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I'm sure 7 pages in I'm not contributing anything new to the debate, but my wife and I are running a family on a yearly salary of less than what some of our players are paid in a week. I hadn't budgeted for this money, and I am lucky enough that in the short-term my earnings have not changed...

This would have been a good idea.

I tend not to. However sometimes I need to call in there with the kids in the car on the way back from somewhere. It's also probably quite healthy for them to see things like the shops and where the contents of the fridge come from, learn about how grown ups live etc. I also personally tend not...

You tried putting toddlers in and out of car seats with the door open 6 inches and someone else's pride and joy basically touching it?

We'd LOVE an arrangement to end the season that involved us staying up. But if you think the criticism we're getting now is bad...

I think a huge amount of the squad live outside the city.

I always thought that as well. Then I think my perspective about how great it was as an achievement was changed after I witnessed our post-promotion collapse in 2017.

My concern with a salary cap is that it could produce an NFL-style circuit of players, where only a handful of players tend to stay with a team for more than few years. Because teams are always needing to make salary cap room, it is accepted practice that top players will be traded or released...

I think it's been said, but my concern is that WW2, something for which Britain should be rightly proud of it's role in winning, is regularly misused in a nationalist way by those who were not alive at the time.

Everyone get down the beach and watch.

I think there's a perfectly good argument that getting the season finished in whatever way possible and outcomes being decided on the pitch is better for football than various solutions that involve no tangible outcomes, or ones decided on 75% of a season being played. It appears to me that we...

We'd be pointing out the same in other circumstances. The way it's been reported rightly or wrongly, we do look like we are trying to avoid the risk of relegation at all costs. From an outside perspective (in fact, even from my perspective) we were looking like freefalling into the drop zone on...

Maybe my understanding of the population demographics is wrong - but we do need people to have SOME children, don't we? I.e. to defend the country, provide medical care, prevent crime, grow food, provide entertainment - or to generate wealth to pay for those that do those jobs. Unless you are...

Just to play devil's advocate, if that was the case and I was restricted in my ability to travel for leisure because, in effect, I can only afford a small house, then I would probably move up north and buy a bigger one. I'm a public sector worker (when things get back to normal I can't really...

This bit highlights my overall concern with everyone's sudden enthusiasm with working from home. As I've said on another thread, working from home has been a nightmare. I live in a small 2 bed house with a 2 year old and a 5 year old running around. I have a desk at the end of my bed, which...

Like others have said, I'm missing it as part of my "normal" life, rather than outright missing it. I miss games with my mates, but I'd quite happily take a night at the pub (or even indoors) with them, no football, right now. Where it's actually hitting me quite weirdly is having none to dip...

Has a little bar next to it with TV screens that is better than the massive Spoons, though.

Aged 9, first world up I properly obsessed over, and it was probably the point at which my father successfully convinced me to "be" Irish, not English.

Maybe their kids have been amazing in lockdown, eating healthily, doing schoolwork, doing Joe Wicks every day etc, and also love KFC. And when it re-opened, they asked mum or dad if they can have it as a treat. My mum grew up in Colindale, used to spend loads of weekends staying at my...

I think the Patriots might have gone 16-0 one year but then lost in the Superbowl. I could be imagining that though. So they came closest to matching it. But if someone does do it, they'll be breaking Miami's one, as that was a 14-game season, I think. I could be imagining that as well!