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@Utd1999_ @SkySportsNews Maybe this isn’t the right place to play this game!! ⚡️⛈️

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@EssexRich1 @ToryFibs This is just untrue. It’s an old chestnut quoted time and time again on X.

Work out the compound interest on all those NI payments.

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@TheHolmesFront @ToryFibs How it is paid is irrelevant, if you have made the qualifying payments it’s yours and can’t be taken away. All other benefits would have to be taken away before the state pension can be attacked or even means tested.

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@LHP_CEO @ToryFibs How it’s paid is irrelevant. The state pension is an entitlement that is earned by qualifying years of NI payments. That the state has spent those payments is irrelevant. It’s under the welfare budget but it’s not a benefit. The original contract makes this implicit point.

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@DannyRosamond Good point!

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@Don_K_Williams The phrase ‘technical skill’ is meaningless. So golf is a game that is 90% technique with very little skill. Chess is 100% skill with no technique. This understanding of the difference between skill and technique is at the heart of the UEFA A license.

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@Don_K_Williams In the past players would have been shown technique, how to pass, shoot etc. That doesn’t happen in the UK now, technique is self taught. 95% of sessions will be with the ball under pressure. Game realistic. ‘Drills’ are a dirty word in UK football coaching circles!

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@DavidMo16583805 @MU689908 Every single game was televised!

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@DavidMo16583805 @MU689908 Yes they were!?!?

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@TRILLMACULAT @MU689908 Why don’t you ask Messi who he thinks the is/was the best player of all time?

He says Maradona!

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@MU689908 He was the best player that ever lived. He’d be unstoppable in the modern game. No player who played with him, or against him has ever said they saw anyone better.

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@liamthomson_97 That’s a bit different to playing at 7000ft! This does give Mexico an unfair advantage. But it is what it is.

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@richardpbacon War is not a sport. It’s a horrible race to destroy your enemy at all costs. Those costs are often civilians. We deliberately targeted civilians in the WW2 to try and break German morale. Dresden? That’s the reality of war. It’s awful.

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@ToryFibs How do they know what tax is uncollected?

But that’s a staggering figure and could make a massive difference to disability payments.

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This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

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@Bubblejet @sheedabp Spent many inspirational hours at Stoke Mandeville being part of what is possible not what isn’t!

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@Bubblejet @sheedabp No that’s simply rubbish. You are better than this. Do you think we shouldn’t build sports pitches, athletic stadiums and swimming pools because the severely disabled can’t use them? You don’t lose out because others gain.

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@SophyRidgeSky Told yer!

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@SophyRidgeSky Some of the most powerful people in Mexico playing golf in the morning….watching the game later.

This will be changed back. Or Mexican FA will probably be looking for a new head…literally!