Whitey Grandad

That's fair enough. Of course we're not talking about used cars here, these are footballers who may not exactly have minds of their own but whose heads can be easily turned or even transported off to another city entirely.

He takes a long while to get to the point but when he does he is merely re-iterating the same ill-founded arguments that we have come to here so often. I find this part very important: "That negotiation will no doubt be difficult, drawn-out and detailed, as all the UK’s negotiations with our EU partners have been. But self-interest on both sides, to say nothing of the underlying value placed by all sides on European cooperation, will certainly produce an outcome that all parties can accept and endorse." So there would be a lot of pain and indecision and we will end up with a situation far less beneficial than what we have now. What on earth is the point of that?

Many of those that aren't in that 6% trade with those that are. The figures can be compatible, you are confusing quantity of businesses with total amount of business. Don't forget that 80% of the British domestic economy is service-based. That means selling people cups of coffee whilst you cut their hair.

That would only work if the values in the release clauses were lower than our valuations of the players. Normally the longer the contract the higher the value.

Unless their first name is Ronald and second name Koeman.

The thing about history is that it's all in the past. Over. Done. Dead. Gone.

I would add his choice of Everton as one more example of his weird decisions.

That's one more team that I want us to finish above. Once there are 19 of them we shall be champions

As a manager he was sh!t. He wasn't my first choice.

Fixed it for you

Not in the same way that Everton is a suburb of Liverpool.

We make all our own laws but the UK goldplates those that originate from the EU. If we left the EU we would have to unmake them all again.

Your lungs, your choice, go ahead. You'll still look a tosser though

On holiday? Yes- he has.

Nothing weird about it. I'm looking forward to some real attacking football. I suppose it must be a bit like the Man U fans now that they've got rid of LVG. Oh hang on, they've appointed Mourinho.

Bournemouth play good football. Better than I've seen at SMS.

That he's leaving the club? - Yes, cetainly, bridges all burnt and all that. That he's joing Everton? - Ooh, I'm not so sure

Depends on the manager, I would presume.

They nicked our's first!

I've had watches with poor timekeeping but never one that was five years late!

Since Blair came to power there are now several million living in the UK who came from outside the EU.

Staying in the EEA would be an absolute minimum, I would have thought.

Experts in swearing? I never knew that such people existed

Me? It might be genuine but I wouldn't plan anything of this basis. We shall know for sure Thursday next week. Whatever happens I shall be in France until the 18th August so my grandson will have to watch us thrash Chelsea (again) or whoever.

For me this is the crux of the matter. Everton's management and their fans have based their assessment of Koeman on the results and league position alone. They think he's done really well because in their prejudiced view of our club they can't accept that we are where we are on merit and not because the manager has worked miracles. They can't accept that maybe we have a superior setup. We know that Koeman could have done better and that his replacement definitely will.