Sheaf Saint

Just finished reading The Storm - Vince Cable's attempt to explain the global economic crisis in layman's terms, and I'm still none the wiser. Now reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. It's a journalist's account of the truly shocking arrogance and ineptitude shown by the Bush administration when it came to post-war planning in Iraq. The words 'p1ss-up' and 'brewery' spring to mind.

Another pole for Vettel. Interesting to see Schumi blown away by his team-mate once again in qualifying. I bet he's beginning to wonder if his comeback was worth it.

Watched The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus last night... Superbly surreal is probably the best way to sum it up. Very, very strange film but done ever so well by Terry Gilliam considering he had to replace the leading man part way through filming. Original and thought-provoking, and beautiful on the eye. My brother came in to it half way through and did not have the slightest clue what was going on. TBH I struggled even though I watched it from the beginning. Recommended though - 7/10.

When was the last time we had a +35 goal difference?

They won't have a half-decent CCC team as all the parachute money will have gone on servicing debts, so they will have to get the high-earners off the wage-bill and replace them with untried youngsters and journeymen. They will also definitely not be in UEFA cup as they did not submit their application at the beginning of the season.

After our 5th went in I switched to the Huddersfield commentary. By all accounts they were woeful against 10-men in the second half and loads of fans left after they went 3-2 behind. The final score will give them hope but their form has been poor - they were shocking against a very ordinary Brentford at the weekend. All the momentum is with us I think, but anything less than a win at Yeovil on saturday and it will be all over.

What a disappointing anti-climax. Sorry Alps, couldn't resist it. On a more truthful note - stunning, stunning result. Shame Walsall couldn't hold on for the win or even the draw, but we can still get above Huddersfield - all is not yet lost.

You should try listening to the Huddersfield feed. I think I know what Alpine Saint sounds like now!!!

I love you walsalll!!!!!!!!!

I was ordered to keep that secret during my admin days.

TBH, I'll be more than happy if there aren't any more.

God forbid.

So then Alpine. A disappointing anti-climax huh? I'm so glad I don't have your outlook on life.

Relax, it's just Alpine. He only does it just so that if we lose he can say 'I told you so'.

You just can't help applying sweeping generalisations can you dune. Are you genuinely trying to state that this description fits every single member of the lib-dems? Could the same thing not be said about any politician anywhere in the world, regardless of party affiliation? I would still like you to respond on the other thread and answer what it is about liberals you 'despise'. Surely to god it can't be because of this pathetic stereotype.

I fear that Cameron would come off much better if they both went up against Paxman. I watched Jon Snow give GB a grilling on the C4 news lastnight, and while he may not have the forcefulness of Paxman, he still managed to make Gordon squirm and look foolish by refusing to answer the questions put to him. Paxman would send him running home to his mummy!

What is it about the liberals you despise? And what is it about New Labour that you consider to actually be socialist? I know that you and I have differing views and I'm not in any way trying to bait you or anything, I'm genuinely interested to hear your thoughts that's all.

So you accept that I was actually being quite gracious, and that other people appear to be bitter, yet you still found it necessary to attack me and my post? I suggest you have a read of this book Corp... It might give you some pointers about where you are going wrong.

That may be true in some areas dune, but not all. There is a place here in Sheffield called Sharrow where there is a large chinese element living in the area, as well as polish, asian, african-carribbean etc.. But there is also a large contingency of white british people living there who do not in any way feel threatened by their immigrant and immigrant-descended neighbours. In fact a lot of the indigenous population, as you and all the rest of your fellow BNP-supporters like to describe us, love the fact that they have so many different cultures in their vicinity. Yesterday was the annual Sharrow Lantern Carnival. The whole community turns out on the streets to take part and the atmosphere of it is fantastic. Come and check it out next year and then try, in all good conscience, to tell me or anybody else present that the multicultural experiment has failed. You will find that nobody is listening to you if you do.

I think the point in this situation is quite relevant though. Most vegetarians I know choose vegetarianism because they disagree with the factory farming of animals. If this is the case with our minister for the meat and livestock industry then there is something seriously wrong IMO.

Well f**k you then Ho you warped little ***t. I was actually trying to be magnanimous by saying that I was impressed with your fans yesterday, and only asking you to comment on whether you felt you deserved to win or if you actually got a bit of a helping hand. Why does that make me bitter? I accept that there was a possibility that Bobby Stokes was offside in 76, and if he was then yes we probably got a bit lucky. Unfortunately the only video of the incident available is form an angle that makes it very difficult to judge, and seeing as I was only born the previous year, I was not actually at Wembley or able to make a judgement on it there and then. I ask you for your comments and you have to go totally on the defensive claiming that we are all bitter and twisted about it, but that is only in your mind. Your problem, you snivelling little cvnt, is that you only read what you want to read out of people's posts. I try to be civil to people on this board, really I do. But I'm afraid that all of the abuse you get on here you bring on yourself and you deserve every bit of it.

OK, this is a fair comment dune, but then you have to take into account why the farmers need to drive wages down in the first place. Farmers in this country, despite providing the entire population with the most basic of essentials - food, are treated like utter sh1te by big businesses. The supermarket chains dictate to them how much their products are worth and how much they can sell their stock for. The money they actually make back is a pittance compared to other european countries, so they are forced to hire the absolute cheapest labour they can to minimise their outgoings. So is this the fault of the farmers? The immigrants? The supermarket chains, or government policy for allowing this situation to develop? I think the problem is that we have become used to a certain standard of living in this country, a standard that is way above that of some of our poorest european neighbours. Too many people take too many things for granted in the UK, and if immigrant workers are prepared to come in and do the jobs that our own people refuse to take then who can blame them for that? If we stopped the immigrant workers from coming in to the UK and doing the menial jobs, our own people would still refuse to do those jobs and then the farms/factories etc... would be out of business completely if they could not get people in to fill the positions. Like it or not - we need immigrant workers.

David Wil**** is, IMO, another David Icke. He talks a lot of sense on a lot of topics, and many videos I have seen of his have really opened my eyes to a few things. But his constant harping on about being the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce does start to get tiresome. And if you watch his talks, a lot of the time when he takes questions from the audience he does seem to be making up the answers as he goes along. Still worth watching though. Search on youtube for 'The 2012 enigma' - it's in 10 parts - and watch the whole bit where he talks about the relevance of the pineal gland in religious symbolism, and you come away thinking that there has to be some substance to what he is saying.

Can I just say, firstly, that despite what a lot of posters on here continue to insist, I thought your fans did you proud yesterday. Can I also just ask you to comment on how lucky you got to win that game 2-0? Your first goal should never have happened as Dawson would easily have got to the ball before Piquionne but slipped over cos of the awful pitch. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the disallowed Spurs equaliser that I could see, and the replays clearly show for the penalty incident that the Spurs defender won the ball. You got a massive, massive helping hand from both the Wembley groundsmen (who must surely face the Spanish Inquisition after the travesty of both semi-finals this weekend) and a referee who was either incompetent or corrupt.

+1. The only other politician I ever really had any great respect for is sadly no longer with us - Mo Mowlam.