The Kraken

There's also a Metro article online which claims Saints denied there was a sell on clause while Tottenham said there was one. But that it wasn't as high as 25%.

So this part of the article in the OP is incorrect? Five years ago, Forecast was a supplement in the deal when Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy bought out ­Southampton’s 25 per cent sell-on clause on a promising young left-back called Gareth Bale.

A "friend" might have found himself shedding a tear after a couple of bottles of red watching the opening ceremony. "He" was quite surprised that after all the anticipation and expectation of it being a bit sh*t, it was actually incredible.

Clearly not normal, no. In fact I simply don't believe that you canvassed all of "the people in my street, the people I work with and have dealings with and others that I come across" and failed to find one single person who enjoyed the Olympics. Although quite why you'd make something up like that is bizarre.

Weird. I don't know anyone who was anything but totally engrossed with the games. Some who were people who couldn't give a shiny one about the Olympics beforehand, and since. The effect it had was remarkable. I remember watching Mo winning gold on a weekend night in a packed pub, everyone in there roaring him on. I simply can't remember anything similar happening with Athletics before or since.

Never had you down for being that old, TDD.

Simon Chalrton? Was he a ginge? He used to drink in the Luzborough.

How much of the cost are you upset about having to pay for yourself? What I mean is, how much came out of your pocket for it that you are so dead set against?

Wayne?

No, he won't. Rooney will rightly play if he's fit. Sturridge is absolutely class and forging an extremely good reputation of his own. Fans and writers of such blogs would do well to heed the words of Rickie Lambert himself, when he said he's just trying to impress, trying to provide a different option to what we already have. And he's done that, much kudos to him.

I get the feeling that, when he quits football, Rickie's autobiography would be an absolutely fascinating read. Clearly he'd need to get it ghost-written.

Steve Williams lived 6 doors up from me when I was a slip of a lad. He even came out for a kickabout with us on occasions. My aunt and uncle used to live a few doors up from Malcolm Waldron.

Pretty much that :lol:

A lot of the criticism/obsession he gets on here comes from others' jealousy. Jealousy from people that an average footballer got the chance of a lifetime that they never did, and seemed like a bit of a rotter to boot.

Why on earth are you dropping Wilshere?

Not really IMO, no. In truth we're really bereft of decent options; injuries and suspensions have shown that we have only a few genuinely decent options.

It'll surely be RL up top with Milner replacing Welbz. Milner

The rest of it seemed spot on to me

Kirkby, Bear. Kirby (or West Kirby) is on the Wirral and is very pleasant.

Rodriguez is very quick; we just don't ever really seem to play to it. He's also a different type of player to Walcott and Welbeck; the types of player we simply don't have. And I agree with your summation about the third goal.

F*cking hell!

I think you just did. Oddball.

"All I'm trying to do is give [England] a different option." "Whether he's gonna start me or whether he's gonna put me on the bench, I'm ready. Whatever's the best for England" Oooh, I'm seething about those comments from Lambert after the game.

Not so much, no.

I meant for a WC or EC champs.