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Misc. awards for 2019.

Luckiest winners; Liverpool. Awarded a poxy penalty by VAR (more later) in the opening minutes of the champions league final which effectively decided it. They wouldn't have been anywhere near the final had expensive misfit Dembele not missed a sitter in the last minute of the first leg v. Barce'

Unluckiest winners; Man Utd. Another bizarre VAR decision, maybe the worst of a very bad lot, gave them a peno away to PSG which sent them undeservedly to the next round and lumbered MU with a hopelessly out-of-his-depth manager for at least a year too long.

Unluckiest losers; Man City. As in the previous season, very contentious officiating decisions again cost them progress in the champions league, most notably in the second leg v Spurs. Were probably the best team in Europe at the time and would surely have gone on to win it.

Player of the season; VAR. Has a finger in everything at this stage and ballsing up the game right and proper now.

I shouldn't really bite, but feck it anyway.

If you bothered your arse actually watching the champions league final you'd know that the Ref awarded the penalty in the final not VAR, but hey that doesn't really suit your agenda.

Man city lost out due to Pep's cautious approach to the first leg at Spurs similar to the first leg at Anfield the previous year.

VAR is not the problem, people implementing it are.

[Astana, Partizan,]

Group L: Man Utd, Astana, Partizan, AZ Alkmaar

Holy shit. I don't think I've heard of these teams. Partizan? as in Partizan Belgrade?

Astana capital of Kazakhstan

Nur-sultan is the capital of Kazakhstan now - astana renamed of the president

[Teacher 'wrote on child's forehead']

Teacher 'wrote on child's forehead'

A PRIMARY school child was 'humiliated' in front of 'laughing classmates' after a teacher wrote on their forehead with a marker, it has been claimed.

An investigation has been launched into the incident which occured at St Lawrence's PS, Fintona.

The UlsterHerald has been told by a 'concerned parent' that the pupil was left in tears.

They claim that a teacher wrote the word 'capital' on the child's forehead with a marker after they 'struggled to grasp the concept of capital letters'.

https://ulsterherald.com/2019/08/22/teacher-wrote-on-childs-forehead/

St. Lawrence's is my old Primary School. My reaction to hearing about this lies somewhere between disturbing and disgusted - if true, the teacher needs to be named after they're sacked.   

This is absolutely true, the teacher is female with a history of outbursts. she also reportedly slapped the mother of said pupil when confronted by her.

Saw on Twitter there's a strong correlation between World Cup Golden Boot winners and their club team winning a trophy the next season. Lucky stat for Harry Kane & Tottenham.

Oleg salenko would beg to disagree

[Trivia fans Richard Arnold is Trent Alexander Arnold's uncle.]

That story has been knocking around this long time, it's grown legs again with Richard Arnold United's Managing Director spending a lot of time over there. Personally I abhor the idea of it happening but I suppose it'd make the press conferences interesting 

By the way your link doesn't work.

Trivia fans Richard Arnold is Trent Alexander Arnold's uncle.

No he's not!

John Alexander is his uncle who served as united secretary at one time

Liverpool need to beat Napoli by 2 clear goals, 1-0 is not enough.

Tiebreakers[edit]
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01):[2]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Away goals scored in all group matches;
Wins in all group matches;
Away wins in all group matches;
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA club coefficient.

What about the 24hr filling station on the lower ormeau, savage queues late at night just to get a dry sandwich and bottle of coke. its a GP surgery now.

He covers some really good topics, such as the housing crisis in dublin and his interviews are very good such as the one with David McWilliams but his quirks do grate after a while.

Generally no, as transport Ni like to inspect each stage of the road structure as it's built.
One question I would ask is if the road is not being adopted, who will the owner be of the road? As they still will have responsibilities in regards to drain/sewer/street lighting maintenance.

I've dealt with this a few times over the years. Roads aren't adopted for one of two reasons: 1 - they are not up to transport ni standards e.g. poor visible splays, narrow footpaths or just poorly built. 2. the developer owes money to transport NI (road service) in the form of a bond for this site or another.

If its the first point, i would be wary of the liability you as a home owner would be taking on, such as the responsibility for sewers to the road boundary rather than your site boundary as well as any other utilities within the development.

You can PM me with development details and i can check with contacts within transport ni to find out why its not being adopted if you like.

A Pyrrhic victory for Throne with the Dubz up next

i think you need to read the definition of pyrrhic!

you'd swear armagh & derry were playing 

He be looking at a year for that! Stupidest thing i seen on a football field!

Coming from Derry I'm sure you'd have seen plenty of stupidity worse than that

Joe mcquillan should never be allowed near a gaa pitch again

Martial fined 180000 for attending child's birth.

#fakenews

https://www.football365.com/news/martial-fined-180000-as-mourinho-swerves-questions
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/anthony-martial-set-fined-180000-13013627
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/997275/Man-Utd-news-Jose-Mourinho-Anthony-Martial

how is this fake news!