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Was 11ish and my overiding memory was also having to get off on the hard shoulder of a motorway (an elevated section???) and getting in after kick off and bascially seeing feck all for the first half. Managed to squeeze down the front at half time. Being honest although we got on the pitch first (the royal we, as I didn't!) I have to say that Rovers well and truly chased us back at the end when they all came on from a half covered end opposite. Took us ages to find our coach and was not the most pleasant of experiences afterwards LOL. That was the promotion season wasn't it??

I remember when there were nuclear free city signs on the approach roads to the city. Waste of time, effort and money.

Well we've received our Potassium Iodide tablets for the stay of the sub. Did you have them given to you for personal use or only handed out if there was a problem??

If I were West Ham and their demise looked as though it would cause a problem(ie lose some points), then I'd take a few of their players on loan and pay hem £££££££s as a loan fee!!!!

Don't get me wrong, I think they have really taken the ****5 for too long, I think the situation is dire and I wouldn't shed a tear if they folded, it's just that they have always manage to blag their way out of it (not worrying about who they have fooked over n the way).

Have to say I'm in your camp Hypo as despite it being a total clusterfck I just think the footballing authorities will let them slip away.

Half of that figure went in legal costs as it took so much litigation and pressure for NI to finally admit their culpability. As for the rest, well if a newspaper was hacking my 16 year old daughters phone (still whilst Church was a child star and not yet an adult) and eavesdropping on personal messages, some of which were very sensitive, then I would be incandescent with rage. Then throw in publicising my mothers attempted suicides and other personal issues, then I'm afraid I would want the book thrown at them. How much for your 16 year old daughter's privacy and the privacy of your mother???? £300k doesn't even come close!!!

Without sounding too snobbish, I'm not sure popularity is always the best measure of something!!!!! Given what has emerged from Leveson today, then I have big issues over the malign influence of sections of the press (and the "this is in the past" response is about as convincing and sincere as the "lone rogue reporter" response). And there's nothing party politicial in there as the last Labour Government were just as much in cahoots and giving as much deference as the current Conservative one to undemocratic and vested interests.

I agree that the NHS is a political minefield given its sacred cow status, but I also think it is something that we should rightly be proud of and something we need to be very careful with. The recent Commonwealth fund seems to have been overlooked by those critical of the current performance of the NHS. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8877412/NHS-among-best-health-care-systems-in-the-world.html The problem with Lansley's clusterfck is that no one is really sure what he is trying to achieve, no one seems to have any idea what exactly the NHS will look like after his reforms and no one really seems to be in real favour of it (apart from Lansley and those who have backed themselves in to a corner with their misplaced loyalty). The Conservatives don't have a mandate for such a reorganisation and they appear to be going against their pre election promise of "no top down NHS reorganisation", so it's not surprising there is opposition to these ill thought out plans. I think the NHS has to move with the times and it cannot be immune to the economic pressures affecting every other institution, but this reorganisation does not seem to have been well thought out and should be shelved and replaced. Also not sure about using the BMAs stance 60+ years ago as a reason for not listening to them now, as it would be just as ridiculous to highlight how the Conservatives (and the likes of Mr and Mrs Docker) were so opposed to the creation of the NHS

Not sure I would say won, more that they would have been deemed to have made the right decision (saying they've won makes it sound as though it is some sort of a battle, although I concede that the odd person seems to view it as a battle!!!!). However, I'm not sure it can or even should be measured in such narrow economic parameters. Some would argue that a fuller stadium, even if at slightly reduced ££££s is an advantage when playing at home, whilst others would point to the long term view of catching and retaining people as being a sensible approach. I think the Club have got things right, such as free tickets for U11s in the Chapel (great idea for catching them young), but also think they got other things wrong (initial season ticket selling was poorly handled). It's obviously not an easy job and everyone will have an opinion.

I had the same problem with Stu, it's "ph" not "v"!!!!!!!!! Rooooooooaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr

Deary me fella, you really are struggling tonight. You're not going to have another breakdown are you???? You need to work out whether you're here for the **** take or whether you're serious. It's so confusing having to cope with your split personality

You're not taking this web thing too serious are you????

Borrow one, or just don't use the kid ticket

If you're that desperate then they were still selling an adult and child pair in the family stand when I was at the ticket office today.

Big sideburns and looked a tad overweight????

I'm not defending Taylor (he deserved to walk), nor defending Noble who dived, but Sharp did go a bit headless for a bit and squaring up to Noble was somewhat provocative.

A resounding 2-0 win against a team who had a bit of form, with a decent performance to boot, and off the top of my head, Keepers good save from Lambert's first time shot Lambert's flick on being cleared off the line Good save from Sharp Reaction save from Lallana Connolly effort under pressure going wide Disallowed goal As a bit of a critic of our recent form, I have to say Saturdays performance was pretty decent and close to our early season form which saw plenty of goals. New signings and players returning from injury mean we're hopefully back to our best.

I think it would be safe to say that Pap was running rings around the three of you (strange trio BTW, a sort of my enemies enemy is my friend alliance, teaming up with anyone in a vain hope of winning the argument).

So drama queen histrionics, flouncing around saying how rubbish this place & the posters are and how you're never going to post here again, only to return a week or so later is comedy. Comedy? Comedy? Pah, you were all upset and just can't control yourself.

You sound all Dunesque in your protestations as he too tried to lay that same charge at me before having to retreat with his tail firmly between his legs. Feel free to do the same. I did indeed take a sojourn from here, but I quietly sloped off (only PMing a few friendly acquaintances on here to say tara) and I certainly didn't announce my retirement on here, or on other boards and nor did I have a breakdown telling everyone how terrible this place is, only to return a fortnight later. I do find it somewhat vulgar and even hypocritical to announce your departure in a drama queen sign off manner and/or publicly slag off a forum only to return as prolific as ever as if nothing has been said. I wouldn't say you're up there in the Stu retirement stakes, but your outbursts on the UI whilst banned were comical. HTH

To be fair to Stu he wasn't that much of a dinlo to rank us up there with Villa, he only said we were the same as Everton. And sorry but your exiled rants on the UI were no different to Stu's drama queen retirements only to be reneged on as you can't help but post on here. You may think this place can't exist without you, but history has shown it still rolls on when individuals (good, bad & ugly) slope off elsewhere. It's you that can't resist it LOL!!!!!!!

LOL Did I really imagine Stu morphing in to Matt Le God??? Almost as bad as your breakdown on here (before you teamed up with Dune and made a comeback)

We're on a par with Everton though [sic]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the link. Didn't look like a penalty (an honest Jos on Twitter said his earlier handball was a penalty, but the Sharp trip wasn't). Poor gamesmanship from Noble. Taylor should never have raised his hands nor thrust them at Sharp (always going to get sent off for that in the modern game). Sharp didn't hold his head, but did seem to go down a bit easy, before realising he really shouldn't be making too much of a meal of it. Some decent chances for both sides.