Lord Duckhunter

Joke decision. It's not the easiest thing or the easiest player to defend, but the ban is this length because of who he is, plain and simple. Defoe bites someone and gets a yellow card, Suarez gets 10 games. Now I'm sure the FA will point to the rule that because the ref saw it and acted they could not increase Defoe's punishment. However as Ben Thatcher found out, they can act if they consider the act extreme. Now the normal ban for violent conduct is 3 games, unless the conduct is considered extreme. It seems like Defoe's bite was not extreme enough to up grade the yellow, yet Suarez's was extreme enough for an extra 7 games. That's Defoe the England international as opposed to Suarez the smarmy foreigner. The whole thing stinks.

As a season ticket holder I can look at this from quite a neutral position, as I don't need to get involved in a mad rush. That doesn't make me a "better" supporter, just a guy who can arrange work around football and is lucky enough to be able to afford a season ticket. My take on it is that there has to be a bit of common sense used here. Surely a guy who has been to 10 home games should have the option to buy a ticket before a guy who has been to 1. That said, having lived abroad I know how important it is to get to watch your team whenever you can, and that whenever may only be twice a year. What doesn't feel right to me is the club allowing people to purchase lots of tickets in one go and not taking into account transaction history this season. It cant be that hard to sort out, they do it with away tickets. I'm surprised the club didn't link games this season, they could of linked West Ham, West Brom and Stoke and allowed people to buy those 3 together before they went on general sale. I'm sure there would have been tickets on general sale for all 3, but it would allow the "regulars" to guarantee tickets.

But he's making a fool of himself on this thread.

They have a really good idea, the points system, and then after a whole season where people can build up points, just open up the last game tickets to a mad rush. FFS what a bunch of amateurs. Even if you cant go to every game get a S/T. I missed 4 games and managed to sell it on easily. The more demand there is the more a S/T makes sense, there aint going to be many games you wont be able to sell it on.

Mine came last Sat, and they've now mastered the art of sticking the envelope down. That's 2 game running Reading and now Spurs that there hasn't been a cock up with our away tickets, great work from the ticket office...............

Ashley Coleslaw ,Bacary Lasagne

I've just listened to Week in Westminster and I was so impressed with labour MP Simon Danczuk and his views on welfare. Even I would think about voting labour if there were more like him.

Did anyone hear Jamie Redknapp on Sky going on about Rafa? Souness said he's done quite a good job and Jamie said "I'm not so sure, when he joined they were only 4 points behind Man Utd" He joined Chelsea the same week as Twitchy went to QPR, I bet Jamie wont judge daddy's record the same way.

I wouldn't, but plenty of Saints fans would. What makes you think Liverpool supporters are any different than ours?

Most Saints fans would be the same if Lambert tucked into someone (not that he would).

If Pap continues this nonsense, the mods are going to have to move the thread to The Muppet show.

Your claim was it was "on record" that the bombing was an "FBI plot gone wrong". The link you posted is just more conspiracy nonsense. I suppose it's my fault for taking "on the record" to mean some sort of official enquiry , rather than more pony chucked at American law enforcement.

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.