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I've currently got a FirstRow stream going for the Norwich-WH game. Not bad quality picture but does anyone agree with me that the football is dire: head-tennis, hoof and hopeless?

I tell my students that punctuation is important. I shall use that as an example of why!

Does that make you feel a bit sheepish?

I'm going back to the Pompey Takeover Saga thread. More accurate, good build up, killer one liners and definitely a winning team. Vastly more entertaining. Milner wasn't as bad as expected but some of the passing from the back was appallling, the finishing somewhat lacking and the team needed an effective striker and some quick feet in the box. Oh....

Well, in his job probably not many people around at some hole in the ground out in the sticks at 6 in the morning.. but I don't dispute your point and as you'll see from my comment above, very professional when it came to safety... It's just that when I see a new BMW I scream to myself "Overheads", and "I'M paying for that"... Oh yes, one occasion when the pool car was unsafe (illegal tyres) they asked if I could take mine. The mileage would have been useful, but unfortunately "it's not insured for business use...". :-)

Have some cheese from Neal's Yard for me... and a pint or two in The market Porter. Both good but bloomin' expensive mind. Try the Stychwood - an unpasteurised stilton type cheese... mmmmmm. Can't remember the beer chasers but it was just a thirst quencher and I wasn't in pre-football anaesthesia mode when I was there.

That word, in case you are wondering was SW ank.

That's a shame. Some years ago I worked for the local leccy board and one of the distribution (IIRC) engineers drove an old Lada. Robust car, did the job and he pocketed the mileage allowance.. Nice little bit of money to put aside for an early retirement, if you weren't bothered about s**** or not doing longer trips. Personally I had to use pool cars - not being very corporate or promotion minded - but it was quite fun refusing to take one due to safety considerations..(tyres, spare, lights, mirrors) and then not being able to turn up on time to meetings with senior management and having a cast iron excuse. Never got me a company car, mind! The other safety consideration was that the pool cars were such agricultural Perkins diesels and slow that I never overtook anything: at least not after one brown pants job trying to pass a tractor!

"I always felt he had everything and now it's really come to fruition. I met him for the first time a couple of days ago. It's great for Scotland. We've had a really great landslide victory. And stop saying he's British, he's Scottish. " Stop calling Sean Connery Scottish. He's a bloomin' tax exile...

We all laughed though!

Gawd, we're some old farts on here, aren't we?!

Nobody escapes the Pompey Inquisition! It is all a bit Monty Python, isn't it?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/football-league-blog/2012/sep/09/portsmouth-league-one-crawley?commentpage=last#end-of-comments Nice to see that WiderInterestsDon getting the most recommendations...

It's Saturday night, errrrr Sunday morning, and I've just watched the video as I've unwound after a night out. Thanks for posting... I don't think it matters which clubs were involved, but doesn't it just capture our irrrational attachment to our teams? Since that film Swansea are now a prem team and Exeter have played in front of 30k crowds (st Marys, Xmas 2009... I was there..). Joking aside, any footie fan will have empathised with that film and the supporters involved. A salutary lesson for Pompey, if only they could ever learn....

Still waiting for a few more of you to turn up - Rallyboy et al? Seems you lot post more during the working day! Still, a pleasure yet to come, reading all your demolitions...

Cazzo, it's like beating your head against a brick wall or, due to the odd mistake putting your head through a stud partition. Of course you want rid of the shysters: who wouldn't. What the analyses here have been pointing out is how far you are from ever achieving that, and some other weary Nutjob posters can have the job of again giving you chapter and verse. You've been at the whim of foreign types for effing years and you've only just waken up to it? I think you'll find that although Saints fans don't like all that NC is doing we have utmost respect for his professionalism. But all that is irrelevant to the deep hole _you're_ in, and I think the general consensus here is that you are just digging yourselves further in. We've had Corp Ho on here time and time again going on about the latest rich benefactor (whose credibility was mostly demolished on here within half an hour ) so I suggest you go and have a chat with him about his misguided past...

True, and I'm absolutely sure Mack is also having a bit of linguistic fun at our expense too, (speaking as an English as a Foreign Language teacher who has seen enough mangled language!). And who could blame him?

That's another thing we have to counter constantly: the idea that two different things called "administration" were anything like the same beyond the name. My (and others') notional thousand pounds would have actually made a difference, Aviva were prepared to take a small hit on the mortgage (they'd already made on the deal) and there was considerable asset backing. How many times to we have to point out these differences?

Congratulations on putting your money where you mouth is. I was going to comment at more length but everything has already been pointed out. It's the nature of the efforts, not their existance, that we've been commenting on here. If you can't pull it off - and that includes failure within the Pompey biennial administration cycle - will there be any impetus for an "AFC" approach. If it were me I wouldn't want my 1k paying off past debts - many of dubious provenance; I'd want it as an investment in the future. At the moment it's just throwing good money after bad, or in gambling terms, chasing your losses.

Maidenhead United hate Slough Town - or at least did in my yoof when Nick Hornby was going to Magpies games..

Just think 20p in the pound and all will be clear...

Be thankful you don't live in Italy where I pay €600+ for Third party only (with windscreen and recovery cover) on an 11 year old Fabia. Shopped around last year and couldn't beat my existing supplier. It doesn't help if you have an old and cheap car as the base it on what you might hit... "but there's no way I'd be seen dead in a Micra. " - well, if cars are that important to you you'll just have to take the hit, but shopping around is a no brainer..

Oooh, I know one of the attendees from when I lived in the area... always up for a bit of innaccurate banter even when they were in the Third and Second division. Fortunately lost contact in recent years as I can imagine they'd have been insufferable... Perhaps I should get in contact again..:-)

Oh, go on, do quote it a bit.. I can't be a***d to go and find it and it'll annoy them so much..

You can see how authoritarian regimes always find willing recruits to do their dirty work.. Mind you, there are so few of them that they probably know most of the users individually. They'll probably start banning overseas Pompey fans soon, on the basis that their ISPs are suspicious... It's funny and pathetic at the same time...