I’d never heard of him, just googled the name to have a read!
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Dimly recall that episode because it had Rovers staying in the League by vote rather than finishing position. I doubt that was the first time that a club owner had decided to realize the land value of the stadium rather than trying to make a football club viable.
I am curious as to whether Leeds (UFC) owns Elland Road, or whether it is its own company with common ownership.
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When an owner seeks usage of the stadium as an asset to be bought or sold it’s usually the end of the road.
It is kind of why I’m glad Henry stuck with Anfield.
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This is what happened to Clydebank in Scotland. The club sold the ground and played a couple of seasons at completely unrelated groundshares. After Airdrieonians went into administration someone bought Airdrie’s ground and the homeless Clydebank and called the new enterprise Airdrie United. Once everyone had forgotten that piece of shenanigans they renamed themselves as Airdrieonians.
It’s nearly as dubious as Rangers dealings with the taxman.
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Allardyce gone at Leeds. Not really a surprise, but he gets to be a trivia question now, shortest tenure as a PL manager
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Does he have shortest tenure as England manager too?
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I think he does - it was just one match as I recall.
The funny thing to me is that this takes the club record away from Brian Clough…who also set it by leaving Leeds.
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At least one day he’ll be able to die a happy man knowing he always had the knowledge over Klopp Pep Jose combined & was best equipped to take on any managerial role…he said so himself, wouldn’t surprise me if his dying wish was to have exactly that carved on his gravestone. Detestable guy.
& speaking of Leeds, Tyler Adams on the cheap anyone?
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Would that be Elland…road?
Ell end of the road? 
Bell End Road?
Last weekend judging from those videos
Yes.
He’s also joint second in the all time England manager honours list.
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Didnt Lallana score his only England goal during his reign?
Someone made the point that referees have a very referee style of name.
Bit of a crossover with snooker players name.
If they automate VAR there’ll be no time for spot betting.
Not surprised in the slightest.
They can wank around drawing a dodgy line for 5 minutes instead
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They have claimed that they think the current tech required to implement will become outdated quickly so think the investment would be wasted at this point. Instead they are adding 4 more calibrated cameras to each game to reduce the VAR blindspots that we saw with goals like the one Arsenal scored against us.
I am not encouraged as I read a LOT about the limitations of using VAR for offside in the first year it was introduced, and from professional publications not just sports media. Despite this I had NEVER heard of the existence of these blindspots until that Arsenal goal was scored without VAR review. The existence of those gaps are absurd, because we saw with that goal in particular it doesnt take an unusual sequence of play to expose it. That it took them this long to plug those gaps doesnt give me great confidence that they have a real idea of the limitations of the system they are doubling down on.
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