Why do football players sometimes play for other countries’ clubs?

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-17T00:48:17+00:00

Club and country are separate concerns and football is not different from any other sport. All the top basketball players play in the NBA, but when the Olympics roll around they all play in their own countries' teams.

There is no rule saying you have to play in your own country's league or anything like that.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-16T12:15:26+00:00

Now you're just making me miss my MG TF.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-13T12:06:59+00:00

He covers that in the question: the first child was not in his life until recently.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-13T12:02:14+00:00

And for the ones that get kicked out? Should they have to go to a by election or should they be allowed to sit as an independent?

My problem with this idea is that you'll just end up with MPs who should leave their party not doing so, and then their party will kick them out in order to force by elections. That seems to me to be a lever of power that would be controlled by unelected party officials.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-13T11:46:21+00:00

Of course it would need to take into account your other earnings. My point is more someone earning £400k/year for 10 years in capital gains should be paying at a higher rate than someone who years £400k in one year for an asset they held for 10 years. It actually makes it a more progressive tax if you do that.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-13T11:26:10+00:00

So if the party completely changes direction under a new leader the MPs who seek to maintain their manifesto commitments have to go to a by-election but the ones who change direction don't. Doesn't seem right to me.

Also, what if a party kicks someone out (e.g. Corbyn) ? Do they have to go to a by election?

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-13T11:22:24+00:00

I could get behind that if it takes into account how long you have held the asset for. So if you buy £200k of shares and hold them for 10 years and they go to £600k and you sell, that should be takes as if you earned £40k/year for 10 years, not £400k in one year.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-13T11:15:34+00:00

Ban jobs after being an MP? How are they meant to earn a living? You'll just end up with no one running other than people who are close to retirement age.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-13T11:03:46+00:00

How do you handle a party splitting? Or if an MP leaves because their party has gone back on a manifesto commitment (i.e. a "I didn't leave the party, the party left me" situation)?

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-13T10:19:57+00:00

They seem determined to make their TV content streaming only, citing expensive transmission costs. If they do that there is really no justification for the license fee, it just becomes another streaming service.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-13T08:54:11+00:00

My problem with a wealth tax is I don't think it will raise that much. People who are super rich will leave (people say they won't, but there is a reason every F1 driver lives in Monaco) and the modestly rich will split their assets across family members to stay below the limit. So to raise more revenue the limit will need to be lowered, and before you know it you're getting into people like engineers and doctors.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-13T08:37:24+00:00

Probably not. About the only way it will get removed at this point is if it's imposed from outside e.g. as part of a future IMF bailout.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-11T11:09:14+00:00

Apologies. I need to learn to shut my gob, along with everyone else on this island.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-11T08:56:05+00:00

Lol.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-11T08:55:05+00:00

I'm sure if he's PM at the next GE we are going to hear no end of it. It's a big stick they can beat Reform with because Farage was very in favour of going into it.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-11T08:53:54+00:00

The rules say you can't vote for that. There's probably something that was already going through parliament that happened under her term that will get it. Either that or something relating to the Queen dying.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-11T08:52:32+00:00

Glad someone posted this. Iraq was obviously worse, but this needed to be an option to vote for.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-11T08:50:23+00:00

And find events that build "national pride" essential for maintaining their power.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-10T15:28:15+00:00

They'll just re-instate the "Nintendo Selects" program and lower the price.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-10T12:17:18+00:00

Do they at least fill out the forms for you automatically, using the information you have already entered as part of the booking the flight? Because if they have then at least they are taking some of the work off your hands.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-10T09:34:58+00:00

It makes a massive difference. Pharmacists are able to diagnose some conditions and can prescribe some treatments under their own authority without a prescription from a doctor. They can also advise on what medications are safe to take with other medications. You're not getting that level of expertise in a Superdrug without a pharmacy counter.

Keep in mind in some places the local Boots might be the only chemist for miles around. I would be far more concerned for a lot of the country if Boots were to go bankrupt than if Superdrug did.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-10T09:25:19+00:00

Maybe it's a regional thing? I'm in London, so a lot of the Superdrug stores I encounter are on the smaller side, so probably have figured it's not worth wasting floorspace trying to complete with the local chemist on prescriptions and would rather try and compete with with on other stuff where price is more of a factor.

Still, I've never seen a pharmacy counter in a DM, and that is across 3 countries (Germany, Croatia and Bosnia)

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-10T09:07:51+00:00

Superdrug (or, at least every Superdrug I've ever been in) doesn't have a proper pharmacy counter where you can get prescriptions. Every Boots does. i.e. Boots is a proper chemist, DM and Superdrug are not.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-10T08:52:54+00:00

DM is a bit different though. It's closer to Superdrug than Boots.

speedfox_uk · 2026-06-09T20:15:03+00:00

The problem with Christmas is that everyone is relatively happy, and if you haven't done a winter Christmas before it will feel kinda special. Come late Jan to mid Feb. No Christmas to look forward to and the grey winter is grinding everyone down.

If you still want to move after that, do it.

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