Davkaus

It gets worse.

The thing that pisses me off about the so-called consultation is that some things are apparently gospel, like cramming in a star and 1874, but most people wanted a mostly claret and blue badge and we've ended up with blue and yellow again. The club have known what they wanted in advance, and picked out the answers which were convenient and ignored the others.

Decent article on it here. You're absolutely right that 99.999% of people won't care and will still watch though, @bobzy Infantino had been working on enabling this tournament for years, presumably for no reason other than he thinks that Saudi Arabia is a wonderful country, and it's a great opportunity to spread the love of football in what will be a fun filled festival of football in a progressive nation that welcomes everyone. It's a much longer article, I've trimmed it down to the relevant bit. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/15/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-fifa-world-cup.html They got what they paid for, and now the money is flowing to reward their FIFA lapdogs. The last FIFA corruption scandal saw law enforcement cut off the head, but the corruption ran much deeper than that.

Because it was rigged so that most of the world was ineligible. I have little doubt that the world cup before the one they've bought was only awarded to countries across 3 continents so that those 3 continents had "their turn" so it could go to one of the oil money countries again ahead of schedule. They also lowered the requirements so that Saudi Arabia would find it easier to bid and significantly curtailed the bidding window so there was less time for rival bids.

There were a small number of critics, but most fans were so relieved the Lerner era was over that there was active hostility to the red flags that he was a fraud

We're not talking about highly educated people here. Most of these players are millionaires by the time they're twenty, and while they earn enough to do exactly as you say, they not only have a target on their back from conmen, but also have the envy of being in a dressing room with people even richer. I think the latter is a big part of why our players heads used to get turned so much when they got called up to England, you think you're the big shot at Villa dressing room on 40-50k a week and then go and sit next to Beckham and co in the England dressing room.

You can safely cook most meats from as low as about 60 degrees. In theory you could cook them even lower, but 60ish is the safe minimum to kill common pathogens according to some science bitches at the WHO. Unless you're talking baking, which is much more sensitive to timings and temperatures, it really isn't going to matter too much. Stick the 210 one in for two minutes, stick the one that should need 20 at 170 with 15 minutes to go and keep an eye on it, it'll be alright

Net spend may be flawed. As it happens they've overperformed on gross spend too

A slow cooker would change your life @T-Dog I reckon if you cooked something that should take 20 minutes for ten minutes, cool it and cook it again for ten, it'll be significantly overcooked and dried out due to how much it'd cook from the residual heat while cooking

They've just bought the world cup in plain sight and nobody seems to care

I'd also put a big asterisk next to the Man City spending to qualify "amount they claim to have spent in their fraudulent accounts"

Ok dominance is overdoing it, but they've spent less than Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal and Man United and won about the same as the lot of them combined in that time. So they've done better than most teams who've spent more, with Man City being the sole exception. Of course "they spent money as well", it's the premier league, but it's just arguing that black is white to deny that Klopp has done very well there for the money they've spent.

You've got to take the above numbers into it though, while they'd wish for more trophies, they've punched above their financial weight, and if it wasn't for the biggest cheats in British footballing history, they'd have had a period of absolute dominance.

The one thing that 21 and 18 had going for them was that after the years of Gerrard, Terry, Ferdinand, etc, the England team suddenly seemed somewhat likeable, for a good 10-15 years I thought they were a bunch of words removed pretty much to a man.

I think the theory at the time was that the dropshadow might represent some 3d visuals/embossing on the actual badge and wasn't verbatim what would be on the shirt and our branding, and this was somewhat reinforced by the version with the more detailed lion . That doesn't line up with our new sponsor getting their hands on the dropshadow version though, they're not going to be grabbing random images from the trademark office or VT One thing is for sure, this will all be cleared up when the club make an announcement in...when was it, January?