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As opposed to really tough towns where people have to get murdered 2 or 3 times before they'll lay down and die.

Comment on twitter sums it up

Isn't that the point though. That would be saying he looked like the golliwog. Not that the golliwog looked like him. I had one as a child. I never once considered that it represented any form of human, black or otherwise, any more than a teddy bear was meant to represent a real bear. It was just, plain and simply, a toy (and one of my favourites I seem to remember - no, not a "some of my best toys were black" claim), If the toy came first and the word "wog" derived from golliwog then the word "wog" is wrong, just as ****** or paki is wrong. But can't see that that is any fault of existence of the toy. BTW, do a google image search of "traditional voodoo dolls". Despite coming from a "black" culture, a very high percentage of these are white. Should we be offended? I'm certainly not.

Isn't that how most tramps carry around their worldly belongings?

My wife also works at an Infant school. If a child is known to have vomited or have diarrhoea they are made to stay away for at least 48 hours. So are you saying a few bouts of sickness could put their future in jeopardy? God help any poor kid unfortunate enough to catch chickenpox ! If a holidays is nothing more than sitting round a hotel pool then it has no value. But (provided it doesn't conflict with exams or their build up) a week or two giving a child a chance to experience a different language, climate, cuisine, architecture, culture and general way of life in a foreign place can prove a much more worth while "life lesson" than any random 2 weeks of school life can give.

They just need a little patience until their youth team players come through. They what? 7-0? Really? OK then, they're ****ed.

We don't need a particular day. We KNOW we are English, that's good enough for us. Every time another country has one (which must cover a fair chunk of the calendar) we can celebrate the fact that we are not them. If we did have a Public Holiday for a National Day I'd suggest the Queen's "official" birthday (as opposed to her actual one) would be more appropriate than some nominally adopted saints day. Incidentally what exactly is the 1st of May one meant to celebrate/commemorate? That one always seems a waste of a day off, stuck between Easter and Whitsun or whatever the end of May one is called now.

McInnes :" Sho I says to Rishie, Rishie I says, why don't you come an be our maganer ... manger ... coach .... I told him we's got players, a shed I mean stadium, a luvvery pink away kit and we've even got a **** with a farkin trumpet. And you know what? he's only gone and said yes. Your the beshtest Ronnie... Richies ... the bessssssssssssssshtest .... I love you Risheee"

Hope he remembers to use the Portsea dollar exchange rate and multiplies his claim by 50, so when he eventually gets his 2p in the pound it'll still be what he was expecting.

Reverse angle view

After reading the article and this thread I'd say the biggest reassurance that the club can get that they are doing things the right way is that the likes of BS and CBS feel the need to criticise it.

Still my first pick for any all time Saints XI

"He said the 49-year-old, who had two spells at Fratton Park as a player, had failed to deliver the agreed success on the pitch, despite the board breaking their budget to meet his requests. " Breaking the budget? Pompey? Surely not ! And so it goes on ..... and on ........... It's starting to look like Galifrey surrounded by Daleks down Portsea way. And as we all now know, there was only one way that could be saved. (Well that and a bit of rewriting of history but then that's a favourite of theirs as well)

To be fair whether The9 had a word or not I think the round of applause goes to good old common sense,

Not really. Alan Hansen would have worked it all out in no time, he's just never given a long enough analysis slot to explain it all.;-)

Maybe (and I say maybe as I'm guessing) it's because for the first part of Labours tenure we were "in credit" so first they spent all that and only had to start borrowing once they had blown it all. Tories have had to start from an "already considerably overdrawn" situation so have had to carry on borrowing whilst also trying to repay some of the deficit.

Definitely not . We were attacking, Jim Steele was our last man back on about the half way line received either a clearance or a pass back to him but miscontrolled it in the mud and their striker nipped it off his toes and had a clear run at goal. Heartbreaking, especially as we were playing against 11 Belgians AND an East German referee and still looked the more likely to go through till that happened.

Anderlecht's aggregate winning goal in the 76/77 ECWC tie at The Dell :-(

Have I got this right? You've met a girl called Catherine Hill from Winchester, and you want to go up her at night?

There is something to be said for that approach. Nearly all foreigners who come here to play at club level admit it takes about 6 weeks to adjust to the speed and physical demands of our game. So when it comes to Internationals what do we do? Slow it done and try and play it their way. Let's face it, we're definitely NOT going to come back from Brazil with the cup with that approach so why not go back to basics and at least scare the **** out of a few teams.

Hello, Hello, England reject England reject Hello

That's the trouble with the modern generation, they want everything handed to them on a plate. He's taken us to 3rd in the PL FFS. It's not a case of when will he speak English, it's how quickly can we all learn Spanish.

But BBC breakfast pointed out that today - 9/11/13 is the last day made up of consecutive odd numbers until 1st March 2105. Far more interesting than the OP.

Out for a meal the other day I overheard from the other end of the table " .... it was a grand but at least I'm a part owner of my club ....." I was about to poke my nose in with an " and you REALLY believe that ?!?!" when I realised I couldn't remember the exact details. So in preparation for when I bump into the guy again, someone remind me what exactly it was the foolish few got (or didn't get) for their "investment" in the trust

No blame at all. CHs covered it all the way back. Keeper in right position to take it comfortably. Wind simply lifted it way over him after the bounce. Only possible criticism was maybe being the first high ball in the wind he should have stayed on his line just to "get his eye in" regarding the conditions but that is just nit picking, no way could he have expected THAT bounce.