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It's good advice Noggin, and much appreciated. The problem isn't the income though, it's the outgoing which is mostly driven by those pesky kids. As long as I've got enough for a park bench and a three-litre bottle of White Lightening, my retirement will be sufficient for my needs. If the...

Any similarity between the people in the council and Westminster calling themselves Labour, and this old Labour duffer, is restricted entirely to the name. Unlike them, I'm not ashamed to be called a socialist. Regardless, and whatever side you're on, the miminum acceptable criteria for being...

I said we'd have to wait until 'Bullshit Thursday' for an announcement. :)

Ah, my pension plan involves me working until I'm 90. Then I can afford to retire and go part-time. :) (This would be a lot funnier if it wasn't true).

As a taxpayer, I'm glad that the Council are no longer at risk of Wasps going tits up. However, as chiefdave has pointed out, there are some glaring inconsistencies again in their stories about whether the loan impacted spending or not. When they wanted to make the loan it wasn't going to...

You're still confusing remedy with claim. The point of the JR is to show that the council granted illegal state aid - whether the loan is repaid or not isn't relevant. I've not come across a commercial organisation making a complaint to an LGO before, I always thought it was a procedure for...

Technically, I think the main claim is that the loan consituted illegal state aid. One of the remedies, should that be found to be true, was that the loan should be repaid by Wasps to CCC. That remedy is now off the table, but the claim itself remains. I'm honestly not sure if the point of...

If they've got the service history, and it's not been through ten owners, the mileage wouldn't worry me too much. Go and see this bloke and if see if he's really got a newer Civic on the drive, if he has offer him £750 in cash, and settle for £850. Budget on another £250 to get through the MOT...

Avoid the Rover 1.4 engine mate - head gasket issues. Watch out for boy racer abuse if you're looking at small hatchbacks - don't touch anything that's been lowered, has a modded exhaust, subwoofers, or blacked out windows. It will have been thrashed remorselessly! Think about a VW Golf or a...

My experience mate, fwiw, I wouldn't bother too much about buying from a dealer for that kind of money. It's really the awkward end of the market, and you don't get much protection for the extra that you're likely to pay. Having said that, if you put at least some of the payment on a credit...

It's a fair argument but I think where we differ here MMM (and I appreciate that this is matter of opinion rather than fact), is here. You would put the whole blame for the Ricoh being sold to Wasps at the door of our owners, and seem to think that SISU are getting an easy ride as the result of...

If you've got any consistent morals, than the franchise argument should really be enough for you. If that isn't enough though, I can give you the screwing over of the football club - which if they continue to fail or leave Coventry knocks the other rubbish argument about this being a good thing...

Fair comment, but also he might think that he'll never get his chance again. He could suffer either a serious injury, or a drop in form, or a new manager that doesn't like him much - any of those things might impact on the chances of him getting a deal that's probably going to be for a very...

The usual bullshit here I see. People who would be absolutely outraged if CCFC moved one inch outside Coventry, and who probably marched on the streets when we went to Northampton, are actively supporting the franchise that came from London. Not just mutely supporting it, but buying tickets...

To go back the OP - it's hugely disrepectful. Wasps might have bought ACL, but they didn't buy the statue. I'd hope that next time some of the Wasps fans who claim to also support CCFC might do something about it.

I'm in a bad mood today too, and this isn't helping. If he's a crap coach, then get rid by all means. However the evidence to me would seem to suggest that he's actually pretty reasonable at improving goalkeepers. I don't see any acceptance of mediocrity hereabouts, other than perhaps by our...

Yep - as someone else has said, if you lent me £35m I could claim to be the richest man on the forum (apart from Torchy and Grendel, obviously). ;) However, I don't think it would really be true. And Torchy's old money anyway - all inherited and completely loaded, but still wears a scruffy...

I guess the point is that the owner is off the hook for at least ten million pounds - and it gives them a bit of a lift short term. It also takes away the risk that the Council are forced to pull the plug on the ACL loan as the result of SISU's court battle. From that point of view the owner...

mmmm... pie....

I've got a bridge that I haven't been using for a while now, too. :)