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Apparently, he is the son of the main shareholder and director at Swansea City, and bragged on twitter beforehand how he was 'needed' to waste time.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/24/swansea-b ... s-3364904/

What I'm surprised about is that no-one is criticising the referee for allowing the blatant time-wasting by the Swansea players and all of the ball-boys. I know it's considered to be part of the home advantage, and they were winning etc., but they were taking the p*ss yesterday.

Gullscorer wrote:I remember years ago the Gulls beat Aston Villa 1-0 at Villa Park in a league game (the old Div 3..?). Does anyone rember exactly when that was?

7th November 1970. Mickey Cave. I was there. Yes I am that old.

happytorq wrote: On the flip side, interest on mortgage is tax-deductible, so most people who are paying off a mortgage end up with a pretty hefty tax rebate each year (especially early on in the mortgage because of amortization) - that encourages people to buy sooner than they can probably afford to.

Mortgage interest is NOT tax-deductible; that 'benefit' was stopped in 2000.

If you're a buy-to-let landlord, then mortgage interest and some other 'business expenses' can be used to offset the taxable profit of the rental income.

ferrarilover wrote:... about seeing his side beaten by us. See his comments towards the top of this article.

http://www.gillsconnect.com/s/Gills_Mat ... GILLS.html

What an arsehole. Get over it Allen, you were bested by 'little old, Non-League, not fit to kiss your hairy white arse, Torquay'.

Still, they have every reason to be pleased with themselves, they haven't been prosecuted for unfair dismissal this week, which must make a nice change of pace...

Matt The n00b.

A bit of an over reaction ..... ? Pot, kettle, black?

Don't you have anything in your life that has perspective? If you're so bitter all the time, you must have very little in your life that's really important.

Football and its participants (no apostrophe) are always liable to hyperbole, so why does it bother you so much?

I like a good stat.

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/S ... 26,00.html

Here it shows that Bodin has had 50 shots on goal (the highest of any of our players) of which 23 were on target. And we know he has scored just 3 times.

An overall 6% success rate is even worse than Luis Suarez!

Another stat. here is that Howe is the 'fouliest' player in the division!

austrianandygull wrote: Nobody has taught me anything, ....

That is most astute/profound thing you've ever written on here!

ferrarilover wrote: If intelligence and it's display on the internet somehow offends or intimidates you, then you have my sympathy.

Matt.

Of course, as you're so intelligent, you would know that it should be 'its display', no apostrophe.

You were probably just testing us, being so superior.

bixieupnorth wrote:here we go then, if we dont win then neither do i, we're in every single line i've placed!!

I thought we were in trouble when I saw this.

Why do you do it Bixie?

But according to this list ... they have

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/TVGamesDetail/

Wed 17th October Notts Co v. Sheffield Utd

Not a surprise really, given their league positions, geographical proximity, and their largish fan bases (for advertising revenue).

Glostergull wrote:... I do have to say, that although we have more draws this season. (in Matts case orange ones) I think we have a better start than last season...

After 5 games last season, we had won two and drawn two, and so had 8 points.

Being unbeaten is a good thing, but we need to turn draws into wins. If you include the end of last season, we have won only once (Rochdale) in our last 12 league games, including the two play-off matches. A little worrying.

forevertufc wrote: Good idea Andy, re-start the match from the time its was stopped, with the scoreline standing, that would stop any dodgey practise going on.

Tricky. Would you have the same teams as when the game stopped even if those players have been injured later? How many substitutions allowed from the restart? Do yellow cards carry over from the initial game? The winning team could play a team of 11 defenders and/or the losing team 10 attacking players and a goalkeeper. It might become farcical. To me, it's simpler just to replay the whole thing.

You might find this article interesting, where the result of an abandoned match was allowed to stand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bramall_Lane" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Southampton Gull wrote:Well if someone fails to understand a perfectly reasonable observation and comes up with a totally benign point in return ..

Benign? Did you mean 'banal'?

Southampton Gull wrote:
Duh !!

Did you miss my point entirely?

Duh !!! No you missed mine.

Why shouldn't other teams try to stop Cavendish winning? They were not there to help the GB team. You implied that the pesky foreigners didn't do what we wanted them to.

The GB team's plan had been widely publicised, had been used in other events before, and the assumption was that they were so invincible that Cavendish was bound to win. Other teams tried to disrupt that plan and in that they were succesful. Even the GB coach Brailsford has said since that if the race was rerun today, they would employ exactly the same race plan. So in my opinion, they've no-one to blame but themselves.

Southampton Gull wrote:It wasn't their tactics that cost them the race, it was the tactics of rival teams in not doing their share of the work to try and stop Cavendish.

So the other teams should have done more to help make sure that Cavendish won?

Kernowgull wrote:I may be wrong but wasnt the family stand built in the early 90's , and im fairly sure the 1991 kit was the light yellow and white one, so I wouldnt think that shade of yellow was chosen on that basis. This is all done from memory, I have checked none of these facts, so feel free to correct!

Even using this site, it is difficult to see whether the shirts were still gold or yellow during that period.

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Torquay ... United.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;