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Looking good

Why is Catlin moaning about not being able to compete on wages with other clubs? Players come to Pompey because it's a massive club FFS, not for the money. Jeez....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10554855/British-car-market-records-best-year-for-sales-since-2007-says-SMMT.html

I wonder what Clattenburg is thinking here...

It's only an "own goal" if there are people in the world that get frothy at the mouth at such things... Oh...

Andros Townsend...

@SimonPeach: I understand #SaintsFC want to see referees' conversations recorded & an independent panel judging complaints.

Asking civil questions = "Ranting" (joke)

Not definitively, hence saying "seemingly" That said, I've have expected the alleged 'cruder' version to have been leaked by now if it had been included in the letter.

By what measure?

Although I still don't understand why the club seemingly didn't include the full extent of the 'abusive language' in their letter of complaint.

Indeed. Mission accomplished...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100251750/2013-the-year-when-the-ugliest-political-emotion-pity-made-its-comeback/#disqus_thread

Why did we need foodbanks at all between 2000 and 2010? Surely one foodbank is one foodbank too many?

Fair enough.

http://www.thefa.com/news/governance/2014/jan/clattenburg-southampton-statement-060114

BBC Solent Sport ‏@solentsport Referee Mark Clattenburg has been cleared by the FA of any wrongdoing over the incident involving Adam Lallana #saintsfc

Wouldn't that have made it even more of a PR stunt though? The fact that they ended up with a 'poor choice' actually suggests that they had no intention of over-engineering the PR. Surely choosing someone relatively randomly is less disingenuous than going down the Peter Mandelson-esque route: fine-tooth-combing the land for someone that fitted the 'down trodden, woe is me' stereotype that these photo-shoots usually thrive on.

What's something that was instigated and proliferated under Labour got to do with Cameron...?

My obsessive dislike for all things Pompey is almost matched by my disdain for anti-Tory mythology

http://www.trendingcentral.com/fact-check-camerons-help-buy-photoshoot-complete-fraud/ http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/sharon-odonnell-and-jumping-shark.html

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/06/uk-manufacturing-forecast

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sam-wallace-southamptons-highhanded-complaint-about-mark-clattenburg-lifts-a-lid-on-the-way-clubs-seek-to-influence-who-referees-their-games-9040232.html

Ok.