JackanorySFC

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Full story from The Times below: Personally I think it stinks, you can't buy class/ history and it will only take one or 2 of the big sides to say no and it loses it's gravitas. It seems the Emirates want "old money" clubs ala Real, Barca, Man U, Liverpool, AC Milan, Juve, Bayern etc rather than the obvious, already bought Man City and PSG. Huge sums of cash though an FFP will make it tempting, Platini will go mental at the thought of this (or will he, if the reports that Sarcosi got him to broker the PSG deal are true?)!

When I first moved to London I lived 5 mins from Old Kent Road and worked 5 mins from Whitechapel Rd. Unfortunately I left the place to return to God's own City before I could hit the heights of Park Lane or Mayfair!

Any our our resident gamblers got any tips for a mug punter like me? Last year just about broke even over the week, spunked my winnings on the last race as you do....

The area is actually really nice near the Emirates. I used to live in Barnsbury (the area between Upper St and the Cally Rd) and it's incredibly smart round there, only 5-10 minutes walk from the Emirates you have the bars/ restaurants/ Cafes of Upper St/ Essex Road. I'd recommend somewhere near Kings Cross. The area round the station has been massively re-developed and it's only a tenner in a cab to the Emirates from there or you could walk up to Angel via Pentonville Rd in 5 minutes and spend the afternoon making your way up Upper St. Might go to this gig myself actually, saw Muse at Reading and they were amazing.

I know Colbury on here is all over Cross Fit. Looks like seriously hard work what I've seem of it.

Yeah, 2009 "aged for 2 years in oak barrels" Sainsburys taste the diffence stuff, only £15 so prob not worth laying it down I'd thought? Love this credit crunch living though, stay in with a pizza from M&S for a fiver each and a bottle of decent red for less than he house stuff in the pub. And no taxi home either...

Just smashed a decent bottle of 09 Borrolo(sp, I'm a bottle deep). Anything full bodied, red and double figured for me..,, life's too short to drink s### wine ffs. Keep the cheap stuff for bottles 2 and onwards, you'll notice f### all after 750ml of the 14% good stuff, trust me! PS Rose (unless its Laurient Perrier) is for benders. IMO like.....

Interesting info that Steve, thanks. Makes the results even more positive IMO as I thought they didn't include transfers at all, seeing as those purchases are "assets" I think this way of accounting for them is pretty fair actually.

This pretty much sums it up for me. Fair play to the Liebherrs/ Cortese, achieving Premier league football for a net outlay of £2m is awesome business. You only have to compare this to QPR's barmy results released earlier this week to see we are doing things the right way.

Jeez, first response to an actually very positive set of figures is a moan, seriously did you even read the numbers? Wages to turnover a very very respectable level and the Liebherrs effectively writing off the cost of getting us in the Premier league. Absolutely nothing to moan at here.

I have a ST in the Itchen next to away fans and travel to 10-15 away games a season. I can honestly not remember a single time opposing fans have sung that at us. You've just invented it? Personally I think Redknapp is rent a quote moron that is liberal in the amount of tax he pays but greedy in the amount of praise he gives himself. He didn't care about us at all when here and only took the job to annoy Milan. I will give the **** both barrels as will 95% of other Saints fans I know, sorry if that doesn't fit in with your "live and let live" attitude but he is a fag paper below the City of Portsmouth and it's inhabitants in terms of where by hatred is pointed in life.

I can vouch for this: "tell you what, that Lambert would be a half decent player if he could actually head a ball"

To be fair the grades aren't exactly amazing but they have a discipline code that is adhered to by almost everyone. The missus' observations were hardly any bullying (certainly not over clothes etc as they are all skint;-)), good community links, kids turning up to parents evening on their own as their old dear is p***ed at home and can't be bothered but the kids genuinely want to better themselves and she misses the weekly Monday morning Police update with what "activity" has been going on over the weekend. She generally preferred the kids at that school to obnoxious little toffs at a certain Winchester school that couldn't be bothered to learn as they were going to work for their parent's company when they left school anyway. Redbridge kids were rough around the edges but had character basically, the school also set in motion a discipline code that didn't have any grey areas, if you messed up you were out.

Ha, yeah I know the one, on Bursledon road on the way to the motorway/ Bursledon? The closest we get to foreigners in Hedge End/ Botley are Emran, Adbul, Muhammed and the boys in the 2 Purbani curry houses and Mr Pizza in Hedge End with his 1/4 Italian "heritage"! I can honestly say if I had kids and I was in the catchment area, regardless of money I would happily send my boy/ girl to Wildern. It is a superb school that can do the rare thing of supporting high achievers as well as pushing the borderline kids up from D's to C's & B's. Amazing facilities for sport, drama, science and tech with massive external funding. The only problem is SO30 is growing so fast they will need another secondary school soon and I wonder if it will be able to match Wildern. I also think there's alot to be said for growing up a rounded individual with mates from all backgrounds, not just ones with loaded parents. I say this as en ex Wildern pupil when it was genuinely moody under mr Rocket, Jeff Threllthal (RIP) too over turned that school around and actually drummed some aspiration into losers like me

Redbridge is a decent school now, missus thought there for a while and now at a far higher achieving Hants school and she far preferred Redbridge.

True, if the Tories don't win this they'll never win. The Tory candidate wanted to hold a press conference at Wildern School (a top quality Hants School in Hedge End with a catchment area she falls into but chose to send her kid to private school as "the local schools aren't good enough") quite rightly she was told to **** off by the head! Feel sorry for Cameron, trying to modernise them but nutters opposed to gay marriage etc holding them back.

I live in Botley, a 5 minute walk away from Botley Park golf course. The road that runs from Botley to Borley Green, Winch st is already busy, Botley High St has shocking traffic and the alternative road from hedge end (Woodhouse lane) not equipt for heavy traffic. The sheer number of houses (1400) is huge, Botley only has 2000 on its own. It will completely change the feel of the area, we paid extra for our house as we wanted to live in Botley rather than Hedge End as IMO Hedge End is over developed already (any poor sod that has to use junction 7 at peak hours will confirm that). My main issue is the huge, overwhelming opposition to it the Lib Dems seem to have ignored, big marches, packed public meetings etc. the poor guys in Borley green have it worse though, only a couple of hundreds houses there right now and lovely little place, their houses will drop like a stone in value (mine will too, which is obviously a reason for me being a NIMBY, only a liar would deny that) and completely change their living standards.

At a local level this Maria Hutchings seems to be letting herself down. The local School, Wildern, is a superb school (far better than when I went there) and will have no problems accommodating her "gifted" child. However the Lib Dems have agreed to build on Botley Park golf course and now I own a house in the area I'm a fully paid up NIMBY... Hmmm, decisions decisions, prob be Beer, Baccy and Crumpets at this rate!

Can't buy share in John Lewis mate, no shareholders there, owned by the workers (partners). I'd probably go for Bonds or get yourself a decent broker to dabble in the shares market, that's a lot of money to spend and with the best will in the world, making money on the markets is not as easy as it sounds.

Lol, Adrian Durham lays into their fans today in his Daily Mail column, basically saying it's all well and good supporting the team against Arsenal when things go well but now the club needs them more than ever the ground is half empty. All true.

I'd vote for that.... Just given a crusty young Lib Dem lad the brush off (he wanted to hand a poster on my front wall), election fever really is kicking in here in Botley! The Tory candidate is doing a meet and great in the pub later, if she gets a round in her vote is secured....

Knocked on my door on Friday evening. "Interesting" character, demanding pub beer prices should be cheaper than supermarket prices *OK my friend, you have my attention...*, started going on about fags getting cheaper as it cheers people up when he lost me. I'm a health concious non smoker so told him he'd lost my vote unfortunately - he persisted with his CRUMPET policy (basically the first letter of the word stands for his 7 key plans). Classic local eccentric that I sent over the road to Botley Legion, plenty of punters that share his policies in there!

Bought that single at Bursledon car boot.

Me and the missus bought horse meat when on holiday in Menorca by mistake, thinking it was an amazingly priced fillet steak. It tasted tough and pretty bland, despite my generous seasoning. We have never bought it again. We have also learnt the Spanish (and Catalan) for beef ffs.