Lord Duckhunter

Used to like the red lion, but god knows what they've done to it. Tried the frog and parrot, but gets too busy. Alex is ok, but gets a bit frustrating sometimes, landlord keeps running out and sometimes you end up with a plastic glass. Why anyone would drink in the Alfred is beyond me and another one I can't stand is the encore.

It strikes me that what the krankies are proposing is more along the lines of a federal UK, rather than a clean break and "pure" independence. Obviously they are more comfortable being in a federal Europe than a federal UK, but problems with the euro zone have put pay to that dream. I actually believe in a federal UK, with more powers being devolved locally and regions being given tax raising powers , so good luck to them in that respect. What I object to is the attitude most jocks have that somehow there's a democratic deficit because there maybe a party in power that didn't "win" the election in Scotland. That somehow a great injustice is done to the sweatys because they only elected one Tory ,but are governed by Tories. Well there's vast areas of the country that would never elect a labour member, but we had to put up with 13 years of Blair and brown ( 2 jocks , by the way). The jocks want their cake and eat it, and thanks to spineless generations of politicians from all 3 establishment parties, they're going to be able to. Devo max for the jocks and taffs, and **** all for us English is what will end up happening.

We should stick to players that perform in the English league, whether they're English or not is irrelevant. Had Harry Redknapp signed Gaston for QPR and he played for them like he played for us, would you be sticking up for him quite as much? I suggest that the majority opinion would be that old Arry had been mugged off, or had some sort of deal with his agent. I bet you cant find many neutrals who share the over inflated opinion of Gaston that some on here have. Puncheon isn't good enough either, so I don't know what he's got to do with anything.

Agustín Delgado was talented. I couldn't give a flying **** whether he is wanted by Inter , Fiorentina or Galatasary, couldn't give a **** whether he plays for Uruguay ( James Milner plays for England) , all I'm interested in is whether he is any good playing for Southampton. And he quite clearly is not. It makes me laugh how we hear he cant fit into our system or cant play in England. People should stop making excuses for him because, we do play in England and have had 2 different Managers with different systems , yet still he doesn't perform.

Based on what? The only thing that's clear is he's not good enough for the Premier league. Mr Woo is clearly talented, but that doesn't make him a talented footballer.

Do you really believe that he's going to play like a drain for 2 seasons and then light up the world cup? It does happen occasionally, but from what I've read he's flattered to deceive whilst playing internationals. I would say sell before clubs see him in brazil , and realise he's really not that good.

Time to get rid, a complete and utter waste of money. No matter how hard people try and justify his ability, still harking back to 2 performances against poor Newcastle and villa peformances, he has been a complete and utter wash out. He's going to become the new Antonio or Billy Sharpe getting better and better in peoples minds the less he plays. If he goes on loan, we'll get the predictable calls for him to return, as if he's some sort of messiah. The bloke struggled when he came, struggled to get in the side and is now even struggling to make the match day squad. It used to be his age, then he was new to English football, then Nigel didn't know how to use him , now mp "doesn't like him", he's travelling a lot for world cup qualification games,he doesn't suit our system. Perhaps we should run a sweepstake on what the next excuse will be. People should take off the rose coloured glasses and accept he's not very good and that's why he can't get a game. Lets get rid,get as much money as the mugs are wiling to pay and move on.

You shouldn't be at a loss to understand it, it's pretty simple. It's the result of incompetent economics. The cost of economic failure is expensive and debt will always go up during a recession. The secret is to pay it down during the upturns , something labour spectacularly failed to do. Then again they did abolish boom and bust. Everybody knows why borrowing is up, but nobody will make the proper cuts required to bring it under control. We basically have 3 social democratic parties arguing over a failed economy like 3 baldies arguing over a comb. Who you blame for the mess we're in is basically down to which side you swing, so to speak. Personally, as bad as the torys have been, I believe labour would have made things a lot worse.

This money labour spent on Schools and hospitals, are you counting PFI agreements?

Do you really think he'd have given it up the other end? Last min of the game and an Arsenal defender does it to Rickie, Peno to make it 1-1? No chance, he would have been wilfully blind.

I don't mind a bit of FFS and ****ing hell ref, ECT. Some of the chants are a bit cringeworthy, "live in a shiete hole" is one I personally find embarrassing. I remember a Nottingham Forest game a few years back when 3 spotty ****s spent all game abusing Lee Camp , I dont mind a bit of banter is its funny or original, but just shouting "you're ****ing camp Camp" and "you gay c###, Camp", constantly is a bit much. So could understand people getting annonyed with that. One thing that does get to me is the behaviour of some supporters on the train, particularly the first one out of Waterloo after a London game. Last couple of years its got worse ,groups of yoof swearing a lot when there are people on the train who haven't been to football. Maybe I should say something, but I dont really want to get involved in a ruck at my age ,particularly in from of my nipper , and particularly as I'll probably get pasted. Perhaps im just getting older and more victor meldruw like, but to be, swearing lodly on public transport is not on.

Very very easy pen to give 1-0 up minutes left, "look what a good ref I am" decision. Would he have given it up the other end to give us the chance of 1-1 , no ****ing way. Typical of modern jobsworth referees, ****ing hair pieced ****. Shocking weekend for refs again. How the Everton bloke and Rooney stayed on the pitch when brown and palace guy went off is beyond me.

Clottenberg gave a soft peno at Norwich last season as well.

****ing hell, be was head and shoulders above any other midfielder today. It was men against boys, he was monster. Nobody has dominated like that since jimmy case. End of season he'll be buy of the season, no worries.

I've heard countless journos saying that got it wrong, so perhaps its time for Matt to do the same. He labelled the club a " laughing stock " and yet still seems to be sticking by that instead of saying he was pleasantly surprised to be so wrong. I know this won't go down well on here, but if you're wrong you're wrong, being a great player doesn't change that. Put it like this, had harry redknapp called the club a laughing stock and then stood by that description even now, what would people think? Matt seems incapable of accepting that perhaps Nicola knows a bit more about picking managers than he does.

She's clearly bringing out a weight loss or fitness DVD in time for xmas/ new year resolutions. Her agent will of set the whole thing up. My mate is a press photographer and 90% of his work is the celebs people ringing the agency he works for and tipping them off .

I would call the ticket office first thing fri. Ive ne it on a train once by telling them that my nipper was ill, and his older brother is using the ticket. I said the older brother is 18 so needs an adult ticket. They were grateful for my "honesty" and upgraded it with no additional admin charge( I just paid the difference, and it was an advance so they could have whacked a load on) Never asked to see the 18 year old and my mate used the ticket. You could even call them Fri and say my nipper is ill, if he doesn't recover can his 18 year old brother come and upgrade ticket. If they say yea, get to office early, that way if they ask to see this 18 year old, you can say he's travelling down from uni up north and won't arrive till 2.50pm. They won't want to be messing about with it that near kick off. Im sure they'll be ok, unless they've had issues before. But by contacting them first, you're acting like a reasonable person and not trying to get in on a nippers ticket ( in their eyes anyway).

I thought this, but can understand the club's stance. If they spunked all the money on stoke away, although no better than decorating the away end, people would soon be moaning. I've been going away for years and did 9 last year and even I was surprised at the demand for Norwich and Chelsea in particular, so can understand the ticket office misjudging it. I would think anyone making the decision would tread on the line of caution and **** the fans off rather than Nicola or his henchmen. They do seem to have a hang up over the man city game from last year. They dont seem able to see past that, had it not been 4pm on a Sunday , we'd have sold out easy.

We could do with a useful illustration of how things are progressing in Germany. Energy bills huge, BASF threatening to relocate because of energy costs.

When I put it in the scanner it alerted a steward who came over. He then sent me to a guy with some sort of hand held scanner, he then rescanned the ticket. They didn't notice the tiny pin hole in the ticket until they acussed me of having a fake/used before one. I was adamant it wasn't so they started to look closely at the ticket and found the hole. The bloke with the scanner, then let me back in.

So there have been "variations" in climate before man and during man's period on earth, interesting. If man made global warming prevented another ice age, wouldn't that be a good thing?

Shame there weren't these wonderful graphs around at the end of the ice age, it would be interesting how the "man made " lobby would explain the climate change that occurred then.

The Everton one when crouch should have taken it into corner and all 4 at skates during the most gutless and soul destroying performance I've ever seen. The Norris one never bothered me, we were going up them going down. Maybe if it was a winner I may have felt differently. Cup final one never really got to me too much. I remember Man C beating us around Easter in Ballys first season, worse I've ever felt going home as I was convinced we were down.

Bazza, what exactly has Les done to you, did he pork your mrs or something ? You seem to have a real issue with him, I was wondering what on earth he's done wrong and where do you believe we should be. If bottom of league one to 3rd in top flight isn't good enough, how are you ever going to be satisfied. This isn't a Striker comic strip, where a one legged bloke and Eric oppenshaw take a team from non league to European champions, but real football. Les has dine a cracking job. He was mentioned on the Sunday suppliament , a bunch of hacks noted that Gregg dyke and his comittee will be visiting our set up to see best practise, and commented that perhaps the FA should regret bombing Les out. "They're off to learn from a bloke they sacked" said one of them.

They do check at arsenal as I was stopped last year. They tried to say that my ticket had already been used. They sent me over to a guy with some sort of hand held unit, who scanned it and then accused me of having a forgery. After a couple of minutes argueing and a supervisor coming over they said it was because id stuck a pin through the ticket (I pin them to a notice board in my utility room). There was a tiny hole in the ticket, they said that the whole ticket is read at arsenal not like at other grounds where its the bar code only.. It was strange because I had 4 tickets pinned up and mine was the only one affected. The point is, they were stright on me, so like your mate did if i was the op id go to ticket office first.