Whitey Grandad

Big fleas have little fleas, Upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum.

Will it stop our players slipping over?

I don't think anybody is saying that it has. 'Active volcano' doesn't actually mean 'erupting', but if it does the results will be similar to wide scale melting. It's just something else for people to worry about.

I sat through all the rubbish seasons. I can manage the next.

Yeah but it's still a 10ft rise no matter who gets the blame. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/active-volcano-discovered-beneath-antarctica-will-melt-destabilise-ice-sheet-if-it-erupts-1448200

They're a patronising lot up there. At least we give it to you straight

You are not alone.

Is it paid in one lump in arrears or spread out?

All sorts of reasons but probably for more money. It may be that the club now feel more secure about staying in the Premier League than when the present one was offered.

Thank you for articulating my thoughts for me

Good point, if I may say so.

How do you know that we aren't doing that now?

Hardly, he has a year left on his contract. If anybody is messing us about it is the press.

Quite so. The bulk of a player's time is spent at the training ground and not the stadium and the manager spends almost as much time there. To take it the other way round, if he wanted to live in London he could be down at Staplewood 3 or 4 days a week without any trouble and St. Mary's is not much over an hour away.

If you want London life there's not a lot to choose between us. Spurs's new training ground is just inside the M25 north of Enfield.

Money, dear boy, simply money.

Wouldn't that be more like aestivation?

Yes indeed. A good World Cup and his price could double.

Unless you're Portsmouth FC (or whatever they were called). As I remember it they collected VAT when they sold but never handed any of it over to HMRC, arguing that it wasn't liable or something.

Usually their value is written down over the length of their contract.

I've still got my boots, can I play?

There's a volcano under it, isn't there?

Are fees always quoted ex-VAT?

You can't take one figure out of context. It could include the salary bill for the remainder of the players' contracts, for example. The balance sheet is what matters.

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