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As Jim Royale would say: "Fax, my arse!!"

;-)

Indeed. Alas, I don't have any magic formula to explain why most politicians fall into the 'wrong' bracket rather than the 'right'

I tend to disagree. The questioner was wondering why "party X" omitted a policy from their manifesto. By using other examples, I was simply highlighting that it is something that happens all the time, regardless of political party. The questioner was 'picking' on the Tories as his example of this human behaviour. I simply picked on a few Labour examples in the interests of balance. :-)

http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/premier-league/5123/6/keys-and-gray-sign-talksport "Richard Keys and Andy Gray are set to make a sensational return to British broadcasting on talkSPORT. The former Sky Sports presenter and commentator will make their debuts on the UK's only national commercial speech station on Monday, Febraury 14 and will host a new daily show every weekday between 10am-1pm." Starting on Valentine's Day of all days.... :-)

This game has got 0-0 written all over it

All I'll say is that he's an extremely nice chap when you get to know him. Heart very much in the right place.

Commentators singing the praises of our academy

Fair point Mods - perhaps change the title to something more generic? e.g. "Cortese clarifies the current position (again)"

As you're quoting an un-biased Guardian article, a spelling mistake in the title would seem rather in keeping.... ;-) To answer the question though...."Why wasn't this included in their manifesto?"....for the same politicial reasons that Labour didn't have "We pledge to start illegal wars" or "we will sell all our gold" or "we will rob your pension" (etc etc) in theirs, one assumes.....? ;-)

Alive and well..... ;-)

Do you think someone ought to put these chaps out of their misery....? http://www.portsmouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=12749&posts=21 PompeyFcMad Posted 8/2/2011 11:48 #117589 - in reply to #117587 Subject: Re: Russian Bankers Posts: 3050 Location: Portsmouth/North End http://www.converssport.com/our-team.htm Looks professional and there main thing is sport, so you never know. Looks alright, but we never know with Pompey.

IBASE have plenty of clubs "available".... http://www.ibaseuk.com/12.html Currently Available 3 x Premiership Clubs (full information is available upon enquiry) 4 x Championship Clubs (full iformation is available upon enquiry) 12 x Div 1 clubs and below. Many of these opportunities have development and incremental value adds , we have investigated all of the additional opportunities and can supply information in full upon engagement. For further information please email mark@ibaseuk.com ....with all those clubs "available" somewhat surprising perhaps that the Russians 'chose' Pompey.... ;-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/southampton/8310643/Alex-Oxlade-Chamberlain-remains-part-of-Southamptons-five-year-plan-despite-interest-from-Liverpool-and-Arsenal.html “The negative side of all the speculation was that it messed up quite a few deals that we tried to do. You can imagine every time we put a bid in, people were, ‘wait a minute, you are just about to cash in £10 million’. We lost out on one deal despite the fact that we had the best offer.” Apologies for uplifting a post from the Chamberlain thread but I felt the 'side-effect' of the Chamberlain situation warranted a separate discussion. So, it would appear that several targets were missed in the January transfer window....

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2288249,00.html Kick off 2pm. Any live streams?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/southampton/8310643/Alex-Oxlade-Chamberlain-remains-part-of-Southamptons-five-year-plan-despite-interest-from-Liverpool-and-Arsenal.html For all the progress since Liebherr’s takeover in 2009 when Southampton was in adminstration and on its knees, Cortese has been a controversial chairman. There have been spats with both the local and national media and, more significantly, also some of the club’s all-time greats, notably Matthew Le Tissier, Lawrie McMenemy and Francis Benali. It continued this week with reports that the current squad and manager will not be attending a dinner to celebrate 125 years of the club’s history. “Everyone knows me and him don’t see eye to eye,” said Le Tissier. “Most football clubs treat ex-players which served them for many years quite well but that doesn’t seem to be the way under this chairman.” Cortese says that he has a good relationship with many former Saints players and is keen to respond. “There are two sides to every story, and I have more important things on my agenda to deal with,” he says. “I am well aware that there are people, who used to be involved in the club and who behind the scenes are trying to destabilise it. “In reality their actions are completely ineffective and serve only to damage their own reputations. These same people are obviously frustrated as they are not involved in any way with the club and I can understand that. “Things have changed since we took over - I believe for the better - and whether they like it or not, there is nothing they can do about it. I do not believe that attempting to discredit or backstab is the behaviour of intelligent people and it is definitely not going to help them with regard to this club.” It is a stand-off that will sadden most Southampton supporters who, after so much division over the past decade, would simply like to see the past, present and future of their club functioning harmoniously. Yet for all the claim and counter-claim, the basic truth is that football managers - and their chairmen - are all primarily judged by the team’s on-field progress.

And the most important quote from the now extended Telegraph article IMHO: “The negative side of all the speculation was that it messed up quite a few deals that we tried to do. You can imagine every time we put a bid in, people were, ‘wait a minute, you are just about to cash in £10 million’. We lost out on one deal despite the fact that we had the best offer.” Charlie Austin per chance....?

“It definitely did not help their cause - it is as simple as that,” says Cortese. He's turning into Adkins...! :-)

"Cortese looks baffled that there was ever any doubt about how this particular transfer saga would unfold." He's not the only one....

Indeed

I gave it 20 mins or so but nowt about Saints.....

btw.....I don't condone removing the 'soccer am' cookie from your browser after voting as that would allow you to vote more than once which isn't very sportsman like....

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2287886,00.html Rickie Lambert's wonder strike at MK Dons last season has been shortlisted for mitre Goal of the Year 2010. The goal we put forward as our nomination last month, has made it into the final ten of the contest which will be whittled down again prior to the Football League Awards in March. Cast your vote for Rickie by Monday 21st February and you can be in with a chance of winning tickets to the Football League Awards dinner. [/url]CLICK HERE TO VOTE NOW >>>

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/TicketNews/0,,10280~2288100,00.html

Aren't they just a conduit for the "dark forces" though?