Billy Whitehurst

Somebody should probably delete Gayle's Twitter account now.

Diame looks like a poor man's Sissoko (something I didn't think possible), and I can see why Gayle couldn't cut it in the Prem. Still, a point away against a team who will presumably be one of our closest challengers isn't a bad result even if the nature of it is a bit annoying.

Gayle and Diame are to blame for this.

What the fuck was Sels doing there, he's completely lost when crosses come in.

Lovely finish from Boon's son.

Heh heh, I didn't really think that through did I? Yes, there are exceptions to every rule, although I'd hold him in even higher esteem if he got rid of the silly goatee.

Never trust a man with a goatee beard, particularly a middle aged man with a goatee.

Great stuff, much appreciated!

Off to Costa Teguise the week before Christmas to visit my folks who live there 6 months off the year. Unfortunately, their recommendations for bars/restaurants are solely based on the price of booze and whether they show the Newcastle games. If you know of any nice places please let me know. Likewise, if you are after cheap booze and Newcastle matches then I'll be happy to help as my dad has done a Phd level of research on both subjects.

If you read my post properly, you'll see that I said that these middle/back office jobs can't as easily be transferred to India/Eastern Europe (as the skill sets aren't there) whereas support staff can. These middle/back office jobs could easily be transferable to other Western European countries as the skills/education levels are already there. To enable passporting, banks will have to have a significant presence in the EU so these jobs will likely shift should there be a hard Brexit. Your assertion that all will be rosy in the city in the event of hard Brexit is simply incorrect. I work for one of these institutions, and certain departments are shitting themselves at the very real prospect of this happening. Unsuprisingly, I don't know of a single colleague who voted Brexit. For that matter, I don't have any colleagues who went to Eton, the Old Etonians tend to go and work in the cabinet rather than the city.

A lot of the points he raises are valid and will indeed result in a lot of front office jobs remaining as the reliance on English law and the inflexibility of employment law in many juristictions (although Hollande has already said that he would be willing to make concessions) will make it difficult to shift really high earners. My point is that, the front office is underpinned by an army of workers, massively outweighing front office staff, whose roles are can be transferred relatively easily. A drop of 25% of these would have a significant impact as I describe above. It doesn't take a significant loss of jobs for this to have a major impact. I don't necessarily agree with his point regarding the Universities. The UK universities are more generalist than, say, the French system which has a lot of business schools and graduates come a lot better prepared than their British counterparts.

I agree, the Tory party are in the city's pocket to a certain extent. I was just challenging Gordon Gekko Tree's assertion that hard brexit, if it hapenned, would have little impact on the city. I'm not sure why I bothered to be honest.

For every one of what you classify as a big banker, there are 10 middle office/back office/support staff. It will start with these roles first (many of banks had already relocated certain support staff to Eastern Europe/India etc prior to Brexit). These jobs will be first to be relocated to within the EU (including the middle and back office jobs which probably can't be relocated to Eastern Europe/India). While these are not the best paid banking jobs, they are still paid a lot more than most professions so this will result in a fair amount of lost income tax. Furthermore, the loss of these roles will have a knock on effect on the industries supporting them (professional services, IT, childcare, bars and restaurants, cabbies etc) so the impact will be multiplied. If the Tories go for the hard Brexit option and prioritise immigration controls over access to the single market then that will have a major impact on the city and lot of jobs reliant on it. In addition, the curbs on immigration will adversely impact the economy as immigrants are net contributors to the economy. The country could end up going backwards all because a few out of touch, racist (let's call a spade a spade) old duffers in the Tory party can't stand the fact that immigration enrichs our country.

I just had a look at some of the other stories on his Twitter feed. He's creepy as fuck. He's essentially a basement extension away from becoming Josef Fritzl.

Aye he's a repeat offender, a total and utter snidey little cunt. I'd hate to see him sign for us.

Aye, cheeky as fuck from Vogel. She's got thighs bigger than Roberto Carlos' so I reckon she must be on something too.

I have to say, my interest in the sport was initially piqued by a couple of the French players who certainly didn't conform to the usual female rugby player stereotype.

I've watched the cycling, womens rugby sevens, tennis, archery, synchronised diving, table tennis, archery, handball, canoeing, and, my favourite so far, the fencing. I love it, I think probably because it's so varied and the athletes are doing it for the love of the sport, quite often making massive sacrifices for their sport. I think it's also probably a lot to do with the fact that I lose more and more interest in football as the years go by (Friday night and the Euros didn't exactly help matters.

So they replaced Allardyce with Moyes, and get compensated from the FA too. Jammy bastards.

Very good book that (as 'Living on the volcano' by the same writer). The book is pretty scathing about young British players and their attitudes and desire. The only British prospects that any of the scouts rated are Sterling (this was written before he had broken into Liverpool's first team), Lascelles and Butland (although there were one or two question marks over him).

If that was her slogan then she'd probably walk it given the people who make up the tory party membership.

We visited an animal park. As you say, these aren't terribly happy animals. It involved an elephant playing football and a tiny monkey tricycling and playing basketball. To my eternal shame, I did have a little chuckle at the monkey on the bike although my Mrs was pretty horrified by it all. I have a memory of that the monkey had a tab in his mouth but I think I'm probably imagining that bit.

London would be fucked without them, people can see that the benefits of immigration far outweigh the costs. That's why London overwhelmingly voted remain. On the whole, the highest remain votes tended to be in the areas of highest net migration and the leave vote was higher where immigration was lowest. Given this, you have to ask how people in these leave areas developed such strong concerns about immigration, as it certainly doesn't appear to be from first hand experience.

The Aussies certainly know a lot about the idiocy of referendums. 55% of you voted to keep an OAP, who lives 10,000 miles away, and couldn't give less of a fuck about Australia, as your head of state. That said, that's not nearly as stupid as what we've just done.

Most non-EU banks are not just in London so can get round the passport issues through their operations in Frankfurt/Paris/Amsterdam/Brussels etc. If needs be, they can nominate one of these branches as their European HQ. It will have a definite impact of on Banking jobs as banks are never shy of sacking people but I doubt it will be as dramatic as that article suggests.