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The transfer window was decent in as much as we didn’t lose anyone. No real idea yet on the quality of the players that we brought in. Armstrong Oxo-Flex looked exciting and pacey against QPR but very early days.
I fancied us this year! So, we were always going to have a slow start to the season. It’s a tough league. We must remember that. It already looks like there are a few clubs that are going to be head and shoulders above the rest. It’s the nature of the Championship with parachute payments as they are. It also looks like Cardi are still shit. Which I was worried about at one stage. It says something when you feel like you’ve had a poor start of the campaign, dropped points from winning positions, certain sections of the fans are calling for a new manager and yet we are still above the laughing stock up the M4.
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The Martin out calls was a joke as far as I was concerned. Crazy after a handful of games but you do worry that the club could react. I assume that he’s bought himself more time and we don’t really know who is making these decisions. Have we got a gung-ho chairman, is it the owners making the call?
Hopefully we push up the league and the results speak for themselves, but I do worry about the make-up of our hierarchy. Anyway. Enjoy the magazine. I reckon it’s the best that we have ever sent to print. Genuine. Nailed it! Please support our advertisers and allow us to keep making you happy with these beautiful magazines!
Obafemi has a job to get back into the starting eleven which is always nice. Oli Cooper looks outstanding and deserves to keep his pace v Birmingham. Starting an away game at this level could be tough for him but if we don’t try then we will never know!
KENNY JACKET SACKED
On the 17th September 2002, Swansea appoint ed Brian Flynn as manag er. The ex-Wrexham man took over a side 23rd in the league and with just one win from the rst 9 games. We know how that story ends (for that season anyway), last game drama, James Thomas etc… but despite avoiding the drop and signing the likes of Trundle, Britton, Tate, Martinez and Monk, he didn’t last the full season the following Flynnyear. left the club in 10th place in League 2.
Sacking Flynn Seemed A Good Move As Jacket Improved Jacket being shown the door seems to have been the right move!
MANAGERIAL MERRY-GO-ROUND
BRIANSACKEDFLYN 19 Sept 2002 - 18 March 2004 Joined 91st in football league Left 74th in football league
A priceless three points against QPR has taken some pressure o Russel Martin. There are always fans that want a change at the helm after a poor run (or game), but it had gone from a handful of frustrated fans to a sizeable chunk. Managers always leave eventually. Whether by force or by choice (mutual decisions don’t exist in the real world!). If a manager does well, they move onto better things. If they do badly then they get red but the timing of sacking (or not) is vital to any clubs success. I thought I’d take a lookback over the last twenty years at the Swans and see in hindsight whether we had red too early or too late and whether we could learn anything.
ROBERTO MARTINEZ LEFT 24 February 2007 - 15 June 2009 Joined 53rd in football league - Left 28th NET GAIN 25 PLACES
Martinez took over in a similar fashion to how Kenny did. A few games left at the end of the season, a chance to have a look at players, a pre-season and just like Jacket, he got promoted at the rst time of asking. The following campaign was similar too. But whereas Kenny got to the play-o s, the Spaniard just missed out. However, this was enough to attract Celtic and later Wigan to o er him their managers seat. He left for the Latics.
NET GAIN 13 PLACES
Kenny took over the club at a nice time. 6 games left at the end of the season, no chance of promotion or relegation but a time to look at the players and recruit for the following year, which he did. Promotion in his rst full season was followed by play-o nal heartache a year later. Expectations had risen so much that on the 15th February 2007. He was sacked while the club sat 7th in League 1.
5 April 2004 - 15 Feb 2007 Joined 74th in football league - Left 53rd NET GAIN 21 PLACES
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BRENDAN ROGERS – LEFT 16 July 2010 - 1 June 2012 Joined 27th in football league - left 11th
Souza had a decent campaign. Sorted our defence out and left with us nishing the season one place better than the previous campaign. 7th in Championship, just missing out on playo s.
17 June 2012 - 4 February 2014 Joined 11th in football league - left 12th NET GAIN -1 PLACE I still smile when I see Brandan. He brought so much joy. He helped us to not only win promotion to the Premier League but to nish comfortably in the top ight. 48 points in a debut season is impressive but it’s almost unique through the play-o s and without nancial clout. He left to pastures new and like Martinez, you can’t really say that they made a bad choice.
PAOLO SOUZA – MUTUAL 22 June 2009 - 5 July 2010 Joined 28th in football league - left 27th NET GAIN 1 PLACES
NET GAIN 16 PLACES It started so incredibly well. Sexy football, a major trophy and a 9th place nish in the rst season. Europa League excitement the following year and yet on February 4th 2014, the Great Dane became the rst Swansea City manager since Nick Cusack to leave the club in a lower position in the football league than they had inherited! But only by one place.
The forgotten man and yes, I know I said that nobody ever really leaves via mutual consensus, but I think this really was the only time in the history of football!
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Joined 12th in football league - Left 15th NET GAIN -3 PLACE Garry Monk only had one full season as a Swans manager and the club nished 8th. Only the 1981 John Toshack Swans team has ever nished higher. Yet, as Laudrup found out less than 2 years earlier, your past is nothing. As the club dropped to 15th, Huw Jenkins pressed the red button. 12th, ten points from 18th placed Newcastle. It was enough to encourage the club to o er the Italian a 2 year deal. However, 7 matches into the new season and he was gone. With the club exactly where they were when he took over.
BOB BRADLEY SACKED 3 October 2016 - 27 December 2016 Joined 17th in football league - Left 19th NET GAIN -2 PLACE This was the end of the club as we once knew it. A ridiculous appointment and a shambolic 85 days as a Whatmanager.can you say?
THE GUNG-HO SACKING YEARS
PAUL CLEMENT SACKED 3 January 2017 - 20 December 2017 Joined 19th in football league - Left 20th NET GAIN -1 PLACE The Englishman was o ered a 2-and-a-half-year deal with the rst job being to save the club from relegation. Which he did by an impressive 7 points. He was however sacked less than a year into his contract as the club sat rock bottom of the Premier League.
CARLOS CARVAHAL SACKED 28 December 2017 - 18 May 2018 Joined 20th in football league - Left 18th NET GAIN 2 PLACES
GRAHAM POTTER LEFT 11 June 2018 - 20 May 2019 Joined 20th in football league - Left 30th NET GAIN -10 PLACES Potter was a proper Swans appointment of old. He was researched, he had a clear playing philosophy, and he tted the club. He only had one campaign, he was forced to sell shedloads of talent and he knew he would need to do the same the following campaign. When Premier League Brighton came knocking he simply had to jump ship.
STEVE COOPER LEFT 13 June 2019 - 21 July 2021 Joined 30th in football league - Left 24th NET GAIN 6 PLACES
With two years and 8 days in the job, Steve Cooper held the seat for the longest amount of time since Roberto Martinez. The rst ga a since Garry Monk to surpass 365 days. Another researched and back-to-basics appointment, not a ippant-short- xed stab in the dark. It worked too. Swansea reached the play-o s twice under Cooper and although some of you smart asses may say that he left ‘by mutual consent’. He obviously didn’t. He had more ambition than us. He left and we pretended that we agreed. 2021 to present
The likable Portuguese left the Swans having won 8, drawn 8 and lost 8. It wasn’t enough to keep the club up and that was that
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A club needs a plan. Clubs that succeed do. Clubs that don’t, don’t. It is pretty much that simple. Clubs that have a plan tend to attract good managers and tend to keep their managers for longer. Clubs that are reactionary and gung-ho with their appointments and dismissals attract short-term managers. When we look back at our managerial list over the past twenty years. We have generally done a very good job. Flynn and Jacket moved us forward and were exactly who we needed. They were also dismissed at the right time. Martinez is currently managing the number 2 best interna tional side in the world. His decision to leave was certainly right for him. Souza has done whatever he has done. Brendan, we know, and he’s been no mug in leaving.
Few of us will disagree with much about any of that period. The club did very well. Those who were sacked were given time and did well for us. It was at this point where we had a reputation as one of the best in Europe to develop young players and managers. It was a place where managers could go to a well-run club and further their career. This was how we attracted and appointed Laudrup. Our best years as fans were probably under the Dane. Entertainment was amazing, the buzz was incredible, it was magic. Most would now say that he was dismissed too soon; I would disagree.
Do the Swans???
The footballing world will be taking note to how the club behaves during this di cult spell for Martin. Are we a club with a plan or a reactionary mess?
I remember his last game vividly. A West Ham side with Andy Carroll in it. We lost 2-0 but the manor of the loss was horrendous. Both goals conceded was a long ball where our defence had dropped really deep. Either Laudrup was so tactically naïve that he felt that the best way to defend against Carroll was to drop back or the players were ignoring him. He had to go. Monk didn’t. The timing of his dismissal was needles. I’m still certain that we’d have stayed up with him at the helm and what followed was embarrassing. Guidolin, Bradley, Clement and Carvahal were all in and out in just over two years. The reputation that we had of being a club to support young managers had gone. This coincided with the American takeover. In a space of a few months, the club had gone from being a calm well-run club with a clear plan to somewhere that managers (and players) had to hit the ground running or they were out! Relegation was inevitable. We were just like Watford or any other shitty club like that. Thankfully, since relegation, we seemed to have gone back to our plan of backing young ambitious managers. Not just that but having Cooper and Potter in the Premier League, we look like that stepping-stone again.
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If we look at the tackling stats from our QPR game and compare it with the previous game v Stoke. We can see that not only did we win more of the ball in an attacking area of the pitch, but we attempted more tackles all over the it.
After the QPR victory, I eagerly wanted to show how well Oli Cooper had played with an array of visual stats. But stats don’t always work like that. His pass completion rate was the second worst on the team. Only Piroe touched the ball less than him. Apart from an assist, on the face of it, he didn’t really do much. But we all know that he did. We watched the game. He had a standing ovation because he was everywhere, the best player on the pitch. He was like a terrier, constantly on at the QPR backline. It seems that Oli Cooper is a prime example of stats not always telling us everything. Part of the problem is our perception of Oli and the position that he plays. WhoScored.com has him down as an attacking central mid elder who can also play out left and as a front man. That’s how (I believe) we all see him. Our expectation of that is a amboyant number ten, ideally long haired and Spanish but de nitely skilful and able to strike the ball from 25 yards. If we think back to Championship/Football manager our ACM players were blessed in the creative, dribbling, air, longshot, technique and rst touch categories.
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John McGinn doesn’t make many headlines. He doesn’t get mentioned too often anywhere. Yet he’s adored by the Villa faithful, fellow Scot and football legend Kenny Dalglish recently said after McGinn was made captain at Villa “John is a popular gure with the Villa fans, and they have taken him to their hearts because of his quality, commitment, desire and Thereenergy.”areno
Only Brentfords Christian Norgarrd and Leicester Cities Wilfried Ndidi made more tackles in the Premier League than the creative mid elder last season, but both play far deeper. But winning 3 tackles a game (which may not sound much) further up eld makes what sounds like a defensive trait (a tackle) into an attacking one. Not only that but it puts pressure on the opposition in possession and creates an intensity that runs through the whole side.
stats that show that John McGinn is a beautiful number 10. We may never nd any that show the same for Oli Cooper but we know we have an absolute diamond here.
Oli isn’t. Nor is he Spanish. And the only stat where he really excelled v QPR was that he tackled more players than anyone else on the pitch. Whoscored.com has brief descriptions of players strengths and weaknesses based on their stats and states that Oli is very strong at tackling and week at shooting. Total tackles attempted v QPR (Coopers circled) Total tackles attempted v Stoke last year. He averaged 2.9 tackles a game there, nearly a whole tackle more than any other colleague per game.
If Oli Cooper is a number 10 then he’s di erent to most. We need to stop thinking Dennis Bergkamp, David Silva, Phillipe Coutinho and start thinking Aston Villa captain John McGinnMcGinn.is a tremendous footballer but goes under the radar.
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bly worst because there aren’t many players in the world as good as him. For Brentford, on that basis, Ivan Tony is an 80/100 but there are a lot of players not much worse than that in the squad. If that makes sense? That’s the Premier League but what nobody has talked about (that I’ve seen) is what these changes will make in the WeChampionship.areoneofthe least backed clubs in the league. That’s a fact. Blame the owners, lets talk about that a di erent day! But we are. Our top players are paid a fair bit less than most clubs around us, but we also have far less players on top money. We have a very thin squad compared to a lot of other clubs.
In most matches we play, we are seeing ve substitutions being used. When we play QPR, Millwall, Stoke etc.. then the players coming on for them are well paid experienced professionals. Whereas we are bringing on youth players at the start of their career. We are very early into this season, and we’ve dropped 4 points in injury time. If that trend continues, then we could argue that this is a factor which is hurting us. Others will point to last season, before the change and remind us that we threw away some leads then too.
Time will tell but I must admit that despite our start, I’m happy with our approach and the change. From memory, I don’t think that Dan James kicked a Premier League ball for Swansea. Grimes, Rodon, McBurnie, none of them were given a chance. This change will force us into giving an opportunity to players. Some will jump at it, some will struggle. I’m pretty sure that those clubs that use youth will bene t greater in the long run than those that don’t.
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The happy priest climbed into the passenger seat and the van continued down the road. Suddenly the driver saw a Cardi fan walking down the road and instinctively swerved to hit him. But, just in time, he remembered the priest, so at the last minute he swerved back to the road, narrowly missing the Cardi fan. However even though he was certain he missed the fan, he still heard a loud 'thud'. Not understanding where the noise came from, he glanced in his mirrors and when he didn't see anything he turned to the priest and said, 'I'm sorry Father, I almost hit that Cardi fan, ' That's okay' replied the priest. 'I got him with the door!'
'Then', Mary smiled, 'I'd be a Cardi fan.'
The teacher, still shocked, asked: 'Well if you're not a Cardi fan, then who are you a fan of?' 'I'm a Swansea fan, and proud of it', Mary replied. The teacher could not believe her ears. 'Mary, why are you a Swansea fan?'
One day, as the driver was driving along, he saw a priest hitchhiking. He thought he would do a good turn and pulled the van over. He asked the Priest, 'Where are you going, Father?'
I'm going to say mass at St. Joseph's church, about 2 miles down the road' replied the priest. 'No problem Father! I'll give you a lift! climb in!'
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In 1952 Kermack and Robinson found some Dinosaur bones in a quarry near Bonvilston, about 20 miles East of Port Talbot. The Quarries name was Pant-y- ynon. Meaning the hollow of the spring or well in Welsh. Initially, it was believed that these bones belonged to a Thecodontosaurus. However, they have since been detected as a new species of dinosaur. A dinosaur which required a name. The new species took the ‘Pant’ from the quarry and ‘draco’ as Pantydracodragon.wasof moderate build. The bones discovered are believed to have been junior. It is thought that its height would have been between 0.7 meters and 1 meter. Adults would have been around 3 meters long and about 50Kg (7 ½ stone). Meaning they were fairly slim and probably fast and nimble. The creature had a long tail that tapered towards the end and was broad at the hip joint. It had a pointed head with a strong jaw. The forelimbs of the dinosaur were developed for grasping while the hindlimbs were adapted for supporting the creature’s body weight.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF FINDING DINOSAUR BONES IN YOUR GARDEN IN SWANSEA?
The good news is that there have been numerous Dinosaurs found in Wales. There is even a Dinosaur named after a Welsh quarry and another named after Welsh brothers.
Truth be told, this is a question you never knew you wanted to ask but now you can’t understand how you’ve lived so long not knowing! We are fascinated with Dinosaurs. Everyone is. We can’t help it. And in Swansea, we are the same as everywhere else. But have you ever thought about whether there could be dinosaur bones in your garden?
PANTYDRACO Pantydraco; First Welsh dinosaur
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The generic name combines the Latin draco, “dragon”, (a reference to the Welsh Dragon), with raptor, meaning ‘robber’. Combining this with the brother’s surname. (Although adding an ‘i’ at then end to give it the full Latin e ect).
ICHTHYOSAURS AND PLESIOSAURS
Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs both lived in the seas from over 200 million years ago to about 80 million. Remains of both have been found nearby but NOT in Swansea. All dinosaur evidence found in Wales to this date are in the same region. East of Port Talbot, West of Cardi and South of the M4.
So, there you have it. There are no dinosaurs in Swansea. The closest known reporting is a footprint discovered in 1879. It was discovered by someone named Thomas near Porthcawl. Who optimistically named the being Anchisauri pus Thomasi.
Dracoraptor had pointed and serrated teeth, indicating it was a meat-eater. But the teeth were small, about one centimetre long, showing it ate small vertebrate animals. In the early Jurassic, South Wales was a coastal area with several small islands in a warm shallow sea. The area which is now Lavernock Point (where the bones were discovered) was o shore, so the cadaver of Dracoraptor had probably been washed into the sea from the land to the north. Despite the lack of data regarding its ecology, the authors in 2016 had it tentatively illustrated as a “shore-dwelling predator and scavenger”
DRACORAPTOR HANIGANI
IS THERE A T-REX IN OUR GARDEN IN SWANSEA?
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Dr Caroline Buttler, head of palaeontology at National Museum of Wales explains why “The reason the nds are all in that area is due to the age of the rocks. They are mainly the Triassic and Jurassic period which is why we nd dinosaurs (here). In west Wales the rocks are much older, before dinosaurs.”
“Once you get to Ogmore (heading East) the rock is already too old for dinosaurs.”
NO DINOSAURS IN SWANSEA!
Although on the same family tree as Tyrannosaurus Rex, Dracoraptor was tame in comparison. At an estimated 3 meters long for an adult, the Welsh named carnivore was a quarter of the length of a T-Rex. The dinosaur king also had teeth between 15 and 30 times longer.
Named after Welsh brothers Pantydraco is not the only dinosaur to be discov ered in Wales. In 2014, near Penarth, brothers and amateur palaeontologists Nick and Rob Hanigan discovered a distant cousin of T-Rex.
I am afraid that there isn’t. For two reasons. Firstly, T-Rex was around between 83 and 66 million years ago. At this time, Swansea and most of Wales was deep under water. Most of the bones found in Wales from dinosaur time (which is a LONG period) are from marine life.
Dracoraptor existed around 201-199 million years ago. Meaning that there were over 100 million years of evolution before this meat-eater evolved into the dreaded T-Rex. To put this into context, Neanderthals were around 40,000 years ago. That’s a fair bit of evolution!
“The rock around here was marine rock. That is why the nd by the Hanigan brothers was so exceptional. The dinosaur died and was washed into the sea where it became fossilised.
“What we do get is a lot of ichthyosaurs. They lived at the time of dinosaurs. They had a body the shape of dolphins, sharp teeth and were carnivorous. We have lots of skulls and whole specimens.”
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Conspiracies exist because people don’t always tell the truth. Which naturally causes us all to be unsure whenever people speak. We are naturally wary with the really big issues. Issues which e ect our lives, especially invisible ones. A virus is a recent example but there hasn’t ever been a bigger issue than climate change. Is it real? Does climate change exist? Or is it some conspira cy to get us all spending money on new industries? solar panels etc… A dreamt-up industry by big business? There is a short and simple answer to that. It is very, very real. It is going to fuck us all up and the older you are, the more ashamed you should be of how your generation is going to leave this planet. But some people are still in denial about it. Partly that’s because we are naturally sel sh and its far easier to bury our head in the sand and enjoy everything the world has. But also, we’ve had over forty years of mixed messages from scientists. For those of you who haven’t followed this story. This is the real conspiracy; How big business managed to delay any action on climate change for a quarter of a century and is still holding it back.
In 1983, a high-up Exxon Scientist Roger Cohen stated in a memo summarising the companies’ ndings: - Within it he says that it is “distinctly possible that the projected warming trend after 2030 will be catastrophic, at least for a substantial fraction of the Earths population.” By 2030, he warned, the damage could be irreversible.
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“Over the past several years a clear scienti c consensus has emerged regarding the expected climatic e ects of increased atmospheric CO2.” He continued, “The consensus is that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 from its pre-industrial revolution value would result in an average global tempera ture rise of 3.0 ± 1.5°C. There is unanimous agreement in the scienti c community that a temperature increase of this magnitude would bring about signi cant changes in the earth’s climate, including rainfall distribution and alterations in the biosphere.” The models and predictions which Exxon researched back then have become incredibly accurate. However, in 1986 the price of oil dropped from $27 a barrel to below $10. This left the company with little to divvy out to its shareholders. To save money, Exxon withdrew all its funding into alternative technologies. What came next has recently come into the public domain thanks to whistle-blowers.
UNDERSTANDING
In the late 70’s / early 1980s, American oil giant Exxon (Esso to us) realised that there was a clear link between carbon emissions and climate change. They understood humans ere causing it and the sheer level of mayhem it would create. Their scientists, at the time, had a greater understanding than anyone of the scenario. For a short spell, they invested in research and exploring other technologies which could take over from gas and oil.
However, the USA never joined. The house of Congress voted 95-0 against joining the commitment. Congressmen and women were regularly visited by oil giants and their ‘scientists’ explaining the uncertainty of climate change. Millions of dollars were spent by carbon related companies backing both Republican and Democratic congress and senate members depending on their stance. Their power was clear. Republican congressman Bob Inglis later de ed the oil giants and spoke about the need to reduce carbon emissions. Big business removed its support for him and despite being a Republican in the House of Representatives for twelve years, Bob was on borrowed time. The oil giants supported Trey Gowdy, a man saying “Global warming has not been proven to the satisfaction of the constituents I seek to serve.” Gowdy beat Inglis in a run-o with 71% of the vote share. In 2001, as Clinton and Al Gore left o ce, George Bush and Dick Cheney were elected promising to look after the
dollars counteracting their arguments. Despite knowing, by their own research, that everything the environmentalists were saying was true. They knew that they didn’t need to prove that climate change was false. They just had to create doubt. Doubt within the public was key to taking pressure from politicians to act. Delaying action and selling more oil, coal, and gas.
In 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its rst report on climate change. The IPCC was created in 1988 to investigate man-made climate change with 195 countries involved. Scientists from all over the world researching the e ects on CO2. Their study suggests that “global carbon emissions must be reduced by 60 – 80 Followingpercent”.thereport, the idea was for countries to come together and nd a way to implement carbon reductions. In 1992 the world saw The United Nations Framework Conven tion on Climate Change summit and three years later the Despite all research and ndings matching Exxon’s own studies, the company went on the attack. Exxon merged with Mobil to become ExxonMobil. Together they purchased regular Thursday advertorials in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal that said that the science of climate change was unsettled. Muddying the water with public opinion was key to taking pressure o politicians. These politicians were then easily in uenced and lobbied. In 1997 Vice President Al Gore, a staunch supporter of environmental issues and a climate change campaigner, agreed to the Kyoto agreement. 150 countries committed to reducing carbon emissions.
In 1989, Exxon alongside other fossil fuel companies created Global Climate Coalition (GCC). Its job was to oppose mandatory reductions in carbon emissions by obscuring the scienti c understanding of fossil fuels’ impact on climate change. Essentially, their job was to create doubt with one line “The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well Rogerunderstood.”Cohenwas one of those scientists who joined the climate deniers. Despite knowing and speaking about the havoc it would cause. One can only imagine what he was being paid by these oil giants!
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Genuinely what can you do? We have billionaire companies who are bribing politicians, owning the media, controlling scientists to sell their product, whilst fully understanding that it is going to kill people. Two studies last year estimated the death toll of climate change. One stated that 5 million people a year will die because of the e ects of climate change. Another that by 2100, 83 million people will die directly because of climate change, equivalent to the population of Germany. That’s quite a lot! And for what? So that the CEO of Exxon can earn ten million a year? The shareholders can take home nice dividends. They knew it. They knew what was going on, what would happen. They knew that in the next twenty years there will be wars over resources. They knew that famines would become regular. Extreme weather would be more
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However, alarm bells have been ringing around natural gas (methane), but nobody is keen on listening!
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By 2016, the pressure was growing. Exxon faced lawsuits, FBI investigations and even they could no longer deny climate change was real. Obama managed to get the Paris Agreement through both houses and for the rst time, the USA were a part of a carbon reduction policy. Over 25 years after the rst IPCC report on climate change urging action.
PROOF OF GLOBAL WARMING
for climate change than coal. It is thought that the ‘leakage rate’ is about 2%. For this reason, environmentalists have been campaigning for regulations on natural gas but with no avail. There are no obligations to check whether a natural gas site is leaking excess methane into the environment. Despite it being well understood the damage it would cause.
By now, fracking had taken America by storm. A ‘clean natural gas’ which had support from Obama who claimed there is “enough to power America for the next 100 years”. Natural gas is now used for energy in 40% of homes in America and this number keeps increasing. Exxon has invested billions into it, making it the fth largest natural gas company in the world.
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You may have guessed it; Exxon and other giants are against such regulations. Expect action in around 25 years’ time!
Bush appointed environmentalist, Christine Temple Whitman as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Within a few weeks, it looked like the USA were reviving the Kyoto treaty on global warming. Whitman had been given the green light by Bush to the treaty however it didn’t last. Vice President Cheney refused to back it. Cheney was chairman and CEO of Energy giant Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000. (In other news; in the run-up to the Iraq War, Halliburton was awarded a $7 billion contract for which only Halliburton was allowed to bid.)
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Kovacevic waved at cheering supporters however the game was paused by the referee until the balloon left. NK Varazdin went on to win the game 3-1 and Kovacevic faced a further 3 match suspension although he still protests that he broke no footballing rules.
All 22 football players share the same name in match. We are delighted to share with you this rather eccentric football tale. A football match where all 22 players, referee, linesmen and reserves shared the same name of Bungay has taken place in the town of Bungay in Su olk. Bungay is one of Britain's rarest names with only 455 people called Bungay in the country - just 12 people per million.
The idea for the match came about after Shaun Cole who is on the Bungay Town FC management committee ecided to investigate ways of promoting the Anglian Combination League club. He saw a mention of the London advertising and public relations company Beattie McGuinness Bungay on Twitter and contacted the rm to see if anyone called Bungay worked there.
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The mixed sex teams were able to tell each other apart as they had di erent red and blue shirts - but all had Bungay printed on the back. The mascot for the match was an eight-year-old Carla Bungay and the doctor on hand to treat any injuries was Dr Elizabeth Bungay.
The Bungays came from Britain, Australia and America and they turned up for the match which is believed to be the rst in the world using all players of the same name.
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Mr Cole, 51, ended up speaking to the rm's director Bil Bungay who suggested they nd as many Bungays as possible to play in a football match. He then searched the BT directory inquiries website to nd addresses for 68 families with the name. Mr Cole wrote to all the Bungays he could nd and contacted others internationally on Facebook and Twitter. Retired lorry driver Chris Tii er Bungay, 57, of Queensland, Australia, agreed to play in the match while combining it with a holiday to visit his relatives in Britain.
Mr Cole found quali ed referee John Bungay, 61, from Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, who agreed to o ciate. His two sons Andrew, 37, and Graeme, 34, also attended. All pro ts from the match; which was drawn 6-6, went to The Jack and Ada Beattie Foundation, which supports vulnerable people.
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A Croatian football star says his team are losing matches because he can no longer commit fouls since nding God. Hajduk Split defender Goran Granic has come in for a storm of criticism for abandoning his trademark hard tackles on Butopponents.Granic has now revealed his Catholi cism is behind his softer style of play. He told daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija, 'I'm so devoted to God now that I have started to avoid committing fouls during matches. God has created football for fun and relaxation. He would not like players to commit harsh fouls.' He added, 'I could probably have saved some key goals during the season, including in the Champions League qualify ing games, if I had committed fouls to stop players scoring.'
Sports journalists were summoned to a press conference which nished at 3.30pm. Then - at 3.40pm - Leroy was told by the chairman that the Devon club had been sold to a business consortium. And that meant he was out. Leroy, 43 said, 'For it to happen ten minutes after I nished the press conference was a bit of a shock. But we had a good laugh about it afterwards.' Leroy smashed the previous record for the shortest time as manager - Dave [Harry] Bassett's 72 hours at Crystal Palace in 1984. He joked, 'Obviously they thought I had done a fantastic job after ten minutes and let me go.' The post was Leroy's second stint at Torquay, who will face next season in the Conference after nishing bottom of the Football League. He was boss between 2002 and 2006 when he left by mutual consent. Since then the club has been in a managerial crisis, with four di erent bosses in the hot seat. Leroy added, 'I wish them the very best of luck. They are going to sort me out a bit of compensation.'
Ex-soccer star Leroy Rosenior was appointed boss of a struggling club - then sacked after ten minutes. The former West Ham and Fulham striker broke the record for English football's shortest managerial reign after being introduced with a fanfare by Torquay United, reports The Sun.
With both sides looking for a goal, an optimistic e ort ew way over the bar and into the river Cherwell; a lost ball, the third of the game. Players from both sides looked for a ball which they could use yet to no avail. As things stood, Hanwell missed out on promotion and Broughton & North Newington would be relegated.
3) PROMOTED WITH A ‘FLY-AWAY’ GOAL
When Hanwell Athletic travelled to Broughton & North Newington in the Banbury and District division 2 league, they knew that only a victory would ensure promotion. North Newington needed three points themselves or they would be guaranteed relegation. A bumper crowd of nearly 200 watched the game in windy conditions on the side-lines. Hanwell took the lead early on but were penned back just before half-time. Broughton and North Newington took an early lead in the second half but with twenty minutes to go, Hanwell made it 2-2.
A toddler had was kicking a ‘ y-away’ football on the side-lines and both sets of players pleaded with the referee to allow them to continue the game with it. The ref agreed and Hanwell Athletic scored a late winner to win promotion.
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As I was putting the band together, me and a few of the boys were going through a phase of calling each “goons” and “nurks”. No idea why. Drink, probably. Anyway, one night my mate Kirk called me King Of The Goons, and I just liked the sound of it. Also, it would t on your knuckles as a tattoo, if you’re into that kind of thing.
It’s expected that they lie, as I suppose it always has been, but the di erence now is that they don’t seem to give a fuck if they get caught doing it. They just double down on the lies, and people admire them for doing so. It’s astounding to me.
Both, mate. We’re fucked. Post-truth, they say. It was a joke at rst, but it’s not so funny anymore. I could go into my theories on it: the collapse of the post-war social contract; the slavish, dewy-eyed worship of wealth above all things; what the internet accidentally did to the idea of an objective truth; the rise of the cult of the individual, etc…but, basically, it boils down the idea there’s just no expectation anymore that anyone in public life should/will tell the truth.
First of all, I was in Brecon Jazz over the weekend. Who wrote ‘King Goon’ on the wall outside the ‘Muse’? Heh. I’m going to plead the fth on this one, buddy, just like Crazy Donny T, the corrupt and corpulent pig that he is. Where did the name come from?
And the new album name? “Admit Nothing! Deny Everything! Lie! Lie! Lie” Which side of the Atlantic is that based on?
Another thing about the name is that it sounds good in di erent regional accents. Try it in Begbie from Trainspot ting’s voice…like it? Now try old man Steptoe’s voice. Good, eh?
Later on, we decided it meant the last of the minions/guards left alive after the hero has swedged his way through them; you know, like the only stormtrooper who survives the attack, who then becomes the poor fucker who has to go and tell Darth Vader that everyone else has been chopped into mince.
King Goons debut album ‘Admit Nothing! Deny Everything! Lie! Lie! Lie’ is a real gem from the Swansea band. I caught up with Joel to ask him about the album, the band and gra tiing a Welsh army town.
I can’t do much better than that, really! Thank you. I love Arcade Fire album. What would I compare our album though, really? No idea, bud! I think I’ll leave it to others
I’ve not seen you live as a band yet. I will soon! What Madness. We go in hard. No messing. Pin the ears back, the clutch and set the controls for the heart of the wouldn’t call us family-friendly. There’s a fair bit of profani ty…but it’s not gratuitous…I think very carefully about We like to have a laugh with the audience, too - so usually lots of back and forth. The other week, up in Kidwelly, I was handing out tequila shots from the stage. At point half the band will be in the audience. That happens. It’ll also be hot and sweaty and I’ll probably arguing with a heckler. I love our gigs. They’re certainly I’ve been shit at paying any attention to new music couple of decades now. Both in the charts nationally locally. But I’ve been to a couple of festivals this summer and music is still good! It didn’t stop in at the end 90s. What’s the Swansea circuit like for original music? Banging. Much better than it’s been in my lifetime. Obviously, there’ll be those out there who’ll disagree with me, afraid they’re just wrong! There’s live original music 7 a week if you’re looking for it. The Bunkhouse, Hangar Garage, The Elysium, Sin City - there’s something You can play an open mic 7 days a week if you really like. that’s a good sign. Personally, I’m really looking forward the Albert Hall development being nished, cos another piece of the puzzle (the slightly bigger than Do you think some of the pubs with bands playing could try an original act now and then? Is there a Certainly is, butt - otherwise we wouldn’t have been make enough money this year to pay to stay in a residential
Certainly is, butt - otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to make enough money this year to pay to stay in a residential
point half the band will be in the audience. That always happens. It’ll also be hot and sweaty and I’ll probably end up arguing with a heckler. I love our gigs. They’re certainly never dull! I’ve been shit at paying any attention to new music for a couple of decades now. Both in the charts nationally and locally. But I’ve been to a couple of festivals this summer and music is still good! It didn’t stop in at the end of the 90s. What’s the Swansea circuit like for original music? Banging. Much better than it’s been in my lifetime. Obviously, there’ll be those out there who’ll disagree with me, but I’m afraid they’re just wrong! There’s live original music 7 nights a week if you’re looking for it. The Bunkhouse, Hangar 18, The Garage, The Elysium, Sin City - there’s something for Youeveryone.canplay an open mic 7 days a week if you really like. And that’s a good sign. Personally, I’m really looking forward to the Albert Hall development being nished, cos that’s another piece of the puzzle (the slightly bigger than small sized medium venue, heh). Do you think some of the pubs with bands playing covers could try an original act now and then? Is there a market for new original music?
the nal mixes. I ended up re-recording the lead vocals myself, over two throat-ripping evenings. Great fun. Where and how was it recorded?
Over many, many late-night sessions in what was called Creature Studios, o High Street in Swansea. It’s closed now, sadly, along with the venue that was above it. The fella who recorded/co-produced it was Allen Chambers (Mister Creature) who is a musical polymath/master of psychology and harmony, who also has quite magni cent hair. What is it like releasing an album? A part of you must be thinking that you are going to go viral, number one in every country in the world? Well, maybe I just lack ambition, but all I really wanted out of it was to sell a couple of hundred copies of the vinyl and the CD, raise our pro le enough that we’d get o ered some banging gigs, and then sell enough of our merchandise and albums at those gigs to be able to fund making another album! And, well…that’s exactly what we did, so champagne all round! I’m not just saying this, but I really enjoy the album. I’m always wary of telling musicians that they ‘sound like so and so’ but I hear similarities with Arcade Fire Funeral album. (Which I really like btw! Hope that’s OK….) If you were to choose an album to compare it with, which one would you choose?
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Well, we’ve a single coming out on 2nd September…it’s not a song from the album though…it’s actually two tracks from a live session we did in the BBC Hall in Swansea Studios at the beginning of the year. A great day. The songs are called “Pour Some Green On Me” and “Fuck ‘em All”, and they’ll both be available to download from kinggoon.bandcamp.com as well as on the rip-o streaming service bastards things. After that it’s the gig of the year in the Patti Pavilion on 10th September, which is a charity night in memory of Kat Bombro e, raising money for Maggies, headlined by Disco Panther and featuring Suns of Thunder, Bu alo Summer, Pearler, Fallen Temples and us. Tickets from Derricks Records, if this comes out before then! And then we’re taking a break to do some writing for the next album, which will probably be the best album ever made by anyone ever. And then…the world!
studio next year and make another King Goon album! As for the pubs, they know what their punters like, so it’s up to them really, but I’d always say take a punt on an original act. I’m sure people are sick of “Dakota” and “Mr. Brightside” now, surely to God?! My advice to bands looking to get gigs in places where they normally do covers is: Be professional. Rehearse like mad bastards until you’re tighter than a mainsail in a hurricane…because if the music you make isn’t to someone’s taste, then that’s fair enough - but you shouldn’t give them any other excuses to dismiss you - such as not knowing how your own songs go, or turning up with equipment that you don’t know how to use. Also, know what you’re worth and ask for it. If you’re worth 300 quid a night, then bloody say so. Find out what they want for the money and then make sure you deliver it.
What is next for King Goon?
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you feel like its better to get shot now and give someone a chance rather than squander the season.
Look at what Forest done last season. If we get rid of him now then we will be ne.
MARTIN OUT! by Gary Martin must go. It isn’t just this season; the end of last season was awful. We have won one home game in about 6 months. Players are being played out of position and the only reason why we beat QPR was because he did what the fans have been asking him to do. The man is clueless, and he cannot take any responsibility for anything. He seems to have pulled the wool over people’s eyes. He took over a side that nished in the play-o s for two seasons in a row and taken that side backwards. It has been on some promise that we are developing a new style. As if the man is some kind of genius. He hasn’t done it anywhere. He didn’t do great at MK Dons. None of the players that he has brought in have done anything particularly good. He is upsetting a lot of the players that were here before he was. Ryan Bennet was our best defender and yet for some reason he’s been frozen out. Blaming Patterson for us conceded two late goals v Millwall –how is that going to help anything? He makes odd substitutions. Too many at any one time. There is no plan B and at times it is hard to see what plan a is. The style is slow. Possession football for the sake of it. I genuinely cannot watch the games anymore; it is painful to watch.
Joanna Lewis: Martin is a clueless clown Christopher Jones: Martin out
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Lyndon Williams: I want him gone and when I say gone; I mean gone budd Steve Nicholas: I'll pay his taxi fair
And these people agree on Jack Swan facebook:-
The Blackburn game was an embarrassment. Any football side would have beaten us that day and its an example of how easy it is to beat a Martin team. A side simply needs to sit back, because if it does this then we will just pass it sideways all day and then at some point we will make a mistake and then they score. It was literally that easy and we are that easy to beat. Does anyone believe that teams come here with any fear? They know that they won’t see much of the ball, but it would be like a featherweight boxer ghting a heavyweight. The featherweight would get more punches in but would never do anything. The heavyweight just needs to land one punch. Can anyone say that our starting eleven is better than last season? Its not. Fisher was a disastrous signing. Sorinola and Darling look poor. These are players that he knows and yet they aren’t good enough for this level. I don’t like sacking managers for the sake of it, but he won’t last the season and
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Having said that, I think we have a good chance BECAUSE of Martin. Players know their roles, they clearly like him and they give their best under him. I like what he has said with Obafemi. It seems like he may have pissed on his chips and Martin isn’t scared to tell him so. The way that he dealt with the Patterson situation last season was class. His reputation is there now. The club comes
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The playing style is what we asked for! Possession based. It is slow at times, and I get frustrated too when that’s the case but you can see that we are making progress and there has never been a time at any football club where fans don’t get annoyed at times or when the players don’t play badly some matches. That’s all a part of the game. It is also where managers learn. When managers get sacked, it never gives them the chance to improve. If you look at Alex Fergusson, he had hard times but he got better every season. Managers, just like players, get better the more they play and Martin is still young, he is still learning.
The Swans have been a selling club on steroids for the last 5 seasons. Every summer we sell assets and struggle to bring in a few cheap options. Logic tells us all that every season is going to be more di cult. The top championship clubs are signing big-money players. Burnley o ered over £8 million for IObafemi.don’tunderstand why some fans seem to think that Martin has failed if we don’t match where Burnley, Watford, Norwich or She eld United nish. We aren’t in that league. It is a huge achievement if we challenge the play-o s this season, it
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Swansea are currently only 4 points away from 5th place. That is where we would be but for late goals against Millwall and Stoke. The idea that we need to defend the manager is insane!
Thererst. isn’t another manager in the Championship that I would swap him for. Klopp or Guardiola maybe but fans are being ridiculous. Get behind him, stop distracting and we have a good season ahead of us. And these people agree on Jack Swan facebook:-
Igor Hadziabdic : I just dont get the logic, lets keep sacking managers.He is just starting his managerial career, yes he makes mistakes and we are naive sometimes.Look at the tools he been given, swans fans wanted cooper out.My question u sack martin who do u bring in? Also remember swans pay between 300 to 400k a year for manager.
Don Morgan: Martin in careful what you wish for Liam Todd: Deservs time. After this window shut now
certainly isn’t a failure if we don’t.
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The Swans faithful sang ‘Russel Martins Barmy Army’ in full voice for the last ve minutes of the QPR game. It was a sign of solidarity with the manager. It seems that ‘Martin out’ brigade on social media don’t go to the games. Let’s also remember that Martin turned down the chance to speak to Watford –loyalty goes both ways!
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