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For those whose keyboards cannot provide an Umlaut, it is perfectly acceptable to write and "e" after the letter involved. Therefore "ü" becomes "ue"

According to one of the nationals today, the government now think austerity measures, previously planned until 2015, will need to be continued until 2020. Dark times we live in

British cycling really is unstoppable at the moment, it seems.

:lol: In fairness, Fatima is a remarkable success story considering what a truly rotten childhood she had.

Harsh. She has one helluva body.

Zaha or Clyne ?

NC is still deciding in which box the other NC gets his supper today...

KP definitely out of the T20 World Cup. No late reprieve : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2175397/Kevin-Pietersen-misses-T20-World-Cup-ECB-stand-firm-day-demands.html

Dont agree. He was suffering from a serious slump in form.

In most cases I would describe this perspective as downright cynical, but in the case of G4S it appears to be a perfect description.

This. Oh, and the private sector never get punished appropriately when they balls up either.

I suspect a combination of both. I wouldnt put it as hard as "inept", perhaps "naiive" This is b*ll*cks, mate. I am 100% certain that NCs vision is for us to compete now we've got back there.

Look, All we can do at the moment is a "mid-term" report on FACTS. What HAS happened on the transfer market at Saints. And then ask the question: are the FACTS ofour transfer activity ENOUGH to keep us in the PL ? So, we have bought J-Rod, good-looking striker, great potential, and Steven Davis who it is not clear if he is even permitted to play for us, but seeing as he didnt participate in the Memorial Cup it seems currently that he is NOT permitted. The FACTS are we have no GK cover, and have no decent CB cover. Also there are doubts we are strong enough in centre midfield for this division. Fact or not ? So based on FACTS, our transfer period so far is underwhelming and disappointing. Maybe our management were a bit naiive about their ability to secure targets at this level and with the club widely perceived to have a healthy bank balance. Based on FACTS, our transfer period does not look strong enough to keep us in this division.

Would you ??

Who was actually monitoring the activity of this company, FFS ? What a bunch of money-grabbing opportunists. As for the summer leave period, I really feel for the poor sods who have to go on the next detail to Afghanistan, a small number (I pray...) of who will be losing the very last chance they have to spend time with their family. And all thanks to a bunch of greedy bastards led by a Cockney wide-boy.

You disagree ? OK, forget "petered out". Its hit a brick f**king wall Büttner can f**k off. I've totally lost patience with this sh*t.

Jesus. I see we need to find another 2K of service personnel today because G4S people arent turning up (I really wonder about the quality of people they have recruited), and this means interrupting basic training and using recruits because the Army has really reached the bottom line. What with breakdowns on the Underground yesterday, this Olympics is going to be a national disgrace/embarrassment which reveals DECADES of underfunding and penny-pinching, especially in the Armed Forces.

Generally speaking, does NC's office answer letters from the club's customers ? Pretty poor show if it doesnt.

Two points have prevented me from going to the US : 1. Gun control. I dont want to come home from work one day to find my family dead with the back sides of their skulls sliding down the walls from a f**ked up burglary, or getting a call telling me some Marilyn Manson-listening whack-job has gone into school and shot my kid to pieces 2. The lack of social net. I have never claimed welfare, but the lack of pay-as-you-earn medical care and unemployment support if something beyond my control goes wrong at work, with such a big and young family, worries me deeply.

Oh yes - forgot about that one. The end was quite a twist too. Didnt Mike Wilde have one of the costumes from the rescue team in his living room or something ? 28 Days Later was quite good too, though the alternative ending made the film less scary, I thought.

Fine, by why havent FIFA granted the much-vaunted "temporary licences" in the meantime ? The administration of football is power-hungry and incompetent.

Personally I am struggling to understand why the IPL is acceptable to the ICC when Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket was so abhorrent back in the 70s.

Dalek, we've spent 7m in this window and have made offers in the region of another 10m already. Suggest to you that grabbing parachute payments is not the be-all and end-all of our efforts this season, NC wants us to genuinely succeed. I will concede however, that at this point in time our transfer activity seems to have petered out.....

Sorry, BIT80s, but that was my recollection too. The IPL werent interested in any other English players back then. Not that it justifies KPs attitude.

Between 2005 and 2010 KP managed to find the time to play for Hampshire - once.