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It would be absolutely trivial to achieve. Enda McGinley insinuated it was coordinated to stop quick restarts. As others point out it happened kilcoo kickout in second half, there was one where it was obvious first half lad threw ball in front of keeper.

Throw kids out of ground & maybe fine parents and itd stop fairly quick I would imagine.

So you're going to throw kids out of a ground for returning a football?

Are you going to have a team of stewards who can identify and isolate the "offenders" and provide each other back up for the inevitable nonsense that would follow whereby they can't lay hands on children? Or maybe you've a terminator style teenager of Eastern European descent in mind, who'll wade in and protect the sanctity of the game, without falling foul of child abuse allegations?

The mind boggles.

Outclassed by good bit as expected.

How difficult is it for officials to control the number of balls on field?

Every time a ball is kicked into the terrace, the keeper picks up another one to attempt a quick restart.

How you'd expect the officials to control when and where that ball is returned, I'm not sure.

f**king hooters

[One of the best beaches I've ever stood on.]

I happened across a wonderful little town last year called Siegnosse Le Penon (Le Penon is the coastal area of the bigger town down the road called Siegnosse.

One of the best beaches I've ever stood on. All low rise blocks rather than high rise hotels. Extremely bike and pedestrian friendly; you can walk for miles without encountering any real incline. A really nice promenade with a mix of restaurants and takeaways. Pretty much only French people in town. And a handy run from Biarritz airport. Eating and drinking a little more expensive than here. 

Best beach I ever stood on was Tramore Beach dunfanaghy, sometimes beauty isn't that far away.

Oh I agree with you. Murlough is among the greatest beaches I've ever stood on too.

Le Penon is a dead ringer for Murlough. Except it was 25 degrees!

We got a nice big house on the edge of the village between 2 families. Was expensive but not prohibitive.

But there's a world of seasonal housing in that area. Really can't imagine it's hard to pick up a small apartment at decent money.

The EA are spending £40 million a year on getting precious to school in taxis, no wonder you can't get a taxi at night they don't have to work - society is fucked, the perception is everyone is owed, free prescriptions, free water, a bit stressed and you are off work getting more money that folk bursting their holes going to work 6 days a week.  The only way it will end is if benefits are addressed ffs luxury cars for DVLA ridiculous.

You're only half correct.

The only way this can end is a realignment of the housing market so that housing cannot be traded as a commodity.

We have reached a breaking point in the value of working for a living. All caused by the trap whereby man and wife both have to commute and spend 40 hours a week in an office just to earn the right to have a roof over their head.

Can we really blame anyone for thinking there's a better solution whereby they get a roof over their head for not working?

I happened across a wonderful little town last year called Siegnosse Le Penon (Le Penon is the coastal area of the bigger town down the road called Siegnosse.

One of the best beaches I've ever stood on. All low rise blocks rather than high rise hotels. Extremely bike and pedestrian friendly; you can walk for miles without encountering any real incline. A really nice promenade with a mix of restaurants and takeaways. Pretty much only French people in town. And a handy run from Biarritz airport. Eating and drinking a little more expensive than here. 

Some goal there spurs man scored, he can shift!

Easy enough to do when no one tackles you.

That could be said for every goal surely?

Is right. We should deduct Maradona vs England from the greatest goals ever as he wasn't tackled.

The Greens seem to have stumbled upon a leader saying all the right things and taking the Greens to a wider audience.

It will be interesting to see how the media deal with Polanski in the future.

Oh don't worry he'll get the Corbyn treatment if he ever looks like being successful.

Corbyn should have known better. England is a centre right country. Always will be until someone proves there's a better way.

If he had have learned to hold his tongue until he was in power, he could have changed that. Not in one swoop, but over time.

But he couldn't hold his tongue. He didn't have the patience to wait for term when he could smooth things in, then another term where he could show himself to be right (or wrong). Hence he is reduced to being a lefty political footnote.

Keir Starmer. He could be doing good now. But he's neither willing nor interested in change. What a ****. A complete ****.

The Labour Party since taking power are possibly the most disappointing political entity of my lifetime.

They're not just sleepwalking into an electoral catastrophe, they're going to put their party out of business.

A leadership bereft of any vision.

 Van de Ven scored the best goal of all time ever tonight for spurs.

I tell you what might be interesting, should an economist try to measure the financial benefits to the Royal British Legion, of having James McClean freely available every year to generate eons of publicity and help "gullible" British people to remember their cause.

Do German players in the PL wear them?

Not sure. But  Argentine Martinez of  Villa was  wearing one yesterday

Matic never wore a poppy  apparently , and there wasn't a word about  it. But, James McClean......

But James McClean has been a poppy mouthpiece for 15 years.

That's the difference.

Nothing else.

It is the tacklers job to get lower, he made no attempt to do so, he made contact with the head. He also had no wrap with arms.

Regardless of how soft you view it dems the rules. Possibility of an upgrade to red but unlikely.

My point still stands. A man who stands a foot taller than his opponent has to drop 18" in a split second. A man who stands a foot smaller than his opponent never has to consider this.

Now it's a red card.

For being taller.

f**k off rugby.

Obviously people who know better than me will know better than me.

But the only way Beirne could lower his body in that situation and timeframe would have resulted in a headbutt.

So his only way to avoid a "yellow card / red card " collision would be to step out of the tackle.

Why is height difference not factored into these decisions? It's completely unfair on bigger players.