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Does chromecast add anything to a standard Blu-Ray player or smart-tv or console that streams from your home network? Or is the benefit a cheap alternative to any of those 3?

Bah. Think I'll still get one anyway, I had it on my wishlist last year before i even knew about this use for it, but no-one got it for me.

My Amazon wishlist includes all the Raspberry Pi and bits you need to get streaming movies and TV as instructed by Gemmil, cycling gear, Xbox live subscription, Blu-Ray box sets, xbox games, an ipod classic and the Sony KDL55HX853 55-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p SMART 3D Dynamic LED Television. The last one has been on there for 3 years now like Cheap bastards.

Looks like Uncle Monty anarl.

It's not ticket prices, it's the total match day income over a season. I didn't take the time to format them properly so the 2 decimal places might mislead.

I don't think people are looking up the league. They are worrying about survival. A refusal to buy where we are short means people are doubly worried about a few injuries happening. If Remy was spannered for example, we would be fucked. Because we spend at the level just above the Championship clubs, not alongside the top flight stalwarts that never challenge.

For every £1 earned on a matchday, the clubs spend....

No Premier league club spends less per supporter through the turnstyles.

Soz Chez. To clarify, there isn't a club in the league with a bill £30m below ours. there's only 4 clubs with wage bills £20m+ less. Quartiles are.... 201.8 94.9 62.9 50.4

Given our wage bill is £15m below the average for the league and less than 2% above the league median, what would it add to the discussion?

Depends on the price... But it would have to be coppers. Was more interested in whether free versions got out anywhere really.

That's why I thought they'd be available cheap online.

Aye, that's what I want to read... If I can get snide/cheap versions.

Probably can assume it's not benefitting Newcastle United as long as they're not singing about it from the rooftops though eh?

Does anyone get them? I can only see this link... http://www.o-publishing.co.uk/shop/catalog/barclays-premier-league/newcastle-united £95 a season breaks down to be more costly than buying an actual programme at every game :s

I expect an insightful article from Kinnear in the next programme on the income to be generated from paying Sports Direct for services.

See you back here in a few months CT, when it's time to report on the next Tory uptick as if the last 4 pages never happened.

The only people that give a shit about that charade are either in parliament, reporting on parliament or bored at home drinking twinings.

The UK didn't cause the crash. The methods used are international. That's exactly why your nonsense arguments over labour's mess and Cameron's clean up are so bone-headed. Good to see you recognise these things. Securitisation was a more recent development that exploits cheap mortgages and led to the crash. Northern Rock were heavily reliant on international borrowing to fund their cheap UK mortgages which were sold on international capital markets. When the demand for securitised mortgages fell away they were exposed, up shit creek without a paddle. The only person avoiding anything is you on the question of what makes Cameron's growth figures so heartening and those under Labour so dangerous.

Aye, that link provided above is an interesting read on the "help to buy" policy, and includes this graph too... As you can see, whereas in the 1970s a deposit cost about two times a first-time buyer’s salary, these days it’s well over three times salary. It’s in this light that one ought to consider the problem of over-expensive housebuying. The explicit target of the Help to Buy program is to get deposits down to 5% of the home value. However, the real problem isn’t that deposit requirements are necessarily too high, it’s that first-time buyers (and bear in mind the FTBs these days are older than ever before) don’t have high enough incomes to afford them. Surely the objective ought to be to try to raise average incomes rather than mechanically reducing the requirements of mortgage companies when lending out cash. That in turn comes back to the fundamental problem: that Britain’s GDP levels (the aggregated total of incomes across Britain) are still well below the pre-crisis peak, which leaves everyone – first-time buyers included – poorer as a result. Help to Buy won’t in and of itself do anything to help that.

Your pride in the safe hands of tories is undermined by your gung ho view of lending policies. Derugulation came in the 80s and allowed your 100% mortgage, but what you call "big deposits" of 10% are actually the lowest the average mortgage deposit has been. Prior to derugulation it was up in the 30s and up until last year it was back into the 20s. Safer levels. The picture is similar for first time buyers... http://www.edmundconway.com/2013/03/22/ "Big deposits" are the norm, and 10% should be an industry minimum.

Aye, those people queuing outside of Northern Rock at the outset should have been queueing outside of Bank of America.

So, CT, ignoring the sub-prime mortgage crisis which you've not understood, the main difference you've referred to is a vague notion that Labour love big government and the Conservatives keep out of things. So I'm left confused by your proud claims on NHS spending increases. Do you have any other examples that actually support your view the right way around?