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Didn't I say "currency crisis" rather than debt crisis? Even so, when you issue government bonds and the interest you pay increases (happening right now), it stresses your public finances and can escalate to debt crisis. Not going to get dragged into it because we both know the UK could not...

Their debt to GDP ratio is 55%, the UK's is currently 96% - an increase of 15% in 10 years. Our budget deficit was ran up a lot higher when debt to GDP was 36.7% in 2000... So Poland really doesn't run the risk of a currency crisis, the UK actually does and France risks plunging the Euro into...

The norm in European countries where insurance is socialised and cover guaranteed. UK NI is a de facto income tax. I've explained myself v poorly tbf. Edit: to be specific, our NI goes to the UK coffers and is not ringfenced. In Europe, the money from their version of 'NIs' goes to a collective...

Point 1 is not compatible with mass migration and point 2 costs a lot of money and stretches the NHS further. Given the waiting lists and record people going abroad and private for treatment, it's asking too much at this moment in time.

The UK adheres to a lot EU regulations, one of the big tasks in the transition period is removing all references to the EU/Commission and replacing with UK/His Majesty's Government. Hence the Tories (like Rees-Mogg) wanted to pass a bill that meant EU-era regulations automatically expired unless...

This is precisely happening in some of the newer EU members. Bulgaria's population is declining and is primarily driven by outwards migration to richer EU nations. Poland is somewhat of an anomaly because it is on course to overtake the UK on a GDP per capita basis and is a high wage economy...

We'll sell out v WBA. Spoke to my Baggies colleague earlier this morning and whilst he called it a 'disgrace' said he'll pay the prices with his son. If we do sell out with £45 tickets (and we probably will), then you get the increased revenue from ticket sales as well as people putting money...

The problem for the teams chasing us is that our points tally and performances match. We are by no means in a false position, so the hype is real for us. The xG table reckons Ipswich, Southampton will be our competition for automatics, followed by Blues, Blackburn and Watford - teams we've put...

He’s also our main threat from set pieces…

Really, you’re using Ben Kingsley as an example? His father spoke gujarati (Ghandi’s primary language) and is of Indian descent, the likeliness is uncanny too albeit, he did wear darker makeup for the role. If Idris Elba was cast to play Ghandi, it would rightly cause outrage. If you can’t get...

… ‘cause the game is gone.

Now this brings back great memories of last summer. Doing this in a small pub in Dusseldorf with fans of other countries after a few too Many beers was great fun!

Why? Let’s play devils advocate… Would the message not be fundamentally the same if you swap the historical contexts and racial identities? That being Apartheid being a white majority excluded by a black colonial settlers or white people living under Jim Crow in the USA. The answer is simple...

Actually, it does because it’s rewriting our history to something that it’s not. How ridiculous would it be if we redid Roots and presented the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade as being a mixture of white, black, brown or Asian victims. It’s unacceptable to depict historical characters...

There’s a double standard. It would be ridiculous to do a series or movie on MLK or Mandela and have random white play them. So why would Hollywood depict historical figures like Cleopatra, Queen Charlotte and few other characters in films in Medieval Europe and so on as black? It’s also...

A FZ in the away end is needed if we’re charging the prices we do. In the home end, our FZ is great value and there’s a few empty seats in that area so perhaps there’s work to do to ensure it’s 100% filled for all the games.

England have a similar policy for ETSC fans where you can get notified 24 hours before KO to present your ID. Otherwise you don’t get the points. These systems make sense when your club sells out 100% of away games before general sale and you run the risk of a genuine closed shop. These also...

The club has surely got to do a bundle deal for these two games. I don’t think Ipswich will be a Cat A+ game because it’s not a BH, people need to be in work the next day.

That’s certainly the case for the likes of Man U, Spurs, Arsenal, Liverpool and so on. I don’t think we’ll ever get to that point so believe we’ll always ‘look after’ STHs. Perhaps that’s naive but time will tell. Our pricing models are generally fair, but away fans is where I feel they’ve...

Below ours last season by 200 fans. They travel well and they sold out last season with tickets being £37 quid. That extra £10 wouldn’t deter them just as much as it wouldn’t deter me if they charged that, even if I’d grumble about it. It is a local rivalry, all midlands teams want to get one...