buctootim

yep

Arsenal on top. We're hanging on a bit

2-1

Clyne!

Ha! Was just thinking he looked iffy.

1-1

Have now got Arsenal.com commentary and sportsnation pics.

Arabic has got to be the most irritating, worse than German!

Had the same few minutes of doubt. All good now. Must be weird for Mane. He's only trained with his teamates for an hour.

That lamp is from IKEA

During periods of lots of games do you need to rotate goalkeepers in the same way as outfield players in order to keep them fresh? Obviously the physical strains aren't the same but mental?

How old are you that you think phoning up a sex shop is s****** worthy?

Saints jogging befgore Arsenal match. Is it media dept's little joke or my pc but it looks like a Charlie chaplin film

"He said if the Scottish Parliament was given more powers until “you have a situation where you’re independent in all but name … “then presumably, you declare yourself to be independent”." Well that's easy to deal with - dont give them any more powers and avoid the situation arising. He also assumes that because the majority of young people voted 'yes' and the majority of the over 54s voted 'no' that the demographics would change over time as the 'no' voters died off. Im not sure that true. People tend to gert more conservative and risk averse as they get older. The Yes No age split might always be there with idealistic teeenagers morphing into pragmatic codgers.

He's not. He's been saying for years it was a back of fag packet calculation that should have been scrapped ages ago.

I reckon they've got the idea to sell anybody who gets above themselves and loses the team ethic / demands silly wages. Hard to argue with that.

Hi City. I'll take it. Cant pm you as you're a registered user. Anybody else with a spare? Save me from the Arsenal touts and sitting with the home fans omnia-iam-nunc@hotmail.co.uk

Seems happy enough here

No it wasn't. Clubs knew he wasn't going to renew his Feyenoord contract and was interested in the PL back in April.

Beforehand, definitely. Now we have a better than 50% chance of a win, we should go for it.

Interesting point about the sample size for the 16-24 year olds. It could certainly explain the 'out of pattern' figures. Whats most interesting though imo is that more than half of the YES voters decided relatively recently (ie less than 12 months) whilst the NO voters have felt that way from the outset. That would indicate a very poor campaign from the Unionists, as has been reported. The other striking finding is that YES voters put the principle of self government above whether or not Scotland would be more or less prosperous in future as an independent country.

Doesnt explain why the 18-24 group are so much lower than both the 16-17s and the 25-34s though. Wonder why that is.

Britain is still the most centralised country in Europe, so I agree devolution is no bad thing. Forced panic and knee jerk reactions is no way to tackle constitutional reform though. My point really was about very poor judgement and political skills by Cameron. He has brought about the very thing he was trying to avoid - increased devolution - and now its not just in Scotland but across the UK.

It really isnt. Its well documented Salmond wanted a 'more powers' referendum and that Cameron refused. Cameron wanted a simple in or out vote - and in order to secure that he stupidly gave up both the right to choose the vote date and the right to phrase the referendum question. "Do you agree Scotland should be an independent country?" was cleverly phrased as pollsters know voters prefer to agree and say 'yes' rather than 'no'. If the question had been "Do you agree Scotland will be more successful within the United Kingdom?" the vote margin would have been 4-8 points higher.

Thats wrong. Salmond was always a gradualist - he wanted to incrementally increase devolved powers over time. It was Cameron's idea, in the wake of the SNP majority win in the 2011 Scottish elections to hold a referendum, back Salmond into a corner, win the referendum easily and put to bed the whole question of Scottish devolution. This is a Cameron made disaster - now everybody wants reform and is kicking up.