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I agree with Noodles on this one.

I saw him just after he joined us and thought he was poor. I still think he's poor.

There is once acceptable exception. Supporting Saints and liking Rangers is allowed. Up the Billy Boys.

My old man and a few of his brothers are on here. Taken about 1950 - New Barn Farm, Crawley, Nr Wichester. You might recognise a few faces. I think now there's about 4 or 5 people who work all that land now. I can count about 91 in those days. That's when Crawley and surrounding areas were working class farming areas, not full of stock brokers. he used to talk about Lady Docker and her son - lance - who all the local lads hated as he drove around in a flash sports car.

My family came from Crawley.

I really wish you hadn't asked to spare us the nausea of the reply.

It's funny because when I heard the sentence given to the scum Socialist I thought he'd never have got such a light slap on the wrist if it had been in any way football related.

Thankyou.

For those who like history. Click next at the bottom right to move through the ages. http://www.afghan-web.com/history/chron/index.html

Alexander the Great conquered Afghanistan but never managed to subdue it's people. Sound familiar?

Equatorial Guinea is well f/cked up. I was listening to a BBC world service report about it a few weeks ago. Since oil was discovered they should be affluent but all the money goes to the ruling family and their henchmen. Equatorial Guinea gained independence in 1968. Ever since this small African country has suffered under authoritarian rule. The first president was Francisco Macías Nguema. After his election in September 1968 he installed a single-party system and assumed all powers, including the legislature and the judiciary. During his bloody rule approximately one third of the population was either exiled or murdered, targeting in particular the Bubi people. President Macías Nguema was notorious for his arbitrary executions of entire villages and families. He held mass executions in football stadiums while loudspeakers blared "Those were the days my friend. We thought they'd never end." In 1979 he was overthrown by his nephew, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. The former president was put on trial and executed. The charges included the crime of genocide. The change of power did not improve the situation for the population of Equatorial Guinea. Its human rights record is abominable and characterized by torture, arbitrary executions, lack of freedom of expression and association and corruption. Freedom House identifies Equatorial Guinea as one of the nine least free countries in the world. Since oil reserves have been discovered in Equatorial Guinea its GDP has increased enormously to $14 billion (2010) annually. However, due to kleptocracy and nepotism this oil wealth has not reached the majority of the population. There is deep ethnic division in Equatorial Guinea, and also clan division within ethnicities. The majority of the population belong to the Fang group. Within this group there are clans. President Obiang Nguema favors his own clan, the Esangui. The Bubi people represent the minority ethnicity and are indigenous to Bioko Island. They are subject to systematic discrimination and persecution by the government, and were the main victims of the genocide carried out by president Macías Nguema from 1978 - 1979. Genocide Watch closely monitors the situation of repression in Equatorial Guinea. Early warning signs of potential genocidal massacres are the following: There have been previous genocidal massacres of the Bubi minority under former president Macías Nguema (1968-1979), but he was the only person tried for them. The Bubi minority is discriminated against and persecuted. This practice has increased during recent years. In 2006, president Obiang Nguema denounced the tradition of appointing a prime minister from the Bubi group. Nepotism and kleptocracy mean that the nation's oil wealth has mostly benefited the president's family and the Esangui clan of the Fang group. This has created an ethnically polarized elite. The resulting income inequality is enormous. Genocide Watch considers Equatorial Guinea to be at early warning stage 6: Preparation for potential massacres. http://www.genocidewatch.org/equatorialguinea.html

I've never heard of him full stop.

Are you expecting me to believe you don't take centre stage at your group therapy sessions?

I reckon you should take the free hospitality and sell me your block 2 ticket. Everyones a winner.

I make no apology for picking and choosing which games I go to. It's not just the cost of the ticket, it's the travel costs and general costs as well.

Has it been discussed on Question Time?

Where did you say you were off to next?

Do you ever engage your brain before you type?

If this was a fight with a simple objective to conquer then yeah, of course you must dish out some ruthless examples, but it isn't. This is a wishy washy campaign with a vague objective and that's why it is so bloody idiotic. This should not be a millitary campaign at all. All it needed was money in the pockets of certain elders and to make these elders reliant on this money to maintain their hold (and their lives). Divide and rule, divide and conquer - the British way that stood us in such good stead for years before the bloody Yanks got involved in global affairs. This would have cost peanuts and this is exactly what is going to happen now.

Nah, the Taliban are now being bought. We might not be hearing about but from the tone of recent political manoeverings you can see that is what is happening. What we've got to now accept is that they are gonna be in charge, they are going to run their affairs pretty much how they want to run them, BUT and this is the crux, because we are bribing them they will reign in elements that are looking outside of their borders. That is what could and what should have happened all along. This may sound harsh but i could not give a f/ck about womens rights etc over there - it's not our problem, all we need to worry about is us, and once we accept this we can deal with the Taliban and reach a situation that we can live with.

It's a futile waste of lives, money and time us being there. It really is utterly ridiculous when what we should have been doing is bribing the elders from the start. That is how we'd have dealt with such a situation in colonial times, but off we go following the stupid Americans who have not got a clue how to rule the world.

I think he must be racist. It says Southern Austria in your location so that must be it.

Can we please stop all these digs at alpine saint. It's not clever.

This would be perfect for the Northam cos they could do all the hand moves. [video=youtube;POv-3yIPSWc]