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I had no idea they have won 9 league titles. If I had to guess, I would have said something like "2". I've been watching football closely since 1989. I just checked, and 5 of those titles are pre-WW2 (indeed one was in the 19th century and one was during WW1). 2 in the 60s. 2 in the 80s. But thankfully, due to this excellent article, I now know they are of a similar stature to Juventus (30 league titles, including 7 since 2000, alone)

I'm watching the debate on delay but it's pretty depressing stuff from the Remain bints so far (why did they choose such an awful bunch of women? Very annoying). Lots of party-political jibes from them and attempts to focus on irrelevant history. Bet Remain wished they had some personable characters on there; not these dry old hags.

Arrigo Sacchi.

The law making process in the EU is driven by the unelected Commission (save for a few very limited areas). The democratically elected element cannot do anything other than approve or amend what the Commission (unelected stooges) proposes. Our system obviously has flaws but it allows for bottom-up lawmaking. The Lords doesn't determine what the Commons spends its time doing. People drawing false equivalencies between the two systems are as guilty of misinformation, ignorance or zeal as the sign-writers for Boris' bus.

That's not correct. An insult is an insult, true or not. For example: you come across as a supercilious, smug ****. I mean that as an insult, regardless of whether I'm correct.

Everton have gone about this stupidly. Desperate to land a particular individual based on one person's apparent whim and now everyone knows they can be taken to the cleaners. This alleged £100m warchest is going to be frittered on average players. They won't be signing anyone that the top clubs want. If there was interest in Koeman from any of the usual "big" suspects would he have gone to Everton? Would he ********. Their current squad is pretty poor. I would say only Coleman and Lukaku would improve our first team. Barkley on his day but he wouldn't start every week. They'll do well to finish above 8th. Something special, that.

They've done the managerial equivalent of making Shane Long one of the world's best paid players.

Lol. "Something special". Good luck.

Koeman overall has done a great job but I think our position in the season just gone, like Leicester's and West Ham's, was a bit of a false one. I don't buy this "shake up" nonsense off the back of Leicester's success. It'll be business as usual within a season or two. So, I think Ron has done a great job but he never seemed like one for the long haul. If Everton want to make him one of the highest paid managers in the world then that's their problem, not ours. It's like someone offering £25million and 250k a week for Shane Long. He's done well recently but it suggests a pretty clueless approach. If Everton want to be the Peter Storrie and 'Arry Redknapp of the league then more fool them.

We've never been a yo-yo club. We were in the top division for nearly thirty years. We got relegated, now we're back.

Chambers can **** off.

I'm looking forward to Fonte's testimonial. As a player, who has done more for the club other than him and MLT?

That's a cracking speech.

I don't think it is, actually - it's a pretty facile point. The Swiss tax rate benefits her personally, not the football club. Katharina Liebherr presumably grew up in Switzerland and has lived there for ages. Now, her family may have moved there originally for financial reasons but she hasn't gone to the trouble of setting up a network of overseas ownership vehicles to minimise the tax liabilities of SFC. The Swiss tax rate is only relevant on her personal income. The club's corporate group is in England and the companies will pay UK corporation tax on their profits in accordance with UK law. Swiss personal tax rate will apply to any money she takes out as a dividend (which, so far, is £0, I think). Now, I'm sure we will structure shareholder loans, intra-group debt and various other things to minimise group corporate tax burden and it may be that Spurs are not doing anything which gives them much of an additional advantage at all - and I'm sure they are legally compliant - but drawing an equivalence between the country of residence of a personal shareholder and the establishment of a corporate structure in a completely unrelated country which benefits from low corporation tax is not the same thing at all. As I say, it's facile.

Actually, it might not be paid off at all. I doubt we do actually pay it back, it just sits there and will probably one day be written off like the initial Liebherr debt was (converted to equity which is the same thing when there's only one owner).

I hadn't actually looked at the price. I agree, that's silly. OK - Skates to be relegated.

Leicester to be relegated.

I urge him to return and vanquish our foes, with us, Insha'Allah. #pray Taider

Have you never heard of Neil Moss?

I suppose the reason a lot of the campaigning is so pathetic and fear-laden is that this tactic was perceived to be successful viz. the Scotland referendum.

Nice to read this. Good on you. Hope you make it over one day!

Yeah, I heard some whispers as well. Coincidentally they match what has been said in public. I never say anything on here but when I do it's right and when it isn't it's because something else happened so that's not really my fault. It was still right when I said it. #ITK

I think we could do with another wide attacker regardless of whether Mane stays or leaves. Jay Rod, sadly, has to be assumed as useless until he proves otherwise, Juanmi hasn't shown any signs of pushing for match time and Long is preferred centrally now. It didn't really matter when we played 352 but if we want a default 433/4231 we need another wide player.

Watch out!

This forum used to be much better.