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if beggars need money to feed their crack addition, perhaps we need to give generously to prevent them turning to crime.

Pink wafer Fig roll Chocolate chip cookies Garibaldi Shortbread

Anaseed balls Topic Dime bar Cream egg Chocolate minstrels

If Top Gear can find and use presenters other than Clarkson to present its different localised versions (US, Germany etc.) then I dare say it can unearth someone else to present the UK version.

sorry, bad maths. More like £216 a minute. Meh, I prefer the stat that he cost them £520,000 if £5k is accurate.

David Connelly cost £405 per minute played, which is based on 2397 minutes played, a £5k a week wage, receiving payment for the full 2.5 years, but Oxford paying all his wages during his six month loan. How accurate those assumptions are I have no idea, but what do I care?

get top four and it will be a very tough choice to leave in the summer, but he doesn't have to sign a new contract as the current one extends beyond the summer. He can walk for free when the time comes and we could nothing about it. Not having a transfer fee to pay means our offer should in theory be higher than the buying club, but then again the likes of Man City etc. have so much more money we can't really compete should they want him.

brilliant bit of work by the agent there. Hold off from talks, turn down the early contract offer, wait for contract to go into final year, place stories in press of interest from rivals, wait for revised contract and then when it comes start to negotiate driving a hard bargain using the increased TV income as the perfect reason.

I guess refs want to get into the bet possible position to make a decision, but like you say they have gone too far. Once a foul has been committed (unless a booking is taking place) the attacking side should be able to take it immediately. None of this wait for the whistle ********. GET ON WITH IT

good idea, but why not extend it to take it anywhere so long as it is behind the point of infringement. If the player puts his hand on the ball to signify he's taking the free kick then no one could have a complaint about not knowing if the kick has been taken or not. Get the game moving again. With all this square passing (which I have no problem about by the way) we are seeing less action. GET THE GAME MOVING

why such a palava for each sub? I like how rugby just gets on with things. None of this checking studs and the linesman man handling the sub. I don't know why lino's think they have a right to put their hands on subs to hold them back from whatever it is. The whole numbers board thing is a load of ******** too. You have the tannoy and your eyes. Use them to see who went off. Just get them on and off quickly. Players should have ten seconds to get off the pitch from the time the ref says subs, if they don't make it off a sniper in the crowd should have the right to take them out. Grrr

interesting. On the one had we need stricter use of the rules to cut out the things we don't like, like time wasting and swearing at refs, but on the other I'd like to see refs flagrantly ignoring the rules by allowing free kicks etc. to be taken wherever so long as it gets the game started again quickly. MORE FOOTBALL WANTED

clock could be on official scoreboard like Rugby league.

Leeds fans keep saying he's playing right wing these days so nothing to see here, but with our formation he'll need to be used to playing in the opponents third anyway.

Maybe, (and you are assuming the new players come off) but this stronger squad things is all very well, you can only play 11 (and a few subs). Is a squad of say 20 `good' players better than a squad of say 11 `very good' players and 9 `average players'? Take away those four or five genuine top class players (that's perhaps Clyne, Morgan, Vic and Toby) and are you left with a side that will win enough games (not just compete)? In my book it's better to keep 2 very good players than have the money to sign possibly 4 good ones. I guess its irrelevant as players like Morgan and Clyne will leave no matter what we do (apart from paying them Man U size wages).

I bloody hate all this time wasting from both sides. It's right up there with diving, managers blaming refs and anything else that has/and continues to contribute to changing a loved sport into a slightly loathed `business'. We pay a fortune to see actual football (that's players kicking a ball about), not players thinking about taking a throw in only to decide to drop the ball to let someone else take it, players nudging the ball away just enough to stop quick free kicks, bit not booted away s they get yellow cards (if they nudge it away and it slows things down even a fraction yellow card the bastards) players chasing and surrounding/arguing with the refs over every big decision, goalkeepers retrieving balls and then walking to the far side of six yard boxes to take goal kicks (why on earth did they change the rule about having to take goal kicks from the side it went out?), refs not allowing quick free kicks because the foul was committed two feet to the left of where it was taken (if goal kicks can be taken either side who gives a **** where free kicks are taken if its miles away from the goal. Also, if the ball is rolling when the free kick is taken who really cares? Just allow it so we can see more of that football stuff. Refs counting out ten yards and spraying white lines for every single free kick takes more time, as does refs giving players lectures (what is the point of that, either give a yellow or a red or don't. This isn't school, with players needing lectures - use the f'in cards or don't. We want to see football, not all this other gubbins. Fans are being badly short changed and its getting worse. By the way the crowd is actually better off not moaning about time wasting as all that happens is it leads to refs running all the way from the half way line to speak with the keeper to give them a warning. That wastes about 30 seconds, and then repeat that a little later for the actual booking. So by drawing attention to it (no matter how annoying it if for me and you) it actually helps the opponent waste about a minute, just at the cost of a yellow card. The same applies to taking throws in the wrong place - who ****ing cares? Just get that ball back into play ASAP so we can see some football. At £50 a game the time has come for a clock to start and stop when we don't have actual play. Actually, scratch that. If we have a stopwatch system they will just introduce lots of short breaks that they can slot adverts in.

I like this, although a bit Arsenal-esque. Mind you, better than Britsol-City-esque

gets my vote every time. The red and white stripes look far far better when matched with dark blue shirts.

because they struggle to put condoms on? Oops, sorry, this thread seems to have moved on a lot since the days of species worse than humans.

I had all of my front windows done a few years a ago and my experience was that the national firms have sales guys that spend hours pitching their windows. We couldn't get the guy from Anglian to bloody leave. If you just want the basic windows and nothing flashy then I'm not sure I would bother with them We then got a quote for a solid local firm who were quite a bit cheaper and far less pushy. We then got a one man band fella in who was the cheapest, but not by much. We went for the solid local firm in the end and they did a decent job. However I had the one man band fella back recently to do put a back door/window in and I the job was just as good.

They improved compared to other Dutch sides, but overall Dutch sides get weaker and weaker as the replacements aren't always better. If we don't match the quality we will go backwards quickly. But That has always been the case and you are right that having a manager used to coping with that need to constantly recruit is helpful, but losing multiple star players in consecutive seasons is going to be tough. Always interesting being a saint.

Stop exaggerating, it was ten weeks...er.

It's not exactly the same. Pretty much all Dutch clubs are raped of their star players each summer and they all have gradually got worse over the lat ten years or more. Some of the English clubs keep theirs or improve on what they have.

how are food suppliers and utility companies able to provide an accurate figure?

those crown of thorn things are destroying the great barrier reef and cows farting is warming up the place.