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I've been noticing this season how much Defour joins in with our goal celebrations. He really looks like one of the boys now. Very positive sign, particularly for a club like Burnley where team spirit is such a significant factor.

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Agree. It is impossible to discuss any political or social issues without one or two posters jumping in and swapping insults. It really is tedious and it is stifling sensible debate.

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It's a difficult one, positive discrimination. In India 20% of all government jobs and state university places are guaranteed to Dalits (the oppressed, who used to be known as untouchables). This is a measure taken to try to redress traditional discrimination against Dalits. It seems like a good thi...

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I have to admit a vested interest in this subject as, although I am not and never have been a Christian, my first degree was in Theology and I lectured in Religious Studies at a number of universities. Never taught in a school though. It seems a lot of the difficulty and misunderstanding arises beca...

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I think the best two keepers I have seen are Blacklaw and Heaton. Chris Pearce could be pretty bad on his off days, some of his performances in the 91-92 promotion season were comical.

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I think in the game against Rochdale when Williams played a blinder they had two sent off and still won 1-0. That's when they saw us as local rivals and their supporters did enjoy it.

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Born in the West Midlands, grew up in Essex and then lived in different places in the UK and US. My allegiance goes back to 1961 when I was six and Burnley were on the TV playing Cologne in the European Cup, with Kenneth Wolstenholme commentating. There was not much football on then and me and my br...

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The issue here is the extent to which people can be influenced by advertising and marketing. It's not exactly being tricked, but it is being manipulated to some extent, which is why we no longer allow tobacco to be prominently displayed in shops. Even a hard-line right winger like Rowls couldn't pos...

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I'm not sure how good a player Eddie Clamp was, but he was certainly 'fearsome'.

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Yes, he may turn out to be very good and this is his big chance. Who knows?

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One Clifford (at least) fought for the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeare's Henry VI (I can't recall whether it is Parts 1,2, or 3) Clifford is represented as being the most bloodthirsty of that faction who personally murders the young Duke of Rutland after the Battle of Wakefield...

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Religious teaching is not fixed but is constantly changing and developing. There are many religious teachings that were of primary significance in the past but have since been discarded. Hinduism, for example, is in the process of moving away from caste restrictions in part because of the work of mo...

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No religion is homophobic but all religions have individuals who are homophobic, usually dependent on cultural and economic contexts.

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I have been watching and enjoying it. Amazes me the amount cheating that persists amongst these older fellows. It is being well reffed though.

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It's the nature of wealth. One is never satisfied with what one gets. This applies in every sphere of life, people always want more than what they have already.

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What it doesn't show is wages paid. That is usually a better indicator of likely position in the league.

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It seems pretty obvious why we are a bit slower than some in transfer windows. The players we want to bring in are good players who might be able to get a move to a more established and affluent Premier League club. Hence they are waiting to see what offers come in before making a commitment to Burn...

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When it suited their own party political interests they found a billion pounds for Northern Ireland quickly enough. But when it is a billion and a half needed for a 2% pay rise for nurses, fire fighters etc, they start saying there's 'no magic money tree'. It showed up a very selfish and uncaring si...

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should read 'shirts as well'. Sorry

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I have quite a lot of well which I don't really want any more. Does anyone know of a good way of disposing of them? Wasn't there a charity that collected football shirts for Africa?

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This region was known as Great Britain to draw a contrast with Little Britain, which was Brittany to which there was a mass migration during the Saxon conquests.

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I am very much in favour of higher taxation for people like myself who are quite well off so that we can properly fund education, the NHS and social care. I vote Labour on that basis. Why is that so wrong?

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It's something old people like me do, looking back to an idealised imaginary past when we were young. I suppose you could say Britain was great in Victorian times if you are into imperialism and mass poverty.

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Sean Dyche will know that his standing is now at an all time high and may well go down next season if we can't stay up again. He must know that this is a real possibility and that his chances of moving on up the managerial scale will diminish. So I think if he does get an offer from Palace he may we...

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To call them 'pundits' is abuse of a good Sanskrit word. Originally a pandita meant a wise or enlightened individual who had realised the absolute truth and looked on the world with equal vision. Just like Chris Sutton.

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Rowls, I will be voting Labour because my health is poor and I depend for my life on the NHS. I have more faith in Labour supporting the NHS than the Conservatives. To me that is more important than this bickering over what Corbyn did or did not say about the IRA. Surely that's not too hard to under...

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A lot of promoted sides struggle in the second half of the season when their thinner squads begin to take a toll. That coupled with the imbalance with home and away fixtures has made it tough this year. All of that said, getting promoted twice and then staying up have been incredible achievements fo...

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It's similar in Scotland with the bottom but one of their Premier League playing the winner of the playoffs. And if I remember correctly it started off like that in England as well.

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I don't think we did the wrong thing with Bamford and Chalobah. Winning games was and is our priority and we were more likely to do that with other players ahead of them. Plus so much of our success is based on togetherness and team spirit. I am not sure loans always help with that, especially with ...

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Happy birthday for tomorrow, Dave, my favourite poster and perhaps the only Hindu claret around.

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If you go to Bethlehem, try talking to some of the local Palestinians, shopkeepers are a good bet and I found it fascinating to hear their perspective on the situation there as well as their hopes and fears for the future. I would also suggest that Jerusalem and Petra should not be missed if it is p...

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Sorry, a lot of errors in that post. It should be 'negative impact on the economy'

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I will vote Labour because I have a real fear of what the Conservatives will do to our public services if they get a large majority. They have never been wholehearted supporters of the NHS and already we can health services, schools, local authorities being starved of the funds they need. In part th...

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I lived in California with my family from 1983 to 1987. For the first two years we overstayed our six month tourist visas, staying clear of trouble, and then got an employer to state that he needed my 'specialist' skills. It helps if you have contacts out there who will act as sponsors, or failing t...

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To be honest, our away form has been about what I expected at the start of the season given our relative lack of resources. The question in my mind is 'How have we managed to do so incredibly well at home.' I don't think we can get away from the fact that if we stay up this season (and the bookies c...

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I think the only luck in football relates to refereeing decisions. If Heaton makes a string of brilliant saves, that's not luck. It's just one of our players having a really good game.

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Thanks for posting that,Goalposts. A lot of interesting information there. I was surprised to see that we were Football League champions with only the tenth highest wage bill. That really is some achievement and a poke in the eye for some of the big spenders who finished below us.

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I'm very reluctant to get involved in this kind of debate, but like many others I believe in social cohesion, and some of the comments on here illustrate one of the principal reasons why there is a lack of social cohesion. People seizing on random, false and decontextualised information in order to ...

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I know Hindus in Britain are upset when terrorists are referred to as 'Asians' as that tends to lump them in with Muslims. They regard themselves as a peaceful, prosperous, law-abiding community that is about as far from terrorism as you can get in this country. It's a dilemma because the media quit...

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Remembrance of Things Past: Marcel Proust
Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy
Beloved: Toni Morrison

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The Tempest, such a wonderful way to accept old age.

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I agree with Royboy on this. At the time, virtually no one foresaw the financial crash that was approaching. With the benefit of hindsight it could have been disastrous, but at the time it would have been foolish to refuse to accept the loans from Brendan Flood's company. And, as has been said, we w...

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The correlation between wages and position is 90%, so Leicester and Sunderland represent the 10%. No team of Burnley's size stays in the Premier League without a rich owner throwing money at them, and even then it is not guaranteed, as QPR found out.

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