Deano6

lol - poor chap can't win!

This post wins.

Not sure how 5th round of the FA Cup could possibly be described as our Match of the Season. Is there a prize for reaching the Quarter Finals? It sounds like the OP is really saying "It would be nice to win the FA Cup", which I think most of us would agree with.

To be fair, what on earth has your pet peeve about that phenomenon of people being a bit overexcited about their meals got to do with the OP??

Goody - I get to have a go at this one! Players' names spelt wrong: Lewis Holtby Morgan Schneiderlin That first sentence is appalling grammatically. I can't even put my finger on where to start with it to correct it. I think getting rid of the semi-colon would the a start. Maybe replacing the semi-colon and the subsequent comma with dashes would make it read a bit better but I still don't like it. You introduce every other player with a full name, except Lambert whose first name is never revealed. Third sentence I don't like your parenthetical "note the bicycle kick". How am I meant to note it? I either saw it or I didn't. Tell me what he did and I'll remember if I saw it and learn from you if I didn't. "flanked Lambert either side" - tautologous "finding spaces in between the defensive lines of Fulham" - this is clunky, better to say "Fulham's defensive lines" "Each goal had a distinct home-bred English feel to them (enjoy that, Roy?)." - awkwardly passive aggressive, unnecessary and...awkward (enjoy that, Paddy?) "So onto Stoke, a team Southampton have yet to beat" "With poor weather expected, Southampton needs to remain patient" - singluar/plural inconsistency (I think plural sounds more natural). Finally, and I say this with the greatest of respect intended, there's something I don't like about your sentence construction. I'm not exactly sure what it is and someone far smarter than me will be able to identify where you're going wrong, but there's something fundamentally flawed about what you're doing. I'm sure it can be fixed, so I'll advise you to heed advice of others who will pop up below this post. I leave you with the following pertinent advice from Kurt Vonnegut:

I answered it. Worth noting tho that things work a bit differently here in the US and the secondary market is much more of an accepted way of doing things than in UK. In fact StubHub, which is the largest secondary market provider, is now integrated in with Ticketmaster, and many sports venues will have dedicated StubHub windows for picking up on the day. There are other reasons for it too. American Football teams need to sell out a certain %age of the stadium or there is a media blackout coverage of the game in the local area. So they often sell the seats at low prices, or heavily encourage purchase of season tickets even for those that don't go every game, and then rely on the secondary market to really figure out ticket sales. I think Red Sox boast some record of most consecutive sellouts - 800 odd - which is really a sham as there are always loads of tickets available on secondary markets.

Rafa - beneath us?

In time honoured tradition we should all sing her song together with the Stoke fans in the 93rd minute.

Don't they all use those anyway? Sure I saw a video a while back where everyone was running in a setup like that, not just injured players. May have been pre-season vid tho and they were just getting back to full fitness?

Sounds like he's taken the responsible approach to me, unless I've misunderstood.

At least they were getting laid...

Of course it does. If you can buy a squad and sell a player for £12m the next day then it is worth more than the same club who doesn't have that player. Are you talking about some specific accounting basis for financial statement preparation or tax purposes? Because I can assure you when it comes to determining the economic value of a football club, which is what a sale price will be based on, they very much will be taken into account.

Is he, who have they signed? I only saw the one guy who turned them down. Good job for you he's still with us then!

Well, there it is. VMAN has called it a day, so thorpie needs to turn off his telly and get on with his life now. THREAD CLOSED!

Can anyone tell me if Jack Stephens is near the first team? I've asked before but not had a good answer. He was playing first team football with Plymouth when we bought him 3 years ago, and was considered something of a coup as youth prospects go. He's still only 20 but I've never even heard him mentioned as a possibility, though at right back he is now behind both Clyne and Chambers.

Here is another gymnastics video that may help you out, Ohio. I don't know what it's about. Let me know if you find out what happens at the end.

My gymnast girlfriend informs me that is a back extension roll. Here's some tips on how to perform one. You'll learn that these are very hard skills that take, like, forever to get. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2p7MzQ_TNs That is not my gf btw!

You were watching the NBC feed from the US broadcast. Welcome on board Gla-Gla!

Well that Guardian article you quoted gave it to Borini! The NBC commentators over here (Ian Crocker and Dean Sturridge) gave it to Johnson. He did set up one and score one to bring a team 2-0 down early on to back on level terms, and by the end the more likely team to win it. He was the standout performer on the Sunderland team.

Surely Adam Johnson was Man Of The Match that game?

I wonder what our Ice Hockey board member would make of this on-pitch fighting emerging today.

So Ossie got involved in a fight with Fonte. He does seem to bring it on himself, does old Jose. I'm starting to have more sympathy with Alan Pardew now hearing this. Still, was poor form to sh*g his wife.

Well you've rather left them exposed now, whoever is leaking this private information!

I didn't have £1,000 when I was 8!