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It may be expensive around here, but I choose to work in the most equal city in Britain.

Did no one notice how utterly DULL the whole affair was? The BBC has been getting it in the neck for their beyond-tedious coverage of the boating, but actually the real problem was with the event itself (I was involuntarily there because I live by the river) It was a one-trick pony that went on FOREVER. And anyone getting their rocks off to Gary Barlow and Cliff Richard has clearly taken obeisance to Her Maj a step too far.

I have had an excellent couple of days, thank you very much. What all this pomp and Cliff Richard has demonstrated is that about half the British public appears to have a rather sappy relationship with Queenie. No harm done. However, some, like Gemmel, appear to take it further with what seems disturbingly like a mummy-fixation. It would be impolite to delve further. This enthusiasm (the public's, not the oddballs') is for a monarch, not for monarchy - and it will exhibit itself as separation anxiety as soon as Charlie heaves up on the throne. One thing for the record: I've proposed several times that we keep the monarchy, but redefine them as bicyclists on the Scandinavian or Dutch model. That way, the palaces, castles, art collections and Duchys, all paid for by the public purse but from which the public are excluded, can be handed to the National Trust, opened up and the benefits accrue to the British public.

WTF is a Dell sized midset? New bling from an admirer?

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Thank ****! A new thread!

If so, 10 quid is all he'll ever be paid.

It's a Saintsweb fact.

I can't see any way they'd pass the straight-face test. So have PFC actually applied for League One registration yet?

There's still one outstanding issue: PFC's registration.

I'm betting trousers' mortgage on all hell breaking loose this Friday.

In Newport?

Is that on Wii?

Not even a director?

To be bang up to date, we should put the radio station on a ship in the Solent, and have it broadcast on short wave for maximum reach.

This is why it must be a big week, and PFC will surely get bounced out of the Football League. Birch can't present Chainrai as a new owner, since he owned the club during a failed CVA. The only hope is the trust. I say 'hope'.... What I don't get is why this thread is just pootling along as if it's just another saga week. Come on people! We need a Henry V moment! (Or at least some big-league gloating build-up to D-Day...to slightly mix up the battle analogies)

So isn't this the big week - when, all being equal, PFC presumably cease to be a Football League club?

But isn't that same Football Creditors' Rule dragging PFC even deeper into the mire?

Dave Whelan aside, this is surely the time when all football club chairmen go into purdah. Even the Sullivan-Gold blatherati have fallen silent. Everyone is jockeying for position, whether for players or a manager, and no one in their right mind wants to reveal their hand. As soon as a chairman or manager lets slip that they're after a player or a new manager, the risk of being gazumped or 'seduced' (Pep, TM) increases greatly. The time to talk about season ticket prices is when you unveil a shiny new bauble like JR.

Has Butland played a single game for Brum? I recall that when Myhill was injured (in the first play off game against Blackpool?), Hughton kept Myhill on rather than sub him for Butland.

You just know the French are going to come along and ruin it. EDIT: my mistake - I'm 50 years too early.

Not quite true. Arsenal actually offered him a new contract but he dropped it.

Cringeworthy, dearest.

You have a PM.

**** off. Anyway, no 3 infringes Turkish's image rights. And Charming's apparently. Don't know how that can be.