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True, but closer reading to the end required.... "it was confirmed that the tactical change from machine gun paragraphs had been an overwhelming success." Think I'll print Rallyboy's post out - watching England tonight and should be a blue few around in the social club.

Probably the bar takings in he Victory Lounge (see above), but of course this being them they'll take the turnover figure and not the profit after expenses (and er... tax).

How about adding... "We'll take on board all the negative feedback too" ??

:-) Nice one..

Let's be generous (we can afford to be), and remember that there were quite a few watching in comfort in the Victory Lounge, although due to general incompetence this was not generally known. Back to the videos: the football is the sort I'm quite familiar with from watching and playing down the local rec, with some errors even I would be embarassed to make. I've seen a bit of a Portsmouth Ladies' game this season, and they seemed far more competent.

I was there as I live out that way and I always thought Knight's long service was worthy of acknowledgement. Anyway, the score wasn't important and I don't remember really - thought it was 7 actually - but more typically Pompey was the fact that we were kept in the away end at the end of the match whilst Pompey fans proceeded to lob lumps of concrete over the wall. The police liaison officer in our midst said "oh, haven't seen some of these faces for a few years.." We were all in a holiday mood and good natured, and poor Alan Knight was so embarassed - bless 'im - and came over to apologise when we were kept in 'for our own safety' whilst the locals were dispersed..

Dear holepuncture, thanks for the quotes from CorpHo.. I didn't mean to impugn your own integrity when I queried the message you were passing on... just it's sometimes difficult to believe how stupid _they_ are! ;-)

You _are_ joking, surely? Or he is, perhaps, as he was always a joker when he came on here.

Me too. Haven't mentioned Italy or playing football recently, although to be fair Turkish or GS or BS do the work for me anyway. Anyway, to save them the bother I wasn't very good in goal on Sunday and got very muddy, but that maybe due to the celebratory drinks the day before..

Couldn't you use another negative term? How about 'spastic' or 'cripple'? You could be even crueller... 'Pompey fan'?..

Plenty of them that do: an example I saw a couple od days ago - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-24832611

She was only the oarsman's daughter, but she knew how to stroke her cox.. I can see your real ale running out now..

That was Kone..

Stone me! It's a double act! It reminds of the story of Mike Winters appearing at some theatre (Glasgow I believe). Bernie Winters ambles on.. "Christ, there's two of them!" We have our own two on this thread. Maybe a couple more later.. The problem is their act is so, so predictable. Trousers is lieing: there's no way he'd have got 5-1. ;-)

Better than 'con'! Gets past the swear filter too!

Ready made chant for Saturday.. 'Rickie for England' 'Adam for England' etc. JR/Clyne/Shaw/JWP/Chambers.. Morgan pour France..

I prefer the word 'connard'...

I think I made the right decision not to view the match thread based on the last page and a half.. All the old favourites were there, along with the bah humbug, we're rubbish, so-and-so is rubbish attitudes. When Fox made that succesfull covering tackle just before their second goal I knew he'd get stick, even if the covering was necessary. I thought Cork showed some rustiness, but played well, Lee is not a first-teamer but moved well and was quite sharp in the first half. It was good to see Reed get a full 90 minutes and to blood Gallagher - neither looked out of their depth, particularly Reed. We didn't penetrate but some of the passing was quite good, and the pressing also, even if not up to first 11 standard. Ramirez _was_ disappointing: a combination of over-ambitiousness and silly mistakes - but some team is reallly going to benefit from him even it it's probably not going to be us. You can probably tell I'm a teacher as I try to be positive: it's so easy to be destructive. But I just hope that some of you aren't football coaches because you could really ruin the morale of a team.

The winger Stuart Ripley actually crossing a ball successfully..

I've covered my bets on this one. On the roof I've got the recently installed solar panels [10kWh generated yesterday], been up in the roof these last few days improving the insulation and I've got a very healthy PEP of SSE shares. The thing about the latter is that although the price has been hit by recent events I'm not complaining, as I do feel regulatory control has been lax and there is a lack of transparency over transfer pricing. But I would say, don't complain about the "city shareholders". I didn't agree with privatisation, but as I was in the industry and directly affected I bought shares and KEPT THEM long term. So many people cashed in for a quick profit, which just about sums up our industrial policy in this country. As for the recent announcement on nuclear power: use foreign capital and expertise and then guarantee them a generous return! We still haven't worked out how and who is going to decommission the old nuclear plant, but the profits have accrued privately and the decommissioning costs remain with the taxpayer. In the meantime, every unit I generate on my roof is a tiny bit of fuel that doesn't have to be imported, thus helping the balance of payments.

OK, it might have been funny once, but constant repetition doesn't make it funnier and smacks of playground bullying. (not particularly having a go at you there, mind...).

Bearsy, I expected more from you. There's actually intelligence underneath the exterior, and that was unworthy of you.

You've got Turkish on ignore too? Must have. Just because Turkish _keeps_ repeating the fact doesn't mean you have to be his a***-licker. Anyway, I now play in Hants Div 3! :-)

"leave 'im Wes, 'es not worf it" I gave up on Barry after his gratuitously irrelevant comment and dig at me out of the blue in yesterday's match thread. I've come across plo**kers like him in real life, who think their banter is funny. Must be my upbringing, but I normally just smile and never tell them what I think, which is normally "What an utter p*****k." If they go on I tend to break this rule. I don't think much of his football comments either..

Early board meltdown time?