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David manninx, the warrington captain played in my 5-a-side league while he was serving a 10 month ban for match fixing when he was an accrington stanley player.

He's tall and quick and caused the aged and short hibbert zero problems. he didn't look interested that being said we didn't give much away

Big win tonight. Point in wolfsburg puts us through and would mean a win at home to krasnodar puts us through as winners. Should be a great game. basically playing for who wins the group and they looked good at goodison, 4-1 was flattering. I guess it could end up dour with both teams just...

Not really. worked hard and showed a couple of good touches but basically didn't threaten a central partnership that has leaked goals for fun so far this season.

I thought Shakib was banned by the BCB? hmmm, quick google search said it was up after 3 months, guess he appealed and got it reduced

the trip was great but the match itself barely qualified as drab, atmosphere in the ground was still good from both sets of fans despite this. Can't help but feel it was two points dropped, though. We didn't play well and a draw was the fairest result by far, but they offered nothing and I...

Off to lille next week and Wolfsburg next month. that's around £800 right there.

I don't think he was motivated too much by the traditional cricket stats. I imagine he'd happily trade runs off his average for motm awards/more match winning knocks.

the idea that an account can only be ran by one person. I mean, really, is that actually what he thinks?

oh yes definitely, i wasn't particularly defending the management, i think because of the success that system brought they thought they had a magic formula of sorts and invested far too heavily into it. a false positive feedback loop, i guess.

to be fair the bowling attack of picking a containing seamer brought a lot of success. it was only when swann's injuries weakened his ability to both bowl long containing spells effectively and to bowl more of his variations that that system started to fail due to a lack of potency.

definitely the latter. the three bowlers (plus prior) were almost untouchable I think the idea amongst the team was swann/anderson/broad will win matches if the other guys support them. A third seamer to do donkey work, a top 6 to consistently grind out ~600 in a match rather than set 450/500...

Definitely agree with that. But in the case of Swann I'd guess he doesn't realise what he is doing bullying. He genuinely believes it's just "banter" rather than knowing that he has been an arse and just stonewalling the criticism.

yes but we aren't likely to ever have an open and comprehensive view of the facts. it's likely always going to come down to "he said x, he said y". so the ecb/certain journos know that a certain % of people will just buy it. they've lost those who don't already.

it's a rampant problem in sports journalism. peddle the lies you're told by a club/organisation or act as an extension of their PR department and they'll help you get ahead and keep feeding you stuff. speak out, you're cut off from the supply line and your career falters.

Swann has an article behind a paywall on the sun website. So that probably tells me everything I need to know about his rebuttal.

and of course he'll grate on some people when things are going well anyway.

Swann's one of those guys who thinks being loud and joking a lot automatically makes you a big character. Great to have around when things are going well, great to celebrate with. But when things start going badly and you need a big character he turns a little nasty and the jokes disappear.

Do you think those responsible thought "right, we'll humiliate KP as much as possible in public... I know. A parody twitter account will do the trick" they at most wanted him to be slightly embarrassed/taken down a peg. But more likely they were just being stupid and didn't think it through and...

I didn't see any tweets from that account that took anything private from the dressing room (that of course would be "absolutely disgraceful"). It was all about playing on his public image of being an ego on legs and about stuff already in the public domain. Maybe I missed something. It's not...