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It's not yet the twenty five years that most historians say is the minimum amount of time to assess the impact of something, but I was reading her speech from the 1980 Tory conference (in The Guardian's excellent series of the 14 greatest speeches of the Twentieth Century) and it made think about her legacy. I still think she was a spiteful, callous bitch, but I now think many things she did were right: reducing the power of the unions, encouraging home ownership, tackling inflation, privatising some of the national industries. However, I also think she may have fucked us in the process. Her extreme policies made us expect low taxation and she nearly destroyed health and education with her chronic spending cuts. She also pushed us towards our debt obsessed economy and is arguable responsible for the political apathy that pervades our country now as Blair felt he couldn't go so radically in the other direction after her, and so just fannied around blandly making people think he was neither one thing nor another and failing to really address the issues people wanted addressing. So, where do you stand on her?

Absolutely dire this, and while certain players deserve a level criticism, most of it should be reserved for their manager on this occasion as he did not put them in the best position to win the game. We all knew how Southampton were going to play and we also know that they know exactly how to stop us from doing what we want to do. So why then did Klopp have us play exactly the way Southampton would have wanted us to? I suspect if we played Southampton another four times he’d do exactly the same thing until eventually we might scrape a win and he’d be like “See, it works!!!” That starting line up might be fine for away games at Watford or West From, but it was not what we needed at home to a highly accomplished defensive side that were coming to stifle. What made it worse how long it took him to change it. He's getting as bad as Rafa now with the "no subs until 65 minutes" thing. Lucas has been good recently and he played well enough in this game too, but we just didn’t need both him and Can in that midfield together, especially as Wijnaldum was the third member and he had one of his Invisible Man performances before he was belatedly subbed late on. Where is the creativity in that trio though? Then there’s the front three. Defenders all over the country must be rubbing their hands together about facing Origi as he just isn't troubling them in any way, shape or form. Doesn’t win headers, doesn’t hold the ball up, doesn’t pose a threat in behind, doesn’t link up with Coutinho or Firmino…. Seriously, just what is the point of him? This is just a teaser, click here to view the full report Please note that Match Reports are only available to website subscribers. Subscriptions cost just £2 a month (you need to register first) and can be purchased here. If you are not currently registered on the site, sign up for free and receive a FREE no obligation trial subscription, which gives you access to all the members only content for THREE MONTHS.

at last sorted my trip out!! flying from newcastle via poland, and back into london gatwick £330, sunday to sunday. weeks camping at nea kifissia about £20 each, rock and roll!! Can't fucking wait!!! Just need some tickets now........... spares anyone??