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One of the problems with the internet, and more recently social networking, is that half a dozen people repeatedly posting and cross posting can create an illusion far greater than anything David Copperfield ever achieved.

See, these are the silly little mistakes that creep in when your Head of Recruitment walks out on you.

Or you could just watch it on DSTV

Doesn't "French defender set to sign" sound so much better than "Non-league defender set to sign" and doesn't "Pompey to offer pair new deals" sound so much better than "Pompey hope two players will agree to stay for another month on reduced terms" and doesn't "Pompey midfielder wins international call up" sound so much better than "QPR midfielder who has never played for Pompey wins international call up" The barrel is being soundly scraped.

But that wasn't in England.

That was Burley

They're still better than us though, 'coz we shipped six.

It seems to me that all of the posts in here are based on the premise that the structure of football will continue in the future exactly as it is now, with discrete national leagues and 3-up 3-down from the PL every season. I doubt that it will, and wonder whether the Don is making sure that we are where we need to be when moves are made to pull up drawbridges and limit the distrbution of the real income (TV not gates). I can see PL clubs voting for 1-up 1-down or even a closed shop, and also europe-wide super league emerging. When not if IMO.

The council are still talking about a secured loan for around £1.5m. The skates will be asking them for an unsecured loan at least four times that much.

Sharm el Sheikh more likely.

Ouch! I'm wounded. Probably mortally.

I'm sitting in a hotel (or is it an hotel) in Malawi. The bad news is last time I watched Saints live in this hotel we lost 2-0 to Wigan. I'm not sure I have any good news, but if we were still "Nigel Adkins Red & White Army" I would have been happy with a point. COYS

Who?

Oh dear, here we go again. Sorry trousers but that ain't right. There was an agreement to write off the debt (I think it was £80-odd million) in exchange for 20%. Until that 20% is paid (even if it is further diluted by 98%) then the original debt has not been written off. It has been frozen, but that's not the same thing is it?

I'd rather be took some lessons in fluent English. You could join him

Is there any truth in the rumour that after the hugely successful appointment of former FA head of compliance David Lampit as CEO last time round, the odds-on favourite this time is Lance Armstrong?

My first impression is that the judgement was written by Dave from Sweden.

Very surprised, but don't really feel sorry for Adkins. He'll get lottery-money compensation, and be back in a top job in football within 6 months. I just hope Cortese knows what he's doing. To be fair, in my opinion he hasn't let us down up till now, so it's presumptious to jump to conclusions.

Appointed by the board of SLH apparently, according to the statement issued by the Stock Exchange: Not that it really matters.

Inevitable really. Be interesting to see if Clyne plays as well.

No, but a miniscule part of the Islamic community thinks it is at war with us. And as we all know there's nothing like a good war to line a few pockets.

I'm not picking on you trousers, but that's wrong. Barclays forced us into insolvency. We chose administration as the way out.

Did she like it in both nostrils, or just the front one?

I think licensing restrictions can & do have an effect on the incidental or opportunistic type of gun crime, such as domestic gun violence. But not at all on pre-meditated violent crime involving firearms. Anybody who really wants a gun will get one, whatever restrictions are introduced, but the price might be higher. I live in South Africa, where firearms are still very common. I used to own a licensed 9mm semi-automatic handgun, like you kept in a safe at home most of the time. I never shot anybody, and don't keep a gun any more. But you do get examples here where guns are used in family disputes where normal people like us would just throw some furniture around. On a more general level, however, I don't think that politicians need to intervene and produce more and more legislation to cover every conceivable combination of circumstances, just in case. I think they have far more important things to deal with than a few 12 bores locked away in somebody's cupboards.

Don't forget that trains (over or underground) aren't the only form of public transport.