Special K

Christmas

Michael Macintyre is a complete tool and the most unfunny person to ever proclaim themself as a comedian.

I was on paternity leave after the birth of my son. It was the day before i was was due back; working next to Canary Wharf tower on the construction of the new CSFB UK HQ building known as DS2. Me and the missus were watching lunchtime TV with the baby when we saw it on the TV. They then showed the 2nd plane hit and we couldn't believe our eyes. At that time i thought "Bugger, what kind of world has my nipper been born into!" Going to work the next day was interesting, the security was obviously stepped up for the next week or so and there was a real sense of uncertainty. I also remember feeling a bit guilty when a mate sent an email through with a picture of an zeppelin bouncing off canary wharf tower with the caption underneath reading "The IRA balls up their latest terror plot" or something like that.

Absolutely. We can write off promotion already and the clocks haven't even gone back yet. So much for a **** hot season.

This is turning into a bit of a joke. It hasn't been handled well at all and is all a bit embarrassing. I hope NC learns a few lessons from this.

Buy a Dictionary mate, it's not a new word. And NC has stated he wants to get in the Premier League. How do you get there? Surely best with a Man who knows how to do it. Simple.

I'm sure he is a very adequate manager, but as an appointment i'm pretty underwhelmed to be honest. Pardew was doing ok i thought, although something was plainly wrong within the club (dodgy pre season, body language, etc) but as he is to be replaced then i was hoping for someone who would inspire the fans as well as the players. When KK was appointed at Fulham it seemed like a statement of intent. When Pardew was made Boss, it seemed a similar move, but replacing him with Adkins seems like, purely in terms of managerial clout for this league and to use a Corrie analogy, like packing in Kym Marsh to have a go on the bird who plays Janice Battersby.

I admire your optimism mush, but to get promoted from this league a team can only afford to lose about 8-9 games over a season. We've lost 3 out of 5 so far and it will take more than a nice bloke from up north to turn up and turn it around immediately.

dirtbox

I had to use hair remover on my sack when i had the snip. At the time i thought i might as well do the whole lot and see if the missus likes it. It was itchy and all that, but it did make the old pecker look a bit bigger.

The must be rough arse pikes, because the higher class ones fit uPvc fascias, soffits and downpipes.

Loledy!!

I remember an old mate telling me that the Navy was about three things; Rum, Bum and Baccy. Delldays, is this still the case?

I thought that was Peter Storrie clearing his personal effects after he got the tin-tack from the skates.

If true, then Adkins is a mug. Maybe he wants to kiss his players bye-bye, but he can do that in his own time. FFS, it's not like he's emigrating down under. All this misplaced fecking loyalty ****** does my napper in. If he wanted the job, he'd have done what Cortese asked and stopped acting like a pansy. Let him go and cry to his mouthy old chairman about the nasty southerners and let's hope NC concentrates on getting a proper fella in.

If NC was, he'd have no problem with any of his staff poking it up whatever sort they liked and maybe AP would still be manager.

I pity the poor mush dancer who get's lumbered with her, especially if she get's all horned up during the Tango and starts rubbing her flea bitten old clopper up and down his leg.

Initially he was in charge of his Boss's money, now he's in charge of his Boss's legacy; a far more emotive thing. I am sure he will do his very best to make sure he explores every avenue open to him; managers of all ilks will be spoken to and (IMHO) not too much should be read into whoever is "interviewed". IMHO i'd be suprised if there is an announcement before next week, but with the set up of the club (LR, etc), NC's iron-rod rule of the club (i know this from someone there) and his familiarity with Italian football and it's set up, i would also be suprised to see a traditional UK manager or even a younger "up and coming" manager installed as i don't think it would work. One thing is for sure though, we can't afford to keep losing to the likes of Rochdale if we are to seriously mount a promotion challenge this year.

Even with their new siamese twin midfielders, Rochdale were too strong for Saints.

Foreign - Van Basten Wow Factor - Keegan (plus above) Up & Coming - Adkins

I didn't go to the game as i was on a ferry coming back from France. I've just been surfing and note that the big fella karked it last week (i was unaware - as i was of Pardews sacking tbh), but fair enough if the old pie eater was an inspiration for them. But from what i hear from some mates who went yesterday, they didn't need much inspiration.

You're a funny guy; i like you. But smart arse comments don't gloss over the fact that we lost, at home, to Rochdale? I mean, FFS, have you ever been there? Lisa Stansfield and my mate John apart, very little of anything decent has come out of Rochdale. The football club is pony and we shouldn't be losing to them. You may well be happy with that, but i guess most will not be.

What a bag of s***e. Since the mid 90's we had to endure pony managers or poxy ones with an eye on a bigger job, chairmen and board members with no cash but riddled with egomania, has-been players screwing a few last quid before they retire and gobs***e players trying to make a name for themselves. The brief distraction of the WGS era aside, we've been on a downward spiral that precious few individuals (MLT, Pahars, Dodd, Benali, etc) have tried to valiantly slow down. But here I am on a sunday morning, reading reports of a home defeat to Rochdale. F***ing Rochdale!!! I'm well f***ed off. I don't want to hear about "we were all over them, we just couldn't score" or "we always start the season badly" or other such inaccuracies; we are still in the s**t, still have a megalomaniac for a chairman, still have a rudderless club and still have a spineless, managerless team.

It seems obvious to me that any cut will affect poor people more, simply because they have less to start with and any cut will affect them greater. I don't need the IFS to tell me that and also don't want to hear a load of whinging Labour politicians bleat on ad infinitum about it. Trouble is, politicians seek to make political gain out of any story that suits their short term argument and the information sometimes gets twisted. I don't agree that there are a bunch of poor people who had nothing to do with a collapse of "the system". If you are referring to the credit tightening that the banks imposed, part of the result was because "poor people" (and i use the term loosely) borrowed more than they could pay back. There is an element of personal responsibility which appears to be lost in the excuse-finding event of trying to find scapegoats. Having said that, the Banks have been bloody lucky; quantitative easing simply went to repair their balance sheets and they got away with royally screwing over a great many people and businesses in the process. Whilst they are now (generally) back in the black, the legacy of their opportunism will continue to affect an ever increasing number of individuals.

.... and that was a party political broadcast on behalf of the "Stop Dave Benson Phillips Procreating" Party. Now on BBC2, we present the comedy "Dave Benson Philips Ate My Burger" which sees an "on-form" Dave trying to chat up women, but falling time after time for the the oldest trick in the book when they want to get rid of him. All this before the dawn of realisation kicks him square in the love handles and he ends up going down on the clammiest, filthiest, grottiest flange he can find, only to tell his mates the day after that she "was a stunna".