JackFrost

Fortunately for him it didn't happen a month or so ago or it'd made up part of Ed Miliband's response to the budget. . . Like you say, with things like this and Ed Balls being done for speeding, frankly who gives a flying ****?

Who?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22043824 I wonder if KD got a bonus this week

The thought of Osborne running the economy depresses me The thought of Balls running the economy terrifies me

I'm amazed the guy was only jailed for 8 years for attempted murder back in '78 when he stabbed his 17 year old ex-girlfriend 13 times and then attacked the mother when she tried to intervene. How could anyone do this? Simple, he's got a big ego, he's spent the majority of his life getting what he wants and doing what the hell he wants to other people and doesn't give a stuff about anyone apart from himself. The guy should never be let out.

As my old mum used to say, "It's amazing what you can find in charity shops"

As long as it is after bills/rent etc. then I could live on that if I needed to, making the necessary cutbacks. Assuming it's referring to JSA, that's a payment that is designed to tide someone over until they find work, not a payment that someone can comfortably live on.

Would strike me as a direct replacement for Hooiveld

I'd have Sessegnon.

Fantastic result. Who could have predicted 9 points out of 9 against Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool? We can literally beat ANYONE at home. whilst we're only 4 points above the drop zone but Stoke, Norwich, Newcastle and Sunderland are well and truly in the scrap now. We will be fine.

Sadly, that would make an already dire humanitarian situation even worse. You'd have a power vacuum, hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing to neighbouring countries plus a massive proportion of those 200,000 people in the labour camps would have absolutely nowhere to go. There is this Hollywood movie-like train of thought in the western world which believes that removing a dictator makes people "free". It doesn't. What it actually does is create chaos and conflict because people naturally want different things and people can actually suffer more than they did whilst living under a dictator. (see Iraq post- Saddam) No one knows who is in charge day to day and an uncontrolled civilian population can be a dangerous thing. It'd be a long long time before the Kim dynasty is toppled and the only way it'll be toppled is from within and/or with Chinese interference. A large scale invasion will never happen because of North Korea's weapons program. Also when the entire population has been brainwashed for decade upon decade and don't know anything different from believing the U.S. are the route of all evil and know nothing of the world outside North Korea (some prisoners don't know of a world outside the labour camp their in) I wouldn't have thought they'd welcome an invasion with open arms. The fate of the North Korean people is one of the biggest forgotten tragedies in the modern world IMO. One day the Kim dynasty will fall but it may not happen in our lifetimes.

You do realise Webber tried to do exactly the same thing at the 2011 British Grand Prix? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/8629942/British-Grand-Prix-2011-Mark-Webber-set-for-talks-with-Red-Bull-after-ignoring-orders-at-Silverstone.html

But they didn't rack up that debt whilst playing in the FL. They racked that up in the PL and got a 9 point deduction, were then relegated and then racked up even more debt in the FL. Hence why they got another points deduction from the FL in February 2012, who have since reiterated they will get another one when they come out of admin. They've been treated no more leniently than any other club apart from the FL's peculiar stance on having a lesser punishment for agreeing to a CVA and not honouring it, than not agreeing to a CVA in the first place, which could have applied to any club. Like The9 says, your agenda is totally imaginary.

What like the failure to qualify for Euro 2008 did? As long as player's names sell replica football shirts they'll walk into the squad, the England "team" is barely anything more than a brand. It's why the squad is made up of disinterested has-beens who do the minimum in the competitive matches they play, and why we've got zero chance of winning a major tournament for a long time to come. The selection process is based around reputation, the club the players plays for, merchandise sales and not current form. Most of the players are paid way too much and their hearts aren't it, and it doesn't matter who the manager is - they are are largely there for the ride. Also quite a few Eastern European nations/South American nations outside of Argentina and Brazil/Top Asian/African/North American nations have improved quite a bit in the last 10-20 years whilst we've gone backwards. Take Montenegro - apart from Jovetic, Vucinic and Savic who all play in Serie A, most of their squad is made up of jobbers that play in the smaller Eastern European leagues. Their an inferior team to us but they're a very young country and the reason why they should have beaten us last night and why their in pole position to qualify is because they wanted it so much more.

I think it had more to do with Vettel being held up by his team-mate whilst both Mercedes were following closely. Vettel got on the radio and told them Webber was too slow. Whilst he disobeyed his team at that point and pulled rank (which he shouldn't have) he also proved he was right in what he said because he overtook Webber all on his own and won the race. Also Rosberg only finished 8.4 seconds behind Webber even though he lost at least that stuck behind a fuel saving Hamilton for the last 6 laps. If Mercedes had let Rosberg pass Hamilton Webber's 2nd place would have been under serious threat from Rosberg. When he broke ranks Weber let him past so that the petulant little pr*ck didn't end up taking them both out again. Webber let him past? Really? That's funny because I saw them battling for the lead almost constantly between laps 44 and 46, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuIe5TeBC4U before Webber tries to balk Vettel at the apex of turn 4 thinking he's trying the cutback but Vettel does him by going round the outside. I think ultimately Vettel did the wrong thing but at the same time I think he had good justification in doing what he did in terms of how the race was playing out at that point.

As a Cortese supporter I think he has unknowingly set himself up for a big fall potentially. If Adkins keeps Reading up and we go down it will be nothing short of an embarrassment. Will it happen? No I don't think it will but if it did the repercussions would be significant. I also wouldn't mind betting if Reading are 3-0 up in the 87th minute on the 6th April, the "there's only one Nigel Adkins" chants will be coming from both sets of supporters.

and bodybuilders. This guy is well over 18 stone but I'd challenge anyone to go up to him and call him fat

I thought that was Wilde? We spent a club record £6 million (The theo money) on transfers during the 06-07 season before Wilde's first spell as chairman ended in February 2007, gambling on one of the best squads in the championship, Jermaine Wright and a blithering idiot achieving promotion. Then after we failed we had to sell Kenwyne/Bale loan out Rasiak/Skacel the following season, Dodd & Gorman, Pearson etc. etc. From memory I think Crouch took over after the money had been gambled, I may be wrong.

Once Webber has won 3 world drivers titles and comprehensively outperformed his team mate for 2 and a half years he'll have a genuine cause for complaint. Making oneself indispensible always earns extra privileges in life.

He very much obliged

Difficult one though. There are nations like Andorra and San Marino that have zero resources, a tiny population and no potential to be able to put out anything more than a village/pub team with one or two players that have experience of playing football professionally. Then there are nations like Azerbaijan who were no hopers 10-15 years ago, had potential and through competing against better teams are now conceding far fewer goals and are getting results against stronger nations. Earlier in the qualifying they'd have beaten Northern Ireland away if it hadn't been for a 96th minute equalizer by David Healy. And on rare occasions shocks do happen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXmla8IdsJo

LOL at someone editing wikipedia and putting Emile Heskey in the San Marino squad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_marino_national_football_team

Yeah, before the match I couldn't help thinking about when it took us 35 mins to break this team down in October, or when we reached half-time at 0-0 against an Andorran pub team under McClanger, but they've been clinical so far. Germany put 13 past them a few years ago, let's see what we can do. To put it into perspective San Marino's population is about the same as the town of Douglas on the Isle of Man.

I think RICHARD CHORLEY had a few of those around that time as well

I seem to recall Crouch, Wilde and Lowe were all opposed to them anyway