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Martin, please. Was ready to play it forward rather than hoofing - I was amused, in fact, that Bolton resorted to hoofing much more often than we did last night.

He gotta score now

And the song? Ging-gang-guly-guly-guly.... Tremeloes, ahoy.

Maybe, but there are different ways of dealing with it: Butterfield is 2nd choice right back to many on here, but he seems to be working hard still. Harding, bless him, doesn't look like he's going to hand his place over to Dickson any time soon, which is what many expected. Jaidi, on the other hand, looks like he can't wait to be replaced by Seabourne or Martin.... Hammond is team captain, which - you would have thought - would give him some sense of belonging and a reason to expect serious consideration every match.

One problem in the team seems to be that some players - yesterday it was Fonte and Butterfield in particular - are covering for others - Hammond and Puncheon - who have got another agenda. Not sure what Hammond's is, but Puncheon's seems to be to use any and every opportunity to showboat and/or run with the ball. Only came off once yesterday, chipping the ball over the sliding Orient player, but that didn't make up for the hundreds of other times he ****ed it up. This kind of thing really is Pardew's lookout - it's up to him to discipline the players and get them working together as a unit. If he *has* to have Puncheon on the pitch, then he could do worse than to stick to his decision for the last ten minutes and have him in the middle with Alex O-C on the wing.

Dr Who She has a right to be accompanied to her meeting by a union rep or a friend from the workplace, and I think that she can delay the meeting by up to five days in order to find a suitable date. Under employment law she has a right not to suffer detriment as a result of her union duties, and if - as I suspect - the suspension has more to do with her being an outspoken member of staff in the workplace than it does with her having made a few frustrated remarks to her friends on Facebook, then if she subsequently is given a bad reference or finds that in anyway her future employment has been affected by someone at her current employers telling her new employers about her suspension, she can make a complaint in the Employment Tribunal. If she is taking up a new job in three weeks, I assume she has already given notice to her employers. Suspending her during the notice period seems like an extraordinarily vindictive act, and I would hazard that the ET would see it that way as well...

Course you can, Mike. Congratulations on a wonderful achievement. And to Karen, too!

Photos look great (though the bandaging doesn't bode well). Keep going - really looking forward to seeing your final post. Can't believe how much money you two have made! It will make such a difference. Well done a million times.

Keep going, Mike!

Less of the vulnerability, if you don't mind. Once you have kids, you really don't need to be a mother to their dad, as well.

Been on both sides of this situation. Can't ride two horses with the same bum, Dave. If she ****s you while going out with him, who's to say she won't do the same to you? Or decide you're not worth it, and make it up with him? Let her break it off with him. Then think about it.

Here are Mike's pictures. Brilliant.

Well, the way I read it, it says that he wants to know now what's going to happen to him now he's come back off loan, not that Fiorentina have expressed any intention....

"A kit from yesterday for the team of tomorrow" Love the kit, but sweet Jesus, that strapline...

Keep going, Mike! Don't forget to post some pics.

Dont forget the laces trick. Here's a picture of my boots - the one on the left is tied to stop it slipping around my toes, laces wound around each other three times at the first crossover point. These boots are a size bigger than my street shoes, as I found that after ten hours of training walking, my toes were banging against the ends of my boots. Went a size up and tied them like this here and at the ankle bend - I didn't get any toe blisters, and only one small heel blister, in a week of walking in the Andes more than twelve hours a day. Good luck!

Lugana, mmmmm. occasionally goes on special at the local supermarket.

A nice tour around the Veneto and the Po Valley. Lots of teams from Serie C to Serie A. Parma, Modena, SPAL, Cremona, Verona... Bologna, why the hell not? Then a serious starvation diet afterwards to work off all the pasta and cheese...

Good point, Charlie. And, two years on, Leicester are where, now? The fans might know a thing or two... "they" ignore us at their - and the club's - peril.

This concerns me, too...

Went studs up within seconds of the game starting, didn't he? Nipper remarked that the only thing he's learned in 18 months is how to dive.

Maybe should be on the HCDAJFU thread: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/8665043.stm he's come a long way from Highfield Primary School....

No, you cannot suffer a detriment for performing union duties. Says so in the Employment Rights Act.

That's the one, and that sounds about right. Met him once or twice and there was something not quite pukka about him. Thanks for clearing that up. Mango is better, anyway...

White Star is excellent. Have only been there for lunch, but it was very good and worth its rosettes. My husband tells me there is bizarre antique porn in the men's loos which he found very amusing, but I can't confirm this. Mango in Portswood Road - very good, excellent veggie options, but BOOK!!! Sara's Thai is more traditional than Mango. The food is extremely good, but the tables are extremely close together, so not the most comfortable or private dining experience. Around the corner is Ceno's - contemporary Anglo food. Very healthy size portions, nice atmosphere, good wines but can get a bit boomy and loud for conversations. These last three you might consider if you park your car somewhere in Portswood. About 30-40 mins amble down to St Mary's. Drawback is that it's up hill all the way back, not so good if it's raining. Zen, not so much. The tempura was quite disgusting and oily, and they have a weird thing with the way you order sushi, where you seem to have to eat a whole lot of rice based sushi before you can eat anything else. Won't be going there again. My son really rates Piccolo Mondo (google it for address). His girlfriend is veggie, and eats really well there. He says it's unpretentious, well-prepared and delicious Italian food, sensibly priced.