Mr Biscuits

So if someone asks me if I'm gay and I refuse to answer does that mean I'm gay? It is ridiculous to assume an answer for someone when they do not answer a question.

Well yes, a lot of people need to calm down and concentrate on the argument. As for IR going after the the small infractions - they do this because they can't get the big ones like a certain football club down the road which is, as far as I'm concerned, a travesty but that's the system we have. (In fact that's a perfect example of the pressure groups and 'special case' pleas we see used to exempt those with money from the tax system.

Tell you what then, get yourselves elected on this exact argument and see how far you get once you meet all the pressure groups at Westminster. System is what it is, this leak will cause some reform but the rich will just find a way round it, pay pressure groups (and bribe politicians) to get loopholes in the legislation, plead special cases etc. You'll never stop it. And, frankly, with the system as it is why shouldn't anyone else use the system to pay less tax? Some of you have all but accused me of breaking the law - I never advocated that and I never said that. My position is that I will use the system to claim for whatever I can get away with - there is no illegality there. And incidentally, I know plenty of people in business who are downright flouting the system and laughing while they do it. but the problem is the system itself, maybe they will get caught but let's be honest there's plenty of people out there who don't and live their entire life that way. So you can be as high and mighty about it as you want - this story will run in the news, some reform will happen, some people may end up in jail (but I doubt it), some people may lose their jobs, but in the long run little will change. The rich will just discover news ways to get around the rules because they can afford to pay people to find or create those ways.

You're living in cloud cuckoo land if you think this kind of thing will ever be stopped and while a couple of you seem to be trying to take some sort of moral high ground I'm willing to bet that, like me, you claim for every possible thing to reduce your tax burden as much as possible. I claim for whatever my accountant and I think we can get away with, not much when you get down to it really but do you know what? I worked for it, it's my bloody money and I don't see why huge lumps of it should be taken away to pay for scumbags to sit in prison with better facilities than my Nan had in her nursing home, or for your average skate to skulk at home with his finger up his arse tugging himself off to Jeremy Kyle. (Note: While being more than happy to pay for projects that help people into work, or improve local communities) But I'm afraid that after 25 years of work I've come to the conclusion that most people are corruptible on some level and I'm tired of watching my tax being a political plaything, wasted on those who definitely don't deserve it.

Tommy Forecast.

Tbh it's enough to know that they are one of the last remaining repositories of Neanderthal attitudes on this planet.

So if someone turned round to you and said they could save you the million pound tax bill you are facing you would say no?

From what's being said, I would say pretty much everything you could possibly do with money to hide it and avoid taxation has been done by this company. I was wryly amused by their statement that they have 'never been charged with wrong doing' as if that somehow makes it ok. Mind you this is just another example of the system being used by those who can to avoid tax. Let's be honest - anyone who could would avoid paying them if given the chance.

Welp, some you win some you don't. I have but one message for Leicester - we weren't helping you today but you better not screw this up now.

4 points should do it for them. The Accrington result has really helped

Which is exactly what I've been saying all along - without a manager with the balls to drop players England will never improve. NO footballer should believe their spot in the England team is guaranteed. I'm mean we now have the England manager talking about wanting JOHN F*CKING TERRY back. This would be the same player that Sadio Mané made look very ordinary. Ridiculous.

No I don't think that at all. I'm just saying that we'll never know because we've not had an England manager with the balls to drop players who clearly were not performing for England. It's not about producing lists of names and saying 'oh he could have done so much better than X'.

My argument for managers having the balls to drop players is firmly based in the 'if X doesn't get a chance how can he possibly prove he is good enough' camp. You say there were no real alternatives, I say how can you tell? No one else ever got the chance. Club form does not necessarily translate into International form (as we have seen far, far too often). I'm not saying that there has ever been some sort of wonder kid out there who would have won everything for us had he only been given the chance, but I do believe that the abject failure of successive England teams and managers stems directly from the insistence on picking the same players who have failed again and again to achieve anything in an England shirt. Faced with this situation I would rather take risks and try different players rather than insist on picking players who have spent most of the season on the bench (for example) Also, the age argument doesn't hold up as far as I'm concerned - if you are good enough you are old enough. And that applies to someone in their 30's just as much as it does to taking along an 18 year old. What matters is the 90 minute shift they put in on the pitch.

They would make Goebbels proud with their style of rhetoric.

I'm sure Champagne salesmen in the Portsmouth area will mount a campaign to keep him on

Wouldn't surprise me for one moment with hodgson. And @CB Fry, previous experience shows this to be true because we've had managers without the balls to drop players who didn't deserve to wear the shirt. Perhaps one day that will change. Yet again I'm left thinking of the England rugby squad as an example - you're in on merit alone, no one is guaranteed a spot. This translates to a squad of players giving it all they have on the pitch because they are committed to the cause and know that lack of effort will result in non-selection. This strategy is painfully, obviously absent with the England football team and the results speak for themselves.

Taking those two statements quoted by Hutch, I think it's safe to say they've bet everything on gaining promotion this season. It's looking increasingly likely that they will at least make the playoffs however it's not certain yet and if they don't do it I'm going to laugh and laugh. I'd hate to see their balance sheet next year if they don't do it....

I'm quite sure we could negotiate that down to 4p in the £.......

Think it's supposed to be a motivational message. Think he could do with looking at how Ralph does it tbh.

and yet he will still take Rooney. Which should tell you everything you need to know about Hodgson.

I'm torn between cook and Dirty 'Arry. But it's got to be rubber faced twitchy git getting in his excuses following Jordans recent drubbing

Yes we did see a new dynamic England on Saturday. and it was wonderful and lovely to see and I would love to see it continue. However we have a manager who will not drop players that he has decided need to be in the squad no matter how they are currently playing. So you can expect a return to the dross we have seen before as soon as these players return from injury. With the trio of young, hungry strikers we saw on Saturday there is no need to choose Rooney yet again.

I don't think you should discount the potential banana skin of both teams currently in the relegation zone. D&r are probably dead and buried however York could still save their league place if they can put together some results however I don't think either team are going to stop trying especially since there is a certain 'f*ck you' element to screwing up another teams season which provides teams with a lift on their way down

In fact if you look at their run in, they are playing two teams that could catch them, two teams looking to get out of the relegation zone a team only just in the automatic promotion spots and the league leaders. The only other team - Hartlepool are mid table so you could argue that game doesn't count. However it could do for Portsmouth by the time they play them. That is not an easy run in and there's plenty of scope to get it wrong. Draws won't be enough, they need at least 9 points in the bag and soon to be sure of a play off spot.