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I suppose the positives are: 1. Chelsea should rip them a new ass hole in the final. 2. Going to a cup final is going to make it even harder for them to take getting smashed by S****horpe next year while Chanrai bleeds them dry of their parachute money.

Kenny Jacket hasn't been spending like the Chelsea of league 1. You're right, we could be 20 points behind at Xmas and still win promotion, but it's about judging the manager on what you have seen and assessing the risks. There have been loads cases where a team performing badly have turned it around when a new manager has been brought in.

Rubbish, a bunch of cheats won today, they owe US the tax-payer millions yet they still pay their expensive foreign stars to cheat their way to more glory. Today was a victory for cheats, football was the loser.

There couldn't be a clearer case of cheating, half their players should have been sent back to their parent clubs. Remember it's tax payers like you and me they are basically stealing from to pay their over-paid foreign mercenaries' wages.

They need to take that useless **** Crouch off.

Cheating skate ****s.

Spurs are playing ****

Good news now is that as relegation is confirmed, any further points penalties from now on HAVE to take effect next season. I was always worried they would sneakily exit admin without a CVA this season and get round next season's -17. CHEATS

Looks like they might sell them all then, there will just be a large amount of fans in their end with no colours on with slightly more convincing mockney accents.

They still cant sell all their Wembley allocation, ST holders can now get two extra tickets... http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/LatestNews/news/Wembley-Tickets-Update-796.aspx I will be embarrassed for them if they can't even sell out an FA Cup semi-final, **** me even Luton Town sold all their Wembley tickets.

I don't believe that the military 'adventure' does not provide an economic stimulus. Every bullet/missile fired or tank destroyed is paid for by the tax payer and makes some big corporation money. And that on top of the other economic benefits of invading Iraq like oil, reconstuction and security. A quick google... Global military spending rose 4% in 2008 to a record $1,464bn (£914bn) - up 45% since 1999, according to the Stockholm-based peace institute Sipri. In contrast with civilian aerospace and airlines, the defence industry remains healthy. "The global financial crisis has yet to have an impact on major arms companies' revenues, profits and order backlogs," Sipri said. Peace-keeping operations - which also benefit defence firms - rose 11%. Missions were launched in trouble spots such as Darfur and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Another record was set, with the total of international peace operation personnel reaching 187,586," said Sipri, or Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Growth industry As the world's aerospace and defence industry prepares for next week's Paris air show centenary, it seems much of the focus is set to shift away from troubled civilian aircraft makers, which are struggling with reduced orders from recession-hit airlines, towards the companies that make fighter jets and other military hardware. In total, the 100 leading defence manufacturers sold arms worth $347bn during 2007, the most recent year for which reliable data are available. Almost all the companies were American or European. Some 61% of the total was accounted for by 44 US companies, with 32 West European companies accounting for a further 31%. Other companies were Russian, Japanese, Israeli and Indian. "Since 2002, the value of the top 100 arms sales has increased by 37% in real terms," Sipri said. "The US presidency of George W Bush... was a period of continuity in the arms industry. This followed a period of consolidation in the 1990s and early 2000s." The US aerospace and defence giant Boeing remains the world's largest, with arms sales of $30.5bn during 2007. The UK's BAE Systems ranked a close second, with arms sales of $29.9bn, while Lockheed Martin was third with $29.4bn in sales.

I don't know what the break even attendances were last year, but whatever it was we didn't reach it because we went bust, and that's even with the extra Championship Sky TV money. Players like Jaidi and Fonte don't drop down leagues for a laff, they will be on massive wages for this league. We have decent attendances but not so big as to out spend Leeds and Norwich - which we have. We've spent HUGE amounts for this league, much more than can be accounted for by a few extra fans through the turnstyles IMO, especially given the cheap seat prices.

There is no way we are breaking even, not even close. How many other League 1 sides have spent what we have?

I don't believe that for a second, do you really think it's a coincidence that the US and UK are two of the World's largest arms manufacturers. It's not just the US and UK military, all the countries in the surrounding area have increased military spending because of the instability. As well as business making a fortune on arm sales you have the benefits of cheaper oil, the reconstruction contracts as well as the lucrative private security contracts which are worth billions. From the BBC.. With annual sales of about £17bn, the (UK Arms) industry likes to see itself as a key plank of the UK economy. The industry's biggest customer is the British government, which last year placed orders worth about £13bn. But the UK is also the world's second biggest arms exporter, behind the United States, with a market share of about 20%. It claims to directly employ 350,000, spread over 11,000 firms, with as many as 1.2 million people relying on it for a living.

"It's a very serious bid," he told Sky Sports News. Alarm bells always start ringing when the person involved says stuff like this. Wacko Jacko all over again.

You're forgeting we've now got a billionaire, if Lallana leaves we just buy a better one.

That's probably the line of thought of the "insurgents/terrorists" in Iraq. Except they have more justification as it's their country.

Voting for anyone won't guarantee anything you think c**t.

I wouldn't vote for the Tories either, it's only that nob-head Robsk II who has mentioned the Tories, I think they are a bunch of ****s. My point was that, out of principle, you shouldn't vote for a government who has lied to take the country to war, it doesn't matter what colour they are.

That's my point, most people DIDN'T want to go to war. When has a British government ever previously got a PR expert to spin a dossier in order to go to war for reason that turned out to be completely false? I don't doubt that the Torys would have done the same thing, but they need to know that when they get in power and a similar situation arises, taking the country to war on a lie will end their careers.

That's not important, WHOEVER is in government needs to know that you cannot lie to go to war and get away with it. It sets a dangerous precedent if your leaders think they can lie and spin their way to murdering thousands of people and not face any comeback. Otherwise what is the point in democracy?

I don't see how anyone can watch that and still vote Labour. It's a matter of principle, no government should be allowed to lie to take us into war and still remain in power. What sort of precedent does it set if they are voted in again?

The thing is nobody really knows who paid who what because it's all been done through dodgy companies registered in the Virgin Islands. All we know is Chanrai was awarded 17m or so from Gaydamak by courts, now he owns Gaydamak's football club and has license to strip what he wants.

With or without Rooney we wont win the World Cup, people forget we are England and generally quite **** at football.

It's obviously The Mail making a fuss about nothing but for the sake of argument. 1. If it doesn't matter what it's called - why change it? 2. Countries have different names for other countries cities etc, but the EU governs us, it is OUR government (supposedly) changing the name.