scotty

Behave yourself, Glenn.

Well, thats 3 bites and counting.

I was chatting with another poster this morning, he reckoned a 3-1 defeat, I called it as 4-0 to the scousers. No surprises chez scotty I'm afraid, if anything I was pleasantly surprised at the game we made of it. The usual thing though, making good chances and not taking them. Hopefully osvaldo's replacement might be the next piece in the jigsaw and we'll start sticking the ball in the net again. .

I dont think you need to do anything more than write one letter, stating that "you are in receipt of their invoice, dispute it, and decline to pay it, and that you will not enter into any further correspondence on the matter," then ignore all further correspondence from them. The mistake people make is to look at these tickets as a fine or penalty, neither of which a private company can impose. Only the police or a local authority can do so, anything dressed up to look like an official fine (Parking Charge Notice, etc..) is just a speculative invoice which you are under no legal obligation to pay.

I think he means he "went missing" on the pitch, not that he wasn't there. I remember something about it, Keegan threaded a perfect ball through without looking up for Micky, who was over at the touchline getting a race result from a fan with a radio.

Pretty sure thats true. Somewhere, I have a reference to that; if I can find it, I'll post a pic.

Bitter experience?

aha, the mysterious Dr Strangelove, probably my favourite film. Nice one Jxgr

Well, there's the backup to Artur sorted.

Finally, the voice of reason. I hate morrissey and I hate the smiths, let pompey have them.

This thread is turning into a confessional. Any more embarrassing moments?

Good luck to the lad, but I have to say that the few times I've seen him he was poor, especially against Norwich last season. He was a real liability in that game, perhaps he's improved since then.

...errrrm...could you run that past me again turks?

The funeral director asked my wife if she'd had any thoughts on her mother's final journey. "The usual options are burial or cremation," he said. She glanced at me for support. "I'd like her to be interred," she sniffled. I paused, then said "sorry, was that one word, or two?"

I've only ever hit the ignore button once, but that once has been a godsend. I just couldn't stand that bold/underline/italic/font size stuff from our swedish friend any longer, and I couldn't afford a new monitor. Oddly enough, over on another site which I frequent, they are in the process of adding an ignore function like here, as well as a blocking option for anyone starting a thread. They will be able to block any given poster from posting on that thread, I sometimes wonder whether that wouldn't be an idea here.

I only saw 30 minutes of the 2nd half, but thats pretty much what I gleaned from the little I saw, and the commentators seemed to be saying the same thing.

Agreed. I'd have thought that re-edit and re-admit ought both to be hyphenated to be classed as words.

Yes, we know. The likelihood of Saints going down this season is on a par with the likelihood of my mrs going down on me when it isn't my birthday. However, I'd have thought that at least you, being the resident statto, would see some interest value of taking all remaining fixtures and working out the number of points required statistically to stay up (fnarr fnarr) regardless of any combination of results. In fact, it had occurred to me that clubs might already use such a system when deciding on whether/when to sack their managers during the course of a season.

Agree entirely, but it's an interesting point. There must be some way of feeding all remaining fixtures into an equation, with all possible outcomes, and ending with a final minimum points figure which would guarantee safety regardless of what else happens. I'm hopeless at maths, maybe we should ask Bletch

Oh, ok. I just wondered if you had used some sort of equation involving all remaining fixtures and all possible outcomes given the sides that had to play each other, resulting in a mathematically safe points total. That seems fiendishly complicated, and I couldn't find anything along those lines, but I suppose it ought to be possible. Your Sunderland example assumes that they will continue on their previous form this season, which may not turn out to be the case? I mean, they could suddenly increase their win ratio?

Out of interest, how did you work that one out? Is there a specific equation?

Even if you're paranoid, its possible they really are all out to get you.

+1. The league sponsors ought to at least put up some kind of display of impartiality.