miserableoldgit

He refused Spurs because he wouldn`t be first choice. I bet that if Stoke say they will make him their number one, he`ll be gone in an instant. I doubt very much if he has any emotional attachment to the car-crash that is PFC.

Dappy is a knob.

I hope for your sake that you wear a meat hat.

AND FINALLY... Portsmouth players waiting for their wages and fans used to less-than-palatial Fratton Park will be pleased to hear chief executive Peter Storrie and his wife want planning approval for a 'ground floor infill extension and first-floor extension to front, new railings to rear balcony, canopy to front and new wall and gates to front boundary' at their already impressive house on Hayling Island. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1247355/DAN-KING-Will-Michel-Platini-rule-Hawk-Eye-football.html#ixzz0eBBJfHxV

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1247400/Portsmouth-close-ruin-Asmir-Begovic-snubs-Spurs.html

Superfluous possibly. Grammatically incorrect??

Oh dear. What have I started??

This, of course, is true, but is peoples "bad" grammar just restricted to message boards, or is it their standard way of writing things?

It has been a long time since I was at school. I can`t remember everything!!

Yes, I take your point. It just underlines the importance of words and the way that they are assembled!! I read it one way and you read it another! It wasn`t a dig at schools though. I meant important to the public in general.

Pot and Kettle? If you read my post, I did not query as to whether these things are still as taught with such importance at school. I have nothing but admiration for teachers and the work that they do. My question was a general one asking how people viewed the importance of good grammar. I do agree with you about the parenting side of things, but this was meant as a general discussion point. No agenda.

I think that a lot of the problems are down to laziness and not actually caring whether things are correct . I see posts written as one long sentence (when, in fact, there are meant to be several) with no basic puntuation and no capital letters. You can generally understand what the poster is trying to say, but this is not always the case. Thank goodness for Babelfish!!

Moral not morale!

"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword!!" Touche!

I went to school in the 50's and 60's and grammar, spelling, and puntuation were very important and great emphasis was placed on their teaching. Now, they don't seem very important at all. How do other people feel about this?? In this day and age of texting, internet forums etc, does it matter? The things that I find particularly irritating are the use of "of" instead of "have" ("I could of..." instead of "I could have...") and the inability to differentiate between "their", "there" and "they're". Do the rules of the English language matter or is this just natural progress.

Bloody hell! How long ago did he join them?? Not paid for yet?

Sherlocks other brother???:confused:

Good morning everyone! I can hardly wait to see what comic shennigans our Fishy Friends from the East are going to present for our pleasure and delight today. How do they do it?? Each day they top what they did the previous one. Pure Genius!!

So was my dad! HMS Forester.

Tee-Hee!!

What an incoherent message board that is. How many replicated posts are there on there?

So what is the basis for your "views"? Certainly not any facts or knowledge apparently. I am old enough to remember Saints in the old Third Division (South). I guess you started watching them after this time then.

And this, posted by a P*mpey fan on there:- Pompey have signed a unique co-operation deal with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO). “Yet the indigenous people of these countries have been so taken with the poverty at Fratton Park that the latest news of the probable non-payment of wages has led many of them to volunteer to play for the club for the remainder of the season.” One of the first volunteers was Zimbabwean midfielder Fiddel de Books, 44, who said: “I was moved by the plight of this poor club. From the pictures I have seen they have no running water, no money and are riddled with corruption. “We Africans are only too familiar with this situation. Some of my friends do not understand why I would be prepared to fly to a foreign land and work for nothing, but it feels good to give something back.” A Pompey spokesman confirmed the deal, while signing a five-figure cheque for the club’s chief executive. He said: “This is just the sort of forward thinking this club is becoming renowned for. Volunteering is the new working. Given that we’ve given up all hope of avoiding relegation already, we are only too happy to have overweight foreigners playing at no cost while our existing players walk away from their expensive contracts. “Rest assured we are not in danger of administration with this sort of player recruitment policy. By the way, have I ever told you I’m a lawyer?”

Caravan, surely!