Whitey Grandad

Pedant: a Trabant with an engine that doesn't work.

Must be true. We have a history of signing crocks.

More complicated than you might think. Whatever, there was a significant change to the registration system and many will have wrongly assumed that they were already on the register. How many people actually knew that the syetem had changed? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/conservative-changes-to-voter-registration-leave-800000-off-election-rolls-a6845796.html http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voter-registration As for online registration: A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: "Individual electoral registration is an essential measure to tackle electoral fraud. We have worked hard with local authorities for years now to clean up the register – any entries removed will be people who have moved house, died or never existed because they were registered fraudulently. Students often move house every year and this can make it hard for councils to keep accurate registers. That’s why, with Government’s help, councils are working with universities on ways of ensuring the highest possible level of student registration. We fully support the aims of the National Voter Registration Drive this week. Students, like everyone, can now apply to register online in just a few minutes and at any time, day or night."

Not exactly annoying phrases but plenty of colemanballs here for your enjoyment: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/stupid-football-quotes-2012s-best-1511680 Including this one from on of our very own: "We have this mentality of going into every game just thinking about the next game" - SHANE LONG

I covered this point earlier in the thread. It is a lot more complicated for a mobile youngster to register than it is for some old git who has lived at the same address for years.

I can see that a loan makes sense but not to a Premier League club, I would have thought.

That's nothing. Fonte is marked as 9/10

I posted this on another thread: There's a summary of all the clubs and their financial situations here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/25/premier-league-finances-club-by-club-breakdown-david-conn (These figures are to May/June 2015) Saints paid 70% of their turnover as wages. TV money is the most significant income.

The Times this morning has a move for JRod as a likelihood of 10/10

'His goal won the game' when it's the second in a 2-1 win. Wasn't the first goal just as valuable? 'Cost them 3 points' when the games hasn't actually finished. 'Lost points from a winning situation' which might be 1-0 up in the first two minutes.

Yes indeed, there are far too many 'what ifs' in there somewhere yet this vote will be analysed and dissected for decades to come. Politicians will not want to be caught on the wrong foot again.

"Took one for the team" "There was contact"

This. When we see what he can do when he really wants to it makes you question some of his abject appearances last season.

Which century was that, the 13th? There's a summary of all the clubs and their financial situations here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/25/premier-league-finances-club-by-club-breakdown-david-conn (These figures are to May/June 2015) Saints paid 70% of their turnover as wages. TV money is the most significant income.

All very good points. Let's not forget that the club has gone in a very few years from bankrupt to an upper Premier League establishment and that involves a large increase of capital value which has to come from somewhere.

Nice to read. I like him and would be sorry to lose him. He plays football with a smile, metaphorically at least.

"Timed his run to perfection" Not a phrase but anything that ends -esque especially 'Beckhamesque'.

That was fabulous. Moments like that restore my love of football.

Repeating it is even more childish. Such comments belong in the playground. I'm very disappointed in you.

That is a very childish expression.

Good. Now you're beginning to understand we'll get you thinking like a Continental eventually.

The commissioners have no power. Everything is controlled by the Council of Ministers. All this talk about 'ever closer union' is just more of the empty rhetoric. It sounds good and they all like to pretend that they support it but everybody knows that in actuality it isn't going to happen. They are just playing the game but the English take every word literally.

Where does it all end. You could say that those who take part in dangerous sports should pay for any consequential medical treatment, for example.

Now we know where all our transfer profits are going

Ah yes. Last year's player profits on this year's purchases and wages. Thanks.