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A weekend away playing a top side. Pretty please.

I disagree. It's pretty clear that SRL wasn't in the long term plans of the club and despite the fans love of the man, myself included, there is no sentiment in football hence trying to sell him in Jan'. It's a decent bit of business by the club, despite the pain it caused/causes us fans.

Not surprised, he's as tedious as gout.

Most of us support our local team or the team that our dad's followed. That is the point.

Deppo has just got the bite he was looking for.

Koeman but it's irrelevant who I want as I have no input and they'll be gone in a few years anyway. You p*ss the bed at every given opportunity but I've yet to see the mass exodus due to the board caving and cheap option manager that you constantly prattle on about.

'kin 'ell, hardly difficult to work that one out.

One moron on twitter says something and all the w**kers of here start wetting their pants again.

Mine went at the end of the 1st season back in the BPL. Couldn't justify the cost especially as so many games were missed due to TV & our own sporting commitments came first. But hey, I'm sure the lad and I are plastics after the long trips south in L1 or away at places like Carlisle. Real plastic us.

This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say, "Haven't you heard? Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead!"

Cycling Saints fans on Strava. http://www.strava.com/clubs/45350

Do it all the time for my 3, as do most fellas I know with kids. Deemed perfectly normal.

Getting uppity doesn't distract from the fact that every Argentinian believes the islands are theirs. They have every right of voice it and I cannot understand why anyone objects to them doing so. Got to be better than going to war having them get all misty eyed and resentful and knowing full well they can do f**k all about it.

Sort it yourself, it's dead easy. This group on FB is better than the Oracle at Delphi. https://www.facebook.com/groups/europeanfootballweekends/

Koeman would unite the fan base. Monumental f**k if they don't appoint him now.

Or a tedious c**t.

We go the Normandy every couple of years as I like to go exploring and walking/riding the battlefields and we always visit the main British cemetery at Bayeux and as ex-RN I've "adopted" the grave of an unknown British sailor, KIA 06/06/44. We take flowers and stay a while at his side. It sounds very silly but I always end up in tears but I just want him to know that he's not forgotten and never will be. Breaks my heart, as a dad, that his parents would never had an opportunity to visit his grave.

But Patton was nuts.

In theory they could have marched to The Atlantic but Stalin's prize was always Eastern Europe.

They wouldn't have been able to pull it off before the summer of '44. The raid on Dieppe proved that. In addition, the assaults on North Africa, Sicily and Italy allowed planners to look at what had gone wrong and adapt and also for yank troops to be blooded. As for the impact of D-Day, well it certainly shortened the war as key Waffen SS and Wehrmacht Panzer units were tied up in the West allowing the Soviets the opportunity to power through to the Oder. Those key units were worn down to husks by allied airpower and the constant clashes around Caen, which ultimately led to the American breakout to the west in operation Cobra and the slaughter of the Falaise pocket. The losses incurred could never be replaced. The Soviets, without June 6th onwards, would have marched to the Rhine, I have no doubt.

If only some sad f**k could tell us about his win percentage.

TBH I wish there was a little less focus on June 6th '44 and a lot more focus on June 7th to late August '44. The landings, whilst carried out by brave young souls, were a doddle compared to the bitter and ruthless struggle that the British had around Caen and the Yanks had in the bocage. The battle around Caen was as equally as brutal to anything on the Eastern Front and the hell that was the Falaise Gap comparable to any Eastern kessel. As Wessex lads Hill 112 and the battle for it between 10th - 22th July '44 should be familiar but alas it passes as a mere footnote & yet 7000 of our kin became casualties there.

I like that.

That's a right pis*er.

And with that I'm off for a quick 50km on the bike!