Fowllyd

A mere 1,312 for me. But among the last 10 visitors is none other than the starter of this thread. Explain yourself, young man.

Terry Paine John Sydenham Martin Chivers Jimmy Melia Gareth Bale Theo Walcott Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Liking your themed anagrams here!

James Ward-Prowse Dunno Gaston Ramirez Jack Cork Dunno Luke Shaw Morgan Schneiderlin Ryan Smith Ian Branfoot? If so, where did that 'e' come from? Close, but no cigar. Well, actually not even close. Not about Bear, of course, but about Barry Venison

Try taking this quick test to see just how hip you are: http://www.theguardian.com/football/quiz/2013/oct/29/are-you-a-football-hipster I like their choice of player photo for this - he's clearly the hippest thing in football!

Do you have some congenital defect which renders you unable to spell people's names correctly? Or are you just a f*ckwit who thinks it's funny to do that? Or is it that you suffer from the congenital defect of being a f*ckwit?

It's not very good though - in fact, I'd give it a C-. If it worked properly, Barry would only ever have made one post.

RIP Lou. He did a whole load of great stuff. One of my favourites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffr0opfm6I4 Slow build-up to a fantastic crescendo, Cale's viola, Mo Tucker's drums and the two guitars crashing together... Awesome.

Bloody hell - did you actually understand Barry's gibberish? Couldn't make head or tail of it myself...

Well, you certainly weren't wrong. Neither was I for that matter, nor was anybody else who, like me and like you, didn't actually post anything on that thread.

Is that like when you say "It's getting a bit old now, but it was nuance..."?

There was a piece on this very subject (presumably the basis of the article) on the PM programme on Radio 4 the other evening. The conclusion was certainly the same; whatever claim Donohue may have, it was Miller who truly introduced the game to Brazil. I liked the comment from a resident of Bangu (where Donohue lived and worked) that he would have started a proper team and a league if he'd been allowed to do so. "Molinari argues the town would have boasted the first football club in the country had it not been for the intervention of one of the managers of the textile factory, who believed all games, including football, would lead to degeneracy among his workers. By the time the factory owners relented, in 1904, the Sao Paulo league was already in its third season." Yeah, but he didn't, did he? As it says elsewhere in the article, Miller didn't just play football - he implanted the game in Brazil.

True, but he's forever cumin on as if he knows it all.

Same as in any other world I'd have thought. A chairman is normally non-executive (as ours have been over the years, with the exceptions of Lowe and Cortese); they head up the board, but have no executive responsibilities, leaving the day-to-day running of the club to executives (CEO etc.). For example, Bruce Buck doesn't run things at Chelsea - Ron Gourlay, the chief exec, does that. An executive chairman is, in effect, both chairman and chief exec; thus, Cortese both chairs the board and runs the club on a day-to-day basis.

In what sense are people whose families have been in Liverpool for many generations immigrants? Several British cities have black populations which originated in the days of the slave trade, Liverpool (as you correctly say) among them. To describe such people and communities as immigrants seems a trifle odd and massively inaccurate. Or is that not what you meant?

Another one here: http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/oct/09/harry-redknapp-fa-england-manager Heard him on the Today programme this morning - going on about how important it is to bring on young English players, or else we just won't have an England team before too long. Luckily I was en route to work at the time - had I been drinking my morning cuppa I'd have had a tea-splattered kitchen...

Peter Wells.

On the subject of aqueducts, the one in Segovia is an absolute beauty - and it still carries water into the town over 2,000 years after the Romans built it...

I think that's very harsh and distinctly unfair. What have goats ever done to you?

Would it be churlish to point out that 29th September 2009 was in fact four years ago today?

Voted, and I see the Afghan stray dogs thing is in the lead. Then again, you don't see the others when you cast your vote, so that would explain a lot. Good luck to Helen.

To save anyone the bother, Glasgow_Saint is counting every single game Billy played for Saints - so yes, that includes pre-season friendlies. Without those his record would be good but not spectacular. Though just why anybody takes any post by Glasgow (or any of his alter-egos) seriously is beyond me.

Nick Holmes - always felt he was underrated at the time by our fans, playing as he did for so long in a team with many bigger names. A dedicated, loyal player with a good deal more ability than many gave him credit for. On here at least he seems to get the recognition he deserves. Also Mick Mills - excellent player and a key member of what was a superb Saints team. But, like Holmes, he always attracted more than his fair share of moans from the Dell crowd.

Would Milton Keynes Dons count?

Or, indeed, when Glasgow_Saint starts arguing with himself...

Maxine - Penny Mordaunt