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Don't just sit on the fence, tell us what you really think !!!

Any side that ends up with Rooney and Wheelchair in CM is just asking for trouble. Neither of them can defend, Wheelchair looks about as sharp as a plank of wood and Rooney just can't pass quickly or effectively. Van Gaal has ruined him, no doubt aided and abetted by Rooney himself. Always got to take a touch and tart about before passing or shooting. That's Van Gaalian football right there. Oh and Hart, got us knocked out all by himself, Forster is 3 times the keeper that Hart is, twice the size as well. Yesterday was Hodgson's old pals XI, look where it got us.

What we're behind California now ?

Solid manager now, meteoric rise some years back, spent a lot at Lyon, got to a CL semi but didn't win much else with them. Fell out with Aulas as everybody eventually does. Settled for a staid job with Nice who aren't a very rich club despite their surroundings and got sawtoothed results really. Then again they are a poor side. I really don't know what to expect of him with Saints but he's a good manager, probably not very conciliatory but whether that will hamper him with us remains to be seen. He likes winning to be sure, just lost his last appeal over a sacking payoff at Lyon so he'll be looking for a big win elsewhere.

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Iceland are a rustic side, Sterling will be more effective against their back line than Lallana. Also if he gets kicked up in the air a bit, which may well happen, we've not lost Lallana against the French. Going to win by a cricket score anyway.

I noticed that, Spanish player, exactly the same foul if not slightly more contact a bit later and he got nothing.

Yes he does.

Well not really because the Conservative establishment said exactly that would happen. The voters chose to ignore that for the sake of a couple of Polish corner shops which irked them. Then again I guess a Gran in Spennymoor or a dock labourer in Dagenham don't really care what happens to the economy. The banks have probably been shafting them for years so up yours world of finance. The Sun told them to vote OUT and so they did.

Spain have this problem because all of the top front men in their domestic game are non-Spanish, Griezmann, Ronaldo,Messi, Neymar, Suarez not one of them qualified for Spain. Torres was the last decent front man that they had really and he's way over the hill by now. Costa was not too bad, a poisonous striker capable of getting goals and opponents sent off. He's not really a Spaniard though and I don't think the others liked him much. All that said Giaccherini looks a far better player with the National side than he ever did with Sunderland. Pelle had a great game. Was that his first yellow or is he out for a game now ?

I expect we've tried but not for anywhere near the amount that he now thinks he's worth.

So the Spanish showing once again that without the armada of imported front men common to their club football, their style of play is worth precisely squat. Should have taken Torres instead of Aduriz, at least he's a thorn for defences, always in there putting himself about.

Unless of course you're Tsipiras or Chirac and have no intention of doing anything whatsoever if the result goes against you. I seem to remember that Chirac's line was If you don't like it there's always the National Front.

Well then it's wrong.

A general election would be very, very risky in fact. If the naysayers think that their referendum vote is likely to be ignored then they may go all the way to the UKIP and the like. We've (or rather you've) gotten ourselves into a total quandary really. The promise of a referendum which was certainly a measure to gain a few votes at last year's general election seems like a fairly stupid idea just now. The fact that there was no party line on the campaign has just left you with no structure whatsover. Cameron needed to do a Sarkozy 2005 and say, well yes thanks for you opinion but we'll do it our way anyway., This all reminds me of the infamous Hoover promotion from the 90's, buy one of our appliances and get 2 free tickets to the US of A. Everybody bought a vacuum cleaner or set of hair curlers or whatever and claimed their airline freeby tickets. Unable to satisfy demand they took to some weird scheme where thay gave you one travel date and if you couldn't go tough titty. I think it all ended in tears for Hoover with mass legal actions, we 4 went to Disney for the price of a cheapo Hoover.

Which is exactly as I said, one inflates, the other deflates. The real price is probably about the 37 million euros that the African papers (well Senagalese anyway) were insisting to be the buy out clause for Sadio Mané. That's about 30 million quid or just over on today's rate. It would have been a sterling amount though so 30 million may be about right. What is of more concern to me is how much we have to give Red Bull Salzburg and even Metz. Metz are a bit sly about things like transferring their academy product, they usually end up with a little something at every move of their former trainees.

What did I tell you. The transfer fees bandied about in the press are never the actual sums. I don't think that we're the only club that allows inflated outgoing figures to go unchecked anyway. The clubs like to see the sale price blown up, that way the fans think they've got a good deal at least. It will all show up in the accounts next March but few will remember by then.

Going to shops and stuff takes money, and a lot of my compatriots have very little of that. What they have they like to keep as well. Even people with enough money spend their time in those tacky hard discount places like Netto and Dia. What's the average salary in the UK £30,000 a year or so ? That's the income here of probably the upper echelons of the middle class, I think a recent survey showed that 14% of the populace have about 700 or 800 £ a month or less. Minimum wage which many get is about 800£ a month after charges. There is no student loan system to speak of, parents who encourage higher studies pay for it , we have a doctorate and a masters degree from the US for ours, it must have cost us somewhere in the region of 100000 £ I suppose. So even the well off aren't well off if the kids go on to higher education. Tax relief on all of that was just laughable really.

The barriers are solid I think. Still must be frightening though.

Why not, the Dutch seem to manage, heaven forbid that they spend a bent centime more than necessary for the 3 or 4 months that they spend here. For the finances of the A75 can't say I'm very au-fait really.

Yes no doubt but when you take in the vast wastes of the Larzac and the like the big citys are just as crowded. Not to mention the verticality of Paris and it's surrounds. The military still has vast wastelands here that you just wouldn't believe, Salisbury Plain x20 or 30 in some cases. Hardly ever used of course.

True if only we had some work we'd be able to take a lot of those European immigrants off you and help out..Well not the Roumanian beggars for sure but the qualified Poles and stuff. Unfortunately our social charges to pay for Mitterand's largesses make it unlikely.

Well 30 odd miles away anyway. Marvellous free motorway if you can be bothered to drop down to Millau and not be conned for the variable 7 to 10 euros for the viaduct.

Half of our village is holiday homes. There is little work and no public transport outside of the major populations centres. Also it's as cold as ...well you know in winter. Not much amenities nothing. We both worked in Lyon most of the time, had a small flat there for Monday through Thursday and came home at week-ends until we retired. Must say I miss Lyon. Until you've actually lived in France for some time you cannot understand it's rurality and poverty in many senses. Don't forget that we have 3.5 million in total unemployment and another 2 million underemployed, without counting all of those in training schemes and the like; 27% of our young people are unemployed and that figure probably rises to 35% of those who cannot leave rural areas.

Forez, the hilly bit between St Etienne and Clermont Ferrand. However I assure you that the tactic of the EU Commission (being a retired employée myself) is to try to make the situation rot and prove that the will of a sovereign people is nothing against the might of the EU. They are miffed to their roots and expect to get their way as usual as they have with previous referendii. France 2005, the Greeks last year who rejected the EU austerity plan fairly massively (60/40) but got it anyway. Their current attitude is like Inspector Harry saying Come on punk, make my day.