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In the (admittedly unlikely) event that a Manchester workshop falls on a date that I can make then I'd be interested.

Quotation marks around a phrase that hasn't been used by anyone on this forum. Interesting move.

I assume that means Milton Keynes didn't apply? :lol:

Rinse and repeat every winter?

Is this just something to hang over everyone's heads forever now? I'm becoming more and more convinced that we should never have locked down; it's let the cat out of the bag for the authoritarians to go on a power trip every time there's the slightest cause for concern.

Doncaster has been trying to become a city for years too; it lost out to Preston in 2002.

Martin Lewis advised on his show this week that if you can find a fix that's ~30% more than the variable tariff then it's worth considering as it may work out cheaper over the length of the deal.

From what I can see online, they've always been planned to be at Stadium MK.

Based on my previous experience of attending events at Victoria Park, northern will throw the towel in. My success rate of actually making it home via train from there is less than 50%.

It's a drop in the ocean compared to the overall cost of the trip, but it's a large increase all in one go, given what it is.

I went to watch Basel v Lugano on Sunday afternoon. I'll add Switzerland onto the list of countries where pyro is embraced. It was an end of season dead rubber and the home end never stopped bouncing, with flares and smoke bombs aplenty. It made for a really good spectacle; the game itself was...

Take the 25%. Not a lot else to be done really. Your gripe about feeling overcharged is a strange one, it must be said. If you were that bothered you'd have booked the later one at the time surely?

I've seen pyros thrown before, and nearly always it's because an army of stewards were on their way to manhandle the offender out of the ground and into the arms of the nearest police officer. If that wasn't the procedure, they wouldn't end up being thrown in the first place. Actual flares are...

They've got similar in Poland, along with some very intimate searching. I don't think it'd solve the assaulting players issue though. There's plenty of CCTV at football stadia in this country, and all three instances of assault this week occured during televised games so there's all the Sky/BT...

Simply being in possession of one isn't (for adults at least). The act of attempting to enter a football stadium with one is a criminal offence, the definition of 'attempting to enter' is (predictably for football related offences) incredibly wide ranging and isn't limited to being found with...

There is a massive distinction between the two. There is absolutely no need for an actual flare at a football ground. The aversion to both does seem to be a uniquely UK issue. Continental Europe (particularly Germany and Poland) seem to embrace them.

There will inevitably be the odd few that jump over the barrier on occasions like tonight. It's not the end of the world. It's been going on in the lower leagues for years. The sober fans can come on as soon as the final whistle blows then? :lol::rolleyes: The only way to prevent pitch...

Judging by the typical age of those requiring treatment, I doubt it's linked to drugs or alcohol. The football world has just recently started to take incidents very seriously, so whereas in previous years the match would have carried on while someone was receiving treatment, now they stop the...

Cheaper drinks in football grounds could go either way. Some folk would spread out their drinking over the day but the typical troublemaker would just use it as a chance to drink even more. There is already a more relaxed attitude to the more chilled out drugs, but I reckon the number of people...

The return trains are only 5-10 minutes apart too. It's not even a full 2tph all day either with random gaps in the Liverpool services. The buses to and from Preston are definitely busier than when we had a respectable rail service. The Hazel Groves not stopping at Leyland is a joke too.