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I have noticed that most of the banks, academics, universities and firms etc supporting remain are in receipt of contracts, consultancies, grants for research etc from the EU requiring them to support the EU. Nothing wrong in that, but it would be nice if they declared their pecuniary interest because as it becomes widely known it will degrade their influence on voters.

Between December and January we exported £10.9 billion to the EU. We imported £18.9 billion in the same period. A deficit of £8 billion in January and £23 billion in the three months before - ONS statistics. Pretty good evidence that In 2006 we imported 62.5% from the EU, last year 47% and decreasing. In January alone imports increased by £700 million. It is the largest deficit with the EU since records began in 1998. Who needs who more?

I see the Norwegian Investment fund worth nearly £600 billion the biggest in the world, says it makes no difference whether the UK is in or out, they will continue their investment of about £60 billion in the UK and will probably increase it. The ECB has reduced it's interest rate to 0% and increased it's quantative easing up to £62.5 billion a month. Printing money at that rate doesn't sound good.

However the Swiss government have to abide by the referendum the EU can't change that. I don't know whether there could be another referendum but as it stands the Government is subservient to the referendum result however the EU try to bully them.

Although Switzerland is in Schengen, it's population has had a binding referendum and the EU have been given a deadline to negotiate. The population have instructed the government to restrict free movement.

Don't remember mentioning any of those. The ERM and the Euro were a must join for the establishment as well, how did that work out. The EU is a bureaucratic mess bankrolled by taxpayers fleeced by successive governments taking for example 0.7% of GDP and giving it away, £3.5 billion on benefits to EU citizens, NHS and Education undermined, Defence neglected etc. An EU that is floundering trade wise, financially, unable to cope with immigration hurtling towards a federal state. No thanks not for me. The referendum won't be the end of it. If the leave group lose it could well mean a massive new party made up of millions of leavers signalling the end of the Conservative party who will win the 2020 election and then have another referendum on different terms. It is only a matter of time which happens first, we opt out or the EU collapses.

Jeeps, if all these are for staying in it's pretty conclusive that the best deal for the country is get out.

That would be Carol McKenzie who was Terry's first wife.

I had my leg broken playing football in late march 1966. I was on crutches as I had a pin from knee to ankle. The leg was heavily bandaged not in plaster so had to be really careful. I went to Plymouth on the coach and was allowed to sit on the touchline on a bench and enjoy our win. My father had an automatic so I drove up to Leyton Orient when Paine scored promoting us, using my left foot for everything leaving my broken right leg outside the accelerator. Must have been bloody mad.

I think that was the goal when Gordon Birch unnecessarily knocked the ball out for a corner rather than clearing and Blackpool scored from the corner?

Of course it was, it was the January of the 1959/60 promotion season. George O'Brien stuck his head out of the window as we stopped at Southampton Central and shouted "Where's the bloody brass band then" Apart from the perfect game from Terry Paine who turned the full back Cliff Sears inside out and Derek Reeves's four goals and murdering a first division side on their own ground I remember the floor of the carriage being wet from the spilt beers when we got to Southampton.

Looking at your user name and SMC. Not John and David Buckle by any chance?

As for us influencing the EU, forget it. The bastards hate us as much as a lot of us hate their arrogance, they just need our money. The latest port rules will adversely affect British ports for the protection of state subsidised Hamburg etc. The security rules proposed after Paris for air passengers has been knocked back. Time to go. If the best that the remain brigade can do is say that the EU will collapse if we leave, I can't think of a better reason for leaving.

When I wasn't playing for the school I sold penny on the ball tickets and in return got in ten mins late after cashing up then given a ticket for the centre west stand. If I paid to get in I used to stand in the box behind the goal. I remember that Liverpool game as I remember their star was the great Billy Liddell. I went to the Man City FA Cup 5-1 win on the train in Jan 1959 and the Villa Park semi v MU spoilt by Denis Law's scuffed goal. In those days we were entertained.

The EU and the Euro is a car crash waiting to happen. Like the Soviet Union, Third Reich, Austro Hungarian Empire, The British Empire etc from the start of time, the EU is going to collapse in due course. Eventually the Germans will reject it and it will fall apart. The Southern states like the money but are undermining it every day. We are the only really stupid country in it. All the others cherry pick what they want and ignore the inconvenient we just endorse everything. Time to get out and view the collapse from the outside.

I question his mental approach, he just doesn't appear to have that steely determination to overcome. I don't believe that he doesn't have the physical strength to resist challenges. for me he doesn't have the attitude to relish and win the physical challenges. I saw him play for the U21s and he didn't look like he was an international either with superior touch or the ability to be better than development players. Nobody gets a free ride, he has to perform or be shipped out.

Didn't the EU grant Fords about £100m to open the new Transit factory in Turkey? Didn't the EU do the same in Poland etc so that firms would move there? So the very organisation the government want to remain in is the same organisation moving work to other countries and permitting low skilled immigrants to come here with about £3.5b being paid out by taxpayers in various benefits.

Played in U21s a couple of weeks ago and looked poor.

Now we are down to the final stages of the season when teams are competing for known achievements, Europe, escaping relegation for example. The competitive part of the game has ratcheted up a notch. In that respect we are light in midfield because the non combative Davis wants to find space, rotate the ball and avoid physical contact. Clasie and Romeu are massively outnumbered in midfield and up against it as they are the only midfield players competing physically. In my opinion we need Wanyama back alongside Clasie with the impressive, combative Romeu replacing Davis giving us once again a combative ball winning midfield and a player that is prepared to get up in support of the strikers and more importantly pass forward and then keep going forward.

I personally think it was a very mediocre game. When we had possession we moved the ball slowly and there was little movement up front. I thought Mane and Tadic didn't help themselves by playing very narrow. On the positive side I think we might have found the man to play in the middle of the middle three and play up and down once Wanyama is back releasing Romeu to play there. Martina showed that he isn't a bad player but not very switched on. He lacks awareness, he had loads of time to get goal side of Fonte even if he couldn't get a tackle in but he stood watching, not aware that by getting goal side of Fonte who then wouldn't be the last man and yellow carded not red. Not acceptable for a player in the Premier league. The goal was well worked and whilst Pelle wasn't much of a threat himself he had a number of positive touches that resulted in others having a chance including a couple of touches in our goal move.

Some of the players hated him and when they played a game on the dell car park some of them tried to clatter him. Ian White told me that his peripheral vision was so good that nobody could get near him.

It needed to match up Bournemouth, two changes were needed Clasie plus either Tadic for me or Davis if we played as against Arsenal. Bad as the play was, it was awful defending of the two free kicks that really did for us.

Before it even kicked off last night it wasn't going to work. Koeman got it wrong again. It's not even the 5-3-2 that messed it up, it was picking Yoshida as the third centre back that messed it up. It was a mess the last time we played three centre backs including Yoshida. There is a complete lack of balance. It only works, although I don't like it, with a two proper left sided players. Playing the lightweight JWP as one of two midfielders was crass. We were massively undermanned in midfield against a team comfortable and pressing hard in a 4-4-2 with their full backs supporting the wingers. Consequently the front players were feeding off scraps. Bournemouth didn't really create anything but they pressed the life out of us. The two goals were the result of stupidity by Fonte fiddling about on the touchline, the ball should have gone into row Z. What did he think he was going to do if he won the ball apart from trying to shepherd it into touch, and an oversensitive referee giving a free kick as yet another Bournemouth player belly flops to the ground in dramatic fashion. Then failing to defend properly, what's the point of eleven players defending if they get in each others way? The weakness of the middle three after Koeman admitted defeat wasn't solved by the non combative Davis. The only option was Clasie and Tadic or Davis and take off Mane or Austin with Yoshida and completely change to match up Bournemouth and 4-4-2 as we did against Arsenal and raise the tempo and press the life out of them.

Long had a touch of cramp, hamstring ok, subject to training reaction whether he plays.

Kenedy.