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Arsenal had Bruce Rioch before Wenger. Liverpool had Roy Evans in the 90s as well. There haven't been that many PL winning managers at all though. Ferguson (13), Pep (5), Wenger (3) and Mourinho (3) have won 24 of the 31.

100%. There are good and/or principled people at all levels of wealth. I didn't mean to tar them all with the same brush, although it does come across like that. The ones that would flip flop between opposite parties aren't those people though. A lot of wealthy people are wealthy because they...

When you are rich it doesn't matter if the NHS is crap or the schools are crap etc because you and your kids will never use them. The fundamentals aren't of interest if the only thing you are seeking is improvement of your own circumstances. You might recognise that you live in a labour area...

It makes more sense when you are rich. When you have a lot of money, power and influence then you can directly benefit in a big way from the things that local politicians/councils etc have control over. It doesn't have to be an entire ideology, it might just be one specific thing that benefits...

The trades are even though because it's a closed system. You can't create additional picks or just buy all the picks. It's a trade. You have to give something up to get it. It isn't like the loan system where you can have certain teams just hoovering up all the best players. There are 257...

He hasn't moved anywhere politically. He's just waited for Labour to move over to his side. He wanted nothing to do with the Labour that wanted to help people but the Labour that wants to put business first he can get on board with.

Depends what you mean by working. I'm sure the shareholders of the water, energy, rail etc. companies will be happy. But no, privately run monopolies do not put customers first. The crux of the issue is that private companies shouldn't be making money under existing circumstances but they have...

I think the reason most people don't like the Dyche/Pulis brand of football is because invariably it is players which are bigger and stronger, not more athletic or technically superior, which are employed by those teams. It's a perfectly valid way of playing but it's not the way you would expect...

That's really good going. You must have had at least one really high finish in there? My last 10 is 480k but my last 5 at 72k is more representative of the years that have retained my interest because there were some years I made a team and then lost interest early. Even in the last 5 years I...

Privatisation can work and can drive efficiency but only where there is genuine competition. A rail service can't have competition because you can only have one service running on it. Rail was not competing with rail, it is competing with buses and cars and it has lost massively (to cars, not...

Probably that he has a big fat salary and at worst he is going to be in a team challenging for promotion next season. Alternatively he could have taken a massive pay-cut to be mid-table with us instead. I don't think he's done enough for anyone to take a risk on him next season in the PL. I'd...

Why? It seems to work ok. Moving up the draft can be costly and trading a player from another team could be as well. Moving a few places higher might mean giving up multiple picks. It's a complicated process because there might only be 2 or 3 starting quality players in a position in the draft...

Any chance that can be broken down by teams that finished 3rd/4th vs 5th/6th? Coventry and Sunderland scraped in on the last day of the season last year. They were both one of the 6/7 teams capable of playoffs with very little between them on 70/69 in 5th and 6th all the way down to Swansea in...

Yahoo used to do one which was great. Points for everything from passes, tackles, shots etc. The FPL version kind of forces a template team and there is very little variation in people's teams. It really frustrates me they haven't done anything better with the subs over the years. There is too...

In the context it means that you are not someone just offering your view but someone that works with/for the opposition to essentially troll his content with negativity. This is the worst thing about politics in the social media age. It is so binary that people have to be on the everything with...

I've been top of my league all year and I had a decent week this week with 83 (my 3rd highest of the season) but 2nd place in my league played their Free Hit this week and got 147. They captained Salah who only managed 3 points in a double gameweek or it could have been a lot more. I still have...

Having a single national operator should bring advantages around economies of scale but it will be very easy to see who benefits by the structure of the national operator. When purchasing/leasing the rolling stock will the whole system be purchasing as one or will it be regional operators...

Nothing needs to be bought. Franchises have a contract to deliver the service. Once that contract ends the government just doesn't renew it or put it out to tender but delivers it themselves.

I hope if anyone asks about ticket prices it is about why our prices are so high as a baseline compared to everyone else and not why there had to be an increase this season. This season's increase is reasonably explained away with inflation but already being the most expensive in the league...

Big difference between private and nationalised is the priority. A privatised company's priority is to generate profit where a nationalised company should be to maximise usage. I work in the NHS and I get tired of hearing about productivity in terms of money and not in terms of...