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Daveysgingerlovechild said:
It's very very petty though. A few seasons back the instruction on offside were benefit to the attacker.

Now you get pulled for nostril hair being beyond the last man. And yes, technically, nostril hair could play a part in scoring a goal of you messed up a diving header.
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The instruction was always that the benefit of any doubt should go to the attacker.

The new technology simply removes that element of doubt.
 
wandyr79 said:
As somebody who's Dad was defo a cockney I can say that this statement is false.

On a side note I heard somebody refer to Luton as cockney once. It is just one very simple bit of knowledge that only people born within the sound of the bow bells are cockney.

It does irritate me when people think that all Londoners are cockney or know it not to be true but say it anyway. Like when people called a former colleague from Runcorn, a scouser. Proper grated on me.

Anyway, you can all get back on topic now.
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True. My sister is a cockney. Born in Charring Cross hospital while my parents were working down in London for a couple of years. They moved back up to Birkenhead when she was months old so she has no memory of London and speaks with what anyone except Henry Higgins would consider a scouse accent. Although she isn't a scouser.

However, meanings do generally broaden over time and I'd imagine most people outside the area refer to all Merseysiders as Scousers.
Most northerners I've spoken to who aren't familiar with London wouldn't know the precise meaning of 'Cockney'.

I'd be willing to bet there is plenty of debate amongst Londoners themselves as to where the exact boundaries lie between being a Cockney and not.
Maybe we need VAR to determine whether a specific street is within the sound of Bow Bells or not. Or would it depend on how good your hearing is?

And I'll get back on topic now. They should bring back the Cup Winners' Cup.
 
Jamo Martinez said:
True. My sister is a cockney. Born in Charring Cross hospital while my parents were working down in London for a couple of years. They moved back up to Birkenhead when she was months old so she has no memory of London and speaks with what anyone except Henry Higgins would consider a scouse accent. Although she isn't a scouser.

However, meanings do generally broaden over time and I'd imagine most people outside the area refer to all Merseysiders as Scousers.
Most northerners I've spoken to who aren't familiar with London wouldn't know the precise meaning of 'Cockney'.

I'd be willing to bet there is plenty of debate amongst Londoners themselves as to where the exact boundaries lie between being a Cockney and not.
Maybe we need VAR to determine whether a specific street is within the sound of Bow Bells or not. Or would it depend on how good your hearing is?

And I'll get back on topic now. They should bring back the Cup Winners' Cup.
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Alan Whittle said:
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The ability to hear the sound of Bow Bells has been diminished significantly since 1851 ( green area) and in a study in 2012 could only be heard within the blue area.
Hence, thanks to rapacious developers and their Tory enablers Cockneys are under threat. Their once majestic habitat is being destroyed and their natural feeding grounds are less each year.
Feck the Polar Bears, Save the Cockneys my friends.
Edit; Back on topic, we’ll done Leicester and so forth.
 

Jamo Martinez said:
Does that mean the bells were much louder in 1851? Or there were stronger winds? or People had better hearing?

AW now thinking 'bloody northerners and their stupid questions'.

Just seen your follow up post. Serious question, is that due to the area being more built up?
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Yes. Taller buildings have altered the acoustics significantly. Look at a photo of London even in the early 1920’s and the tallest building for miles around was St.Pauls.
 
Alan Whittle said:
The ability to hear the sound of Bow Bells has been diminished significantly since 1851 ( green area) and in a study in 2012 could only be heard within the blue area.
Hence, thanks to rapacious developers and their Tory enablers Cockneys are under threat. Their once majestic habitat is being destroyed and their natural feeding grounds are less each year.
Feck the Polar Bears, Save the Cockneys my friends.
Edit; Back on topic, we’ll done Leicester and so forth.
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Get Bow bells ring tone on your phone and play it in maternity wards everywhere. First we'll take Stoke Newington, then we'll take the world.
 

Groucho said:
So are Leicester the latest stick our own fans are using to beat the club with?
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Sadly yes. Its all very lurker-ish.

Not saying they are lurker. Just lurker-ish.

Its the kind of stats some tit on twitter who calls himself the everton basher would roll out to his followers to get his daily fix of self fulfilment
 

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