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You have a weird definition of what working class is - if someone owns a house they cannot be working class - many people who rent houses cannot be working class. The working class today is the same as two centuries ago - those who work by hand or brain for a wage. That encompasses 90% of the...

Is this thread not about money and football?

What has happened in football is a mirror of what is happening in wider society (in Britain and elsewhere) In 1985 the average wage of a footballer in the old first division was £25K a year - two and a half times the average industrial wage. In the old fourth division the average wage was £160...

Yes - socialism 1. State ownership does not equal socialism - China is a capitalist state and has widespread state ownership across the economy. Socialism equates to a democratically planned socialised economy under the control of working class people. 2. There is widespread support in Britain...

Don't care - its mad money when people don't have enough to put food on the table for their kids.

That may be the case - but take Celtic and Rangers out of Scotland and you have a league equivalent to what - bottom L1 or top L2 at best. Case in point - Jamie McGrath - Irish international - was regarded as one of the best players in Scotland (outside the Old firm) when he played for St...

Any opposition party worth it's salt can 'do' stuff in opposition. When Thatcher imposed the poll tax in 1990 Kinnock refused to do anything - it was left to activists on the ground to build a non-payment campaign 10million strong that eventually toppled Thatcher. If Kinnock (and the TUC) had...

1. Corbyn lost the election - and Starmer was to blame - the following also lost - Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband. 2. Corbyn was inept - he didn't do what was needed - rebuild the LP from the ground up - starting by mandatory reselection of MPs 3. The LP vote dropped from 43% in 1997 (when a...

Abbott's tweet was poorly judged and badly worded - she was taking a swipe at Tory Lee Anderson's comments that if refugees don't want to live on a barge 'they should f*ck-off back to France'. Social media - particularly twitter - is not suitable for making serious political arguments.

Well - he was called into the Irish U21 squad in June (and at that point he was the third or fourth oldest in the squad). He came on as a sub against Ukraine after 84 mins to replace Sean Roughan - who is a year younger and plays for Lincoln. The other defenders selected ahead of him - James...

Maybe he means a loan somewhere - although he didn't set the world on fire in Scotland last season and he has barely registered with the Irish underage teams over the past four years.

There is a bit of mis-informed hype around the NI team under Sanchez. The first year and a half that he was manager they won 3 games from 15 - all friendlies - against Estonia, St. Kitts & Nevis and Trinidad & Tobago. Six games into the WC qualifying group they had 3 points. Then in Sept 2005...

Wolves is a poison chalice at the moment - the entire club is a shambles. They re-signed Matt Doherty a couple of weeks and within a couple of days he was coming out publicly saying that behind the scenes the club were a mess. They are in trouble with FFP and have been dumping players where ever...

Managing international teams from smaller countries is very difficult - the players tend to come in waves - and when the wave dissipates you are stuck with a floundering team. Sanchez had taken NI as far as he could - same as Michael O'Neill when he left the first time - the wave was...

If you are unaware of the hatchet job done by the Blairites in LP HQ and the PLP on Corbyn up to and during the election campaign then there is little I can do to help you. Starmer was given responsibility by the Blairites to draft a position on Brexit that nobody could defend and he did it to...

Didn't say he was doing it now - but Starmer forced Corbyn into an untenable position on Brexit during the last election and contributed to the Tory win (so the Blairites could shaft Corbyn). Starmer is pro-EU - more specifically he supports the financial capital interests that run it. He can't...

You are correct - I'm showing my age, memory is going (or there is too much rubbish rattling around up there) - I checked the story - Pearce was receiving treatment for an injury and asked the physio what the line-up was for the match - then said 'Who the f*ck is Roy Keane'. Physio told him that...

Dunphy was actually at Man U while Busby was manager - 1962-1965 I think

Would it really be any worse than all the shirts that promote gambling?

Starmer isn't conducting any kind of a campaign - he is mister invisible - keep you mouth shut in case you f*ck-up Now this is hardly a surprise because apart from EU membership his policies are virtually indistinguishable from the Tories.