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The trick is to practice and practice until it becomes second nature and nerves have little effect. Like walking, it doesn't matter how nervous you are you can still walk. I remember Le Tiss often practiced his penalties during the pre match warm-up at the Dell.

Oh don't be such a nob, no one's died. Your football team is going out of business - we hate you so find it funny - get over it.

Ditto, that would be fantastic. I have no sympathy for the thugs, they deserve everything they get.

I would have sacked Southgate last season. My point was that this season they were doing OK, changing manager when you are doing OK is always a risk.

Yeah, but this season they were doing OK, unless Boro think they have a devine right to be top of the league, 1 point off second place is doing well. Having decided during the summer, after relegation, that Southgate was the man for the job, sacking him then made little sense IMO.

They were 4th, 1 point off automatic when Southgate was sacked.

Strachan's problem is that he came in when the team were doing well (which makes you wonder why Southgate was sacked).

The plans look good, certainly an improvement on Woodward's "state of the art, cutting edge blah blah blah....".

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It is an amazing reversal of fortune, if you rewind just a few months we were facing the very real possibility of going out of business and starting up in the Blue Square and they just landed an Arab billionaire and were talking about Champions League football. There's a real chance now of us being in the same league as them next year, us with a billionare, them facing financial ruin and the possibility of an AFC Portsmouth in the BS.

Probably because banking is tediously boring and football is fun.

The telegraph said this... "The funding was secured after club management and the Professional Footballers' Association had held crisis talks with the players." It sort of implies that the PFA was involved somehow. Surely they couldn't loan the cash though?!

The pressure is different but it's about technique, which is the same wether you are in front of 20,000 or 100,000. If Le Tiss could teach his penalty taking technique (and regardless of caps he was better than Shearer at penalties) to the England side then the team could possibly be better off for it.

I can't work out if it's an Arab stitching up a Jew, a Jew stitching up an Arab or an Arab-Jew alliance stitching up a football club. All we know for certain is that they are at the mercy of a gun runner desperate to get as much money as he can and two skint foreigners who do not appear interested in the long term future of the football club. The skates should be worried - too many things don't add up, and usually that boils down to something dodgy going on.

St George, unless you stop mixing science with politics, no one is going to take you seriously. I suppose in your ****ed up world the tax on cigarettes is a big scam as well - don't tell me - the scientific community just invented the smoking-cancer link so y'all have to stump up more tax?!

You can only blame Wigley for that, the ****wit actually picked Dexter Blackstock ahead of Crouch at some point. You can't blame Beattie for wanting to leave after the jokers Lowe put in charge.

That list just highlights two glaring weakness's in the England side. Lack of decent keeper Lack of decent partner for Rooney. If we could resolve those before the summer we might have a chance of winning it IMO.

The conviction does look dodgy but I fail to see what anti-Americanism has got to do with it considering two of the people convicted are not American.

Our odds would probably be the same as Norwich's or Huddersfield's. the play-offs are a lottery, one dodgy penalty and a freak own goal and you're out - as we proved before

If we reach the play-offs it's only a 1 in 4 chance so you have to say promotion is unlikely. Very possible though.

Only 9 off the play-offs now - **** me this is easy.

Portsmouth were awful, if Burnley had any end product at all they would have won that easy. The skates actually look worse now than they did under Hart IMO, at least then they looked quite tough to break down.

up to 15th

I'm sure they could have expressed an interest dependent on the outcome of administration. And there was always going to be a SFC, all this "cease to exist" stuff is nonsense, since when do clubs the size of Southampton just vanish. Cities like ours Leeds portsmouth etc will ALWAYS have a football club. Even a hasty last minute bid by Southampton would probably win over places like Plymouth and Bristol. Even though it's not a big deal (probably just 180 minutes of football) we've been let down again by the usual short sighted, negative council.

But the temperatures vary for a reason, wether it's volcanic activity, solar activity or changes in the Earths orbit. Scientists have observed all the factors and concluded that greenhouse gasses are most likely to blame. If there had been an increase in solar activity, or a **** off great big volcano, they might have made different conclusions - but there hasn't and temperatures have risen relatively quickly for some reason.