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I have read most of what has been written on previous threads and amidst some useful points on both sides there has been a lot of squabbling over small points as well as unnecessary abuse. I have been trying to sift through and get to the main points in the discussion in order to reach some conclusi...

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It's a mistake to think that politicians are responsible for economic success or failure. Almost always it is down to wider economic trends. Just as Tony Blair was not responsible for the rapid economic growth while he was PM and Gordon Brown and the succeeding Conservative governments were not resp...

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As I recall, Brendan Flood put in about £10 million in the form of loans through his company. This enabled us to go from having one of the lowest wage bills in the Championship to just above half way and that enabled us to put a team together that came fifth and won promotion. However, not long afte...

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I think you are wrong about us having the 2nd highest wage bill when we won the Championship. I think it was more like tenth, but I am not sure on that.

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With Burnley's performances not being as good as one would like at present and Wolves getting results by playing smooth, flowing football I was curious as to whether supporters would like to swap places with them. The reason for the difference between the clubs is obvious, they have been taken over ...

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Claret Moffitt, have you ever voted for the BNP? It's OK if you don't want to answer, but I was just curious. Both because I wonder where your views come from and I also wonder if BNP supporters try to hide the fact for some reason.

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Being in the Premier League means we have to over perform season after season to stay up. We have being doing that for the last two seasons, but you can't expect players to do it all the time. Right now we are under performing, which is something all teams experience, but thankfully we have at the s...

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Vincent Tan paid out a lot of his own money to get them promoted last time and even with that support they still went straight down. He seems to be less willing to spend his wealth in that way again and it may be he is planning on using some of the Premier League cash to recoup his previous losses.

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The whole case raises a lot of difficult issues regarding rape and sexual assault cases. In many of these it is the woman's word against that of the alleged assailant without there being corroborating evidence. Can we convict on that basis? If not it certainly means many of these crimes must go unpu...

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I would certainly vote Labour as I support most of Labour's stated policies, particularly renationalisations to put a stop to the thieving scoundrels who currently run our railways and supply our energy. I also think the idea of large scale green energy production is a good idea, not least because t...

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The fact is that almost all the other teams in the Premier League have better players than us for obvious reasons. You can't keep over achieving year after year. The world isn't like that. You can't keep on expecting the unexpected which is what we have been getting for years now. And Sean Dyche is ...

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From a rational perspective, every season we are in the Premier League we are favourites for relegation simply because of the size of our club and the resources available. To achieve what we have over the past decade or so we have had to over perform by a considerable margin. Every season it will ge...

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I think about this quite often when taking my daily stroll. The point is that there are different types of backing that comes from wealthy groups or individuals: 1. Some, foreign or British, have so much money they can buy a club almost as a toy to play with or to gain kudos and publicity from. I wo...

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The first thing to say is that every season in the Premier League for Burnley is a fight against relegation. It is obvious to everyone that we don't have the same resources as the other teams with the possible exception of Huddersfield and Cardiff. This year will be a particularly tough fight agains...

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Cuba has one just about the highest literacy rate in Latin America, the lowest infant mortality rate and the highest life expectancy. Socialism can work if it is applied in the right way. And as for the 'failed' socialist economies Rowls cites, anyone could mention the greater number of capitalist e...

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One might also note the benefits gained by the poor people of Cuba under a socialist regime, despite an illegal trade embargo by the USA.

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There are two things Trump has done that expose his underlying attitudes. I don't think there is enough evidence to brand him a white-supremacist, but the response he gave to the Charlottesville killing was shameful and showed just how far he is willing to go to avoid condemning overt racism. The ot...

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Just a note, but someone above asked if any country had ever benefited from Corbyn-style socialism. The answer to that of course is Britain. So many of institutions and benefits we take for granted today came from the Attlee government of the late 1940s. The NHS being just one example. Attlee's gove...

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I can't see that WBA messed us about. We asked about a player, they set a high price, we kept making increased offers but they stuck to their valuation. Presumably they see Rodriguez as an important part of their team and were only willing to let him go for the high price they quoted. How is that me...

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It has been mentioned above, but its worth restating that the signing of Vydra in fact gave us two new outfield players in addition to Gibson as the third. The point being that Vydra taking on Hendrick's position allows the latter to resume his role as a proper central midfielder, a role in which he...

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There is no absolute reality, only perceptions.

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Some ridiculous comments on here. Burnley is just about the best run club in the country as a result of which we have achieved levels of success that no other club like us has been able to equal. By that I mean achieving a position and status in the leagues that clubs of our size have only ever achi...

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I have not been strongly in favour of Remain or Leave, mainly because the consequences of either of them cannot be fully known. But over the last few days I have moved strongly in favour of Remain, primarily because of the way Trump has been behaving. He seems to be extremely antagonistic towards Eu...

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I think it really depends on whether or not his agent has been able to negotiate a better deal with another club. If not then it will be in his best interest to stay. He is at that stage in his career when he probably has only one or two contracts left to win, so it is a very important decision for ...

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"Stopped" a doctor who had opted to treat himself and was taking his own pulse.

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Such a subjective thing isn't it? I lived in LA for four years and loathed the place. I think my no 1 would be South India, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, but I know some would hate it there. I also like Venice but dislike Rome, power masquerading as sanctity in the latter case. And then you have to include...

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He has actually played the situation rather well. Like a lot of anti-American leaders he would have been paranoid about the possibility of an attack aimed at overthrowing him. By developing nuclear weapons he appeared to be something of a threat to us, although I am sure he never dreamed of making a...

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The outcome after 50 years is that Enoch Powell completely misread the situation. There have been some problems with immigration but nothing that could reasonably be described as 'Rivers of Blood'. And as for the 'black man holding the whip hand over the white', Powell was so very, very wrong. He wa...

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The problem would be finding a centre back better than Long or Taylor who was willing to be substitute for almost every game. Long is not as good as Mee but he is good enough to be third choice. Being fourth choice and not likely to play is not going to be much of an enticement for a player who has ...

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The zero originally came from Indian mathematics, but was received in Europe via the Arabs

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Just a small point, but there is no reference to Akashic records in Hindu texts and I have never met a Hindu in Britain or in India who ever mentioned such a thing. Perhaps from some other tradition.

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I was against the idea at first as the new TV deal means that staying up next season will make a huge difference to the club as a whole. But on reading through the posts I have changed my mind. Even though there is no trophy for it (and perhaps there should be) finishing 'best of the rest' and playi...

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Anti-semiticism is racist prejudice against people who are Jewish. It is utterly deplorable as are all forms of racism. Anti-semitisim is not opposition to the policies of the state of Israel and their abuse of the Palestinian people. This is quite reasonable given the recent history.

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I really don't think there is much antisemitism in the Labour Party. There is, however, a strong anti-Israeli sentiment, and not without good cause. Israel and its supporters constantly try to represent criticism of its policies as being antisemitism. But they are nothing like the same thing and thi...

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I went to a league game at the main stadium with my partner. Turned out you get two games for the price of one and women get in for free.

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The argument would be that we need to follow due process and thereby undermine one line of Russia's denial. Why not do it? It draws a clear line between us and the Russians.

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If Heaton gets back to keeping as well as he was before the injury, then I have little doubt that he is the best England have. Just ahead of Nick Pope.

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Stanley versus Sunderland next season is going to be some event.

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It wasn't just about how good we were, because good teams can be pretty boring sometimes, but it was the excitement of the matches. We were really good up front and Davis and Pender were excellent, but when Pearce was in goal it could keep you on the edge of your seat, and not in a good way. I have ...

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I agree with Dimitri, I feel sorry for the opposition's supporters if we have won. I particularly remember after we beat Sheffield United at Wembley sitting on the Tube and seeing a dad in his Sheffield United shirt with a little boy of about eight. They looked so miserable, how could you not feel s...

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What result do we want from this one? Victory for Arsenal means it will be hard for Watford to catch us, but victory for Watford means we are in touching distance of sixth place. Personally, I am hoping for a draw, hedging my bets, and that means one point somewhere has disappeared.

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Don't do it. They will be able to tell and will possibly feel sick afterwards as the stomach is not used to digesting meat. And anyway, as has been said above, it is a horrible thing to do to a vegetarian. It's not what friends do.

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Perhaps Southgate asked Sean Dyche whether Tarkowsky would be playing, before he came to watch the game and word of this inquiry leaked out.

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Only time I ever went there it poured with rain and they called it off as we were queuing to get in. I think it was in the cup and we lost 3-0 when it was eventually played.

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Went about 25 years ago to a derby game against Ujpest Dosza. It was 5-0 to Ferencvaros at half time. Quite a bit of violence between supporters in and around the ground.

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Just like to add that I hope this does not happen. If I was offered the chance for the Sheikh who owns Manchester City to do the same for Burnley I would turn it down. I not only support Burnley I really like Burnley, and the way we have gone about getting our success makes me really proud. We have ...

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I suffer with ocular migraines as well, no real pain just the flashing zig zag lines which last for about 20 to 30 minutes. I asked the optician about them and he said they were not a cause for concern and were surprisingly common. Computer work and driving can be a trigger for me, but the main thin...

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It's just another example of the bad luck we seem to experiencing this year.

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It always seems to happen that for the first couple of seasons in the Premier League most supporters are happy just to be there and then come the cries for a different type of football. This is what has happened to Stoke, WBA Crystal Palace et al. Do we want to change places with them? I don't. I'm ...

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The trouble for rugby players is that when they retire from professional sport there is a good likelihood that they will become genuinely obese. It happens to quite a lot of ex-footballers as well.

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