SuperMikey

Nope, it's not, as I said in my post. Remember there being an unofficial poll a while back, and less than half said they would be in favour of it. The SNP have large support because their representatives are Scottish and know the communities that they'd be representing, unlike the Labour and Conservative Etonian candidates.

Hendrie had a bad injury at Villa. They released him, he went to Sheffield Utd, got another injury and ended up at Derby, who have now released him. There are better options out there, definitely. What about Michael Tonge from Stoke? Was very highly rated at Sheffield Utd, but hasn't made an impact at Stoke and has been largely a reserve player. He'd certainly boost our midfield options, he can play on the left or in the middle, and is still pretty young too. Whether or not he'd drop down 2 divisions though is another question.

Journalism serves its purpose, which is to inform people on events that they would otherwise not know about. Good journalism unearths things that people are keeping secret or that people don't know about, and bad journalism often creates stories out of thin air or repeats the same old blather (as in The Daily Mail proclaiming that immigrants are going to eat our families). Unfortunately, the Echo's reporting falls into the latter category. Yes, The Mail did report it first, and yes, The Echo did have a right to repeat it in order to inform the people of the area, but they did not have the right to say that Liebherr boycotted the last game of the season because he was unhappy with the progress made this season (which, although not confirmed, probably wasn't true as all flights were grounded from Switzerland to Western Europe), and that Cortese was furious with Pardew. They took a rumour, added their vendetta to it and then published it as fact. That's not moral journalism, and neither is it good journalism.

F*** you and this f***ing place.

Alex Salmond is a tool, but the SNP are pretty much the only main party that give a toss about Scotland. I'm sure if there was a referendum on the continued membership of Scotland in the United Kingdom that the vast majority of Scottish nationals would vote in favour of staying, but the SNP have done a good job and know what needs doing in the areas, which frees up the main parties to concentrate on other areas and worries.

The Daily Mail reported it originally, but The Echo took it and ran with it really, to an extent which wasn't really needed. Throw in some sniping comments towards Cortese, and you've got an Echo article. Even when Cortese came out and denied it, the Echo decided to omit a huge portion of the statement and chopped and changed it so that it looked like it was one big rant at MLT, LM, KK and the Echo itself. That's just not fair to misquote somebody like that or to twist the truth for your own benefits. Anyway, like I said before, it's not the argument that's the problem, it's the quality of the journalism that is. I'm not the only person on here complaining about it.

Shhhhhhhh It's not the argument that's the main thing, it's raising awareness of the shoddy reporting of the newspaper.

My effort: Mr Davidson, I am writing to complain about the recent conduct of one of your publications, The Daily Echo. The Daily Echo, as you will probably know, covers news events, sport and other newsworthy happenings in the Southampton area, and is the main publication in the area, therefore a lot of people depend on it to gleam facts about what is happening around them. I am an avid fan of Southampton Football Club, which is by far the largest team in the area and therefore receives a proportional amount of press. However, recent articles published by the Echo have fallen far short of the standard that people expect of their local newspaper, and are borderline slanderous. It is well known in the area that relationships between The Daily Echo and Southampton FC chairman Nicola Cortese could be called strained at best, after The Daily Echo refused a polite request from the club to not publish an article that they had written about plans to redevelop the club's training ground and youth academy before the plans had been officially confirmed by the club. This, many people feel, was a very reasonable request from the club, but The Echo decided to go against the moral and ethical conduct in journalism and print the article anyway, for which the Daily Echo subsequently received a press blackout from the club. Since then, numerous articles have shown the bitterness felt by the staff at the Echo towards the club, culminating recently in slanderous reports by the newspaper that manager Alan Pardew was to be sacked from the club. It has since emerged that these were unsubstantiated rumours, reported by BBC Radio Solent and the Echo, and that Pardew's job was not in danger. To add insult to injury, the Echo refused to attribute any names to the articles in question, which just further exaggerated the farcical conduct of the 'newspaper'. Unfortunately, The Daily Echo has been gathering a reputation for slander and poor reporting recently, with many readers now boycotting the newspaper or switching to alternative sources of news. To give an example of the poor reporting that I mentioned, The Echo has been running stories recently about a meeting between Southampton FC chairman Nicola Cortese and manager Alan Pardew which was supposedly scheduled for Wednesday of this week. On Wednesday afternoon at 1.53pm, The Echo released an article on their website claiming that the meeting had been rescheduled for the next day, when in fact the meeting had already occurred on that Wednesday. I am very disappointed in the conduct of a newspaper which is meant to be supportive of the local football team, and not releasing slanderous and misinformed articles in order to pursue a personal vendetta against it. I am also most certainly not alone in my disappointment, and I am sure that both NewsQuest and The Daily Echo will be receiving many emails and letters such as mine unless the standard of reporting is improved drastically. Yours Hopefully Sent to pdavidson@newsquest.co.uk

SuperStuey

Can't see Cardiff getting through tonight, they'll lose a lot of key players like Chopra, Ledley and Whittingham now imo.

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Clegg and Cameron set to star in Pulp Fiction remake.

kid

Some of those wages are phenomenally bloated. Take Kieron Dyer for example. This is a guy who joined West Ham in 2007 for £6m, and has played 19 GAMES in 3 years whilst picking up his wages of 70k p/w or even more frightening, £3.64m p/a. He's taken more than £10m in wages over the course of his contract at West Ham, in exchange for 19 games and exactly ZERO goals. And he's still got another year left to run on his contract!

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climbing up the walls [smartarse]the track that follows 'Electioneering' on Radiohead's album OK Computer[/smartarse]

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I could say alchemy right now, but instead i'm going to go for: high street

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