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I seem to remember the keeper-holding-the-ball thing really being enforced some time back and then next season dropped.

cheers for the stats. Does this include suicide using a gun? It's often added in to these stats as technically it is a death involving a gun but not in the context of a mass shooting or intent to kill another through the use of a gun.

Very interesting point. I always considered Dunk's main weakness his discipline which, as has been covered on here, has really been worked on. Owen's point is good though, the manager's system can really help a defender or do the opposite, look at Keane at Everton. He's not looked as good as he...

bit of a side note but something I found interesting, gun sales in the US are down (sales at gun shows where its often easy to buy them) are down 50%. Obama was often referred to as the NRA's best friend due to the fear that he would stop the sale of them (so folk kept on buying them keeping...

That's a fair point you make, perhaps not fair of me to point to a podcast and simply say "it's over there". The main reason, which won't surprise people, is oil. Invading Afghanistan and then Iraq was crucial in this aspect (see here for a good article). This article unwraps the difficulty the...

It's worth listening the to podcast I cite, purely because they lay the case for the invasion (and need for it) quite convincingly.

I always find the "they believed the earth was flat in antiquity" line really tedious. In 240 BC Erasthones calculated the circumference of the earth (or got close to it). In short even back then they realised it wasn't flat!

The annoyance I have with the conspiracy theorists is that they are treated as one homogeneous party, so if you think 9/11 has questions which need clarifying then you are automatically placed into the basket with flat-earthers, lizard people and the type who are the essential conspiracy...

an earlier poster mentioned that suncream may have not been administered perhaps due to a medical concern. A lot of kids are allergic to various things, there's also the parent(s) who might object to suncream being used on other grounds (no idea why but I imagine there's one or two). Cue angry...

Thought I'd pitch in here - not looking to get involved with at what temperature steel fails etc but there's a very good podcast which picks up the political situation at the time of 9/11. They are not crackpots and regularly pick up conspiracy theories and pull them to bits (they cover Roswell...

It seems that the issue at the academy was flagged and dealt with. I would be very surprised if it was this, bearing in mind they allowed him to continue. As per my post earlier it's probably something at the other end of the scale which would be deemed not good behaviour or inappropriate in...

Looking at the chain events it's possible that the following has occurred. Following Sampson being in the headlines someone has come forward and possibly agreed a deal with a newspaper about certain revelations. From what has been communicated this relates to Sampson's time when he was in...

Years ago I remember reading an article about the rise in suicides amongst ex-county cricket players. It pointed to the fact that many couldn't adapt to life away from the changing room. I wonder if there's something similar going on here. Rio was lauded for much of his playing career and now...

CCTV will show who left it (assuming there's a decent image). Forensics could help link the person directly through DNA, it could also bring others into play (i.e. the person who placed it might not have built it).

what do you mean by the myth of the shoestring budget?

reports are that the bomb didn't go off fully and apart from the potential lives this has saved it might also give up a lot of evidence. I would imagine you aren't too bothered about fingerprints and the like if you are making something you expect to explode. Hopefully it'll have a lot for the...

there's a lot more bluff and gameplay than being being seen here. A lot of what NK is doing might be to force the US to show their hand, e.g. find out what capability the US has in terms of taking down missiles. Much of modern warfare is about working out what the other guy has, normally you...

As ever I think the media are working the next big thing/knock him down angle a little. It's true that Bournemouth (and thus Eddie) are under performing but it was also the media who linked him with the Arsenal job last season (and even touted him as the next England manager). The media had a...

As much as I dislike many politicians it's tricky to argue that they aren't talented, David Cameron excelled at school and at Oxford (you can obviously cite his privileged education but you still need to pass the exams). Blair was an acute political operator. I am no fan of both but they aren't...

Jones was very fortunate to be around when Guy Ritchie was doing his thing, managed to very much fit in with the whole East End gangster thing. To be fair he worked the angle well and seized the opportunity. As for Lovejoy, if you've never read it the WSC review of his book is up there with...