Crinklyfox

Thanks for posting yet another well-considered analysis. For my many decades I've watched City without considering the tactics in the depth to which you have and this has increased my appreciation of the game. I can't help thinking that City's analysts should reach the same conclusions, and if they do are they able to make suggestions in the same way? Or is that left to the manager to interpret? As yet I don't know what kind of manager SC is - a dogmatic one who sticks to his ideas regardless of comments from others or one who is open to feedback and willing to make adjustments accordingly.

Malta Caracas (sin alcohol) in Venezuela, 1980. An early attempt to produce alcohol free beer.

I deleted my LinkedIn account many years ago. The amount of people who were convinced I was dead..................

For those young people who have never had the opportunity to hear what us ancients had to go through, I dare you to listen to this dross: 1.Disco Duck (Top 10 1976) 2. Long haired lover from Liverpool (No 1 1972) 3. There's no-one quite like Grandma (No 1 1980) 4 Convoy GB (Top 10 1976) 5. Cinderella Rockefella (No 1 1968) Someone must have loved these but it wasn't me.

Not being selected following an interview doesn't make you a failure. If you have been offered an interview then you have already made it through the initial selection process that sees many applicants deemed as unsuitable for the role. The interview is there to select the person deemed by the interviewers to be the best fit for the position. I'm retired now but have been interviewed a number of times, and have carried out interviews myself. There were times when being interviewed that I knew I could do the job well but was not selected; this could have been because the interviewers found someone they thought was better or had other personal preferences to a different candidate. Occasionally I felt that the interviewers themselves didn't really know what they were looking for. Not being selected was frustrating but you just have to believe in your own capabilities. When interviewing I was looking for someone who would be competent to carry out the role offered, who demonstrated that they would be happy to carry out that role, and who I thought would fit in well with the rest of the team. I interviewed very few poor candidates, most could have fulfilled the post and it was unfortunate that some had to be turned down, but that didn't make them unsuitable. To a degree it's a numbers process - only one person is selected from a pool of candidates, there are variables between employers, so the more positions you apply for the more chance you will have of gaining a position. It can be very frustrating when things aren't going for you but for most its a process that ends with a success.

We paid the subcontractors. The customer paid us.

The fitter was self-employed. When I worked in manufacturing we occasionally used subcontractors, we as a company were responsible for the contracted work, no matter if it was carried out by a direct employee or a subcontractor. The key was the contract which covered the scope of work and the payment requirements.

I'm no expert on contract law but I have recently had LVT flooring fitted together with carpets. I had quotes which stated that the fitter was to be paid separately. I had one contract, which was with the provider of the LVT and carpets. When we had problems with the LVT fitter my recourse was to approach the shop with which I'd signed a contract. I had no direct influence over the LVT fitter as he was appointed by the shop, not myself. So far as I was concerned the company with which I had contracted for the work were responsible for all of it. If I had contracted separately with the fitter it would have been another matter. In my case the matter was resolved amicably without recourse to law but I wouldn't use that fitter again.

I watched the video from start to finish. It was a delight to see such a well thought-out review. Please continue as often as you can, I will look forward to your future analyses. We are in a transitional phase at present with new players coming in. Whilst some of the attributes of those players are already apparent I don't think we know enough about them yet to come up with a 'best XI'. The other unknown is how well individual players will gel most efficiently as a unit. Hopefully we'll continue to get your thoughts on that in videos to come.

If there was just one City footballer I could go for a beer with it would be Marc Albrighton. I hope that he enjoys his post - playing days career.

Dark side of the moon - Pink Floyd Argus - Wishbone Ash To our childrens childrens children - Moody Blues Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen Bridge over troubled water - Simon and Garfunkel

There are a lot of us old codgers that are in a better financial position than the young. We don't have a mortgage any more which is a big plus but a lot of us don't have an additional nice comfy final salary (defined benefits) pension and there are fewer of those around these days. The state pension is approx. £10,000 per annum out of which council tax, general and water rates and energy charges have to be paid before we buy something to eat. If we don't have an additional pension then it's difficult to afford luxuries, and attending a PL football match is a luxury these days. Any discount would be good but for many of us it's of no consequence, the charges are still too high.

Was on the M5 a couple of weeks ago. Idiot tearing down the outside lane hard cut across three lanes to get onto a slip road at the last minute. Don't know how we all missed him.

As a fully paid up member of the problem age group, I agree that this is a nettle that hasn't been grasped, but should be My wife worked in the NHS for 40 years and has seen the decline first hand. Life expectancies have increased putting a larger strain on the NHS. I recently waited 18 months for a procedure that my wife believed would have been carried out within a few months in the seventies. There are millions on NHS waiting lists, many of whom are in pain or suffering in other ways, some of whom have life-threatening conditions. I don't find that acceptable in a civilised society. Euthanasia isn't a big vote winner so if we eliminate that increased funding to the NHS is the only way to go (and I'm a taxpayer, even in retirement so increases in taxes affect me). The current system is that if you can afford it, you can have good healthcare, the private sector appears to be booming. But it's out of reach to many of the elderly. Private health care schemes are effectively insurance policies and the providers of such schemes don't want to cover you if you're already ill or are elderly and therefore have a greatly increased chance of requiring healthcare. And health, which can be taken for granted by the young, becomes one of the most important things in life as it declines. There is a global market in healthcare and I have no issue with recruitment of competent individuals from overseas to support the NHS. Those casing the money would go to the USA or Canada as a first option as their doctor salaries are on average more than double those in the UK; but on the other hand I believe that average salaries for doctors in Europe are only higher than the UK in Switzerland and Germany; and in parts of Asia salaries may only be 20% of those in the UK. Some may not like the idea of large scale recruitment from overseas, but I consider our health care professionals to be under too much pressure and see that as one way of easing the problem.