so22saint

Got mine from an American chap called Bob in the jewellers in the new shopping area in Newbury- the one with the 01 movement. Nice chap - touch of the Simpson's Gill about him but he's knowledgable enough (about Jeremy France in WInchester's divorce anyway - ha ha ;-))

What you do is set up a large offshore "shared services" business and they charge every subsidiary a set of substantial feea for shared accounting, IT, HR, media and advertising etc - enough to siphon the greater % of the profit off to pay minimal corporate tax on in aforementioned offshore place. Ericb on here may be aware of the nightmare of shared services in his business (I certainly was) - it's common in most global corporations and one of the major failings of globalisation as it means developed economies can only effectively tax the middle class... On this investment tho - who knows why they want to do it. The increasing drift back to autocracy at the top in China has been fuelling overseas investment to move wealth somewhere the government can't grab it. Hopefully Kat is true to her word (and there is NO reason to doubt she is) and she'll only do things in the best interests of the club

They have tickets in our end behind the goal as well for £350. Amusingly he's a Liverpool fan

A mate of mine owns a football travel agency (they specialise in El Classico) and they are resellers for Club Wembley and are doing packages from £500. Expensive but I know there's a few high rollers on here http://indulgefootball.com/Contact-us

That should be 2-0. Great save by Karius thi. Bastard

Are you Ian Duncan-Smith? This sounds almost exactly like his speech on Radio 4 this evening

Oldham. There was a pub below Boundary Park my wife and I parked up in and enjoyed crinkle cut chip butties in. Apparently it was an Oldham "firm" pub, and they needed to win to stay up and we walk in in our Saints shirts having stayed up the week before. Everybody was very friendly, and we lost the game 4-3 (it was Francis Benali day in the away end I think - or Francis Bengali as the Oldham announcer called him). They stayed up, Palace went down with record points, and a great evening in that pub was had by us all. Loads of different London experiences - Seven Sisters Road is bloody horrible (and I lived in London for 10 years) but had some good fun around Upton Lane after various West Ham games, next to Highbury and Islington Tube station (The Bailey - Stewpot from Grange hill drinks in there - showing my age - he came along for a post game curry once). Milan of course.... (sobs quietly)

It was onside. Boo

Best since Milan at home. Fair play to the lad

For the last 20 years :-)

Le Tiss called this out in his post match analysis

If it's true (and I'm basing this on it being released by a massive liar from talking to some massive liars) then agree - it is *excellent* news and shows that maybe it won't all be a massive cluster****

Neal Heaney

Their kids aren't good enough apparently :-)

Where's the fun in that Wes? ;-). Annihilation? No, not for me, they said I could leave. Really? Well, off you go then. Ha Ha, not really, it's annihilation for me as well. Ha, you got me there. Take a nuke from the right and move on

Or, in reality, any attack on a NATO country by Russia will lead to a NATO counterattack as per the NATO agreement, as opposed to an EU army coming running to anybody. Of course, that will be the end of it for all of us (maybe not NZ Saint), with the upside that we won't have to read your bull**** and lies anymore

The Lifeboat in Cowes is normally skate free and has Sky

This x 1000000. We haven't changed our playing style to suite not having a big man up top. Cross after cross goes in and there's nobody there to get near them...

My mate was a Saints youth and mentioned the name of the guy who he is certain is the chap involved. Luckily for libel reasons I got so ****faced I can't remember it

When was the last time we sold a player in January? He'll stay until the summer and we should ask for 100m

This times a million.

I so wish he had driven it into the box and had a shot! Would have been Michael Owen England debut-esque

The first post on that thread - the preview, is ****ing brilliant "In goal should see Forster, who, once freed from the Phantom Zone split with Ursula and General Zod to concentrate on playing in goals. Van Dyke plugs the defence? It was either that or something about Flemish Virgin Lesbians?? while Fonte partners him in fashion with matching opposite Sleeve tattoos. Equally as Portuguese, Soares could be at right back with that kid who always moved schools, had pubes before anyone, smoked Winnie reds in the dunnies and could bag the girl you always fancied Bertrand on the left. The much maligned Steven Davis, another ex Chelsea human trafficking commodity Oriel Romeu and ex Bayern Munich Vunderbar Ubermensch Hjolberg could play in the middle with Charles Austin Esquire up top. Some guy called Club Record Signing Boufal and ex- Norwich Kid 'n' Play coiffed Nathan Redmond could be on the wings. The Saints frontline cost about as much as a Bolasie and this Boufal character looks kind of tiny. From reports Pint Sized Club Record Signing Boufal looked disinterested against FC Big Stand, failing to link up with Austin and you might see the once coveted Tadic move in on his spot. Their tops also look slightly crappy this year. You could in truth see any number of the Saints squad for this fixture, they have a European game on Thursday night against Sparta and in the previous round against them beat Swansea the following weekend. They have had some tough fixtures in the opening rounds this season, and will be looking towards moving up the table before Christmas. Never an easy game, and what sad and sorry eleven will we be hoping to produce a reverse to our smelly run of poor form you ask?" Worth a look for the picture of a young thin Terry Hurlock and a young fat MLT. Back to the game, brilliant. We should have scored at least 2 more and soaked up the Everton pressure well. Yes, they had a couple of good chances but only 1 shot on target and that was in the last 10 minutes which says a lot. If we can avoid our usual December / Jan holidays and pick up more points than we did last year we'll finish top half and it's so congested again that could mean anything. Clearly we need better finishing. Sims was a revelation and the best debut I think since Oxlade Chamberlein.

His sister was at Uni in Southampton as I met her the night we beat Man U 6-3 (she was with her boyfriend who was a mate of Claus's). Amusingly she was introduced as Jostein Flo's sister as Tore Andre was pretty much unknown then. Anyway, there was therefore a little connection to Southampton as NI Saint says, Souness did want him.

I didn't. got offered a big 5 partnership and turned them down, mainly because they are c u n t s in my experience