Search results

Spot on. A pity, given he's a journalist with some clout. He's on a campaign against crap owners in football, which is laudable, but it's either blinded him to any nuance in our situation, or he's just out to sell a few books/clicks without doing too much work.

No, but it's patently idiocy to suggest they're the only ones to blame. You can stick your 'SISU apologist' line where the sun doesn't shine too, I know that's what comes next...

If you got the revs right you could use it instead of the clutch. :) It was the first car I ever drove, slightly illlegally, when moving my old man's ex-GPO van round the entry. Second (when I was about 15) was his Chrysler 2 Litre (a posh version of the 180, if anyone remembers them). I...

Just seen as a bit dicey, I think. I used to hitch-hike to Wales from Cov every couple of weeks to go climbing. I reckon I still know every lay-by on the A5, it was rarely a fast journey! Still see some of the car delivery drivers on trade plates trying for lifts on the motorway junctions...

Clearly had tons of skill, but always looked a little lightweight for us I thought. Obviously has come on loads as he's got older, bigger and more experienced (as players often do), and probably gets looked after better by refs in the higher divisions. Not exactly the first player who has done...

I can help with this. If you're British and move to a different country for work purposes, usually whilst still retaining elements of your culture, you're an ex-pat. If you're not British and do this, then you're an immigrant. Hope this helps. :)

I love my country mate, I had more than one go at joining up to fight for it. As did others in my family. So you can fuck right off with that assumption pal. I just don't want a country where hatred and fear of 'the other' become acceptable. What's pathetic is this terror of people who aren't...

London has never been about tea-cakes and polo. It's never been posh either, in the places where the people who work for a living live anyway. Anyone who thinks that it isn't and hasn't always been multi-cultural has obviously never lived there. Let's be honest here, your real definition of...

It's a very large, metropolitan city. Lots of people with funny accents, some of them aren't even white. This was London in the 80s too when I lived there. Brum too, and even parts of Coventry. It didn't scare me then, and it doesn't scare me now. What does worry me is where this goes next for...

You read the article you've linked you didn't you? It's just that the judge involved seemed to quite clear that it was threats against all MPs' safety that needed to be dealt with. The bloke wasn't sent to prison because he attacked someone from the 'left', it was because he attacked a...

I completely agree that throwing milkshakes etc. is wrong. Even if it's Farage or Robinson, the law is the law, and it's counterproductive to allow these buffoons to paint themselves as victims. However I won't be lectured on hypocrisy by anyone who supports the right wing nutters, racists and...

Absolutely. I suppose the other positive is that the CET site is now so painfully useless that most people won't read this kind of garbage anyway. I suppose losing most of their best players is good news too... "Now we can try the youngsters!". Running out of money to pay wages because of the...

Hmm. I'm not sure that 'all religions' isn't rather a sweeping statement here. The issue with abortion seems to be a generally right-wing, authoritarian, position, the left has traditionally been behind the fight for women's rights, including the right to control their own bodies. Similarly in...

Indeed, I wasn't really that fussed about Premiership rugby before they arrived, but now Wasps have given me a team to fervently support. It's whoever is playing against them. :)

It is different though mate. There is no court case, so no costs to Wasps to defend, and no damages can be awarded by the EC. It's an investigation into the Council directly. it won't be adversarial or played out in a public forum. The EC will presumably ask Coventry City Council to provide...

Just to flip this on it's head a little. I know it's SISU and everyone hates them, but if by some small chance the EC finds the Council have done something wrong on the sale of the Ricoh, wouldn't we want to know regardless? It may or may not be that somewhere down the line that costs Wasps...

The only thing that bugs me is that I seem to recall he defended the CET when they withheld the Les Reid story about the £14 million taxpayer bailout of ACL. I'm all for open journalism and letting the truth out come what may, but it's difficult not to see a degree of pro-council bias in the...

You're right, most people have at least two cars so they can go more than 100 miles if the need arises. Even new, 100 miles might be optimistic at motorway speeds or with the heater on (and as everyone knows, batteries never degrade over time)...

Sure, because we're all minted and all of us only work 3 miles from home or at places with charging points. Get the infrastructure right, get buses back under regulation, and then look at where congestion charging might make a difference to behaviour. Otherwise you're punishing the poorest, as...

Bollocks. Might work in central London or large cities with decent infrastructure, but without efficient and cheap public transport this is a flat tax that will hurt the poorest most. OK if you've got a cushy fucking office job on the edge of town where you can work from home every now and...