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1 minute ago, Bob The Badger said:
Forest were 2 up and now 3-2 down.
Who cares?
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13 minutes ago, TexasRam said:
Dogsthorpe In Peterborough: most of Peterborough to be fair
Crosby and Birkenhead in Liverpool: the absolute pits
Cotmanhay, my god it’s bad
Crosby's nice. Are you mixing it up with somewhere else?
Oh and Birkenhead isn't in Liverpool. It's across the water.
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There comes a point when enough is enough. Perhaps we're not quite there yet but 6 league games plus matches in two Cup competitions is close.
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Skelmersdale
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I have stage fright
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1 hour ago, PistoldPete said:
Are commentators free to use terms like batsman? Are they not told to say batters?
Do we have postmen, binmen, handy man , man with a van , white van man et etc.. where does it end?
I suspect that commentators, just like any employee of a news-type organisation have a style manual to adhere to - particular phrases which need to be used, avoided, certain spellings etc
You still have postmen and postwomen but the gender of the person is not relevant to the job they do. The terms like 'handyman' come from a distant age when the job was done almost entirely by men. It's archaic. But you can use it as you like. Just as you can exclaim by saying, 'Ecod' or insult someone by calling them a slubberdegullion.
Words and phrases fall out of use. It never ends.
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1 hour ago, maxjam said:
Or maybe he just used a common phrase that virtually everyone knew what he was on about.
On a similar note, my contribution to this thread is people trying to tell me what to think and what I'm allowed to say (or not say). I appreciate that their opinions and beliefs might be different to mine - but they are different, not better.
If I come out with a traditional phrase such as 'its a mans game' when clearly talking about not shirking tackles etc I will continue to do so.
As for 'dying on that hill', I cancelled my Sky and TV licence a year ago ?
Nobody's telling anyone what to think.
Perhaps Souness is on holiday, who knows.
It's just patently absurd for Souness to say what he did whilst sitting next to a woman with triple figure caps.
'Traditional' phrases fall out of use simply because the world has moved on. Old farts like me got used to 'batter' and 'third' in cricket pretty quickly. It's anachronistic to continue using them but one is free to do so.
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1 hour ago, Unlucky Alf said:
I see Graeme Souness has not featured as a punter since his "it's a mans game comment"
This Sky subscriber will not be renewing his sport deal in December ?
You want to die on that hill?
Souness is a dinosaur.
Either he meant it was a game for men only, in which case, he's not a good fit for modern broadcasters or he meant that you need to be resilient to play the game, in which case he seems to lack the descriptive vocabulary required by someone whose job it is to talk about football.
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16 hours ago, islandram said:
lets hope all people who went into overdrive negativity go back under their stones.
Is Warnock the manager yet?
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3 hours ago, Alpha said:
Her response should have been firstly, let's pray we never ever are in that position. To be in that position means diplomacy has utterly failed. Lines of communication are utterly broken and there are no other options.
And secondly that it's hard to comprehend the massive loss to human and civilian life never mind the aftermath.
But instead she's like I'll do what I have to.
She's a feckin loon.
People took her up on her saying go to Ukraine. They got captured. I think two of them are dead?
She should shut up. Northern Ireland, Russia and France before she's even sat in the big chair.
Scotland too. Their First Minister should be ignored, apparently.
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1 minute ago, Brammie Steve said:
Unnecessarily offensive language in the penultimate paragraph.
I agree with the main points but this has totally ruined it for me!
You mean the American spelling of 'lacklustre'?
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2 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:
We stopped playing when Posh went down to 10 men.
There was a period in the first half as well where we really struggled to play out from the back and just lumped misplaced passes.
We don’t have it in us to lump it and play second balls. We don’t have CKR anymore.
Those also questioning Korey Smith. His vertical passes were brilliant when he came on. He did more in 20 minutes than Bird did in the entire game.
Jason Knight is too good for this league.
How far did he manage to kick it into the air?
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Just now, oldtimeram said:
Red Squirrel country?
Indeed. There was one in our garden not so long ago
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16 minutes ago, oldtimeram said:
Are you in one of the posh areas like Gateacre, Childwall or Calderstones?
Formby these days, so yes
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26 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:
It's all the way to Liverpool midweek to watch Derby against the Liverpool U21s, so I'd expect there will be plenty of tickets to go around. It's not a bad draw because it should give DC a decent payday which will help towards the running expenses of the club, and because of the likely Liverpool team (proximity to the World Cup) we will stand a decent chance of making the next round.
I'm surprised by some of the comments in the thread. People forget that now is the best time in all of human history to be alive. Everywhere was a dump in the 1970s. Liverpool, Derby, London. They're all way better now and this will likely be a great evening out for everyone who goes (result-dependent of course).
And everyone can come round for a cup of tea
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6 hours ago, TuffLuff said:
Much inspired by the Liverpool chat going on in the cup thread, where do you think just isn’t that bad?
Quiet beauty spot (we won’t tell anyone), venues, out of the way pubs, areas of countryside, town and cities. Anything applies!
Ill start with Stoke, not all of it of it obviously and it’s a bugger to drive through, but my other half did some work connected to one of the pottery factories and we found a couple of decent pubs nearby away from the centre. Also coming in from Leek there’s some nice scenic areas with impressive Victorian housing. I fully get Stoke’s reputation and that there is another side to the city, but it’s always my example where I think there’s a bit more to it than to how it’s perceived
All I've ever done with Stoke is drive through it. So easy is it that I barely notice it.
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This one might lure me out of my bolthole
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This is the day we click
3-0 Hourihane
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1 minute ago, Gerry Daly said:
Are you his dad or something? Nobody is being 'bullied'. Football is a results business and believe me if he had performed well consistently he would be first on the teamsheet
All businesses are results businesses
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358 consecutive games. Blimey.
Things that annoy me that should annoy me
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