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Hardly. This was a team that finished 4th last season and was underperforming this time as they were 5 points off 4th place when they sacked the previous coach. They'd recently managed a 5-1 away win and when he took over they'd just got a draw with Barcelona. They now find themselves not five...

Thanks for the link. I don't really pay much attention but when I saw a TV newsclip of him over there in Calais, I thought he'd gone to carefully explain to them the many benefits of staying in socialist France rather than living for an indefinite time in a Glastonbury-like hellhole in the vain...

Towards the end of Cordoba's abysmal season last time out, he came out with this on local radio: "“I’m annoyed because I’m terrible. I can’t even make a ******* pass, and the team can't either. I’m up to my ***** with it. “It seems like everyone's just thinking about next season and we’re not...

Franz Beckenbauer.

I take it you don't watch Spanish football? If you do, then my apologies, but if you do you would have to recognise that for the past couple of months Real Madrid have been terrible. They started the season well, were top after 10 games and had only conceded four goals. Since then their...

There are a lot of misconceptions about US gun deaths. For a start, almost two thirds of all gun deaths are suicides. Secondly, if you look at the homicide rate it is incredibly skewed - those committing murders are not the Second Amendment supporting gun nuts characterised by the posters above.

Barcelona has always laid claim to this Catalan question, something that has featured throughout their history, though even before they became the corporate monolith they are today I doubt their actual fans were any more pro-independence than the rest of Catalunya, which is to say not that much...

I doubt the player in question ever thought he'd be signed by Barcelona. A Real Madrid-supporting League-2-standard player who Barcelona thought would be useful to bolster their failing B-team, currently in danger of a second successive relegation and a fall into the wasteland of the Catalan...

Whenever I see such a claim I always invoke P.J O'Rourke "God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat. God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men accountable for their...

I wouldn't worry yourself. I refer you to my posts at #235 and #241. The whole programme is based on a lie.

please re-read what I wrote. Final sentence of first paragraph. Also, check the accounts of the other winners' companies.

Yes, it is, however I want to see how NBSML manages to link that to Thatcher.

Not exactly. The accounts show that morninglordsugar also has £100 of share capital, the balance of £249,900 is shown in reserves where it will be protected. I agree that the money financed the first year losses, however note that it's nowhere even close to the headline figure of the supposed...

How many times I have I seen such a comment, motivated as it is by the poster's own dogma and disregarding any semblance of a fact. The fact is that coal mining was in decline from the 1930s in the entire western world, the trend line of employment and pit closures being entirely consistent...

Let me clue everyone in to how this actually works. The £250k of morninglordsugar's stash does not actually get invested in the individual who wins. If you check the company accounts of any of the previous winners in this format you'll see that at the last accounting dates (admittedly a little...

No, the plumber will have won it. I will explain after the final why this is/was such a certainty.

It depends on whether you think they should have been a relegation-threatened side. They had better players than that. However they are currently only out of the relegation zone on goal difference, so the situation now is almost identical. And they still have better players than that.

I would. 2 years ago they were playing in the Champions League (ironically against Moyes' Manchester United). Though this was an over-achievement it gives an indication of what their squad should be aspiring to. That 2013-14 they finished 7th and qualified for the Europa League. The previous...

The game should really not be held there. The stadium is a semi-crumbling wreck with a capacity too small for this type of fixture. It should be being played at nearby Elche, however the Spanish League and F.A. have it in for Elche (having been challenged in the courts because of their forced...

It shows nothing of the sort.