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First Townsend floated around and now Welbeck. An admission that there is an awful lot of 'ordinary' around the national team.

Clearly not enough if you keep coming back for further helpings.

The only person who cannot resist biting whenever food comes up. And you have the cheek to call other people greedy Turks.

Against Liverpool we matched their total shots and had more on target. We also had more corners then the Scousers although they did shade possession. We deserved at least a point. In the Man City game they were all over us, 64/36 possession, 15 shots on target compared to 6, 20 total shots compared to 9. Our two goals were against the run of play. Two very different games. I am going for a win v West Brom.

As such a re-naming may be in order. No way should it be shut down, Mero's latest delusional contribution and hasty back-track serves as proof, there's plenty more fun to be had at that cesspit of a club's expense.

Nutshell. The availability of fan-sites and media online has for me rendered the fanzine obsolete. I cannot see what a specific fanzine can offer that would be entirely unique.

Such great news. Looks as though SISU are still committed to trying to own the Arena outright but they are finally co-operating with Arena Coventry Ltd for the benefit of the community. My friends up there are absolutely made up right now, shame i'm no longer there to join them on the friday night for the Gillingham game.

That did not answer my question. Why are you doing this? Why persist in going on here in Artur's name?

As a contracted professional he should be making it his purpose to challenge the coaches and force their hand. That's not what he wants to hear though is it. Just what do you want Irene? You've said you wanted to put your perspective across, but why? What's the need behind the act? Is Artur that insecure that he was looking for kind words, validation?

A bit vague. Putting it into context with the odd appearance of Irene and her/his attitude.... He's off. A massive pity, and a further sign of just how spoilt footballers are. A place in a team is not a divine right. One of the quotes either attributed to Pochettino or Cortese last year had it right. Something along the lines of 'You are employed to train with the squad, the manager is employed to pick the team.'

Never with an actual friend, this forum is often a collection of strangers who have one common interest, away from here friends will be people with more then just a shared interest but also similar personalities/sense of humours etc. It is therefore more likely that there will be more conflict. There are individuals on here who I sincerely hope that I never meet, it is evident that we would be too different. C'est la vie.

It depends what the 'group' is though. Open minded tourists on holiday may try to stretch themselves but the 'egg and chips' types who invade Spain every year highlight that en-mass people want familiarity as much as integration. Taking an altogether more scary example, I sincerely doubt that the average Hutu in Rwanda wanted to partake in mass genocide of their Tutsi neighbours, yet the vast majority did under group mentality. The desire to fit in was more overwhelming then the moral obligation to not facilitate murder. Humanity really can be an awful species, there is the capability for evil in everyone if it is manipulated. My own personal experiences in living in the West Midlands in the previous ten years also lean me to feel that although the vast majority of immigrants are peaceful they are far happier at being within their own communities then going elsewhere. Equally, I was happier to move back to Hampshire then stay.

If we are being that picky, then you could be looking back through the entirety of history trying to pinpoint an exact moment. You took that as a date and I stated that there will have been events then that set others into motion. As for 'owning' half of the middle east... the fall of the Ottoman empire was the catalyst for that; that begins at the end of World War 1. The attitude of 'owning' this land at the time, that in itself will have been a start for tensions that we as a nation will have had a direct influence on.

Issues at that point may not have a been a flashpoint, but they do serve as a root and beginning for everything that followed.

So why is this not happening? Many of the greatest 'integrations' in history, including the example of the Neanderthals, have actually resulted in the near, if not total destruction of one of the sides. History has very few examples of multiculturalism, but many of absorbtion/obliteration.

Try option 'd'.

Yeah, that.

Yep, left our academy in 2009. A Gosport lad who allegedly switched to his preferred club. Fair play if so, but you would have to wonder how he would have developed had he remained with us. Would he have been near our first team? In better facilities he may have been a match for Jack Stephens.

Teams with better infrastructure then the Skates (Based on modernity of ground, size of ground, training facilities.) All Premier League Sides Championship: Forest, Cardiff, Millwall, Charlton, Norwich, Watford, 'Boro, Sheffield Wednesday, Ipswich, Reading, Derby, Blackburn, Birmingham, Brighton, Wolves, Rotherham, Leeds, Huddersfield, Wigan, Bolton, Fulham, Blackpool (All bar 2, 3 if you exclude Blackpool.... but Bloomfield road is a very good facility.) League 1: Bradford, Bristol City, MK Dons, Preston, Doncaster, Coventry (Once SISU and ACL come to terms, they have a great academy and training structure), Barnsley, Sheffield United. So, I make that at worst lower League 1, at best lower championship with a fair wind and purple patch. Times have changed, many clubs have invested to improve themselves (Like Brighton, now easily the second biggest club on the south coast) the failure to make hay when the sun shone has set the Skates back at least a decade. The only way that they can catch up will be from a huge influx of funds. A good academy could provide a base for that but it will take years to re-implement to a decent level, the fan owned (...... sorry, my splitting sides.....) model also in theory prevents a rich benefactor taking over. While their trevails over the past 7 years didn't kill them, it took the glass ceiling and lowered it to a level that will prevent them actively competing at the standard many, many of their fans saw as a divine right. That is a victory for common sense and fair play.

How would you quantify that exactly? Bare in mind that fans do not constitute infrastructure.

Not sure whether this is from the Adrian Durham school of stirring argument.... however there is a certain degree of 'children repeating the mistakes of their parents.' Starting from a point of wanting to escape from bad behaviour, yet repeating it themselves in later life.

Perhaps the shirt sizing is intended as motivation for the fanbase to do more exercise?

There are elements of truth in that speech, as unpalatable though it may be. Of course it isn't valid as a sweeping generalisation, but to shy away from the threat that is represented by the extremes would be wrong.

Or SaintRichmond. Wait, that's already someone else's pseudonymn.

What causes Taider general wonderment?