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That doesn't mean they wanted him sacked because of it. Loads of people were slagging off Diane Abbott because she worse mismatched shoes and on the wrong feet, doesn't mean that's the reason Labour lost the election.

I've just checked, there were indeed 6 but also 7 where we failed to score. It was simply a trade off, overall our results really weren't an improvement. After Virgil and Fonte were out of the team we won five League games in half a season; Palace, WBA, Sunderland, Boro and Watford. In a similar time frame Ralph has beaten Sheff U, Brighton, Watford and Norwich. In that regard the difference between them is basically an Arsenal goal in the 6th minute of injury time.

Straw man. I’ve never seen anyone actually say, "get rid of Puel, his interviews are boring." Everyone loved Poch and he didn’t even speak English and ‘Ron in 60 seconds’ was hardly riveting monologue. It’s one of those forum myths like, "nobody ever criticises Hojbjerg/Skacel/Prutton because he waves/claps the fans." No we didn’t play for a 0-0 in the cup final but that’s a cup final, you’d expect everyone to be up for it.

If we should have beaten Inter 4-0, we should have lost the two Liverpool league games by a similar score. The fact is we didn’t, in fact after the first Europa game, Virgil was the only player who scored in the last five. The football was boring, from the first game against Watford to the last against Stoke. Sure we had a handful of decent results but over the whole season we were poor. Burnley were terrible. I think I’m right in thinking they only scored two away points all season that year and didn’t win a game. Sunderland were equally poor, so we’re West Ham. Sometimes it worked, usually it didn’t. I went to the Arsenal home game towards the end of the season and it was the easiest 2-0 walk in the park I have ever seen. If you were happy watching that season, it’s your choice. I wasn’t.

He had half a season of Van Dijk and Fonte, a luxury Ralph will never have. Those two players were easily worth the 6 points he finished above 17th place, Puel was no better than Ralph, Hughes or even MoPe IMO. Puel set out to get a 0-0 against everyone. At home to the likes of Bournemouth, Hull, Stoke and Be'er Sheva. Call me a spoiled brat who should be careful what he wishes for but it was an utterly joyless affair. If that's the right balance and getting results, I don't want to watch football any more.

His lawyer said, "everything came to a crescendo." Not really helping matters is she.

Sorry, have I got this right... you’d like Forster to pay £5m from his own money to pay for a transfer fee to a club where he’ll be paid a lot less? We would take £0 for Forster, if it got him off the wage bill.

It isn’t.

Aside from the fact that it wasn't a players post, this was almost certainly on Saturday after the game, so they would have been off Sunday anyway.

I was in Pizza Express last week, it was packed.

I'd hope that all our players have contracts with a significant wage cut written in, should we go down. We aren't Man Utd, a club like ours is only ever one bad season away from the Championship, even when Koeman was in charge. To set the club up that it would bankrupt us is utterly criminal. No doubt things will be tight for a few years but it'll be a lot easier to shift players if their wages are suddenly 20, 30 or 40% lower. Having said that, most of these contracts were given out by Reed who thought signing Carrillo was a good idea and that we'd brought the Pompey Nedved and Cornish Maldini through our academy, so we probably are screwed.

Absolute garbage AND we’ve been lucky. Goal disallowed, should have had a pen and Antonio got nothing from the ref. Half our team could get themselves sent off with desperate silly fouls in the second half.

Four touches in our box, from four players, completely unchallenged.

What a f**king hopeless calamity all around, from the initial ball Bertrand was daydreaming over up until the penalty shout.

Them thighs though...

F**k me, this is like the first ten minutes against Leicester. Get a grip lads.

West Brom will be in the Premier League next season, I doubt Austin will play much football for them, even if he is still there.

Austin in some decent form for West Brom, just scored a cracker.

Well at least we can agree on something. I don't pay too much attention to twitter but reading some of the post-election tweets, it was difficult to find many that weren't entitled, deluded and hysterical. #scousenotenglish was the top trending # in the UK for a period yesterday. That's right, Scousers who were so, "disgusted to be English," that they had basically renounced their nationality and were proud to be Scouse for 'sticking to their principles'; Those principles apparently being voting for Labour regardless of logic or reason. They seem to be genuinely shocked and appalled that their 40 year old grudges against Thatcher weren't the top election priority for the rest of the country. Maybe I'm generalising too much here but I have to question the attitudes of today's youth/student voters. There seems to be an overwhelming impression of 'I can't possibly be wrong'. Everyone gets a prize for taking part at sports day. If I'm failing my studies, it must be because the teachers aren't up to standard. If I don't get the job, there aren't better candidates, I'm being discriminated against. I'm non binary and if someone disagrees with me, they must be homophobic because I'm non binary. I'm definitely not wrong and did I mention I'm non binary. Anyone who voted Tory is being deceived by the media, anyone who voted leave MUST have believed what they read on the side of a bus. We should cancel Brexit because they clearly didn't understand what they were voting for. The votes are fixed, the system is fixed, etc.

Okay, so we are halving the number of constituencies then. That's all you had to say, Jesus wept (as you'd put it).

Well obviously both, so if it's that straight forward then please do explain how it would work for us. To make PR work for the percentages in this election, without removing any elected MPs you would need 1231 seats (48 SNP seats divided by 3.9% of the total vote). So you would (roughly) half the number of constituencies in future to keep it down 'around 600'?

Okay, so based on the assumption that we wouldn't be taking away any MPs from the constituencies where they've been elected but you want to keep the ratio proportional to the percentage of the electorate... In this election: Tories - 364 - Elected MPs using FPTP Labour - 269 - 209 elected and 60 'top ups' (364 multiplied by the PR ratio of 283:209 gives Labour 269 total) Liberal - 96 - 11 and 85 top ups (364 multiplied by the PR ratio of 283:75 gives Liberals 96 total) Then you run into a problem... SNP - 33 Seats (364 multiplied by the PR ratio of 283:25 gives SNP 33 total) BUT with FPTP they have 48 seats So that leaves a choice of either shafting the SNP (wouldn't upset me personally but that would cause huge problems) or do the maths again to keep the ratio the same. So to keep seats proportional to the vote: Tories - 543 - (48 multiplied by PR ratio of 25:283) Labour - 401 etc... My point is to have top ups without removing any elected seats, you would need probably around 1,200 total MPs in total to make sure everyone gets a fair representation of their vote.

Because they wouldn't reflect the vote. Put everyone in their strongholds with the biggest margin, okay fine. Then what? Using this election as an example, tell me where you'd put the 64 extra Liberal MPs who nobody wanted? You could only put them in the marginals. Imagine Meon Valley being told "sorry, we've used up the quota of Tories, we need to 'allocate' you a Labour MP." You would have a very polite, middle class riot. Every election would end up with liberal MPs pigeonholed into constituencies where the vote might be Con - 23,000, Lab - 21,000, Lib - 6,000. It'd be an absolute farce.

Do you believe having a permanent coalition government would be a good way to run the country?

So what you're basically saying is you'd rather have a hung parliament at every election?