JackFrost

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There have been numerous occasions where Maya has started alongside Fonte and Maya has been our best CB. I think it all started when we had to rely on our backup defenders, and people immediately started to jump on the bandwagon that any backup CB playing was Jos Hooiveld at his worst. Maya got tarred with the same brush. He has looked rusty when he's been out of the side for a long while and he is immediately hounded out for the smallest thing everytime. Then when he gets a run in the side he often proves he is a very able backup and can be relied upon. A very valuable asset and like I said, on numerous occasions he has outperformed Fonte when they've played in the same game

Nope because Yoshida is currently the scapegoat of the month. He could play like John Terry in his prime and people would still slag him off on here. He is a very solid backup who gets a good half a page of "Yoshida is ****" etc. whenever he makes the smallest of mistakes, and is lucky to get more than 2 posts of acknowledgement whenever he makes a superb tackle (see vs Coutinho on the opening day of the season) or does something good. He isn't on the level of Toby or Fonte, but I'd rather trust RK's judgement over the posters on here, when it comes to our 1st choice backup CB.

Cue Yoshida being made the scapegoat for their goal

I see their also going back to the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico for the first time since 1992. It's the sort of thing they need to do, to go back to updated old school tracks that had some character. You can be guaranteed however that the Peraltada will be turned into 2 mundane 90 degree corners.

A truly wonderful (and fitting) way of celebrating the 100,000 post mark

Sainsbury's would never have done this campaign/fundraiser if they weren't going to make money out of it themselves. The big supermarkets care about 2 things and 2 things only. Money and how to make more money. I'm not particularly bothered by this ad either way as I thought it showed more what's wrong with the world today than any tribute to WW1. It was the bit where they showed the shot of the 'battlefield' with the Sainsbury's logo plastered on top that summed it up for me. Their blatantly using the WW1 centenary to get themselves over with the Christmas shoppers and boost their profits but that's the world we live in. In one sense it's a advertising masterstroke.

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Plymouth 2-0 Pompey

Plymouth 1-0 Pompey

I'd match my neighbour's spending if we both bought an identical brand new car. If he uses a huge loan from wonga to pay for it and I use savings only one of us will be up **** creek without a paddle in the near future. Agree entirely

This. Forever a club legend but he'd reached his expiry date. Sold him just at the right time.

Labour indeed had nothing to do with the global financial crisis. However Labour were being warned about the size of the UK deficit long before the global financial crisis happened, and Brown point-blank refused to listen. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/apr/18/politics.ukgeneralelection20051 Hence why the Tories were greeted with the "There's no money left" post-it-note. The global financial crisis and Labour leaving the economy with the biggest peace-time deficit in living memory are different things.

David Miliband was established as a major player long before Ed came on the scene and had been groomed for the top job for years. He was Blair's head of policy before he was 30 and was made one of the youngest ever foreign secretaries in history. Then just when it was all set for him, his younger brother politicks his way in on the leadership contest for his own ends, using the unions and living off his family name. The man literally cosied up to the unions to win the leadership contest, then set about distancing himself from them in his victory speech. He isn't completely unelectable because he looks like Wallace, he's completely unelectable because he was so utterly transparent from day one.

It just gives you an indication of the sheer scale of it doesn't it.

Accountancy. Someone I know started the AAT course a couple of years ago at the local college part-time, and got a bit of voluntary work to go alongside it for experience. Now he's working at a practice on decent wages, and says the course is the best thing he ever did. Soon after he got the job his boss was telling him how he was chosen over 4 other individuals, all of which had just graduated from university with accountancy degrees. The 2 main reasons were his practical experience/voluntary work, and that the the AAT course (3 years part-time study for approx £4k) is far more realistic/applicable in real life than almost all accountancy degrees (3 years full-time study for approx £30k), most of which consist of theoretical/generic fluff that has **** all to do with what happens in day-to-day accountancy practices. I asked a friend of mine in recruitment the other day, and she said virtually the same thing.

How's the 'throwing away the game' going?

I remember someone I know went to a Serbia-Montenegro - Bosnia-Herzegovina qualifier about 10-12 years ago and the fans were throwing flares/chairs at each other about 10 mins into the game. When they get going in that area it can get pretty mental.

Meanwhile the Netherlands are 2-0 down to Iceland

LOL Just now Brundle & Hill on Sky's build-up practically stated that Lewis was talking absolute BS when he claimed that Rosberg told him he punctured his tyre on purpose.

Agree entirely, that would ruin the sport. Even with Bianchi's incident, call me old school but their already too strict with driving in wet conditions. It's got to the point where I don't even know why F1 even bothers with full wet tyres now. If the track's apparently only safe enough to race on when drivers are coming in for intermediates as soon as the race gets restarted then why are those tyres even developed? Wet conditions like at Suzuka are part of the sport, always have been and always will be. It depresses me when drivers like Massa are screaming on the radio for the race to be stopped when F1 has had many safe races in far worse conditions. Maybe it's partly due to me being old enough to remember the dark days of F1 in the 1970s but when drivers are moaning about poor visibility in wet conditions, then I'm thinking "Yes, you're driving in rain". They'd be better off getting stricter with the rule where the drivers can't set their fastest time in a sector where a yellow flag is. For example amending the rule so a driver can't be within e.g. 2 seconds of their fastest sector time when a yellow flag comes out. That would force all the drivers to lift off and comparatively cruise past an incident but then they'd be allowed back up to full speed as soon as their past the incident. This, along with keeping mechanical diggers out of the firing line would make a big difference. Also how about looking at the ground clearance regulations in wet conditions, to protect against aquaplaning?

As Brundle has said, in wet conditions there are times when you can't see your own steering wheel, never mind yellow flags. IF he pulls through I fear it's a career ending crash.