Hockey_saint

Come on, who slipped Carl Robinson some cash to say that!!!! or is he a fellow nutjob!! brilliant!

OK, own up, who's Ohio_Pompey? because the following just made me crease up! " Good decision made at last. Clear out his assistant(s) unless of course he is a specialist goalkeeping coach of which we need, but the chances are he'll follow Barker if he ever gets another job. Next, Mr Catlin, he has to go for brainwashing the board to employ Barker. Not a big enough thinker outside of a small club box. After him or at the same time some plan has to be made to have the Tesco deal stopped. We may get part of a new stand for the deal but we need to think bigger and further into the future and have all the land available for a rotation or ground shift. Beyond maybe our lifetime, so pay off Mr Robinson somehow or have him change his mind on the land deal. The club needs to have room to get to 30,000+ preferably 100 or so more capacity than our neighbors' (US Spellcheck). Sounds silly in the present climate, but that is no reason to have Tesco come in. Next manager? Not sure but he needs to be a Pompey man I believe, at least until we have a finance plan that could handle a larger character, as we creep back up."

Oh please let that happen!!....I have pointed out to a pet skate I know that pretty much every club who've had 3 managers in a season have been relegated.

They keep on showing a picture of some blonde player....wasn't he in the youth side demolished by us?

And to be fair, if the league were doing their job properly, we'd probably have our wishes pretty much fulfilled already...job done and virtually no way back from amateur football for the septic isle's finest tax dodgers and charity robbers.

Now THIS is why we need a "Like" button on this forum!....coffee over keyboard moment right there.

You could, with that say (if you were being cynical) "well, it just goes to show that some toffs cared about their fellow man whereas some poor people didn't give a rats backside and would prefer to get a leg up whilst shafting the people they grew up with".

And John Major was working class and brought up in Brixton (although his current views now he's retired appear much more critical of the Conservatives). Yes, there is a point there, you could suggest that Tony Benn was very much a champagne socialist but his actions....and continued actions when in the house as a government minister or member of the opposition kinda suggest that he firmly believed what he said and in that respect, yes, Thatcher and Benn were similar. Maybe I am being far too simplistic.

It's never been proven EXACTLY where Patrick was from (accounts vary from the bottom of Somerset to Wales). Either way, he was probably not Welsh but rather a well-to-do Romano Briton. But I have a strong suspicion my brother and his Irish friends will be raising a toast the Arthur Guinness.

Someone asked me what Socialism was the other day and I found the interview recorded with Tony Benn on it interesting, where he describes it as "democracy" or though I'd think it would be more succinct to say it's simply attempting not to "take a crap on the poorest of society" (clean version) I think most people (centre people, people not as right as some on here) would be shocked a comparison of Thatcher and Benn was even suggested. So I'd have to be honest and say that I find some views on this board as very much less than saintly with a distinct lack of empathy for the poorest people in society being slaughtered by our lovely Eton-educated (Gove's words) friends. But yes, both Thatcher and Benn were stuck in their views and both thought they were right (except on the face of it one was looking out for the poorest in society whilst the other the richest.)...

This thread is starting to get pretty tiresome. A man has died, whatever your political views, he died....do not mock the dead, for soon we'll be one of them.

I blame BBC's homes under the hammer for these problems....full of who-rey-henry's making money from houses which were previously built so the poor had somewhere to live (and not for them to exploit them with disgraceful rents)...also most are owned by individual families who have monopolies in certain areas (not to sound racist...although I find it interesting this issue always comes down to that) for example in Southampton, it's usually dominated by South Asians.

Odd situation really. If you consider that Ukraine is the birthplace of the Kevlar Rus (i.e. the founders of Russia) then you can kinda see why Russia wants as close a tie to the Ukraine as possible. But having said that, this protest really isn't primarily about joining the EU. Although I note that even Russia has stated that one day they may consider joining the EU.....which would be good for a globe-trotter like myself (I'd not need a visa to go full circle around the world).

Kinda reminds you of Saggy chops during his time here doesn't it? "it's a tough job, not my fault" etc etc.

Personally, I've always found the point made earlier about Churchill's rush to declare was on it's ally Japan more interesting. We build their navy, train their pilots, give them tactics which proved very very effective in Asia and allowed them to give the Russian a right hiding...we know what they have, what tactics they use (because, like Iraq under Thatcher, we sold em half the stuff). We have thousands of British Citizens living in the foreign concessions of places like Shanghai, Malaya, Hong Kong, who, once war was declared would almost seem to be sacrificed at the eagerness to get onside with the US....we also sent highly inadequate ships to defend the undefendible and completely ignore or forget the military tactics we taught them (for example, warning Japan not to wage a land war with Russia.....kinda important in the main topic here since the Trans-siberian railway was vital for Russia to resupply it's forces and obviously free them up from the Asian front). So no, I don't think war with Japan was NOT unavoidable but I do think we rushed into that theatre far far too soon without any kind of plan....or rather we had one, but completely forget everything we lectured on.

Without sounding arrogant, he WAS an international who played in a world cup for his country, that being Argentina (ok, so he pulled back a young Michael Owen for the pen but then who wouldn't?)....he's gonna still be a BIT good.

wtf!!....Even Shilton made errors from time to time, as did Niemi! Flowers was a bit of a lightweight at times, Brucie was gaff prone (on the pitch, not including his alledged off the field dealings), Beasant was far too clumsy, Jones was a bit rubbish and well....basically what I'm saying is that you can pick holes on any keeper if you really want to. Oh and MOTD blamed Shaw.

The way I see it, Islam is what? 610 years younger than Christianity....what would the religious Christians have done 610 years ago if we ripped up a bible....BBQ time methinks. Either way, the guy sounds like a proper knobber.

On the subject of that display, does it mention the horrific (and rather interesting....if you like Air Crash Investigation) crash on the Potomac that lost us that Air Florida sponsor?.....I once wore the shirt in Washington, coming out of Reagan Airport I sure kept a low profile!

Now that's probably a good example of what I mentioned actually, because that's certainly nationalism (although they'd say that's their remit) but it's certainly more right than left (in a global socialist kinda view). Actually Barry Sanchez, I think you're right, the EU was born out of a left ideal, but you could say it's been hijacked by those who traditionally back the right, those big businesses.

We'll never leave the EU because it will not please the businesses that back both sides of the political spectrum. Besides, I would suggest that Tony Benn is a very old man who being anti-EU is acting against his own politcal beliefs....but then as Tony Blair said once, no one is completely left or completely right....I mean, even some right wingers have compassion and care about those less fortunate than themselves,

Just because you don't remember or were not around for it, it doesn't mean you don't long for it...Lots of people do. Also, I'm not enthralled by the global market but it's the situation we find ourselves in.

Ok, I'll explain my assertation... Those who complain about the country being over-run with immigrants and generally losing sovereignty, and not in all cases I should say, tend to be right wingers who long for the days of empire when the British were running amok throughout the planet stealing land by drugging up and killing the locals (I like to use the example of a neighbour walking into you house, saying "that looks nice...it's mine now") but they'll be the first to complain when THEIR country gets one too many johnny foreigners in "stealing their jobs, lowering the minimum wage and, heaven-forbid, not speaking the local language" See? cake and eat it, that's why I've never understood the term "conservatism" why? what do you want to conserve? most of it was horrible and if not for us, some poor schmuck was getting it and simply saying "we don't want any part of this EU nonsense" is paddling against a tide and smacks of little Englander, trying to return to "splendid isolationism" in the days of the global market.

I've seen some right wing thinkers say "oh they must be close because the Nazi's were National Socialists" but they forget that Hitler wanted to do away with the socialist bit....I can see what they mean on a few points, since, I suppose you have to take into account the Human desire for greed and such like which Marxist theory really doesn't and take a look at a lot of the "marxist" regimes around the world (who were actually totalitarian regimes very similar indeed to Nazism). But I would say to you that A. Marxist-socialism is just a financial system and that B. there hasn't ever been a government that truly practises it.

Then they're not really labour now are they since Marxism and far right ideals are diametrically oposite....but hey, that depends on your viewpoint, if you want it to be true you'll convince yourself it is. Kinda like Michael Gove or IDS.