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Week 15 points... Week 15 table...

Week 15 fixtures... Saturday 14th December Arsenal v Everton Liverpool v Fulham Newcastle United v Leicester City Wolverhampton Wanderers v Ipswich Town Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa Sunday 15th December Brighton & Hove Albion v Crystal Palace Manchester City v Manchester United Chelsea v Brentford Southampton v Tottenham Hotspur Monday 16th December AFC Bournemouth v West Ham United

Did the current owner choose to do this or have they 'inherited' it? If they chose to do this then they're obviously not wedded to original period features so I'd go with an infill of matching floorboards, perhaps stain the whole lot and stagger joints so they blend in better. If they inherited this and want a period feature I'd go with decorative Victorian tiles (I don't like the sound of self-adhesive vinyl tiles). Then use it to place a floor lamp/house plants/candles etc to make it look like it was meant to be rather than a cover-up job. Both options will require some chipping away of the concrete to provide a level finish with the floorboards, but much preferable than a trip hazard step and something that looks bodged. After chipping away at the concrete I'd use a self-leveling screed to provide a flat surface to work with. Other options are a rug, piece of furniture etc and let someone else have the problem!...

''Fire breast''...do you mean the chimney breast has been removed leaving a flat wall with no side alcoves?...

Week 14 points... Week 14 table...

Week 14 fixtures... Saturday 7th December Everton v Liverpool Aston Villa v Southampton Brentford v Newcastle United Crystal Palace v Manchester City Manchester United v Nottingham Forest Sunday 8th December Fulham v Arsenal Ipswich Town v AFC Bournemouth Leicester City v Brighton & Hove Albion Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea Monday 9th December West Ham United v Wolverhampton Wanderers

Unlucky for some...me! Week 13 points... Week 13 table... Week 14 fixtures to follow later...

Indeed Seph. This from the BBC's Economic Editor Faisal Islam for the more fiscally minded, or in layman's terms, much ado about nothing.... ''5 year gilt rate now 10 basis points below morning of Budget…. Not far off going below 4% again… important for 5 year fixed mortgages… 10 year and 2 year also 10 bps down… All back within a few bps (ie under 0.1%) of where they were on election day was some properly crazed stuff on markets just after Budget… esp on currency. Sterling now up vs euro, down 2% vs dollar. All these moves really rather normal, and as I said the day after the Budget a 15 bp rise at peak a relatively modest reaction vs significant increase in borrowing, tax & spend/ change in fiscal rules''

Just found out that unused weekly transfers can be carried forward up to a max of 5, previously it was 2, which means less pressure on the wild card...

That was certainly par for the course under the previous Gov, but Labour has a lot of very keen/ambitious MPs so I think she'll probably have to wait her turn...

I think Seph is right, the quick resignation is probably more to do with Labour wanting to quickly shut down an issue rather than allowing it to drag out over days/weeks like we had under the previous Gov...

Find myself in agreement with right-wing commentator Dan Hodges take on this... Louise Haigh's resignation sets a ridiculously low bar for cabinet service. We're now saying there can be no rehabilitation for anyone in public life who has committed the most minor of offences.

The Tory party's response to today's net migration figure of +728,000 for the year up to June (pre-election) is typical of them and their supporters attempt to gaslight in real time and airbrush out their sole accountability and responsibility, and instead attempt to blame the new Labour Gov . Quite incredible. Chris Philip - Shadow Home Secretary... "Today's figures confirm what we've been warning about: immigration remains far too high, and Labour was wrong to suspend further restrictions on family visas. "Such high numbers place mounting pressure on housing, public services, and damage social cohesion, causing a real impact felt by communities across the UK. "We need immediate action to enforce stricter controls on the border, get these numbers down, and put the needs of British workers and families front and centre."

Yep, national debt is different to deficit. National debt was £800 Billion in 2010 when the Tories first took office. Thy left office with it standing at £2.6 Trillion...

It's there not their... I'd love to know when I inferred I ''were going no longer respond to my posts, that didn't last long,''.

I'm spoiling you, a Friday evening game and a double bubble mid-week extravaganza! Week 13 fixtures... Friday 29th November Brighton & Hove Albion v Southampton Saturday 30th November Brentford v Leicester City Crystal Palace v Newcastle United Nottingham Forest v Ipswich Town Wolverhampton Wanderers v AFC Bournemouth West Ham United v Arsenal Sunday 1st December Chelsea v Aston Villa Manchester United v Everton Tottenham Hotspur v Fulham Liverpool v Manchester City Tuesday 3rd December Ipswich Town v Crystal Palace Leicester City v West Ham United Wednesday 4th December Everton v Wolverhampton Wanderers Manchester City v Nottingham Forest Newcastle United v Liverpool Southampton v Chelsea Arsenal v Manchester United Aston Villa v Brentford Thursday 5th December Fulham v Brighton & Hove Albion AFC Bournemouth v Tottenham Hotspur

Perhaps Jezzer would like to tell us where in the Tory 2019 manifesto it gives a detailed breakdown as to how the tax burden would increase under them to an all-time record high by the end of their term. Here's a clue, it didn't. This idea that Labour should've detailed everything to the nth degree beforehand whereas previous Govs of all hues haven't, is typical of this politically biased confected outrage. Labout based their manifesto on the figures freely available to them at the time (from memory an OBR report published around March time). Once in power they then asked the OBR to revisit the figures and, surprise surprise, they found a 'hidden' £9 Billion that needed to be added to the existing 'black hole' deficit. The bottom line in simple terms is the Tories maxed out UK Plc's credit card and went well over the spending limit (Jezzer, you reckon Labour will make the country bankrupt and it will be on its knees? Keep up, the Tories have already done that). Some of the 'overspend' was undoubtedly due to external factors e.g. Covid and Ukraine, but some was self-inflicted e.g. Brexit, which I read somewhere trumps both in terms of long-term economic damage. Then there's issues like the unfunded tax cuts of Truss' lamentable budget, which among other things caused a spike in interest rates = bad for consumers and business. Where's the outage at that from the likes of Jezzer? Although I don't agree with everything Labour has done, this idea that their budget is an economic disaster despite there being no run on the stock markets or £, that the Bank of England hasn't been forced to make a fiscal intervention in order to stop pension funds going belly-up, or there's been a spike in interest rates leading to millions of borrowers having to pay more for their mortgages. business loans etc, all of which happened under a Tory Gov and is still affecting people to this day, is laughable. Carry on wearing your Tory blinkers Jezzer while the rest of us cough-up for their economic delinquency...

Week 12 points... Week 12 table...

Seriously, how naïve and juvenile is that petition, talk about sore losers. Whether you think Labour has broken any of its pre-election manifesto pledges/commitments etc is all down to interpretation and more likely how you voted at the last GE. But regardless of that, has there ever been a government that hasn't met all it's pre-election manifesto pledges/commitments etc? There were loads of promises made by previous Tory Govs over the past 14 years that they failed to deliver on, where were all the right-whingers calling for a petition then? Let's start with taxes. Johnson pledged in 2019 not to increase income tax, VAT or National Insurance. By 2023... The current Tory-led parliament will oversee the biggest set of tax increases since the Second World War, the country’s leading economic think tank has said. Tax revenue will amount to 37% of national income by the next election, analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests, up from about 33% four years ago. This is the largest increase since records began in the 1950s. The spike amounts to about £3,500 more per household, though it will not be spread equally. Then there's Brexit and all that promised but failed to deliver, even Johnson's 2019 'oven ready deal' wasn't oven ready and needed to be amended to get round the issues of a border in the Irish Sea (another broken promise). They couldn't even deliver on the promise of controlling our borders, with immigration shooting up post-Brexit. Not forgetting the addition of red tape rather the the reduction that was promised. There's a thesis to be written on this subject alone. Ditto 'levelling-up', remember that? How about 40 new hospitals that later turned out to be mainly refurbs of existing hospitals? 300,000 new homes per year were also promised in 2019, a target that pre-election stood at... The Construction Products Association currently estimates the government will miss its 300,000 homes a year target by 40%. And so on. Whisper it, but Govs also do things that weren't in their manifesto like Sunak scrapping HS2 and subsequently trying to 'salt the earth' so that it couldn't be revived by a future Gov. He had no mandate to be PM let alone do something major like that, again, where was the uproar from the right? You can apply the same double standards to all the confected noise around Labour and the so-called freebies. That, along with this petition is purely political and nothing to do with principals being applied fairly...

Week 12 fixtures... Saturday 23rd November Leicester City v Chelsea AFC Bournemouth v Brighton & Hove Albion Arsenal v Nottingham Forest Aston Villa v Crystal Palace Everton v Brentford Fulham v Wolverhampton Wanderers Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur Sunday 24th November Southampton v Liverpool Ipswich Town v Manchester United Monday 25th November Newcastle United v West Ham United

Week 11 points... Week 11 table... Almost a third of the way through the season and RC is comfortably holding onto his early lead, and also flying the flag for the EDF with 10th place overall, 11 points behind the leaders. 👏 Another international break, back in just over a weeks time...

Another tricky set of matches. Week 11 fixtures... Saturday 9th November Brentford v AFC Bournemouth Crystal Palace v Fulham West Ham United v Everton Wolverhampton Wanderers v Southampton Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester City Liverpool v Aston Villa Sunday 10th November Manchester United v Leicester City Nottingham Forest v Newcastle United Tottenham Hotspur v Ipswich Town Chelsea v Arsenal

Who knew coin tossing was the way to go. Week 10 points... Week 10 table...

Indeed, I've hedged my bets and gone for 5 draws, and the other 5 are not confident wins either...

Week 10 fixtures... Saturday 2nd November Newcastle United v Arsenal AFC Bournemouth v Manchester City Ipswich Town v Leicester City Liverpool v Brighton & Hove Albion Nottingham Forest v West Ham United Southampton v Everton Wolverhampton Wanderers v Crystal Palace Sunday 3rd November Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa Manchester United v Chelsea Monday 4th November Fulham v Brentford