when the goals start scoring / it becomes less boring

Posted by Ben @ March 8th, 2010 9:33 pm. Filed under: I Want To Watch Sports For Free, That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!, The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right? — Tags: Richard Garland —

I’ll never get tired of using lyrics from Adam & Joe’s “Football Song” as the title for petitions to do with football. Anyway, here’s a self-entitled whinging bastard’s bastard’s bastard.

make it law that some football matches are available on free channels.

by Richard Garland

I think it’s a disgrace that to watch the likes of the English Premier League football matches, that we have to pay a ridiculous fee to a large corporation. I’m not saying that every match should be free, but on average there’s mostly at least ten matches a week in the Premiership, why can’t even one of those matches be given to a free channel? It’s ridiculous that certain companies appear to have a monopoly on this, why can’t the government intervene, and tell these companies to either stop being so tight or face sanctions? It’s simply nothing short of price fixing because they know fine well there’s no competition. Football should be for everyone.

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Reject Runday (I’m busy on Rednesday.)

Posted by Andrew @ March 7th, 2010 6:14 pm. Filed under: ...Or Else!, Anything I Want Is A Human Right, Anything I Want Should Be Free, Don't Worry About What THEY Want, Just Like That!, Lord Knows I Ask Not For Myself, Not Government Business, Reject Rednesday — Tags: george bryans, graham giles, Miss Bethany Gough, Mr Harry Jackson, Mr Nicholas Evanns, Mr Paul Mcilavey of UK Independence Party, Mr Philip Wailing, Mr Tommy Grimshaw —

Give a simple yes or no answer to petitions.

by graham giles (rejected)

We are fed up with politicians not answering a simple yes or no to a petition.

This petition has been rejected.
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Oh Snap

Posted by Ben @ February 26th, 2010 6:25 am. Filed under: I AM TALKING!, Rejected Petitions, The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right?, spelin an grammer — Tags: Billy Roberts of fight for united —

GLAZER OUT.

by Billy Roberts of fight for united (rejected)

this petition is on behalf of all manchester united supporters to try get malcolm glazer out of manchester united football club as he has bought the club with borrowed money which leaves the club having to pay massive interest rates talks of selling old trafford and the carrington training complex and its only time before we have to sell our best players somethig has to be done and fast GLAZER OUT LUHG

It’s funny if you read “GLAZER OUT” in the voice of Cole from Scrubs season nine. “Glazer… owtt!“

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Go flag yourself

Posted by Ben @ February 23rd, 2010 3:51 am. Filed under: Not Government Business, Nothing Should Ever Change!, Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful, We're British, Dammit! — Tags: Robin Hodge —

stop funding for the British Olympic team (Team GB) until it renames itself TeamUK.

by Robin Hodge

The team receives its funding from the UK Government, and UK athletics bodies. It receives funding from UK Lottery funds.It flies the UK flag – not a GB one. It’s time it had a rethink and changed the name to Team UK.

Here are the Google Image Search results for “United Kingdom flag”, and here are the Google Image Search results for “Great Britain flag”. Thanks for playing.

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I’ve got a skill / the skill is for football / I’ve got a hat / woooh

Posted by Ben @ February 11th, 2010 8:50 pm. Filed under: I Want To Watch Sports For Free, That'd Be Nice, The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right? — Tags: Patrick Hackett —

Regulate the sales of tickets to football matches so that normal fans have a chance of getting them, not just executive members who happen to be paying more.

by Patrick Hackett

I think that the government should put a limit on the number of football tickets sold to executive members of football clubs, as at the moment most tickets to cup finals are being sold to executives, who have no real support for the club, and real fans of the clubs are getting no opportunity to attend these matches.

This is important!

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The Slow Demise of Manchester United

Posted by Ben @ January 19th, 2010 11:45 pm. Filed under: The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right?, We're British, Dammit! — Tags: Andrew Henderson —

believe the Government should urgently take action on behalf of all football supporters to prevent Manchester United Football Club (and other English football clubs) being destroyed by corporate greed.

by Andrew Henderson

Football should belong first and foremost to the fans. We have done and continue to do our best to protect both the game and our clubs. But we need help to prevent so-called “investors” from bleeding our clubs dry.

What the Glazer family are doing to Manchester United represents merely the latest stage in the implosion of English football as we know it.

And it’s not just fans that are affected. The slow demise of Manchester United and other clubs could mean:

- Fewer tourists visiting those clubs’ home towns, following the sale of top players and other assets

- Local businesses losing out

- Damage to England’s World Cup bid: who will back a country where the FA does not stand up against the pillaging of its own football clubs

- Young people losing the desire to play football

It isn’t just a problem for Manchester United fans. It’s the problem of our footballing nation. In the Premier League alone, Liverpool and Portsmouth are experiencing similar difficulties and many more will follow if the authorities do not act to prevent it. Football clubs are both community and national assets. The FA, parliament and the government should recognise this and act before it’s too late.

This is important.

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Just Plane Stupid

Posted by Ben @ October 28th, 2009 3:30 am. Filed under: Not Government Business, spelin an grammer — Tags: Mark Leese —

To invest in a new supersonic passenger aircraft to replace concord.

by Mark Leese

The UK used to be a leader in passenger aircraft design by working with France to build the Concord aeroplane. We already have the technology to build a supersonic aircraft so would it be that difficult or costly to build a safer more environmentally friendly craft.

Seeing as Concorde stopped flying largely because it wasn’t making any money, what benefit would it be to build another one?

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Not Another One

Posted by Ben @ October 16th, 2009 2:45 am. Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Free, I Want To Watch Sports For Free, NOOOOOO!!!, The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right?, spelin an grammer — Tags: mr mark cosford —

Get behind the country and back our national sport by ensuring all future England football games are screened for free on the b.b.c t.v as paid for by the tax payer.

by mr mark cosford

To back our national game and using the b.b.c which the tax payer pays for screen all England football matches free live on b.b.c 1 / b.b.c 2. Paying to see our national sport on sky the internet or in a cinema is a crime.

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What a Dummy

Posted by Ben @ October 7th, 2009 8:33 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Free, Hadrian's Firewall, I Want To Watch Sports For Free, The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right?, What a Baby — Tags: david russell —

Withdraw funding from the FA.

by david russell

With the recent charges for internet viewing of the England Football Game, i feel that the government should withdraw all funding that is currently given to the FA due to the fact that they are not being fair to the English people

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I’ve Got a Scarf, The Scarf Is For Football

Posted by Ben @ October 7th, 2009 8:03 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Free, Exclamation marks!!!!, I Want To Watch Sports For Free, The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right?, spelin an grammer — Tags: Andrew Gaff, Russell Jones —

Sigh. It must be that time of year again.

ensure National Team Sporting Events be available to all on National TV.

by Russell Jones

Please insist that all national games whether it be Football,Cricket Rugby etc be available to the masses possibly on the BBC the station we pay our licence fee for !!!!

Bring our national sport back to the BBC where it belongs.

by Andrew Gaff

For the first time in history an England football match is going to be broadcast via the internet and not on television. Not every one has the internet and certainly people don’t want to watch on their computer. This is our national sport and should be available for everyone to watch free on the BBC.

I believe my previous statement of “For fuck’s sake” summed up my thoughts on this matter nicely.

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Ball Ball Ball, Footie Footie Footie

Posted by Ben @ October 6th, 2009 7:46 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Free, I Want To Watch Sports For Free, The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right? — Tags: Mr Daniel Granger —

ensure that all future England football internationals are available for viewing on tv.

by Mr Daniel Granger

Not having the chance to watch our international football team play a football match of this magnitude on tv is, in my opinion, an absolute disgrace. This match and all other matches involving England should be available for the general public to watch at no cost other than the TV license.

For fuck’s sake.

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Keith Jones: Introducing Legislation to Change the Law One Petition at a Time

Posted by Ben @ August 31st, 2009 12:00 pm. Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants, Couldn't If He Wanted To, Don't Worry About What THEY Want, Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me, George Orwell Had The Right Idea, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, It Says So In The Daily Mail, It's Not Gay If Your Balls Don't Touch, Not Government Business, Presumably The Prime Minister Is Not Too Busy, Rejected Petitions, What A Dick — Tags: Keith Jones —

What would we do without the increasingly mad Keith Jones, eh? I have no idea what he looks like, but I imagine a curmudgeonly old man, maybe with a ridiculously ornate moustache. His hair is thinning. The only footwear he’s worn for the last twelve years are a pair of tartan slippers his grandchildren bought him one Christmas partially as a joke. He has only the vaguest of ideas how the real world works and he thinks he’s figured out how to solve all of its problems.

And it’s through brilliant ideas like these.

Let’s make it illegal to use a word that means a thing it means. There’s no way that can lead down a dangerous path at all.

I actually think this petition would have been approved were he not such a cocky gobshite in the descriptive text. Not to say I support the petition, but Keith has a wonderful way of just being hilariously self-righteous that means that most of his petitions get rejected. I bet he thinks he’s Make A Stand, too. Tch.

I shudder to think what would happen if Keith Jones ever found this website. I imagine that the sky would crack asunder. Or something.

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