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wtf is a sports tycoon anyway, someone who's made a packet from sport or someone who's invested a lot in sport. Not many sports tycoons in the UK really, I mean you could argue that Beckham is a "sports tycoon" and Vickie is a pop star so you could write a story about that and just embroider it a bit with words like secret and covert.

When did we play Bristol City...in the C1C ? What do you expect with the team that we put out on that occasion? Burnley are a good side, knocking on the door of the PL , Yeovil aren't that good as the 20 or so places and 25 points between them in the CC table would tend to show.

Plus we sold 3 players in June of 2009 for a total of about 2.6 million although I don't doubt that the Football league docked us a fair bit because of debts to other clubs and player salaries overdue. I just can't see that the club was as desperate as some like to make out and Begbies just milked the fact that everyone seemed to think we had two feet in the grave already. Never did get the final report that I thought all shareholders were supposed to get, anyone else receive it?

Well yes, and no it isn't, used to be quite a little centre of industry actually although I don't doubt that that's mostly been delocalised by now. There was Westland Helicopters I think and an arms manufacturer although I'm not sure how well known that was, guidance systems for ship to ship missiles rings a bell...long time ago.

In fact, that Fry managed to get a 500000 £ non refundable deposit from one mug with no evident backing when he already had a firm offer from another serious buyer who did have the money is probably why he got a trade award for his handling of the affair.

Don't disagree with any of that except that the players were paid late actually, it was well documented and has been confirmed by players in their reminiscences of that period.

you'd be better off looking for African brand names, far more chance of finding one really.. Anyway I believe Marlboro is the preferred brand here, they're a lot of urban cowboys (and girls).

If that was true wouldn't he be replacing Fox on occasions or have been given a try in the C1C ? He's evidently not considered as good as Clyne at LB anyway so for a real LB that isn't exactly a glowing recommendation.

is it not meant to be a possible "Fools and Horses" situation ? Assumed that from the user name. Anyway some Cup games seem to be being streamed but Saints doesn't look to be among them, all the usual favourites, Liverpool, Sunderland, Cardiff. Why you can even find Man U next generation reserves in the U21 league but not Saints..

Wilshere was seeing smoking but he's denied being a regular smoker, whether that's the truth of the matter I just couldn't say.

Whether we'll finish 8th or 9th without Lovren for 8/10 weeks is debateable though, we can only wait and see. I'd be a lot happier if I could sense that the club were trying to sign a decent CB in what remains of the window though..oh and a striker because Dani ...well he's finished here, leaves us with just JRod and the tiring Lambert who may or may not be more focused on the WC than the rest of Saint's PL campaign.

But the thing is James we've not too much idea whether that's going to be our swan song for a while or not. Most have gleefully accepted the rather patronising open letter to the fans. Some haven't though because they thought we were on an upwards curve for a few years to come now and they are fearful that we might just sink into the chaos that reigned between 2004 and 2009. I can well understand Barcelona's view of things and that he was bold enough to express them on the forum. I can well see good players leaving this summer and being replaced with inferior ones, I'm used to it, like Barca I've been following Saints for too many years to be fooled by the contents of an open letter. I want to see actions before I make up my mind, perhaps he does as well.

I fail to see what you're saying here actually, are you saying that elements of the Isolde+Willie branch are in fact assisting Katarina in her endeavours with SFC or are you just totally confused about who is and who does what in the Liebherr and Mali enterprises. Markus Liebherr had nothing to do with the Cranes,Freezers, Plant Machinery side of the business...nothing whatsoever.

is that news or wishful thinking ?

Anyway apologies are never,ever necessary on TMS, it's in the rules FFS, rule 1014A.4: No apologies necessary under any circumstances.

Agreed, reports would look to be wildly exagerated, doesn't even seem to be enough bruising around the eye to have taken a serious head butt, little girls smack perhaps. I've had worse in playground fights at junior school. No-one got suspended for those, just 6 of the best.

Sharp has another year, Barnard must be out of contract in the summer

So then for what time is this tryst scheduled ?

Cortese and Mauricio brought him here, sold him the dream, Cortese has gone and if you reflect on it you'll probably notice that Osvaldo has been playing the fool since he probably found out that Cortese was going. If anyone has the famous Cortese depart clause in his contract it's probably Osvaldo....all the rest is probably just a cover up. Mystery illness and injuries, touchline brawls, more mystery injuries and now that he'd actually be expected to play a game...wham another training ground brawl. It's so transparent that a blind man could see it.

Why so ? Perhaps ordinary people don't own land in the overcrowded UK but they do elsewhere in Europe, we've a few acres of woodland, paid about 5000 euros for it. If you can't build on it it's cheap as chips, plenty for everyone that wants it.

Poor old Leon, paid a fortune for his shares when the Wilde thing was going on, far more than most people and then he got ripped off by a band of no hopers for another 500000£ All in all Saints must have cost him at least 3 million and he never really got full control of the train set. Still you know what they say about fools and their money.

there are no massive hills on the Paris Marathon route only a couple of slight uphill drags, one at about 13 k and the other just after 33 k. It's a fast course but unless you're a preferential starter (which I shall be because of my girl) the Champs start is a bit of a bastard, plus it's down hill and the euphoria of getting over the start line can put you in the red zone straight away. I shall definitely be holding her back there, forcedly if necessary, she can run a click (km) in about 2 minutes 50 but if she does that she'll blow up in the first 5 K.

I shall be running at the Paris Marathon as it happens but I'll be far ahead of Pancake I'm afraid,my girl is running her first marathon and I'm going to guide her round, she's looking at about 2h 50 I think, if I'm not too tired I'll double back after the finish and give him the support you suggest.

Oh he's no beginner at distance running I'll wager, Paris is a good marathon but the start conditions aren't great.

Well all that sounds terminally sad I'm sure. What did these lads do with their 3,5 or 7 years at Uni, jeez you only have to turn up and tick a few boxes to get the degree, the rest of the time is for social (and sexual) intercourse. Mind you Mikey did drop out after 2 years or so, perhaps they didn't have freshers week and rag balls where he went.