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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

bury should get an england game anyway. itd be ace.

didnt even know the NRL used those playoffs at all , thought they used the normal ones took me ten minites to figure out what the weird word were.

when nfl teams do this, the better team craps out and loses to the 6th seed. like they take their eye off the ball, were the team that played the extra game the week before is still firing. rugby league has a "Repechage" (dunno what thats french for) bracket, to give the better team a second bite at the cherry when they balls up in that way.

just looked it up and it sez " ... and the two seasons they had it like this, only one team kept their status in their current division (charlton)" looking at some of the results, it were probably us that performed worst, we finished 21st in the third division , but ultimately lost to aldershot who finished 6th in division four in 1987 in the final https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Football_League_play-offs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Football_League_play-offs the third vs forth division playoffs had a worse outcome the next year where swansea (6th four) beat torquay (5th four) because rotherham (21st three) lost to swansea in the semis it also says they were re-sizing the divisions during this time. which may have unbalanced the expected outcomes, but you can see why they closed the shop. the german (and maybe the belgian and french) playoffs are like this *now* and the higher division "3rd from bottom" team nearly always wins out and keeps its place.

just draw lots to decide who goes up.

? thats two people (out of two) making weird dyslexia or aphasia type mistakes while complaining about my reasoning for figuring out that its kevin ratcliffe in a photo. yeah, its kevin ratcliffe.

maybe.

i thought it were some "fringe" city player like david white or paul lake or someone like that that folk cant remember what they look like (even tho paul lake worked at bolton , (i think) ,"its not paul stewart.. what does andy hinchcliffe look like ?" "nope" that it werent him made me look up squad lists. that these AI search engines were going "len cantello (wtf , how did it work that out?)" , "bryan robson (yeah)" "player unknown" (fuck off) "big sam" (obvs) etc, Didnt help. AI overlords hobbled by real live human folk not knowing the answer. i *think* i know.

the goalkeeper should run towards the ball as soon as the whistle goes, like its an Old XFL kickoff. he either commits an infringment or saves the shot .

that goalkeeper shouldve been bounced out the minute he started screaming at harry mcguire in that pre season friendly. that he's dropping clangers himself every half an hour since then is pretty funny .