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Ah, OK. Must have missed that bit.

He is still technically a director of SFC until any sale is completed, as is Lowe.

Precisely. There are plenty of people at work who I don't personally like, but I have a healthy professional respect for them nonetheless.

I don't believe for a second that Hoddle would be the slightest bit interested in giving up on his academy (in spain is it?) to manage a L1 club. He has stated in the past that he is more than happy where he is. Sorry, as happy as I would be to have him at saints, I just can't see it. Not calling anybody a liar as I'm sure this is being passed on in good faith, but it doesn't add up to me.

Now there's a surprise

Agreed, I thought Madness were superb. I saw them at the MEN Arena in Manchester a couple of years ago and their songs just get everybody bouncing. Thought Bat for Lashes were really good too.

Really? My memory really isn't what it used to be! Anyway, the point I made is still valid... Their early stuff that they wrote themselves was actually alright (King was a decent song as well), but they lost any credibility when they started doing nothing but covers.

Yep

UB40 - The most successful covers band in hiostory. Their first single - One in Ten - was a protest song about the level of unemployment in the 1980s, and was actually very good. Then they decided they weren't going to bother writing their own songs any more and would just do dinner-party-reggae-light versions of classic songs instead, and they went seriously downhill after that. To compare them to The Specials (Ponty) is beyond contemptible. Shame on you.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/keegan-not-only-option-says-le-tissier-1712809.html

Indeed. The only bits of Monaco I watch are qualifying, the start of the race, and the last few laps. As for the rest of it - you may as well go and watch the sink block up.

I would hope that FOTA would have the good sense to realise that Monaco is just a pointless procession that is only still on the calendar to pander to the large amount of mega-rich sponsors who live there. Would be good to see some old tracks from the past revived though, like Suzuka, Imola and Estoril for example.

I saw Eartha Kitt coming out of my arse earlier, followed shortly afterwards by Donald Trump.

Looks like GB will be forced into a re-think on this... Link here

This looks suspiciously like a "we will walk this league" post to me.

Don't know about the Toyota, but I had a Passat 2.0TDi estate as a company car for over a year and I absolutely loved it. For a big car it handles like one a lot smaller and the fuel economy is excellent which is handy if the company don't give you a fuel card.

What you have to take into account is that Iran is a very insular country, and as such they don't have anything like the kind of ethnic diversity we have in the UK. Their nationalism is forced upon them in a way, so it is not surprising at all that a good percentage of Iranians have particular views about other cultures including our own, especially when we've got an unelected moron desperately clinging on to power in this country daring to criticise the Iranian electoral system and publically condemning Ahmedinejad. He still has a lot of support - whether the election was rigged or not.

So you think it is OK for 650,000 civilians to be killed just so that the population of a few countries thousands of miles away don't have to pay too much for petrol? And anyway, I don't believe that was the case - quite the opposite in fact. Iraq has the worlds second or third (can't quite remember which) largest supply of oil, and the OPEC cartel didn't like the idea that so much oil was in the hands of somebody who was not part of their price-fixing racket, and could easily undercut them throughout the world by offering that oil at a much lower price. So far from keeping the price of oil down, I believe that it was more about keeping the price of oil artificially high by taking it out of Saddam's control, and thereby securing the continued obscene profits of the western oil companies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442_pf.html I don't doubt for a second that most Iraqis didn't want to be part of the war. If truth be told, they probably never wanted to join the army but were forced to against their will.

I once appeared on Meridian News (or it might have even still been TVS then!) day before the end of the football season being asked by Andy Steggal what I thought of Saints' chances of staying up (we got a 3-3 at West Ham and stayed up if I remember rightly - about 1994???) And I met and had my photo taken with Johnny Herbert.

Because the british public deserve to know the truth of why we were dragged into an illegal war on extremely suspicious pretenses. We have a right to know exactly what our politicians' motives were. A private enquiry will just ensure that they can make sure that certain information remains concealed forever, and that no-one will ever know just how suspect the information was. And does anybody actually believe that David Kelly killed himself? A public inquiry might get to the bottom of that as well, but no, the govt has just made sure that their own worthless hides will be protected by a private, politically-driven inquiry; as opposed to a public, independent one. I don't know why I should expect anything else really. It just saddens me that certain people are never going to be held accountable for their questionable actions which, so far, have resulted in the deaths of 650,000 Iraqis.

I'm sorry you seem to be a little confused. This is The Lounge. HTH.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8100432.stm No public inquiry into the Iraq war. Now who'd have thought that eh?

I caught some of it on ITV2. GLC looked like they tore it up as usual, and I enjoyed what I saw of The Pixies. Can't say there was anything else that grabbed me. Looking forward to seeing Basement Jaxx at the Big Chill. Not a massive fan of their music but I saw them at Homelands a few years back and they know how to put on a good show.

How weird. As much as I enjoy watching their races, it's so obvious that they are staged.