John B

Very true but the Tories are really useless as the 2010s is on course to be worse decade for pay growth in over 200 years but most of the electorate are uninformed of Of course having Corbyn as a leader does not help Labour despite being a more rounded an honest person than May . Neo Liberalism has not helped our country really but it has increased in equality significantly with the top 2 or 3 percent sitting very prettily

Just beats me why anybody would vote Conservative Plenty of evidence they are incompetent not much if any to show they are competent Perhaps someone could let me know why they think that they are competent with NHS Education Housing and Social Care in crisis 1 to 2 million on zero Hours contracts income not rising and poverty increasing. I do admit if I was earning shed loads of money I would think there were great

I started following the Saints in about 1961 and this season has been one of the best Top 10 Probable Top 8 Possible in PL A Cup Final only the Fourth I can remember European Football which I must admit we should have done better in. Looking forward to next season when hopefully we will score a few more goals and will not have injuries to key players

Huge Game for Arsene Wenger

I saw this on the internet and I am in total agreement I don't believe a word this ****ing lunatic T.May says!!! I read continental press and the views from Europe is that this Tory ****wit demands for the "Cake and Eat it" scenario and will blame Brussels when she inevitably won't get it! Vote Labour, vote SNP vote Green, vote Lib Dem if you want but on June 8th whatever you do don't vote for this lying, conniving *****! Strong and Stable my arse!

This one of the ridiculous posts I have ever seen there is no evidence to support your assertion in any way you are talking complete bollix Ed Balls the previous shadow chancellor is a fine economist unlike George Osborne whose austerity programme has wrecked the economy and led to Brexit George while at Oxford, Osborne was a member of the Bullingdon Club and during his six years at Number 11, he trashed the economy as thoroughly as the Bullingdon boys trashed their restaurants. Osborne used evidence the way a drunk uses lampposts – not for illumination, merely to support him in his excesses Under him, Britain has endured its weakest recovery in well over 200 years. The average worker is still worse off than they were before the banks collapsed in 2008. The chancellor, who promised a march of the makers, has presided over the collapse of our steel industry. The enemy of government borrowing has bequeathed to the nation a public debt burden almost three times what it was when he was ejected from office. The arch defender of our credit rating has seen Britain lose its AAA status. And now he leaves the country staring into what David Blanchflower – the former Bank of England rate-setter who predicted the last crash – now warns could be “a crisis bigger than Lehman Brothers: a political and economic disaster”. Osborne’s fiscal rules have been either broken or discarded, and where their replacement should be is instead a complete vacuum. The man praised for his “strategic grip” by his former permanent secretary admitted last month that he hadn’t bothered coming up with a post-Brexit strategy. Britain is adrift in what could be the choppiest waters in decades without a fiscal policy, a paddle – or even a map. None of this is accidental. All of it could have been foreseen – indeed, was foreseen by some of us. But it is the direct result of a s******ing callousness that punished the poor while rewarding the rich, that promised greater power for the provinces while shunting ever more money to central London, that bilked the young of their futures while bribing their grandparents all the way to the ballot box. How somebody like you thinks the Tories are great makes me feel sad no doubt formed by the outrageous right wing press who lie and lie and exaggerate hugely . In my lifetime it is only Labour Governments who have truly brought in change for the good of most people With the introduction of the Welfare State and the NHS and the massive house building of the 1940s Under Harold Wilson there was the end of the death penalty the end of the persecution of gay and lesbian people the introduction of equality for women and ethnic minorities and the closing of devisive Grammar Schools. Under Blair there was the start of the minimum wage the introduction of Sure Start Centres to help the developement of young children plus the proper funding of the NHS to reduce waiting lists and the Education System to allow more people to goto University and so improve there life chances. As a past Labour Party member I know that most Labour Candidates for MP are intelligent well educated men and women who have a social conscience. I am no longer a Labour Party member because I got frustrated with people like you who vote on perceptions rather than facts. You would certainly been better off under a Labour Government since 2010 because with money so cheap there would have been more investment in infrastructure because of Brexit you will be worse off again Have an open mind listen to what Corbyn says he may not look like a PM but it is very difficult to argue against what he says and today he got a standing ovation at the Headmaster's Conference regarding funding and the introduction of Academies and Grammar Schools. But if you think you will have a better life under the Tories please let me know and perhaps we can have a discussion on it. Dont believe all you read in the Tabloids most of the people who live on benefit live a horrible life dont care a toss about politics and like loads of immigrants dont vote

Vote Labour on 8 June ........ it's the only way to stop the Tories vile policies, and mad Brexit negotiation stance.

Mrs May and her team of incompetents not Duckhunter or Wes seem to be doing very well in cocking up Brexit See this Remarkable thread. Juncker's team now think it more likely Brexit talks will collapse than not. …

Really good start to the season unbeaten so far long may it continue

I’d rather live with Jeremy Corbyn’s gentle dithering in pursuit of a better world than give May a mandate to destroy what remains of British decency https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/vote-labour-jeremy-corbyn-theresa-may?CMP=share_btn_tw

I agree with you and C B Fry who would want to be a football manager when decisions have to be made

I went with a Man City friend to Wembley yesterday Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had a fine game and was MOM. Theo Walcott was an unused Sub and like most of our 'defectors' has not progressed to be a really top player but they have all earned obscene amounts of money and played before large crowds and I cannot blame them moving from St Mary's

Me too

Boufal has not proved to be a very good PL player so far not sure how you think it is because Puel does not have the personality to really handle Boufal and get the best out of him More likely Boufal does not have the personality to knuckle down and perform like Yoshi Bertrand Oscar VVD Romeu and Redmond have done

Think we probably would have won if Fidel played the whole game But draw with the Champions is not a bad result we are currently second in the Table

If we get relegated next season and they get promoted we would be playing them in 2018

UK inflation is only going one way. Let's hope interest rates don't follow

21 years ago yesterday was my 50th birthday I remember the game well as we were driving back from the Peak District and I listen to it in the car One of our best PL wins of all time.

I dont really understand how you could possibly vote in the referendum if did not understand the ramifications of leaving but just listened to the hype of lying politicans. Leaving the EU is going to cause so many problems as it is so complicated and is very unlikely to show any tangible benefits for most of the population especially if the UK leaves the single market

Reality from Richard Murphy answering one of Batman's valid points One, disastrous, feature of the Reman campaign last year was the claim that if the UK voted leave then the country would require an immediate emergency budget because it would go into immediate recession. This, of course did not happen because Osborne was dumped for saying it. And the downturn did not seem to appear. Until now that is. As the FT reported yesterday, retail sales excluding food fell in the first quarter of this year. And as the Guardian reported, despite supposed record levels of UK employment (about which claim I am dubious anyway) there was a fall in real wages last month, which is a trend set to continue because of current inflation rates. Now I know that technically this does not create a recession but for most people these are the factors that matter, and as a result economic bad news has arrived, but nine or so months later than George Osborne thought. Osborne’s error was significant. It undermined the credibility of the Remain campaign because no one really thought the roof would fall in on June 24 last year. After all, a small majority were elated by the result and of course they felt good and so went spending. The failed prediction then let Brexiteers suggest that Leave was already a success. That was as untrue as Osborne’s claim. Of course Brexit was not proved a success by what happened last summer: Brexit has still not happened. The error was in basic economics and is telling. It tells us that the Treasury still clings to pure market theory. This says that people are rational and perfectly predict the consequences of the future in their current behaviour. So, the Treasury assumed people would know last June that the decision the UK had made would have poor long term consequences and people would immediately react by stopping spending and investment, so sending the UK into an immediate economic downturn. Wiser economists, not so taken with a theory that is so obviously far-removed from observable human behaviour, realise that this is not what happens in the real world. People rarely shudder to economic halts. They do instead take time to process and react to new information. In this case at least six months was required to get to the reaction, and now we can see it. The uncertainty of our current situation, coupled with the reaction to a falling pound, has created lower income and consumer uncertainty. It will take something pretty staggering in economic terms to change either of those situations in the rest of this year. Brexit may not have happened as yet. It may not happen still. But its economic impact has arrived. If people don’t like that life for the Brexiteers is just about together a lot tougher. As Philip Hammond put it, no one voted Brexit to be worse off. But people are just discovering that is what they got. And I’ll say with some confidence that many won’t like it. May’s honeymoon is well and truly over.

I dont think he is patronising you at all I just think he is saying you are talking Bollix which is probably true because there are varying degrees of severity of all injuries and varying times for players to recover from them

gareth Berg finishes it off with a six a great win by 4 wickets

Really pleased with what I thought was an unexpected win. Looking forward to next season especially if we can keep everybody we dont get so many injuries to key players and get in some new players

I dont think you understand what sponsorship is all about

I will be surprised if we get any points today