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Clarke is a better manager than Di Matteo. Not enthused about either though

She'll appoint a new chairman but selling a club takes time

Ben SmithVerified account ‏@BenSmithBBC #SaintsFC manager Mauricio Pochettino will stay for now and will, I am told, be present at his press conference tomorrow.

Don't deny that he did a good job of picking managers but really it was the Liebherr money that stopped us selling our players. And actually Lowe used to do quite a good job of negotiating prices

Running with that scenario, maybe she values the club higher than Cortese's bidders were willing to pay?

Calm down. Remember when everyone was convinced Adkins leaving would be a disaster?

Its not a choice between thiose two things

Poch will lose a lot of money if he resigns, I would bet on him staying. Hoping we get stripes back next season. Cortese is one of more capable chairmen out there, but he's not irreplaceable. It all depends who they bring in. Who will be the next owners is the bigger question than who will be the next chairman Given that the news yesterday was that he would leave at the end of the season but now he has gone today, it seems there has been recent discussion/dispute to me, even if the question of transfer budgets has been knocking around for a while. Must have become evident that no money would become available this transfer window, despite Cortese's best efforts to engineer some. Cortese strikes me as quite a petulant volatile guy, so not surprised he would end up having a dispute and walking out

Even at its current low level, the minimum wage has mean a "significant fall in wage inequality": http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/5412 If you get rid of it, there will be more people living in worse poverty

Surely you're are conflating working tax credits and the minimum wage? It's the government topping up that is the problem, not having a minimum level that companies have to pay.

Child benefit? Working tax credit? Old age pension?

OR Until there is justice, there will be riots that aren't incited by them

And none of the cameras on the platform or the train were working, mmm not fishy at all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes#Missing_CCTV_footage

True to some extent although not entirely. Buying clothes online is a right ball-ache.

It isn't though.

Saw him score a great goal against Blackburn, if I remember right

as Labour found out in the 80s, if you have too strong a vision then you end up turning half the electorate against you

The objective view is to acknowledge that there can be good and bad 'terrorists' (or whatever label you want to use) depending on the circumstances. Some violent acts are just and necessary to prevent greater harm. Not everyone who sanctions violence is 'a baddie'.

Alongside what has been said in this thread, there are three more reasons why we don't score many goals: - We ask a lot of our attackers in terms of pressing so they may not have as much energy (mental or physical) when they do get the ball - Lallana and Rodrigues both have pretty powder-puff shooting a lot of the time - We lack pace to drive through defences

Possibly I have misunderstood but I thought you were condemning Labour supporters for still voting Blair even though they disapproved of Iraq. But I'll throw my comments out to whoever they are relevant to, I guess

I didn't agree with the Iraq war and went on the march (the UK's biggest ever protest). But with that decision already made to go into Iraq, people in certain constituencies had a choice. Either vote Labour, or let the Tories back in and have them do damage to our country as well (obviously not damage that is comparable to Iraq, but still). That, alongside all those middle England and floating voters who had been won over from the Tories and didn't really care about Iraq, was why Blair won another majority. Iraq was a disgrace but things like the minimum wage (which both the Tories and Lib Dems opposed) and investment in the NHS were worth protecting.

Pompey had ambition and look what happened to them. You have to push forward but also be sensible and know your limits, which I think for the most part we are.

I can only read the sample paragraphs but to be honest I agree with him. There was waste that could have been whittled down. However: - That doesn't mean Labour isn't the best party for government now - It doesn't mean the Tories would have done anything different - most countries were running similar levels of debt and the Tories didn't oppose Labour's spending plans at the time - We would still have an enormous debt due to the banks even if we had a run a surplus

Can he take the pace of the Premier League though?