Whitey Grandad

January window?

Was it something we said?

Hmm... I'm beginning to get worried about him.

Comedy magic!

That's what I thought. Welbeck tripped over the keeper, he wasn't tripped by him. If you watch Welbeck's left leg he makes no attempt to take another stride, he just leaves it trailing enough to touch Lloris's hand. He's already turning to look at the ref before he hits the ground.

Paul Jones played for him at Stockport and Dave Jones had promised him that if he ever made it to the top he would take him with him. We paid £1m for him and sold Maik Taylor for £800k, who I though was a better keeper.

Yes, some of these players can be quite mercenary.

Some call it OCD, others call it attention to detail.

Why? Are we growing footballers for profit or are we growing the club?

They might have won it. Even though they didn't they got paid a lump of money. How has winning the League Cup ever helped any club?

If only the English could have a vote about getting rid of them

I thought they'd eaten all the horses. Weren't they all deep-fried?

My source is over 60 years of reading such things. You cannot take Cahill's version at face value because it has no practical legal significance. Fee Simple: The greatest possible estate in land, wherein the owner has the right to use it, exclusively possess it, commit waste upon it, dispose of it by deed or will, and take its fruits. A fee simple represents absolute ownership of land, and therefore the owner may do whatever he or she chooses with the land. If an owner of a fee simple dies intestate, the land will descend to the heirs.

Ok by me So is Greenland. ...and another thing. If we get rid of the Jocks can we move onto Central European Time please?

It's a technical thing. If he took 13 years it can't be straightforward, can it? Even the Land Registry talks about 'ownership'. Don't believe everything that you read on Wikipedia. Try telling an Aussie that he doesn't own the land he bought.

That's one point of view.

Presumably these figure are for the Scots (and others) living in Scotland?

Technically 'The Crown' does not own the ground under your feet, the landowner owns the land down to the centre of the Earth and to the edge of the atmosphere. 'The Crown' has ownership of certain minerals within that ground, basically anything that's worth anything. 'The Crown' does not mean Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

You have to pay somebody to extract it. These companies have built the infrastructure in exchange for a share of the oil produced. Not the same as ownership, I grant you, but effectively some of the oil has been 'sold' to these companies.

Much of it owned by multinational companies.

The Shetlands may disagree. They could just as easily decide to stick with Westminster.

Lack of exercise perhaps?

You've put it better than me. They were both standing there open-mouthed. If they had had pockets in their shorts they would have put their hands in them.

They weren't run up in the last 3 years!!!! They were run up by the previous lot. If you can't understand that then we are wasting our time even debating it. 'Bye

Oh for goodness sake.! There is a lag between spending commitments and borrowing the money to pay for them of a few years. Today's borrowing is due to overspending from previous years. It's as simple as that. If we're going to have a debate about value for money for government largesse at least let's understand the economics first. What the f**k have they spent all that money on? It's going on all the people to fill those hospitals, schools etc. Plus interest on the money that was previously borrowed.