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MARTIN SAMUEL - THE DEBATE: Luis Suarez...just 'wonderful', but could we have...

So what have we here? Well, it's a new column in which I will reply to selected comments online on a weekly basis. Not all of them, just the best or most interesting.

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Martin Samuel Rio Ferdinand Manchester United derby of hate with Manchester City

For our second online debate, I'm revisiting the column written in the aftermath of the coin-throwing incident at the Manchester derby. Here we go...

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Martin Samuel debate: So Mario Balotelli doesn't need help? But not caring...

So this week the main topic was Mario Balotelli and his problems, or lack thereof, and it brought the usual varied and interesting response. Enjoy the debate...

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MARTIN SAMUEL - DEBATE: How dare Manchester United and Arsenal try to deny...

You gave me over 40,000 words in reply to my column on Financial Fair Play. Strap yourselves in folks. We’re going to be here a while. Enjoy the debate...

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Martin Samuel debate: Why a job with 'attractive' Chelsea won't harm David Moyes

The debate this week centred on David Moyes and Chelsea. Whether he would want them, whether they would want him, and was Moyes all he was cracked up to be anyway? Enjoy...

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MARTIN SAMUEL - THE DEBATE: I enjoy a swing at the FA as much as the next man...

Dog bites man is not news. Man bites dog is news. It’s the same in sport. Footballer kicks ball, not news. Footballer kicks ball boy, big story. Eden Hazard got you all going. Enjoy the debate...

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How the smug Left give their kids a leg up

MARTIN SAMUEL: Some on the Left, like author John O'Farrell (pictured), would never do anything as crass or needy as pay for schooling. They have more subtle ways of working the system than that.

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MARTIN SAMUEL - THE DEBATE: Brainwashed fans slam QPR for gambling - but the...

A shorter than usual debate this week but still a lively one. Apparently, QPR just don’t get your juices flowing like, say, Luis Suarez or putting the boot in on the ball-boy. But here we go. Enjoy...

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MARTIN SAMUEL - THE DEBATE: Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher are the best...

Slight change of pace this week, with two subjects covered: firstly the brain drain of ex-players rejecting management for careers in the media, and then a wrap up of reaction to a rather shambolic...

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MARTIN SAMUEL - THE DEBATE: Rio Ferdinand past he's best? No, he's still...

Roy Hodgson is just not into Rio Ferdinand. Conspiracy, oversight or plain common sense? This week’s debating club decides.

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Pixie dust won¿t save the High St

MARTIN SAMUEL: Mary Portas' showbiz pixie dust can not save the high street. Let’s face it, if the councils actually knew how to run High Street shops, they wouldn’t have killed them all stone dead in...

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Martin Samuel - The Debate: Swansea v Bradford special - you want glory...

This week The Debate tries something different. Instead of revisiting columns, it is the response to the Capital One Cup final that is up for discussion.

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Martin Samuel - The Debate: Studs up, high tackle, red card. Not sure what...

This week, a spirited debate (complete with music and gags) provoked by the match report of Manchester United's defeat by Real Madrid at Old Trafford.

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Martin Samuel - The Debate: You can't run a shop with another man's stock and...

Keeping it brief this week, on the subject of whether managers hassle their owners into high spending. Tony Fernandes, Romelu Lukaku and Leeds United all get a mention. Oh, and so does Young-Holt...

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Supernanny? Send her to the naughty step

MARTIN SAMUEL: Jo Frost has no qualifications beyond her own unshakeable ego and no quantifiable scientific evidence that her methods are worthwhile, beyond supposition.

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Martin Samuel - The Debate: Hating Rio Ferdinand, the problem with One...

No need to query the main topic of conversation this week. His name is Rio and he dances on the sand (well it beats playing against Montenegro, eh?)

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MARTIN SAMUEL - THE DEBATE: West Ham saved the Olympic Stadium from the...

Should West Ham United have the Olympic Stadium? If not, what alternative is there beyond bulldozers. The debate starts here.

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MARTIN SAMUEL'S DEBATE - tackling your comments on Ebbsfleet United

Keeping it brief this week, on the subject of Ebbsfleet United and what happens when a football club falls prey to stunt men.

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MARTIN SAMUEL - THE DEBATE: Tiger's no cheat but the belly putters used by...

We’re talking golf this week. Long putters, short putters and whether it was one rule for Tiger Woods and another for Tianlang Guan at the Masters. Fore…

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MARTIN SAMUEL - THE DEBATE: Luis Suarez was disliked for cheating but nobody...

This week's debate is on Luis Suarez - not Wednesday’s punishment for biting Branislav Ivanovic, but the event itself, attitudes to the player, to other offences and to Liverpool's decision to stand by...

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