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I don't hate him, but he is such a childish idiot. Behaviour like that should never be rewarded, regardless of ability. Too many children with ability in football who are treated as something special due to their talent, all it does is breed arrogance and a lack of perspective. People like Puncheon are symbolic of many things wrong with this countries attitude to football. Ill disciplined, precious and utterly self absorbed. Let the child rot.

Agreed.

No, it makes you worse then the Skates, if you cannot keep up to date don't bother attending the stadium. Why would it be an issue!? Behave chap, if you like the shirt you like the shirt, wear it with pride!!

#Believes he can see where this is heading...# Go on.....

I had a situation where a product my employer makes could have saved the Shropshire NHS disabilites unit thousands of pounds per year. It was dissaproved on 2 grounds. 1) The department that would reap the benefit was not the one that would make the purchasing decision, and as such this would have been a capital cost for them above their current budget. Therefore no play. 2) The benefitting department feared that their budget would not be freed up by the savings, it would simply be 'cut' from their kitty in the next financial year. So they wouldn't back it either. How can an organisation that is so fragmented, so utterly and terribly departmentalised and clogged by this kind of red tape ever be working to it's best?

It's a fair point, anything that is in a state of permanant flux will never work to it's fullest potential. Nonetheless, it is constantly tinkered with because of it's role in life/death in this country. Most of us are born in NHS hospitals, treated by NHS GP's and eventually cared for by the NHS when matters come to their natural end. It is one of the most precious things in british society, the notion of state funded healthcare and as such it has to receive the constant political attention.

The NHS is such an issue. Just because it does a lot of good at the moment surely it doesn't mean that it is completely beyond reproach. I'm not saying that current coalition plans are right in terms of the NHS, but the utterly precious nature of safeguarding/ringfencing something (crucial role it plays accepted) that may be able to be improved further thorough changes is surely counter productive. Yes?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/ Here we go.

Can anyone remember the 'Political Compass' test thread that was on here a few years ago? It let people take a test to see where they are between the four political poles.

That would barely scratch the surface, you know that.

When it comes to politics they are all selfish, regardless of party. That however is a topic for another day. There is no ideal political solution, just personal inclination based on which one of the three main influential parties line up mostly with what you feel. Frankly, to be denounced and dehumanised by simply by stating I am currently in the blue camp is extremely harsh.

I think you are making too many personal assumptions.

Absolutely, yet the attitude of dipping into Credit cards as a matter of course has become a cultural norm now. The acceptance of debt as something that is freely available to all with very little asked is terrifying. I once decided to see how much 'money' I could get access to immediately (yes it was a slow night) and I was stunned when HSBC immediately, and via an online calculation agreed to extend my overdraft by thousands, would offer me a loan with no questions asked and would increase the limits on my credit cards. All in I worked out that I could obtain £20,000 WITHOUT SO MUCH AS AN INTERVIEW and with no difficulty whatsoever. It is no wonder there are people in difficulty when they can so easily obtain such sums. There is such little realisation of the long term repurcussions that it's no wonder many people are in trouble.

How is the game? I've switched over to some boxing now.

Sorry, but the concept of debt being a destructive influence is something Labouristas will never truly grasp. Live the dream and burden our children for the decadence. So selfish.

Oh, he was excellent for us, arguably never the same player (apart from a short time at Stoke) after he went.

That game took a while to get going but a great last ten minutes. Lovely finish for Guinea's goal and a shocking defensive lapse by Libya to allow it. Then it was end to end stuff. Great start to the tournament.

Yes. Absolutely.

The lesson? As the Charlton player discovered, never keep a man away from his muffins.

Having seen us let a 7 point lead slip I wouldn't put anything as impossible in this daft league.

What a wonderful sentiment.

Small steps first mate. A win on Monday night would be a good start. Frankly, i'm more concerned about the gap to 3rd rather then an outright league win, to be in this position right now is still something of a dream.

It may seem that he hasn't had the intelligence to make the most of it though. He will have to get a proper job at some point pressumably. Having said that, I remember reading somewhere that he is on something like 5k a week? Over five years that's about £1.3 million pounds. And say he paid 40% on tax then he will still have taken in in excess of £750,000 from Southampton Football Club. An absolute scandal.

How kind of you to notice. I really enjoyed following the Cup of Nations on the BBC a few years ago, was quite a shame to see that they havn't continued with it. Hopefully the 'crowd control' measures being used by the authorities are not too heavy. The use of tear gas sadly suggests otherwise. Equatorial Guinea v Libya is on now, as mentioned previous, kudos to Libya for actually qualifying in the first place.

djk2g09 and SteveStone Two more Pet Skates for us to toy with?