Ken Tone

Shhhh. Arsenal will be after him.

The creditors votes wil be dominated by chainrai. He wil to a large extent be vvoting for himself.

Simple. Holloway is a clown and Allardyce is a git. Clowns are less objectionable than gits. Therefore Blackpool to win. And Gold and Sullivan are gits too, now I come to think of it.

Quite right. Exactly! (Though not so good on the English syntax!)

Eh? I've said 10 squared = 100 , which it does.

Nothing to do with the decimal points. 0.1 x 0.1 = 0.01 is correct, and 10p does = 0.1 of a £

Well I wasn't actually seriously suggesting that the whole basis of civilisation since the ancient Greeks was built on a mathematical fallacy! But I note you have not pointed out the flaw in this 'proof'. There's no division by zero in this one.

So what happened?

Well if we're going to start on the 'interesting' maths proofs, try this one £1 = 100p = (10p)2 = (£0.1)2 = £0.01 = 1p, so £1 = 1p Explains a lot about imnflation and the recession doesn't it!

Out it this way -- I'm be more likely to have a policeman as a mate than an estate agent!

Just a typical game then really

When we went on to bankrupt the club, we were there; we were there. (NB better grammar too)

Good grief! That really is the definition of optimism.

Just as long as he doesn't offer to cook me a vegetarian meal !

Dog --I'm not sure if you are just taking the ****. But if you are serious, and you've never had waxed up ears before, you ought to go to a doctor first to check that that really is the problem. You should not be pouring olive oil into your ear if what you have is a perforated ear drum for example. If it is wax, it may fall out if you're lucky, but most people need to have a nurse or doctor syringe it out after it has been softened up... which is not as bad as it sounds. S/he just squirts warm water into your ear and washes out the wax.

You must be very very bored today Dog.

And on the sporting theme, let's hear it for Austin Healey.

Clearly it was only a wax carrot

IF it is wax, which is why he has to see the doc to confirm first, then yes this works better than most of the commercial drops, but my tip is to warm the oil a bit to around blood temperature, by eg holding in a teaspoon in the steam of a kettle. But don't overheat! And then put a cotton wool 'plug' in outer ear after the oil, to stop the wax drying out again. The whole point is to soften the wax so the medic can wash it out without perforating your ear drum by using too much pressure.

Just back from my meeting. Managed to send in a couple of (serious, not wind up) questions before he signed off, but he ducked them all. Joking apart, you have to hand it to people like him who are really trying to save their club, but the level of naivety displayed is remarkable. They really have no chance do they? Portpin it is then.

I will be tied up at work. Someone please try to find out what happens to the players' contracts if they are liquidated. Are they just cancelled, or or do they get paid up in full by the league using part of the parachute payments that would no longer go to the club? Because if it is the latter, they are doomed. No player would pass up that pay-off, so there'd be no chance lowering the wage bill. The trust bloke on the News site doesn't seem to have even asked this question of the football league!

I sympathise. The only way we customers can affect this is by gettng into the habit of routinely asking the retailer who they use for deliveries and then saying 'no sale' if they use yodel, who are indeed rubbish. In fact most of these firms are worse than the good old royal mail in my experience... just cheaper for the retailer.

Of course I could be mates with a copper. What a daft question. They're human beings like us, and are doing a job that helps protect me and my family.

Jesus! Neverstick a biro in your ear! You may well have caused some damage. If you are really sure it isn't wax, make a doctor's appointment and get it treated. In fact even if it is wax, do that, so they can syringe it out safely after it has been softened up with drops or olive oil.

I'd have thought that the (50% or so?) PL clubs that are inherently 'bigger' than us will not want to risk Nigel until he's proved he can do it in the top division. My hope is a) he will indeedprove it, but b) Cortese will then convince him that Saints are on the way to being as big as many of those other clubs anyway, with, by then, definite plans to extend the stadium and more investment in the playing squad. If a) and b) both happen, then only the top 4 or so clubs will be a threat, and they mostly want really big names as managers, which Nigel won't be until he's taken us into Europe a few times.