Recent content by Saddleworth2

I was a bank manager during the miners strike. We took a light touch, freezing mortgages, loans and credit cards on the basis that all lending would be restructured once the outcome of the strike was known. Not all Banks were unthinking robots and one of the main pleasures of the job was helping...

there is another unlikely scenario which is consistent with the decisions - a pile of money on the match going to a penalty shootout.

there is another unlikely scenario which is consistent with the decisions - a pile of money on the match going to a penalty shootout.

What don't you understand mate?

It’s not an obviously correct decision either. That was my main takeaway. I have been a supporter of VAR in the main but for the Coventry goal there was no justification to disallow it. The margins were too fine and the technology is not capable of accuracy to measure toe nail gaps. And yet they...

You know I have been a supporter of VAR. But that yesterday really really hit me. Maybe it’s how our officials use it. That was an absolute travesty. If that had been the rags I think I’m big enough to concede the unfairness of it. There was no justification to disallow that goal. Do we just...

Mate, did you watch the semi yesterday. Did you not feel for the Coventry fans? Can you justify with evidence why the goal was disallowed? The joy they must have felt and then the emptiness.

No it’s not running for independence but maybe you should look at that.

Well yes partially. From ONS London saw the largest change in its net fiscal balance, moving from a £40.5 billion net fiscal surplus to a £7.2 billion net fiscal deficit, which is the smallest net fiscal deficit in the UK. The North West and the West Midlands both had the largest net fiscal...

Is the north West funded by the rest of the UK? Or Wales? Or the Midlands? Because all are subject to the Barnett Formulae. London and the SE fund all of us. Scotland gets handed its pocket money like every other region and you want to tell us how to spend it too.

Forget it was the Rags. Yesterday was the reason we fell hopelessly in love with this game. FA cup semi. A David vs Goliath match. A match that looked like it was dead and buried and then an amazing come-back. The tension cranked up to 10 as extra time plays out and then, unbelievably, the...

What? Three more than they gave at present? Hardly a landslide don’t you think?

Agree. The linesman didn’t flag so the goal should have stood. It’s fucking disgraceful.

Those that don’t want any mention of Westminster on this thread.

Finger on the pulse eh? A shift might happen if Labour get in and move to the right. Nothing in Scottish politics is inevitable other than a total rejection of the Tory party. It does seem a difficult concept to grasp for some is that in the main, the Scots want a different set of policies to...