JRM

i agree, wonder how much they will charge for this game though. with it being on a sunday and saints not playing i can see there being a lot of demand, although with it being on ITV at lunchtime plenty will just watch it while tucking in to their roast.

that is brilliant for them http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/FACompetitions/TheFACup/NewsAndFeatures/2011/tv-fixtures-151111 gets them £72000 TV money as well

must admit, after the updates from last week i'd have thought this would have been sold out by now.

sounds terrible. rugby fans do sing well when it comes to national anthems and swing low sweet chariot, proper songs, not shouting out a name

As some people mentioned on another thread, you can possibly link the brilliant terrace songs that come out of some clubs with the music scenes that come out of those cities, particularly Manchester, but also Liverpool. Southampton for whatever reason does not have that and some of the sh@t songs like STTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVEEEEEEE followed by laughter and some of our fans even CLAPPING at the end in praise of themselves does my head in. Can someone explain why shouting Steve in a stupid voice is good? It isn’t a song, it isn’t original , it doesn’t sound good, just makes us sound like a bunch of schoolkids.

i agree. But these are all issues that the club should be looking for feedback from it's customers on. instead we get cosy dinners with cortese and his select fans deemed worthy or eating in his presence, and nothing ever seems to come of it, you don't even find out what is discussed now. i would have lots of questions about the way the club is run, the useless ticket office procedures (especially away games) and who lost the key to the store cupboard holding the Liebherr flag that has gone missing.

what is?

It sounds terrible, I would plea for it not to be done again but i doubt anyone would take any notice

What about positive discrimination? Where do you stand on that? Haringey council used to advertise jobs and then put "we particularly welcome applications from the black / lesbian, transgender, disabled communities, basically anyone who wasn't a white male.

i know a lad who went through 3 years of uni before dropping out before taking his exams, says it was still worth it for the experience but i somehow think deep down he regrets it. lots of people change course after a year when it dawns in them they are not learning anything useful and there is no enjoyment in it.

that is quite a random mix for your neck of the woods, from my experience the Indian kids at school were all top people ridiculously good at maths, we had a lot of Mauritians who were good lads as well, very easily integrated into English society, same with the Greek Cypriots although one would leave graffitti on the tables to remind everyone to "never forget 1974" , their hatred of the Turks makes our rivalry with the skates look mild. The Poles are interesting with most of them being 1st generation, i reckon the families who have settled here will be well integrated within a generation. was at Fulham v Krakow the other night and they really need to start using pubs for their drinking rather than off licence and drinking on the streets!

Now THAT would become a different ball game. Having that in court would really undermine about every rule in the book. But still stick with my FL won't act unless the court proves it was the club that acted illegally not just Mandy it is complex law, but if the payments were made by employees of the club, and an implication can be drawn that the they were for work done at that company, then the company should also be liable for punishment as they cannot claim they took the neccessary steps to prevent tax evasion / bribery / unaccouted for cash transactions. i guess the money did not come from company accounts which might make that hard to prove. it still disgusts me that some of you think it is "funny" and laugh at the skates, they still have a long way to go before i find any of it amusing, thrashing them at Fratton will help, but with the team they have i can't see that happening just yet. they should have been put out of business last year, and yet have been allow to put together a side possibly costing more our team , and almost certainly their first XI will be earning more

London as a whole is a great city to MOVE to, when you are a young professional and a choice of places to live, but spare a thought , what if you are born into an area that has some of the problems listed above, and have to go to schools where you are the ethnic minority, sit in classes where some of the others can barely speak English, the school dinners are made with Halal meat as that is what the "locals" want, why do you think so many people move out of London when they come to the age of getting married and having kids?

although my reply earlier was aimed at saintandy i actually quite like his innocent view of the world, and i honestly don't mean that in a patronising way, it would be nice if things were that way. i can tell he is a nice well meaning lad, and i'll go as far as saying if he does choose to go to uni in London i'm more than happy for him to drop me a PM on here for any advice, it is a great learning curve going away to uni and a city like london has a lot to offer for a student. the people i most have issues with are like solent saint who thinks he can lecture on issues as he once lived in Dagenham and popped along to spurs a couple of times in the 70s, he hasn't got a clue of the issues of growing up in a multicultural "melting pot", ewspecially one with a high concentration of one culture that becomes ghetto-ised. the subject of this arose from discussion about the EDL - not a group that i support as such, but it is so easy for others to shout them down from comfy leafy liberal suburbs when they themselves have no experience of the lives others have lead.

So basically you moved up to London and had a few years living the "urban" dream and telling all your friends back home about how great the ethnic diversity was, but you didn't actual settle and put down roots there. Funny that. You don't need blond hair to be a minority in your own town. This country has let a lot of kids in this country down. You should have tried living in Tottenham for a bit, can't beat lunchtime entertainment at school of kurds kicking off with the turks and a stabbing.

where did you grow up? were you an ethnic minority in your school? i was, white british made up about 10% of the school population, you see things very differently when you have lived through them, rather than have had a few years living in those areas, you have probably moved to a comfy area but feel you can lecture others on what they have to put up with.

well done, you lived in Dagenham once but now live "on the sunny south coast", would you want your children to go to school in East Ham?

what is the latest on that? Peterborough still have the terrace open at the moment which holds 4000 plus seats on the side, so if that is still there we could have 5k for that and it is a Tuesday night

we are definitely a bigger club than Brighton, 1978-2005 in the top flight with a team full of internationals , signing european player of the year Kevin Keegan and England goalkeeper Peter Shilton, they can't get close to post-war history like that

i think the point that sour mash was trying to make to you, is that from the limited life experiences and cultural awareness it may be difficult for you to understand the thoughts and actions of people who grow up as poor white kids surrounded in predominant immigrant areas, where you feel like a minority in the area where your parents and grandparents had always lived, where every buthers / take away is Halal meat, where your children struggle in a class when a few percent have English as their first language, where street names have urdu translations, and it is constantly rammed down your throat that you must be happy because there is nothing better than a diverse melting pot., by wishy washy liberals who would never dream of living in such areas themselves.

the ticket news the club provides is a running joke, but if they were going to implement such a process they should have included that in the ticket details with the rest of the waffle about how great it will be in the bubble having a safe passage to fratton. it is only though people having contacts that we found out it is double decker buses rather than coaches. the whole thing is a shambles.

there will be tons mate, plenty of people who don't have season tickets (but go away a fair bit) are mates with people who do have season tickets and don't travel so much, so have done the obvious and applied with their number, partly due to doubt over whether the club will sell to non-season ticket holders anyway, i'd ignore that rubbish about being non-transferrable as we'll have coach loads full who have done it.

there are loads who have ordered on other people's season tickets, and no where does it say you have to take ID with you on the day, therefore turn up with no ID and there's not much they can do, it is an absolute shambles of organisation though. still no confirmation of whether non-season ticket holders can buy once the ballot is over and it is confirmed that we haven't sold out

please please please let us know what uni you go to, and do not accept the facilities of halls of residence in cushty surroundings living with other equally well off home counties students rejoicing in their new "urban" environment living with "a melting pot of cultures", break away from all that and ask us for some advice, i'll start off by suggesting East Ham as a lovely spot to aim for, this place is such a melting pot it is overflowing with non English culture, you'll love it.

So you speak to his girlfriend but have clearly never met or spoken to him or his Dad, as Old Sarum points out (his Dad was a regular away throughou the 90s as well), i suggest you have your wires crossed or perhaps are mistaken to which player she is the girlfriend of.