stevegrant

113 unbeaten runs for the 9th wicket so far

If?

Haven't most of the other BA staff been trained as cabin crew for when the strikes take effect? Having staff that are able to multi-task and are reliable could render "specialist" cabin crew rather redundant, with the strike only serving to show BA that they'll actually be better off without them...

Lots of sums of 2 being added together to make 25, I expect...

And then weren't that interested when they subsequently got to the final...

Got to say that's a pretty pathetic response from the club. Their silence is deafening, I'm assuming they think people will stop talking about it if they just try to ignore it...

Except they haven't, yet. It was initially rejected by a majority vote.

Yes. It would be fair to say I'm not overly impressed.

I managed to track down a copy of the programme at half-time, read it from cover to cover and there didn't seem to be anything untoward. The suggestion of "printed on the wrong paper" is nonsense, it was as normal. The only even *slightly* potentially controversial comment in Pardew's column was when he gave credit to (paraphrasing from memory, might not be 100%) "Nicola Cortese and everyone at the club for mobilising 44,000 Saints fans to Wembley". Given that we're well aware that Cortese has a bit of an ego and likes to get as much credit as possible for anything, I guess there's the potential that he felt he deserved more credit than he was being given there, but even that theory is clutching at straws somewhat. Very strange.

Well that was exactly what happened 10 years ago, Portsmouth Football Club became Portsmouth City Football Club.

£32m, assuming all of the first year's parachute payment is withheld by the Premier League to satisfy football creditors, and of course they won't be able to touch it until the 2011/12 season, by which time they'll probably have been relegated again.

Haven't the Premier League already said they'll divert parachute payments to footballing creditors before Pompey see any of it?

Not much, about £2m a year, I think.

105 overs in the day, bowled 30.2 overs so far today, lose a couple for the change of innings. That said, it might be slightly fewer overs on day 4...

All out for 273. Notts have about 70 overs to score 245 runs to win...

I'm intrigued as to how he's arrived at a figure of £10m a year for the wage bill. Even that would be unsustainable for them in the Championship. With tickets priced at a maximum of £23 next season, that gives them potential revenue of about £10.5m from ticket sales. Clearly they'll get less than that because a) they won't sell out every week, b) they'll sell a number of season tickets which work out much cheaper than £23 per person per game and c) they'll sell a lot of child/concession tickets. They will only repeat the problems of the last couple of years but with slightly smaller figures, i.e. a wages/turnover ratio that is unsustainable, leading them into debt and administration again.

We were only pulling in £14m once the parachute payments ran out, so god knows how they think they'll get £25m!

Pothas gone for 30.

They did clarify earlier that this would be a similar swing to the one Thatcher achieved in 1979 (about 5%), but about half what Blair achieved in 1997. The 80 years thing is that it would be the highest quantity of Tory seats for 80 years.

Sounds about right, somewhere between 70 and 80 is my guess. At the higher end would be a 30% increase.

Or it goes to show that, much like 1992, you can't trust the exit poll results... The betting exchanges have Lib Dems on 70+ seats at even money, which would be a more than 10% gain for them.

Well you and common sense have never been closely aligned, tbf.

Is that right? The swing in 1997 must have been huge to go from a Tory government to a Labour landslide... Those figures on the exit polls fly in the face of every other poll that has been conducted over the last three weeks, and indeed of general common sense. Surely there's no way the Lib Dems will lose seats today.

McKenzie's been an unmitigated disaster so far.

You need to take out the secured debt (£14m?) from that