Ex Lion Tamer

Great article

I think the cause of all this is that we won't be getting the investment Cortese was hoping for. From the Leibherrs anyway

I don't understand why Rickie would leave, but its understandable that players like Lallana and Schneiderlin would want to test themselves at a higher level now it looks like we won't be getting there ourselves. Would expect them to wait until the end of the season out of loyalty then go.

The owners are quite right to judge that the amount of money it would take to get into the Champions League is unlikely to result in similar levels of revenue or increase value of the club. It's very hard to turn a profit at that level with the likes of Chelsea and Man C around. Getting into the Premier League is basically the point at which their return on investment peaked and it is time to sell. Probably Cortese knew the money was drying up and handed in his notice in advance of the window to try and pressure the Leibherr's into opening the purse strings. Of course, he timed the end of his notice for the transfer window itself, the point at which he would know if there was any hope of getting more money. Following meetings, it became clear that no transfers would be occurring, so he walked.

All of those papers are trash. This is a reasoned and insightful story: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/15/nicola-cortese-southampton-exit-manager

If Poch can just hang on until Moyes gets sacked, we'll be sorted

Clarke is a better manager than Di Matteo. Not enthused about either though

She'll appoint a new chairman but selling a club takes time

Ben SmithVerified account ‏@BenSmithBBC #SaintsFC manager Mauricio Pochettino will stay for now and will, I am told, be present at his press conference tomorrow.

Don't deny that he did a good job of picking managers but really it was the Liebherr money that stopped us selling our players. And actually Lowe used to do quite a good job of negotiating prices

Running with that scenario, maybe she values the club higher than Cortese's bidders were willing to pay?

Calm down. Remember when everyone was convinced Adkins leaving would be a disaster?

Its not a choice between thiose two things

Poch will lose a lot of money if he resigns, I would bet on him staying. Hoping we get stripes back next season. Cortese is one of more capable chairmen out there, but he's not irreplaceable. It all depends who they bring in. Who will be the next owners is the bigger question than who will be the next chairman Given that the news yesterday was that he would leave at the end of the season but now he has gone today, it seems there has been recent discussion/dispute to me, even if the question of transfer budgets has been knocking around for a while. Must have become evident that no money would become available this transfer window, despite Cortese's best efforts to engineer some. Cortese strikes me as quite a petulant volatile guy, so not surprised he would end up having a dispute and walking out

Even at its current low level, the minimum wage has mean a "significant fall in wage inequality": http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/5412 If you get rid of it, there will be more people living in worse poverty

Surely you're are conflating working tax credits and the minimum wage? It's the government topping up that is the problem, not having a minimum level that companies have to pay.

Child benefit? Working tax credit? Old age pension?

OR Until there is justice, there will be riots that aren't incited by them

And none of the cameras on the platform or the train were working, mmm not fishy at all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes#Missing_CCTV_footage

True to some extent although not entirely. Buying clothes online is a right ball-ache.

It isn't though.

Saw him score a great goal against Blackburn, if I remember right

as Labour found out in the 80s, if you have too strong a vision then you end up turning half the electorate against you

The objective view is to acknowledge that there can be good and bad 'terrorists' (or whatever label you want to use) depending on the circumstances. Some violent acts are just and necessary to prevent greater harm. Not everyone who sanctions violence is 'a baddie'.