Lord Duckhunter

You've got Lord Rennard running around sexually harassing females, with Cleggy hushing it up, Gordon Brown and his "macho culture", yet the BBC concentrate on a bar room buffoon and a dodgy "joke" he made. Every party has idiot's yet the establishment love a UKIP "story". It just goes to show how rattled they are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKts4KoOWIQ

That's because they'd been sat on by a load of Skates over the years, the cost of getting rid of the fishy smell dramatically reduced the value.

It would be the home side that benefits. The club have amended the ticketing system because of abuse. Older fans were buying kids tickets and there was also abuse of the priority system. If an over 65 can't make the game, then an adult can not use his season ticket number. I can't see what the issue is, surely its only fair that the swapping of numbers is cut down.

The stupid thing is the guy who I made the quip about was offended that she complained, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference. Someone was offended, whether I meant to offend or whether the person I "offended" took offence, someone did and that's all that counts nowadays.

I would play Davis instead of Lallana away from home. The formation looks good on paper, but bedding it in could be a problem. Pre season was the time to get the 3 at the back playing together, but if anyone can an international centre half should be able to. The other issue is injuries. Whilst JRod , Rameriez & Cork could easily fit in, I cant see Fox or Chambers being wing backs, and god help us if Jos has to play in a 3.

Perhaps gay's could give this one a miss and go to the Russian one instead.

Some people on here are missing the point and don't seem to understand where the Country is when it comes to offensive behaviour. In the Britain of 2013 to cause offense is defined as anybody taking offense, it doesn't have to be anyone involved with the incident. Therefore if anybody takes offense at this chanting, then it is offensive whether the person it is aimed at is offended, or whether the person doing the chanting is chanting about himself. If I called someone at work a yid, and somebody who overheard was offended, whether or not the Jewish person was offended is irrelevant. My job would most definitely be on the line. I had a situation where I made a joke about one of my employees which he thought was funny. Days later a women complained and there was an investigation which could have led to disciplinary action. She dropped it, provided I apologised to the guy, so I ended up apologising to a guy who neither wanted nor needed an apology. I was left in no doubt by our HR department that the guy I joked about's feelings didn't matter, I had caused offense to someone and that was the only consideration. I'm not saying this is right, and I'm not saying that I agree with it, but if people are offended then it is offensive. It's only the fact that there's thousands of people chanting it which makes it unlikely anyone will face prosecution. However, if anyone did, saying "well I'm Jewish myself" or "most people aren't offended" will be not be a defence.

Highlights the smug attitude of the BBC who seem to consider themselves a cut above everyone else. Clearly airing a programme like this could be prejudicial to a fair trail. Had the daily mail ran such a scandalous story prior to any sort of trial , the lefties would be going off their nut. The whole thing stinks and treats south Africa like some sort of colonial outpost, incapable of giving a chap a fair trial. This is certainly not the sort of programme that should be funded by a poll tax. Somebody needs to sort this mess of a corporation out once and for all.

The problem is that if you give it to the best candidate every time, then Europe will end up with a disproportionate amount of tournaments. As a principle I think sharing it out is a good one, its just the corrupt manner of the sharing that's let FIFA down.

All im saying is that the middle east should has as much right hosting the world cup as europe or south America. If that means playing in winter, then provided that is made clear during the bid process, what's the issue. The principle should be that every single member of FIFA has the right to bid , and in some instances a winter tournament may be the result of that bid. To say the tournament can only be played in summer, excludes some nations from bidding. Its up to FIFA delegates to decide following an open and.transparent bidding process. Hiding the impossibility of a summer world cup behind a load of pony about air conditioned stadium ECT, was not open and transparent, although I've no doubt the delegates knew that a winter world cup was inevitable all along. Australia would have been a better choice, but then it would have been a better choice than Russia. The issue im arguing about is a winter world cup, not the pros and cons of the best bid.

The clues in the title, World cup. Or is it the World (excluding certain regions of it) cup.

It's the world cup, so I've no issue with it being occasionally held in winter. To not do so, would mean certain countries would never have a chance of holding it. The issue here is that this wasn't made clear during the bidding process. I understand that there is some small print in the bid documents which allowed for this change, but everybody had an understanding that this was a june/july world cup. The Arab world is entittled to a world cup ,.and personally I think its great that blatter is willing to make it truly global. However, the underhand corrupt way its been handled stinks.

Its interesting that this scouse guy posted that he'd be tempted to go with a back 3, because this ties in with something that's got me thinking. This morning I listened to The Times podcast, Stewart Robson (who really knows his stuff. ) was talking about Everton. He said that in the summer Roberto Martinez told him he'd eventually go with a back 3 at Everton , because Coleman and Baines were natural wing backs. A discusion the followed around Wigan and their back 3. He said that Martinez played a 3-6-1 turning into a 3-4-3 when they had the ball. Robson said this was unusual because the Italians are the main cheerleaders of 3 at the back and they play it with 2 up top. Basically a 3-5-2. Started me thinking Osvaldo,, Italians , maybe long term this could be the answer to the srl/osvaldo puzzle. Lovren and Yoshida as the wide centre halfs as I beleive they've both played full back , with Jose central. Clyne and Shaw as wing backs with victor, ms and one of lallana (at home) or Davis /cork (away) centrally. Rickie and Osvaldo up top. Wouldn't recommend using it sat, but provided it doesn't mess up the promising centre half partnership we have at present, would be worth working on. I suppose one issue is the back Ups, fox and chambers couldn't do it. Its also worth noting that Martinez has gone with a back 4 so far. I dont know what others think, i would have dismissed it days ago, but Robson and now this Liverpool poster have me thinking.

At least independence will answer the west Lothian question , which labour just ignored for party political reasons.

I would defo go with Stephen Davis in this one. People keep going on about cork, but Davis has been unlucky not to feature this season. Davis ahead of victor and ms, to pressure SG who sits a bit deeper nowadays.Personally, I think if we press them high up the pitch we may get some joy. Sit back and we'll get beat 2 or 3. Let's get amongst them, I think they're due a dodgy performance. I'd go 4-3-1-2, with srl or Osvaldo having to drop in to midfield when they have the ball. Same back 5 Ms, victor, jwp SD Srl , Osvaldo

The stewards spent all game getting our block to sit which didn't help the atmosphere.

By bringing the best out of Jose, its like signing 2 new players. I always think Jose gets over looked when people talk about signings , the million odd we paid for him was great value.

Using statistics to claim that x amount of the population are gay, therefore x amount of footballers are gay is clearly nonsense. Quite a large proportion of the population is black, blacks are fantastic at sport, but I dont recall any black swimmers in any Olympic final in history. Is swimming a racist sport?

Ship and mitre , dale street. Opposite lime St station.

We had a bloke who came out at work, and then got all upset cause nobody gave a flying fuvk.

I think a centre mid 3 of cork/Davis , ms and victor look great on paper. The problem is then fitting Lambert and Osvaldo in the formation. Need a centre 3 to pressure SG and stop Liverpool playing through midfield. Personally , I'd go with Davis, behind one of Lambert or Osvaldo, with jwp and al as making up the 5.

I find the guy frustrating, he's obviously got talent but flatters to deceive. Too many little 5-aside passes and touches. Sometimes he needs to be more direct and shoot. Lack of pace is a problem and he does dive, which winds me up. Obviously captain because he came through the ranks and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, provided other show leadership on the pitch. Personally I'm surprised he never seems to get dropped.

Agreed, it's got to be political that he's made captain. I don't go for all this NC picks the team, but I can think of no other reason he's skipper. Playing wise, he's a fanny. A 5-a-side player, all little triangles, and soft passes. Over-rated IMHO.

South today's football output is dire. Local radio and tv is an embarrassment, load of middle aged chumps . Im sure partridge was a reality show rather than a comedy. They need to get blokes talking about football who have half a clue, instead of idiots like husband. And dont get be started on Dave "what we dont want to do now is " Merrington. Taylor needs replacing with a decent milf as well.