Lord Duckhunter

I'm sure Pap will be posting that Charles Manson was an FBI agent in a minute.

If it's on record I'm sure you wouldn't mind posting the official link. Or is "on record" code for someone's opinion in an article?

You watch too many movies, this is real life not Martin Scorsese's latest block buster. Do you seriously believe that 2 innocent brothers were watching the marathon and then got framed by the FBI. If Just Mike was arrested for being a terriost, I doubt very much that there would be a whole city locked down, I doubt whther grenades would have been thrown, a police officer shot dead and a running gun battle after a car hijacking. If you seriously believe that law enforcement should realise all their evidence to the wider world on day one then you are deluded. I doubt if there's a handful of people in the Western World who think this is a FBI cover up. I think these guys were tracked down and apprehended pretty quickly and I'm sure 99.9% of Bostonians are pleased with the law enforcement agencies quick work. They would have been under incredible pressure and their first priority would have been the safety of ordinary people.

Some Brits are like it as well, but it's ok to celebrate if it's political. There are idiots in America, just as there are idiots in the UK. I lived and worked amongst them for a few years and they are kind generous and ordinary, like most Brits are. Anyone who thinks these brothers were set up is deluded or on a wind up.

Not around the timing they didn't. After Leeds went into admin Minutes after getting relegated the league changed the rules. If you entered admin after a certain date in the season and would have been relegated anyway, the minus 10 rolls over until the following year. We went into admin after the cut off date, would have gone down without it, so it rolled over. The only grey area was around the club/parent company balance, but they deducted Cov -10 so have been consistent there. Nobody has been in the situation regarding not honouring a CVA , until them, so the league imposed special terms (-10). Whether that's too lenient is open to debate, but saying we were made an example of is not.

They didn't make an example of us at all, they followed their clearly laid out rules.

I prefer Jose to Jos and I demand an explanation from the club as to why the Manager thinks differently. It's all rather strange.

Ours was the standard punishment for a team that goes into admin after a certain date of the season, and would have been relegated without the -10. There's was basically a league imposed term around the failure of the last CVA.

And that other ****ing idiot who kept saying their -10 was because they were in admin at the start of the season. I watched our game on a stream and then took the dog out listening to Solent's reaction hour on my phone. I really felt like kicking the dog and shouting "it's because they didn't honour the CVA, you ****ing Muppet". In the end I had to turn off when another idiot kept asking MP about our disallowed goal, no matter how many times MP said he didn't see it and hadn't spoke to Adam about it, he kept digging trying to get MP to react. What with that and the Pompey love in, I'm never going to listen again. ****ing bunch of Partridges.

Who is that clown that summarises the Skate game? I thought Merrington should be forced to retire, but that bloke needs locking up for his own safety. Some of his gems; Connelly wont play for a bigger club. Guy needs to be given a decent budget. The future is bright.

I bet he's looking forward to returning to Dean Court for a league game. From heir to the England job, to back where he started in 12 short months.

It'll be funny seeing Twitchy managing his 75k a week players back at Dean court.

Those ****ing idiots on Solent are doing my head in already and they've only been on 5 minutes. First 2 clowns on saying it's the right decision because "nobody at the club now has done anything wrong". They really don't get it.

This is another great intro, Levon's drums, followed by Rick Danko's bass, the piano and then the whole band. Great start to a great Scorsese film, which is played after a few drinks every New Years eve in the Duck household. [video=youtube;-WoI95PTizs]

The League didn't realise quite how sheite they are. When they set the -10 for this season I doubt if they thought for one minute that they would be so awful that this situation would arise.

I was watching Sky Arts In Conversation last night and it had Tony Benn on., It was quite up to date because they were talking about "the cuts" but must have been recorded before Mrs T's death. She was mentioned quite a lot, but nothing about her passing. He was discussing politicians and said there were only 2 types. Signposts and Weather cocks. Signposts have an opinion and ideas, stick to them and point people in the direction they think people should go. If you return in a year, 2 years, 3 years, they are still pointing the same way. Weather cocks swing in the wind, spinning round depending on focus groups and public opinion and polls. He was asked what Mrs T was, "oh undoubtedly a signpost", he replied before adding "although pointing in the wrong direction". I thought it was a really simple way of summing up conviction politicians that hit the nail on the head and also a way of acknowledging that although you could disagree with someone's policies could admire the fact that they had honest and consistent beliefs..

Basically there is a blue plaque posted, and I hope to god it's some sort of photo shop thing and not really hanging at their "stadium". The words are very inspiring On this site Once more stands a mighty football club. We can not change the past But we can shape the future. Dedicated to all those fans who took a stand and refused to allow Portsmouth Football club to die.

This was posted on another site, be prepared to throw up.

We were allowed to fold Bazza, but luckily ML listened to Nicola Cortese rather than you and decided that you could in fact make money out of football. I don't really understand this thread Bazza, if you're trying to equate a football club with nationalised industries perhaps you could point me in the direction of any football clubs that the state owns? I can see it now in Bazza land, the man from Whitehall deciding on our signings, and you moan about Les Reed.

On the whole I find Germans more efficient and hardworking than the British. At the end of the day Bazza. Thatcher wasn't a dictator that sold British national assets against the will of the nation, but someone who changed the country with a mandate from the people. She put her changes to the British people and they had a choice, Foot, Callaghan and Kinnocks version of Britain or Thatcher's. Every time the answer was the same and no amount of whinging or dancing on an old lady's grave will change that. Rather than take it out and blame her, perhaps you should be criticising the millions that voted for her.

Our economy would be as good if it was run by Germans.

The NHS is nothing special, there are many areas where it needs reform, but as soon as anyone dares to think about it people like you are up in arms about it. The debate is not helped by the black or white argument put forward. It is either the NHS or the American system, whereas in truth is there are lots of better systems in between which would give the tax payer better value and also deliver free at the point of delivery. We have a health service that sometimes makes people sicker or even kills them in hospital, how is that the envy of the world? My Mrs works on the front line and can tell you horror stories about waste, poor nursing and lazy staff.

To be fair there's quite a few like that, who said "British jobs for British workers", maybe Enoch Powell, Nick Griffin, can't remember now, but I'm sure it was some rabid right winger.

Seeing as Germany seems to be everyone's model country on this thread, particularly Bazza's, perhaps we could model our health service on theirs. Oh sorry, forgot, ours is the "envy of the world".

Nonsense Bazza, the state has too much say in people's lives. Every single problem is addressed "what is the government doing about this". You cant turn on QT without some bird (usually ugly) saying "I cant get a job/cheap child care/afford to travel/afford my tuition fees, what is the Government doing about it". The Government should tax people, provide a safety net, provide certain services i.e. police, fire, doctors, and then get the hell out of people's lives. I do not accept your main assertion that things would be better and cheaper under Government control. Personally, I think the railways would cost us more, maybe not in tickets but via paying more tax, and be a worse service. Same with energy , half the problem is the complicated tariff system, but that should be legislated against. On the whole private individuals are better at running companies than the man in Whitehall. Of course shareholders and CEO's are going to get rich, but the bottom line is what I pay for the services I receive and anyone who thinks are bills would be cheaper and the service better when run by Whitehall is deluded.