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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 17h

We had three at a time back in the day, a mix of greyhounds, whippets and lurchers. When our last whippet passed, we thought we'd get something more solid, given our health issues. She became my fitness consultant whn we brought her home!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 17h

Oh, she's a cracker. 13 years old and still enjoying a good walk. We've had her nearly three years and she settled in straightaway.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 18h

Lovely morning walking around Loch Ossian last week. Caught the Caledonian Sleeper for one stop to Corrour & walked around the loch. Loads of fabulous walking, munros & mountains all around. Back for coffee at Corrour Station House, before catching the train back to Rannoch & lunch at the Tearoom.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was growing up in Liverpool, I often heard the phrase, 'he/she couldn't find his/her arse.' I'd say that applies to her. A terrible indictment on the Tory party that she's even considered to be leader.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cheers Stephen, it's our favourite Scottish holiday spot these days!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We're quite lucky. The people who own the cottage we stay in live next door. We order an Asda delivery before we arrive and she puts it all away for us. When we go to Glen Lyon & Schiehallion we pass the village shop on the way back.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cheers Geoff, we made a week of it. More pics will follow!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Perthshire is fabulous. We were 12 miles from a shop, 25 miles from a supermarket. Lovely mix of peaceful and scenic!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cheers Perce, you gotta live while you're living!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lovely trip to the Perthshire Highlands last week, celebrating my wife's third birthday since her diagnosis and end of life plan.🙂🙂 We're keeping ourselves as fit and well as we can and making as many happy memories as we can. You can always choose how you play the cards life gives you!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Long Hall is a good Dublin pub!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The end of that game was the ultimate sliding doors moment!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You're correct. His action does spark a debate where I hope he will look Badenoch & Farage in the eye and ask them whether tax cuts are more important than dealing with care. And why.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I see a photo/video of College Road, its changed again!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh that's fabulous, thank you!🙂

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The football finance world's equivalent of 'the dog ate my homework'!

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW The diabolical defending of Manchester City Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (Prospect paywall is down currently.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC

What can explain such an aggressive and counterproductive approach? To an extent the answer may be in the facts and the evidence. Perhaps the view was that the only chance of getting out of this was to be unhelpful as well as robust. In respect of an earlier dispute with Uefa, an internal communication at the club apparently said “Uefa doesn't respond to anything other than aggression”. Maybe the view was taken that this would work here too. Maybe the club still thinks it will work in the end, with the league being pushed into settlement on appeal or at the doors of the High Court.

But this does not offer a total explanation. What may work with Uefa may not work with other adversaries. The structure of the league’s investigation and the disciplinary approach meant that aggression would not only be unhelpful, but would count heavily against the club. An appeal on the law or procedure at the High Court in this sort of case only has a remote chance of success. It can be assumed the club was warned of all this.

There is a phrase in football punditry that “the defending is diabolical”. Here diabolical is, of course, a synonym for dreadful. But in its more literal sense, diabolical means bedevilled with wrongful purpose. And the strategy adopted by Manchester City in contesting this matter is also in this sense diabolical. The club will have known that it was unlikely to work, and that it would make things harder, but the club decided to do it anyway.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Manchester City we have decided not to deduct any points or relegate you." - Good, see our aggressive strategy worked. "We are just going to give an extra 50 points to every other team playing in the same division as you, for the next ten seasons."

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of course. Many issues here. The European qualification and the momentum it would have created. The players we could have attracted/kept. The increased chance of winning a cup. The sense of actually having a chance of achieving. The PL now has to decide. Quasi-super league or genuine competition?

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wishful thinking meets circumstantial evidence that was tossed aside. Have a word with Masters, he'd probably dock us points again.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's how they got off the UEFA case. They'll be hoping Lord Pannick has spotted severe procedural flaws in the PL case. They're incompetent enough that it wouldn't surprise me if they'd made some.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are at the final stage, where they try to worry the other side with 'things we can't say yet', to get them to offer a concessionary 'punishment'. They can't produce new evidence at the appeal.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Does this mean they'll have to kidnap Masters and facilitate his death 'under mysterious circumstances'?

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Apparently there were around 15 alleged offences that Segers and Fashanu were accused of and acquitted on. All we did was score three goals.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They were found not guilty. You're free to disagree with the jury that sat through the whole case. I think the bigger issue was that Fashanu said they were worried for their personal safety after the coach got torched the night before.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The ones when Segers & Fashanu were found not guilty of multiple match fixing?

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

His lack of accountability has enabled him to play on the daft thrall many US politicians have for the Royal Family.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm completely indifferent to them, but I thought his speech in the US Congress was a belter.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, probably because neither of them have any accountability.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My wife is Dutch and we consume a lot of Dutch/German media. General view is that UK wasn't fully committed to the EU while it was in the EU, and that's it faffing about over AI security because it doesn't want to upset the US.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's going to take a lot of work to get the EU nations to trust the UK enough to let us rejoin, and that's before we get into the detail of what rejoining would entail.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's always been a good story that I'd like to see some supporting evidence beyond wishful thinking.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'd rather stay up than go down and pretend our post-humiliation Championship win is a 'trophy'. The facts I'd like to face are how many of those trophies proper ones?

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Presumably that includes trophies won for being promoted after being relegated?

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Never ceases to amaze me how many working class folk fall for the posh man talking nonsense with great certainty schtick.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Doubling down when you have no accountability is easier than admitting you hadn't thought things through.

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A cracking game I watched from the Boys' Pen!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very interesting. Very, very true!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is that who they'll be playing next season?

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remember, Masters' chief concern is 'the brand'. That's more important to him than sporting integrity. If I'm wrong, I'd be delighted to admit it!

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Paul Tran @paultrantrainer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We went through the looking glass when the Premier League let oil states buy clubs without tightening their rule book and when the Sky 6 were allowed to get away with trying to leave the league. Any semblance of sporting integrity disappeared from those moments onwards.

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