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A mate of mine is a Charlton fan, still talks about pardew with a wistful look and slight moistening of the eyes. And the fan gets quite excited as well.... (boom-tishhh)

There was a rumour doing the rounds which I heard from a toon fan, that pard's contract was somehow involved with gambling debts and ashleys bookie firm. I couldn't quite see how that would work myself.

I'd go along with that, especially as there was little or no interest in any of our other players.

How that wasn't a penalty and red for Krul is beyond me. Even taking off my saints specs, I just cant understand that one. Be interesting to see what the motd pundits say tonight in the 48 seconds allocated to the saints game.

...and a booking for some scouse midfielder for a late tackle. Cant remember his name.

I was just thinking exactly that

I'd agree with most of Chapel Charlies thoughts, but with a couple of addenda. First off, everyone and his dog has put their tuppence worth in, but has anyone else noticed the deafening silence emanating from Blair? And second, while I'm firmly in the camp that says whatever the Scots vote to do is ok with me, leave or stay, but the ramifications strike me as rather different to the mainstream arguments (which seem to be almost entirely based on the economies of the countries involved.) The UK would become a smaller nation, and with far less political clout worldwide; on the face of it that would seem like a bad thing, but would we as a less important entity have got involved, for example, in the fiasco of the Iraq invasion? Would our support have mattered a fartful to the yanks? And as a smaller nation, we will presumably carry less weight in Europe. Again, on the face of it that sounds like a negative, but given the soaring popularity of anti-european parties across the continent, (including our own UKIP,) would we actually find ourselves in a better position to extricate ourselves from it should the need arise? Interesting days ahead.

Fair comment, but do you take sugar in that? Personally, I prefer iced asparagus.

I have no problem with Lambert being on the banner, but I'd be horrified if lallana suddenly appeared on it. I don't even understand myself why I feel that way.

Such a fashion faux-pas would certainly bring a tear to turks eye.

http://www.sickipedia.org/celebrities/oscar-pistorius/absolutely-shocking-news-from-south-africa-white-man-arrested-for-1436091

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Its scum like you that give football fans a bad name.

Had its own thread this morning. Sounds like an agent trying to stir up a move for the player.

You're right, that is exactly what he said in that interview (amongst other things.) I remember him cackling as he said it, he also said that the "ditch sterling and go into the euro" policy would be the first thing he would enact if/when scotland gained independence.

Good point.

Salmond is studiously avoiding any mention of his original position, which was an absolute assertion that an independent scotland would ditch the pound and adopt the euro. He stated that live on the today programme, in terms that allowed for no misunderstanding whatsoever. Doesn't seem quite so keen now, does he.

Hear hear.

The problem is that it will just end up as another tactical manouvre, like substitutions. If a team have suddenly got the wind in their sails and look like scoring, just pull a challenge and stop the flow of the game. Its like subbing a player late on for no reason other than to kill time, but far more useful as it could be deployed at any time for 90 minutes without sacrificing a sub.

Most of whom are left-wing. I cant understand why Cameron is so opposed to it.

Whatever else you say about Gordon Brown, at least he kept us out of the euro. Blair would have dragged us into it without Brown to keep him in check.

Take a look at the date of that paper. Journos nowadays trawl the net for references to whichever club they are paid to report on, the source of that story could be anything between speculation and b*llocks, nobody here seems to have found anything even faintly credible. And mouldy coat echoes my thoughts;

Interesting piece '00', thanks for posting it.

That's a decent assessment, but overlooks one point. Without wishing to do a Pap and see conspiracies everywhere, I can't help thinking that the "big" clubs actually saw saints as a potential threat to themselves after last season, especially the dippers. What better way to minimize that threat than to buy up that clubs top players, regardless of cost? I'm not suggesting that we are any sort of immediate threat to citeh, but why would any prem club show an interest in buying a player who is out of action with a long term injury?