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This Craig Bellamy? https://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwich-city/how-norwich-city-saved-craig-bellamy-30-000-but-still-578858 Craig Bellamy has revealed he offered Robbie Savage and his Derby team-mates £30,000 to scupper Norwich City's Championship promotion two years ago. Canaries' academy product Bellamy was on loan at promotion rivals – and his boyhood club – Cardiff as the 2010-11 season entered its climax, with newly promoted Norwich in the box seat and the Welshmen breathing down their necks. And while some part of him might have enjoyed his first professional club flying high, Bellamy reveals in his newly released autobiography Goodfella he put his money on the line to realise his dream of helping Cardiff to the Premier League. 'It was between us and Norwich,' said Bellamy. 'They were playing Derby and if they got anything other than a win, we would move ahead of them into second. 'Robbie Savage was playing for Derby at the time and I spoke to him the day before the game. I told him that if they won I'd give him £30,000 to share between them all. Pay for a night out, have a meal, do whatever you want. I told Sav I'd even give him the money if they got a draw. That's how desperate I was.

Truss has certainly screwed the country (and the Tory party) over. Key event could be the next Bank of England rate meeting on November 3rd. Previously the markets had priced in a rate rise of 0.75-1.00%, with the bank hinting it might be bigger after the turmoil. So assuming that Truss quits, and that the candidates agree amongst themselves who the next leader would be, which is probably a Sunak/Mordaunt joint ticket with Sunak as PM and Mordaunt as Home or Foreign Secretary. So politically, if you're Sunak, do you let the Bank have a high rate rise, and blame the pain on Truss and try to cling on and claw the Tory reputation back, or try to lean on them to make it smaller?

I think considering that Maddison, Aarons, Lewis, Godfrey, Cantwell, the Murphys were in the building when Webber arrived, and that the recruitment team dined out for far too long on the success of Buendia and Pukki, it's hard for me to view our overall recruitment in a positive light. The fact that Rashica and Tzolis were signed for £8-10m each and they're currently on loan, and doesn't exactly look likely that we're get any money back. Gibson was bought for a decent fee and isn't even first choice centre back. Smith gets bashed, but the contracts of Pukki, Dowell, Hugill, Mclean, Byram, Hernandez, Sinani and Cantwell are all due to expire at the end of the season. So a rebuild is needed. But we have no real saleable assets and I wouldn't be surprised if a few fallow years were coming.

Definitely not dodgy at all... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/world/europe/uk-brexit-festival-spending.html Britain’s ‘Brexit Festival’ Is Under Investigation The festival, a series of exhibitions officially called “Unboxed: Creativity in the U.K.,” came to be known as the “Festival of Brexit.” It cost 120 million pounds. This follows reports that the festival — costing 120 million pounds, or $132 million, in taxpayer funds and officially named “Unboxed: Creativity in the U.K.” — has attracted just 238,000 visitors since it opened in March. Organizers had projected it could draw up to 66 million people in the period from March to November, when the festival ends. The chairman of Parliament’s digital, culture, media and sport committee, Julian Knight, who called for the investigation, said in a letter to the National Audit Office that the festival was an “excessive waste of money during a cost of living crisis.” He ridiculed the event, plans for which were unveiled in 2018 by Prime Minister Theresa May, as an “ethereal idea” in comments made to the BBC. “Serious questions need to be answered about the aims and delivery of the project,” Mr. Knight said in a statement, “and how it has been allowed to squander such a vast sum of taxpayers’ money.”

Thought there was a story that he'd been interviewed once but the club weren't impressed with his disparaging attitude to coaching certification. Which would sum him up, a good organiser, but a bit of a relic now. Good when he could get big strong athletic players to run a lot, and was given a big enough budget to do so, but not much of a coach.

As an aside, my company provides logistics for many household names, and we were presented this slide using Gartner research data. Increasing efficiency via technology is going to lead to less jobs in the long term.

We have a Tory leader that is so out of touch, even the CEOs are volunteering to pay more tax.

Nice reminder of who they work for

Pretty horrific, but unsurprising

I'm liking this....

Yeah going well

Ouch. It's rallied slightly back up to $1.06-$1.07, but still bombing overall.

From the BBC The government had to tell the markets that it needed to borrow an extra £72bn this year, but did not publish the numbers behind that. Interest rates charged for British debt hit 4%, having been 3.1% earlier this week, and 1.8% at the beginning of the leadership contest with Rishi Sunak. The Treasury's answer to all this is a table of forecasts which shows how much tax revenue would be raised if its reforms were able to permanently raise growth in the economy.

With Kami-Kwasi's insistence that the Bank of England meet him twice a week, I'd imagine he'll be leaning on them heavily

The phrase "Kami-Kwasi Economics" is trending. 😂

Forest won the playoff final on May 29th with five loan players in their eighteen man squad. Four players from the team that won the playoff final started tonight, with only six players in their twenty player match squad from the playoff triumph. They'd started pretty well, beating West Ham, drawing with Everton, and losing to Man City, Spurs and Newcastle. Sliding doors moment for Cooper is that half-time against Bournemouth. Leading 2-0 at home then losing 3-2. Then following it up with the same scoreline against Fulham. Both of those games were real six-pointers, especially at home against relegation rivals. Would imagine they'd take the upcoming international break to sack Cooper and appoint someone else.

knee problem

The issue for Leicester is that despite their success, (assuming these figures are correct) they've struggled to have the same branding and marketing revenue that the so called big 6 have had. Their recruitment was exceptional selling the likes of Maguire, Mahrez, Drinkwater, Chilwell, Fofana and Kante for big money. But Jamie Vardy's almost 36 and can't go on forever.

MOTD glossed over Bournemouth's defending. Some great strikes, but shocking defending by Bournemouth, but all they talk about is how good Liverpool were..

If true would be fine on the work permit front

Ah, but if he doesn't get enough points for a work permit, he doesn't get to play at Stoke 😛

Makes Marco Stiepermann washing Daniel Farke's car small in comparison 😛