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If the UN/World Governments are certain that the Assad regime committed a criminal act in that they used chemical weapons in contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention then there is already a legal and proportionate course of action to be taken in that the International Criminal Court should issue an arrest warrant for Assad and anyone else they have evidence for crimes against humanity, war crimes etc. While I realise that Syria have not signed up to to the CWC and they probably do not recognise the legitimacy of the ICC, it should not prevent the world from starting legal due process and it will send out the same sort of message to the Assad regime as bombing some installation without the likely reaction of reinforcing the middle-easts image of the West and galvanising further support behind the regime. Lets face it in most countries, including the UK/USA/France punitive action against a criminal comes after the court case, and while it is unlikely that this will actually happen it is the right way forward. To paraphrase Cameron/Clegg et al - It is legal, proportionate and specific action The days of the West thinking that anything can be solved by firing a £1m missile at a target to teach some rogue regime a lesson in the hope they pull into line has long past. Unfortunately we just have to let them get on with their war and try every diplomatic way of getting them to talk, although this will only probably happen when they are tired of killing.

Even if that was true, he'd still have had to send the keeper off. Yes, the ref was perfect for that call. He played some advantage but brought it back for the penalty. It was not a red card because it didn't deny a goal scoring opportunity. Wiemann still had a shot but there was no advantage from his wide shot so he bought it back for a penalty and issued a yellow. Good refereeing. Actually the referee should only caution the offending player if advantage is played and a goal is scored directly. In this case the keeper should have been sent off as he denied an obvious goal scoring opportunity. Mute point really as we won

I can't understand why things are so financially tight compared to other clubs that we should be at the same level as. Isd there some underlying financial predicament that we don't know about.? Are we at risk of administration? Has RL just given up?

absolute classic

new song (pinched from Pompy Fans) 'We always lose, we always lose, you're nothing special, we always lose'

Comes under the section about shielding the ball for tactical reasons. As long as the ball is within playing distance (and you may argue how far away from a player that is), a player can shield the ball from thier opponent.

Wait until we are a Championship Club and see theclubs value tumble. However, the only way fan ownerships really work is if we adopt the model used in places like Germany.

In May I will be saying, 'WTF, your charging how much to watch a Championship game!!!!!!!'

until Friday when we get knocked out the Cup by Milwall then the following weekend when Newcastle and their new players do us. See a pattern forming Lambert you prick!!!

whatever you think about lambert and the previous managers we have had, the fundamental cause of our current plight is the complete capitulation by the clubs owner. Bright Future my arse. Typical American attitude, all **** talk, and when the going gets tough they **** off and leave you in the shit.

Not even insufficient evidence. No victim. Obviously Chelsea and Mikel are not confident enough that they can prove that Clattenburg made a racist comment or that if he did it was racially aggravated. Next step FA find there is no case for Clattenburg to answer then a phone call to the best libel counsel money can buy and take certain people to the cleaners. Then the FA do Chelsea for failure to control their players and officials for the incident in the changing room, for which there appears to be plenty of evidence to support and I would suggest that the police would have a case for a charge of threatening behaviour because of the threat to break Clattenburgs legs.

This is the one thing that I am really uncomfortable about in all this. If Saville was alive, the Police would not be allowed to say that he was a predatory sex offender, nor would the press be able to print untested allegation after untested allegation, until those allegations had been tested in a court of law. While I believe that Saville probably did abuse his position, as many in the pop industry have done in the past, I still find it uncomfortable that without completing any investigation and from what I am aware, not actually having any evidence to go on, other than what people are now saying some decades after the event, that the Police, Politicians and the Press can say and print things that can not be challenged by Saville. I am not defending his alledged actions, but it just does not sit right with me. The suspicious half of me, thinks that some people are doing an awful lot of shouting to hide any complicity they had in all of this, such as the BBC guy the other day who said he raised it with Saville but believed what he was told without taking it further, It smells like a lot of people covered in shite trying to cover their own backs.

I agree with what you are saying re the Scots voting on whether they want independence or not, but should they do so as in every divorce the other side gets the opportunity to say what they want once they part. As we are talking about the break up of the country we live in, and all the things that go along with it, I think I have a right to indicate what is acceptable to me, which I don't think can be achieved through a normal parliamentary election. I just think it should not be forgotten that the Act of Union affects all parts of the UK and N. Ireland but currently the politicians are only focussing on what people in one part of it want (or don't) and a proportion of my taxes are going to be spent by the British Government on a campaign against independence under the assumption, rightly or wrongly, that non-Scotland residents want a no campaign.

Theres a couple of points I want to make on this. As an Englishman I want to know why I am not being polled on my opinion of this. People forget to recognise that this is not just about Scottish Independence but is about the dissolving of the Act of Union, which is about the most important constitutional piece of legislation on which the UK is based. Don't get me wrong I would not be too bothered if Scotland went their own way, but this does affect more than just Scotland and I feel aggrieved that this is not being mentioned. More practically With regard to currency. Scotland only have two options. they can stay aligned with Sterling or they can establish their own currency. They can not take on the Euro as when/if they become an independent state, they will not be a member of the EU and will have to apply to join just like any other country, and will have to meet the stringent conditions set by the EU to do so. Borders - as they will not be a member of the EU, then freedom of travel between Scotland and the rest of the UK will have to be strictly controlled. Also, unless the EU give special dispensation as part of the independence treaty, Scottish citizens will need to apply for a work visa to work in the UK/EU. These are just a few of the issues the Scots really have to consider before making a decision to leave the UK.

Don't get me wrong, I am not fond of Liverpool Fans, I find them arrogant and so insular and I wish they fought for Justice for the Juve fans as much as they do for their own but I guess we can all be parochial about things. However, the argument that its been 20 years and they should let it drop goes against human nature. If your child was killed it took 20 years to find the person responsible, you would want justice just as much as those family members of the Liverpool fans do as without some sense of Justice it is very very hard to find a way to close things emotionally. Its a natural reaction and if, as it seems to be, that there was an institutional cover up, then it needs to be acknowledged and someone has to stand up and say 'Sorry' even if they are not personally responsible. That is the role of Government.