Jesus F Christ that daily heil article is something else.

Are they talking about the same Gareth Southgate they eviscerated for England players taking the knee and making a stand against racism.

I’d love to see them get themselves in a right pickle if he actually won the World Cup

Existenz, Pump Up the Volume, Dead Calm are all films that I enjoyed & you don’t see much love for them – also Condorman

Why does anyone bother with a TV aerial anymore?

So you can still watch TV when the power is out…

Will probably watch it at somepoint when it’s free on streaming – the first one was kinda like someone who saw falling down & thought D-FENS was the good guy.

Seems a much more chilled role than day to day management.

Cliff diving competitors & organisers probably need slightly less equipment & infrastructure than a round of the World Cup.

Danny Hart in Wyn’s track walk had some opinions about it all.

One good thing about next year is they’re dropping the stupid semi final runs. But they’re also stopping protected riders – so qualifying might be less full on.

Quite a bit of jealous sounding people on here.

Thought they were a breath of fresh air. Clearly both happy to get stuck in and lived and breathed the build.

Getting it done in the timescale was ridiculous. My jaw dropped when I saw the first visit was March last year. Figured that they’d either smash it or it went horribly wrong.

As for their jobs a lot of people give influencers a bad rep cos of how many fakes there are out there. To actually be successful is full time hard graft just in a way a lot of people from older generations can’t even begin to understand.

So – this has probably been done earlier in thread – but lets look at those costs –

According to TM the ticket cost goes to –
“Paying the artist, Hiring the venue, Running the tour, Marketing the show, Insuring the event.
But the fees Ticketmaster takes go towards many costs including giving our fans a quick and secure ticket buying experience
Security technology, Websites & apps, Payment provider costs, Staffing costs, Ticket scanners, Venue, Box office equipment, Offices, running costs, Customer services, Promoter”

So there seems to be plenty of double payments there – the venue double dips as does the promoter. So security tech, box office equipment & scanners are the same thing, didn’t realise TM even had customer services.

So looking at Billy Joel –

Tickets
£320.00 according to TM – That’s for artist, venue, marketing (although for a massive artist like this or Oasis surely just the fact they are there is enough & the fans do the rest cos it’s so exciting) running the tour & insurance
Transaction Fee – presumably the cost of running your card or paypal – most other things I buy don’t have this added cost.
£2.50
Facility Fee – haven’t we already paid that as part of the main ticket?
£5.00
Service Fee – TM staff etc… Anfield has a capacity of 61,276  for gigs so assuming a sell out & that service fee was £17/ticket that’s £1,041,692 TM cream off the top to run their operation. Of course that doesn’t take into account the more expensive the tickets the higher the service fee.
£34.00

So I guess the question is how much does it actually cost to provide ticket services & infrastructure to run a gig of this side. It wouldn’t surprise me as well if some of the flat original ticket price goes to TM from the promoter so they get paid to provide their ‘service’ to the promoter & then charge the end user to purchase from their platform.

It’s an absolute disgrace.

EDIT – I also just noticed while researching the above – there is also a timer to purchase tickets. So pressures fans into buying – that is illegal in other sales areas I think?

Just sell it now to someone who isn’t going to rent it out.

Asked if he still had faith in former Ajax boss Ten Hag, Sir Jim Ratcliffe told BBC Sport: “I don’t want to answer that question.”

So that’s a big fat no then.

I have recently binned the FB app from my phone – I have since discovered I don’t spend half as much time on there & my mental health has improved as I have stopped trolling people who have different opinions from me.

I personally think ETH should be given time – & more money.

Attached brief hit reply all instead of just the ex PM.

Pretty shitty of the Beeb to give him the airtime for this in the first place. It’s not their job to promote his book.

Massive props to Villa last night – I hope their squad has enough depth through the season to remain in PL contention to get back in the CL next year.

I thought PSG were supposed too be good?

So do we think ETH will be sacked today?

Or will it take until next Monday?

Dave Brailsford looks to be another rich white man trading on past glories who has no idea about anything.

Bruno isn’t captain material for a club of United’s size. He’s tetchy not someone who’s a leader.

Long may it all continue.

Well that United result is a lovely glimmer of sunshine on a proper rainy and windy day

Seen them 3 or 4 times – top tier live entertainment.

They also supported Nickleback – so that must have been awkward posting on social media how great Nickleback are.

How does it work there?

Can you serve more than 2 terms if they are not consecutive?

The ref had a bit of a mare – if you call a player over, it’s only right you let them get back in position before re-starting play.
Despite all the advances in VAR etc – we are still talking about the ref after a top of the table clash.

Eastenders is the British version of Cheers

Personally I would like him wait until after the election loss where he can pass away in jail after slipping on the soap in the showers

Am I the only one disappointed with one of these (not the 56 just the normal version)? I got it after a PSA on here and its useless. Water does come out of it, but I think I’d be better off with a couple of old pop bottles of water and a watering can, it would give me more water at higher pressure and wouldn’t need recharging!

You are letting the water run all the way through aren’t you? It can take a while to pick up enough flow.

It’s true the right wing really does age people – just found out she is 31 yrs old! Figured she was at least 50 from the pics I’ve seen of her.

It’s a shame to see these places die, but, CYB, NyA & Afan are really no different to Glentress or FOD – but crucially none of them have had any level of investment since their original development.

Yes fashions change – but a good trail is still a good trail.

I’m only interested when it goes wrong

So how many of the wildcard athletes make it through to the big show? It’s a fairly stacked wildcard list to put it lightly.

Might be worth re-visiting this article from 6 yrs ago…

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2018/jul/24/two-50-or-100-years-when-do-leavers-think-brexit-will-pay-off

So by the time we as a nation wish to rejoin – it might not be worth it..

(that last sentence was not typed with a straight face)

The crowd noise in that video is proper FIFA video game crowd noise.

Shame he’s bringing the current Utd way to management.

Thought it was a good performance against a very average ROI side. Will be interesting to see how we play against Finland on Tuesday

In contrast two years ago we got delayed for over 5 hours coming back from Croatia. It was Ryanair’s fault as the plane broke. We got pretty good food while waiting. When I got back i clicked the link on Ryanair website filled in the flight details and two weeks later had £1200 in my account. The original flights cost £675! I fly Ryanair regularly. They have improved a lot IME

We had similar – I doctored the the voucher they gave us to upgrade our food. Figured it’s what Michael O’Leary would do.

Oooooh what’s Trippier been doing to get in the papers?

I would argue he’s protecting Trippier – given his age & the fact he didn’t have a summer break

I don’t get it when people complain about holiday prices during the school holiday periods. Of course they will cost more.

This is also just as wrong – the fact it’s cheaper for parents to pay the fines than the inflated costs proves it. The price should be the price. **** capitalism.

festivals are cheap because the audience is generally skint under-25 year olds who don’t have the money to pay for more.

Tell me you’ve not been to a festival, without telling me you’ve not been to a festival.

Fitness wise, I should think that’s the United players not playing for, or trusting the manager and tactics. Maybe when he gets the rest of his Ajax team in situ they’ll be on a similar wavelength.

They seem to constantly have a lengthy injury list (similar to Newcastle) so you have to question what they are doing in training to break so many players.

He’s had 2 full seasons & spent more than enough money (& 20 players) to put his stamp on the team.

Ugh they just had some knob on the radio justifying the surge pricing, saying it discourages ticket touts as the tickets find their market price… **** off you just want a bigger piece of the pie.

Glastonbury gets a bad rep for it’s ticket cost – but last year I paid £350, got 5 days camping, & saw, QOTSA, Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys, GnR, Alt J, Loyle Carner, Leftfield, The Pretender’s, Raye, The Hives, Texas, Warpaint, Editors (the most unexpectedly brilliant live band), Fatboy Slim & more.

Spotted this mad statistic earlier…

Goals at Old Trafford

All competitions since 24 January 2021:

Marcus Rashford 31

Bruno Fernandes 29

Cristiano Ronaldo 17

Scott McTominay 13

Mohamed Salah 10

Anthony Martial 10