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You have to look at the quality of the main Brexit cheerleaders and beneficiaries.
Boris, Rees Mogg, Trump, Putin, Farage.
Would you trust them to tell you the truth?
Have they a hidden agenda?

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The best deal we could possibly have is the deal we already had, hence Sunak trying to convince Northern Ireland that they would have the very best of both worlds.
Didn’t we once have that?

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Deereyme66 wrote:

I didn’t know you could drink red leb! 🤣

But it does have a mellowing effect.

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Iron-awe wrote:

Remember George doing his ” push and run ” pass several times when he tricked the defender, knocked it passed him on one side then ran round him the other side to collect the ball and carry on. Always thought Heath, Kerr and Cassidy were a great attacking trio in their day for the Iron and yes Terry Heath the best ever player to wear an Iron shirt IMO.

I remember him trying to do a “Pele” ei recieving the ball and flicking it over his head while running forward, didn’t work too often.
I also remember a back pass from the halfway line against Millwall in the cup that went out for a corner.
He was having a great season before the broken leg though.

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sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

cassidystash wrote:

Shame he won’t be able to save money by using the architects plans that Mr Swann paid a fortune for. A ‘Championship’ stadium might be a bit ambitious.

Mr Swann paid a fortune for?
I very much doubt he paid for them, the club paid for them!

In which case the plans belong to the club and he can use them, unless of course Swann still owns the club.

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Ferrite wrote:

Northumbiron wrote:

Not that unusual for players to look downwards for a new challenge.

“New challenge” almost ALWAYS means “pay rise”. Unless there are no other offers on the table, it means they’ve gone for a pay rise. Nothing wrong with that from the player’s point of view, of course.

Isn’t that the cause of the club’s current financial situation? The previous owner “gambled” on getting promotion to the Championship by paying more than the club could afford.

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Just a thought, has the club still got a supply?

https://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/news/2015/december/farewell-to-glanford-park-gift-set/

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Great player

We’ll soon sort that out

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Awaywego wrote:

That’s where I get my brambles and raspberries from let alone the apples hands off scunny, Should have built there in the first place would have been more of a town football club at least there’d be some proper home pubs.

I seem to remember that Scunthorpe borough council were not very accommodating or helpful at that time, hence an out of town site. But I agree, would have been a better place.

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I always thought it was a good option, closer to the town centre.

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Iron-awe wrote:

Actually them’s the rules of the current Government who will push this boat issue all the way to election day and say they are taking the majority of the British people with them, despite a lack of hard evidence to back their claims. Meanwhile their ham fisted approach to running the country and ignoring far more important issues will continue.

I agree, it’s about the only populist topic they have.
Appeal to the dark side.

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It’s quite strange how the “Libertarians”, who criticise state interference, are quite happy to use the state to silence peaceful protest.
Remember Thatcher and the Ridley Plan.

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And also, so sorry for Millwall 🤭

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Northumbiron, Heath

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Where does ambivalence put me?

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ironfromafar wrote:

Awaywego wrote:

They never shut up about the tragedy chanting, but not a word on their fans booing the national anthem.

Agree ….

Scousers Gone down in my estimations ..

Yes i am a royalist but dont have an issue with anyone that isnt .. booing your national anthem is out of order.

I’m not entirely convinced that “God Save the King” can be classified as a national anthem, is it?

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lesgeo wrote:

When he played for us, he used to lean so far forwards over the ball, I actually thought he was doing impersonations of some guy from Notre Dame.

He described his football ability as “brainless”. 😂
We’ve got a few of those.

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billpuntonsghost wrote:

No comments?

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A Calvinist who would certainly agree with the Act of Settlement.
Not for me.

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Heath wrote:

I think if the police did its job and investigated corruption by this Government they would find evidence that would land several Tory MPs in jail.

You’re talking about the Met here.

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iron insider wrote:

Club employees have not received any pension contributions into their pension pots for FOUR MONTHS despite monthly contributions coming out of their pay packets and yet super Dave believes it is appropriate to turn up in a new Rolls Royce. Max bell will be frothing at the mouth considerin he was so vocal about Mr Swannees horses.

Seem to remember British Steel taking an elongated holiday from contributing to our pensions.

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For all those who talk about the left or the right and anti semitism you need to watch this series on iPlayer, believe me nobody comes out smelling of roses. Go on, I defy you.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0dm3cbt/the-us-and-the-holocaust

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Of course Keith Houchen, in his book “A Tenner and a Box of Kippers”, famously called Scunthorpe fans as “A bunch of miserable gits”.

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I’m afraid that if the Act of Settlement remains in our constitution (such as it is) regardless of the Perth Agreement, talk of prejudice and discrimination by our leaders sound hypocritical.

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Anonymous wrote:

4-2-3-1 is old hat now.
Things have moved on.

The best club in the world, Real Madrid have won 14 European Cups / Champions League and deploy a 4-3-3

As do Barcelona.

As (primarily) do Man City

And, Liverpool

And, and, and…

The 4-2-3-1 reached its pinnacle between 2008-12 with the Spanish national team.

Jimbob probably did his coaching badges and read the bumf a decade ago when this formation was de rigueur and conquering the world.

4-2-3-1 (history)
Juanma Lillo, a Spanish coach currently working as Pep Guardiola’s assistant at Manchester City, is credited with being the first proponent of this system. A largely unknown but nonetheless revolutionary coach, Lillo was a major early influence on Guardiola, having taken charge of his first La Liga club, Salamanca, in 1992, aged just 29. It was here that he began advocating for the 4-2-3-1 shape.

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As I’ve said above… things have moved on since then.

4-3-3 would better suit the ‘calibre’ of player this club employs.

Time for a change Jimbob.

And England 1966.

“England’s wingless wonders”.

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Follow the golden rule.

“Engage brain before operating mouth”.

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ironfromafar wrote:

As previously commented by Awaywego reading on SM that DH was abused by fans whilst in his car with his family , one (via a trusted source) suggesting hes contemplating walking away already.. could this be the route he needed to do so if the money still owed for GP isnt on hand…this could get real messy even worse talk of Swan returning is a toe curling thought.

He’ll have to change his number plate if he leaves.

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Awaywego wrote:

Are we likely to see any more Raab style managers in football now the snowflakes have got their way with him, would be such a shame if we never saw the likes of Lawsy and Fergie again, I wouldn’t have lasted 5 mins being a shop steward (have I mentioned I was a shop steward before?) the way you have to be politically correct nowadays and all this nicey nicey stuff.

What’s this got to do with football?

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Iron-awe wrote:

I think the bigger picture is the fact that a huge news corporation will pay a huge amount of money out rather than air it’s dirty laundry in a courtroom. The internal memos and WhatsApp’s flying around Fox News over the last few years stating that they had to protect their business model over telling their American audience the truth is quite staggering. Their share price will only drop a small amount and they are cash rich to the sum of around $4 billion dollars but at the end of the day they are a news organisation that the wider American public ( not their right wing paying customers) now know that Fox News are a politically lying news organisation, that will count to the swing voters who represent the most important vote in the majority of elections worldwide. There is also another case being prepared against Fox News in a similar vein to this which is just over the horizon, as we say a lot about politics in the USA, interesting times ahead.

Strangely enough some people want to believe the lies because it suits their narrative, the truth is irrelevant to them.
The biggest casualty is democracy, without truth it just doesn’t work.

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Tony Blair going all the way to Australia, cap in hand, still leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

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