Wade Garrett

Slight sense of humour failure I fear.

Not many people were moaning about Heskey when we cruised through the qualifying group. People are just jumping on the media bandwagon here. I agree with Fab, apart from Parker for Carrick, and possibly Johnson for SWP. I think we are a better side than a lot of people think, think what we did to Croatia and the manner of our qualification. However, the low expectations this year could do the squad a favour.

I guess you were educated in Portsmouth as well?

I used to think you were a reasonable person Wes, but you're turning into a poor man's Stanley. The Government don't agree with league tables and results for hospitals, so why would they agree with the same principle for schools?

I think that most people, on either side of the political divide, agree that Prescott is a c*nt of the highest order.

Of the 30 man squad I would drop: Dawson Upson Warnock Huddlestone Walcott Bent Carrick Johnson in because he is naturally left-sided, I think Capello has held him back to surprise other sides. Parker in because of how woeful Carrick and Huddlestone have been in the last 2 games. Apparently, Parker has been excellent in training, but Capello isn't going to pick him as he didn't get a run out. Walcott has been absolute garbage for much of the season, he had one decent half against Barcelona. He can't cross, pass or finish.

I went to a Comprehensive and I wasn't held back by the less academic pupils (or dunces as you put it). We were streamed according to ability and I did very well thank you. In fact I did a lot better than the people I knew that went to King Edwards. I have lived under successive governments that prove that privatisation and deregulation of utilities do not work. You will get no argument from me about Prescott being a hypocrite though.

Why don't BBC get Baddiel and Skinner on board? I liked what Corden did for Sport Relief, but he has cringeworthy tendencies. I'd imagine the BBC will get Brucey and Tarby talking ******, with a little number by Kenny Lynch chucked in.

I think the Echo were talking Lines up more. I would prefer Douglas from Swindon.

Surely the HMRC would be better off issuing another winding up order, and hoping they get a judge this time with the balls to do the right thing. If that happened, I would bet that the outstanding tax bills of Cardiff and Preston, and any other club, get swiftly paid. It probably won't happen though, because HMRC strike me as bullies who go for the easy targets, and let arseholes like PFC slip through the net.

For me HMRC should not accept the offer. The message being sent to the rest of football is 'if you can't pay, we'll get our money back in the long run and in the meantime you can fall through the leagues. At the same time, the directors responsible for the mess/fraud will be hunted down anyway'. What's to stop Cardiff, Preston et al from offering HMRC 20% of their debt now?

You couldn't make it up.

40% is very fair, as long as they pay 40%, just like I do on PAYE. It doesn't seem to be the case at the moment.

I got a lump in my throat every time he cried off a game.

I don't think Ed Balls could carry Labour through an election win. To me the only serious contenders are him and the Miliband brothers. I would go for David. Very switched on, although I was impressed by his brother on the Andrew Marr show.

If he's the one that went on a great run down the line and set up Brenford's goal at St Marys we should sign him because he's better than we've got at the moment. Good player.

So the VAT rise could increase welfare payments by the state. Lots of decent arguments from both sides of the fence today.

You make a fair point Grandad. And after all, we do have a deficit to pay. I'll let you have that one.

I think HMRC are gunning for a football club to go down the pan. Why give Pompey another chance to welch on their taxes again in the future. If Pompey weren't a football club, but a normal trading business, it would have been closed down by now, and the directors would be up on charges.

Exactly right. But then you have a whole host of crooked b*stards on the FIFA committe, such as Blatter and the odious Jack Warner. I'd rather Triesman had stayed, and had the argument in the open with the bent Spanish, Russian associations and FIFA. So what if it costs us the World Cup - we shouldn't be trying to win a bent contest by appeasement.

Merely my opinion, and I'm sure I'm not the only person.

Coaching badges? The only coaching badge he needs is the one that says he was a top pro for 20 years. Any idiot can get a coaching badge.

Anyone see his interview on the Andrew Marr Show. Came across really well.

We defintely need a centre-midfielder to replace the woeful Hammond/Wotton. I don't buy all this 'Hammond does stuff you don't notice'. The only things I notice about him are not being able to play a simple pass and not being able to trap a bag of wet cement.

I think it would be funny as you like if we had our own 'c*nt with the bell'. Any volunteers?