What is hacking you off today?

[ESG]

Just read about 20 sad people who followed a tanker thinking their luck would be in at his destination. The destination was a building site and he was carrying motar...lol!

 

[RobM]

Just read about 20 sad people who followed a tanker thinking their luck would be in at his destination. The destination was a building site and he was carrying motar...lol!

I didnt laugh either! ?

 

[RHB]

Just read about 20 sad people who followed a tanker thinking their luck would be in at his destination. The destination was a building site and he was carrying motar...lol!

It seems one of the drivers in the queue told him he should have stopped and told them it wasn't petrol!

 

[ESG]

It seems one of the drivers in the queue told him he should have stopped and told them it wasn't petrol!

Forgot to add that bit which really topped the whole thing off. The trucker gave the driver the full McEnroe treatment though!

 

[kaymac]

Dropped by Tesco's / A127 late last night on way home from a late screening of JB. Very surprised to find it open, my first-fill up for 3 weeks, and only half a dozen vehicles in there. Took older son home who then drove his car there, he reported it was still fairly quiet.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Kev's just come back from a Luton run - saw must have been a dozen tankers on the M25, and many of the petrol stations on the A127 seem to have fuel and short queues.

Still can't understand why the petrol retailers chief is still perpetuating the scaremongering.

Fuel crisis eases but 'remains critical' in parts of UK - as visas for foreign drivers extended

The health secretary says the military are only being deployed as a "precaution" - and insists the situation is "stabilising" in most areas.

news.sky.com

 

[cerbera45]

Kev's just come back from a Luton run - saw must have been a dozen tankers on the M25, and many of the petrol stations on the A127 seem to have fuel and short queues.

Still can't understand why the petrol retailers chief is still perpetuating the scaremongering.

To drive up pump prices and/or customer demand (thus relating to greater profits)?

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Dropped by Tesco's / A127 late last night on way home from a late screening of JB. Very surprised to find it open, my first-fill up for 3 weeks, and only half a dozen vehicles in there. Took older son home who then drove his car there, he reported it was still fairly quiet.

You caught it just right. There was no petrol there up to at least 9.30pm. Loads of cars driving down there only to see small writing on a small card... no fuel. Still can't believe these massive company's can't organise a decent sign you can see from a distance, especially as it's every day now.

 

[ESG]

Tesco at Prince Avenue no queues so chucked in a tenner to give me 120 mile range.

 

[RHB]

About an hour ago the Esso petrol station just past Kent Elms lights was open had fuel and a 'normal' amount of cars, no long queue.

 

[RobM]

About an hour ago the Esso petrol station just past Kent Elms lights was open had fuel and a 'normal' amount of cars, no long queue.

Same here in Corringham.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Lots more petrol about today. Asda in Shoebury have had fuel yesterday and today.

 

[GBJ]

Seeing Newcastle fans on all corners of social media bemoaning how bad they’ve had it over the last decade.

I’m beginning to think that football doesn’t exist outside of the Premier League bubble ?

 

[Benfleet A1]

Outraged that Southend on Sea hasn't been longlisted for City of Culture 2025.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Seeing Newcastle fans on all corners of social media bemoaning how bad they’ve had it over the last decade.

I’m beginning to think that football doesn’t exist outside of the Premier League bubble ?

It's a very bad day for football with that Saudi takeover. Some English football clubs will sell themselves to anyone, even a brutal government with a brutal ruler. Newcastle fans are jumping up and down, thinking of the millions that will be invested in the team, but not thinking what's just happened here.

 

[Benfleet A1]

It's a very bad day for football with that Saudi takeover. Some English football clubs will sell themselves to anyone, even a brutal government with a brutal ruler. Newcastle fans are jumping up and down, thinking of the millions that will be invested in the team, but not thinking what's just happened here.

I wonder where those morals would feature if it was us looking at that sort of investment.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I wonder where those morals would feature if it was us looking at that sort of investment.

The likes of Saudi and Oman are too concerned about the reputational damage that getting involved with Southend United would cause them.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

I wonder where those morals would feature if it was us looking at that sort of investment.

Some would do the big dance geordies style, but not me, SNB, nor I guess you and many other posters and thinkers on here.

 

[GBJ]

It's a very bad day for football with that Saudi takeover. Some English football clubs will sell themselves to anyone, even a brutal government with a brutal ruler. Newcastle fans are jumping up and down, thinking of the millions that will be invested in the team, but not thinking what's just happened here.

Agreed, however if we’re going to pick up on the shadier side of the Saudi’s, you’d also have to question what other pies they have their fingers in… and without getting political, that’s a proper can of worms.

The Premier League’s fit and proper test, has proven that it’s not a bastion of morals & principles though. All they’re interested in, is feathering their own nests as usual. Shameful really.

TBH I’m more concerned about what this means for the future of OUR game, at the lower end of the spectrum.

This is just another episode of vastly wealthy magnates muscling in on our sport and further increasing the divide between those at the top, and those - like us - who are barely surviving.

Unfortunately it looks as though the precedent has been set and nothing will stop or reverse this new influx of multi-billionaire owners. It will only increase over time, and before you know it, football won’t be based around communities, success or pyramids, it’ll be solely down to who has the most money.

Is it good for the game? Maybe if you’re one of those clubs who are benefiting from it. It wasn’t that long ago that some fans actually argued in favour of that bastardised European Super League. I don’t imagine too many Newcastle fans were in favour of it back then, but I wonder if those same fans can see that this takeover will lay the foundations for a similar scenario later down the line. More importantly, now they’re likely to be on the inside of it, do they care?

We already have teams in the Prem/Championship who can’t compete financially with the upper echelons, never mind clubs from Lg1 & Lg2. The dream of working your way up to compete with the best of the best, seems further away than it ever has been… and it’ll only ever get further away now.

For the 95% of clubs around the globe, who aren’t owned by bored billionaires, this is just another nail in the coffin of our sport, IMO.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Agreed, however if we’re going to pick up on the shadier side of the Saudi’s, you’d also have to question what other pies they have their fingers in… and without getting political, that’s a proper can of worms.

The Premier League’s fit and proper test, has proven that it’s not a bastion of morals & principles though. All they’re interested in, is feathering their own nests as usual. Shameful really.

TBH I’m more concerned about what this means for the future of OUR game, at the lower end of the spectrum.

This is just another episode of vastly wealthy magnates muscling in on our sport and further increasing the divide between those at the top, and those - like us - who are barely surviving.

Unfortunately it looks as though the precedent has been set and nothing will stop or reverse this new influx of multi-billionaire owners. It will only increase over time, and before you know it, football won’t be based around communities, success or pyramids, it’ll be solely down to who has the most money.

Is it good for the game? Maybe if you’re one of those clubs who are benefiting from it. It wasn’t that long ago that some fans actually argued in favour of that bastardised European Super League. I don’t imagine too many Newcastle fans were in favour of it back then, but I wonder if those same fans can see that this takeover will lay the foundations for a similar scenario later down the line. More importantly, now they’re likely to be on the inside of it, do they care?

We already have teams in the Prem/Championship who can’t compete financially with the upper echelons, never mind clubs from Lg1 & Lg2. The dream of working your way up to compete with the best of the best, seems further away than it ever has been… and it’ll only ever get further away now.

For the 95% of clubs around the globe, who aren’t owned by bored billionaires, this is just another nail in the coffin of our sport, IMO.

Southend survived six seasons in what is now the Championship along with teams such as Grimsby.

Those days are never coming back.