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Actually this giant is in deep coma and on full life-support. I hope they remembered to pay the electrical bills! Uh oh

There are plenty other good proxies - I used one and had a great Olympics in the company of the Beeb :-)

What a surprise http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/13/belarusian-shot-putter-nadzeya-ostapchuk-gold

Jerel Ifil? Edit: beaten to it by a nutjob...

That would be a true miracle seeing how he has been crippled by the FL ;-)

Nice to see that the locals swallow everything uncritically. Why would TB want to help the club - he's not there to hold your hand and tell you everything will be ok, while Uncle Chinny is pulling down his pants... Apologies if the metaphor is too offensive... kammystache 10:22 AM on 13/08/2012 TB is fleecing the club same as AA did. At no time has he even mentioned that his firm were prepared to lower their fee despite publicly hammering players for not reducing their demands. The shoe appears to be on the other foot now, be interesting to see how much he wants to help the club??? My guess is he won't he wants his £ just like the rest.

This is their chance to become a normal football club working within sensible constraints to reach their long term goals. But it's as sure as death and taxes that their sense of entitlement to be in the top tier will drive them towards doing something rash that will cripple their club once again... There are so many left in this...

But as usual they'll go for quality over quantity and blow the whole budget on 10 players (in order to be competitive, you know!) and then worry about the consequences later...

We have an infiltrator! Let's ban everybody - POL style ;-)

The moment they land this squad with -10 and no dodgy benefactors lined up, it will be very hard to claim that they have gotten away with anything...

João Gilberto!

And wow did Liam Gallagher sing poorly? his intonation was constantly off...

Last time I saw them live, they cancelled the show after 30 minutes because someone threw a bottle at them. Too old for anarchy, I guess ;-)

Are there any Pompey fans on POL?

What a drama in the mens volleyball final between Russia and Brazil! Brazil were 2 sets up with two separate match balls in the 3rd set, but then 2.18m Muserskiy (http://www.london2012.com/athlete/muserskiy-dmitriy-1013464/) takes over the game. Russia go on to claim the set and the next two sets too winning the final after 170 minutes of volleyball. Legendary...

Always excited about Saints - fear has no place in football

Excellent. Cynical without being overly dramatic. Good work that man Edit: and might I add, presumably also very therapeutic for you

Thank you for including the first name. Took me 9 posts of "wtf is up?!" before I realised which Phillips we're talking about... I was distinctly under the impression that there is a Phillips from Blackpool whom we're not too happy about Matt Phillips would be interesting, but as others have said, I hope we approach it the right way if we do go for him...

To give on of the automatic response jokes of this thread: "but they don't do taxes"

Womens hockey final is live now: Netherlands vs. Argentina

Never seen a BMX race before but boy was that entertaining. Someone said Mario Kart and it's a great comparison!

Fixed a proxy so I have been following on BBC iPlayer as well. By far the most impressive setup I have yet seen from such an event - it's really the greatest sports buffet in the world Oh, and Team GB also leads this table: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443537404577577424112910262.html (ha ha )

Interesting plot. The PCC will wake up one morning and find themselves cast as the new villains. "If you don't act the club will be history - and so will the £300 fantasillions/year..."

Would be interesting to try to calculate what it cost Saints or Norwich (both clubs with acceptable facilities, stadium etc.) to go from L1 to PL - just in terms of transfers... Add to that the fact that they can't count on their academy like we did and we're way off a budget that Chinny would ever play with...

I heard they have an Irish player on trial. Apparently they figured that for every Dumbuya you need a Joe Kinsella... Yes I know, I'm dreadfully sorry about that...