Recent content by dsr-burnley

If we're all unhealthy, then that will save the taxpayer money rather than cost the taxpayer. Dementia is the biggest health expense at present, and dementia is suffered very much more by thin, healthy people than by fat, unhealthy people. Why? Because the biggest causative factor in dementia...

My umbrella didn't cost £3. (They don't last long, but then I don't use them often. And when I do I usually lose them.) Burnley's prohibited items list is: "knives, Illegal Substances, fireworks, smoke canisters, air-horns, flares, weapons, dangerous or hazardous items, laser devices...

Yes, because Canada can grow its own food, and because Canada hasn't spent most of its income on weaponry instead of power stations, and because Canada has a government that is in favour of looking after its people and which can be voted out if they don't like them any more. Germany sealed our...

Good. That's the sensible solution, but we know we can't rely on VAR to be sensible.

What would happen if an attacker goes down in the area, and the ref gives a goal kick which the goalkeeper takes very quickly before the VAR official has had time to have a think?

I know. But they still have to make a decision, on the ones that are too close to call, whether it was offside or not. In the Championship and below, if it's too close to call to the naked eye, then it is onside; in the PL, half of the "too close to call" calls are offside. They may wait to...

In the Championship and all leagues lower, the ref can decide the forward is in front of the attacker, or behind him, or level. If he isn't sure whether he is in front or behind, he assumes level and doesn't flag. In the PL, with the draw-lines-and-take-2-minutes offside decisions, there is no...

Not in rugby league. In rugby league, VAR only has a say when the ref asks it to. If the ref gives a try, then it's a try whatever VAR might think. It's only if the ref isn't sure that he will give his provisional decision, which VAR will overturn only if they can prove him wrong. Sendings...

If the linesman had been playing Championship rules, he would probably have adjudged the player to be level, and therefore wouldn't have flagged. It was only because in a VAR-league he has to make a decision about whether one man's shoulder is an inch in front of another man's boot, that he had...

I wouldn't get too exccited about the possibility of new investment. American sports runs on a different model to ours, and when American owners come in, it's usually because they are hoping to take money out - not to put it in. (Especially investment companies, which by definition are all...

I don't disagree with most of this, but we didn't (IMO) lose our best defender. There are arguments for all three of Beyer, Al Dakhil, and Ekdal being better. I'd put it at Beyer. But you're right about Tella and Maatsen being losses, especially as we don't have any other left backs that the...

There's more left-wing politics in the telegraph than there is rugby league. Last year, the weekend after the weekend of the three World Cup Finals (men, women, wheelchair) there was more coverage of the one-year-hence men's union final than there was of the just-happened league finals.

Fair enough. The paper I read (Daily Telegraph) likes to pretend that there is only one code of rugby so it isn't going to report on anything like that.

Not a highly publicised one, anyway. The rules on high tackles are a lot less severe - it's a red card for a swinging arm or other full blooded arm to the head, but in general accidental head contact is just a penalty. I haven't heard of any great outbreak of dementia among older rugby league...

It's astonishing that they chucked us out in the first place. Bearing in mind that the EU has 13 of the world's top 100 universities and the UK has 17, it was a bold move to chuck out more than half its universities because they didn't like how trade was run in Northern Ireland.