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That article raises a few interesting questions... do I take my screw-ins or my moulded?

Wouldn't mind a day out in The Smoke myself, but Sunday afternoon means other commitments: I won't even be able to go down the pub to watch, and I'm sure it's the same for many others.

Based on my experience that was probably GS. :-)

Yeah, but you've had the training here, surely?

Yep, my mum and dad came from Eastleigh (Spike Island and Nutbeem road), so I'd quite like that too. :-)

I hadn't seen that before, but once again I feel I get my £5 worth from this thread alone. Just had a fit of the giggles and snorted tea, ya b*****ds! :-)

That made I laugh!

Or excited..

I'll interrogate them at today's game especially for you! :-) It was an overheard conversation at training: maybe someone was lending them season tickets, or had invited them and was paying. The odds are that Pompey's cash flow was not improved...

How many actually paid? I think a few of the girls in my footie team were going, although they didn't sound too excited about it. Given how much they struggle to pay subs/match fees I can't imagine they actually paid..

From The Guardian internet commentary: "78 min: Lallana is a footballer. He knows what’s up. He has to start. He’s not fazed by all this. [snip] GOAL! England 1-0 Denmark (Sturridge, 82 min) Daniel Sturridge is treating Wembley to that silly dance and well he might, because he has just diverted an almighty amount of pressure that was about to be placed on England’s shoulders! But while he scored the goal, it owed so much to the brilliance of the brilliant Adam Lallana. He had the ball on the left and looked like he was going to cross with his right foot. But he’s better than that. He dropped a shoulder, completely duped his marker and dipped back on to his left foot, before chipping a cracking cross to the far post, where Sturridge rose highest and sent an unstoppable header back in the opposite direction and into the far corner. That’s a really good goal and it has been coming. Updated at 9.42pm GMT 9.42pm GMT 85 min: For me, Adam Lallana is an England starter." :-)

Know what you mean! I've had more Summer Lightenings than is advisable tonight, and in a PO postcode as well! I have to say that both Shaw and Lallana looked _so_ comfortable.. not a hint of nerves from either of them, and a credit to their club! ;-) Lambert and Rodriguez to score at the weekend, and the crowd to chant 'We are Southampton, we're going to Brazil' with even more conviction..

Well, to be honest he sounded quite young,, so 500 quid would have been a fair hit. Perhaps he thought the season ticket was a bargain and had money to spare.. I look forward to eavesdropping next year...

Usual guff.. Can't be ar**d typing on this tiny phone. Promotion next year, big club, only see pompey shirts in Portsmouth, barker doing a good job, fan owned -he had halfashare - etc

Just had the pleasure of eavesdropping a Portsmouth related footie conversation on the train to Southampton. Talk about deluded...

Bloomin 'eck Wurzel! I know I came across this post late at night and after a few beers, but I looked at it and resolved to come back and _understand_ it later! I'm a motorist, cyclist, occasional yachtie helmsman and 'orse rider, skier and the rest, but it's only as a cyclist that it's difficult to understand or be fit enough to do what you must. I'm reasonably fit, but the whole point is to make the environment safe for all. "Sorry dear, if you can't cross the road in 30 seconds you shouldn't be allowed out"..

I'd also add (I'm on a roll and drinking a very nice UK beer..) that there are a lot worse tax systems than the UK's. My own experience was earning €6k a year gross in a european country and having to pay over 40% tax and NI.. I could have possibly reduced that, but the €600 annual cost of a tax accountant put me off... If they promise not to arrest me I'd go back and spend my holiday money (if I had any). The problem is not taxation per se, but the fact that the well off don't pay it. Dentists earning less than postal workers? Well, if you you want to believe the returns of where I was living...

Just seen the rest of the thread... I thinks it's gone a bit OT. As for VAT being a regressive tax, it should be noted that in the UK food is zero rated and fuel is at only 5%. Posh ipads n'stuff, and other luxuries are at the normal rate. As for VAT on fuel, and indeed fuel duty; I lived in a part of Europe where there was a regional subsidy on vehicle fuel costs. Unsurprisingly there was a proliferation of large, juicy and polluting vehicles; in a mountain environment which concentrated the impact in the valley bottoms. The EU stopped this unequal subsidy (non-vehicle owners didn't benefit), and although I benefited from it I can't say I was actually in agreement with it. As for inequality not helping an economy; it's pretty obvious and has been for a long time. The propensity of poorer people to spend and hence the velocity of money (V=T/M rings a bell?) is much greater, and they also tend to spend it within the local environment; which also helps the local economy.

Having just driven back that way recently I suspect that their agricultural production helps.. Leaving aside Bresse and its chickens, I passed Pouilly, Sancerre and a few other interesting villages... I picked up a whole Reblochon as well, to help the French balance of payments..

Maybe it's just an inability to use English modal verbs? ;-) Actually, a great example for teaching them to foreigners (or Pompey natives). "Why is this wrong?"..

That's a very good point, and as I don't watch much football I have nothing to judge him against and would have to defer to your and Window Cleaner's judgement. Perhaps a brace of goals tomorrow will change everybody's mind: a close range header (which he's done before) and a long range strike (which he ought to do more often). Well, we can all fantasise...

What? Turkish had a break from posting?!

I wonder if there's any sell-on clause? :-)

Remind me, how much is _he_ owed?

Indeed! Thank you, kind sir: as I was saying about cultural references... "End of an era" would have been a bit bland with fewer negative connotations, and no presaging of the chaos to come. ;-)