JackFrost

Good, that saves me another 40p or so I can see X Factor dying out in a few years time, first you had Peter Kay doing a parody of it and I now suspect we're gonna get one of these facebook protests every year. Anything that relinquishes the iron grip Simon Cowell has on the charts is always a good thing. Cowell is one of the main protagonists who helped kill off TOTP.

which stores count towards the charts? I've just purchased it from amazon but looking at that facebook group it says amazon sales don't count towards the final charts](*,)

there was that ecuadorian bloke called chala?? who was here when Agustin Delgado was here

you could add a few to that list. Calum Davenport Imants Bleidilis Allaedine Yahia (We signed him for £350,000 and he didn't play one game for us) Jelle Van Damme to name a a few

what are the chances of us keeping Lambert in January? I wouldn't mind betting there are championship clubs interested not to mention a club in the vein of a Hull/Burnley

When a mere observer I remember the previous wink was way better. It was far more cheeky than the current one

What about the numerous others?

Fair enough, By your theses your a bit late saying "game" players shouldn't win SPOTY considering Davis won it in '88

Jeez some people on here would hang Cortese or Murray before they'd sworn the oath. At the end of the day it is impossible to pass fair judgement until we've heard both sides of the story. I get the fallacy that banning any independent press is dangerous buta nyone would think Cortese has banned not only the Echo, but South Today, Radio Solent etc juding by some of the reactions on here

It is. It's officially recognised as a sport. Besides that debate is irrelevant IMO. At the end of the day it's a game, like football, rugby, etc. that he earns a professional living out of. No one else has dominated their "game" or "sport" like Taylor has dominated darts for the last 15 years. The recent 2009 statistics were Taylor's won 195 out of the 210 competitive matches he's played this year. The main reasons he isn't mentioned are commercial interests. If darts is a 'game' where fat men throws arrows at a board, then snooker is a "game" where overweight blokes hit balls with a stick and football is a "game" where 22 men kick some leather around a patch of grass. I don't know your opinions but I cannot understand how people say darts isn't a "sport" and then say something like snooker or boxing is.

which had more to do with the weakness of the opposition than his ability to do the job. Blair did some good things but IMO in some ways was one of the most dangerous PMs we've ever had. He really brought this culture of spin doctors to the fore and it's resulted in most government statistics now not being worth the paper their written on, and contributed to the increased scepticism towards MPs and politics in general. Plus by dropping his trousers and bending over backwards for Bush and going into the Iraq disaster, that and other more recent activities have severely tainted the UK's image worldwide. The US (with the UK's wholehearted support of course) now support tinpot dictatorships all over the world who have human rights records not too disimilar to Iraq under Saddam (e.g. Uzbekistan) all because of commercial interests. I think this really did accelerate during the Bush-Blair era disguised under the "War on Terror" pseudonym. A PR bloke I know once said to me "If the Burmese Junta discovered massive reserves of oil on their land and flogged it cheap to the Americans, Aung San Suu Kyi's name wouldn't be heard in the western press for a very very long time"

Anyone would think Lowe had connections to the Daily Mail

The sheer arrogance of the man is breathtaking. He also said in 2003 that he was happy for Saddam to stay in power if he handed over his WMDs. Personally i think him and bush should be in the Hague being tried for war crimes

Good post

More of a presenter but yeah Stelling is by far the best and the Gilette soccer saturdays can be hilarious when he's doing them. Sometimes it's almost worth watching the whole way through just in case he does his James Brown routine. I find Merson ok, he doesn't exactly come across as intelligent but he can laugh at himself, especially when trying to pronounce difficult names Le Tiss is very good also. Apart from Phil 'all worship Liverpool" Thompson, The one that really get's on my nerves is Chris Kamara. He begins every report with "UNBELIEVABLE JEFF!!!!"

As the title of the thread hasn't strictly referred to Saints games, when England played Macedonia at St Mary's in '02 didn't Macedonia bring something like 30 fans?

I can't stand Clive "On that night in ((insert European capital city here))" Tyldsley either

He seems to be 20 years out of date, I seem to remember him being asked during a match commentary a couple of years ago which teams were dark horses to qualify for the 2010 world cup from europe, I think his response was "Well I think Denmark, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union all have pretty good teams and could challenge anyone on their day

Agree with most of the above, I can't stand Newcastle either. Very deluded fans. 2 'messiahs' in one season and they still got relegated LOL

How did I forget Phil Thompson and his 'all worship Liverpool' lectures for one hour before the 3pm football kicks off every Saturday?

Chris "Unbelievable" Kamara, (although he's really a reporter I suppose) Lee Dixon, Alan Shearer When Billy Davies did some work for Sky Sports that was almost cringeworthy.

A friend of a friend of mine did a course in "Golf Course Design" LOL

Very specialized jobs. I'm talking more generally. There have been thousands and thousands of students over the last few years that have graduated from uni (after being told there was a 95% chance of the course leading straight to a job) and gone straight on to jobseekers allowance. A few recently graduated ex students have told me when they attend job interviews it's the same story, over and over again. One of them has recently been 'successful'. She graduated, was on the dole 18 months and finally managed to get a 12k job in a call centre And there are plenty more who haven't bothered signing up who aren't in any government figures. In these times you have the official government's employment figures, then you have the real employment figures. I was made redundant from my previous job nearly two years ago and after being 6 months on the dole I was told due to my financial situation and the amount of savings I had, I was no longer entitled to any jobseeker's allowance and therefore no longer classed as unemployed, and not in any government figures. I bet there have been and still are hundreds of thousands in that boat. I wouldn't mind betting the real unemployment rate isn't that far off what it was under Thatcher. Back then you didn't get the press manipulation and figure spin you get now. Going back on topic, I don't get these publicity stunts, they conform to the Jeremy Clarkson like bigoted opinonated population who describe them as "eco-mentalists". If they had an eye-catching stand and took part in informative discussion, I'd be 100 times more likely to take notice to what they were standing for.

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=rage+against+the+machine+facebook+campaign&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=rage+against+the+machine+facebook+campaign&fp=177016bc12fe49d4 (first link) Currently nearly 700,000 members trying to stop an x factor winner getting to the christmas number one spot. LOL

not to mention avoiding paying any tax. Still from what I gather, the shock that a lot of students are getting when they realise the majority of employers vastly prefer 'experience' to 'qualifications' after they graduate starts to make up for it. All topped off with 20k debts.