Gareth Chester

Failed teacher, frustrated archaeologist, semi-talented BI developer, tuba/bass trom player @DarloOrchestra. Gate/occasional twitter @DurCorinthianFC He/him

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@Griffin44062245 @Halalcoholism @Langerhans_isle Youth system is the big one - American youth sport is very similar to here in England (historically) where winning and technical work is the be-all-and-end-all which we've only just started to see the benefit of changing by having game-changing players rather than systems ones

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@UEFAObscura ISO 3166-2 actually does give the UK constituent nations codes, and England's matches as ENG, whilst Scotland has SCT which is different again.

I like to think that they went for W for Curaçao to it being a 'uu' sound, but it's more likely that CV was taken already so W was next

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@JamesRNail @NikkiMcR If you're going for a diving header before the cross is taken then you're hitting the deck whilst the ball's still in the air (or the cross was from a yard away and you're bringing needless amounts of flair)

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@dismaljot @gothoperas May and Brown arguably had a chance of winning if they went earlier and blew it due to pessimism. Other than that PMs tend to go when something goes wrong or they're just too unpopular so the 'think they will win' statement only applies to Eden and Johnson (who still waited)

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@dismaljot @gothoperas Eden's the only one who went straight away, and Johnson at 5 months was more to get a majority when he didn't have one than to prove any legitimacy

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@dismaljot @gothoperas PMs to start with no GE postwar and time before they called a GE

Eden - 1 month
Macmillan - 2 years 9 months
Douglas-Home - 1 year
Callaghan - 3 years
Major - 1 year 5 months
Brown - 2 years 11 months
May - 11 months
Johnson - 5 months
Truss - never
Sunak - 1 year 9 months

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@AdzjoMK @cockwomblefree @sarah__british There's only 648 people who get to decide if someone can be PM, and we each get to vote for one of them. You can disagree with that all you want but short of having a directly elected PM there's no legislation you can realistically pass to require a mandate beyond that

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@eastlake_e @christopherhope He can't formally resign without there being someone with the confidence of the house to replace him - so today is more of a notification that he _will_ resign when the party decides who that is. He only has to go to the King when he formally resigns

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@hivraplst @TjkWAkram @PolitlcsUK It's been common for a long time actually, it's just the timescale has sped up to a massive extent. Since the war Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Wilson Thatcher, Blair have all left in between elections (Churchill due to ill health so is a slight outlier).

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@hlovo_ @DaDrowsyDude @LewisHamilton Prior to Schumacher they didn't make a habit of hiring them, only 4:

Farina - no title
Fangio - title
Andretti - no title (although only two races)
Prost - no title

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@henrywinter What's going to happen if someone _is_ racially abusing behind their hand but the ref doesn't know - sending off, 1 match ban, and then nothing beyond that even if there's evidence as to what was said because 'the incident was in the march report'?

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@Alpert55 @PeteFiutak They're actually trialling that in Canada this season on Arsenal Wenger's recommendation, so if that's a success we'll see it in the game worldwide

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@Steven_Swinford Al Carns also suggested that the main increase in funding should be for data and AI rather than increasing our ability to deploy actual hardware. I think we can safely ignore him (and if he was aligned with his boss see why the treasury wouldn't agree to the funding)

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@JoseAGM8309 @ostralocrapule @mbs59er I know, and I'd wager you're right they won't win another one for a while, but I want to give them one more World Cup to make sure it wasn't just one of those off-tournaments that all teams have occasionally before committing to that

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@alex_mangov @mikeward85 @DennisPeasant_ @Strangeland_Elf There's even a plaque in Wandsworth where the first game under those rules occurred

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@alex_mangov @mikeward85 @DennisPeasant_ @Strangeland_Elf Except prior to the founding of the FA there were multiple codes of rules for 'football' (eg. Rugby, Cambridge, Sheffield). So when the FA codified their rules in 1863 they were known as 'the Association rules' and football as 'Association-rules football'.

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@ostralocrapule @mbs59er Arguably that's also down to the traditional football nations either not putting any resources into (or outright banking) women's football - I'd not be surprised to see them fall further behind Spain and others over the next 10 years

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@KasterborousUK @BruvverEccles I love that this wording implies someone could be a VNA post-TVM fan because "The Dying Days is the only canon-DW" would be the most amazing niche standpoint ever

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@lewis_goodall Translation: "I wasn't able to exert enough influence and/or demonstrate what the extra funding would be used for, so am having a strop and quitting whilst positioning myself for a futile leadership bid"

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@Samwinton99 @c8nnorr @tommarch802 @FloridaManV Yep. And then ITV hire Sam Matterface anyway