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Les you must be really naive to put any weight on the accusations of a Trump loyalist and surrogate. In Trump's -and by extension Gorka's topsy-turvy world, the only media outlet that is unbiased is Fox News. Try thinking that one through pal.

Burnley's home performances flatter to deceive - certainly wan't impressed by them when they played us.

So long for "Yoshida's only fast because he's chasing down his own backpasses" #mboardbantz

Of course, you wouldn't discount it. That's all too obvious Les The point is that research institutions funded by the EU value their autonomy and impartiality and are not politicised hacks, as is stated ad nauseum on here. Lets hope you show a bit more balance and perspective the next time one of these institutions says something you don't like. Deal pal?

See above

Bruegel receives plenty of money from the European Commission, European Parliament and the ERC. Its board is decked with EU luminaries -its chairman is the former president of the ECB among other things. The LSE's Centre for Economic Performance can't boast any of those close ties or funding, though your pal Ottaviano who you (wrongly) labeled an pro-european stooge is a nonresident fellow at bruegel (now conveniently forgotten). Think tank of the year for two years? That's as hypocritical as it is laughable coming from you Balders. Blood money? You obviously didn't read the Woolf Report if you think it calls into question the LSE's overall reputation -one which frankly p*sses on Bruegel in terms of quality and influence. But why am I surprised that this is the case when a poster with a third rate degree from a third rate institution suddenly thinks he's an expert on the UK's higher education scene

Interesting article Les, though I thought such thinktanks -much like the LSE- were in bed with the EU so that their ideologically motivated and flawed research could not be trusted. Ask Baldrick and Trident, our resident conspiracy theorists.

Glasgow I thought you had mellowed and moved on. The whole MoPo obsession which coincided with your banning was a dark chapter in your history. You're better than that pal.

#dull

Hope Leicester go down with Sunderland.

Pretty easy to dissect the post. Case of big man goes to unfancied away game (or claims to have gone to game) and believes that gives him justification to be willfully obtuse and contrarian. A dull variant of superfan syndrome. Been done a million times before.

Forster's stealing a living if he's being paid that much.

Yes I did. Yesterday he may have played as a no.10; but to this point, we haven't really played with a no.10 (as you acknowledge). Too early to say whether this is anything but a one-off, let alone whether Tadic is suited to this role given he's disappointed in it before.

I dislike the love-in and fawning over their support more than their support per se.

We don't -and frankly Tadic has struggled whenever he's played in a more central position. Don't know why but he's always been more dangerous coming off the wing.

This.

I didn't endorse those opinions Simon- as made abundantly clear at the time. Just relaying what I was told. Don't try so hard pal.

Very instinctive finish. Don't think Austin would have scored that.

As mentioned before, Bertrand has been putting some brilliant crosses in recently.

Breaking and JWP goes backwards FFS

Hope you've got a few quid on us to win pal. Buy some hand cream for all that happy clapping. #freemoney

Jihadi Les: I'm afraid its not my own work - I have Claire Perry to thank for that one. It's obviously ruffled a few feathers. Tim Shipman in his excellent book on Brexit also draws a similar analogy.

And there are some on here who are positively willing it to collapse. But tell me Baldrick how's that going to happen? a magic switch you can flick resulting a gradual, planned and orderly unwinding of existing political, economic and legal commitments? No pal a collapse would be just that...a collapse. It would entail massive adjustment costs and expose the global economy to all kinds of market uncertainty and contagion -never mind external pressures from countries like Russia all too happy to exploit instability to their advantage. You and your fellow jihadists are living on another planet. I'd trust a toddler with a machete than you with the economy.

Jihadi Les- you are on a roll today. The collapse of the EU would be nothing short of a huge negative shock for the global economy -whatever one's views are on the merits of Brexit. When you hear flippant comments like this -and they pepper this place, you realise that extreme Brexiters don't have a f**king clue.

#TDATD (there's drivel and there's drivel)