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Corbyn’s not anti Semitic, he just hates Israel.

Yeah, must be terrible to have their Zizzi closed for a couple of weeks.

They changed the rules straight after. I believe they couldn’t block it because he didn’t have a criminal conviction, he only didn’t have a conviction because he cut a deal and testified against the person he bribed who ended up being executed. He sounds like the sort of person who wouldn’t hesitate to do a Pompey on us if that’s the only way he get his money back.

According to a comment on the Echo: The loan from McQuarrie bank is purely so the club can access the money from the Premier League TV money before they get it as it comes in stages - nothing unusual in that at all..... So could just be a cash flow thing. **** knows, I find anything to do with finances insanely boring.

“What this press release fails to mention is that if you look at the companies house register for Southampton football club charges you will see that ALL future monies from the Premier League go directly to McQuarrie Bank to service the loan of 210m taken out by Mr Gao to buy the club off Kat.” Can anyone confirm if this is true or not?

I dunno, I think to a degree some roles suited for women are undervalued because going back a few generations men were traditionally the bread winners while the women stayed at home. Those days are long gone and maybe the workplace needs to catch up? The caring profression IMO is grossly underpaid and they do an absolutely vital job. I could never do some of the jobs fiends of mine do, not even for double their money.

Or maybe there is a problem in that roles traditionally more suited to women are under valued? You would think that maybe the customer facing staff have more valuable skill set than those moving stuff about in a warehouse? Without knowing specifics it’s hard to say.

I like football and support England as much as Saints but I don’t get the need to follow them to every ****hole country regardless of risk. I’ve watched England abroad a few times and even in ‘friendly’ countries it has been pretty hostile. Our reputation means we are a target for all the local nutters so there is almost always going to be some amount of trouble. You couldn’t pay me to go to Russia, I don’t know who would be the biggest threat, the psycho hooligans or the police? It’s so easy to get caught up in trouble if you are unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. One minute you could be enjoying a vodka with some friendly locals, the next minute you could be in a Siberian prison facing 10 years of getting butt ****ed by a body builder.

Bates, Lawrie, Channon, Le Tiss

77 people burning to death is a bit different to a spy getting whacked and a couple of people getting ill as collateral damage.

Yosemite for me, spectacular views whatever way you look, being in California a short drive from San Fran makes it my favourite place. Venice is probably equally amazing in it’s own way tho, been there a few times and it never stops being just as fascinating each time. Also love the Greek islands, Swiss Alps and Mayan ruins, particularly Tulum.

Cup, yes we would probably get dicked in the final but over 90 mins anything can happen - you’ve got to take a shot at getting a trophy. We can lose to Chelsea in the league and still stay up.

I prefer 4-2-3-1 but think Gabbi, Long and Austin are all better suited to two up front, maybe even Carrillo. None of them have the presence of Lambert or Pelle. We should have played 3-5-2 during the first half of the season when we had one of the worlds best centre backs. Cedric and Bertrand are two of our best players, wing back roles would have utilised them better. We have plenty of options for the three in the middle and two up front would have suited our strikers.

Happy with that, Chelsea can be hit and miss.

Shocking first half but it looked to me like they were just struggling with the change in formation and just resorted to lumping it up front. Second half much better which is a good sign - shows that the manager can read the game and make changes. Subs all made sense and actually improved the team which is refreshing. As was watching us go for a second goal instead of sitting there and trying to cling on. I thought Gabbi looked a real threat with his movement, he’s much better with two up front.

Like the line up, let’s hope it performs!

They don’t have much choice to be fair, with the media circus twisting “wait for all the evidence” to “siding with Russia” - the sort of stuff lapped up by gullible mongs on here. It says “made in Russia” on the murder weapon so case closed, no point digging any further. It really is that simple. Just like Iraq obviously had WMDs.

To be fair, I work a lot in photoshop - both those pics look like they have had the same hard light layer effect applied which in Corbyn’s case has lost the detail in the hat making it look different. Corbyn may have had the red tweaked further but It’s hard to say, If the original had slightly more red the same effect can make it more pronounced. Having said that, the end results do look very different - Corbyn looks like a Russian dictator and the Tory looks like he’s been cut out and dumped on a Russian background so the designer should have used a different picture of Corbyn. The BBC is supposed to be impartial and those images obviously have different connotations.

Yes it will be but as Spurs will effectively be playing at home I think they should have less fans there than whoever they are playing. Would make it a bit fairer. Never happen though.

They should be given a smaller allocation to even things up a bit.

Meanwhile, Alastair Hay, an environmental toxicologist at the University of Leeds who investigated the use of chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurds in Halabja in 1988 thinks the novichok agent can be created by any country. “The chemical structures of the main weaponised novichok agents were made public in 2008 by Vil Mirzayanov, a former Russian scientist living in the US, but the structures have never been publicly confirmed. It is thought that they can be made in different forms, including a dust aerosol that would be easy to disperse. The novichoks are known as binary agents because they become lethal only after two relatively harmless components are mixed together. This means that labs do not have to build stockpiles of ready-made nerve agents but can mix them up from unrestricted chemicals as and when needed. According to Mirzayanov, the most potent of the agents are 10 to 100 times more toxic than the conventional nerve agents. The fact that so little is known about the novichoks may explain why Porton Down scientists took several days to identify the compound used in the attack against the Skripals. And while the agents were invented in the Soviet Union, other labs with access to the chemical structures would be able to manufacture them too.” I guess there must be more evidence yet to come to light if it is already proven beyond doubt that it is Russia though.

Show his face where?

Corbyn always manages to judge the mood wrong and score massive own goals. What he has said is spot on but sometimes he needs to just do what all the other politicians do and pander to the mass hysteria whipped up by the press. He surely must know by now that everything he says will be misrepresented in the press and quoted out of context. It obviously probably was Putin so, whilst the correct thing to do would be to wait until there is sufficient evidence, if you want to win votes best just shut up and try and appear tough like all the others.

To be fair Novichok has been around for decades so I doubt it would be impossible for another government to replicate it. Also it is certainly possible that some of it, or the knowledge to create it got into the wrong hands after the break up of the Soviet Union. Russia is the obvious culprit but you wouldn't make a very good detective with such a simplistic approach, the facts that are out at the moment make Russia the prime suspect, not guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Obviously new evidence will come to light but given the fact that our security services thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the barely had a working tank I think it is wise to be sceptical.

To be fair, none of those 'facts' rule out another government, secret service or criminal gang carrying it out to make it look like the Russians. Agree that the most likely scenario is Putin sending out a message though.