stevegrant

Some time in the not-too-distant future, a relatively big club will go to the wall and there won't be someone to rescue them. Make no mistake, we got very very very lucky.

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Good news.

Not really. It's got some clever stuff, but to be honest the only reason I bought it was for the massively extended battery life in comparison to Windows-based laptops, so I can get to London and back every day without having to charge it up between journeys. I use Windows at work (although I do connect to a Unix-based server quite extensively) and I've still got my Windows PC at home although it's somewhat dated now. The amount of software available for OS X is very limited, particularly when it comes to freeware (rather ironic when it's built upon a Unix/Linux architecture), and paid-for software appears to be that much more expensive on OS X compared to Windows. Ultimately, if you're comfortable with Windows and don't really need any of the stuff OS X offers which Windows doesn't, stick with Windows.

4 of the 15 stadia don't even exist at the moment, and another (the Olympic Stadium) isn't going to be suitable when it gets mostly demolished after the 2012 Games. What a shambles.

Just done it, I'm half a square above and half a square to the left of Arizona.

The Clipper's covered by Oyster PAYG from January as well

No, because they will have agreed terms on when they are paid. They may do what we did with the Theo Walcott and Gareth Bale transfers and negotiate a reduced but final settlement so they get more money immediately but less overall, but given that they'll be trying to negotiate with a club with a similar number of pots to p!ss in, I can't see how they'll get any agreement there.

Watford won't be due that much immediately because of the way transfer fees are generally paid these days. Most players are bought on hire purchase these days, so they'd only be due a relatively small percentage of the overall fees.

Previously, there's always been a limit of 10 options on a poll. I've only just noticed that there's an admin option to change this :oops:

Very much so. They issued a LSE statement a month or so ago saying that their chairman (who resigned prior to their AGM last night) loaned the club another £1m, and that they needed to find another £5.5m in order to get through the season. When Russo resigned last night (along with his brother), they also recalled their loans, which total £4.88m. Therefore, they need to find more than £10m this season. It's quite baffling considering their biggest shareholder is Lord Ashcroft, who I think is the 36th richest man in the UK

Hoolahan takes their penalties, so he'd have certainly taken one in the shootout.

Think they'll be on the BBC site from tomorrow.

The BBC text commentary corrected the booking to Doherty. How Lambert can complain about the incident when he's about 100 yards away and it's on the other side of about 4 players, I've no idea. It was right in front of me and it was very clear that Antonio's arm hit Holt in the ribs.

It's more powerful, probably a bigger HDD as well (although I get by perfectly well with the 80GB one on the standard Macbook). From reports I've read, the battery life on the Pro isn't as good as the standard model though.

Wotton took the 5th one. Lambert Papa Waigo James Lallana Wotton Hammond Antonio Thomas

The one in the first half was Doherty.

Similar to us, think they had two injuries to their regular first choice.

Mike, I don't think anyone would be making anything of it at all if it didn't have such an obvious impact on what was actually going on on the pitch. You've got a young player who's only been a pro for 18 months stepping up to take a match-winning penalty in a sudden-death situation and then some little **** decides he's going to act the idiot for a laugh. I'll tell you one thing, I wasn't laughing. Antonio looked confident when he walked up, but he clearly wanted to get it over and done with. That delay was critical, IMO. Fortunately, we got away with it thanks to Bart's excellent third save.

I thought we were appalling in the second half, to be honest. Probably on a par with Swindon away for ineptitude and lack of ideas. Lambert and Lallana were both man-marked out of the game. Antonio gave us a bit more impetus when he came on, but Norwich's tactic of "kick anything that moves" in the last 15 minutes didn't help us much.

We had a free-kick right by our own corner flag. If he'd just got on with the game, he'd have been back defending on his 18-yard line and then back right in the thick of it when the ball went further. When you've got a one-goal lead in the last minute of injury time and the opposition launch a free-kick into the area, you get everyone back, especially if they're as good as Holt is in the air.

What a mental end to the game. Got to be honest, we were woeful from the 20th minute onwards, but it made a change for the ball to bounce kindly for us in the penalty area for the equaliser just like it had done for both of Norwich's goals. Also, credit for the equaliser must also go to Grant Holt. While he was rolling around holding his face (when Antonio's arm had hit his ribs), we got on with the game and the ball just happened to fall right where he would have been defending...

Just found it on the Apple Store site - obviously didn't go through by selecting any options etc though. When I got mine, I bought it in the store in West Quay.

RMT took an absolute pounding for their strike earlier this year, including from many of their own members. Thousands of RMT members crossed the picket line, and of course the railways and tube could still call upon the members of the other rail union (can't remember its name), so a fairly reasonable service was running throughout the strike.

That wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. A quite frightening prospect for a now-penniless League Two club getting gates of just over 7000 trying to find the money to pay the transfer fees they assumed the "rich" former owners had paid. They also paid significant money to Colchester for Johnnie Jackson - I presume I'm not going out on much of a limb to suggest that they've not paid any of that fee yet either. The Football League really are an utter disgrace for not performing stricter checks on these shysters who have now been allowed to ride off into the sunset without any recourse whatsoever.