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No. I was saying that clubs aren't normal businesses, so the same rules shouldn't apply. The Glazers showed that what we consider 'normal' in business, can in fact be pretty parasitic. Businesses are allowed to invest to grow, but the flip side is that plenty fail and go bust - something we...

Clearly you don't. Just because we have some of the richest owners in the World, with strong links to a nation state, that can afford to plan decades in advance, doesn't mean we should have no rules. Very few club owners would be able to, or could be trusted to, act like ours.

They might try, but it's a poor tribute act compared with leaving the EU. It has almost no effect on anyone's day to day life, and it would be a huge stretch to convince anyone otherwise. It can get people worked up occasionally, but there's no way you can spin it as being the cause of mass...

But Reform voters weren't Tories. Labour did appear to win some extra seats because of Reform, but they would still have had a huge majority. The significant majority of Reform voters said they'd have voted for other parties, or not voted, if Reform weren't standing. Unless we get to leave the...

Sure - but in any other business, the owners could decide to asset strip and close it down. We only have to look across Manchester to see that a "normal" practice of loading a business with debt when you're buying it, isn't good for football. I agree that the clubs that happened to be big in...

Did you feel honoured to be in the presence of the "greatest backing singers in the world", the "best drummer in the world", the "greatest ever guitarist", AND the "the world's best singer"?

You see a lot of products these days, which highlight the Qualcomm/Snapdragon chips. It's probably similar to Intel - most of us would have bought things with Intel chips inside, rather than buying the chip direct, but it still became a brand that "sold" PCs and laptops to consumers. Laptop and...

But apparently made little difference... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/oct/08/football-regulation-bill-set-to-be-put-before-parliament-within-next-month

The biggest problem with all this won/lost nonsense is the football analogies. Win 6-5 and you still get all three points. A score draw gives you the same points as a nil-nil. What we have here is a situation that isn't a football game. Both sides can have some success, even if one has done...

I seem to remember Liverpool writing off multiple years spending on their non-existent new stadium, all in one set of accounts to fudge FFP. I'd suggest all the backdated years of unpaid interest, on their owner loans, should now be combined into one year. In the meantime, City can probably...

I think we've seen from the Tories, that chopping and changing isn't the way to go. You just end up doing nothing. Ultimately I suspect Labour are concerned, but the plans they have are huge, and will take time - but they have five years. They'll only get things done if they stick to delivery...

I'd agree that the New Statesman would generally be supportive of Starmer. However the quote from the article is misleading. It's putting the problems Starmer is facing in context - the polling expert at the NS discussing how leaders of large countries are pretty much always unpopular now, and...

W D L D in our last four visits to Anfield. Ever since those crazy Champions League games, which were seven seasons ago now, we've had much the better of our encounters against Liverpool.

I'm not sure I agree. As far as I can see, that's not the case in other countries, so it's not a hard and fast rule for capitals, and even the London situation is one that was based on temporary usage of 'up' on the railway system. It's not therefore a strict rule, but surely a once common...

There's also a huge difference between considering after the event, whether more information would help to avoid the vacuum being filled with hateful conspiracies, and what Farage did. He was actively participating in filling the vacuum with lies, and encouraging others to do the same.

I don't know. He's a cowardly racist, but clever enough to hide behind "just asking the question" weasel words. He's come away thinking he's won, and people who like him will think the same. He's not as bonkers as Trump, but for the media, it's a similar phenomenon. With Trump, they just didn't...

14 years down the line, you'll have a Keir Starmer poster on your wall ;)

With VAR we probably would have won it. And the following season we'd have won it if there wasn't VAR :)

The problem was that it was mostly bathwater and very little baby. There are certainly plenty of benefits to home ownership, but plenty of research to suggest that right to buy left very few people better off. I sadly don't see how you could ever get a law that required what would be a huge...

Right to buy is a lovely idea in theory, but it's just caused so much damage to the housing market, and is a significant reason that the government is "handing money over like sweets". Many people got discounts so high, that they added up to more than they'd ever paid in rent, while over 40% of...