CB Fry

Except it's not "the club sending a representative", is it? I have no doubt Adam Lallana would happily have contributed to something like this. It takes more effort on the club's part to stop him than let him do it. I love you people making out how much of a gargantuan effort for the club allowing a player to do something in his own time. Oh horror, oh horror, where does the poor club draw the line? Jesus.

What are you on about? We didn't get sponsored by Lotus, and I'd say part of the reason was down to the appalling kit design, where no one can read the sponsors name. I don't blame them for running a mile.

Don't worry. We've been reassured by the visionaries on this forum that thousands of new fans from Devon to Dover will be flooding in to support their local team. There will be a mad scramble for tickets every game.

Wiggins is English, not Belgian, his mum is and his father was working in Belgium, similar to Strauss I believe (except the Belgian bit) who was here at a very young age. And although it can't be in the official criteria, those two demonstrate clear affinity and "englishness". It helps. Froome, on the other hand, demonstrates no affinity, and doesn't seem to have spent longer than two weeks in succession on our little island. Joke.

I think the line is definitely somewhere between Farah (came here as a child) and Januzaj (came here as a footballer). I don't want an England team of Januzajs and Artetas. I would honestly rather not qualify for stuff. Also, can someone explain how Chris Froome is British? He seems to have spent about four weeks here in his entire life.

I refer you to the fact that London is London and the Isle of Wight is not Southampton.

Our catchment area is gigantic. Something about what they do in Germany. Think about the hotdogs we'd sell. Open your mind to people with vision.

Did I say that? Just don't like the inference that our being in the top flight is/was a foregone conclusion, and Adkins reduced to the role of a 22-game failure.

Nigel Adkins was only in charge for twenty two games? Seemed longer. What was the name of that geezer that took us to two successive promotions?

Well no. Boroughs of London is London. It is London. Cowes is not an "amenity" of Southampton. I am not obsessed with pretending a town on an island is somehow part of a city on the mainland. (I asked before and you ignored it, how come Pompey can't lay claim to Cowes anyway?)

Jesus wept. You do realise the Crap Towns thing is a humourous book, a bit of fun? Your squinnying about the definition of London would carry more weight if you weren't trying to pretend that Cowes is part of Southampton.

How about the clearly defined "county" of greater london, defined by the boroughs within it. Not that ridiculous. It's a "thing" that is clearly defined and written down (and administered by the GLA). What definition includes the entire Solent and Cowes as part of Southampton? So in answer to your question "what are we considering here?", how about the City of Southampton, which currently Cowes is not a suburb of.

The Solent was on the crap towns list? Not surprising, it's waterlogged to buggery.

I think the thread is about Southampton as a city. What Cowes has to do with that is anyone's guess. Being that you can get to the Isle of Wight from Portsmouth too, you could include Cowes, Cowes week and everything about the Isle of Wight it in the Pompey credit column just as conveniently.

The rest of the world that isn't Southampton you mean? Yes, I think you do. Cowes: not Southampton.

Southampton has just as many shabby streets and pikeys and is pretty dismal too. Even the walk down Above Bar is an absolute joke these days. Appalling. And on top, Pompey has heritage/museums/attractions etc as mentioned above. At least they have them in the first place, we have barely anything except the parks, which is unique but hardly a tourist footfall driver.

Sorry. Was being silly. The Pahars song was great - based on the Sunday school/scout camp classic Kumbaya. Up there with our best ever efforts.

He comes from Latvia, He **** ing hates Pompey

Yay, we can finish fourth. Take that, police state.

"Stasi", "Thought Police", "brain washed". Jesus, what a load of sh it. Saying "yay, I reckon my team can finish, like, fourth" does not make you Nelson Mandela.

This time last year there was an awful lot of pontificating about how no one should give the league table a second glance until a full ten games have been played. Remarkably little of that nowadays.

I'd like to point out I have no idea what you've said about the Milliband issue on this thread. But yes, people who think the folk that attempted to help Lee Rigby were actors paid by the UK Secret Service should definitely grow up. We're, like, all monkeys in a cage, maaaaaan.

Please, please send them a link.

Please can you tell your friends I called you an autistic mentalist loony-man headcase? And then let me know if they laughed or not.

What, the bars of the cage that only you can see?