alanjjohnstone
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Football hooliganism was usually confined to the stadium but with fencing, segregation and heavy policing the violence has generally moved to outside the grounds.
I recall when I went to games, at half-time, there was always a mass shift of fans moving goal-ends. Long gone nowadays. You are penned in.
Nor have rugby fans been immune to fighting one another although. Is it more prevalent in Rugby League where rivalries are more intense?
Scotland’s professional footballers are to be banned from heading the ball in training the day before and the day after a game.
Clubs are also being told to limit exercises that involve repetitive heading to one session per week.
The new guidelines come after Glasgow University research that showed former footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die from brain disease.
I don’t think any sensible person will dispute the fact that BOTH sides are expending huge amounts of armaments in the war.
The question is who can replenish their supplies and put them on the field of battle the fastest?
Russia has the handicap of sanctions against it with only North Korea and Iran suspected of surreptitiously breaking the arms embargo. China has been reluctant to follow suit but I wonder just how many micro-chips have been exported to Russia via the back-door.
Ukraine (NATO) are using sophisticated and very expensive weaponry to counter Russia’s cheaper simpler ones. So Russia may have the advantage there.
The USA as I posted earlier are passing a high-budget new arms bill to replace its supply.
Germany said it would establish a maintenance hub in Slovakia to service and repair weapons it has delivered to Kyiv.
“We have reached agreement, and work can start immediately so that all the equipment which has been supplied can be repaired after coming out of battle,” Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht told reporters in Brussels.
As ALB says, at some point it has to all be paid for by BOTH sides and as workers are the source of wealth creation it will be us who eventually bear the burden in some way or other
From a walk-out several days ago at a Foxconn factory bout a Covid lockdown, protests have escalated and spread to become a major challenge against the government.
Protests against Covid restrictions in China appear to have intensified in the wake of a fire which killed 10 people in an apartment block in Urumqi.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Shanghai to remember the victims and demonstrate against restrictions.
As i pointed out in a much earlier post the real serious nuclear risk is not from the shelling of the installations which they are designed to withstand, but from having no electricity to keep the reactors cool and having to rely on stand-by diesel generators
This Guardian article reminds us of the importance of the electric grid.
Celtic’s bare-foot player from India.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/11/20/mohammed-salim-the-bare-footed-indian-who-wowed-celtic
As expected, Biden eased oil sanctions on Venezuela, issuing a license to Chevron to resume limited oil extraction operations in Venezuela.
I came across this, the anthem of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).
I recall from reading The Monument the SPGB also had its very own song at one time. Is anybody able to put it to music?
