🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has pledged to scrap business rates for shops, cafes and hairdressers - and reduce them by 20% for pubs
It would be funded by increasing taxes on online tech giants and their British warehouses
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🚨 BREAKING: Southampton are in advanced talks to re-sign goalkeeper Daniel Peretz on a permanent deal & are pushing to get it done quickly — Peretz is keen to stay & help the club get promoted despite interest elsewhere #saintsfc@AlfieHouseEcho
🗣️ “If you were aware that Neymar's injury was grade 2, would you have called him up for the World Cup?”.
😁 Carlo Ancelotti: “If my grandfather had wheels, he would be a car!”.
Better late than never but..what a great career José Fonte had and what a brilliant Saint he was - a proper leader #SaintsFc
Kept getting better the older he got - should never have left Saints the way he did !
One day I sat on a train to London with him - he was off to training at West Ham with his tracksuit on and wash bag in hand.
We’d always got on well, he was great with me and wanted to talk, still saddened that he’s left Saints the way he had
He proceeded to show me the email chain between him and Les Reed and he was gutted Saints wouldn’t give him a new deal after 7 years at the club and just wanted recognition after the Euros.
José thought he should be on par with the top earners in the squad, rightly imho, but Les wouldn’t budge he said.
Les later told me he was earning as much as anyone. I’ll never know the truth - but I know how sad José was on that train and he wished he’d never left …. Bloody shame the way it played out 😞