tinker

BHX is in competition with both London and Manchester airports, they aim to steal Midlanders who uptil now have to travel 100 miles to get true international travel. The tourist attractions that are in the Midlands warrant a local International Airport.

The HS2 will only go Birmingham to london for at least 20 years, IMO.

Drink

Lets set a tent up to show how pissed off we all....

Its all ok because we export £10 billion pounds worth of goods to Europe every year, thats why we have to stay within the EU.............We pay £12 billion into Europe every year, plus the hand outs to our starving fellow Europeans......oh shit!

The truth is there is no real answer to all this cheating and lying, mis information and other such bollox. Their all criminals IMO.

The Tories and the Libs arranged a cartell for being elected, Labour are just a bunch of idiots and most of the UK general public 'like' the X factor........

**** it, i just give in!

I voted for the Lib dems after hearing their policies, they never stuck by any of them and backed up the Tories to get their toe in in power, how is that right?

Tax avoidance scheme's are the problem, Google make billions in the Uk and pay less than 1% tax on it, that, IMO makes a 20, 40 or 50% tax on people who earn less than £1m very wrong.

Their not the only ones, every man and his dog are at it, even footballers......The Tories will stay well away from that one though, as did Labour.......

Round and round and round we go.

Best hope there aint no legal rep from Ryan Air reading this lot.....

What a joke, their touring afterwards anyway, £60, plus hotel and travel and a 3rd night in the wings anyway, its exploitation....

Shame on our whole democracy.....its being pulled apart bit by bit, following CHINAS model i fear....

Hes showing promise after only a few games, give him more time and he will be a good addition to the team.

So whilst I've heard alot of blaming going on in this place, would someone give a decent answer as to how we get out of it?

or does noone know, hence why the PM doesn't know, hence why noone - even economists - dont even know?

Strip capatlism back to its core and get rid of making money by moving money about, it produces nothing of any real use, no valued added.

We could also spend money on infrastructure, tidal power stations, offshore wind farms, uderground systems for major cities, anything that produces and end product of value.

QE is like pouring fuel on the fire and hoping it burns its self out........

Its gonna take a true leader of the type i have never seen in my lifetime to sort this mess out. Your mass produced card board cut out, media bitch PM aint gonna do f**k all, no matter what colour tie he or she wears!

The UAE (Oil - nothing we can do about that), India and China (lots of cheap labour - very little we can do about that).

Oil.....we could invade? Cheap labour.........QE sorts that out by raising inflation to such a level we all (in effect) suffer pay cuts.

I dont blame labour or the tories, they are all the same to me tbh, i dont see a blind bit of difference, both feed the rich, who in turn hide the truth from the masses.

Until there is a major and i mean major f**k up (food shortages type mess) then nothing will change.

We British have a long standing record of sitting on our arses while the elite amongst us take the piss, thats what made us great, compliant labour market that was willing to fight wars in foreign lands for little or no money......

ffs, talent less waste of air time, all the pouting and soul searching with the beautiful background and the dramatic music implying inpending doom makes me prey for a stray nuclear attack.

Not one of these artists....is worth jack shit to me. it makes me so angry to think proper artsist have to sit back and watch these gimps on prime time tv.....

Cut the agent out, use one of the many sites that list on rightmove and the other major house selling websites, urbansalesandlettings is one, they only charge £200, one of fee and you deal with the buyers.

Advertise the price low, put offers in excess off and see what happens.....good luck

Hes also quoted as saying that you can only change 20% of a player over 16..............perhaps he would have made a difference as our development / youth training manager, first team......no thanks

tinker,

Read this article http://www.insidefutbol.com/2011/03/24/frances-clairefontaine-academy-rivals-barcelonas-la-masia/39378/

Fantastic idea and i agree with the principle. Hes only mentioned once though, it wasnt his idea.

Reading the Wiki article makes it clear that hes had a mixed career littered with blunders and foot in the mouth moments.

I do like him as a person (as he appears) but i didnt like him in charge of my club........

He can coasch players to be world class = proven...

A yea, A Young and S Downing

He can turn a average looking footballing nation into a world class footballing nation = proven.

He can coasch players to be world class = proven...

Average......Viera, Henry, Ginola, Zidane .........the French team were far from average

Where do you think that French team were trained? And who help set up this system and training to help these players become as good as they were?

He can coasch players to be world class = proven...

Oh yea, A Young and S Downing

He can turn a average looking footballing nation into a world class footballing nation = proven.

Average......Viera, Henry, Ginola, Zidane .........the French team were far from average, was he the manager?

He was a top football manager..

Corrected it for ya

He is a top football manager..

Was

.He gives out top class and professionalism with his work

I am sorry but he was not a professional when he blanked the Villa fans at Anfield and behaved like a fool.

Gérard Houllier has been forced to issue a statement to clarify the ill-advised comments he made after Monday night's defeat at Liverpool, when he infuriated Aston Villa supporters by suggesting that the fact he had lost 3-0 to his former club softened the blow.

Fans used message boards and forums to vent their anger at Houllier's remarks as well as his conduct – the Villa manager marked his return to Liverpool by touching the "This is Anfield" sign and waved at the Kop at the end of the game after his name was chanted. When he was interviewed after the match, Houllier said: "If I have got to lose 3-0, I would prefer it to be to them as I like Liverpool."

That remark particularly badly received by Villa supporters who were already concerned at a run of four straight defeats that has left them within two points of the relegation zone and ended their interest in the Carling Cup.

Aware of the unrest that his behaviour has caused, Houllier sought to defuse the situation by claiming that his post-match comments were intended to be humorous. There was, however, no apology, and it remains to be seen what sort of reception he will receive when Villa host West Bromwich Albion on Saturday in a game that has now taken on added significance.

"To the fans who travelled to Liverpool and to all Villa supporters, let me assure you that we are working as hard as we possibly can to achieve the level of success which this great club aspires to," Houllier wrote on the Villa website. "Everybody is hurting because of recent results and I and my staff are working on putting this right.

"No one likes to lose 3-0 against any team and, if comments I made in the immediate aftermath of our defeat by Liverpool have been misconstrued – comments which were intended to be humorous, by the way – let me put them into context. The experiences I enjoyed with Liverpool some years ago will always stay with me, as will many experiences I have had in football both before and since, and I have taken all these experiences into my job as manager of Aston Villa.

"I understand the fans' feelings of hurt and disappointment at the moment – I am hurting as much as anybody, believe me – and I say emphatically that we will battle through. Building lasting success at Aston Villa is my focus and my commitment to this challenge is resolute.

"It is down to us collectively as a club to work hard to bring joy and success to the fans because the fans are the most important. They are passionate, vocal and fantastic, which I stated when I first came here. They know we are in this together and their support will be vital on Saturday for our game against West Bromwich Albion."

The club remember had to force him to say “sorry”

This

A true profesional.........lol, he may at his best have been great, however age has took its toll plus the after affects of the heart and lung machine.......

Good luck GH, happy retirement!

He also very nearly got us relegated because he treated professionals like children.

For Dunne to try and get a posse of players to go against the system was so childish..Why didnt he just go and have a quiet word with Houllier instead? Why didnt he just say he was 100% behind the new system but is finding it a bit difficult? Why just throw your toys out the pram and not accept it? Its a proven top tier system..

Because GH did not speak to the players and was never at training, he was approached but nothing changed, his french fitness trainer has a rep, check it out, and nothing changed at the Villa, the guys to old, he touched the L Pool pigeon,(or whatever it was)

Could you imagine AM returning to the SHA and touching there two big balls.........mmmm though so lol, Tom or is Dick or Harry

Larsson is a right winger.

Whoops.......so's Zog, ;-)

My point is there aint a great deal of difference. AM has his hands tied, its painful to see tbh.

We have been asset stripped to the core, the only players that are left are mainly over paid and under used, our star players have been shipped out so we can continue to pay their inflated wages, its enough to make me.........