Rayvin

Quite.

Swansea have just jettisoned Guidolin. Can't imagine too many people bet on him to go first...

I see the Tories are promising spending on building affordable housing, and have abandoned any pretense at gaining a budget surplus, claiming instead that they will be looking at pragmatically reducing the deficit instead of making key pledges. This latter point means that they can no longer be judged on the economy any more, as they can just claim that their 'pragmatic' targets are farther into the future. The housing one is a win for Corbyn I would argue. I'd suggest he's focusing their minds on actually having to help people. Hopefully we can pull them further left. As an aside, he (Corbyn) was up in Newcastle over the weekend. The first time I can recall seeing any politician of any relevance on the ground talking to people...

It's like every single news event takes us one step closer to Parky's dystopian future.

He has gone over this a few times CT...

Aye, that makes sense. Goodbye, FDI!

That's a fucking good point actually. It absolutely should be a compromise position. I suppose the only credible counter-argument to that would be if soft-Brexit did more harm than good to the country... but we'd need another referendum to determine everyone's thoughts on that anyway.

Aye, same. He was never going to get them anywhere. But still, I think he's done enough damage to give them too big a mountain to climb as long as we're aiming for automatic slots.

Old school, but I guess it would solve the problem.

I'm not going to pretend to know a lot about what is going on in Columbia between the government and FARC but the idea that a peace settlement was reached and then put to referendum before being voted down by the general public is stunning: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/02/colombia-referendum-rejects-peace-deal-with-farc So the Columbian public want blood. Honestly, referendums should be made illegal under international law or something, people are too driven by emotions to make rational decisions when acting as a collective.

Villa apparently in for Huddersfield's manager. Which would be a good result for us, I think.

It depends on your outlook really. I viewed Europe as a progressive force on the UK, ensuring better rights for all and more accountability for our government; moreover, I believe that the only way for global social evolution to continue is by 'ever closer' union, with both the EU and beyond. So ultimately, us breaking away from the EU is, in my opinion, not good for global progress. Certainly not in the West. As resources become more scarce, we need increasingly collectivism in Western countries to ensure that we can outmanoeuvre the BRICs economies. I do accept that this inevitably means that 'the establishment' continues with its choke hold on the rest of us but honestly, I think that's the situation either way.

As in christiano? Fuck me, we might even have won something if we'd pulled that off.

I meant the ones that were actually successful I'm not missing them incidentally, just marvelling at the fact that no matter how much they spend, they just can't make this work.

Not gonna disagree with you there, but I don't think it's a cause for concern since we appear to be able to play better against better teams.

Man U and Stoke drawing... The old Man U are never coming back, are they?

Aye but that's exactly the sort of thing we do, isn't it?

Barnsley have looked dangerous, mind...

Fucking brilliant.

I'm going to be generous and state that I don't think the following is necessarily fair on May (though it's exactly what she signed up for) but i think she'll end up roundly despised. She won't Brexit hard enough for most leavers because she won't actually want to destroy the country, and the remainers will hate her on principle of destroying everything we thought we knew about Britain. By the end of her tenure I suspect she'll be desperate to leave government. As for the UK, I look forward to our incoming cash flow issues and associated chaos.

Oh well. It's not like I work at Nissan I guess.

Is that something that's actually true, or is it something that we're just telling ourselves though...

Allardyce?

Huddersfield scored... They're going to be a problem this year.