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Probably by Turkish himself, I would imagine.

Crikey, I might have to put Alpine back on ignore and take Turkish off it!;-) FWIW I don't think Alps is a troll (ignoring the troll like behaviour), but he certainly has some serious issues. Probably cross-eyed: he doesn't look at his glass and think half-full or half-empty but at the one alongside which is completely empty!

Just in from footie training. Was a bit shattered but this has picked me up no end and I think a beer is called for.. or two.. or so. Hopefully by the time I get back there'll be more good news.

Thank gawd footie training is early tonight and I'm off soon - hopefully when I get back after having a drink with my team-mates this will all have been put to bed.

Best go and do another circuit...

I presume you editted in those user names, but I can't help feeling no. 2 might be one of us...

I thought they'd chopped your tree down?

Got there before me: 'giovanile' = youth team... I won't bother checking the Italian press now - too much to do after my drive back yesterday and it looks like it's done anyway. Roll on an updated OS: first person to find it on there please give a direct link!

Cazzo! It's on Sky over here but Udinese-Juve starts an hour afterwards and most bars aren't going to let me watch the second half, so back home for a dodgy online version...

It's such a dog's breakfast of a website that if it's there I can't find it... It really is an appalling design, bad enough for most of us but I'd love to know how the visually impaired cope?

I used to walk along there before they built the boardwalk: it occasionaly got interesting when the tide was in, and on a really high spring completely impassable. It used to be a difficult, muddy climb up to Priory Road until some volunteers improved it: "The Alan Jones Memorial Steps".. Stumpy himself would probably have said "bah humbug"...

The wine is good there n'all... My only experience of driving on the wrong side was soon after I arrived in Italy some years ago in my little Fiesta and, preoccupied with bureaucractic worries, pulled out of a car park onto a quiet street. Quick panic and swerve when a car came the other way but the lady in the other car was laughing and no harm done.

Just back (to my mum's)! I've been upt'north staying with various friends and had a night out in Manchester on the Saturday - great fun. Apart from the goals highlights were JWP - not looking out of place in the Premiership, Clyne looking a better buy every time I see him and the general play. Lambert and Davies coming on when they did was obviously planned from the start, but what an impact! So, so pleased that Lambert had finally got to the top division and then scored in his first match. Guly looked much more comfortable in that position, did he play there in Italy? Shame about Fox's mistake but unintentional and don't hold it against him. Puncheon worked hard but his shooting and decision making is still suspect. Davis' distribution could be better and disappointed that he was beaten at the near post, but the OP is right: I can't remember coming away from a defeat so positive.

It could be that the player has a release clause in his contract. In any case the fact that Bologna _want_ or are asking €20m doesn't mean we're going to pay it or that they really expect to get it. Sometimes it seems nobody here has ever been to a market or bargained for anything. If I weren't going up to Manchester early tomorrow I'd have a look through the Italian press: I'd certainly check on Bologna's financial situation as Italian football certainly isn't rolling in money and might need our offer..

Sod me! Three more pages I'm trying to read on a smartphone screen! I'll wait until tomorrow, 6/7 pages but what the heck.. But it's seriously addictive! Hope to chat to a few nutjobs at the citeh game..

Well, the club haven't actually said anything, but I don't get the impression that NC is a tyre-kicker when it comes to business. He wouldn't waste somebody else's time and he certainly would waste his own.

I went to the game and thought it was a useful exercise. It won't tell NA anything he doesn't already know about his recruitment targets, but it was a good learning experience for the team. They were a better team, but Saints weren't outclassed. The lesson was in how they exploited their superiority. Clyne looked useful and Puncheon was trying, but his decision making lets him down. Rodrigues was anonymous in his position, JWP looks the part and has good movement, Schneiderlin looked good in the first half but got tetchy and lost concentration in the second, perhaps frustrated by the poor off-the-ball movement at times. Some of our passing was crisp but could have been snappier and more accurate and we were given a much needed lesson in long range shooting, the need to close down in those areas and how players coming from deeper are difficult to pick up. There was a lack of bite in the game with one week to go to the real thing, but that aspect didn't concern me. I'm sure NA will find the video of the game a very useful educational tool.

I'm in the UK on holiday but sure as hell wouldn't have been going if I lived here, but this is a bit of a treat to myself and I'm visiting various people over a number of days on the way there and back. I don't admit to any non-footie fans how much I'm paying for the ticket, I find it a bit embarassing! Anyway, off to book somewhere to stay for a night out in Manchester!

and how what they actually get will differ from what they get offered. First late payment and I'd be off like a shot and putting a claim in..

It doesn't matter. The electricity has been cut off.

Presumably melt-down on Friday?

On Ramirez the Italian press is saying that the foreign interest is Liverpool, Tottenham and Southampton but none are willinng to pay the €20 requested by Bologna. It could be, however that the club may reduce their price to enable the transfer to go ahead.. "Sul fantasista uruguagio ci sono Liverpool, Tottenham e Southampton, ma nessuno sembrerebbe essere intenzionato ad arrivare ai 20 milioni richiesti dal Bologna. Sembra possibile, invece, che il club rossoblù abbassi le sue richieste rendendo accessibile il trasferimento"

.. and now I can't get into Saints Player. Asked for a password reset and they said the email was not held.. It's the b****y email you send me account information on FFS.

.. and now I can't get into Saints Player. Asked for a password reset and they said the email was not held.. It's the b****y email you send me account information on FFS.

I was trying to think of a way to express my opinion but you've summed it up perfectly.