Approximately 18 months ago I, World's End Stella, went on an extensive youtube

[World's End Stella]

Look, we all know you know **** all about football and are a vile driver who would happily cause an accident if you woke in a bad mood.... comes form driving on the LHS in the states at a guess, muddles the brain.

Pssst - before anyone notices you might want to change that. They drive on the RHS in the States, it's England that drive on the LHS.

[redgunamo]

By the time they are on youtube it is too late.

Right. You need to scout them on FIFA.

[Ash]

In fact, I have never said this. I have said that City's ability to sign players that we cannot does not excuse our lack of signings nor our inability to challenge for the league or the CL on a reasonably consistent basis.

So we should regularly be as good as a club who have unlimited power to recruit better players than us in every position. By us I mean Arsenal not Spurs.

You sound like the kind of person who doesn't use their indicator and then laughs at the people it inconveniences and endangers.

[Sir C]

Everyone has weaker purchasing power than City. So, I will give you Chelsea as an answer. Give me two years and I will probably add Spurs as well.

Wait, in two years you will contend that Spurs have 'challenged for the league or CL on a reasnoably consisitent basis'?

That doesn't make any sense, since they won't have.

[redgunamo]

Can you name any other clubs that have weaker purchasing power than City that have challenged for the league or CL on a reasonably consistent basis?

The money-making side of things has been very good; it's our actual football that's not been good enough.

[Luis Anaconda]

For those of us who are relative novices to watching the Ashes, what are the timings? How late do I have to stay up to watch the first 10 overs or so and how early do I have to get up to watch the last 10?

Midnight start in the UK - 1am here Should go on til about 7.30ish but gets dark quickly in Queensland plus rain scheduled for the afternoon. I've taken Friday off so I can sit in the pub all night and watch day 2

[World's End Stella]

Everyone has weaker purchasing power than City. So, I will give you Chelsea as an answer. Give me two years and I will probably add Spurs as well.

It's also a stupid, loaded question, precisely the sort that Monty - with his Wenger blankie wrapped around his shoulders - is likely to ask.

If Leicester can win the league, and Liverpool can come within touching distance, then Arsenal should be able to challenge consistently. His question also ignores how much Arsenal could spend if we had a manager capable of and willing to do it. I point to this past summer's transfer window as yet another example.

[redgunamo]

So we should regularly be as good as a club who have unlimited power to recruit better players than us in every position. By us I mean Arsenal not Spurs.

You sound like the kind of person who doesn't use their indicator and then laughs at the people it inconveniences and endangers.

Yes, if you ignore the part of the mission statement about improving players. You know, making stars rather than buying them

[Luis Anaconda]

Wait, in two years you will contend that Spurs have 'challenged for the league or CL on a reasnoably consisitent basis'?

That doesn't make any sense, since they won't have.

But but but - they managed to match what Hannover and Stuttgart have done in recent weeks and beat European powerhouse Dortmund - they is the bestest, sir c

[Sir C]

But but but - they managed to match what Hannover and Stuttgart have done in recent weeks and beat European powerhouse Dortmund - they is the bestest, sir c

An amazing result, to be sure. I expect that's why they hammered us at home at the weekend, is it?

Oh.