bridge too far

Hug

But that would only be about 150, surely - did the rest of the 900 travel by car do you suppose?

Very embarrassing for all concerned.

On the news this morning, it was suggested they took 3 coach loads up because some of their 'fans' thought it would be their last match ever.

McKenzie

mine

drive

hedgehog

hedgehog

Long article, mainly repeating what we already know but opens as follows: "Andrew Andronikou tonight denied a statement on the club's official website which said the club may be about to go into liquidation due to a claim by the former owner Sacha Gaydamak for an upfront payment of £2.5m. Andronikou stated that Portsmouth will play at Hull City tomorrow but said Gaydamak's Jewish faith meant he was out of contact until the Sabbath ended on early Saturday evening and so is unavailable to resolve the issue. The article had been published on the website due to "pure frustration".

Long article, mainly repeating what we already know but opens as follows: "Andrew Andronikou tonight denied a statement on the club's official website which said the club may be about to go into liquidation due to a claim by the former owner Sacha Gaydamak for an upfront payment of £2.5m. Andronikou stated that Portsmouth will play at Hull City tomorrow but said Gaydamak's Jewish faith meant he was out of contact until the Sabbath ended on early Saturday evening and so is unavailable to resolve the issue. The article had been published on the website due to "pure frustration".

tails

tails

Hot off the press: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/oct/22/portsmouth-administrator-claim

Hot off the press: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/oct/22/portsmouth-administrator-claim

BBC South Today said they'd thought about calling off their match but it is now going ahead but also something about not being able to meet Gaydamak because he was unavailable this weekend for 'religious reasons'

Mr Tumble

Ah - so you still haven't read the link Remember that a lot of Sweden is not conducive to housing - mountains and all that. Oh you have now read the link - sorry. The latest info available for the UK follows the 2001 census and according to the ONS the density is 244 per square kilometre compared with Sweden's 22. But, as I've just said, a lot of Sweden is uninhabitable. If a population is of a certain size it needs an income of a relative size to pay for benefits of the same relative size.

Hello stranger! Eubank = Chris

I suggest you read the WHOLE article TDD - Sweden has one of the highest immigration levels in Europe.

eunuch

In my never-ending quest to satisfy your curiousity, I have googled extensively. I can't, however, find a breakdown of who they give their extensive foreign aid to. So sorry, I don't know. I do know, from the following, that they are highly taxed but have great benefits, and that the proportion of their GDP given to overseas aid knocks the US, for example, into a ****ed hat (about half-way down the link) http://www.fsmitha.com/world/sweden.html

Good post by you too

high five

Nick - the recession is global, caused by a global banking crisis. All countries with developed economies spend on hospitals and schools. They may do it in different ways but they all do it. All countries have deficits. It's the way of the world, living on credit, and we're so far down that road now that the worldwide economies would collapse if every country tried to be 'in the black'. My point was this. If all countries were as stringent with their deficit reduction plans, they'd have no money to spend on things like buying things from us, like aeroplanes for example. We rely on exports to keep our business economy going - if we can't export because other governments and their people don't have money to spend then our businesses won't be able to grow. Sweden has one of the lowest deficits in the EU but has a much larger public sector than do we http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-16/sweden-election-pledges-soar-amid-smallest-eu-deficit.html