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    56 minutes ago, scotlad said:

    Would Corsie be good enough to make a GB side? Being part of a defence that leaked six goals at home isn't exactly the best way to go about advertising your abilities!

    Being drawn in the same group as England when part of the prize for winning the group is a place in the Olympics seems either incredibly fortuitous or as corrupt as fuck, depending on how cynical you are. Either way, Olympic football is a nonsense; the Olympics is an athletics competition, football already has its big showcase events.

    The Olympics in Women’s football is actually quite a big thing at least relative to men’s football.   Before the first World Cup in 1991 it was the only opportunity for international competition.

    When the draw was made it was obvious that this circumstance was possible, quite why England, Scotland and Wales were not kept separate in the draw is beyond me.  It’s either extreme incompetence or seriously bent.

    There’s only one Scottish player who would walk into that England squad and she wasn’t playing last night as she’s got a cruciate ligament injury.

    i turned the game over at 5-0.  Up until the 2nd goal I thought it was a fairly tight but 4 goals in 11 minutes killed it off.   It’s worth looking at Lauren James two goals.   The first is a complete fluke as it takes a shocking deflection of Nicola Docherty’s back.  
     

    The second is a great shot, for her size, Lee Gibson is a good keeper, she gets her fingertips on it but the shot is too strong.  She’s only 5’ 7” though.  If she were 5’ 10” she gets her palm on it and puts it past.

    The other goals are all poor defensive errors though.  

    Indyref 2 (2)

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    30 minutes ago, PapofGlencoe said:

    What is this case actually about?  Is there nothing to it?  In lost with it now.

    It's a distraction but why is there even a case being taken through the courts?  Was it less than transparent? 

    There are people being assaulted and worse and it doesn't get the time of day in a court room, yet this thing keeps going on and on.

    An FOI was submitted to the SG to get access to Nicola Sturgeon’s written submission to the independent investigation into the breach of the ministerial code over the Alex Salmond affair.

    The SG say that while they hold it, it is not their information, it is information that belongs to an independent third party who is not covered by FOI law.

    The information commissioner disagrees.  

    The news thread

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    2 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:

    Porn users could have their faces scanned to prove their age, with extra checks for young-looking adults, draft guidance from Ofcom suggests.

    The Online Safety Act, which recently became law, requires social media platforms and search engines to protect children from harmful content online.

    It will be enforced by Ofcom, who can issue large fines if firms fail to comply.

    Ofcom has now outlined how it expects firms to become "highly effective" at complying with the new regulations, which come into force sometime in 2025.

    Acceptable methods could include:

    • requiring government photographic ID such as a passport
    • checking if the user has previously had age restrictions removed from a mobile phone
    • credit card checks
    • digital ID wallets that store a user's proof of age which can be shared with the site.

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    Travel to Munich

    in Euro 2024

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    I see a few people staying in Augsburg.  Augsburg’s fine nothing wrong with it at all, easily accessible from Munich in normal circumstances.

    i wanted to share though my experience from the CL final in 2012, where I stayed in Augsburg.  For those who can’t remember Chelsea beat Bayern Munich on penalties to win - before anyone comes up with the usual pish, there wasn’t any trouble at all, there wasn’t even any issues with people at the game, the problems were caused because of the number of people in the city that night and specifically trying to get everyone home.

    Bayern and the city of Munich was so convinced they were destined to win in their home stadium - Unser Stadt, Unser Verein, Unser Pokal and all that - that the Munich council basically issued an invite to the whole of Bavaria and wider Germany to “come to Munich and see us win the cup”.

    There was approximately an additional 500,000 people in Munich that day and that’s on top of the 80000 that had tickets for the game.  The Olympiastadion was being used as a fanzone.

    Obviously the with the game kicking off at 20-45, going to extra-time and penalties and then the presentation ceremony it was just before midnight that we got out the Allianz.  Getting back into Munich was very easy, there’s a U-bahn at the the stadium and they were stacking the trains up, so as soon as one filled up it left.

    When we got into the Hbf though around 20 minutes later, it was a different story, absolute carnage.  There was basically too many people in the station and there were no trains running anywhere.   I think it was around 2-30 before I managed to get on a crammed RE train going to Augsburg and got back to the hotel around 3-30.  I think it was the second or third train to leave Munich Hbf.

    That was a transport meltdown I’ve rarely seen in the UK and I commuted to London for years, never seen anything that was down to sheer weight of people.

    This is probably the biggest game to be played in Munich since that night.  The problem isn’t the game itself, it’s all the other stuff in the city.

    Augsburg is close enough that if there’s a repeat you’ll get there but I wouldn’t be that confident on getting a late ICE to somewhere like Cologne as an example.   I’d book an early morning train and spend the night in a late night bar. 

    Indyref 2 (2)

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    2 hours ago, TDYER63 said:

    Why must there be something to it ? A few years ago I heard a similar thing about AS and a very high profile person . Granted it wasn’t during covid but it would still be big news. To my knowledge it has never come out. Was that rubbish or AS being stupid ? 

    You would need to be arrogant as hell to think this would not come out. There are absolutely no reassurances these days. If it is true he absolutely does not deserve to be in this position. 

    Of course a lot of stuff came out about Salmond in a way that nobody expected and not just about the actual charges.

    If there was something I suspect it was some years back.  The scuttlebutt described her as a staffer when the rumours were going round in February.   She was a staffer in 2015, she also got married in 2015, I’m pretty certain that he was separated from his first wife.  If anything went on then its nobody’s business but their’s. 

    I think the whole COVID thing is bollocks. 

    Indyref 2 (2)

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    25 minutes ago, TDYER63 said:

    I read that ‘news’ yesterday. Might be true , might not, but it seems just a little too convenient immediately after the scathing UK government covid report.
    It may be the case the union are starting to over play their hand. It would seem for every uk government scandal they need to find an equally bad SNP story. 

    Funny that it comes out on the day that Matt Hancock gave evidence to the UK COVID inquiry. 

    The news thread

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    9 minutes ago, StirlingEgg said:

    I think someone is having a wee laugh and a fishing expedition...There are never any posts about the UK govt and their numerous failings so think it's a bit gammon parody at times. I laughed at "three sets of patio doors" 😄 Either that or we're in "the SNP want to know what colour you're painting your child's bedroom" territory...

    Oh, I don’t believe a word of what he says, he’s just a troll. 

    Indyref 2 (2)

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    54 minutes ago, Hertsscot said:

    On a different topic. Nottingham County Council declaring itself effectively bankrupt. Run by Labour and in England so it can hardly be the SNPs fault. 

    There are particular reasons for Nottingham's problems but the average council in England faces a £33 million deficit over the next few years.

    There have been cuts to budgets in Scottish councils, and I'm sure the SNP could do better, but this is a UK wide problem due to the incompetence and misplaced priorities of the present UK Government.

    My local council - now Lib Dem run since May but the problems were caused by the Tories - is a baw hair away from being bankrupt.  

    SNP leadership election

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    10 minutes ago, Alibi said:

    I'm sure it didn't all happen by accident.  i'm inclined to think there are folk within the SNP deliberately harming the party, whether by bringing forwards daft legislation that the public hate or by other even more devious means.  maybe some stuff will come to light via the Salmond case.

    I wouldn’t put money on that case even coming to court.  The reason why he’s lodged a case now is because the SG conceded his case in Jan 2019 and he has five years before he can bring a case.

    Its a very high bar that he has to prove which is why cases such as this rarely go to court and wins are even rarer.

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