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It's not a coincidence, it is indeed the same Beardall that I had come across in some dealings a fair few years back!!!!!!!

That statement by the Met Police was very strongly worded. They certainly weren't pulling their punches with regards their attack on News Int'l. It was quite a serious claim to suggest that they felt their investigation was being undermined by the actions from those down at Wapping.

I presume by this you're referring to The Guardian, the paper that has been the only vehicle willing to delve in to the murky depths of this appaling sequence of events.

I agree. As this has unwound from being a lone, rogue reporter to industrial hacking, I doubt if anyone who has been remotely newsworthy has escaped this breach of privacy.

Being honest, when I read that "Tweet" my first thought was that it must be a fabrication as it just sounded so cynical. However, if it is proved to be true then it is such a terrible admission. As for getting that bloke to prance around in a Harry Potter outfit, well words fail me (I'd expect Russell Brand to do something off hois own back, but not the Editor of a newspaper - tenuously speaking).

MSG me up, plus last time i saw him in there he wasn't picking the healthy stuff!!!!!!!

Quite a few of the "better" players aren't turning out on Tuesday, so picking a few youngsters and oldies (was thinking you could be one of the oldies LOL). Was it their race night??? Where did they have it??? Got back from trip in muddle of the night so was in no fit state to go out!!!!! Didn't want to post the fitness test gossip as (a) didnt want to compromise whatshisname and (b) negative stuff isnt liked on here LOL

Maybe Lambert needs to stay out of the Water Margin!!!!! Presume same source as I where I heard this story from???? PS Get your whites out as you might be playing Tuesday LOL!!!!!!!

He needed some spin on the propellor of his plane.

England is the native land of the hypocrites.

Without sounding too rude, reading this thread has indeed shown you to be somewhat out of your depth and your notion that "Spin Doctors" started with Blair is just one example of this. I presume you had never heard of Tim Bell. As for Ingham, he is on record about his 11 years as Thatcher's spin doctor (do you remember his briefings against Howe, Pym and Biffen???) and every morning lobby journalists would rock up at Downing St to be briefed and then briefed again later in the day at Westminster.

Forget the references to Moses (might be somewhat offensive to the good Christians - like me - out there), we've got our own connections with King Canute (used to enjoy a swift pint in the Canute Hotel before popping over to Floaters). PS we also need a County Animal/Bird (Lucy Pinder does not qualify) & a County Anthem (Woolston Ferry is too parochial).

I think your tense is wrong on two fronts. Firstly it wasn't that he was foolish keeping him on, he was foolish in appointing him the first place (the amount to which Cameron was warned and ignored this advice will be the next big story and there are already differing recollections of this). Secondly, Murdoch's interference went way back before 1997 (e.g. It's the Sun Wot Won It was early 90's).

There is a sizeable % of football supporters who will pay through the nose and/or put up with total rubbish to get their regular fix (be it ticket prices, merchandise rip offs, changing kick off times, treatment etc etc etc), but I think clubs' sometimes struggle with the concept that for others it is a discretionary spend and whilst many of the "loyal" supporters will put up with anything (for the "greater good"), others might be more fastidious in their outlook.

Then why not just have buckets down on the concourses where every week as people exit the turnstile they can donate over and above their ticket price to the greater cause. Why not even have a bottom line for season ticket prices (at current rates) and then a tick box option where at the point of renewing you can "donate" some extra money to the greater cause each year. Why not change shirts every season and also put an option in that for an extra £10 you get a silver star on the sleeve to show that you have paid more. etc, etc, etc Then on top of the notion that there is a limit to which fans should be screwed for supporting their team, I think there is a very credible argument that such actions may ultimately be counter productive and may actually result in a loss of the very revenue it is trying to create.

For all of Coogan's honourable and reasoned words, I have to say that I think Will Self was more on the button. His reference to Wilde's "England being the native land of the hypocrite" and the "ubiquitous appettite for what the gutter press have peddled" had more resonance with me.

I do remember that one of those two put a charge on parking at SMS for the Portsmuff away game one year, which I thought was a terrible ploy. I fully understand the need to curtail those who take "advantage" of the free parking at SMS (i.e. those just using it as a free car park for their city centre workplace), but really struggle to understand the push to charge those who park there for away games, those parking there to buy tickets and/or merchandise etc.

I don't think the question was the issue, more the eulogising that preceded the question.

With regards catchment area, I think maybe we will have to wait a few years until Technological Developments allow us to massage our geographical position and/ore global warming kicks in. I would suggest: 1) Filling in the Solent, to join us to the Isle of Wight (or dragging the island closer to us). 2) Getting an angle grinder down to the north of Portsmuff and cutting them adrift, letting them drift to form another Channel Island (or anchor them down by South Georgia). 3) Wait for Sandbanks to erode, Poole harbour floods and Bournemuff goes totally under. 4) Recreate the County of Southamptonshire and start a civil war with London/England to reintroduce a local "Catalan Style" fighting spirit to the City/County. 5) Design a new flag for the County (get Gecko on it straight away). 6) Develop conscription for the Southampton Home Independence Territorial Team Emergency Regimental Squad

Been out of the country and to be honest I had forgotten about renewing. Will have to sort something out this week (sounds like going in person is the way to do it!!). Sadly, I think our group is getting split up with some taking advantage of the cheaper prices in the Chapel, with others staying in the Kingsland as they prefer a side on view. Think season tickets will be slightly up, with a decent number of "free" kiddies boosting the total. Had hoped it would have been a significant rise following promotion and some optimism about the place, but just don't think the Club have done enough to capitalise on this.

I'm always slightly uncomfortable with being compared to a Club that has 160,000+ Members, all shelling out £75 a year (and that's a restricted membership, although you can join the three year queue for £100+ a year with no guarantee of ever becoming a member). I'm all for positive thinking, ambition and thinking the unthinkable, but I think Turkish needs to be reined in!!!!!

As well as previous Governments' actions (and there is a debate about the pros and cons of their actions) I can also remember when a great many companies took pension holidays!!!!! The generous pension(and I have no problem in admitting it is/was generous) was a part of the whole remuneration package upon which I based my decision. As well as affecting me personally, I do have real concerns that the downgrading of this package will impact on the quality of the teaching profession (retention, recruitment & morale). I have utmost sympathy for those who have "suffered" in the private sector (been made redundant twice, had a pension holiday enforced on me, had T&c's amended), but I don't feel comfortable with a race to the bottom. If anything I would have thought that having experienced such unfairness and inequity, then others might have been somewhat more understanding. I certainly don't buy in to the blind mantra of "I've suffered, so you must suffer too" as I find that so short sighted, knee jerk and selfish. But I am more than happy to have a sensible discussion about the value we place on the teaching, how these changes might impact on that, the role we all have to play in getting ourselves out of the current financial problem and what choices we have. As Francis Maude's ignorance yesterday highlighted, I fear this is more about ideaologies than it is about affordability.

As noble as many teachers are in their dedication to educating and supporting youngsters, it is very often the longer holidays and promise of a good pension that ensures they come in and stay in the profession. Being honourable and noble s sadly not enough to get by in the modern world. I personally turned my back on a salary over double what I am now earning to try and put something back in to our society (and particularly the local community) and the decent pension was one part of making that decision. I was happy to forego the money now and be rewarded by an honourable profession in my working years and a decent pension when I retired.

They'll be announcing that players are bakc in training, you can sign up to pre order the new kit, no one is going anywhere (that is until Arsenal offer £10m straight and Oxo throws a tizz) and we are looking to strengthen but won't be pressured in to overpaying. TBF they are not going to say anything sensitive, scandalous or confidential.

The longer you push out the forecasts the better the Public Sector pension situation actually becomes. Now if we're all up for a race to the bottom, then let's be open about it, but whilst there is a short term spike to the cost of Public Sector pensions, there is a sharp reduction as you give the forecasts longevity (as recent changes start to kick in).