Lord Duckhunter

Got the book today, will be reading it on hols in Aug. Signed as well, dont know if that's the norm or a Saintsweb special, but thanks it was a nice touch. It has got me thinking, a mate of mine's Mum and dad took him to the festival when he was a toddler (he used to bore us with tales of it, not that he could remember anything, it was all passed down from his parents). I am playing golf with him next Friday and I'll speak to him. His Mum has unfortunatly passed away, but his dad is very much alive. If his dad has any interesting stories, I'll pass them on to you. Although, he was a bit of a party animal, so some of his memories maybe a bit blurred.

The problem I have is; am I turning into my Dad, because he thought the stuff I liked was a load of ****e, or is my children's music actually complete ****e? I would say that it with a few notable exceptions (paln B being one I quite like) their music IS ****e. The difference is that I thought my Dad's music was the most boring thing around (mainly modern jazz) whereas my kids love some of the stuff I play. The thing that gets to me is the sampling (I think that’s the word) of old songs, why don't they come up with some original riffs or lines? Sometimes I’ll come across some good new stuff on Jools Holland, I just got into a band called Dawes via this route, but by and large I stick to the oldies that I like.

Agreed, him and Richard as well, are really tragic rock and roll stories........... I've just got the Mrs to order through her Amazon account, so I look forward to reading it. As a Saints fan, and an author there has to be a book in the comings and goings of the past 6 years............

Being a massive fan of The Band and Rick Danko in particulary, this interests me and I think I'll buy your book. The fact it mentions some Saints players is an added bonus. Reading that you had a backstage pass at 14, WOW, that's worth a book in itself. There's not too much footage of The Band and Bob's performance at IOW and I read somewhere that it was down to Albert Grossman. It was the same at Woodstock, Grossman stopped The Band's performance appearing in the film, had it done so, I'm sure they would get more recongition than they do at present. I will read it on holiday, and maybe post it on the "what are you reading" thread.

If he does, he will basically have to admit to taking a bung and bang goes his England chances. I went drinking Sat night with a member of the gutter press (an old school friend), the rumours he's heard is that Redknapp is starting to panic and is really worried about the outcome of his case.

The bloke would not have committed the one offense and gone to jail. He would have already committed numerous other offenses and served various other "community" and other such like offenses. It's pretty hard to get sent to jail for bugulary and the like, so he should have thought of his kids then. My view has always been pretty stright forward when it comes to this. If you break into someone's property or business then you should go to jail, end of. If that means there's too many in jail, then build more jails. With clown's like Ken Clarke running the justice system in this country, expect more of this "community sentancing" nonsense. Cameron should get rid of him and put David Davis in charge. He is one man who gets the balance between civil liberties and punishment right.

Dont know if this has been posted, but it appears they are in a "bidding war" with..........................us http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/great-matches/pompey_set_for_battle_with_rivals_for_howard_1_2737754 You can smell his desperation "Howard is fully aware of the feel-good factor generated by Cotterill among his squad last season, as the Blues survived in the Championship."

I just cant believe Arsenal's behaviour. What makes them think they can identify a player they want, then make us an offer, which we can accept or reject. Bloody Hell we dont act like that. Bristol Rovers begged us to take Lambert off them, as did palace with Fonte. It's just a disgrace, Clubs should not be allowed to scout and then try and buy our players.

Personally I dont find him funny, but neither is Little Britain or Jo Brand (in my opinion). I like Larry David, yet my Mrs thinks he's terrible. So comedy is all a matter of opinion. So what if he took the **** out of a certain area, had he said Portsmouth I'm sure that would have been ok. There is a comedian around the pubs in Poole, Sidney Harbour whose whole act is taking the ****, particulary out of Turlin Moor ( a housing estate in Poole), I know the guy and off stage he's a really nice fella. He doesn't believe the things he says, it's just an act. I'm sure Osman is the same. Until you meet him and get to know him, you cant really make personal comments about him, just judge his act (because that's all it is).

I still cant believe that people are questioning Pearson on here. As Leeds, Forest,Charlton and Sheff Weds have found getting out of League 1 is not easy. He did it at a canter, it was never in any doubt. First season back up he got Leicester into play off's where they lost on Pens, most newly promoted teams would take that. Hull were a shambles, with players on long contracts and big money, with a steady hand needed. There was no way Hull were going back up as they were totally mismanged in their final year in the Premiership and there was even talk of them being in severe finacial trouble.He has steadied thye ship, as I believe he would have done had Lowe not returned. I wouldn't swap him for NA, but he's done a couple of decent jobs since leaving us.

Great memories, Booker T and the MG's followed by test match special. "THe question is not can England save the game, or even if they can last the day, but can they last till Tea time,They are 91 runs behind with 3 wickets remaining"............. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6109950.stm And for those witha half an hour to spare the story of the whole series, http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8033935.stm

Spainish football does have uncomfortable murky areas when it comes to drugs. Dont forget that Guardiola himself tested positive for Nandrolone during his playing career.

Of course we'll never be a Barca, the historical fact is that they are "more than a club". What we can do is take snippets from their structure and philosophy and tailor them to a club like ours. The first thing is stability, in that all levels play the same way. We also need a structure that does not change when a Manager leaves. Too often a Manager upping and going leaves the whole coaching and scouting set up being disrupted.There is no reason why we can not becaome the destination club for promising youngsters from the whole of the South. Onviously some will have their heads turned by the Man U's and Chelsea's of the world. But throughout our recent history, we have proved time and time again that we can bring youth on, I see no reason why we cant continue to do so, and even move the bar higher.

It doesn't surprise me that Guardiola has built a team like this as he was an integral part of Johan Cruyff's fantastic Barca side. He seems to have taken Cruyff's football philosophy to another level. The Dutch played total football, but in an era when the pitches were heavy, the opposition were allowed to clog you,the ball was lighter, and the players weren't quite so fit. Cruyff used to take similar positions as Messi does now, and although Barca move the ball a lot quicker than Holland and Ajax used to you can see the similarites. It is total football for 2011 (as oppossed to the Championship version last seen in 2008/09). Without a shadow of a doubt they're the best club side I've seen in watching 40 years of football. The sad thing is that had Iniesta, Xavi and Messi turned up at a lot of English club's at 14, they'd have had the arm round the shoulder and a "sorry son, you're just not physical enough".

Barca dissapointed me last night. They should have had 5 or 6, and rubbed Taggart's big swollen red nose in it.

Exactly.... When it was Villa, Liverpool or Forest full of Brits playing, then I was right behind them. This lot are a multi national Company that happen to be based in England. Their supporters sing about Argentina, and "We're Man Utd, we do as we want", and then expect us to support them. ********, I hope they have a heart breaking defeat.

I want them to lose after outplaying Barca for most of the game. Fergie has fluked 2 European Cups,Bayern should have been 3 or 4 up before that ending and John Terry should have burried that Peno. An offside goal, or a blatant dive by Villa for a last min pen, will do me. Anything that upsets Taggart would be great.

Did anyone watch the programme on BBC 4 last night about Bert Bacharach, in it Noel Gallagher admitted that he copied "Half the world away", stright from Bacharach's "This Guys in Love with you". It wasn't that he had this tune and it sounded like "This guy's in love" but that he admitted setting out to copy the tune from the off. To me that's always been Oasis' problem, there's only so many Beatles and other's riffs and melodies that they can copy and change slightly.

I personally think that we could now get CMS. Will Norwich still want him now they've gone up, it's a hell of a step up from League 1 to Premiership.

It's happened to me plenty of times, the manufactory will sell you a replacement jug if you ring them up. Coffee over tea anyday of the week for me. Must be black and strong.

It was stright out of the Tory manifesto. When it comes to Aid they are all as bad as each other. All want to suck up to Bono and Geldof.

India has it's own aid programme giving hundreds of millions to poorer countries, and yet The UK gives India aid.India is also a nuclear power, with it's own space programme.It's the ecomonics of the mad house, and nobody can seriosly justify it. Unless of course it is aid wrapped up as sweetners to ensure British Companies get contracts in India. Other recipients of British aid have included Slovenia, Malta, the Czech Republic and Hungary, fellow members of the EU, and two of whom are even in the euro. In 2009 Britain also gave £380,000 in aid to the enormously wealthy Saudi Arabia.Crazy completely and utterly crazy. Cameron's promise to increase Foregin Aid whilst cutting everything else, was just playing to the gallery and a political vainity project. A project that will cost the British taxpayer money they can ill afford. If I can afford it, I'll give money to charity, and if I can't I wont, or will cut it back. Government should be the same.

1997 was a turning point for our club. Top flight for a decade, and investment needed for a new ground and to push onto the next level. Instead of people like NC and ML we ended up with Rupert Bloody Lowe.Dont give me a load of pony about building a new ground.What businessman wouldn't have done that, that was the whole purpose of the stock exchange thing. Lowe did the bare minimum that anyone taking over the club in 1997 would have done.NC appears to want to take us to a level that Lowe wouldn't even dream about. Seeing 50,000 trying to get to Wembley must have shown him what can be acheived at this club.There is no reason at all why we can not be the Premier Club outside of the big 4 or 5.

Rather than The Beatles, I would have thought Slade were a better comparison to make with Oasis.

But we ended up with Jason St Juste