capitalsaint

But you very rarely see any sort of protest on the streets of London or Washington. Here you can go to the City Hall area any day of the week and see a protest, it's part of the democratic process here. Re the political level, neither candidate for the recent elections used NK as much of a platform and much like the UK the whole focus was on the economy. Clearly on a political level they may be worried, but they haven't had to play off of the public's fear for around 10 years now. Not that the political level is a particularly good gauge, weren't Blair and Bush worried about Saddam?

I said there is more fear in the UK than in SK, not that everyone in the UK is scared. Perhaps with your naval background it isn't the same for you, but plenty of Brits I speak to display more concern that I live close to the North than anybody here. I bet if Boruc accosted you in a dark alley you'd quake in your boots

Well, there's a post on a football forum asking if NK are nutters and there are news reports about anything they do (ignore any articles about them in the Telegraph btw, they just copy AP verbatim, often out of date). I'm also back and forth a fair amount, so I still have some understanding of the British psyche.

There's no appetite for war. The younger generations have only experienced the modern South Korea and think of the North as a poor, uneducated and perhaps inferior nation. They clearly accept that they are all one people so there's absolutely no desire to fight them. The SK military service, for example, only teaches you to sweep snow and mow the lawn for two years. I'm a better shot than one friend and he was in the special forces! Not back yet, I live in Seoul!

Exactly. The American military presence in SK is provocative in itself. Funny though, there seems to be far more fear over North Korea in Britain and America than there is in South Korea.

between 500k and 800k

I'm not so sure about the FC United stuff really. Saints will always be my team.

Then tame it.

A huge help, I'll stop badgering him for free tickets! I'm saying he falls under the category of trying to understand why people at the club would want to expand.

Has this been posted yet? http://inbedwithmaradona.com/the-100-for-2012/2012/11/18/gaston-ramirez.html

If you accept that there are people at the club who are seriously looking at expanding then why not try and understand their reasoning? I think norwaysaint has a fair point.

Good shout Steve, I'd say that Chelsea game definitely stands out.

In England! http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/feb/04/europol-investigation-football-matchfixing Would be a little amusing if the club turned out to be Spurs...

"If we go down we'll prepare for it." That isn't preparation Tony.

But they weren't the two players playing their best football at that time, unlike when Punch and RL were taken off at St Mary's. Similarly, the recent subs resulted in an improved performance rather than the surrendering of a lead.

Just PM us the gist

especially the ones writing as if they are on the fringe of the discussion, when actually they've had over 16,000 posts and most of their (amazing) lives spent on here.

As opposed to being pigeonholed into the rabid, fawning CoC mob? Seems everyone is pretty keen for everyone else to be part of an imaginary faction.

You are my favourite poster.

and that's the more reputable source of the two...

Stream?

Don't ever stop posting things like that The9. I look forward to this thread every year.

Do you even go to matches FFS? Fed up with armchair fans claiming they know it all. COYLOPAD

Much rather somebody born into a meaningless position than give carte blanche to the sort who have spent their life trying to grab power. When have we last had a truly altruistic politician?

Doesn't make much sense, he's got just 3 years managerial experience and was sacked from his only job.