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It's no good complaining about too much criticism of the NT when your own post is a little bit "revisionist" itself. 2002 - England were playing against a 10 man Brazil for around 40 minutes, never looked like equalising and were deservedly beaten. 2010 - the ghost goal masks the obvious that...

Your point is well taken, However, Juande Ramos is an interesting one. He's the answer to the never-aired question - who was the manager when Spurs actually last won a ******* trophy?

Liverpool's plan in these games always seems to be use the "gegenpress" to blitz teams and get a lead so they can then play on the counter attack. I'm pretty sure Real Madrid knew that which is why the opening was cagey. For all their pressure they created one solitary chance in that period...

All players use the arm to fend off or hold opponents, Look at this picture and you will see it's Salah who "intertwines" first. There's no way Ramos was letting him get away from him when he fell either, but it's a freak accident.

...and you are also replying to something I didn't actually say. In any case, any declared result is meaningless. All opposition parties boycotted the referendum.

If you misquote me selectively you can make anything up from it. The OP said Catalonia "has always wanted independence". I simply replied that is not the case. It is a VERY recent phenomenon. Even in the immediate post Franco years there was never anything close to a majority wanting full...

There has never been a majority of the Catalan population in favour of full independence.

He'd already booked Kroos for treading on Khedira's foot when making an actual tackle so it's hardly surprising he booked Cuadrado for that when the ball wasn't even in play. But I also like Ramos, which puts me firmly in the minority.

We already have that. This is what people who work for HMRC do. I don't know if you've had any direct involvement with these people? They're not easy to convince. Intra-company transfer pricing is something they already adjust for. In reply to a previous point about VAT, that has been...

I'm going to concede to you because I phrased that first post badly. My contention is that the PL is nowhere near as competitive as many people like to believe. That usually leads to a comparison with other leagues to prove the PL's superiority in this regard. However, outside the top six...

I think you're missing the point. Nobody can surely deny that Barcelona and Real Madrid are way ahead of any EPL side at the moment. Their combined forward lines alone contain five players, any of whom if dropped into one of the top six in England would guarantee the title. So it's no surprise...

Would that were so. I'm surprised how few live televised Sky/BT matches I've bothered with and, of course, though it promised a lot, last night's offering was dross. Where is the attraction to anyone not heavily committed to either club, of Burnley v West Brom? The myth that the Premier League...

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And yet Malaga beat Barcelona the week before last. Maybe you just saw a bad one. Personally, I see plenty of dross in the Premier League. Anything involving West Brom, of course, but there's plenty of others.

Care to explain this comment?

I made the point as I've lived in Spain for the past 12 years. However, maybe I've been hearing things at all those games I've been to.

I understand why that perception exists, but it's completely untrue. Spanish teams routinely whack corners into the mix just like anyone else. What's more, Spanish fans applaud corners as enthusiastically as the English. Can I just add that like an early poster to this thread I also knew that...

Except I don't think how this is being portrayed is actually the (in limbo) Spanish government's position. To quote the newspaper El Pais: "Gone are the days when former Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García Margallo boasted that “the Spanish flag will fly [in Gibraltar] much sooner than...

Despite the early morning tiredness of the poster above (equally, yawn) you are, of course, entirely right.

Yes, they were, but still many Remainers insist that that ludicrous pledge somehow turned the vote. Leave voters encompassed the entire range of political opinion in the UK from revolutionary socialists to libertarians. There was no "manifesto" they could possibly enact. However, a Leave vote...