benjii

You've never had it so good.

25 with the option to "buy" (ie take unpaid) another 5 days, however the deduction is spread over 12 months so you can have it relatively painlessly. We can carry over up to 5 days too so in theory, I could have 35 in a given year. Which is nice but it puts the pressure on finding 7 weeks' worth of decent holiday time!

TBH, I only read the last couple of posts so I may well be missing the context in which people are posting at the moment. I'm not really trying to claim any moral advancement with my point; merely noting that pragmatically some people might say that the Beeb has shat on its own doorstep (and that of many who fund it) somewhat on this occassion in achieving a pyrrhic victory.

Everyone knew FIFA was corrupt anyway - there was nothing startling or urgent in this flacid programme. The Beeb clearly took a pseudo-commercial decision to time this programme for maximum publicity and I think it is perfectly legitimate to question whether a compulsorily funded public broadcaster should be doing that where it, arguably, works against the best interests of the public. That said, I don't think it had a substantive effect on the outcome. It has been well known that Blatter wanted the WC in Russia, ergo it is going to be in Russia. I'm still interested in when games are going to be played in 2022. Are any going to be played in the afternoon? It'll be, what, 45c there in June or July?

Cheers all. Sounds like the only dodgy bit will be getting from Hill Lane to my ultimate destination!

That's what I thought too. Me old ma' was putting me off a bit on the phone earlier but I think she was just being a bit of a worryer.

Right, I was planning on coming down to Soton after work tomorrow. I will be going M4 (from the west), A34, M3, the Avenue then towards Shirley. I know the M4 is ok at the moment. What are people's views on the other roads? Many thanks. The BBC travel news has nothing reported at all for Hampshire which I find a little odd!

Come off it. That's just hyperbole. He has a pretty good first touch.

TBF, Delap and Higginbottom are crap.

Hasn't everyone thought it would be in Russia for the last three years though? The bid process was always going to be a bit of a sham. Anyhoo, football tournament in the summer months in Qatar? Probably going to be quite warm.

It's just one of them fings.

I agree. He says the same fairly bland stuff all the time because he doesn't want to blurt something out that he later regrets or reconsiders. He's clearly someone who prefers to articulate their opinion privately in the cold light of day to the people to whom it matters. Strachan was funny, sort of. Holloway is funny, sort of. Mourinho is very entertaining. That is their style. Each to their own. If you mistake what must be consciously bland interviews for a lack of intelligence or charisma then your probably missing the point IMO. Unless the interviewee is Alan Shearer, Mark Bright, Martin Keown or one of the other numpties on telly, in which case you would probably be right.

How the bejeezus did all this get into the hands of a humble private?

There's no argument to see apart from you making the nonsense assertion that Fernando Torres would struggle, or at least not be that good, in League One and now trying to qualify that with loads of assumptions about his mind-set and fitness in this ludicrous hypothetical world where players with pace and clinical finishing do worse than slow lumps who can strike a good ball. Presumably he would do worse than BWP this season?

Why is he playing for Gillingham? He's not good enough for them.

Look, if you can't see that Messi or Torres would be rubbish in League One then I seriously worry about you. I mean, FFS, imagine if Messi or Torres played for your 5-a-side team! They would soon be off home for their tea having been well and truly shown up after you and your mates had run rings around them.

From memory, I'm pretty sure there was a whip-round at one of the Ugly's Polygon Hotel meetings for the perpetrator's fine!

Not great. On a more positive note, The Trip has really grown on me.

The Iran thing was funny. And the George Michael thing. The standard up is quite funny. The Nightrider thing was rubbish.

New programme on C4 now. I reckon it might be rubbish but we shall see, Saints fans.

It's pretty good.

There it actually is, right on cue! Oh Lordy.

Torres would be rubbish in League One.

Never went there when I was in the 'kok but was aware that it is well known. I am thinking of setting up the Cauliflower and Coil in Powys.