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  1. At least, it means Lavia and JWP should be available for the rearranged fixture
  2. He’s just been told a bid has been accepted? What’s your point pal?
  3. What a damp squib. The UK predictably folded when it came to the crunch - the EU is very pleased with itself (from sources close to the negotiations). I agree with JP Morgan’s assessment: “The good news is that a disruptive and acrimonious ‘no deal’ has been avoided. The bad news for the UK, in our view, is that the EU appears to have secured a deal which allows it to retain nearly all the advantages it derives from the UK while giving it the ability to use regulatory structures to cherry pick among the sectors where the UK had previously enjoyed advantages in the trading relationship. That applies to services sector in particular, but to parts of the goods sector too”. I wonder where all those infamous cards went - maybe they got lost and jumbled in with the xmas post by accident. Seasons greetings! #bigfisheatslittlefish
  4. Trust Brexiters on here to misunderstand a PowerPoint slide designed for dummies to illustrate the simple fact that there is a trade-off between market access and sovereignty (given the UK's fondness for cherries and cake) and that the UK's redlines pushed it towards a standard goods-based FTA - the EU's FTA with South Korea and Canada being recent examples. Needless to say -and it really beggars belief it needs to be said, every FTA will differ in the precise details (Canada and South Korea do) depending on the circumstances at hand. Indeed the EU made it abundantly clear in its first official guidelines for the future relationship back in March 2018 that the UK's unique geographic proximity and economic interdependence with the EU27 required robust guarantees to ensure a level playing field - something later reiterated in the Political Declaration and at the heart of today's dispute. The EU has been perfectly consistent on this point - its not the EU's fault some Brexiters can't be bothered to read or understand the detail. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/33458/23-euco-art50-guidelines.pdf Let's also not forget that the deal the UK is seeking goes somewhat further than Canada's by including zero tariffs and quotas on all goods -especially agriculture and fish- other trade facilitation measures and some services, so again any negotiations and any resulting FTA would never be a carbon copy of CETA. But ignore all this substance. Barnier's little slide -one designed for one purpose and one purpose only and with all the disclaimers about not prejudicing discussions on the future relationship- meant the EU was offering the UK the same deal as Canada until Michel did the dirty. How unfair! I hope Santa is intending to buy you boys Velcro shoes for Xmas to replace the shoes with laces. Anything that makes life less of a struggle must surely help.
  5. From the chair of Kick it Out - seeing as the organisation is all respectable and legitimate. Indeed his words are far more unequivocal and damning: https://twitter.com/SanjayKickItOut/status/1335536769467633664
  6. Happily take the point (don’t think we’ve won up there since our 6-0 in 2007), though I do think if Walcott had taken his chance (great hold up play and ball by Adams), it would have been game over. That’s why Walcott will always be a nearly man and Ings is such a miss. For once, we lost midfield as Wolves pressed and gave us a taste of our own medicine. Romeu, in particular, struggled against their athleticism. That in turn rubbed off onto our two CBs. Given our two attacking midfielders tuck in so much, I wouldn’t underestimate the loss of Redmond in that area of the pitch. Physically he has more presence than Djenepo and is one of our few players who can turn on the ball, lose a man in tight space and break the lines.
  7. Please no. The last thing we need is 4000 of our ‘legendary’ support getting on the players backs. Seriously, though, I can’t see how they wouldn’t prioritise SO postcodes. Those living outside the area fall to some extent into the same category as away supporters -and by all accounts they’re not being let back in just yet.
  8. Completely dominant performance against a dirty, overrated side - Vestergaard, Romeu, JWP, Ings all excellent.
  9. Thought he grew into the game but overall he was pretty subdued. Walker-Peters performance certainly benefited him.
  10. Good resilient performance with more than enough quality to warrant a point. Thought Ings and Adams were excellent (everyone rightly focuses on Ings finishing but his close control is also right up there). Both carried our attack as Redmond and Walcott were relatively subdued. Can see a lack of consistency in our attacking ‘wide’ positions being an issue for the rest of the season (Walker-Peters papered over some of the cracks today). Very happy for Vestergaard who’s put in some solid performances. Today was particularly impressive as Chelsea (unlike Burnley) has pace to burn. One swallow doesn’t make a summer and all that but it’s a pleasant surprise, not least as Bednarek has had a shaky start to the season, even after writing off today.
  11. IIRC, Vestergaard had a complete mare against Burnley in the corresponding fixture last season, so it was far from straightforward. I think the switch had as much to do with Stephens recent form as Vestergaard’s suitability for certain fixtures.
  12. Completely forgettable game. Burnley's lack of pace played into our hands and high line, so were the perfect side to get us up and going. Romeu and Vestergaard both put in decent shifts.
  13. Sterling work boys. https://www.ft.com/content/edb7d155-56b4-4065-9f83-31b2247fa178 I don't know what's funnier - the provisions against state aid which the UK considers a red line in negotiations with the EU and a fundamental encroachment on its sovereignty (something about Cummings wanting a free hand to build a trillion dollar tech company to rival Google or another pmsl) or the agricultural provisions in the FTA. Remember how the UK was going to secure a better deal for UK food than the EU, including a symbolic win for cheese (never mind many Japanese are lactose-intolerant). It turns out the UK failed to secure said deal (specifically new tariff-rate quotas under which it would have been able to sell a limited quantity of food to Japan at lower tariffs). Instead it was told it could only use any quota left unfilled by the EU i.e its sloppy seconds and only for 10 of the 25 products covered in the EU-Japan FTA. I'm just surprised the Japanese didn't include a provision to sell Brexiters magic beans.
  14. Even by your standards Les, this is quite an achievement. Add ignorance about the role of Speaker of the House of Representatives and how the US political system works to the pitifully and predictably long list of subjects you know nothing about.
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