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Maybe Man City should sell petrol at the Etihad to increase attendances.

@Khan of TF365

Don't knock it, John has come through rationing I am sure some years all he got was a lump of coal for the fire... Peanuts would have been a welcome luxury only the well off could afford..

@Carnivore Chris @Dr. Gonzo

A new attempt after a while... Tarantula Nebula, a hotbed of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Telescope: ASA 500N (50-cm F3.8) Camera: FLI PL 16803 with Astrodon narrowband filters (3nm) 3 hours observation time, processed with DeepSkyStacker and PS.

Wee Kaiden got this game for his 8th Birthday gone, the Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword and asked me if I wanted to play it with him...so...me..." Ok.." end of story really as he thrashed the arse off me with my fat fingers and short-sighted even with my glasses on. And @nudge, I think you would like the balloons he got...

Yeah, it just amused me as that's the quintessential dad trait

Yea I do...

Do you also pretend you're annoyed with her spending money unnecessarily, but in secret love the stuff she gets you?

True! To be fair as I've got older, people ask me what I want and I struggle more and more in terms of actual presents. I'd rather just go out for a nice meal and some drinks with family. Much better use of time too!

From dw.com: 'Farewell and a new start': Freiburg say goodbye to historic Dreisamstadion After 67 years, Freiburg have bid farewell to their beloved stadium in style. In October, they will move into a new, modern arena, but the memories of one of Germany's most iconic football grounds will remain. Freiburg coach Christian Streich led the celebrations as Freiburg said farewell to their old stadium Freiburg 3-0 Augsburg (Kübler 6', Höler 25', Grifo pen 34') Dreisamstadion Nestled in the valley of the Dreisam River just east of Freiburg city center, the Dreisamstadion is many things to many people. Picturesque with its spectacular location in the Black Forest, old school with its aging terraces and steep stands, freezing cold in winter, beautifully warm in summer, a bogey ground for Bundesliga giants — and commonly considered the "worst away end in Germany" for visiting supporters. But, for 67 years, it's been home for Sport-Club Freiburg. In the almost seven decades since it opened on September 1, 1954, the stadium has played host to Freiburg games in each of Germany's top three divisions, plus UEFA Cup games, men's and women's internationals, and even the Dutch national team, who trained there during the 2006 World Cup. On Sunday, it hosted men's Bundesliga football for the 360th and final time, with head coach Christian Streich impressing upon his players the need to strike the right balance between the emotion of the occasion and the job to be done on the pitch against Augsburg. He needn't have worried. Lukas Kübler, Lucas Höler and Vincenzo Grifo (penalty) scored the Dreisamstadion's 997th, 998th and 999th Bundesliga goals to end the game as a contest by halftime. Freiburg's Dreisamstadion is one of Germany's most iconic football grounds Christian Streich: Dreisamstadion personified The 14,000 Freiburg supporters were free to enjoy the final 45 minutes inside a stadium that reflects its tenants more than any other in professional German football. SC Freiburg and the Dreisamstadion: bywords for tradition, beauty, friendliness, sustainable financial management and good, honest football. And, if there is a single Freiburger who personifies those values himself, it's Streich. A former Freiburg player, the 56-year-old is now the Bundesliga's longest-serving coach, having taken charge of 363 games since 2011. At full-time, with tears in his eyes, Streich climbed into the north stand behind the goal, took a megaphone from the ultras and led the stadium in song: "Im Dreisamstadion, hier sind wir zuhaus" — "At the Dreisamstadion, this is where we are at home." "I don't belong on the terraces," he then admitted. "But I think a few people would have been disappointed today if I hadn't gone. It's been 25 years. A long time. Working here every day, innumerable matches, thousands of training sessions. Now I can enjoy it." A pitch too short and one goal lower than the other And yet no one could have envisaged that the plot of land in the valley to the east of town would come to have such meaning for the people of Freiburg when the Sport-Club first moved there in 1954. The team had been without a home since the end of World War II, after their old ground had been commissioned for use by the Luftwaffe in 1936. In 1970, a stand with 480 covered seats was added. A further expansion followed in 1978 and, by 1980, a new main stand and expanded standing terrace increased capacity to 15,000. Floodlights were finally added after the club's first promotion to the Bundesliga, in 1993, with the capacity reaching 18,000. The stadium reached its current 24,000 capacity in 1999, making it the third-smallest Bundesliga stadium this season, after Union Berlin's Stadion an der Alten Försterei and Greuther Fürth's Sportpark Ronhof. Since Freiburg's arrival in the top flight, the Dreisamstadion has been a unique location in German football — not least because its pitch is technically 5 meters (16.4 feet) too short and one goal is 98 centimeters (38.6 inches) lower than the other, the pitch sloping south to north. Only special dispensation from the German Football League (DFL) allows Freiburg to play there, and it has proven a notoriously difficult place to go for visiting teams. In the 1990s, it took Bayern Munich five attempts to finally win in Freiburg for the first time, even suffering a 5-1 thrashing in August 1994. Even Pep Guardiola lost in Freiburg, a 2-1 defeat in May 2015. In total, Bayern only won 11 of their 21 trips to the Black Forest; their last game there last season also ended in a 2-2 draw. Similarly, Borussia Dortmund have only won in Freiburg on 10 occasions, losing on their last two visits. Borussia Mönchengladbach have the worst record at the Dreisamstadion, winning only once. 'Goodbye, Dreisamstadion!' Even the traveling Augsburg supporters said their farewells Flying golf balls and the worst away end in Germany There will also be a few negative memories for Freiburg. The visit of Bayern on April 12, 2000, remains deeply etched in the memory. In the final stages of a 2-1 win, goalkeeper Oliver Kahn was struck by a golf ball thrown by a 16-year-old Freiburg fan behind his goal, drawing blood and earning Freiburg a fine of 75,000 deutsche marks. And, on November 10, 2019, coach Streich was brutally body checked by Eintracht Frankfurt's David Abraham, sending him sprawling to the ground. Abraham was sent off and, in the melee that followed, so was Vincenzo Grifo. The traveling Augsburg supporters in the southeast corner might not have seen Grifo's goal; the away section in Freiburg is commonly considered the worst in Germany by away fans — low down and hidden behind fences, netting and pillars, but iconic nonetheless. All of that is now history. In October, Freiburg will move to the new, modern Europa-Park-Stadion just north of the city center, built at a total cost of just over €130 million ($152.5 million). It will be officially opened with a friendly against second-division side FC St. Pauli on October 7, before the Bundesliga visit of RB Leipzig on October 16. "When something is beautiful, it's difficult to let go, but all things come to an end," Streich said before the match. "But I can't pretend that we've all been thinking 'Oh no!' Something new is coming, something positive, a great new stadium which we have all worked toward. Nobody has gifted it to us. "So it's farewell, but it's also a new start."

If conning someone out of a packet of snacks was fraud I would be up in front of the judge every week for the things I do in my house...

Hey buddy, I think you should know that I am straight, I don't look at men in that way. Yeah, he was pretty cut up, same in real life as he appears on telly.

Their new stadium is quite interesting as well though. Largest solar power system of the world on their roof apparently. Also there's an airfield next to the stadium, that they want to expand in the future. That means away teams could land right next to the stadium. But yea, gonna miss the Dreisamstadion. Iconic.

Se7en - 9/10 Just as great as I remember it. WHATS IN THE BOX?!?

I think the advanced stats era is like when they started measuring shit like xG

For fucks sake.

@nudge

@Bluewolf

To crave that is a bit weird.

@MUFC

The catalytic converter thief's around my mates turn up with baseball bats, broad daylight, have beaten someone up before and smashed the shit out of someone else's car for challenging them. They also sometimes don't bother hiding their identities. However it is London, most of the CCTV hasn't worked for 15 years in this city.

Few friends and neighbours in adjacent streets have had fuel siphoned from their cars overnight.

Bloody hell