Sheaf Saint

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/19493510 Incredible stuff. It's amazing he survived that accident at all, so massive respect to him.

Have we slipped into a 1930s timewarp?

I watch very little TV these days, but I made a point of watching The Revolution Will Be Televised on BBC3 tonight. I'm really glad I did because it's the funniest thing I have seen on TV for many years. Get it on iplayer if you missed it - well worth a watch.

Whereabouts were you sat for the race?

Not what you really want to see is it!

It could be argued that Blair won that following election not because of his popularity, but because of the general unelectability of the opposition. It's interesting that Blair has fully converted to Catholicism since leaving government. So if his beliefs in this area turn out to be correct, he will serve his sentence in the eternal fires of hell anyway.

Didn't realise his record was that bad. In which case I totally agree a race ban is in order.

Harsh. Might have expected a grid drop at most. Was definitely his fault but if he had been able to carry on yesterday I imagine he would have only got a drive-through rather than a black flag.

OK, now I've had a chance to calm down I will give an objective analysis. In case anybody was still in any doubt about SRL's ability to score goals in this league, that's two already and both against the two best sides in England last season. I always thought Schneiderlin would make his class show in the PL and he didn't disappoint today - I thought he was immense and is my MOTM. Puncheon had a very good game and was unlucky not to get a goal, forcing an excellent save from the Utd keeper. Not entirely sure why people are slating Kelvin for that - he saved a penalty FFS, and he can't really be blamed for any of their goals - he very nearly saved the first one. I am seriously concerned about the rest of our defence though. Fonte is a total liability and Hooiveld has already conceded two needless penalties so far this season (although KD has got him off the hook both times so far). Fox was anonymous today - Gave Valencia far too much time and space every time he got forward, and didn't contribute anything going forward either - very poor. Clyne was the only defender who came out of that game with any real credit. As for United though - aside from RVP they were very average and were there for the taking I thought, so it's especially frustrating that we came so close and ballsed it up defensively from a commanding position. Overall, there was a lot to be positive about, and we gave Utd's defence a real game which they may not have been expecting. If we can sort out the defensive issues and play like we did today going forward, I have no doubt we will be fine this year. But the commentator on the stream I was watching came out with a rather alarming statistic - that no newly promoted team has ever lost their first three games and survived!

Really? I'm absolutely certain he isn't up to it. Him and Fox are going to cost us a lot of goals this season.

Great to see Jenson find some pace in his car at last. He's been really struggling to get it working for him since winning the opening race, but if Maclaren can maintain that performance over the second half of the season then both he and Lewis could still challenge for the title I reckon.

It's amazing that a pathetic non-story from a vile, worthless rag like The Star has provoked so many responses. I wouldn't even use that 'newspaper' to wipe my arse with.

Indeed, it is. But hopefully it may result in a season like the one we had during the Chris Nicholl era, where we conceded quite a lot of goals, but more often than not scored more. Will make for an entertaining season I reckon, and win or lose, that's what it's really all about for us the fans.

Thanks for your contribution Billy. Good luck at Forest. I really hoped you would be given a good chance to prove yourself in the PL, and maybe one day you still will, be it with Saints or another club.

Because all he ever does is start threads with a very controversial (that usually turns out to be boolocks) topic and leaves it at that without contributing anything to the discussion. It's getting really tiresome now.

What's the betting he gets injured playing for Uruguay next weekend and misses the first 4 months of the season?

Right, before I get flamed for being a conspiracy theorist nutjob or whatever, I would like to point out that I am very skeptical about this sort of stuff. However, it does interest me greatly. I have read before about US government attempts to use remote viewing, clairvoyants etc.. and I also remember watching a video talk from David Willcock claiming exactly the same thing that is put forward in this link: that nobody has been able to see further than Dec 2012. It could well be all mumbo-jumbo of course, but there is no doubt that the US and other governments have dabbled with experimentation into the occult and it would be foolish to believe they haven't. A lot of it actually has a sound basis in scientific theory, such as the Montauk Project and the Philadelphia experiment. Interestingly though, I have also read a fair bit about the ancient Mayans and their renowned long-count calendar which ends on Dec 21st this year. A lot has been speculated about it over the years, and it is a common misconception that they prophesied the end of the world at this time. What they genuinely believed would happen at the end of the long-count is not fully understood, thanks to the efforts of the Catholic Church to systematically destroy all references to the old spiritual and religious teachings in that part of the world following the Spanish conquest. But studies of what little remains of their literature have shown that 2012 was believed to be the culmination of the 9 'Underworlds' that were central to their beliefs, and would signal the beginning of an era of great spiritual understanding. It is entirely possible that the ancient Mayan astronomers were aware of a possible celestial event at the point of the Winter Solstice in 2012, because it has been shown that their understanding of astronomy and mathematics was far in advance of what the modern, western world would expect for a society that was believed to be primitive and savage. Aspects of the design of their temples and pyramids show that they were fully aware of astral phenomena such as The Procession of the Equinoxes (the process of the sun moving between the 12 regions of the zodiac that cycles round every 26,000 years) and there appears to be some evidence to suggest that the Mayans and other central and south-American cultures were influenced by an advanced civilisation that existed on Earth tens of thousands of years ago (read Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods for a fascinating investigation into this). Is a massive asteroid going to crash into the Earth this December? I guess we will just have to wait and find out, but one thing is pretty obvious to me: if NASA or other government agencies had already discovered this, you can bet your life that they would do everything possible to keep it under wraps to avoid global panic etc...

There's plenty of them in northern Italy

Rick Astley turned up on my doorstep yesterday wanting to borrow my entire collection of Disney Pixar animated films... I told him: "You can have Toy Story and The Incredibles, but I'm never going to give you Up!"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B004FTGJUW/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0 :lol::lol:

I imagine he will be played on the right in place of Puncheon/Guly or on the left where Rodriguez has so far been ineffective.

My heart goes out to you Dr Who. Having your livelihood taken away from you like that, through no fault of your own, is an extremely harrowing thing to face. I know from personal experience.

Of course there won't... Friday is tomorrow

I remember when this thread was nothing but fields.

Yeah I was in Portugal last month and was able to get by very easily with the little Spanish I know. The two vocabularies are something like 75-80% identical.