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Told you so... They were so bad that 6 months after they were installed a terrorist bomb blew them all out again. Someone claimed it was over some political matter, but I know the real reason.

And crap at all of them.... I've been an extra in a film, played Rugby with an England international, and designeed all the windows in an International Airport extension. Does that make me brilliant. No it doesn't. No more than being a crap director, crap actor, crap writer and crap comedian does.

Ricky Gervais is just a one trick pony. Once seen, best forgotten.

Something you dont often see...... The words Storrie and prudent in the same sentence.

West Ham did not mpull out of the deal. From a source close to centre at WH... i can confirm that the deal had been agreed and signed by WH, even a house had been organised by them... but they had the good grace to hold fire until SFC had been saved.

I'm reading this during break at work and my collegues are wondering what I'm laughing at. Tried to explain, but they just dont get it. Trouble is I do very much understand.

A narrowboat 70ft long (max) has hull plating usually 10mm/6mm/4mm going from bottom to top. It often contains as much as 10 tonnes of engineering brick ballast. Let alone engine, interior cladding (often Oak) and 200 gallon clean and foul water tanks. Diesil tanks and all the other paraphanalia and fixtures and fittings that that entails. A narrowboat often weighs in excess of 25 tonnes in fact. Now I know the max. width is only 6'10" so rocking one from side to side is often easily achieved by moving to one side of the boat then the other. A boat in this situation can be best imagined as a giant pendulun. As you know from your own school days the weight of a apendulum has no effect on the frequency (how fast it goes back and forward) or its period (how long it takes to go backwards and forward). The length of the pendulum is its deciding factor. In the case of a narrowboat this is fixed thus it has an inbuilt frequency/period. A narrowboat typically has a flat bottom so resistance to motion is very quickly damped out by the water unless energy is constantly inputted. So to put it simply, unless you go at it like a pair of elephants on a garden swing, in perfect harmony moving across the full width of the roof you are unlikely to keep it up for long unless you are an Olympic athlete. However having never met you I dont know if you have the stamina of a marathon runner and the physique of Dumbo. (winky eye thingey) Yes I have been on narrowboats before.

I love GM's posts. And this post like the others, loses something because sarcasm and tounge-in-cheek posts are so difficult to convey their humour when in writing. Keep up the good work GM. I'm sure others will begin to appreciate your delicate brand of humour.

Look... I can balance two Meerkats on it. Simples...

Our dear Maggie ... A little to the right of Attilla The Hun and made Adolf look like ,a leftie. Ruined British coal, schools, hospitals, british gas, the steel industry, british rail, the army, (at the time of the Falklands War we had about two peashooters and a catapault, she had cut the budget so much), and introduced rampant greed and government sanctioned corruption. Dont get me started please.

POLITICS POLY means 'many'. TICS are Bloodsuckers. Whichever lot gets in they will have their noses deep in the trough.

This is pure suppossion and nothing else. We hear he is astute in business and put men in charge of them he knows and trusts. We know he is a wealthy private man who likes his football. Before buying us he apparently SPONSERED an Austrian team who went on to have the best years in their history. We also have heard from either NC or AP he was quite a 'religious 'man' and was perturbed at one time when our players suurounded the ref. and gave him some grief over some decision or other. I am assumming therefore (however justified I dont know) that he believes in fair play and honesty. I therefore assume/hope he has the best intentions for us and wont royally shaft us like a team just down the road seem to have been by their owner(s).

Spoke to a skate today whom I just happened to chance upon at work (proudly wearing his Jobsh!te shirt). He had been at the semi and was going to the final and was a season ticket holder,... He said he knew of people GIVING semi tickets away and there were big gaps in their end. He was blissfully unaware of what was going on at Notarf Krap and left bemused and not as happy as before I tried to explain some of the intracacies and the desperate state they were in. Seemed to me he was not alone amongst the blue few in not knowing their predicament. He thought administration/pay off debts cheap/championship/back to premiership. But when he left he was fearing Championship on minus points/relegation and league 1 football. I pointed him in the direction of this site. We might be getting a new watcher.

Its the old head and heart thing. I know in my head we wil just miss out, but my heart still has hope that all results will fall in our favour and we will scrape into 6th spot against Southend.

Any business has numerous overheads, staff wages, property, equipment, rates, etc etc and not forgetting our friends HMRC. Personally I doubt if we are breaking even, if you look at the back of your program every week you will see our squad is masive compered with our opponents. i doubt if we are even close to breaking even. NC is a shrewd operaror and I can see a big clear out of players who are not 'part of future plans' in the summer, with just a few coming in.

In my teens and twenties I loved F1. Hunt, Lauda, Hill Fittipaldi, etc. In those days it was exciting. But these days (and for many years) it has become so dull and boring. I know some of you out there love F1. But are there others like me that feel the way I do?

SRS 2 x questions. 1. Is Turkish your dog? As normally dogs dont use computors or join forums (even this mighty ediface). 2. On the forum. Are you and Turkish one and the same ?

Why should a partner make any difference... Mrs Landford will attend SMS with me as she always does, she is just as enthusiastic about SFC as I am.

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Time after time on here I hear a small but vocal minority on this forum who seem intent on undermining Alan Pardew. With comments about some supposed bust-up with Cortesse, or misquoting some dodgy peice of journalism. So far this season (league wise) we have lost 8 matches. So in your eyes AP must go. So far this season (in fewer matches played) Manure have lost 6 matches and Aresnal have lost 5. Are you sugesting Ferguson and Wenger must go. Norwich (6 defeats) and Leeds (7) both in automatic promotion spots have lost only 1 and 2 less than us respectively. We had virtually no pre-season. Have had almost a total change of personnel (with all the team bonding problems that brings), and the first 10 matches with alot of the dregs from last years squad was at best described as cr@p. What is it with some of you guys? Do you take some perverted pleasure in winding people up, or do you really believe some of the venomous drivel that you write on here some times. At the beginning of the season we would all have been happy with a mid-table finish. With 9 games to go we have already achieved that. We have had a good day out at the JPT and brought back the first bit of silver in decades. And there is even a very, very remote chance if everything falls our way of making the playoffs. Pardew out? You must be acomplete and utter zoomer

One of the black Hummers I saw on the M3 was the worst stretch job i have ever seen, more wavy panels than a Maestro (remember them) and worse looking. Was worse built than the ones on Top Gear. Am surprised it made it out of Southampton. What a peice of Poopey (the new name for sh!t).

In the past, small clubs were able through team spirit, clever player acquisition, and skilled/lucky managers, to keep up with the 'big boys' and even occasionally beating them. Like the old Wimbledon or Ipswich, or us. But now even with these things still going for you, you still need money to compete successfully. Portsmouth (through means that have been discussed at length on here, and I wont even elaborate on their moral implications) invested huge amounts of cash. They did achieve an FA cup win in a year when for some inexplicable reason all the big clubs kept losing, but PCFC by bringing in the players from many nations lost that team identity/team spirit/whatever you call it. And when times got hard they simply crumbled. Teams like Ipswich were built and run on a shoestring so when failure came their falling was not as hard and disastrous as it could have been. Wimbledon are a special case, what with MK Dons and all. But PCFC have not been run on a shoestring, they have for several years ran at a massive loss. It was obvious to anyone taking an interest that it could not last. The house built on sand. I compare that to our present situation. We owe nothing. We have a good team spirit. We have a cash flow situation that has improved. Note ... i said improved. Comparing our squad to others in our league (and the championship) it is big. I can foresee a clearout of quite a few of the less used players in the summmer and just 2 or 3 of higher quality players coming in. NC is a banker/financial person, and I dont think he has this club anywhere near where he wants it in terms of efficientcy. He came in when the club was at a low ebb, in cash and morale and structure, and I personally can foresee some more changes in the structure/running of this club in the close season to achieve more efficientcy. ML has shown he is more than willing to put the cash in (without it being a loan or owed back by the club) but he has appointed a man he can trust to run it for him. When we again reach the PL, we SHOULD have a more sreamlined club in terms of cash flow. A higher income due to attendances, and minimal/no debt to eat into any profit that we make. Liverpool and Manchester Un'ed both have huge incomes, but astronomical debt, the interest on which alone must be incredible. Think how powerful they would be with that amount of income and no debt.... It could be us with the right hand at the tiller (not Hamsters though after hearing of his exploits aboard his narrowboat).

Have to admit, I was totally underwhelmed. Toilets, very poor.... getting out, very poor stewarding leaving was non existant, and wrongly positioned fencing etc. generated bottlenecks and other problems. .... surrounding area, unfinished/unstarted/full of waste and rubble.... View, good...... Stewarding going in was friendly and helpful..... Acoustics, terrilble .... Cant comment on catering because I didn't bother... Got food before I went in, and had nice pub meal in Shepards Bush on way home. If I was an FA Official taking Clients there i would blind fold them until i got them into the stadium. However, What a really good day out I and my family had. The day was brilliant, despite all of the above. I suppose winning helps, would not have enjoyed a 350 mile trip home having lost.

From where I sat/stood in 531 upper tier, there was masses of singing/noise. Perhaps people sat near you were just in silent awe to be in your presence.

Mrs Landford and I were right on the left of the scoreboard/screen and agreed it was amazing. Took some time out to take in atmosphere when we were really rocking just after the 4th goal. If I had been a more emotional guy it would hve brought a lump to the throat. Must agree though due to the size of the place difficult to get all fans in time.