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you say that and interestingly , hersheys do a dark bounty [which is mars] bootleg , called a mounds bar (dark version) but because its hershey , it might have that weird taste that their chocolate has. rumours are its too much Butyric Acid in the chocolate

wasnt designed for that. you were always safer padding time to the end using the normal manual recording timing thing. someone anonymously 'released' a tool to work out the codes , probably not official, but its still up after 18 years , so.. legal people mustnt be that bothered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_code quite clever in a way. i dunno how long the codes were designed to last, but id guess that 2038 year 'bug' (like that y2k one) might have summat to do with it.

they might not need it, but the morocco game shouldve garnered a point . they shouldve played for 0-0. the team selection seemed weird, too.

i remember sheffield wednesday having weird uneven stripes on a kit once . that were crap too. think we had one (not being a team with stripes anyway) and that was uneven too. maybe i dont mean uneven , maybe i mean not uniform . southampton i think had one like it too. it gets tried a lot . they were all crap .

mcateer played at usa94. as did hierro, i think (not while at bolton) [edit] jayjay , too crazy

kit clashes taken seriously in the olden days of the mid 90s. i vaguely remember someone (maybe newcastle) playing in our gear once (thinking allardyce premier league era). i thought it were because they got robbed, but it mightve been because their kitman were colourblind or summat , and the ref said "no" to whatever they turned up with.

did this actually exist?. the mcginlay white home and barcelona away mustve outsold this 10000 to 1. the matchwinner reebok yellow one before this was also 'rare' compared to the home and gingham away ones. as If they only made them to be "match worn" rather than sold as replicas (or whatever they call it)

i remember (possibly falsely) us playing arsenal (maybe?) twice concurrently in the premier league. think it was due to postponments in the middle . or them struggling to fit the fixtures in coz they went dead far in most of the cups they were in. i may be imagining this. turns out i'm not, google robo search sez 17 January 2010: Bolton 0–2 Arsenal (Reebok Stadium) 20 January 2010: Arsenal 4–2 Bolton (Emirates Stadium) didnt think it was 3 days. it sez it was due to the original emirates game being snowed off. from about 6th january. they played celtic in a european cup playoff in august. that originally held it up. i asked for similar. and it sez. leeds played manutd back to back after the death of the queen had postponed one of the games. and watford played arsenal one day (april 1) after another (31st march) in 1986. watford won both.

didnt he make something like 90% of the sky boxes in the early 90s ? the cheeky bastard was even rumoured to have leaked rough numbers to them vis-a-vis the bidding of the (first) premier league tv rights. not to mention him producing one of the first " tape-to-tape copying " music hifi.

i cant believe that

fred dibnah sez "demonstration" weirdly and i laugh a lot about it .

oof. i get it , but to see it in black and white makes me feel sad or summat. someone said summat similar when sasa went , and i didnt speak for about an hour. not sure what to think.

going 'direct' from chelsea to city is what the "saudi stint" would avoid. he'll do 10 months there , then get 'mutally agreed' to leave and go to ,say, man city. its like they cant get sacked from a big team and hired for another big team 12 months later. its probably redundency money related but i think it might be a face saving thing.

i think he'll have to do a stint managing in saudi arabia after this. how it seems to go. i dont think he'll get a job in spain or italy or wherever straight after this.

theyll have players with proper english names (british?) like when we played costa rica in japan (or korea). made me laugh at the time, but iirc its due to the building of the railways and stuff. i dunno if roque santa cruz is still playing, but he were still tying his boots up over there at 39ish .. [edit] dudes 44 now, and still at it. cool