jonbryce

And the pension fund has a £100m surplus.

If you are boycotting Ashley, then you should have been boycotting Debenhams before now, but maybe you weren't aware He bought 4.6% in January 2014, increased that to 6.6% in April 2014 - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10768782/Debenhams-boss-I-dont-know-why-Mike-Ashley-bought-stake.html then up to 16.09% in March 2017 - https://www.investegate.co.uk/debenhams-plc--deb-/rns/holding-s--in-company/201703311232391950B/ then 21.2% in October 2017 - http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/AN_1509374444281274300/update-sports-direct-exercises-further-debenhams-put-option-(alliss).aspx and in March 2018, it went to 29.7% http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-5456087/Mike-Ashley-swoops-struggling-Debenhams.html There was another jump to 23% before that, but I can't find it right now. His usual method is to take bets that the share price will fall. If the person placing the bet loses, they lose their stake; if they win, they get to sell him Debenhams shares at a price a bit higher than the market value.

Debenhams is about 29.7% owned by Ashley, basically just below the level where he has to make a takeover bid. Therefore if you have to boycot Frasers, it follows you also have to boycot Debenhams. The female logic seems sound to me.

What Frasers looks like now https://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/men/trousers/02.209.0.0.0.0.pl What a department store owned by Ashley looks like https://www.heatonsstores.com/mens/mens-fashion/trousers-and-denims

You can get Clinique in big branches of Boots. Same price and you get Advantage Card points.

He owns a chain of department stores in Ireland (+ 1 in Northern Ireland) called Heatons. Does anyone know what they are like, as I guess Frasers will end up looking the same.

A medically induced coma is a normal part of the treatment for brain haemorrhage.

This station https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/green-park-station-plans-given-13398939 which is going to be built in the middle of a field, will cost £16.5m, and take 15 months to build. The stuff you see round about in the pictures is a new housing estate that's going to be built round it. For Ibrox, I think at least £20m, probably more.

Is there space to put a platform there now? The line looks too close to the M8 to get a platform on that side. You could move the line a bit away from the M8, but then it starts to get very expensive. Then can you get a big enough entrance to handle all the people going to Ibrox?

And behind on goal difference. We are currently on +4, they are on +2. 2 wins would put them on +4 or higher, 1 loss would put us on +3 or lower.

114 years. They have lost more cup finals than any other team in the world.

The thing is, Celtic aren't actually that strong a team. Look at their performance in Europe where they got completely humped in pretty much every game they played, whereas about 10 years ago, they could expect to give them a good game and perhaps win some of the time.

They have about 10,000 more seats than us. That's what drives the earning capacity, and therefore the value of the stadium.

I though it was something like 50% of TV money to the team that finishes 1st, 45% to the team that finishes 2nd, and 5% split between all the other teams.

Is it still the case that there is a massive difference in prize money between 2nd and 3rd place? If so, I think that is more important in terms of having funds to buy players for next season.