Nellie

They wouldn't be philanthropic then though. (I hadn't thought of that.)

Can anyone think of any particularly philanthropic clubs who would rather buy any Pompey players now, rather than wait until they go pop and pick them up for nothing (being able to play them immediately as they're free agents, into the bargain)? I'm not sure I can.

Oh come on. Even you must see there is no similarity there at all. We negotiated with Arsenal an early settlement, at a reduced fee in a deal that only impinged upon us and them. If both us and Arsenal were happy, then that's all that mattered. What is being mooted (not by the PL, so won't happen) with advancing the parachute payments, would effect each and every one of the Premier League teams. Why should other teams play within the accepted paramaters, and not get hopelessly into debt they cannot afford? Are you really suggesting that the body that governs football's top league should condone the reckless spending of one of it's members in this way? If you were to survive the season, then you would be entitled to the parachute payments. However, it's money which should only become available to you when you're relegated to help out with your subsequently unsustainable wages (lol). Top WUMing anyway though.

Don't think anyone has approached the Wessex League as of yet. I'm not sure they would until the final nail is hammered into PFC.

Ffs. Case adjourned for seven days, yet PFC are trading while insolvent. How can they be allowed to continue?

What he says on the radio for the consumption of the Skate fans, and what he actually believes himself are likely to differ quite a lot.

Of course it was. The most sensible way of distributing the money is nothing before the season starts, £7m halway through and £23m at it's conclusion. La la la, everything is going to all right in my world..........

That's because it was Jose Luis Chilavert who scored from his own half. Higuita is a poor man's Chilavert, who often was caught by attackers whilst trying to take the ****.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree, but at eighteen you are deemed to be mature enough to help elect the country's government and make your own life decisions. If you are old enough for that, then surely you are mature enough to appear on a jury of peers? All twelve people have to agree (majority aside), after all.

7 - There is no dress code, wear what you like within reason. Average smart casual type stuff. No-one wore a suit (or suite). 8 - You really won't be that impressed at all. 11 - You will be shocked at the stupidity of some of the other jury members. They will make your time infinitely more tiresome than it needs to be. I'm guessing that redandwhite91 might be a bit of a clue. It was actually quite enjoyable, apart from all the waiting.

I'm fairly certain gormless doesn't just mean lacking in intelligence, it also means lacking in vitality. Dull, if you will. Focussed? Obviously. Highly intelligent? Please. He's a great tennis player, but I think that's taking it a bit far. (If you use google, finding his career earnings before sponsorship isn't really very difficult)

Agreed, although Murray doesn't really come across as smug. Gormless and completely devoid of personality on the other hand....

Nadir Belhadj. What an odious, ****er of a man. Algeria may struggle to get a team out for the third place play off.

I think this was the second time that Attoub has been found guilty of gouging. This coupled, with his plea of 'not guilty' caused the severity of the ban, as the Judicial Officer decided that he was trying to shirk responsibility for his actions. To be fair, he's got a point too. Gouging is unacceptable and hopefully this will help to stamp it out. Incidentally, he's the second player from Stade to be banned for gouging in the same game, on the same player. Not sure what he'd done that didn't endear himself them.

Huge Lol. Poor old Thommo on Soccer Saturday looks like he'd just been burgled.

It turns out it wasn't SABC's fault at all. According to TMS, Daryl Harper just hadn't turned up the volume on the footage sufficiently. Good God he's incompetent. Why bother having the system if you're going to have inept standing umpires, being reviewed by equally inept TV umpires?

What the hell is going on with the review system? There is no hot spot or snickometer to begin with, which I can understand as at the moment it's at the television broadcasters cost (why the ICC don't fund it if they want to go down the review system route, I don't know). However, firstly the standing umpire doesn't pick up a blatant edge, with a clear snick, from Smith. Then when it's reviewed, the broadcasting company (South African), doesn't give Daryl Harper the sound to hear the snick. Hmm, a little suspicious.

Smith is tactically clueless, it's only a shame he didn't win the toss. I'm fairly certain the correct decision would have been to bowl. It would have heaped all of the pressure onto South Africa to bat well, then worry about declarations and if they can get twenty wickets. They are notorious chokers. When the pitch has clearly been prepared for seam bowlers, as evidenced by SA's inclusion of five of them, why not bowl first? We've already inserted them twice before in this series, on two far better batting wickets. Crikey, even Boycott was advocating fielding and he's straight out of the 'win the toss then bat' mould. That said, a number of **** poor shots (what the hell was Trott doing?), and a less than helpful effort from Daryl Harper really didn't help matters.

When we won the toss and opted to bat, I'm guessing 7-2 wasn't the start we were hoping for really.

Big lol @ Liverpool, and especially that **** Beglin who was talking about simulation for the penalty. He must have meant it would have been simulation if Benayoun hadn't booted him in the back of the leg. Idiot.

Bit of a moot point really, as in a short while you won't be around to compare with.

I got my quotes muddled up; I pressed the wrong button; the letter's in the post; I have heard nothing of the mistake, it must be your mistake and I expect it corrected forthwith; the problem was due to a file I loaded incorrectly.

After a bit of research, it appears AFC can mean either, you twonck. HTH.

AFC stands for Athletic Football Club, hence why it's very funny when Sunday morning pub teams call themselves AFC. HTH.

Hooray. Plumberoo-a-ding-dong. Five for Swann, including another three elbees. For a spinner, he really does get a staggeringly high proportion of his wickets LBW.