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Thanks Nigel - best of luck.

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Why would anyone want a statue of nani outside their ground? Booby prize surely.

Run away to acapulco would be my guess. You don't spend that long in scouseland without picking up a few of the locals' habits.

If Hughes takes over - I won't be overjoyed, but I'll give him a chance to perform as I would with any other manager.

Fair enough - on the optical illusion theme, here's one especially for you Stare at the image for 30 seconds, then either close your eyes or look at a blank wall

Homer Simpson surely?

Isn't that a carlos the jackal photoshop?

Not really. Most attribute it to GH - but the sole presence of gmac on the bench has allowed him to be used as the latest excuse.

I'm disappointed with any bench that has Pires on it. He's approaching the age where the only time you'd expect to see his name on a bench is on a brass plaque.I think he'll get a run out in the second half - gives him a chance to say farewell to his arsenal fans.

On current form (last 8 games) - arse have a rather poor 1.25 points per game - nearly as bad as ours. But seeing as three of those points came from the manure game when they actually remembered they had something to fight for that's slightly distorted. So discounting that match, we're on slightly better form, and so I fully expect the boys in Claret and Blue to hand them a good spanking today.

Yes

Smear or suicide?

Have we stopped being disrespectful yet?

Do you think it might help prepare for next season?

A Manure legend who had the foul stench of that club about him. The line was drawn for me. Pathetic. When you've followed a club for more than one season you might have an idea about what following a club is all about.

Just like the old days, settled team? 3-1 to the mighty VILLA

Since only about 3% of money created is created by physically printing banknotes, yes, it's extremely unlikely. Is that relevant? If they were to do the unthinkable and exit the EUR, they would still require paper money. Plenty still stuffed in mattresses

Or Norman Lamont even - another free market chancellor opposed to the joining the euro who helped **** the economy.

As per above - debt is going to become more expensive as the banks try to shore up their capital levels - so even though Ireland don't need to go to the markets again til the end of 2012 (and no one's going to lend them money just before the end of the world) - the markets are already pricing irish debt at above 10%. So they're going to go bust in 18 months time regardless. This actually gives Enda a stronger hand to play than he had after the election. Does he pour the EUR9bn in interest to the ECB and IMF down the drain for the next 18 months or does he tell them to do one, and use the 9bn as part of a settlement with the debtholders. Odds are Enda will just end up with a (pointless) reduced interest rate of 5% and it will go titsup in 18 months time anyway - I doubt he has the balls to take on the big boys.

Well there's been a year and a half of legitimised money laundering where banks have traded their greek debt for euro debt via the ECB, but the french, german and UK banks (mainly RBS) still hold a lot of the debt. Of course if we have a default then the CDS trades come into play and that drags in the swiss and american banks. Following the failure of lehmans banks have been busy hedging their CDS exposures so it's difficult to see one big bank taking the whole hit and going under - bail out for a couple of the french banks probably. And when the tide goes out we'll see who's swimming naked - ie there's always fraud in the system, and someone will be caught with their pants down. It does however hit capitalisation of the banks and makes debt more expensive for everyone else.

There is no alternative, this has to happen, followed by Ireland and Portugal

It is not possible to logically hold that view.

It was an apalling campaign dave campaigned to shore up his support and oppose the libdems nick campaigned honestly, no honestly he did - he chose a better option ed was weak - he let his party do what they want - it seemed like labour only pretended to support av because that would hurt the tories more than fptp labour and tory campaigns were solely born of self interest, the lib dem one less so tory voted no cos it would hurt them livdems voted yes cos it would help them labour (pretended to) vote yes as it would hurt the tories. Politics in action? Yes. Democracy in action? Me arse. a most shameful election campaign - the only benefit being that now maybe 10% of the population understand that there is more than one possible electoral system and that some are more fair than others. The overall conclusion is that the current status quo cannot deliver both democratic representation and a reasoned approach to constitutional change BIAD.