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I was 18 and dodging glasses thrown over a glass partition in a shitty bar outside Goodison thats been pulled down now...happy days

Heres their first game together...old Lurch is picking the ball out of the net after less then a minute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeGmSl4DMz8 My good self and a young @@Howmanheyman present in the away end....

Leeds was insane. One of my favourite matches under Sir Bob. It's was either Sofia or Belgrade where the taxi drivers had pistols tucked into their belts?

29 days between the next two home games....release the figures early next week and there's nearly a month for "anger" to dissapate before spurs roll into town on the 19th April...

No English side in the last 8 for the second time in 3 years....our top sides are falling behind compared with the elite from other countries despite being richer than god...

The point is both our leading and run of the mill clubs are, despite being the richest on the planet, well behind other countries elites and mostly have been for the past decade in the case of the likes of Manu and Chelsea etc and our shite is as shite ad their shite. What's Elches playing budget compared with Hull's?

So you're suggesting that the EU policy of free movement is being exploited more in the UK than anywhere else?....Is there a chance that's because the recruitment of skilled/semi skilled and non skilled manual labour had been handed on a plate to organised gangmasters in the shape of employment agencies a good decade and a half before Labour let the Poles in? My point is the conditions for the present situation were already in place and were nothing to do with the EU so the inherent casualisation of the labour force in the first place has had a greater effect than freedom of movement iyam.

well it's a bit chicken and egg then isn't it? We wouldn't have all these foreigners beating our doors down for jobs without hugely pliant labour laws in the first place and they're fuck all to do with the EU. Free movement into a market that is completely de regulated in the first place.

Not as much as the last two decades spent casualising huge swathes of the workforce in general iyam.

Why's it taken the cunt 26 years to admit it?

The premier league is becoming more and more a PR driven sham. French clubs have put two of our "top" sides out of the champions league in the last week. Not Spanish or Germans. English clubs have won it twice in a decade, both times on pens and one of them was an all English final . We've got all the money but little of the know how. Sky can say what they like, but the facts a glaring and don't lie.

Ed Milliband stopped us arming Isis. Is that anti islamic enough for you?

Make your mind up mate, you've just told us your big thing is coming out the EU. If it is, vote for Dave. Am sorry for patronising the fuck out of you here like but it seems like your yet to learn that life in general is blatantly unfair to one degree or other for the vast majority of blameless individuals all over the planet and no amount of votes or elections will change a bloody thing. Join the rest of us just be happy you don't live in fuckin Syria.

Refusing to vote for the only party who have in their manifesto the ability to deliver exactly what you want

I bet Podolski and Klose's families didn't have any bother with that shite though

Was he running his contract down to leave on a free?...that begs the question was he offered a new one and was he stalling on signing it? Did his gf's Twitter rant sort of indicate that he hadn't been offered anything and was being forced out? Got to say he remained a pretty unconvincing defender for me. I don't know what coaches throughout his career have seen in him on the left. His display in last season's derby was as a bad a fullback performance as I can remember.

Isn't that ludicrously simplistic though? I understand that a lot of the electorate do see things in a very black and white way and neither know or care too much that they're being manipulated by a fuckin charlatan, but voting for basically a single issue party isn't a great idea whatever their issue is. Coming out of the EU is shutting the door a decade after the horse bolted and will do nothing to stop Moslems coming from the sub continent anyway. You make good points but I think there are forces in the world which we're not party to which drive globalisation and multiculturalism and we can frankly do fuck all about them iyam. Thatcher started to sell our democracy to the corporates in the early 80s and no ones stopped it since then because no one in power really has had the motivation to do so. Am not a paranoid conspiracy theorist nutter but Its pretty plain iyam that there's a group of people who have made immigration ridiculously easy in this country for their own ends, sadly though to think Farage can be a conduit to begin to attempt to sort the whole sorry mess out is laughable. There's little that can be done regardless of what he tells the easily lead.

I expect he'll like this too....it's a doozy http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/nigel-farage-will-quit-as-ukip-leader-if-he-fails-to-win-a-seat-at-general-election-10109927.html

Don't think cloggie sicknite is back till pre season. I dont for a minute think we're in proper danger of the drop like but yesterday is the shape of things to come. As it was post January last season. It's tragic. A fish rots from the head down.

Relegation sounds good this morning....it will cause change at the club, not sure if it will be mostly good or bad, but the thought of endless monotonous seasons of this fuckin garbage is too much to bare. Say we don't pick up another point and west ham send us into divi 2, what's Ashleys next move?...

Ha so much for ouseburn were in the get Carter bar opposite central station...used to be an Irish theme bar?....I can see the forth, tileys and bodega ahead...

We're in the bridge tavern having bait and toying with wandering up to the free trade...need some fresh air so may well nip back along...is there anywhere ouseburn way that might show it?

Am looking for boozers in town that are likely to be showing the game as I don't want the present Mrs PL to enjoy herself too much this weekend, there's no real reason why she shouldn't suffer with the rest of us, thank you please

No answer from mine and I'm going to the pub at midday....just no consideration....

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