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Todays Factors memorial caption competition
at 14:54 28 Mar 2024

More American predators climb on board.
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So this Leicester problem
at 11:01 27 Mar 2024

Although, to be fair, they only got relegated because Everton a Forest ( and almost certainly several other clubs yet to be outed) broke the rules last season.

The franchise might not escape close scrutiny either. Just because they say they are scraping within the rules doesn’t necessarily mean they are.
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Not a single river healthy
at 10:55 27 Mar 2024

Those of you old enough not to believe everything you read in The Guardian might be interested to know that the main reason the water industry was privatised (other than appeal to the greed and self-interest of voters) was that the crumbling industry infrastructure couldn’t realistically be maintained or improved in public hands.

Nobody stopped to think that this might also apply to the myriad of companies once in private hands. Nobody cares one iota because the share issue was free money for anyone prepared to put in multiple applications.
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£250m + valuation. A mystery to me
at 07:55 25 Mar 2024

It’s ’added value’.

Reality doesn’t enter the equation. If you say you own a business worth £250 million you can borrow a lot more money in the USA to keep your gravy train afloat than if you say you’ve bought a loss-making business worth £8 million.

The other phrase you need to bear in mind in all that hot air blurb is ‘up to’.
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40% of the club has been sold by ORG
at 10:30 23 Mar 2024

Rather uniquely the club is now being run by cowboys and Native Americans

It would be interesting to know just how much money is being ‘invested’. The phrase ‘up to’ occurs more than once in all the blurb.

Evans increased the clubs vale five fold by losing £100 million and going down a division. The cowboys are doing something equally mystical
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If we go up this season are we ***ked?
at 08:27 22 Mar 2024

I think you’ll find the ‘owners’ have very little money and are living off spiralling loans - which in at least one case are coming home to roost. I doubt the pension fund who financed the purchase will be committing anything beyond what was in the original agreement as they are duty bound to get a return - not subsidise a small town football club living beyond its means in a foreign land.

As to the effect of promotion- simple maths shows this is by far the best option - as well as giving the ‘owners’ something to cream off - and the bonus of relegation payments to keep the gravy train rolling. IF Town get knocked out in the play offs the two years of massive overspending exiting division 3 come home to roost - and player sales will be needed, not to mention perhaps a five year plan with an abrupt u-turn on the academy.
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The Brexit bonus?
at 06:23 21 Mar 2024

This is the same Bloomberg that decreed the Brexit referendum was the greatest act of national folly since Hitler invaded Russia.

Maybe they foresaw some war action on the eastern front
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Rather grim Hive Mind question:
at 06:10 21 Mar 2024

0%

Why should he? Nobody in the west cared when Russia invaded Ukraine ten years ago. The World Cup was more important.

Once Trump wins the west will force Ukraine to give up - the land bridge to Moldova can start - and nobody will care about that either

Stopping the boats is more important to Populists than mother Russia
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Destroying mobility in the football pyramid
at 08:32 19 Mar 2024

I’m not sure FFP is a means to restrict ‘small clubs’ from breaking through a glass ceiling rather than a means to stop state-sponsored Sportswashing rendering the sport pointless.

It’s not perfect and will take time to have an effect - but the effect of Forest cheating last year is one reason why the Championship is top heavy with slightly better than usual Premier League dross this year.
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Our best ever academy product?
at 07:30 19 Mar 2024

This raises an interesting point with school kids being hawked to the highest bidder for a dollop of cash. It’s still going on with a 14 year old being touted at present - so genuinely ‘top prospects’ will never come through the academy under the current system.

Going back a few years the more gifted youngsters like Ambrose and Bent, let alone Wickham were actually given game time for the club before moving on in their teens So it’s several decades since top players actually stayed with the club that nurtured them.

I suppose Pope is the most recent good player to slip through the net. Butcher or Wark possibly the best ever.
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Looking for D-Day veterans
at 12:47 18 Mar 2024

You’ll be doing very well to find any. There were not many left for the 75th anniversary - and a couple of them had passed away before the IWM featured their stories.

If you haven’t seen any of Rishi’s WW2 interviews they are worth watching on You Tu be whilst you’re waiting to find a Normandy veteran
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Birders...
at 11:19 17 Mar 2024

Whatever you do don’t say where you live. A pair has bred in Suffolk for the first time since the 1800s and last years chicks, of which I think there were five, will be top targets for gamekeepers as they attempt to find a territory.

IF it was a raven the easiest way to tell is the massive bill. Carrion crows are quite large up close but have a much less business-like bill
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European draws
at 08:35 16 Mar 2024

The Chumps League draw sort of confirms why they want to seed it - with the top four teams in one half of the draw ensuring a dud, presumably Paris Sportswashing Project reaches the final…..presumably against our very own Sportswashing project.

It’s an odd hybrid at the moment with meaningless league games for months on end before it becomes a luck of the draw cup event
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Victor Meldrew maybe
at 08:28 16 Mar 2024

Exactly what I was pointing out. The yoof of today don’t know how lucky they are.

Mind you there ARE advantages eventually to not owning a house. Your kids won’t have to sell it whilst watching you decline catastrophically in a rip-off ´Care ´ Home.
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Friday quiz
at 08:22 16 Mar 2024

You dress as a woman, pedal conspiracy theories and prostitute yourself to the far right?
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A few threads today have had me thinking
at 13:56 15 Mar 2024

A ‘project’ for “sir” Jim and the Ineos team?

A Qatari sportswashing project?

A Clearlake Captial comedy club?

A mafia money-laundering operation?

Plenty of buyers of other clubs since the 5% gang rode into town
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Victor Meldrew maybe
at 12:32 15 Mar 2024

I’ve changed my eating and drinking habits which helps no end - though there’s a finite end fast approaching to those little benefits

I also put us on a war footing, growing fruit and veg and getting to know the local hunters which puts some free meat on the table on the few occasions we eat meat nowadays.

I’m fairly sure it was ever thus. My parents bought their first house for £2000 - yet couldn’t afford a car for seven years after that massive expenditure - and my dad walked nearly three miles to work and back… though people used to stop and offer lifts. On the plus side that generation produced probably the richest pensioners there have ever been with huge house inflation and final salary pensions to cushion the aches and pains.

Things seem expensive now because the financial crash brought zero interest rates - which meant nobody bothered to save. The came the perfect storm of leaving the EU, Boris Johnson, Covid and Liz Truss - but I doubt things are anything like as bad now as when I fixed our mortgage at 10%…
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ITFC Hall of Fame
at 11:17 15 Mar 2024

Seems a bit odd having so many nominated each year - there’s some relative barrel scrapings already

How about a hall of infamy? Plenty of options there.

Or a woke section. - Steve Stacey first ´player of colour’… although the first gay player and chairman are already there…. And Mick Hill lived in a caravan.
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Victor Meldrew maybe
at 11:08 15 Mar 2024

Imagine what it’s like for younger people who have massive mortgages, kids to feed - and have to pay for your free prescriptions whilst fretting that the world is about to end because summer is on the way.

And the conservatives are doing their level best to ensure that they will never qualify for a pension
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RIP Glastonbury
at 16:48 14 Mar 2024

Went downhill as soon as they started charging. Bring back Gong
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