Ex Lion Tamer

Can you really blame people for choosing to take benefits in preference to doing some utterly tedious job for very little money for the rest of their lives? Or should they work harder and then one day they can become a millionaire? I know that life isn't fair but shouldn't we strive for a world which is at least more fair? I've said that there are practical reasons to not raise taxes on the rich to too high a level, but there is no moral basis for a relatively small number of lucky people to to hold so much money when people further down the chain are struggling. Furthermore, capitalism doesn't work if the rich get too rich as people don't have the money to buy the goods and services their companies offer.

Freddie Laker, who was lucky enough to be born in one of the richest countries in the world, who was lucky enough to be born with the intelligence to get into a top grammar school, and who was lucky enough to have a wealthy friend to lend him £38,000 to start his first business. The rich always like to attribute their success to their own genius but actually it has as much to do with circumstantial factors

Right wingers assume that the rich have earned their money, and many of them do work hard, but so do a lot of people further down the chain who have no hope of rising to the top. Actually the most important factor in whether you become a high earner is luck, whether that be who you are born to, the characteristics you are born with or simply stumbling across a great business venture. Obviously the problem is that the tax system has to be practical and if rich people are going to take their money overseas then we have to be careful about raising taxes to keep them here, and there also needs to be an incentive to innovate and work hard. But morally there is no justification for the income inequality we are seeing in the country and which is getting worse.

Is it really fair that one person should have 10+ times as much money as another person simply because they were born with intelligence, had parents who could afford to give them a better education, or simply inherited a **** load of money?

Brilliant. Yoshida deserves credit for holding us together in the first half, he was excellent

I think the government has said it would avoid the mistakes of 3g, where the bidding process for licenses pushed prices too high for any of the operators to afford to put a proper network in place

When Richard Wright came in on loan a couple of years back he was a huge improvement over Kelv. And it's questionable whether he's premier league class himself. I'm fond of Kelvin but his kicking ends up giving the ball away, he's not very agile any more and his positioning is suspect

Lambert had stopped running, there was one point where it went towards the corner and just didn't bother. if only we had someone on the bench who could bring down high balls. Amazed puncheon came off however, possibly our best player. The problem was we tried to sit back and defend the lead but we don't have good enough defenders

Classic saints. Oh well, good effort

Amazing tackle by Clyne

Haha brilliant

I never tire of seeing man u fail to convince against the saints, wonderful stuff!

Should be a lot of goals at both ends this season

Apart from set up the goal with a great cross obviously

Valencia getting all the time and space in the world

Great to see Lallana in the front three, with Puncheon that means 2 proper wingers

I'd like to see Craig Gordon come in

Watch this video all the way through and tell me he can't play wide:

Watching the 10 min clip on YouTube this guy seems comfortable on the left wing, an area where we aren't strong. He also looks bloody amazing, you can't really turn down talent like that even if you need defenders

Sounds about right. I just read that he once went for £8-10m which really is a lot

He's like a cross between Dimitar Berbatov, Carlton Palmer and Paolo Wanchope

Any guesses as to what the fee would be for him?

Interesting post. The problem was we weren't able to get behind the wing backs because we don't have any natural width at the moment. Every time we tried to play it through the centre we were crowded out, and when we had it on the wing we didn't have the tricks to get a decent cross in. So we ended up passing it around aimlessly until we gave it away.

Centre midfield really isn't our priority right now

Interesting. J-Rod completed 56% of passes, comfortably the lowest in the team - to give the benefit of the doubt presumably because he was out of position?