Amazing Hangover

Following events at Huddersfield and Sheff W it can't be long now.

I was there in the Arsenal end. Very, very, very embarrassing. Pennant got the hat-trick. I also remember a Newcastle match on sky when we were 3 down after about 10 mins. Strange to see that Fernades is only 32 and basically hasn't played for 5 years.

Without looking I have us third behind Birmingham and Wham (93,92,91 New Gold Dream) 16 pts ahead of Leeds who we meet in the plyoffs. ****e. Like most I have Millwall bottom (a horrible affliction) and the Skates surviving by 3pts.

Forest in 96 - 3-1 Micky Evans got 2 - the looser went down in that one. Spurs in the cup in 1990 3-1 My second date with the now wife (Arsenal fan) in the spurs standing section on the side and had to stay totally silent. Norwich 2-0 a couple of years ago - played them off the pitch.

Official now. Do we get their 10 points, being neighbors, best mates etc? Someone should get them, so it may as well be us.

I cant spell makewieght

He's the Tommy Forecast makewiegt in this summer's Lallana deal, apparently.

On KUMB the Wistam fans let themselves (and everybody else who knows them) down with their constant bleating whine of - 'Worst ref in the world, sack 'im and deduct Southampton 10pts ' 'We never get nuffing we do' or indeed 'You lot are cheats and I hate you! hate you! hate you!' etc etc Reminds me of our new rivals from last year. Have the ICF been enjoying a few cheeky weekends in Sussex? I think we should get David Attenborough involved

Birmingham have a worryingly easy next few. But we have deffinately turned the corner. Need to put those chances away though.

I suppose the real draw of Celtic is because they will have a good chance of playing in the champion's league every year. Rangers could probably survive in league one, but the the rest of the teams are just so poor. My team played Hibernian when they came down on a pre-season tour a couple of years ago and we beat them 7-1. OK they had a few of their kids in, but we were effectively down to nine players for half the match cause the Moose forgot his kit (again!) and had to play in borrowed trainers, and 'Lardy Boy' Andrews was still so ****ed from Saturday he could hardly crawl, let alone run, and spent the first 20 minutes puking up behind the portakabins. Like I said, not impressed at all.

Not being a Luddite or ye Nimby - I am all for investment in the railways. They desperately need it. But think about who this scheme would benefit (and remember the 'benefit' is 30-40 minutes on a good day) It WILL be very expensive. Basically populated by frazzled management consultants and thrusting young bankers enjoying 'the premium breakfast experience with menu designed by Heston on the upper deck' to pay back the massivley overshot budgets. It's a one way track. We've been so indoctrinated that living in London and working in Birmingham is a massive ask. What it will be is Birmingham as new London commuter belt. Lovely. In any case, if you are going to do this high speed thing it has to be London - Edinburgh with sensible connections. Rather than another commuter line to make King's Heath the new Clapham

Nope. It is idiotic. What will it achieve? 30-40mins off London - Birmingham (maybe a bit more off of Manchester/Leeds if ever extended) but SO WHAT. Any travellers on this premium route (with prices to match, no doubt) will shave an hour off of their day if they happen to live in Birmingham and work in London. The rest of the system is knackered. Cattle class does not fully describe Cambridge-Liverpool St. From where I live if you want to go to Oxford or any where vaguely west its via London. And how will people get to this super-fast service? Connections? To achieve the speed presumably it wont stop, so no connections. And other trains will not be able to use the track for the same reason. As usual, just trying to get people to the south east faster. Like I said Birmingham will become another commuter town. £19 Billion for that?

Whole thing is a farce. We have the most expensive railways in the world, and I can only imagine that the top deck panoramic skylight restaurant thrusting executive banker triple platinum class seats will cost a bit. Although with a proposed journey time of 46 minutes from London to Brum, I can’t see how the thrusting executive bankers will have time to force down a foie gras baguette and half a bottle of warm Krug. All it will do is convert Birmingham into another commuter town, like a larger version of Slough. Which to be fair, it is. I don't know if anyone involved in this project has noticed the general state of our railways, or the prices forced on the captive commuters, or the lack of an east-west connection in the south. 19 billion is it? and 12 years? Hands up anyone who believes that these figures will be remotely accurate. But imagine what that amount could do spent on the current network, instead of knocking half an hour of one journey on one route. Plus screwing the countryside. Insanity.

Actually the four best bands are (not that you will have heard of them) Head - From Bristol, mad as a box of frogs, all stupid names and in-jokes, but the songs were brilliant (everything from lounge crooning to sea shanties to punk) and were superb musicians. Fantastic live. Released three albums on virgin 89-92. All superb. Gareth Sager had previous in The Pop Group and later Rip Rig and Panic. Nick Sheppard Joined The Clash for the 'Cut The Crap' debacle, but don’t hold that against them. Levitation - All the best bits of Pink Floyd but with better choruses and played with a searing punk intensity. Live they basically took your head off. Drummer Dave Francollini is the best in the world. Full Stop. Started by Terry Bickers when he got kicked out of the House of Love. Ended by Terry Bickers mid song on stage when he decided they had 'lost it'. This after just signing to a major and selling out everywhere. They were about to be huge. If you want to see what I mean the whole of their 1992 Manchester Academy show is on You Tube (good quality) Orange Deluxe - Mod-Soul-Psychedelic-Punk bad formed from the ashes of 1992's big hopes 5:30. They were five years too soon, should have been the third contender with Oasis (who they **** on) or Blur (perfect touring partners). They released 2 albums on Dead Dead Good, and some fantastic singles like 'Love 45'Perfect pop soul punk. Any guitarists out there will love them - Copeskate and Paul Bassett make Richards and Wood look like a couple of armatures (almost) If you want to see what all the fuss wasn’t about, their Northampton Racehorse show is on You Tube (again great quality considering) Dead! Dead! Dead! From Southampton. You should all be ashamed down there. More ideas in one song than most bands in their entire careers. Jerky tuneful inventive and melodic post punk sung by a crooning psychotic. Apart from when they were doing beautiful ballads like 'Masquerade'. Where are they now??? (Ditto Rival Joustas)

'Whether Shaw leaves this month or next summer will depend on whether the clubs chasing him can agree a fee with Southampton'. Already been decided then. By who?

Be careful what you wish for!

Who was the drummer in Culture Club. Says it all really.

It definitely suggests that he is (or was) a bike thief though. Do we need any more of that?

So what's up then. Another two months out?

I find it hard, when those of us who are 'All In It Together' are going through it, to see someone who has (financially at least) a life of absolute ease and luxury ahead, even if they were never to be paid again. The argument always goes 'would you work for half your wages if you didn't have to?' Well dropping from £400 to £200 will kill you. I don't see that dropping from 90K to 45K would, or even down to the disgusting paupers wages of 10K a week. Would this make much of a a difference with 15 years of signing on fees (as you know, the average signing on fee, of say, Peter Crouch would set most of us up for life) and bonuses in the bank. How many yachts can you buy in one lifetime? One thing that has been mentioned elsewhere is that some footballers don't actually like football. Never watch it. just a job. So perhaps some of that as well. Tevez is worse on 250K a week playing golf. Why still pay him? No idea about that one.

This works really well

That is great. What a team. Alan Biley's hair deserves a slideshow of it's own.

Funnily enough that's what Nigel said

It all comes crashing down. I can feel it in me water.

He's on loan apparently He needs a song to make him welcome Suggested tunes: New Rose - The Dammned Why Does It Always Rain On Me? - Travis My Heart Will Go On - Bird From Titanic