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I just find reading that thoroughly depressing. Me and my other half earn comfortably more than the average in the UK. I have never been on the dole, apart from once when I was a kid never used a hospital. I don't give a moments thought as to how much of my tax goes to helping people out, financing schools and hospitals etc. I don't even see the tax I pay as being "my money" anyway, it's the governments money that they need to provide me with the opportunity to live my life in a decent place. If we didn't pay tax we wouldn't live in a society when we could earn so much money.

Of course people have better chances than others. I recently did some work for an expensive private school in Surrey, it was a completely different world to the Comprehensive I went to. It's not just about schools either, also your parents, surroundings etc.

You have got to be joking? I went to school during the Thatcher years and it was a f*cking disgrace.

I'd be tempted to give Gazza a go, he has potential so should be blooded at some point. If he comes in and has a great few games and gains a bit of confidence and experience we might not need to shell out for another number 2 in Jan. You know what you're gonna get with Kelvin, I'm sure he will do a decent job but he has his weaknesses. It's hard to say though unless you work with them day in day out.

I would have to think hard about spending £5mill on Jordan Rhodes. £10mill no ****ing way.

I'd prefer Gazza in goal to Kelvin to be honest. But either are a big drop in quality from Boruc.

Miles away from being top 4 quality, Chelsea murdered us second half.

Don't understand leaving Lambert on the bench for that sh!te.

"Die as soon as they want", that's nice. We don't need c*nts like this ruining our game. If I was a Hull fan I would tell him to f*ck off and take his money with him.

Looked like the keeper caught him to me.

All blows a hole in theory that the parachutes have been set aside to pay off the footballing debts. They are obviously being used as cash flow and the millions of debts have just been kicked into the grass. Don't worry about it now, something will turn up. I expect they will pull out another couple of hundred grand out of the 'debt money' to finance this change of manager. The problem is for a skint League 2 club without parachutes a couple of hundred grand is alot of money. I fully expect them to hold their ex-players to ransom again and try and renegotiate the debts. Probably this time next year.

That is very low considering how much we have spent on transfer fees so should be applauded. On the flip side though, we have spent £27mill on Ramirez and Osvaldo. Maybe if we were prepared to bung more money at agents we would have got better value for money. Who knows?

Poch was never seen of as a villain.

Of course they do, but that concept is far removed from today's form of capitalism. I think that is partly Brand's point. People with brilliant ideas or highly qualified professionals add value to society so deserve their rewards. A banker who gambles other people's money to make himself and his company rich adds no value to society.

No we havn't. I totally buy into Cortese's dream but I think, above all, we should aspire to win a trophy.

I'm all up for the ambition but if we persist in blowing off the cup competitions following a pipe dream of winning the league our trophy cabinet will forever remain embarrassingly bare.

Brand speaks alot of sense as usual.

Really? Lukaku was on TV an hour ago saying how much he missed European football. The Europa is no Champions League but it is still desirable. #or why would anyone bother entering

Disagree, we don't need the money. £30mill in the bank doesn't win you any football games.

So getting into Europe via the league makes the club desirable but winning a trophy and getting into Europe doesn't? Genius.

Great article. It's great to have someone in charge with real ambition, not the old Dell mentality of happy to stay up. I fully expect the club to prove alot of people on here wrong about what they can achieve.

Maybe now it's time for you to apologise for your pathetic conspiracy theories, or at least admit you were wrong? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25153273

Or the UK could just decide they don't want nukes after all and then it's Scotland's problem? They are after all, like the oil, located in Scotland.

From what I saw on Question Time it looks like Scots want out of the UK because they don't want to be governed by Conservatives. I can sort of sympathise with them, it's hard for most of England to feel any connection with Cameron and the other silver spoon millionaires handing out austerity. It must be near impossible for the ginger mountain-dwelling hobbits up there.

It worked for me. The way I saw it there was two problems, the nicotine addiction and the habit of doing something with your hands etc. I thought best fight one at a time. I cut down to one or two a day and made no effort at all to stop for months. This gave me my nicotine but got me out of the habit of always sparking up. Then it was **** easy to knock on the head completely. And I have no will power at all. The problem is a lot of people just try and give up, then think they fail by having one and just go back to 20 a day because they have "failed" and can't give up.