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Certainly would have take Ashley Young.

6 wingers there already though, who would you lose? Shaun not so bright Phillips.

Bent has had a really good season and Capello likes his players in form. I'd start him first match.

Looks tasty on paper.

Silly cow. Are Sky News employees on a tory win bonus? Despite my reservations about a LibLab collation it’d be worth it to see the Tory press lose it completely. Just shows how rabid most of the media have become. Needs a smack the bitch.

All the sky lot are fucked. Murdoch must be cutting into them for not delivering a Tory win...ha ha

Love it.

Fact is that people accept shit and then whine about the fact that they have shit.

think this will backfire for the Libs at the next election. Cleggs starting look as though he's power crazed. If I was Cameron I would come out tonight and pull out of talks, taking the high ground. Let libs and lab deliver the savage cuts and then clean up next time. Lib-Lab coalition will be one hell of a lot more palatable for liberal-minded voters than a Lib-Con coalition though, especially with Brown stepping down. The tories won't ever 'clear up' because as I have said they are past it, people want progressive parties. Get PR in and they will never command government again. LIb party members will never vote for a Lib/Con pact, so I'm not worried in the slightest about that. They will end up with Labour.

Milliband will be leader and Labour will win the next election.

Maybe he's losing tons of money elsewhere??

You seen 'The Box' yet?

Not even Gumba!1

Lighter production in sector 6 broke all records...The saving of fuel oil targets in sector 5 have been accomplished. The choc ration will be doubled. All doubleplusgood.

It iz why I come...Shampions leeegue...Arshnal...

It's all fucked.

Which is why i said i "THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO CATCH A FEW FISH". What's that smell? Smells like burning. oh I know, you've been burned. It aint the Bogside son. Fish you talk wank. I don't think he'd do much at a club much bigger than Boro. Why not? The facts are Middlesbrough are a small club no bigger than Fulham, he took them to a major European final for the first time in its' history. He won them their first trophy in their history, and now he's won Twente the first trophy in their history, a club who's equivalent are probably Hull or Ipswich. Your argument so far is, I just don't think he would. Great argument that. Why not? If you take England off his cv, he's been a sensational manager/coach, and he is credited with a big part in Man Utd's treble too. Fair assesment. Ginge though?

There will be no more board moderation till the board breaks even.

the experienced guys is what you mean Yesh. I will only take him if he carries on speaking Dutch.

Mike Dubya Ashley.

It's coming.

Bank Risk Soars to Record, Default Swaps Overtake Lehman Crisis By Abigail Moses May 7 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of insuring against losses on European bank bonds soared to a record, surpassing levels triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., as the sovereign debt crisis deepened. The Markit iTraxx Financial Index of credit-default swaps on 25 banks and insurers soared as much as 40 basis points to 223, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. The index closed at 212 basis points March 9, 2009. Swaps on Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy rose to or near all-time high levels. Credit risk rose for a sixth day on concern the Greek debt crisis is spiraling out of control and triggering concern banks may face losses on their sovereign bond holdings. The Group of Seven plans to hold a conference call today to discuss the turmoil, after a global stock rout that briefly erased more than $1 trillion in U.S. market value. “Financials are caught in a really bad place right now,” said Aziz Sunderji, a London-based credit strategist at Barclays Capital. “Investors are selling bonds, not just hedging with CDS. It shows investors are repositioning portfolios and there’s a more long-term repricing of peripheral risk.” Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Mohamed El-Erian and Loomis Sayles & Co.’s Dan Fuss said Europe’s crisis may spread across the globe because of investor concern that governments have borrowed too much to revive their economies. Portugal, Spain Markit’s financial gauge was trading at 198 basis points at 2:30 p.m. in London, according to JPMorgan. Contracts on Spanish and Portuguese banks rose to records, according to CMA DataVision prices. Portugal’s Banco Comercial Portugues SA increased 53 basis points to 579 and Spain’s Banco Santander SA rose 12 basis points to 253. In the U.K., swaps on Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc jumped 41 to 229 after Britain’s biggest government-owned bank posted the only first-quarter loss among British rivals. The spread between the three-month dollar London interbank offered rate and the overnight indexed swap rate, a barometer of the reluctance of banks to lend that’s known as the Libor-OIS spread, is at 18 basis points, up from 6 basis points on March 15 and near the highest level in more than five months. It’s still far from the record 364 basis points in October 2008, almost a month after Lehman’s bankruptcy. Swaps on Greece surged 75 basis points to 1,008 before the advance was pared to 950. Portugal climbed 42 to 502 before falling to 430 and Italy rose 24 to 255.5 before dropping to 227 and Spain increased 14 to 288 before trading at 246, CMA prices show. British Swaps Contracts on the U.K. rose 8 basis points to 99, according to CMA. Britain’s election produced a parliament without a majority for the first time since 1974, stoking concern the new government will be too weak to rein in its record budget deficit. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...id=afPiOhKxYSq8

Romania to cut wages and pensions IMF headquarters, Washington The IMF has also provided loans to Latvia and Hungary Romania is to cut wages and pensions in the public sector later this year to comply with an IMF-led rescue deal. Romanian President Traian Basescu said the "programme to cut public expenses was inevitable". Public sector wages will be cut by 25% and all salaries, including the minimum one, will be affected. Jobless benefits and pensions will be slashed by 15%. Romania is the recipient of a 20bn-euro aid package from the IMF, the EU and the World Bank. The country, as well as two other bailed-out states, Latvia and Hungary, have missed targets for cutting their deficits by significant margins. 'Fat man' "This [cuts] plan was inevitable," Mr Basescu told a news conference. "The state sector is like a fat man of 200 kg sitting on the back of a 50 kg little man who is the real economy." He also said that as part of negotiations with the IMF the country had narrowly avoided an increase in VAT from 19% to 24% and a rise in the tax on profits and income to 20% from 16%. Meanwhile, the IMF said on Thursday it would extend a mission in Romania for two more days. The IMF has cut its forecast for Romania's economic growth to 0.8% for this year, after the economy contracted 7.1% in 2009.

For the sake of sanity, somewhere in the back of my head I still believe this. Doublethink ftw.