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A Portsmouth 11 made up of past players would probably be stronger than their current team - even if they are 40.

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The option was STV not proportional representation. An option carefully chosen to be little understood and guaranteed to be rejected.

Exactly. This piece covers all bases and eventualities anyway "“hopefully we will build a great team like this season,” he said. “We will prepare for our national team games and after we will see what happens for next season.”

Equally first past the post is in the interests of the two main parties. They wont change it because it would be the end of their duopoly if they did.

Whats anal sex got to do with it?

First past the post ensuring government of the majority by the minority; unelected Head of Government; unelected Head of State; unelected mayors in most cities, unelected House of Lords. I prefer the EU system.

Im not sure what your point is. British MEPs have a slice of power in the EU just as a councillor has on a council or an MP has in Parliament. As Moonraker says the EU is at least as democratic as the British system.

True. I guess the relegated teams were a bit more direct or hit and hope. Different players and systems of course but it struck me a number of times this season where we've won games under Koeman despite having much less than 50% possession, whereas we often lost under Pochettino despite hogging the ball.

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Saints pass forward more than most and Spurs are one of the leading back passers. Thats what used to frustrate me about Pochettino's possession football. Seemed a bit purposeless sometimes.

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Ta. Im booking a flight and room.

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Good post. Although every year that the tv money goes up make the attendance less important and evens the playing field a bit. Gate money is only around 10-15% of income now irrc.

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But ended up being sacked / leaving by mutual consent (mostly the owners consent). Sure it might work out but its not too much of a stretch to see him doing for Man U next season what he did for Chelsea this.

I read that on my (small) phone earlier as "The tranny announcer marked the historic occasion by dancing none too daintily on my desk". That would have been a better story.

You sure? more like 24 hours irrc

Cant help thinking van Gaal has been handicapped by having Giggs imposed on him as assistant manager. Mourinhno has failed in his two previous jobs and has lost his golden touch imo - believing his own hype too much probably .

That bought back happy memories. Sorry to bring the mood down but have you read her wiki entry? Incredibly tragic life. "As a young girl growing up near Warsaw, Poland, she was orphaned when her parents were killed by the Nazis after the invasion of Poland. In the 1960s, Morgan married an American, Joseph Wilczkowski, and moved to New York. Wilczkowski was killed in a Brooklyn robbery in 1965, when she was 27, and her two daughters, Eva and Lila, were four years old and four months old. In 1974, Morgan married National League baseball umpire **** Stello.The two divorced in 1979, but remained friends until Stello's death in a car accident in 1987. In 1984, her elder daughter Eva was also killed in a traffic accident."

The electorate gets what it deserves. We consistently vote in whoever promises us the most - no matter how unlikely or impossible to deliver. That simplicity means honest measured politicians generally don't get elected. Instead you get mendacious party leaders who demand that the candidates the constituencies select will toe the party line.

Surely the key passage is "in the Eurozone". Cameron's strategy is to create a two speed EU - further integration for those who want it and EU lite for those who dont. At present the UK can veto issues which affect only the eurozone, even though we aren't in it. Seems reasonable to me to give that up, as long as its cleat the Eurozone cant make rules which impact on the wider group.

Whatever the result everyone involved in campaigning comes out as a loser. There has been almost zero reasoned arguments. The aim has been not to inform but to scare. Fear has been the main weapon of both sides - by the tabloids for Brexit and most politicians for remain. Its been a choice between hordes of EU migrants on benefits assaulting you in your beds, taking your jobs and blowing up our cities - or economic bankruptcy and isolation. I suspect the result is that most people have less trust in our leaders and media, which is a dangerous thing. It just breeds more cynicism, thats its okay to screw everybody else because they're trying to screw me.

Surely that applies only to the Eurozone related arrangements, which we aren't in, so why would we need one?