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Reply | Man City - GUILTY
at 08:37 30 Sep 2026
From an accountancy professional point of view...I have to wonder where the club's auditors were in all of this.
This isn't just cheating to get around League financial rules - this is fraud. This is the sort of thing that has taken business' down and seen people serving prison time for.
Audits aren't guaranteed to find and prevent all fraud...but numbers and arrangements of this magnitude shouldn't have gone undetected for so long.
Quite possibly some audit partners sweating a bit this morning. I'm sure HMRC are taking an interest in some of the staffing payment arrangements too, Mancini's disguised employment income etc. |
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Reply | Advice Please
at 12:49 25 Sep 2026
Natural History and 9/11 Museum are well worth doing. The 9/11 museum is haunting though, if you go plan something fun to go and do afterwards (or go to a bar for a drink!) because you will need it.
I'd do an NBA or NHL game with the Nets or Islanders if there was a chance and costs were reasonable. We didn't when we went, the Knicks weren't at home whilst we were there and I forgot to even look at the Nets and slightly kick myself about it now. |
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Reply | New York Marathon
at 08:50 25 Sep 2026
That was the same process to the start line I had, there were three places to get the official transport from, somewhere in New Jersey, Grand Central station, or the ferry from South Manhattan.
We were staying in Queens so I booked a bus from Grand Central.
I would say take the travel times they quote from each location with a pinch of salt. I took it at face value and ended up having a quoted 90 minute journey taking 20 which meant I had a huge amount of time hanging around the start village beforehand.
I could type a lot out about it all, but conscious of boring everyone else, but if you want ask anything feel free to PM me! |
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Reply | Andy Andy, don't drink Shandy
at 08:36 24 Sep 2026
I'd be very much against it for all the reasons stated, but I'm also a child of the 90s so I have no experience of anything other than drinking in sight of the pitch being an offence.
For those on here who went to games pre-ban, how was it then? Especially in the terracing era? Was it a constant soaking then? |
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Reply | New York Marathon
at 09:01 23 Sep 2026
I ran it in 2019, I'd highly recommend going to the Opening Ceremony on the Friday night if you're around, its the closest you'll ever feel to being part of an Olympic Games without being an actual Olympian.
Marathon day itself is a bloody long day, I'd done over 10,000 steps before I'd even crossed the start line! My own race fell apart a bit in the second half which is really tough (the first half is mostly downhill so be mindful not to get carried away) and the last 5k of undulation through Central Park is just brutal.
That said, its an amazing experience and I'm glad I did it. Best of luck to your wife! |
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Reply | QPR Loan Watch 2026-27
at 08:56 23 Sep 2026
I had 10 minutes spare last night so ended up watching some SPL highlights on iPlayer.
Cute assist for Dan Bennie for Dundee Utd at the weekend as they won 3-0 at St Mirren.
He also got sent off in the first half, which was then downgraded to a yellow by VAR (which was correct, it was an utterly ridiculous ref decision to issue a red to start with).
Plenty of VAR action in that game, a penalty, red card, and goal all overturned. |
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Reply | Too good for you – Preview
at 09:37 10 Sep 2026
Without a shadow of a doubt the best player I've ever seen play for QPR, and that 2010/11 team was the best QPR team I've ever seen with my own eyes.
I made 33 games that season, I only missed three from New Year's Day onwards (Norwich away, Millwall away, Middlesbrough away). The most I've ever done in a year and by the end, as silly as it sounds, the success of it felt as much my success as the team's as I'd seen so much of it. No regrets on the money or time it cost.
Its just such a shame, from Adel's perspective, he didn't have the career he should have done. Its natural from a QPR perspective to compare him to Ebere Eze a decade later. I loved Eze too, but Adel was just that extra bit special, but when it comes down to it Eze is going to have had the more successful career (and actually given Eze has now won the FA Cup, Premier League, and has a World Cup bronze medal already has had a more successful career) because Ebere's had the better work ethic that Adel needed to get to that next level.
But man, what a time to be a QPR fan. |
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Reply | Fans Forum questions
at 09:31 10 Sep 2026
Call me a cynic, but I'll be amazed if any "difficult" questions are allowed through. |
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Reply | New pre match song
at 12:45 3 Sep 2026
We Live and Die in These Towns was a proper song by a proper band though in the indie noughties by The Enemy, who were from Coventry, and are Coventry fans, very much like London Calling is to us.
Same way Kasabian tunes get a lot of airplay at Leicester City, it works when they are proper songs in their own right (whether you like the song is a separate matter, its not been written to shoehorn into football).
That song is just atrocious.
For what its worth, I do miss the Pompeii videos.
Dean's poem is far better, but it needs good music to accompany it. |
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Reply | FFP in Premier League - FFP in Chsmpionship
at 12:04 2 Sep 2026
The back and forth transfers between Villa and Chelsea are certainly suspicious.
It used to be done in Serie A years ago, the two Milan teams were notorious for transferring squad players between themselves for inflated values as those values helped them meet the financial requirements to keep their sporting licence active. They weren't the only two, quite a lot of clubs all got done for it in the end.
(That's a bit of a mash of a paragraph from something I read in a book on Italian football many, many years ago!) |
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Reply | FFP in Premier League - FFP in Chsmpionship
at 08:44 2 Sep 2026
Its all monopoly money, at the end of the day.
The inequality between top leagues in Europe is the more staggering now - Ipswich outspending Barcelona for instance  |
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Reply | Akos Buzsaky
at 11:37 28 Aug 2026
So often these situations occur and it ends in very sad news, so I'm so pleased in this case its not that.
Wonderful player to watch in full flight, a worthy #10 at QPR. |
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Reply | First Football Memories
at 16:29 27 Aug 2026
My first ever football match was in the autumn of 1995 when I would have been 6. I remember I used to play football every playtime at school and was playing in the garden one night after school when my Dad came in and asked if I wanted to go and see a real football game.
Excitedly yes was the answer, and as we lived in Wellingborough he took me on the short trip down the A45 to watch Rushden & Diamonds in a FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round replay against Purfleet. It was peak-Griggs/Dr Martens era at Rushden when they outspent everyone by miles but you don't really understand that as a 6 year old, all you know is there's this team down the road that seems to thrash everyone else every week. They won 3-1 that night with ex-QPR trainee Graham Benstead in goal (not that I had a clue he was ex-QPR then).
Things I remember being confused by:-
- No names on back of shirts like the footballers I'd see on Match of the Day
- No match commentary
- I thought a matchday programme would take the form a video
I obviously loved it enough that my Dad started to take me to Rushden & Diamonds more regularly before taking me to my first QPR game in the April of that year when we beat Southampton 3-0. He only used to take me to one QPR game a year at that age as apparently I was a bit overwhelmed by the crowds.
We were at Wolves the following season when Dichio scored from miles out (have no memory of this whatsoever), that was my first ever QPR away game.
I used to cry when QPR lost but I soon got used to that, sadly.
She's only 16 months at the minute so far too young but am hoping I'll get times and moments like these with my own daughter when she's a bit older. Perhaps following in my footsteps I'll start her off with Harborough Town before making the leap to Loftus Road! |
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Reply | Fan in x block row M
at 13:12 24 Aug 2026
Surprised they were allowed in tbh, a lot of grounds are very explicit on no under-2s. I mean for me thats still too young but each to their own. |
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Reply | Rangers kick offs ....
at 13:10 24 Aug 2026
You can't cross the halfway line as we got pulled up for this at the start of the second when the ref blew and one of our players (Poku I think) started charging into the oppo half before the ball had even been kicked, so we got pulled back to start again.
Once the ball is touched, then you can move. My guess is the clock starts on the whistle, play starts when the ball is touched. |
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Reply | Lincoln
at 13:27 21 Aug 2026
I so wish Spurs had come down... |
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Reply | Chery
at 08:58 20 Aug 2026
Read an article on him recently, unless he's signed for someone else by now it was saying it was the first time in 33 years he's starting a season without being signed for anybody. |
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Reply | Our ticketing system is not fit for purpose
at 09:19 18 Aug 2026
Speaking of ticketing, I saw the ticket exchange email come out yesterday suggesting the balance from resold tickets this year will only be available to use against next year's season tickets, rather than withdrawable at the end of the season?
In the same email they then say they're looking at changing the platform to make faster withdrawals available, so a bit of a contradiction! |
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