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Not even 7% against yesterday's start value, less than 5% really. If you go back to last autumn the fall has been vertiginous,from 1.44 at best to this mornings value of 1.237 , but those of us who receive regular sums in GBP converted into euros have kind of gotten used to it. What is more concerning over football in particular will be the non-eligibility of certain EU players, even blokes lke Morgan don't make the cut. Then again nothing will be instantaneous so I'm sure solutions will be found.

Doubt it, but then it's up to the UK to take over isn't it. We'll see how we get on with the jungle, in theory they have no reason to stay put because they're not interested in staying in France anyway. Perhaps they'll all swan off to Angelaland, she likes them.

It should certainly become more controlable yes, but anyway it's sure that there will be nothing very instantaneous about it all.

Not really 10%, the £ has been off colour against the Euro for months, bobbing about at 1.26 to 1.30 most of the time. Today it's at about 1.24 so with the central bank inteventions it probably won't get much worse...hope so.

Well it kinda is, as I explained to you yesterday. Today's Europe is built partially at least on a handful of French votes in a referendum that many still think was rigged.

He was going on 19 when he signed though .

Blanc gets a 22 million euro pay off apparently, absolute folly. Hope Emery is worth it.

Ouchy, don't know how this will affect any Puel candidacy but 6 of his ex players at Nice have been summoned before the courts over illegal betting last season.

But the problem with that is that we can't offer Champion's League football. That's what he wants, he came here to get it but Nico got sacked.

Puel is OK, the players might not like him though. With Claude you do it his way or not at all, still he's nowhere near as bad as Van Gaal in that respect.

Ah well bookies is bookies, very little to do with reality in matter of football players or managers I'm afraid. You're all just cows to be milked by them.

Reckon it will be about 53/47 myself. Pity there's a global press ban on publishing exit polls though. Used to be able to get all the UK election gen by looking at the Nairobi Daily Herald or similar.

Of course, Mauricio played for Paris St Germain at the time that I watched their every game.

Because they can't appoint Emery without sacking Blanc first and he's going to make it a bit hard for them. As they have no valid reason to sack him they'll have to pay him off..

Well Mark Wotte certainly, I forgot about Jan though.

In fact he would have the distinction of eventually being the first Saints manager that I've never heard of before.

Absolutely but now that sports can't advertise drink or fags betting is about all that's left.

He was in the academy at about 10 or 11 I think. No question that we produce good players but most of them come from the young intake to the academy. Walcott was playing for the firsts at little less than the age of the lad under discussion here, albeit in the Championship

Perhaps in th UK, however the French are far less reserved in their expressions on voting slips.

The big players obviously have private, and no doubt illicit, exit poll sources because there's quite a bit at stake for them. However the markets sometimes take a little dip when the NYSE opens if there's even the slightest negative influence somewhere. Me ? I'd trust the bookies not to take a hammering myself so whatever they're saying is possibly a decent indicator..

And none of them make the grade.

38 million + registered voters, 69.7% turnout giving you about 27.8 million actual voters of which a handful less than a million did not vote either yes or no but chose to enregister either some other message or deliberately put their paper into the box without having answered the question in any form. Which is what I am saying here, the margin between the two sides falls into the scope of those who went to the polls and chose not to vote as requested. I believe the spoilt papers at the last general election exceeded those cast for certain MPs, probably in Northern Ireland.

No, it's not anything to do with corruption; It's about people not voting either yes or no by either voting nothing at all or writing some other comment on their voting slip. Do you really think that every voter is going to tamely vote either yes or no and not some other political or even deranged message? These are known as spoiled papers.

Ticket sites like gigabillet have a fair few for sale, rip off prices of course but if you're willing to put up 150£ or so you'll have no problem getting a ticket for the "minor" matches.

But that's just it, most (or all?) of the excellent players that we've developped in the recent past either came to the club at very young ages or were already good 18-21 year olds. Those that we sign at 15-18 just don't seem to make the grade at all and end up in the lower leagues. Who was the last player that signed as a 15-18 prospect who made the grade with the club in the PL? Not Lallana,JWP,Shaw or Chambers. They were already here aged 10 and 11, even younger for Shaw and Chambers.