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Alex Best ?

What,Christine Hamilton ? Christ forbid.

Full name Scott Marshall Own Goal.

Don't park outside my f'kin house !

For sheer impact,this is in my view remained the best opening of any of his productions : "anything can happen in the next half hour" was enough to keep me hooked in the 1960's.

Don't want to disappoint you but the 'bangers' thing ends on 15th,Sunday. Obviously the remaining menu will be available but if she is expecting a good sausage or banger it might not be available over the bar.

Man In A Suitcase.I'd stat up to watch it just for the theme tune as a kid.Hearing it on Chris Evans now I often resent the ginger tosser for 'borrowing' it. Agree with that about the 1960's, there was something spectacular about the creations at the time, however limited or sometimes feeble they look now. Westerns also : Bonanza,The Big Valley etc. Thunderbirds.As laughable as it may now seem! Gerry Anderson refused to compromise with Lew Grade and demanded a 72 piece orchestra for the theme tune.Unheard of at the time for television production,let alone a children's programme.

Can't think of that without thinking of this version by Arthur Two Stroke and the chart commandos a memory of student life on Tyneside in the early 1980's.

No real interest at all in a meaningless friendly played in some desert. Saints,and young Badgers junior football are far more important than tomorrow's prestige 'ego trip'.

That would also be my guess.

Do you think the signing of someonr from the Rooney dynasty might lead to a rise in the theft of hubcaps in the SO postcode area ?

Can you imagine any manager now appearing in a team photo wearing hush puppies ? Now it has to be a bespoke training wear or Armani. Ditto, it was the first Saints kit I saw in the great Alehouse era.

Yes,remember that.

According to one less Macclesfield fan posting on the youtube link given above he won't be joining us : and from the same bloke , Obviously a member of the Macclesfield branch of Mensa.

And Simon Charlton

From the 60's when they knew how to make good television: Bonanza The Untouchables Comedy:Steptoe,and Till Death...long before the pc brigade got going. More recently, ie 1980's Auf Wiedersehn Pet.

Hereford away would be more convenient for me

I'm not a supporter of Brown by any means but think it is to his credit that he wrote a personal letter rather than leave it to a junior clerk.

Poyet is indeed a good appointment for them,and I would expect him to turn them round.Hopefully though he will not realise the scale of task ahead of him until after Sundays match. New manager or Sky,we should still win on Sunday.

One of my all time Saints heroes.

As well as discrete political aid,they gave more direct aid to Germany by allowing U-boats to refuel in the republic and collect food and provisions. On a documentary some years ago about Northern Ireland it was stated that 5,000 men from Ulster were killed on the first day of the Somme.After the Easter uprising in 1917 Ulstermen argued that in view of their sacrifice the London government could not "abandon" them. No doubt many Irish catholics fought and died during both wars,but the morons booing yesterday would not think of that.

Reinforces the view/myth that many blokes from Brighton have a bit of an "arse" fixation.

I'd also be pleased with that.

Eternal father strong to save or O God our help in ages past Both significant at this time of year and both written by Hampshire men, Wiliam Whitely and Isaac Watts. Another hymn which really makes me stand up and respect is "Guide me now Great Redeemer", the "bread of heaven chorus" having been much bastardised over the years never detracts from its origins or need to pay homage.