Lord Duckhunter

Heard a guy on 5live the other night discussing this. He said it cost the same to go to the cinema in the 70's as it did to watch top flight football. Now it's £8.50 for cinema and £35 for football.

The whole education system and "choice" is corrupted by money. Whether it's richer people moving into the catchment of good state schools, richer people paying tutors to school their kids into Grammar, or rich paying for private education. Why do people do the 3 things mentioned, because some state schools are awful.

Believe it or not FIFA have been known to say one thing and do another. They used to refuse to consider any technology, including the goal line. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/7385130/Fifa-rule-out-goal-line-technology.html

Like it did at Wolves?

Maybe so, but what if the goal comes from a cross made that was clearly behind the line and should have been a goal kick. Why should one line decision be made using technology and not another one? Its like having Hawkeye on the base line but not the service line in tennis. I bet there are more result altering mistakes made after erroneous corners and off sides than there ever are goal line stuff. It will lead to more and more and eventually reviews. In cricket it started for line decisions only and has now spread to lbw. In my opinion the same will happen in football. It can't be right that a man can be 5 yards offside but have goal given after Hawkeye confirms his effort crossed the line. It's like Hawkeye giving the batsmen out caught behind off a no ball, where you use the technology to establish he hit the ball, but can't use it to determine it was a no ball. Once you accept one form of technology, who seriously believes it'll end there?

Reminds me of a story my mate told me about his jury service. They discussed the case for about 2 hours and they had 8 not guiltys 3 unsure and one defo guilty. They asked the guy why he thought guilty as none of the others were of that opinion,. His reply was "because he's a gypsy and their all robbing gets" (the case was robbing from a building site).

Just been reading the reasons the judge dismissed the jury in his wifes case. They came back with a set of questions, one of which was asking if they could base a verdict on reasons not presented in court and there was no evidence for. Where on earth do they get these idiots from. I hope I'm never up on a charge with half wits like that on the jury. They also wanted to know what reasonable doubt meant.... Surely there should be some IQ test before serving. Jesus Christ.

Goal line stuff is the thin end of the wedge. What happens if Ricky punches one in ala maradona style at ot, it hits the bar comes down on the line , and is given by video reply. Is sir Alex going to say fair play, or are we going to get the line "why use cameras for one incident and not others, and the cameras are there why not use them". You'll then end up with subjective decisions as well as factual ones. Did Suarez deliberately handle against Mansfield? What about an offside goal, that's a line decision,throw ins lead to goals. We'll end up with cameras for every incident because managers will push and push for it by moaning when non camera stuff goes against them

Has anyone got any idea how last weeks cup reults and draw affect this kick off and the chances of a switch

Sturrock went to 2 world cup finals, played in a UEFA cup final and won the SPL twice ( no mean achievement when not playing for Celtic or Rangers), people should remember that. He wasn't some sort of Mike Bassett wurzel who didn't know the game. He had a solid lower league record as manager, was a good player (certainly better than Kevin Phillips IMO) and therefore was worth a go. My issue with the whole thing, is why Lowe allowed him preseason. If he was going to get rid, he should of done it in the summer.

He's playing the best football of his career and he's out of contract in the summer. His agent will be licking his lips at the prospect of a free transfer, and the money that'll bring in. Personally I'll be amazed if he's here next year, even if we stay up

Nobody votes for a government bazza, in fact nobody votes for a party. You vote for a local member to represent you. Your member can switch parties , form an alliance with another party or basically do what he damn well wants to once elected. This government is as legimate as any that went before it. Cameron carries a majority in the commons and that's all that matters, not how many people voted for him , voted for his government or technicaly even voted for his party.

I played local football at various levels for 32 years, including some that was high enough to have qualified linos, but most just had a qualified ref, with the kit man or such like doing it. My understanding is that non qualified lino's just give direction of throw ,corners goal kicks and offside decisions. As for changing his mind, he's perfectly entittled to do this provided the next phase of play hadn't started IE kick off. Most qualified refs will spell it out to club lino's before the game. I used to get upset with useless refs but as I got older learnt that its just not worth it. Towards the end i used to get quite friendly with the refs and found things went my way a bit more. If you treat them as blokes who love the game as much as you,are doing their best and will **** up as much as you do, you'll be surprised how many 50/50 go your way. I used to praise them, things like "good half ref" and " you were right" even if it was against me. I also used to give it the old "nice to see you again" when going up for the coin flip. Basically , creep round them. Come the big decision , and he's on your side. Most are petty and will give decisions against the team that argues with them. I found if they thought I was reasonable, then started acting unreasonably, then they thought I must of had a point. Geoff Boycott once said that there were batsmen who used to walk a lot before being given out. The umpires used to know that they walked and respected them for it. One day they would be on a big score, get an edge and not walk. The umpire would think that they couldn't be out because they hadn't walked, so gave them not out. Its the same principle. There's maybe only one or two big decisions that will effect the result, what you need is to get the guy on your side by not arguing about the ones that don't matter. My son once got sent off for arguing over a throw in, suspended and fined over a stupid throw in.......

I would say that what sums up a lot of what's wrong with broken Britain is the fact that the sun is its number one paper. It shows our morals, our trashy culture, our political debate and our education standards. I just love the birds with their tits out who comment on the worlds great events. "Cindy 19 from Exeter is really sad the pope is stepping down, so have a look at her tits". Nobody will spell out the truth because the numpties that buy the sun also vote. Much easier to attack journalists & Murdoch instead.

I'm talking about lefties on poll tax funded BBC and guardian writters etc. Basically famous lefties, not forum posters. I've lost count of the number of times the sun and Murdoch has been attacked on qt, with no mention of the fact people buy it. Of course lefties can't criticise the readership because its a lot of the people they'll be defending in the next breath.

What's the big deal, if people are offended by it then don't buy it. Always makes me laugh when right on lefties complain about it, but won't have a word said against the chavs that buy it. Its not like its funded by a poll tax and you have to pay for it regardless of whether you read it or not. It is the number one selling paper, not by accident, but by appealing to a large portion of the country. Nobody forces people to buy it

I just cant believe how clueless people are down there, including the local MP. Yes, footballers are rich and most can afford to take a haircut on what they're owed, but that's not the point. The Football creditors rule is there to ensure that clubs don't go round buying players that they cant afford (don't laugh). How many other clubs would do a Pompey if they knew that they only had to pay players X amount in the £ if it all went tits up. If there's no football creditors rule, what's to stop clubs buying players and knocking the selling club? Selling clubs would then be forced into admin, because other clubs had refused to pay. It would be like a house of cards with one clubs admin bringing 5/5 clubs down with it.

I was right by the peno decision and I must admit that I didn't think it was. Thought it would have been a harsh one to give. However, so many people on here are adamant that it was one, I must have been wrong. I'll watch on MoTD and see.

Great, just a great performance. Special mention to Foxy, thought he did well and his quick free kick pass from left to right to Lambert contributed to second goal. Joy Rod, Davis, and Cork were all top quality. But MoTM was Lambert, I thought he was different class today. To play like that with lallana, Gaston and Shaw not starting bodes well. Great day, results great. We're staying up.

That's right. We may not own the club but the power is in our hands. If paying customers stopped going, how long would Marcus' family leave Nicola in charge? It won't happen of course, because we have unconditional support for our club, but any private business is ultimately shaped by it's customers. It doesn't make a blind bit of differnce whether its a fan running the club,shareholders or a private individual, the paying customers' wallets drive the business

The problem was that the Labour Govt believed that they had abolished boom and bust (or at least said and acted like they did). It's all very well saying that to stimulate growth in a recession you spend money, but the other side of the coin is that you pay down debt in the growth years. Labour were like a guy who earns big bonus' year after year and spent it all instead of saving some for the years he didn't get a bonus. We were ill equipped to face the oncoming economic storm. Not that the Cameron/Osborne wing of the Tory party were any better, they promised to stick to Labour's spending plans if you remember. Real reforms to welfare that the Government are making now, capping it, reducing WFTC for people on decent wages, abolishing family benefit to the wealthy, should have been made during the boom years. Personally as bad as this Government is , I would rather have it making the tough choices than Balls and Milliband. One further point on Huhme, he got £17,000 severance pay, when he stepped down as a minister. Surely Clegg and the squeaky clean Lib/dems should call for him to pay this back. He is a millionaire after all.

This is spot on, tells you all you need to know about the bloke. Stood in front of the BBC cameras when it was first brought up and lied. Said he was going to fight this injustice and clear his name, what he really meant was, I did it but want to try and get off on a technicality and save my career. Lib/dems make me laugh banging on about PR all the time, this seat is an exact example of why pure PR would be no good for them. If everybody voted with their political views in mind, they would not stand a cats chance in hell of winning this seat. They win it because Labour supporters vote to keep the Tory out. Under pure PR there would be no need to and their vote would shrink, and the same goes for countless seats right across the country. My hope is that Farage stands, and the people make this a mini referendum on Europe.

You have to take the emotion out of it and accept that in this league any points away from home is a pretty good result. Add to that the fact that only Reading gained any ground on us, and we should be pretty satisfied. Looks like we'll be out of the bottom 3 next week no matter what, with both manc club fixtures behind us. Throw into mix Chelsea, Arsenal, Everton,Liverpool away games gone and I'm feeling pretty confident. Only really spurs away looks like a "no chance" game and they've been known to wobble. Provided we avoid defeat to both qpr and reading we'll be fine. We have enough win able games left that avoiding defeat to those around us (as we did today) is a good result.

I think he's flattered to deceive from day one. No fight, a few touches here and there and that's it. People keep making excuses for him but in a Southampton shirt he's been pretty ordinary.

On another forum they are talking about starting again 4 levels down, the deluded half wits are discussing attendances and the chances of getting around 8,000 in the non league. One reply that has to be a **** take. "Hey, excluding the cups as far as I'm aware we haven't dropped below 10k. And tbh, 8000 might be a bit optimistic but if we're tonking the opposition every week, there could be maybe... 4-5k. Think how many fans Rangers are getting in the Scottish Division 3.! ****ing hell, "think how many fans Rangers are getting".