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What a pleasure. Let's hope he gets to return the pleasure in future. A mate, originally from Manchester, who passed away in his 80's earlier this year had the great fortune to have his kids treat him to trips for matches at his beloved Old Trafford and to a couple of Aussie F1 GP's. Oh, and they funded his across-USA trip on a Harley with his next wife. Even in his 70s Ron tried to persuade us to join him for his 13th Comrades completion. And there was the pic of him sharing a pint with a young John Lennon. RIP Ron, what a guy. Sorry, your shared mini adventure with your son at a storied St Mary's had me reminiscing. What a pleasure. Looking forward to any feedback.

Great Britain's Lisa Dobriskey right after her 1500m race at the 2012 Olympics in London: “I’ll probably get into trouble for saying this, but I don’t believe I’m competing on a level playing field.” She was right, 5 of the 12 finishers in the final have been disqualified for doping offences. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/19/fifth-athlete-stripped-olympic-medal-dirtiest-races-athletics-history-tatyana-tomashova-london-2012-1500m

Thanks bruh, all valid. First off, standing and delivering like some of those lame-ass, half-dead, with their disinterested waffling varsity lecturers we had in our youth ain't the nature of my lecturing. It's a bit closer to the extreme sport nature of lecturing 😂, if I was to exaggerate. Some students might say we leaned near the mal energy side of the lecture spectrum. Nah, but it also included the physicality of high angle rescues always with the heaviest bodies and using jaws of life to pry open trucks and stormy sea surface and air stuff and fannying about on mountains type of training. Have I come across as defensive enough yet? Have to agree with you that he definitely started with a deficit after his setback. I just think that if he had 4 months, or even 3, to prep that that time is well sufficient. I can only be guessing, at best, as this palooka is not currently in the queue to get in the ring with Tyson, neither Mike nor Fury. Snoop Dogg once said Tyson had him going "bro', time for a break". Even if he refrains while in training, it must take a h e a v y toll on the lungs I imagine. A non-smoker like me? I think I would just die 😂 He's had some other hobbies...

Tyson making excuses here, I think. “I almost died in June,” wrote Tyson in a post on X. He continued, “Had 8 blood transfusions. Lost half my blood and 25lbs in hospital and had to fight to get healthy to fight so I won.” That's 5 months before the fight. The reason I think it's a fake excuse is I once walked (very weakly) into hospital on a Friday evening having lost two-thirds. Haemoglobin was measured at 4.8 as compared to the usual 14 - 17 for males. Venofer infusion and several blood units were administered. I was back at work the Monday morning as my colleagues were fully booked and unable to take over my 7 hours of lectures per day. It took a few weeks to get back to decent strength, not 5 months. I was almost 50 at the time so not much difference in age with Tyson. That's the reasoning behind why I think he's making a flou excuse, I think it has more to do with the weed Tyson smokes throughout the day. He's reportedly a beast at smoking weed. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-tyson-health-scare-before-jake-paul-fight_n_6739ae86e4b0ebe12e365830

Remuneration for these old legendary boxers is reportedly structured with a base $ deal, and then compensated either by the round or on a streaming viewership numbers basis. The longer the match goes the more the likes of Tyson and Mayweather earn. It's a farce, it's not sport imo. Still, I had hoped to read that Tyson moered that TicToc numbskull.

Old Mark Clattenburg has been at it as well. Disclosing dishonesty right on the pitch in 2016. Mike Dean: Dean ignores any integrity, ignores the responsibility of getting it right. Mark Halsey: ^^^ Say what? The referees management body itself telling a ref to lie to players and clubs and the fans!? Sky, ITV and TNT Sports are already scrambling their commentators to cover for those officials several times a day for a few days now. I've been watching. MSM must protect their product. The referees said those things, their own words and actions condemn themselves. The refs are saying that they're dishonest. The evidence is undeniable. They're as rotten as it gets.

Yebo. Now the plonker done lost his mind by recording himself snorting white powder in a hotel room after a match and whatsapping it to a mate. Not pretty either, all topless and twitchy and sweaty. And now there are old pics of him and his PGMOL colleagues Atkinson and Marriner and Friend on a work trip in the Far East with them partying with arms draped around what may or may not be ladyboys. Wives will be joyous today. Thing is, can their judgement be trusted? Virgil van Dijk asked one at the final whistle "Have you been drinking?" What of the clear chance of them being pressured because of the hooker and drug habits? Also, why have the FA and PGMOL failed to act on the obvious conflict of interest of the same English refs being paid large wedges of wonga by Man City's owners in Abu Dhabi? They're just not fit for purpose, they cannot be trusted.

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Any thoughts about ref David Coote's comments about Klopp? I've said similar comments about a couple of business rivals who made it personal and also played dirty. Some are saying he can never ref in England again, but I don't see why that should be the case. His mate stitched him up horribly in posting that video.

Looking forward to this one, but only if that ex-Bok coach's buttocks are no longer exposed and vigorously bouncing in the back seat of his car in that Spar parking.

This week in 1987, Mark Hughes played 90 minutes for Wales and later the same day was on the bench for Bayern (after flying to) Munich.

Most certainly agreed. Big Ange's awkward and defensive response, a couple of months ago, in saying that they're not paying more attention to set pieces was a major tell.

Horrific. I recall Nawal Al-Maghafi's 2019 doccie in which she secretly filmed imams selling 1 hour/1 day "pleasure marriages" involving kids as young as 9 in mosques in Baghdad. 8 out of the 10 Shia clerics filmed were selling children in "pleasure marriages" from inside mosques. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/06/pleasure-marriages-iraq-baghdad-bbc-investigation-child-prostitution

Forest's owners have big plans for their clubs, as evidenced by them employing Arsenal's excellent sporting director Edu.