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Lets put it this way. You've just been relegated from the prem after one season. The gates have dropped to 22,000 but your overheads have increased (rates, stewarding, maintenance etc) because you rashly increased your stadium to 50,000 capacity. In addition the rattling around in a barn feeling to the new stadium is gradually reducing gates still further. Has ther new stadium a) increased the selling value of the club or b) markedly reduced it.

Just googled you. Now thats a great dinner party story http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article7098307.ece

Guardian hypocrisy. Who'd have thunk it. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iSDfmAUj974J:www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Guardian_photographers_fees_dispute_escalates_news_289206.html+guardian+photographers&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

How so? Seems to me to be standard modern stadium in a one pub village on the edge of town. Brighton wouldnt have gone for it if they had other options imo.

Theres a big difference between expanding SMS to 40,000 - which might make sense if we had a competitive Prem team, and spending £100m+ to build a new out of town stadium after pulling SMS down.

I dont think that works even on a purely commercial basis. The most valuable fan is one who feels such loyalty to their club they turn up week in week out regardless of weather, results, opposition or whats on tv. Ground sharing with another club in an impersonal out of town location just erodes that loyalty and means you could proabably improve attendances for Man U on saturday, but kiss goodbye to any meaningful support for run of the mill games. Overall, in the long run, it would be a bad commercial decsion imo.

Quite. In any case it costs something of the order of £2,000 construction costs per seat. Thats an awful lot of money if you can only fill it five times a year.

Its not clever really. Its just predicated on trying to bounce the council into giving you planning permission to turn cheap farmland into expensive development land so that the developer pockets big wads of cash. Meanwhile atternding footie becomes ever more like visiting Carpet Right or PC World on a saturday afternoon.

This one seems authentic. http://www.australianuggboots.com.au/uk/index.htm

Looks like knockoffs to me. The language they use on their site is deliberately intended to confuse, making it look like the official site. But if you read carefully...... We believe true Ugg boots should be UGG Australia, with authentic Australian A grade sheepskin! You can now get these amazing boots direct from our Australian Factory right here! Watch us at work! Our aim is for the entire world to experience our amazing boots! Here at uggs-shop we are serious about selling real Ugg boots at great prices to people all over the globe. Our product is hand made in China using 100% natural sheepskin which is tanned in our own tannery. We have been working with sheepskin since the 70's and only recently has the world found out about these great Australian boots. We take our product and service very seriously and try to make the experience a relaxed and enjoyable one...the true Australian way. We have a fantastic new warehouse which stocks all our products and a dedicated team to customer service and order management, to ensure you get your boots in a timely manner.

Hypochondriac reported me for being nasty to him and I got an infraction - which tbh was well worth the satisfaction. He also sends me pms, none of which Ive bothered to read. tbh it just makes it even funnier to hear him bleating now he has one, poor lamb.

Dag & Red have had more shots on goal, including on target than anyone else in this league apart from Saints - but have the fewest clean sheets. Seems like good attack, ****e defence. http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/ClubShooting/0,,10794~201025,00.html

NHS use heroin for pain relief as well, especially in terminal cancer. Its known as diamorphine.

Agree. Even if we get promoted this season I doubt we'll be able to hold on to him.

When I was single I spent far more money and got into much more trouble on the nights I was trying to get laid than when I was trying to get ****ed. Mabe sex should be top of the danger list.

Very clever, belittle a poster by refuting things he didnt actually say. Since Morgan is French, Chaplow is English - two directly comparable footballing nations, he made a valid point.

I dont give a stuff who he is / who he wishes he was. Yes he clearly has access to some inside info - buts its rendered meaningless because he cant pass it on without putting it through the bitter and angry filter first. My brother works with and is mates with the sports editor of a national newspaper - his take on inside gossip? "we hear stuff all the time. Mostly its useless, often different sources are directly contradictory. Usually its just white noise from embittered ex players or staff".

Whats worst is that its strangely hypnotic. I cant stop watching it...

Any top tips on how to use Grape Scissors ? I avoid them. Stick with the Anusol.

Ive been all over mainland Europe, Scotland and Wales but have honestly never been to Yorkshire. In England hardly ever been north of Birmingham at all. Im sure it got good parts but tbh, when considering where to go for a few days: option 1 £80 flight to Genoa, Carcassone or Stockholm or option 2: 4 hours plus on the M1 to Harrogate to get rained on, somehow it never makes the cut.

The timing of posting that pic was perfect though, immediately after your Julian Clary thread about cool street gear. Fair or not gave me a laugh at your expense (in a non belittling or offensive way of course)...!

I thought it was Essruu who posted it originally??, or at least I remember him commenting on it and taking the ****. Or maybe Im old and confused??

He poked him with a shooting stick.

overboard

Went to a Stranglers gig at the old Top Rank in 1977. 3,000 people in the venue with a capacity limit of 1,800. The whole place was a slam dance / mosh pit that night.