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She's the one choosing to sell and deciding that the Chinese can provide that stability. We've been told that any sale would be done in the long-term interests of the club.

What number do they have on their back? I'm thinking of getting a les reed saints shirt with our net spend on it.

Who's that pal?

What with the Dutch, French and German elections and the coming populist rout, this was finally the year when the terminally ill and morbidly obese EU was put out of its misery. Wonder what will last longer the UK or the EU? @Trident- it's been a great year to be long European equities :lol:

Les-LIE G-Reed.

Coz you're talking ****. Taking lessons from Sour Mash on how to avoid a discussion pal?

Now you're unwittingly or wilfully conflating issues: your claim isnt that we should have gone through based on the superiority of our squad; its that based on performances, we had plenty of opportunities to win games (Prague being a case in point) and thus qualify. So what if we had 70% possession, we never looked like scoring despite chasing the game for over 80 mins. Prague got an early goal, they didn't need to press or take risks, so the fact they managed 3 shots on target had as much to do with the game situation and is largely irrelevant. This is not an anti-possession argument. There are plenty of times this season where we've dominated possession and been desperately unlucky (Hull (a), Swansea (a), Everton (a), Leicester (a) etc). But Prague is not an example -and just makes those defending it look like the types who'd insist the Emperor was wearing clothes (fwiw the Prague supporters were over the moon because by beating us, they qualified as group winners, not because they had got away with daylight robbery). You remind me of a less ludicrous The9 who believes to this day that we were a Yoshida header and post away from qualifying and vindicating everything Puel had done. Horses**t. Over a six game campaign, we should have never been in a position where we reliant on such margins. There was nothing unlucky about our elimination.

We were **** in Prague.

The weak £ must be doing the wonders for you.

Sheff Weds away was a great day out - the day Kelvin entered saints folklore and truly became part of the club. My only memory of the Hull game was the weather and Pericard featuring and the Wolves game was over before it started. Coming straight after JPS injury time thunderbolt at Watford, it was the ultimate anti-climax. Can't believe I did every home and away game in the 2008/09 season - still the misery and gallow's humour picked up that season was exquisite and has yet to be matched.

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/06/laughing-at-the-laffer-curve.html

9.3/10 #MTVgeneration

All the comments.

Weren't we playing with 10 men for most of that game - Lancashire got sent off IIRC. Also remember Pekhart banging them in from all angles during the warmup - that turned out well

Unless its written by Jeremy Wilson, there's nothing to see.

Most of those goals came when we were rotating and juggling multiple competitions. Shane Long has been garbage this season - for me, he's been lucky to even start games.

Like when Ronaldinho was linked with the Venkys at Blackburn...

If so, would help if he spelt the prospective owner's name correctly.

The Laffer Curve -junk economics at its finest. You'll be telling me that Santa Claus exists next. Pal you need stop reading order-order and the other ill-informed **** that's rotting your brain it seems.

The football was more enjoyable to watch. And whatever struggles we had, they were probably down to personnel more than anything. Beyond Lallana, Jrod (who got crocked) and a fading Lambert, we had little in the way of an attack or options to change things. Still happy to bet with you that we don't score as many goal this season as we did in 2013/14.

Hard to disentangle cause and effect - MP arguably made those players better as the testament of many of those players demonstrates. Lets not forget that at the time of MP's arrival people were calling for Lallana to be dropped/sold; Jrod was still struggling to find his feet in the PL etc. Let's also not whitewash things and project some idealised version of the players: Lambert was a great servant for us but MP only really saw his twilight years during which he was much less effective (in hindsight his precipitous decline after leaving us is no surprise); likewise Big Vic had bags of potential but was still very raw during MP's reign. It took Wanyama a season to come into his own by which time MP was long gone. As for Rickie over Gabbi

And I got the impression you only read things on the side of a bus.

I know it's a real achievement that among advanced economies, only Greece has had lower real wage growth than the UK since 2008.

Cue stories about being Juncker being an alchy- was he on the red or white vino that night? Or they might just go down the tony parsons route: https://mobile.twitter.com/TonyParsonsUK/status/858995006648066049

Was outstanding today - never thought I'd say it but some of his passes were Pirloesque.