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Moyle's pre-match press conference..... http://www.evertonfc.com/home/

It's regarding this article I believe: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/9954466.Saints__fab_four_to_take_centre_stage_on_Merseyside/ (and, yep, the photo link on the Echo home page to the article hasn't been working all day) All a bit cringeworthy....

I know us nutjobs keep banging on about it but if they had cared as much about Football League ownership scrutiny 3 years ago as they do now then they would currently be clawing their way back up the lower leagues as a phoenix club. The only reason why they currently have a club in the Football League is because they didn't do what they're doing now. Can someone tighten up my strait-jacket another notch?

I agree with Nick

Yep, saw Coogan on QT last night and, as much as I admire what the chap does in his day job, his "what can I say next to bash the wealthy and/or the Tories?" approach to the program was a tad one dimensional. That Rhys-Mogg chap articulated the 'tax take' conundrum very well IMO, but of course that fell on deaf ears because he's a Tory with a posh voice. His key point was you can raise or lower tax rates as much as you like but the actual tax take always tends to average out at around 38% of GDP. He said this was the case when higher rate tax went up to 98% (in the 1970s?) and when it's as low as it has been in recent times (i.e. 40%). He also trotted out the reality that the wealthiest 1% of the country pay 26% of the entire tax take in the country. Something that often gets overlooked by the 'bash the rich' brigade. But, going back to what Coogan said, and sadly he is right, people don't actually care how much tax is raised by a given political gesture it's how it's perceived by the public at large. Hence the LibDem's "mansion tax" being a crowd pleaser. At least Coogan wasn't the most annoying panalist......*cough* Harriett Harman *cough*

This is quite amusing for a Friday afternoon... https://twitter.com/i/#!/search/realtime/%23askboris

BBC Solent Sport ‏@solentsport #pompey are set to sign #afcb striker Wes Thomas on loan

They just found the missing teenager in a bar drinking Teachers...

Margaret Thatcher

And just in case we'd forgotten how marvelous the fans are, they wheel out yet another player to remind us.... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/webster-we-re-not-feeling-the-fratton-heat-1-4311443 Oh, and they really shouldn't be as low in the league as they are, not a "competitive" team like Pompey...

Meanwhile, Pompey's ongoing quest to be "competitive" in League One continues.... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/appleton-chasing-double-pompey-swoop-1-4311441 Somewhere bigger and better than Pompey? Nah, can't think of any club that fits that bill Michael....surely there's no club bigger or better than Pompey....and that's before we've even considered how bloomin' marvelous the fans are....

Or just copying and pasting onto message boards, even easier.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/everton-tickets-on-sale-until-midday-395143.aspx

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/9570872/Wont-George-Osborne-learn-the-lesson-Wealth-taxes-simply-dont-work.html "The basic truth is that Britain is already taxed as much as it can bear; it is spending that is out of control. Finding deeper savings in the government budget is not without its political risks. But a wealth tax would be the biggest, riskiest and craziest gamble of all."

Exactly - but they won't - because they want to cling onto the 'glories' of the old club and they feel that setting up a new club will somehow be disloyal to the old club. Surely 'the club' is the fans (and the bestest fans in the world in this case) so surely a new club with the old fans is better than the old club with old owners and a percentage of fans boycotting? To my mind, setting up a new club and the fans migrating over to that is probably the most loyal thing they could do right now.

http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/pompey-fans-fear-being-left-behind-in-takeover-race-1-4312430

@TheRealSulaiman: Protpin refused selling its secured credit at our new offer of £5m. Now we are analyzing the feasibility of accepting their offer @cfpfc1978: @TheRealSulaiman whats their offer? @TheRealSulaiman: @cfpfc1978 £17m over 5 years payment plan

They should stick to writing stuff on message boards IMO. Much more productive.

Which, somewhat tangentially, reminds me... Whatever happened to that £30,000 the fans won in the summer. Was supposed to supply schools with 'free' tickets wasn't it? Seems odd that we haven't seen any news stories on this wonderful gesture since (unless I missed it)...

There's quite a few multiple votes on there too. One page is almost entirely one person. Still, I'm sure Pompey mathematics will prevail in the end...

Not sure how describing what someone looks like (in the context you describe) could ever be classed as 'misguided'

Daft question number 43... If you're buying something off the Internet from someone who you don't trust (to the extent whereby you feel the need to ask for some additional ID) wouldn't a potential fraudster have fake copies of such documentation in their armoury? As such, asking for ID doesn't actually prove they're genuine. Tell me if I start thinking too hard about this...! :-)

Ah, fair dos. It's not something I would dish out to a complete stranger but each to their own I guess.

Another potentially daft question.... How does one end up with a copy of the driving licence of someone whom you bought something off the Internet?