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Arsenal have already made an estimated £122m from the Champions League this season.
If they have a similar base of employees as PSG, who are paying for 500 to travel, it would cost them a total of £429,000.
That's less than Kai Havertz earns in 2 weeks.
Sam Dean@SamJDean
Members of staff at Arsenal have been left disappointed after being charged £859 for travel to the Champions League final. Big contrast with PSG, who are paying for all of their employees to go (and yes, the two clubs operate very differently financially) telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…
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A single dad with three kids commits suicide? Didn't think about the kids? Just took easy way out? Pathetic. Once you have kids, all other concerns are mute. You wake up everyday and take care of your kids. If you have debt, you work through it. Suicide is a weak, mental cases way out.
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This is the final photographs of Phillip Herron 34, crying in his car, literally minutes before taking his own life.
He was a single Dad with three kids, struggling with crushing debt of over £20,000 and was desperately waiting for a Payday loan he'd applied for. But it was paid in arrears, with a 5 week wait time. That wait drove him even deeper into debt, and when he died he had £4.61 in his bank account and clearly couldn't see any other way out.
Like a lot of people, especially men, he kept all of this to himself, nobody else knew how bad things were getting. This poor man even had to tell his children that Santa Claus wouldn’t come this year, and in his suicide note he wrote that they'd be better off if he wasn't around any more.
And now he isn't.
We need to talk more. We need to be kinder. And we need to be a country that helps each other when we need it the most.
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@MarkYouTwit The funny thing here is they replayed the foul immediately after .... but it was a blatant foul in real time.
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Well that’s simply not true is it?
FootballFunnys@FootballFunnys
Chris Kavanagh blew his whistle in the 87th minute of West Ham vs Arsenal and nobody had a clue why, including him. He looked over at his assistant, then just gave Arsenal a free kick for nothing. When the West Ham bench rightly complained, he sent one of them off. Almost like...
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Mikel Arteta can be hard to like - but why does it feel like willing Arsenal to fail has become a national obsession? mirror.co.uk/sport/football…
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The fact that Arteta and his staff were claiming handball straight away and not for a foul shows they didn’t think it was a foul on Raya. That says it all. Nowhere near clear and obvious.
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VAR - dont start me off on it - the Sport of Football will rue the day it was bought in - not clear or obvious error. Deciding a title and relegation today - thoughts?
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@TheJollygunner @HLTCO It's a non topic. A blatant foul and that's why VAR is there. Arsenal are physically. We do block. But we don't pull shirts and hold arms down. If we do, we're punished. Simple as
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A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks.
It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design.
In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself.
The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it.
This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials.
Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against.
Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.
Daily Loud@DailyLoud
Jay-Z wore a Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime at the Met Gala worth $6.5 million
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Your non-chalant boyfriend was on his knees begging Atletico Madrid to score last night
I want you to think about that
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