And here we go, were I ever to emigrate to California, I can't get a personalised license plate which supports my team, the mighty Motherwell! http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/expat-well-brassed-off-after-killjoy-1457459 Seriously, I really don't see what part of ‘MWELLFC’ can be deemed offensive unless you are a supporter of Hamilton Accademicals or Airdrie. Neither of which will be particularly prevalent in California. Full article posted in the spoiler below. Don't know how to change the name of spoiler to article. doh!
He needs to talk to someone higher up the food chain about this decision. No one would ever make that interpretation of MWELLFC.
That's not about the law makers; that's about some low level bureaucrat making an idiotic decision. This happens with regard to vanity plates across the U.S. all the time. Often it's a lot more idiotic and blatantly illegal than in this case.
Still finished in the CL spots mate....which is a lot harder to do in the Premier League than it is in your Mickey Mouse league. Plus, we would be in the CL but for Chelsea's fluke win in Munich, just like you wouldn't be in the SPL but for Rangers going down the shitter. After all, you finsihed 3rd, normally outside the CL places in the SPL. Also, you tanking the the qualifiers and then tanked in Europa as well! Ergo, we are much better than thou.
No arguament there. But you are also fortunate enough to get £30m per year tv money. We get less than £1mill. Not really a fare comparison.
Absolutley no chance you are correct there. With the resources available to Celtic and Rangers and the cartel they operate in terms of voting structure, prize and tv money. It is certainly much harder for any team outwith the OF to break into those top 2 spots than in is for a good, well backed EPL team to finish 4th in the EPL. Not that I don't recognise that 4th is a good achievement for spurs. A suitable comparison to a non OF team finishing in the top two (in a regular year) would be if you actually won the EPL.
The situation in England is much better and more fair than it is in Scotland. Scotland was blighted by the Old Firm cartel, the legions of morons who follow them, and the press who realised that serving the OF agenda would line their pockets. Prize money in the SPL was engineered to give the majority to the teams who finished in the top 2 spots year on year. There is a bigger difference in prize money between 2nd and 3rd than there is 3rd and 12th! This was compounded by an idiotic voting structure which required an 11-1 majority to make any changes. Hence, the OF could maintain control. None of it is even required, given the size and support of those teams mean they will always posess a significant advantage over everyone else in terms of revenue and resources. The EPL works in a much more professional manner, staggering prize money from 1st to last in equal blocks. As for revenue sharing. The home team keeps all gate reciepts for league games. Cup games are treated as a 60%-40% split for the home team. I have read bits about the US gridiron model of revenue sharing, gate reciepts, tv money, salary caps etc. which is very interesting, but I doubt it would be accepted over here.
You didn't finish in the top two, you finished third. Ranger may have gone down, but they still had enough points for second spot. As for cartels, what do you think the multibillion pound Chelsea and Man City, and the biggest club in the world (global brand Man U), are? Ourselves and the filthy ArseAnal are the only ones to have been competing for top four over the years who don't have a serious income to play around with, and even Wenger's grooming pack have more money than we do. Winning the EPL is superhard as a result.
True, but conversely so does everyone else in the EPL. It's not like we are at an advantage over the other English sides. What happened to the money from your CL and EL outings this year? There must've been some TV money there, and also qualification bonuses?
It would certainly make things fairer. Instead we get UEFA's bullshit Financial Fairplay Rules, which will never be enforced the second the likes of Man City feel like breaking it. Not that the American system stops huge investments causing imbalance.
Exactly, and that was after Rangers were docked points. I.E highlighting how hard it actually is for a non OF team to break into the top 2.
This is also the system adopted by the MLS (Major League Soccer) when it was founded in the 90s. It has some benefits in that there is a relatively equal playing field, and since we are a young league it helps build up the sport as a whole. However as a fan of the best supported club in the nation (39k average attendance this year, 43k for league matches [MLS average this season was 19k to put in perspective]) and while the numbers aren't publicly available what is believed to be one of the most profitable, it gets frustrating. The low salary cap combined with automatic year over year raises (as required by the Collective Bargaining Agreement) means that no matter what you HAVE to change your team up year to year. Not to mention it makes your players very susceptible to being snatched up by European clubs. The only exception to the salary cap rule is the Designated Player rule where teams can have up to 3 players who only count as $350k towards the cap, the club pays the rest of their salary. This is how LA can have Becks, Landycakes and Keane on their squad and NY Henry Thierry.
I never would have made any interpretation of it, although now, it is always going to jump out at me as the non-soccer club interpretation.
"MeWellFucker"? How did that even occur to anyone at the DMV? Do California state employees get a generous crack rock plan as part of their benefits package?
BLJ is a common letter sequence for license plates in my area. Maybe somebody should censure the Secretary of State for making citizens think of blowjobs.
I'm going to push for a Constitutional Amendment. "Iffest Thou Be-eth A Thin-Skinned Cuntblob Who Cannot-eth Take-eth Living In The Real World-eth, Shutteth Up Thy Fucking-eth Socket Of Ye Olde Cockery And Deal-eth, Bitch Thou."
Of course not. Los Angeles only ever so much as intersects with the real world if you look at it indirectly just after sunset.
