scotty

Impressive stuff. Maybe Nigel could add to his poetic repertoire, perhaps with an interpretation of Hiawatha? "Down the left comes A. Lallana, swerving jinking swiftly crossing, Hooieveldt rising, elbows flying, Puncheon offside, chance goes begging, lost possession, midfield struggle, down the middle, Kelvin flounders, shouts to Yoshi clear it clear it, lost translation, three points dropping," etc

I wish everyone would stop criticising Jimmy Savile. When I was 8, he fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded.

You know you're in Portsmouth when you see a banner on the roundabout that says "HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY, GRANDMA"

Who are you, and what have you done with Dalek?

I had to go down there today, St James hospital in milton road. Christ, that town is depressing.

The BBC may well have turned a blind eye to what was happening, and if they did they were at fault but not alone. The hospitals involved, the prison service, the police, and every newspaper in the country are equally culpable. Its ridiculous to single out the BBC simply on the basis that they are publicly funded; so are the prisons and hospitals.

I'm guessing he might have. I'm hoping he didn't.

This rang a distant bell, so I looked up his obituary in The Week, havent got round to chucking out that batch yet. "He didnt drink, liked to flirt but apparently had no interest in sex (he liked to say women lead to "brain damage"), and for much of his adult life lived with his mother Agnes, whom he called The Duchess. When she died in 1973, Savile spent five days sequestered with her body, a period he later described as "the best five days of my life.... She looked marvellous. She belonged to me. It's wonderful, is death." That sounded dodgy as all hell to me when I read it at the time, but I just put it down to a warped mind. Poor old dear must have gone to her grave in a right old state.

..and you're just having a pop at the BBC. Again.

I know plenty of people abroad who would love that to be the case. The problem is worldwide copyright issues, they couldn't do it. Most of the yanks I know use a proxy server and get it that way. I'd also echo Pap and Ken tone, the BBC is far and away the best public service broadcaster on the planet. Most of the whingers dont recognise it as such, its just another for-profit corporation to them, that they feel forced to pay for. Its far, far more than that.

While I agree with your sentiments, I reckon his ponytail should be fair game simply because it makes him look a right tw*t. In common with every other male that wears one, tbpf.

That was my reaction as well Then I thought, maybe he means Amy Winehouse's spoon, c/w scorch-marks still visible on the underside. That'd fetch a few quid on ebay.

He means he's content to be identified as a pompey supporter. Takes all sorts, I suppose...

Thats the most ludicrous comparison I've ever heard. Branfoot was an utter disaster from day one, Adkins took us from the bottom of L1 to the prem in 2 seasons. He's had a grand total of 8 games in the prem so far.

Owen Coyle is available.

What about Bobby Robson? I know he's dead and all that, but hcdajfu. No point in being prejudiced.

Matter of opinion. Personally, I think after two successive promotions he has earned a full season's shot at the prem. Nobody has to agree with me though, and the decision wont be influenced by anyone on here.

He's earned a full season in the prem imho. Even if we go back down. And I shudder to think of Scoobys suggestions above as replacements; Redknapp? thats bad enough, but if keane got withing screaming distance of St Marys I would start going to the silverlake until he left.

He came off the bench and almost got us a result against the best side in the country. If he's not up to a full prem game, its for Nigel to decide which end of the match he's going to play.

Narrow defeat in a high scoring game. 4-3, or even 5-4. Hope I'm wrong, obviously, but I cant see us getting anything today.

John Terry tried to put the racism trial behind him by taking his family to the zoo. "Come here, kids," he said, pointing through the glass. "Look at that monkey! Ooh ooh ooh!" The whole family laughed, before Terry pulled his wallet out and said, "Sorry, mate. Two adults and two children, please."

Just another dreamland policy that wont see the light of day, even if they manage to swing a result in the independence poll. It will go down the same toilet as their previous and vocally-stated policy of ditching sterling in favour of the euro, funny how Salmond never mentions that one nowadays....

That occurred to me as well. I would guess at least half of the posters on SWF never heard of her.

The other thing worth remembering is that the Echo, like every other printed newspaper, is suffering badly through the switch to digital media. Anything they can stir up to deflect that is fair game to them, I dont suppose they or the rest of the press will be around much longer anyway tbh.