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To be fair, most clubs would be happy with drawing 1-1 with Real Madrid, especially one as small as Leganés.

Pellegrino has done a fantastic job there. They are on course for the highest league finish in their history.

Jose Fonte scored one of the goals as his Lille team beat Paris St Germain 5-1 to secure their Champions League place. What an inspirational captain he is. https://www.facebook.com/F6NTE/photos/a.1554182424812390/2374086399488651/?type=3&theater

Sims is a great prospect. Once he's got his first Premier League, there will be no stopping him.

Nobody would be stupid enough to buy him. He'll be sent out on loan until his contract ends and he can be released on a free.

Good luck to him in his ice hockey coaching career. We'll probably miss him about as much as we've missed Reed, who similarly did so little that we didn't even need to bring in a replacement.

I don't know about cynical but you are certainly dreaming if you think Liverpool would take him off our hands.

There is no conspiracy theory: he's just played very few games of football throughout his entire career. That's just the way it is. "We will see him again this year" That gives him until December then. He'll never compare to the great Carlos Kaiser though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kaiser_(footballer)

The knife murders in London eclipse all other violent crime in EU countries so they understandably grab the crime headlines. The murder rate in London now even exceeds that in New York. You have to travel outside the EU to find other cities as violent as London.

Yes, he's managed to get through most of his career without playing.

If you look at his career stats, that's what he's had at every club he's ever been. He's always had bad backs, stomach aches, sore throats etc and never played much football. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mario-lemina/leistungsdaten/spieler/170934/plus/0?saison=2016 https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mario-lemina/leistungsdaten/spieler/170934/plus/0?saison=2015

Corbyn's wiki entry sums him up really: "When Corbyn was seven years old, the family moved to Pave Lane in Shropshire, where his father bought Yew Tree Manor, a 17th-century country house which was once part of the Duke of Sutherland's Lilleshall estate. Corbyn was educated at Castle House School, an independent preparatory school near Newport, Shropshire, before attending Adams' Grammar School as a day student. He joined the Labour Party at age 16 and achieved two E-grade A-Levels, the lowest possible passing grade, before leaving school at 18. Corbyn began a course in Trade Union Studies at North London Polytechnic but left after a year without a degree after a series of arguments with his tutors." He's basically a much dimmer version of Tony Benn. In spite of his educational failure, he's led a life of great privilege. He will be 70 this year. It's time for him to retire. If he did so, a younger, more intelligent leader could take over and Labour would win the next general election comfortably but he won't because, like Theresa May, he is driven by his own ego.

Soon there will be a bus travelling round the country with 'Brexit will take £350 million from our NHS every week' emblazoned on the side of it.

Head of Sales, Les Reed has gone so there is no need to worry.

May hopes to hold fourth vote on Brexit deal She's planning to doggedly work her way through the ordinal numbers and break the world record for the number of votes on the same question whilst steadfastly ignoring all voices other than the one in her head. May's hero is Geoffrey Boycott and if he were Prime Minister it's probably exactly how he would behave too.

But, she still thinks if she has enough of them, one day she will win one. If she gets 1 out of 50, that will do her.

She's probably still thinking if she could just have a few more votes on her deal, eventually she'll win one of them and if not for Bercow's ruling, that's probably what she would have done.

The basic salary of an MP is £77,379 but they make considerably more in expenses than people do in most other jobs, including their accommodation costs and unlimited travel expenses. They also receive a London area monthly living allowancee of £3,940, an office budget of £27,660 per year. They are also allowed up top £164,460 per year to employ their own assistants and many of them pay this to their wives. They also receive extra accommodation allowances for dependents. When you take all of their allowances into consideration, which mean they hardly need to touch their basic salaries, they are on more than £150,000 per year. Then, they can receive considerably more for more senior posts. Ministers, foir example are on a basic salary of £141,505 per annum. I can't believe there are people on here who think we should pay themn even more.

We have the 2nd largest legislature in the world, after China, with 650 members in the House of Commons plus 793 in the House of Lords plus all of their secretaries, advisors and hangers-on. That's nearly 3 times as many members as the USA has in Congress and the Senate. There was a proposal to reduce the number of MPs but it was soon buried as it would have been like turkeys voting for Christmas. Per capita, we already have the most expensive government to maintain in the whole world. In most countries the government exists to serve the people; in the UK, the people pay to support a ridiculously large, expensive government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legislatures_by_number_of_members

And May is only doing it because she wants 'her place in the history books'. May and "my deal" remind me of Gollom and "my precious".

You might also like A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr. But, I'm currently reading something a bit different to that: A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes. I never fully realized just how anarchic it was. All of the gory details are here.

I'm going to see them in Hyde Park, supporting The National and Florence + the Machine. I'm currently listening to Kacey Musgrave's Golden Hour. She is my favourite singer-songwriter atm - a modern equivalent of Joni Mitchell - and I've been to see her live a couple of times.

When Long has the ball, it usually ends up with the opposition as at the end of his runs, he loses control of it and either lets it run out of play or it goes to one of their players.

This just reflects that most European countries have predominantly white populations, whereas the UK, because of it's colonial past, has an ethnically more diverse population. I wonder if our European neighbours fear hordes of muslims and Afro-Caribbean people descending on them from the UK?

At this stage it's mostly just online threats and hate mail but some of the attempts to intimidate opponents are reminiscent of the 1934 German referendum and its aftermath. British politics seems to be heading in a very ugly direction. Perhaps we've grown too complacent after nearly 75 years of peace in Northwestern Europe.