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Edit: Someone beat me to it!

At least one but preferably two new CBs with proven quality rather than younguns with potential. A striker who knows where the net is and isn't going to spend the majority of the season in the treatment room. A pacy winger, or two. A new first choice RB. How much will that lot set us back? £300m ish? How much do you reckon we'll get for Forster to offset it?

So glad I cashed out when I did. But just stuck another tenner on it at 100/1 in case the nightmare scenario plays out on sunday.

Aaargh. This horrible feeling reminds me of when we beat Plymouth in the penultimate game of the L1 season in 2011 - Can't quite bring myself to celebrate yet.

Swans had plenty of possession and have pegged us back a bit but they haven't really created a clear chance yet. The two chances we created for Austin show we have more quality in that respect. Our defence always worries me though. There was one moment where three players managed to fall over each other and let one of theirs waltz past them to the edge of the box. Then another time Cedric came to jump for a bouncing ball and completely misjudged it, leaving us overloaded down our right. Squeaky bum stuff.

So reminiscent of Marcus Bent in 2005. All we had to do was run down the clock. However, the point is absolutely crucial. It's in our hands now. Beat Swansea and we stay up, barring a highly improbable GD swing on the final day. Simple as that.

There's a few things to take into account with this result. Apathy being one of them. Voter turnout was only 25%. Low turnout always seems to favour the Tories thanks to their core support of mostly retired people who will always vote for them no matter how terrible they get. It was Labour's best result, and Tories' worst, since 1971. So it's not quite the 'disaster' that some are making it out to be. Local elections don't really offer a true reflection of the national picture though, as there are always local issues that have to be considered which don't necessarily reflect on the national parties. For example, here in Sheffield Labour got clobbered thanks to the incumbent council's utterly disgraceful handling of the removal of the city's street trees under a PFI contract with Amey. They lost a fair few seats due to that, but a lot of the comments I have seen about it indicate that it wouldn't stop people voting for them nationally. With the collapse in the UKIP vote, you would expect the Conservatives to have benefitted from that much more than they did. So it's still a pretty crap result for them overall.

I'm at work and cant put the sound on. Who was that who scored our first goal?

Fair enough. I must have missed that news. Doesn't change the fact that Osborne got his prediction wrong though.

So a man with a 2:2 in history and whose only pre-government job experience was towel-folding in a hotel got his economic prediction wrong. He also told us we would have the deficit cleared by 2015. How's that coming along? Not everyone who voted remain did so because they are so f*cking stupid as to believe what a Tory MP tells them you know.

Absolute b0llocks. It was the single biggest factor that swung the result in Leave's favour. Did you not watch the news in the aftermath of the referendum? All the vox pops showing people up to be thick as pigsh!t because they thought that voting for Brexit would stop immigration from Islamic countries?

I went to the Everton away game in 2004/05. We lost 0-1.

Seriously? Among the numerous arguments in favour of leave that I read online, I would say that the ill-informed, ignorant and often outright racist anti-immigration ones are in the majority.

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Yep. It was THAT goal from Kevin Davies in 1997.

It's not even xenophobic. Is it really unreasonable to expect someone who lives and works in England to know the language in order to perform better at his job? If I went to work in a bar in Spain, for instance, I would expect to have to learn Spanish and I completely understand why, because it would enable me to do my job better. Ask anybody in any business and they will tell you that effective communication is by far the biggest aspect of good teamwork. If everybody speaks the same dialect, then that is surely a good starting point towards that, don't you think?

Yeah I'm pretty much the same. Had £20 on at 6/1 which would return £140. Cash out was at £87 last week and I wish I had gone with that now. Have cashed it out for £59 and now I can spend the rest of the season cheering us on to stay up, safe in the knowledge that whatever the outcome I have trebled my money.

Just looking at the odds on this match and Bet365 have us as slight favourites at 6/4 with Everton at 7/4. WTAF!?

I'm sure they will come up with something. The latest attempt at reality-reversing propaganda comes from the Times headline that the Kremlin tried to get Corbyn elected last year using bots, completely ignoring the huge donations to the Tories from powerful Russians and the fact that the UK Russian embassy Twitter account actually endorsed and supported the Tories in the run up to the election. But on the subject of censorship, I notice that the BBC and the rest of the MSM have so far been completely silent about the calls from the Muslim Council of Britain for an urgent inquiry into rampant Islamophobia in the Tory party, after numerous recent instances of open racism and bigotry in the party. Funny that. It's almost as if the recent outrage over antisemitism in Labour was insincere and just politically motivated.

Chelsea already winning.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unbeatable-Mind-Maya-Yoshida/dp/0008289336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524835249&sr=1-1&keywords=maya+yoshida Was the ghostwriter getting confused with someone else when he wrote this synopsis?

The world has taken a turn for the surreal when Alpine is the most optimistic poster on a thread!!!

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