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Me neither, especially in the cash strapped post Covid world.

If he sells his best assets the sale of the club becomes less attractive as the new owner will have to spend more on the squad.

Disbelieves or just does not believe? Just semantics. If you are born with a lack of belief in anything through lack of cognition I don’t see the difference. If the actual definition is lack of belief, that doesn’t imply, to me, that a choice has necessarily been made. Surely if you lived on a remote island and knew nothing about God or religion, you would technically be an atheist? Anyway. I had a girlfriend back in the 70’s who was a strong believer in Christianity. We didn’t talk about it much as I wasn’t interested but I did ask her once how come that she was so sure that there was a God. Her reply was she just felt it inside. We all have a belief system. Some people believe that Ralph Hasenhuttl should remain the Saints manager and some don’t. Who is right and who is wrong. Her belief doesn’t make me inclined to believe in God’s existence, but my disbelief also doesn’t prevent her from believing. I could argue about the clear scientific discrepancies in the Bible but then the Bible is only a man made manifestation and an interpretation of what some people think so what does that have to do with what is felt inside? If a form of words trigger an emotion, why should we not trust that emotion? It might not make logical sense, but then surely logic, like an emotional response is only the result of a chemical reaction? All we can do is live our lives according to our own belief systems.What happens after is in the lap of the Gods 😉😇

An atheist is a person who lacks the belief in the existence of God. Surely we are all blank canvasses at birth and have no belief in anything? Even WUMs on Internet forums are born without a belief system. So how are not all new borns essentially “athiests”?

Finally becoming a sensible discussion again, thank God 😉. I think most of mankind is susceptible to some kind of indoctrination from birth be it religious or otherwise. I am not a religious person but did get the whole God thing drummed into me at school. As I got older and started thinking for myself it made little or no sense butI remember vividly offering to make a deal with God (if he existed) to save my baby daughters life the night she was born asphyxiated by the umbilical cord and not breathing on her own. She was hand ventilated for one and a half hours and the doctors could have pulled the plug at any time - fortunately she eventually started breathing on her own and celebrates her 25 birthday next month will no lasting ill effects. My rational mind tells me that her survival was down to the skill and dedication of the medical team rather than a personal intervention from the Almighty. The whole existence thing is very strange when faced with the vast enormity of the universe and it is only rational for entities like us to try and make sense of our place in the scheme of things. By nature we are a superstitious animal so I can see how we have, over thousands of years, built narratives around a higher power to try and make sense of things. All civilisations since Man crawled out of the mud have created something to cede overall power to. I don’t have a problem with religion per se, but when people start using as a reason to persecute or belittle others then it becomes an issue. We have seen how religious persecution along with racial intolerance (and you only have to look at the likes of Duckhunters posts on here) causes divisions and arguments despite the fact that every single one of us is made of exactly the same stuff and all are a recruit of a chemical reaction in organic tissue. Human beings are hard wired to protect themselves, their tribes and the future members of their tribes, hence the constant bickering about things like politics, Brexit, football managers etc. The things that have made us the dominant species on this planet at this moment in time are the very things that will see our demise. Whilst religion gives millions some spiritual comfort and moral guidance, it’s very existence comes from the weakness in humans to deal effectively with our own mortality and being.

Didn’t they bring the rule in originally because many away teams always parked the bus and it was supposed to encourage them to attack? Glad to see the change which I always thought was grossly unfair. A goal should be worth a goal, plain and simple.

Good to see you are not boasting 😂😂😂

Surely a contract could be signed that comes into force on 1st July?

If our attack and defence were better we would have won more games too.

But they arent in Europe and could just as easily find themselves battling relegation in the next few years. As for money talking, would he go to Brentford for more money? If he was looking for a big move, with all due respect to Aston Villa, that is hardly it.

If you were a player at a mid table club looking to progress your career, why would you go to another mid table club? As has been said, without Grealish they are nothing special. I can believe that they want to sign him but I can’t believe that he would want to go there.

Oh no! If only we had picked a “middling” versatile midfield player who was useful at dead ball kicks! Still, at least we have an unfit Henderson along who will be especially useful for the penalties.

Even when unfit? Southgate himself has said that he will only pick players who are fit and playing regularly. Henderson is neither of those things.

He didn’t say that at all. He said that had he been on the bench he would have been an asset for the last 30 minutes. Not exactly the same thing is it?

You’ve not seen him play this year then? He gives you exactly what Rice or Phillips can do plus his dead ball delivery. Would we have performed any worse with him on the pitch last night?

Exactly right. MLT gives you something different. Why should it be Scholes or MLT? There are others players that could have been left behind for Matt. As for JWP sitting on the bench for the competition, plenty of other players will be sitting on the bench for the whole competition but if JWP was there at least he would be an option. We were crying out for a player with his skill set last night.

His defensive play has improved, probably at the expense of his attacking play though.

No it’s a German thing. It started with the Siegfried Line.

Perhaps she believed that he would at the time? It isn’t as if she washed her hands of us and disappeared so has been around to attract flak for her decision.

Why would he go to Villa?

There are plenty of clubs at risk of being relegated and I wouldn’t say it was a certainty for us. We have an excellent infrastructure, more tv money coming in and the basis of a good team. The problem is that there aren’t many people out there looking to buy football clubs.

Ah bless you. Still getting shirty if anyone speaks out against the amount of disparity there is in this country in media political coverage. You and hypo are guaranteed to post as soon as anyone says anything that speaks out against your beloved right. I’m surprised Andrew Neil hasn’t found jobs for you two as social media fluffers. Perhaps he has?

Clearly a certain section won’t watch it, but it will only stoke the flames for those interested in far right propaganda, which is not a good thing as we have more than enough of it here as it is. You believe in democracy I take it? How can a democracy thrive when there is such a great imbalance in our media? I know that you would like to think that our media in controlled by “pinkos” but it really isn’t. The press is mostly right wing. A lot of radio is right wing. You’d be hard pressed to find much in the way of centrist or left wing persuasion. In an ideal world news programmes would be totally impartial and any comment or opinion pieces balanced with contributions of different views but we don’t live in an ideal world and money and power trump (pun intended) balanced debate. If there was any semblance of balance and equality the likes of Murdoch would not be allowed to control multi media outlets across the world. By the way, the BBC is a public service. We all pay for public services that we don’t necessarily use or want. For example I don’t want Trident missiles but still have to contribute towards them.

I’m really disappointed that they haven’t signed up Laurence Fox for their launch team. Missed a trick there!

Just what this country needs, another right wing media outlet.