EastleighSoulBoy

Have the Mexicans decided not to play the argentinians then?

I did think of calling one guy a Canadian, but then I don't wish to offend the Canadians.

How do you deal with the issue of the 'Ex' getting a little too up close and personal with you about it? Stranger or not. Would you be happy with a total stranger stealing your girlfriend? Just thoughts that come from the initial question.

Where's the daftness? Oh!

Hmmm, Post #13 by Docky shows he's up to speed. Almost the words of a Saint perchance?

Not insecure, more p155ed off with Americans calling us Brits in their comments on the Yahoo world cup pages.

Now now Stavros!

I was a first time buyer and got ours on the day that sales started.

My point was more about being referred to as British. I have no illusions about Stan.

Right now I have a real bee in my bonnet. I'll probably sound a bit like Dune but please bear with me. Remember, who can forget, all those years we spent in the wilderness for our drunken/hooligan antics abroad supporting our local or National team? It was always called 'The English Disease' and most of us were made to feel like lepers when we went abroad on holiday. So, slowly things have been turned round. It took years I know but at last it seems that our England Fans are behaving in the style that is expected of Englishmen. So, if you take that as a given. Why are we now being referred to as 'The Brits'? FFS! We are England, part of Great Britain, The United kingdom but we are English! And proud of it.

Rumour, amongst maintenance craftsmen who know NHS maintenance employees, is that capital expenditure, locally, has been cut by in excess of 30%. That's the budget for projects like refurbishing wards, back up equipment (boilers, air compressors) etc. That will mostly now be left to run on a wing and a prayer. Plus the spare parts,if the suplier has been paid for his previous order! So much for the NHS having their budget 'ringfenced'!

I think that Hart did object? Again, I think, AA was quoted as saying he couldn't understand why Hart had objected as he was a football creditor and would get all his money?

I like this bit from that article: Really! Those constraints haven't existed for the Blue Phew! for the last few years. Time to buckle down?

You just don't understand. So here, for the Nth time, from one who is not too financially bright, is the low down. We stopped and filed for Administration the moment we realised that we would be trading illegally. When, just when, did your bunch of criminals actually stop? Certainly long after realising what a parlous state your finances were in. You belittle yourself by coming on here and trying to draw comparisons, it's like you are defending Storrie and all his nefarious cahoots!

Which we didn't do because the moment RL saw that coming he did the right and honest thing. Yes all you Skates, even a much maligned and disliked individual like RL is better than all your various owners/management lot put together. I didn't like typing that.

A 'loophole' which the FL have now conveniently closed, June 2nd - Malta? So we weren't even contravening a (non - existent) rule back then. FFS they wouldn't even let us appeal by witholding our Golden Share!

That family of four are exactly the type of example I had in mind when I mentioned your previous comment. I do wonder how many other groups will founder? Maybe a group of four or five mates who always went together, sat together. Three can no longer do it because they cannot afford, at such short notice, the lump payment. What do the other two from that group do? They saw the football as a total experiences with their mates. Are they still going to go? Will they be surrounded by the same people or a revolving cast of buy on the days? They may try it but tire of it. They may not even try it at all. Some may say poor fans, others might well see their point.

"A goat?" "No! I said a goat" "Oh! you mean a coat" "That's what I said, didn't I?" "No, you said goat, can't you say the letter C?" "No, it's all from a trauma I suffered as a sgoolboy" Thanks Python!

Fans very seldom agree as one about anything to do with their club. In removing the installment plan without notice (being the operative element) it has moved many of us close to an agreement, in principle. With the EUEFA ruling in mind then it is very obvious to me that the club should be communicating in every possible way with the fans to generate interest and committment to the coming season. NC is missing an opportunity to lay a cornerstone here BB Bob! Not all of us have the money spare to buy a season ticket outright. Due to a change in employment this was my first opportunity, in many years, to get a pair so I had prepared myself for paying outright. Not all the fans have an easy line to credit either. Some don't want credit and others have sadly learned that they cannot control their credit spending. So, for many, the installment plan was a way out. How many, as Dave Benson Phillips opines, will turn to another (cheaper, more affordable) hobby because they feel the club has pulled away from them? I just wondered, in a convoluted way, if Ford, BMW or the like have decided to try something similar and tell their customers they need to pay up front for their vehicles? How many would they sell? All they needed was the courtesy of a decent amount of notice that the facility was being removed. This is what the anger is all about.

Warmonger.

Of course, as espoused by Stu (I think) those Nurses can leave the NHS and get a job with an agency doing the same thing for more money. That's probably going to be what will happen because the nurses will not strike, it's not in their psyche, so they will leave. What will the NHS do then? I believe they have a nil recruitment policy currently.

Whilst ML is seen as a philanthropist, from our view, I'd bet he didn't get there by not being tough and taking any pecuniary advantage he could. He does look like a long lost uncle but there's a brain driven by financial acumen inside that avuncular facade.

This what I can't understand. At the time was it not that Barclays bounced a cheque for a nominal amount (Ok, £6,000 over the overdraft is immense to me!) ? That wasn't a payment for the stadium mortgage. Although it may have been caused because the mortgage payment took us to our overdraft limit?

Creditors owed £2,500 or less were promised full and final payment by B.C. so they didn't really need to vote or had their vote discounted? Tactical relocation of company debts and voting rights?

The pressure was on Labour to deregulate, I believe the Tories would have done it when next in power if there had not been a worldwide recession. Blame away all you like but Labour agreed with the logic that it was a way forward. Although Labour might have to take the blame for not enforcing a greater control over the ways that money was invested. That would still have left the Tories braying though.