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    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 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.

    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.

    The Man City squad that Pellegrini left has to be one of the worst squads of a big side in recent years, rarely do you see a squad in such dire need of a complete overhaul. Far too many players that have been there years and are past their peak, far too many signings made during the previous four years that just haven't been up to the required standard. Pellegrini successes: de Bruyne, Fernandinho (but overpriced and old), Sterling maybe but not yet, Sagna considering he was free, Otamendi isn't bad but hardly good and was massively overpriced. Failures: Negredo, Jovetic, Navas, Fernando, Delph, Mangala, Bony. Money spunked up the wall on utter dross.

     

    Guardiola's problem is that he seems to have tried to revamp the wrong areas. A couple of full-backs should have been a massive priority and he's persisted with has-beens whilst so few of his signings have made sense, he had about 7 players worth building around, mainly forward players but thay was then what he signed most of. Nolito cheap and has done well but doesn't address the old squad problem, Sane and Jesus signed for huge fees and all three in position where they have the most talent, Bravo is woeful (not saying replacing Hart was in any way a bad decision, there's no chance he'd be able to play how Pep wants), Gundogan injury prone, just been injured long-term and is now again. And then Stones...

     

    It' a huge job for Guardiola, at the moment he's not doing as well as should be expected, but I don't think he's failing anywhere near as badly as is made out.

    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.

    Payet knows he's good enough to at least be a squad option in any team in the league, but I doubt anyone will go much over the £19 million that Marseille have supposedly offered to buy him back. He wants Champions League football rather than just money so I can't see him wanting to go to China. Painted himself into a corner now though, could have got his head down for the rest of the season and engineered a move in the summer.

    I'm fairly sure I've said in this thread that Rojo should have been off.

     

    MEN had a good article on the 14 big decisions that had gone wrong in our matches. Two of them were the Rojo red cards and one was the scorpion. We've benefited from three hideous decisions this season but have had two disallowed perfectly fine goals (and an offside one today) and I think half a dozen fair penalty calls ignored. By impartial standards we've come off worse from quite a few games this season, by far far more than we've benefited.

    I wasn't denying you said that Rojo should have been sent off. I was merely pointing out that in the last half a dozen games your luck has turned.