Dimond Geezer

They've never taken the lids off my bottles, but cans are a definite no no.

Looking forward to it. Don't just turn up though, the first three nights are ticket only, £10 each & includes your first drink & limited to 100 each night.

Hopefully it'll be like the old days, should be, as the new owner is Derek Gardener.

What annoys me is the ref clearly saw it, as he warned Smalling not to do it again. Surely when he first saw it he should have given a pen.

I'm pleased for the guy. He un-justifiably got a lot of stick, I often had discussions with the bloke who used to sit in front of me, he would criticise Guly as soon as he got on the pitch. He was a versatile player & I think this was why he attracted so much abuse, often being played out of a position. Good luck to him & thanks for the memories.

I sit in the same row as them, and he definitely looked like the cat that got the cream as he whisked her off for a free Bovril.

I assume this is a joke.

Not sure about Brum, but I thinl Old Trafford is in the corner.

A miserable 6 for me, like many others I fell into the Ibrox/Villa trap & messed up the Valley/Selhurst. Kenilworth Rd was easy, it has the club name on a hording.

That's terribly sad news, pleased to hear that he's likely to recover & hope it was an accident rather than bought on by depression.

There are some sports that you'd might expect a tragedy like this, Cricket isn't one of them. Terribly sad news, for everyone concerned, including the bowler.

As long as Jonah Lomu never signs for a Premier League team he'll do well.

First game I've missed in years, thanks to a University open day in Brum, that's No1 son off the christmas card list :-(

His management of Clyne has been embarrassing, his management of the Sterling situation has been spot on. He was honest about it rather than spouting a load of flannel.

We had similar issues as the OP as we live opposite a school, I contacted the council & was told it's not illegal. I believe it to be a breach of The Highway Code, but that is not a criminal offence. As I understand it you cannot block someone in, ie by parking across a drive with a car on it, but if the drive is empty you can park across it. A closed garage should be assumed to be occupied, therefore, parking is not permitted across a drive leading to a closed garage.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/11513454.Fonte_earns_first_Portugal_call_up/?ref=fbpg Well done Jose, thoroughly deserved.

Correct, put a Saints badge in the redundant holder.

There's also a change when selling a car, the tax is automatically refunded to the current owner, so you can no longer buy a 2nd hand car with x months tax included.

One of the few bands that I regret never seeing live (not that I ever had the chance). I'll be having a meltdown if they tour, I'm already in raptures about the new Queen tour & the likelihood of ELO touring, but The Jam........ wow.

I'd love that to happens. If Garforth Town was good enough for Socrates, I reckon Basingstoke could be in with a chance.

I'd take Valdes as replacement for Boruc.

Here's an odd one, my wife was given a tax rebate, as were many of here colleagues. After banking the cheque, she was told it was an error & HMRC wanted their money back, which she paid & have the evidence on our bank statement to show the cheque was cashed. My wife then gets a letter saying she still owes the original amount, HMRC will not accept that they have received & cashed the cheque. We then mysteriously get a payment from HMRC, credited directly to our bank account for exactly the same sum of money (to the penny). All a bit strange, especially as the original payment was for Income Tax & the second was for Child Tax Benefit, something we haven't been entitled to since the rules changed a few years ago. I phoned* 23 (yes 23) times before getting through to someone, despite recounting the above tale & saying we aren't entitled to CTB, they are adamant the cash is ours. * When calling HMRC the menus are voice activated, some further down the tree are keypad selected, unfortunately there isn't an menu option suitable for what I need to talk about, so I pressed/said just about every combination possible, only to have HMRC automatically hang up, because they are too busy. On call 23 I decided to say/press nothing, eventually I got put in a queue & spoke to a very nice lady. This will be my tactics from no on - keep schtum.

Had just left school & was about to start college. Since then I've done the usual stuff, house, marriage kids etc & my eldest is a year off uni, but I still remember 30 years ago like it was yesterday. It's what I did last week I can't remember. In a similar vein I went to the White Swan last night & one of our party pointed that I'm only 3 & a bit years of qualifying for the over 50's dining club, WTF is going on....

Thanks for that, real hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck stuff. I'm really looking forward to seeing them in Bournemouth.

Shazbot. Rip Mork.