has anyone been sent off for taking his shirt off twice?

 

Not the answer but one of my favourite things ever in football was when Paulo Sergio scored for Bayern, whipped off his top to give to a disabled fan but had another shirt on underneath. Think it was pre-bookings but I'd be interested to see what would happen if you did that now.

 

The booking is only because the sponsor isn't being shown, so if there was another shirt on underneath then you're golden.

 

Really? How fucking grim is that?

 

That'd definitely be my celebration of choice if I was player then.

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This must have been asked, possibly by me.

 

Has anyone been sent off for taking his shirt off twice?

 

Not the answer but one of my favourite things ever in football was when Paulo Sergio scored for Bayern, whipped off his top to give to a disabled fan but had another shirt on underneath. Think it was pre-bookings but I'd be interested to see what would happen if you did that now.

 

The booking is only because the sponsor isn't being shown, so if there was another shirt on underneath then you're golden.

 

Holy shit, is that really the reason?

 

If that's the case I'm surprised we've not seen crudely made Sharpie vests like:

 

Wonga

 

GOD HELPS ME SCORE GOALS

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I've also heard that it's because of the sponsors thing. If players take their shirt off the sponsors won't be shown in te celebrations on telly or in the photos that end up in the newspapers.

 

Might be both this and the offensive messages combined.

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Yeah, I'm sure I heard on a podcast the reason was due to broadcasting in countries that bare flesh might be offensive. Not entirely sure tho

 

"THEY LYK OWA BENEFITS BUT THEY DNT LYK OWA BEAR SKIN!!11"

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