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Actual conversation in interview:- Appleton: "I will work for ten pounds a week and sleep in the Fratton Park broom cupboard". PFC: "You're hired!"

He is probably still here in some form or another.

I personally don't mind. Those who have stuck with the team over the last few years have done a brilliant job, and I think we've been justly rewarded for sticking with the team. I don't actually get to that many games on account of living up North, and you have to take personal circumstances into account. I'll be down for the Brighton game, first home game in a long time. To some eyes, I might appear like a plastic but the reality is that I'm the head of a household with a fixed budget and conflicting commitments. It's all too easy to think the worst. I'd welcome the truly shallow, truly plastic fan too. If they're going to St Marys, just a positive reflection on the team's performance. We are not Liverpool and we are not Man Utd. If we want to eventually compete with those clubs, we shouldn't be turning fans away.

Cortese sweeper-keeper, Nige trequartista?

top men.

I watched the 1977 version of that film the other day. He actually is called Porkins! Still, we should not be surprised. We got Jar Jar years later, after all.

Reminds me a bit of Hugo Guthrie, the fictional mayor of Tipton. He would frequently appear in Viz, claiming that religious and cultural artefacts had been found in the West Midlands. Tipton, to be specific

I've been a fan of Rab since Naked Video. It's weird. Watching him is very reminiscent of the time I've spent in Liverpool and Northern Ireland. Your brain has to prepare itself just to understand what is being said. Rab is gloriously amusing once it clicks, though. * I still cannot understand Northern Irish people once they've had, say, more than seven pints.

Indeed. How long before enough people start asking "why are we still sticking with this money lark when it hasn't served us very well". The problem is unbridled greed, and the reality that capitalism isn't just a means of re-distributing wealth; it's economic warfare. The problem is, absent some genius that allows you to make it "big" ( and big is relative to us, not them ), the money men have had the best weapons for centuries. Some people made a lot of money out of the Great Depression. The same sort of people will make even more money out of this. Sure, they may have to put a few trillion in ( which they can invent from nothing ) but they'll get it back in spades, with us footing the bill.

Doubt it was for 45 million, though The only year we got more back than we put in was, funnily enough, the year that Britain had a referendum on the subject

He has put in an absolute fortune over the years, and the club would not exist in its present form without him. I don't know this for a fact, but you'd have to guess that his vision was long-term, and that the kids in the area would support their local team over one of the bigger behemoths in their midst.

Stunningly accurate

They had a rent-a-Geordie on the Today programme this morning who accused Cashley of playing the politician trick - dumping bad news in the midst of favourable circumstances. Personally, I can't stand sponsors on anything.

There's certainly enough historical enmity to be stoked up. Germans and Polish, Germans and Dutch, French and Germans, Belgium and Germans And that's the half-joking list.

It seriously won't take much of your time, and leaves much to assumption

Weirdly enough, many Germans would prefer to return to the Mark - yet that is something you do not hear a lot about.

Aye, it's not looking good for anyone in the Euro. Even the Germans must be kicking themselves after injecting so much cash into something that is ultimately doomed to failure. Spain is apparently the next one approaching 'danger levels'.

Hmm, I think I'll need to see a slightly better article before I believe that the Ark isn't locked in a very large warehouse somewhere

Was listening to the Today programme on the return leg of the school run. Today is massive for the Euro. Italy is auctioning bonds on the market in an attempt to shore up its finances, is on or around the magic 7% interest rate ( which prompted the Greek and Irish bailouts ). The last time that a country hit these thresholds, it was bailed out two weeks later. The problem is that Italy is perceived as being too big to bail out, with national debt in the trillions. Last days of Rome, or does it go further? Is this the real beginning of the end for political union in Europe?

I know Wigan - and a lot of people who live there or thereabouts. I only know one actual Wigan fan though. 81K people in Wigan itself, many of whom are scouse/manc or have scouse/manc parents, so a lot of Liverpool, Everton, United and City fans. Simple supply and demand really. Dave Whelan is passionate about supplying Wiganers with football, Wiganers are already getting their football from somewhere else. Not surprised by the low cost of ST at all, really.

Ah, you can't really believe that. The vast majority of football matches that have been played have not sparked a civil war immediately afterward. So why did the "Football War" happen? Was it because of the football itself, or the fact that mutual enmity had got to boiling point and both sides were ready to kick the shyte out of each other anyway? If I've got a massive pile of wood liberally doused in petrol sitting in my back yard, does it really matter where someone throws the match?

That's the sort of place that it's worth going to. It's always nice when you find a little indy full of people who care and know their stuff.

Surely, "You either have it or you don't" is more in-keeping with your grammatical tyranny, i before e boy?

Interesting title. I went one further and read the article as well as the title It's a bit like saying that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand caused the Great War, which of course, it didn't. It triggered the war, but the real cause was massive armament across Europe, imperialism and total ignorance of what was to follow. Despite the catchy name, The Football War wasn't caused by a disagreement over the offside rule.

And yeah, you assumed right on the mullet front! Don't have it now, although I have had some outlandish hairstyles over the years and have worn some strange stuff to work. Don't get me wrong. I understand that sometimes you have to dress for occasion, but mostly, it's of no consequence.