Recent content by Blue Since 76

So you were just suggesting you hope we don't do something we've never done? Fair enough, I hope we don't knew jerk buy a Martian

There's been three world cups, plus a whole load of Euros, AFCONs etc since the owners took over. Can you name me one player we bought as a knee jerk decision after a tournament?

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There's other things like the 25% is 'only' up to £268k, so worth making sure you understand all the rules before doing it and what tax liabilities you may create in the future

I think you can take the 25% and continue paying in without triggering MPAA, although I don't think you can pay in 100% of your income - think you need to take at least minimum wage. Only issue would be everything going forwards would be taxable, so you'd need to consider whether that made...

Ah, so only the potential fascist in chief rather than the official fascist channel saying it. Real Madrid is one thing I'd agree with Taggart about.

Hopefully not like the ones at Manchester airport, as the last time they worked, the rags were a top team

Will definitely feel like a leap of faith when we get to that point, but the alternative is over saving and underspending, which the kids might like but feels like a waste!

The problem with those estimates of the 2/3, as with any other way of estimating it, is that it's based on a complete average, which, by definition, won't fit most people. Even if you take your current salary, whatever that is, it's assuming you basically spend every penny of it every month and...

I agree that most people are planning badly for their pensions, not helped by regulations meaning companies always have to say you could lose money and then providers like Nest putting people in their 20s into low growth funds. I've been tracking our spending monthly for about three years -...

Unless you need or want another car, probably quite low. I'd guesstimate your fuel bills are around £500/yr, so that's all you'd save even if the electricity was free. When we had two cars and I did a similar mileage, I used the same man maths to decide I could have a really uneconomical car...

I'm shocked they think your need £45k for a moderate lifestyle. If you're renting it'll be different, but otherwise you can assume that mortgage is paid off and you're no longer supporting kids. If I take out pension and ISA contributions, plus support for the lad at uni, we spend nowhere near...

Bit of a cost update - we've just been up in the northeast for a few days and have done about 400 miles on a round trip, with two lots of public charging - one at a park and ride site whilst going into Durham and the other whilst getting a coffee on the way home. Total cost of public charging...

All depends what the agreement was when he left in terms of severance pay or compensation either way but could imagine he may be on 'gardening leave' for six months, which would mean he couldn't join us until 1st July. I seem to recall one of the first reports in the week Pep left suggesting...

The 'manufacturer claim' is based on standard testing. Most you see will be the European WLTP version, but there's also a Chinese method that gives much higher figures and an American one which gives much lower. They're all the same as the advertised mog figures - it's just a standardised way...