Kingsland Codger

I'm far more concerned with the creator of an RAF museum saying "sod human rights" - he doesn't seem to have grasped one of the main topics of WW2. And as for films changing the names of dogs, I wonder if the Tintin cartoons and films will ever change the name of his dog from Snowy?

Curse of Sky? Curse of the first game? Not if you look at it this way ... Last season we were on Sky for the first game of the season and lost at home to Plymouth. Saints then went on to win promotion and Plymouth were relegated. I'd take that every time.

He faced Whispering Death in 1981 in what is often called 'the fastest ever over'. He didn't last long - but then with Holding bowling with such pace nobody would have stayed for long.

I'm firmly of the view that being father is the hardest unpaid job there is. This view is not proving to be very popular with the numerous female side of the extended family, but I'm sticking to my guns.

The same thing happens with the crowd at St Marys. We have the ball, pass it around neatly, force the opposition to chase shadows ...and then our own fans start booing and shouting "get rid of it".

Thirteen minutes of Pure Gold. Many thanks for creating and uploading the video, much appreciated.

And there you ask the key question. No doubt nothing but the most tender, young, tips of the tea bush are hand-picked by cheerful maidens in the foothils of the Pennines. I view 'Yorkshire' Tea as a blatant (but admitedly effective) marketing exercise.

Matthew Upson (Arsenal and WHU), Kanu (Arsenal and you-know-who) maybe Michael Owen (Newcastle and Manchester United).

A candidate for Avatar of the Year - SNSUN

Most entertaining error by a match official goes to the lino on the Kingsland side who flagged offside from a throw-in (vs Hartlepool?). And in the same match (I think) with only a minute or two to go, in the Kingsland/Chapel corner Guly performed a neat bit of control, took the ball to the byeline and delivered the most exquisite air-shot I have ever seen; meanwhile the ball trickled away for a goal-kick.

I have admired the fans of clubs in the cities who could have supported one of the Big Clubs but instead have chosen to stay loyal to their team. Some of the L1 clubs might be the only club in their region (Carlisle, maybe Plymouth) but fans of, say, Orient, Brentford, Walsall, Tranmere, Oldham, Rochdale - they might have supported a Premiership side a short journey away but instead chose to do things the hard way.

Clearly I'm in a minority, but I would never even dream about visiting Fratton Park. Apart from it being a dreadful dump, by purchasing a ticket to a match held there I would be contributing to their income.

Another one for you - I don't think I have spotted his name in your articles. Keith Allen played for Luton - mid 60s and early 70s.

I recall the Brentford game in mid-December when we went 0-2 down after 30 minutes and NA didn't make a substitution until the 83rd minute. Almost Burleyesque. So fair play to NA to learn from that set back and to make the changes when necessary - v MK Dons and now Brighton. Well done Nigel!

Thank you, SiP for posting the above link. I do not know who the author, Gary Vey, is but I'm not sure that relying on someone who, in his own words, has only "read several books on physics, atomic energy and radiation" is necessarily a wholly reliable source. Similarly, I am sceptical when he writes "We need readers "clicks" on commercial ad banners to keep our web site viable." He might be right, he might not. Either way, your thread posed a question and raised some initial points. Many of them are not correct. I have already dismissed the statement about expatriates leaving certain named banks as inaccurate. I can do the same for your assertion that Lufthansa are "diverting flights away from Tokyo". I saw a Lufthansa plane on the runway at Narita. But you don't have to take my word for it. All you have to do is go to the website for Narita airport and check for flights to/from Frankfurt and Munich. The link you require is http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/flight/today.html and can easily be found via the simplest of Google searches.

I was in Tokyo for the first part of this month and returned yesterday. Life carries on in Tokyo more or less as it always has done. There is a concerted drive to use less energy - on the Tokyo subway escalators going down have been mothballed and horizontal moving stairways are also out of commission. Lights are dimmed. However, the most obvious energy-saving policy would be to move to daylight saving time (in the summer it gets light at around 4.30am and dark at 7pm so there is ample scope to save huge amounts of electricity) but so far there has been no decision to do this. There are also fairly frequent aftershocks, some of them relatively large. There was a 7.4 earthquake last week which rocked us around a bit but there was no damage. There are signs in some shops saying you can only purchase two 3 litre bottles of water. My son works for one of the international banks you mention and the foreign staff have NOT all left Tokyo. However, I was in Tokyo during my stay - the condition of the homeless up in the Tohoku region where the tsunami hit remains desperate. Without fail, the most frequent complaint was of the sensationalist reporting of the situation in Japan by the foreign press and there was a genuine deep sense of gratitude from those whom I met that I had turned up to visit and not cancelled my trip.

And big smiles from a couple of Saints fans here in Tokyo. Thank you for the videos.

Whilst raw fish is the bulk of the 'topping' on the vinegared rice, you can also have cooked prawns. Smoked salmon sushi is very good and norimaki is vinegared rice with cucumber wrapped up in seaweed. Similarly, cooked crab meat can be wrapped in seaweed. The true art, as Window Cleaner says, is the rice which should be sticky (pudding rice works well) with clear vinegar added to it.

Here's a thought for you, Alpine. Imagine you have been involved in some kind of Arctic survey or walking with gun-and rod-up the Yangtze or something similar and you have been out of communication since the autumn. You have a look at this morning's League 1 table and see Saints are currently third. Although you note we are only ahead of the team in fourth place on goal difference, we have a game in hand over that team. You also note we are two points behind the team in second place but, wonderfully, we have two games in hand over them and a much superior goal difference. Would you be happy or unhappy?

And had he not participated, he would have been accused of being a tight-fisted dullard who didn't join in the spirit of things.

Think back to the days of the Wise-and-Quashie-Comedy-Corner-Capers and look at us know. A world of difference.

Throughout this thread I have often had a giggle at your posts, rallyboy. Your most recent contribution is another classic. Keep them coming ... please.

I'm fortunate enough to report that my wife, currently in Japan, visiting her elderly mother on the Pacific Coast is safe and sound. My daughter lives in Sapporo and so is some way North of the disaster area. My son, his fiancee and my cousin and his family are in central Tokyo and although experiencing the quake and the many after-shocks, were otherwise unaffected.

Aside from Rickie, who of our current squad has scored a penalty for us? Or for anybody? IIRC, Connelly famously missed one for Ireland in a World Cup shoot-out.