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Not true: definitely necessary in Italian mountain areas where it shows the blue sign of a tyre with chains. I never used my chains but them or snow tyres compulsory from November 15th in the Aosta Valley ay least.

You confuse Saintsweb with business?

Anybody on here is probably going to be ferociously biaised and already a decent skier so take my recommendation for Pila with a pinch of salt: decent nursery slope at Grimod though, the resort bars and the city below for eating and (largely low key) night life.

From what I've seen of the webcams of my old haunts in the Italian Western Alps they desperately need it, hope it gets that far - sometimes that area gets the wet air up from the Mediterranean - but this year the issue seems to have been temperatures so they couldn't even make artificial snow. I hope to go out there in January: jump in the car and go, snow tyres on already and just need to find a few places to stay so the texts will start going out soon! Just checked the webcams: it's snowed a bit 20cm today at Pila, so looking up..

..but, but, Liverpool aren't even shown in the table above. To save us all some effort and give us a few LOLs could you show a bit more of the table..

Oh yes, can't be ar**d with IP spoofing tonight, but ta.

I'd just like to point out that it's all over between Turks and me; threats of making him watch me play football worked! I'd like to nominate Bletch for Biggest Techy Nerd in the Services of Football for his word cloud work. I know MLG and Granty will be disappointed but their day will come.. Incidentally, I missed out on Bletch chatting up CB Fry. That's personally not what I'd like to do to CB, but I'm intrigued as to what happened..

Yep. I'll go an borrow my mum's new ipad after she's finished watching eastenders. Presumably if I clear my cache I can vote again using this machine too?

I think you misheard a quote from the Champagne Chairman Ian: "Things could get very messy"...

**** me! Who woke Dalek up?

B*****r, we've got morals...

Perhaps he could have a word with Monk from this board as he sometimes offers amateur teams cast off bits from his coaching job. Actually Monk, any spare cones, balls, etc. available for a bottom tier Hampshire WL women's team? We're almost as short of funds as Pompey..

Some of you listen to 'I'm sorry, I haven't a clue', I can tell..

Pretty fair assessment. I don't know who the people questioning team selection would want to play given the enforced lack of choice. The gamble of playing Morgan and Victor was one most of the moaners would have wanted, but we can now see why managers are reluctant to play certain players on certain occasions..

Yeah, imagine if he'd got a yellow card tonight...!

Give it a ****ing rest. I don't often get annoyed on here, but your need a nappy for your posting incontinence.

Well, that was a f***ing disaster. For all those who were so keen on this soddin' cup, our bare bones squad - beyond even the nightmares of 'Arry - now hasn't got a midfield for the Everton game. Davis, Cork, Hesketh, injured, Wanyama, Schneiderlin banned, JWP back from injury still not 100%, Reed untried. As we saw tonight, when we boot long when desperate, nothing comes of it. At least we'll have Pelle and Tadic back...

We'll probably get a couple of players sent off and have to adopt the Drummond T9 formation (as driven by Grandad!).

You do post some c**p Ludwig, but that made me laugh..

Can you co-opt Bearsy to do opposition profiles? Incidentally, where is the Bear, has he been banned again as I haven't noticed him recently?.

I saw the the thread title and immediately exclaimed "Oh do p**s off", so I thought I'd write it as well.

We'll have to go back to the ol' routine: 'can you PM me please?'...

Many years ago when I was doing my degree in modern history I remember reading an account by one of the top people in SOE/MI5 (can't remember the details), but the essence was that they didn't use torture, not only on moral grounds but that it was such a useless tool. Information given through stupidity, pride, arrogance was always more valuable than somebody babbling whatever they thought you wanted to hear.

Critical assessments under The Guardian match report too, and admitting that Basle were better..

Good to see the number 8 following in. The timing in the shot was good to get so much power, and the WH defence couldn't have suspected they'd need to close down there. Another name to watch out for.