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[brexitplus] 08/3/2019 16:36

Uefa has backed the video assistant referee system's decision to award Manchester United an injury-time penalty that knocked Paris St-Germain out of the Champions League.

Diogo Dalot's shot hit Presnel Kimpembe's arm but was only deemed a spot-kick after the VAR intervention.

But Uefa said the distance the ball covered was "not short" and Kimpembe's arm was "not close" to his body.

Based on this, it added that "the impact could therefore not be unexpected" and "the defender's body [was made] bigger thus resulting in the ball being stopped from travelling in the direction of the goal.

"The referee, therefore, awarded a penalty kick.

[brexitplus] 08/3/2019 16:34

Hey, Porky

Tell us all about your girl friend.

[brexitplus] 08/3/2019 16:32

At least I’m a shareholder.

[minerve 2] 08/3/2019 16:31

Jealous. ROFLMAO!

Go and retire properly brexit. You have no place here.

[brexitplus] 08/3/2019 16:30

Jealousy and frustration will get you upset. Settle down, there’s a good boy.

[minerve 2] 08/3/2019 16:14

Boring Melrose share.

ROFLMAO!

[minerve 2] 08/3/2019 16:13

I think you are old boy.

I think you are frustrated about everything. Your boring wife. Your boring life.

LOL

[brexitplus] 08/3/2019 15:58

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There you go again. You must be really frustrated.

[minerve 2] 08/3/2019 15:54

I bet she is more attractive than your wife, and better between the sheets too.

[minerve 2] 08/3/2019 15:40

Someone like Nicola Sturgeon is most likely your wet dream Brexit.

[brexitplus] 08/3/2019 13:35

Meanwhile, your original post suggests you think minerve stupid.

Let me categorically state he is not stupid. Pompous yes, arrogant yes, nasty yes.
But not stupid.

Re Brexit, you appear to be turning on yourself!!!

[meanwhile] 08/3/2019 13:31

The problem these 3 clowns have, Minerve, is that they are 'first order' thinkers. They can't go beneath the superficial surface layer of a problem or question, to consider 2nd and 3rd order effects. They haven't the combination of vision and logic to work a question through.

Most remainers are first order thinkers, so it might be considered surprising to find this lot here are all brexiteers. There must be another reason for their view on brexit, some intolerance or bigotry somewhere.

[meanwhile] 08/3/2019 13:16

" Come on guys, you must be cleverer than you make out, no one is that stupid, are they?"

Oh yes they are, Minerve.

[brexitplus] 08/3/2019 13:11

Sorry Porky. As I have told you before I have enough to live comfortably and don’t envy anyone. I have certainly never told people, incessantly, that I am wealthy than them!!!

I also have never been bought by anyone. I am probably too honest, but is how I was brought up.

Regarding Melrose, I like the company and would have bought it bonuses or no bonuses.

[brexitplus] 08/3/2019 12:39

Porky

It was not a “pay cheque for £50m”. Had Melrose not performed at all it would have been zero.

Had it been you, knowing how important wealth is to you, what would you have done?

Re backhanders, I agree that certainly in places like Africa they are rife. You don’t see British companies doing much infrastructure work. It is all aitalian, French and German. I discussed this at the British Embassy in the Cameroon’s in 1981. The Commercial Secretary told me there was little chance of getting work there, and even less in Nigeria, without very large backhanders.

[brexitplus] 08/3/2019 12:35

Getting,

I am the first to say I never like to see redundancies. Anywhere, whether it be Rolls Royce or House of Fraser.

But the argument that RR has made lots of people redundant but taken on others so the numbers overall aren’t that bad does not wash.

As Porky said earlier, and I paraphrase “People lose their jobs. Marriages may break down. Depression may come along. Who knows, even the odd suicide.”

That applies to the thousands made redundant by RR.

[minerve 2] 08/3/2019 12:33

Rolls-Royce are active in markets where buying sales has been commonplace. Now, we could join along with Diane Abbott and try and place utopian values on an imperfect world, but what would happen? Other countries would get the sale, bribery will continue, our relationships with buyers in the ME would end, so would our influence. You would leave something that has some control with something that has no control. Not very clever is it.

I do not condone this activity but I understand that sometimes we have to be careful what we strive for. WE has moved RR along much further than where it was many years' ago and I am not going to apologise for past behaviour.

One needs to decide what your values are, what can be done, and what can't be done, within the bounds of pragmatism.

It is very easy to refuse a pay check of £50M to save jobs, improve futures and so on, when you are already a millionaire. It is a little more difficult to execute clean business in a dirty world when families' well-being and international relationships depend on it.

Come on guys, you must be cleverer than you make out, no one is that stupid, are they?

[meanwhile] 08/3/2019 12:27

Oh, how amusing brexit's postings are. That wonderful 'Cotswold', 'Tales of the Riverbank', 'I've got a big one', '3rd class degree', sense of humour.
Priceless.

Hey up, here he comes through the pub door, get your heads down.

[gettingrichslow] 08/3/2019 12:06

Rolls have been submerged in bribery, fraud and corruption issues for years, it has been a terribly run company and is the last example you should be using to make the sorts of points you're trying to make. Now answer B+'s questions!