Richard

West Ham and Canvey Island FC supporter ⚽️
Racing and golf fan ⛳️🐎
Metal and rock lover 🤘

[Southend United FC @SUFCRootsHall]

Scenes.

[Richard @__r99c]

@Johnnno75 @jamesaknight Roll on 4 runner grade 1 races with 2/7 favourites!

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@PuntingWinners Cor, that does look good

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@stevend62932731 Blue sky in SE London

[Richard @__r99c]

@AtTheRaces Terrible. You'll end up with boats in it now due to the usual ground and it'll be devalued into the French version of the Great Voltigeur.

[Richard @__r99c]

@racingblogger Looking forward to being on a young colt and having it hampered up the Longchamp rail by a Trueshanesque boat.

[Richard @__r99c]

They do a great job working bad hours, in all types of weather and get paid a pittance. The situation needs looking at.

[Richard @__r99c]

Racing staff are horribly underpaid. A lot of these racehorses are owned by wealthy syndicate members and some by rich individuals. Their racehorses are their assets, and their loved ones like the family pets too. Would you want the person looking after them to be on min wage?

[Racing Post @RacingPost]

Alan King on the situation that led to an average arrears per worker of £793.78, between April 1, 2019 and September 25, 2022

🗣️ “We sincerely apologise to our colleagues who were affected by these past administrative errors. Our employees are the backbone of the business, and they deserve to be compensated accurately.

“As soon as HMRC brought this to our attention, we co-operated fully and all affected employees were back-paid on conclusion in 2023. HMRC identified a technical underpayment for 24 employees, totalling £19,050.72. This represented a small fraction of under one per cent of total payroll in the review period.

“The regulations surrounding National Minimum Wage can be complicated, but that is not an excuse. We have learned from this process and are fully confident that our current operations prevent any repeat of these issues.”

[Richard @__r99c]

@AimeeLJones99 Probably declared the staff N/Rs on payday.

[Richard @__r99c]

@DarranPearce I can fully understand the chairman's concerns then, gate receipts and the connection between match going supporters and the clubs are far more important at that level than higher up. Hopefully that new regulator will look at this kind of thing, but I doubt it.

[Richard @__r99c]

Days later and everything is still blurry @SkySportsNews - sort it out!!

[👑 NG Football 👑 @Bigdeano88]

Anyone else watching Sky Sports News on Virgin Media channel 509 having problems? The picture is flickering/bouncing and the text at the bottom is really blurry. Every other channel, including the other Sky Sports channels, is absolutely fine. Anyone else getting this? @virginmedia

[Ascenso Inglés @AscensoInglesok]

⚒️ Duras palabras de un hincha del West Ham después del partido contra Wolves:

"Soy abonado desde los 80s. No se trata del fútbol en sí: es la experiencia sin vida del día del partido. 7,50 £ por una cerveza pésima, rodeado de turistas y vloggers hablando a las cámaras para transmisiones en directo.

Defendí el London Stadium durante una década contra los críticos. Acepté que el Boleyn era cosa del pasado. Pero esta noche, me golpeó fuerte: el fútbol moderno y este estadio ya no están hechos para gente como nosotros. Adoro al West Ham; está grabado en mi piel, pero de ahora en adelante, lo veré desde casa.

El espíritu desapareció”

[BBC Sport Cumbria @bbccumbriasport]

The Boreham Wood chairman Danny Hunter has heavily criticised the National League’s media partners DAZN for ‘punishing’ Carlisle United supporters by making them travel to London for an evening kick-off on Saturday.

#bbcfootball #nationalleague #bwfc

[Richard @__r99c]

@JackARacing @mattllaf1981 Completely missed the point. If they want to go after gambling in terms of having more people do it safely, then promote the shops and go after online a bit more should be the way (now that the £2 fobt limit is in force).

[Richard @__r99c]

@JackARacing @mattllaf1981 I was just thinking about this earlier. It's far easier to promote responsible gambling by having people bet in person at actual betting shops and casinos rather than online. When that news came out about betting shops being targeted by the new government, Zarb-Cousin and his lot

[Richard @__r99c]

@mattllaf1981 You've missed the obvious two main reasons - online betting is much more popular and there is a general decline in the popularity of racing amongst our population now.

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@HonestFrank £8.30

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@stevend62932731 Cloudy in Greenwich also

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@RacingPost Serious horse him. Happy retirement!