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Posts by John Holland

Yes. I think there is the will to do it but there's a lot of hassle before it happens. The move of away fans to the River End is apparently to enable expansion and Premier League away allocations but it was badly handled. Other problems will be relocating City Stand fans while building work happens

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Forest or West Ham, I'm pretty sure one will drop into the EFL, Spurs will beat Wolves and Leeds. Wolves have had problems for a couple of years so it was no surprise to see them fall. West Ham and Spurs struggled last season and Forest did 2 years ago. Palace are in a Wolves style decline

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Our numbers seem to have bounced back a bit after a few years decline. Allocations seem smaller even at clubs who don't sell out the home ends

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Away numbers at NCFC? I'd guess travel difficulties, cost of tickets and we are no longer a novelty. Travel from the North West is difficult and we've had engineering works on the trains and roadworks on A47

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The capacity seems to have dropped by 250 if the ITFC crowd is anything to go by. It's difficult for casual fans to buy 2 together unless the away club return tickets. We could do with a swift increase in capacity

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Sunderland are a massive outlier. I suspect that they will do a Sheffield United 2020 and struggle next year. Assuming Leeds stay up then they might kick on. So pick 3 teams who can go down next year so that the promoted teams stay up. I'm going for Sunderland, Palace and whoever finishes 17th

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It appears to have been more usual a generation or two before. Maybe in some circles it still happen. There is the curious case of Boris Johnson for instance

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It's a weird aspect of the plot. Two confident women in their mid 20s drooling over men in their early 50s and talking to each other as though it's normal. I'm of that generation and I never noticed a woman my age with anyone more than 15 years older and even that was rare

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One of the few Curacao players to be born in Curacao too

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Isn't that Finals day? My cousin's daughter went last year and enjoyed it

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Tattoos would be ok

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I immediately thought they meant Winter Olympics because that's fresh in our minds and was thinking about Ice Hockey. In the Summer games I'd be worried about Modern Pentathlon

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Probably many reasons but a big one seems to be early physical maturity which might make someone seem attractive at school age often leads to looking older in middle age. Definitely seems to be the case with men.

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Definitely the case in people I know

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Even before the goal I thought he had put in a good performance. I don't see him as a first choice in a promotion winning team but I do see as a very useful squad member

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Would be interesting to see other examples of comparison, I suspect the average house price is 60 times the 1971 price but probably a higher spec but with less land. Petrol was a shock to me

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It was 3p when decimalisation was introduced. I did some comparisons a few weeks ago. Top flight football ticket 1971 = 30p, would be lucky to get a ticket for £18 today. Petrol 7p per litre in 1971, we don't pay £4.20 today. Cheap new car £700 in 1971, not £42k today. Don't ask about TVs!

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That still wouldn't be a second family though. However, I knew a man who didn't realise that his wife had a grown up daughter until she came to visit one Christmas

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Not Briddish

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"My little circle of friends says it happens so I think it's universal"

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Only a few but none have heard of it. Have I ever heard them talk about the issue with random men crossing the road in front of them or following them? Yes plenty of times. Maybe it's an age or location thing. Over 45s in Cambridge or Norwich possibly not a thing. Under 40s in London maybe yes

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I realised that consonants were the key and went for CLASH or STAND. I've since moved on to HAIRY (despite being used in the past) followed by TONED, DELAY, DECOY, STEAD or LINED depending on results of the first attempt. A lot of common letters explored in 2 goes

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This was something Nick Hornby covered in Fever Pitch, of course it wasn't Ultras in his day but the concept of an ordinary, harmless man suddenly being transformed into a public menace purely by association and enjoying it was something he related to

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But I hear people my age talk of Red Wedge/ANL/CND in the 80s as though they were the majority when the reality was very different

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I've experienced this. Polls have constantly shown that people in the UK born 1940 to 1975 have ALWAYS voted more right wing than those born earlier or later. 1970 election was turned by first time voters. 1980s Thatcher had a lead among under 35s that Cameron never achieved in 2010/2015

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I'm more aware of pavement tailgating and I can understand that being an issue for women, either from a "why is he following me" point of view or a "he's going to catch my heel in minute if he doesn't slow down or pass"

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It's more than never seen this, I've never heard this from within my social circle. Out of the issues I hear mentioned this isn't one of them. I hear about men who make women uneasy by crossing over the road to where they are, I hear about men who follow but never walk past

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These are the people who complain about London being lost etc but forget what it was like in the past. My son lives and works in SE London, near the location of 2 infamous 90s murders, both carried out by white Londoners

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It's a weird mix. My 1980s High School was incredibly white British (about 1290 out of 1300) and many have grown up to be racist. They've combined with people who grew up in multicultural areas and migrated here

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I've seen women talk about it on social media but it always leaves me puzzled because I do something similar when I'm fed up with dodging out of the way of others. I just stop so they became aware that I'm there. Main offenders, groups of women or lone men with dogs

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