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That period from 2006-2011 after the stadium move was massively impressive in the way he managed to keep them competitive. Obviously he's continued to keep them there, but them not spending as much as the other top teams seems to be a personal choice of Wenger rather than a pragmatic financial decision as it was then.

They came back into it well in the first half but that second was just shocking. You're right though, a lot of teams would have been blown away once Bayern started playing. Would be nice to see Atletico finally win it, but Real will probably luck their way through again.

Aside from about a million other things, he didn't even accuse them of being fake news.

The season is basically developing into a mirror of two years ago, isn't it?

It's a balancing act - the Lib Dems aren't completely moribund in Stoke, so having a Labour Leave member (not to mention that there's relatively few of them who are viable candidates in many places) might have spoiled our chance to drive up anti-UKIP turnout. Our candidate backs the triggering of Article 50, which at this point is all that matters.

Realistically, which two teams above them are United going to catch when they play like that?

I'd say that's a simplistic argument, although Corbyn isn't really doing much to disprove it.

Well on face value, the Article 50 rebels will be doing the same thing?

They could have saved a lot of money by only paying him for the games he shows up to.

That really would be the final insult for Jeb Bush.

Don't feed the troll.

Chances that it's been deliberately leaked to manage expectations and it's actually going to be much closer? Somehow after the fiasco the leadership made of the selection, I'm not holding my breath.

Can't see the Lib Dems coming through the middle in either Copeland or Stoke to be honest. Would expect a 1,000-ish majority for the Tories in Copeland and Labour in Stoke. If either party can win both it'll be an interesting night.

Hull have for some reason sold Jake Livermore to West Brom for around £10 million.

West Ham fans have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Sullivan and Gold that's currently swinging towards the latter. Mainly because they try and do most of the transfer business themselves, which occasionally goes very wrong.

Ultimately I suppose it came down to how the two sides managed the contrasting ideologies and messages of their constituent parts. Leave did a better job of pitching to voters who wanted stricter immigration / more "sovereignty" / less regulation without putting off those who were turned off by one or more of them, than Remain did trying to balance economic security / protection of progressive reforms / liberal Europhilia (the last one is a bit clunky but I couldn't really think of another way to put it).

I was under the impression that there was a lot of pressure from Cameron's group to run the campaign along his usual lines.

This is what happens when Lynton Crosby runs a campaign with most of the press not on his side, in essence.

I can't see how UKIP can win Labour 'heartland' seats in areas where the Tories aren't completely anaemic. One of the main effects of May's stance will be putting the Tories in a position to challenge lots of semi-safe Labour seats where the majority voted Leave. UKIP aren't the direct threat.

Not saying this is relevant to you, but the events that have transpired since the referendum have been a rather good rebuke of Lexit as a valid political idea.

Given that he's more interested in free movement than the single market, we can probably kiss goodbye to Corbyn backing the only sensible option for our policy at the next election. We already missed a trick by not demanding single market access before the speech and now May is able to pivot and call it a 'clean' Brexit rather than a 'hard' one. I'll be surprised if we have a coherent stance by then that that isn't just Keir Starmer camping out in Andrew Marr's green room.

The 27 will act in their own interest, which will leave us with a shit deal. We don't have enough to offer to them to get a deal whereby manufacturing and the financial sector can operate without tariffs, meaning we'll have to give businesses a glorified bung in order to keep them here. Many universities have recently announced that they'll be raising their tuition fees to £10k a year by 2020. I dread to think what that'll be once EU funding disappears and the international students stop coming.

I just hope it's a windy day.

Responsible.

This. Pundits have been carping on since 2014 that City's squad is the best in the league, but you can't get away with having all your starting full backs and central midfielders over 30. If you'd told Guardiola at the start of the season that he'd be starting a game at Goodison with Touré and Zabaleta as his midfield pairing he'd have had palpitations, he's simply upgraded the wrong half of the team. They should promote Maffeo at right back and put in a bid for Rodriguez at Wolfsburg. Otamendi and Stones aren't a good pairing but that will probably have to wait until the summer unless Kompany can get fit.