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The drive in the evening is pleasant, lots of nice views if I recall correctly. Last season, it took over an hour to get out of the car park, I missed a junction that added 20-30m to my journey and had to stop off on the side of the road to have a sleep because of the tiredness. Horrible...

Agreed. I know a few lads who were well up for Hull away before it got moved to midweek. I won’t be driving for this one, it’s far too dangerous driving 3+ hours after a night game and had a v bad experience of it last season to be honest.

It probably needs to drop to around 35-39% which is closer to Japan and The USA than someone like Germany or France. What is the purpose of this question exactly? As a sovereign currency issuer, if your borrowing panics markets, our currency gets devalued by them. So we can’t get away with...

Is this more important to front line public services to you? You keep parroting that we’ve had austerity and ‘deep cuts’. The reality is that government spending steadily increased during this supposed era of austerity. The share of GDP that is government spending has gone up to 45% and this is...

Labour has identified 10k jobs at NHS England that can be scrapped. The civil service has increased by 21% and productivity has flatlined which probably means there’s either a lot of duplication of work or the roles just aren't productive. OFGEM, for example, has increased its headcount 163%...

Sometimes, you need the shock therapy. We’re arguably already in a death spiral of raising taxes continually to fund a public sector that is no longer delivering basic services to a good standard. The tax burden is being shifted onto the productive sectors of the economy (private sector & wealth...

Agreed to an extent. Yet, this seems like more of a moral panic over the ‘incels’, ‘the manosphere’ and ‘that Andrew Tate shite’ because it’s an easy target. What’s more uncomfortable for people to deal with, in the context of ‘online radicalisation’, is Islamist propaganda. Especially since...

Is this supposed to be an insult? If the state was the best vehicle to achieve ‘redistribution of wealth’ or prosperity, the Cold War would’ve been the Soviet Union. At what point is government spending too much? 45% of the economy? 50-60%?

That’s not the important issue. 45% of our economy is government spending and this isn’t a pathway to prosperity. The state is just too overstretched and needs to fundamentally be cut down to size. We just cannot afford to keep raising taxes to pay for a public sector that delivers less and less.

The civil service has a lot to answer for. Headcount has swelled by 21% since COVID, median salary has also increased by 27% in the same period (2019-2024) and to top it off, productivity is still below pre-pandemic levels. So why should taxpayers tolerate an expanding bureaucracy that delivers...

Well, when we played them after Robins got sacked it was a game we could’ve won so that perception still lingers. They’re over performing based on the ‘underlying data’ but they have that star quality to win games. Finally, their home form hasn’t been amazing in 2025 (currently 11th in home...

I hoped that there was going to be a twist or something so was disappointed. The acting was brilliant for the scenes with the psychologist but the last episode was a bit drab imo.

When you need cash to fund your spending plans and you’ve ruled out raising income tax, VAT and NI… you box yourself in and that’s exactly what this Labour government did. The way they needed to spin this as ‘not a tax on workers’, of course it was. If businesses need to cut back on bonuses...

Rachel Reeves has been a disaster chancellor, she’s done. She’ll be asked to make more difficult decisions that would break a manifesto pledge, such as increasing VAT, income tax and/or NI and then get the sack down the line. She undermined confidence in the economy before the budget by talking...

Yes for the same reason we don’t play Liverpool, Man City, Crawley or Maidenhead FC. The Nations League is organised into leagues based on promotion and relegation and has been leveraged to allow lower ranked teams to have playoff spots with the top teams. The Nations League could genuinely...

It’s got nothing to do with convenience. The international game is no longer the pinnacle of football and a large part of this is because there’s too many dead rubber games. There’s also the wider issue of player welfare over the amount of games they play. So it makes sense for a shorter...

This is a dumb argument. Should Germany, France, Spain and Italy have to play the likes of Andorra, Gibraltar, Lichtenstein and San Marino? My answer is no because these fixtures are as mismatched as anything you’d see. If they made it through 2-3 rounds of prelims, fair enough but otherwise...

It’s not competitive, is it? This is why the Nations League exists in the first place. The current system tiers teams according to world ranking and puts them into pots. So taking 2 or 3 of the lowest pots out and having a preliminary round makes sense and is the norm for the other...

Firstly, not what I said. Second, the point was the ‘lesser teams’ should earn the right to play the mid and top tier nations. So this applies to the semi-pro teams like San Marino and Andorra… not Denmark who are a top tier nation in Europe! 😂

Why are you fixated on England? I said highest ranked teams and/or Nations League Group A teams. Which includes Denmark, Scotland and Hungary. If England were 20, 30 and 40th (and so on) in the world rankings, we’d have to play more qualification games. It’s inherently meritocratic and the best...