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    Leicester obviously have four great attacking talents which gets them through most games, but when you take the game to them they wobble. 

    Ipswich played them superbly. Defend your box with great organisation and like your life depends on it, then with 20 minutes plus injury time to go make the changes that rocks Leicester back on their heels. In the national spotlight, McKenna laid out his credentials to any Premier League club other than maybe the top six. 

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    15 hours ago, Dean Coneys boots said:

    Am very surprised at the silence of Knapper. You would think he would have come out and done something by now- especially bring in his own manager given that anyone can see this one is average at best. What is his plan and vision? Why isn’t he implementing it? 

    I think you have been spoilt by the brutal honesty of Webber's spun but honest (as he saw it) utterances, and expect every SD to provide flow of consciousness comms. (I am talking frequency, not quality of content).

    It doesn't work like that. Knapper works in the background and will communicate from time to time. Less is more. Let him do his job. He won't be issuing a 'Comminique to Dean Coney's Boots' every five minutes, so you will continue to be a disappointed little bunny, no pun intended.

     

    PS Or is this just another way of getting at Weber?

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    1 hour ago, canarybubbles said:

    If it was badly worded, as you claim, this was probably because a) he is a football journalist, not a legal expert, and, more importantly, b) because he realised the sensitivity of the question and was trying his very best not to be provocative. 

    OK @canarybubbles , so what did the question mean? You sound as if you are saying that you know.

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    It was a ham-fisted and badly worded question, and even now no one can be sure what the question meant .

    Primarily, 'governance' is likely to refer to legal governance, as applying to Company law. If that's what he was asking, then it was quite an offensive question. But that probably wasn't what he meant. It's more likely to have been 'who oversees the Board in its decision making'.

    Whatever he meant, the question was poorly considered as if dropping a big word into it made it serious question..

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    No Norwich City fan throughout its existence will ever do anything more classless than hounding Delia in word and deed. 

    It's deplorable and crass. She deserves to be allowed to  make her own exit in her own time which, in her 83rd year, she knows is upon her. It's not like leaving a building, she's stepping away in a process that needs to be right and meticulous, and cannot be rushed. Show some respect and decency.

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    15 hours ago, CANARYKING said:

    Like him or not this video needs to be seen, I hundred percent agree with every word

    Yes, but he says NOTHING specific in terms of what to build in place of what he wants to see dismantled. Governance? A fine word. Accountability? Equally fine, but if someone is funding the club, who should they be accountable to? The fans? Sorry, unworkable. Sack Wagner? Yes, but then what?

    He puts pressure on Knapper, and implies that he should have done more already. Take a breath, Jack, he's just arrived.

    It's all well and good to have the power of a YouTube following without any accountability, but with it should come some sense of responsibility.

    Too click-driven for my liking. No constructive thoughts and rather beholden to his audience, while consciously keeping in with Attenacio, while appealing to the zeitgeist.

    I never mind swimming against the tide, btw!

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    23 hours ago, Wings of a Sparrow said:

    That sounds like really **** poor treatment.

    I'd definitely write and complain, may not get you anywhere, but it will make you feel better.

    *P.iss

    I learned long, long ago that the only battles worth fighting are the battles you win. I am not sure I will win this one.

    I am planning to get it into the Small Claims Court for a refund of the ticket price and my parking charge for the night on the grounds that I was unreasonably refused admission. Not convinced I would win that argument,  it would all depend on the District Judge who was sitting, but it would force the Security provider to defend it, and that's where the satisfaction would lie. Guilty thugs tend to look like guilty thugs when questioned. 

    As for an apology, it would mean precisely nothing.

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    I had a borderline bad experience last night. I had a £23 ticket for an 'Undr the Cosh' performance at Epic in Magdalen Road, with an advertised 7pm start and Iwan Roberts as a guest.

    I got there at 6.35 and the entrance door were locked. By about 6.40 there were maybe 10 or 12 people outside, where it was cold and wet. At some stage the door was unlocked from inside so we shuffled in to wait by the Reception Desk. Within a few minutes a rude female appeared and told us abruptly to get outside, backed up by two doormen who told me it was for Health and Safety reasons as they did not know us.

    So out we all went again, to wait in the wet. When the doors were opened as soon as I tried to go in my path was blocked by the younger doorman, who told me agressively that I was on private property. I said 'Don't be a ****' whereupon he then walked into me physically with his face in my face to back me up and out onto the pavement. 

    I am well into my sixties, was dressed smartly, hadn't been drinking, and at no stage did I speak agressively or at all loudly. I was calm, they were agressive.

    I could see I wouldn't be getting in, so asked for their names, which they refused, so asked if I could take a photo of them. Got a good photo of the younger one whereas the older one gave  me a silly grin and a big thumbs up like a naughty five-year-old.

    Lots of issues arise, and I may contact the promoters, the operators, and the licensing authority. It should all be on video, hopefully with audio. I have thought about going to the Police. It seems crazy, but it may be the only way of preserving the video.

    I wasn't blameless but what staggered me was the overall conduct of the three people involved. It was throughout rude, agressive, and without any semblance of professionalism. They need training, at the very, very least.

    Serious thoughts please. I am hopping mad this morning and wonder about next steps. 

     

    The rude word starts with a t, followed by a w. It is not that rude!

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    I heard last week that he has been a bad boy and that his absence from the Ipswich team is not to do with injury. Nothing major, but serious enough to involve the boys in blue. Think of very recent change in the law regarding recreational activity and you won't be far wrong.

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    Only Stuart Webber could believe that he deserves the longest farewell announcement in history! 

    I believe 100% that for every single one of us, our biggest flaws will always find us out. Stuart has rather too much ego, and in this statement it's visible just below the surface, despite the best efforts both Webbers to disguise it. It's like he needs the final word.

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    At heart I am a paid-up member of 'Against Modern Football', so anything that torpedoes the Premier League big boys is fine by me.

    Which takes us to Saudi Arabia trying to muscle in at the head of the table of world domestic football. 

    Modern Football sees an increasing gap between the Premier League and the Championship. Elsewhere someone has rightly said this season's Championship is the most mental ever. True enough, but Luton, Sheff Utd and Burnley are demonstrating that being outstanding a League below cuts little ice in the Premier.

    So, once Saudi has raided the PL for players to the point where a critical mass of players has been procured, and the process becomes commonplace, might we just see a closing of the gap between PL and Championship? Might some PL investors decide they can't beat them, so they will join them. I do hope so.

     

     

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    11 hours ago, Nuff Said said:

    Sorry, but that is such a lazy attitude. I’ve been involved in local politics for a few months (I got asked to stand as a council candidate otherwise there wouldn’t have been a candidate for one of the parties on the ballot paper - I didn’t win) and there are are a lot of hard working, well-meaning people who do a lot for their community. And while I obviously have a biased viewpoint, that goes for all the main parties. Yes, there are idiots and self-centred fools (mainly in the other parties, obvs), but that just represents wider society. Don’t look at those who hog the headlines and assume they are indicative of everyone involved.

    I am sure there are many good and totally honest people in local politics. But higher up the ladder the super-rich, public school ethos reigns supreme. 

    Sunak is a completely busted flush in my mind due to the cheap, scandalous, focus-group led comments attempting to capiltalise on the reluctance of suburbanites to accept ULEZ. He is putting self-interest above the world's interests.

    Starmer's non-response is almost as reprehensible as he missed the opportunity to shout from the rooftops that Climate Change is not a party political issue and should not be used to score points.

    Now, and not until now, they both disgust me.

     

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    If ever an issue demanded a cross-party approach, it is Climate Change.

    But no, clearly Labour and Tory will use it as a political shuttlecock as we stagger towards real world crisis. 

    It proves that nothing is above party politics and that those in the political arena are shameful, self-seeking inadequates. it is appalling beyond explanation.

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