duke63

Well he did vote for Brexit. What a waste of time and money that was. And screwed the Country over for decades to come.

The only party to have run £160bn per year Treasury deficits is the Tory Party. And they continued along that path yesterday by giving tax cuts with money they don't have. Britain is bust and broken and heading for the rubbish bin.

Totally agree. Much of it is to do with Britain's old class system amd inherited wealth and power. Too many people seem to cowtoe to thsoe idiotas in power. Its time they were removed from office and Britain as governed by people with the best interests of the majority actually living here and not just a few inbred idiots. You can see with Labour likely to gain power that the Labour party has suddenly changed way beyond what it is a few years ago and now is just a Tory-lite option. Recently Schapps mentioned pushing the retirement age past 70. That is just not a viable option. What jobs are there that 70 year old can do? I have just turned 60 and it relatively good health and fitness but there are many things i could with ease 10 years ago but are now not so easy. Add another ten years on and the same will be true again.

When there is a war or whatever other crisis they just borrow more and make us plebs pay it back over the next 10, 20 or 50 years, depending on the size of the crisis. Meanwhile they just stash more of their cash and assets offshore out of reach of and hidden from the tax man. Eventually it will all come crashing down.

Britain is broke. There are only two ways of changing that, bring more money in or spend less. There is no where left to make spending cuts - the NHS is no longer functioning properly and slowly being privatised, the police are non existent to the ordinary citizen, our roads are falling apart due tto lack of maintenance, our schools are falling down as they were built on the cheap and some kids are not even getting a proper education. Remind me who has been in power over the last 13 years and in that time has taken UK national debt from £1 trillion to over £2.5 trillion and the interest on that debt has risen from approx £30 billion per year to well over £100 billion per year. And still rising! That's the record of idiots!

So why couldn’t the UK do the same? It’s always excuses and moaning but very little action when it comes to the UK. Seems as long as it’s cheap it doesn’t matter if it’s imported. No wonder we make and grow so very little.

France makes a lot of what it consumes. Be that food or manufactured goods. Go into their supermarkets and you can see which part of France the food comes from and local farmers are encouraged to see direct to their LOCAL supermarket. Not only that but french people will often buy something marked ‘Fabrique en France’ before something that isn’t even if it costs more. Britain lost that decades ago.

However you might put it, the reason the UK is broke is partly down to the very wealthy avoiding UK tax by sticking their wealth in offshore tax havens.

This James Dyson? Leading Brexiteer Dyson who chooses to set up much of his wealth in offshore tax havens? https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/brexiteer-james-dyson-among-those-140530089.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJmJxidMroAEqdftxdGOYeJEF7Y4He3VjA1NIVbC3PwQyqdB2C_VT8jZfjSq5-aGCZDfy5LY7n-xrHHHmn1deUWRiudE6O1Vanme-W0q7l95m5Tb-CBg4rq20z5aBCJpfALsb4sa3i7g68MsgPORFJi32Vgad8gKy0deJ3hBaVTC

I just don't see every club making a profit on transfers when we see the ridiculous and ever increasing transfer fees plus wages that go with them.

I struggle to understand how nearly every club is making a profit in player trading. That cannot be true.

Doesn't the red lines above indicate a loss on player trading and Brighton are the only club to have made a profit ( in green). Its not possible for all clubs to have made a profit on player trading. Its a bit of a misleading graph.

The three promoted sides to date this season: P 36 W 3 D 6 L 27 F 29 A 83 Pts 15 The bottom six now comprises all the promoted teams over the last two years. Doesn't sound much like entertainment to me. Winning one game in every twelve and losing 3 in every 4.

Yes but we are not insolvent to the tune of £211 million. They owe £211 million more than they have in assets.

Not really. Brighton are £211 million insolvent. they owe their owners £335 million.

Knapper needs to get his feet under the desk and assess what is going on. To have to sack the manager and appoint a new one in his first week would not be a good way to start. He will have his own ideas now he is in charge and will need time to implement them.

The club is in debt because players across the game are paid ludicrous wages that the majority of clubs cannot afford. Football depserately needs a salary cap.

Its fairly obvious the club is going through transition. Uncertainty on all levels ( owenrship, boardroom, Sporting director, manager) will ultimatley feed its way down thru the whole club. It needs Attanasio to take full control and start a new direction, sooner rather than later. I'm guessing he may well have had some input into Knapper's appointment, so let the changes start now.

They would be better off pretending to be Man City fans, at least they win most weeks, after all surely that's what football is all about!!!

Too many people live their lives in an internet bubble and think the world revolves around them. Strangely it doesn’t.

That's true of whoever wins this League. Look at Burnley - walked the league last year, can't buy a win in the EPL. The way to win the league and stay in the EPL isn't the one that Burnley, ourselves etc have chosen in recent seasons. It will be interesting to see if Leicester's chosen route has more success next year.

It needs a club with history to go under and then we will see a reset as owners start to run scared.

I suspect Webber and Farke thought he was an Emi replacement but he wasn't the same type of player.

Not sure I would have any interest in it at all if it went down that route. I have said for sometime if I could subscribe to watching the Championship on Tv but not the EPL then I would. Many EPL games are drab boring matches with zero atmosphere. The West Han v Everton game yesterday was a case in point. I turned over and watched an old black and white film instead. Much more entertaining.

All last year's promoted sides in the bottom three. They have played 30 games between them, won 2, drawn 4 and lost 24. None of them have scored goals in double figures and all have conceded 2 or more per game on average. Sheffield still have not won a game with over a quarter of the season gone. All of the promoted sides of the last two years are in the bottom 7. Makes for very sorry reading and shows how the game has to change.