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Whatever.

Didnt know the FAA was in such a bad state nowadays.

At least John Terry knows what to expect now. I've hated Suarez since he robbed Ghana in the 2010 WC QF.

Onwership of that land is disputed between two ancient peoples with equal claim, imho. Totally different from the Falklands, which have been British since time immemorial.

To be fair, we also sold them Canberra bombers, Type 42 frigates, Sea Dart missiles, loads of other hardware, and an AIRCRAFT CARRIER (Vienticinco de Mayo, ex HMV Venerable) EDIT : Actually, the carrier came via the Dutch Navy.

dronskisaint, I cant even start to debunk your comment, it is wrong in so many ways. Geographical, historical, legal, etc etc. I'll let others with greater patience explain..... As for the carrier-share idea with the French, well that was always going to be a one-way street, just like their resgination from the military strucutre of NATO in 1966 (aka, if we get attacked, NATO must help us, if any part of the rest of NATO gets attacked, go f**k yourself). I really do wonder how the rest of the world puts up with the French and the way they see things. What worries me most is that our carrier-trained pilots are very dependent on the French, their Rafales and their carrier CdG to "keep their hand in" until QE goes oeprational (God knows when)

The loss of the carriers is a red herring here. They were useful for retaking the islands, but the key this time would be to not lose them in the first place. Since it took the Task Force at least 2 weeks to get there last time, carriers are of no use in that case. Yes, we are dependent on the intelligence services doing their job this time. I am hoping we have a satellite taking lots of nice pictures sat in full view of the Argy airforce bases in Tierra Del Fuego or wherever they are. Not sure a ground covert operation is a realistic threat.

But that would require the Argentinian airforce crossing 250miles of open sea to get there. The only way I see them doing that with a sure fire measure of success is a large formation of aircraft, because the Typhoons would dispatch a small formation. Our intelligence services would pick up on such an operations preparation and by the time they got in the air they would be dealing with 24 Typhoons, not 4.

Racial insult is much, much worse. You are making a value judgement based upon that person potentially without even knowing them.

Good post. The key to it all is of course, as you have touched on yourself, is that the UK govt make sure they never for one milisecond let the resolve they demonstrate in the direction of Argentina with regards to the Falklands to slip. I've just read somewhere that the UK Government is funding a significant airfield building exercise in St. Helena. This sounds to me like a Plan B over the Ascension Island replenishment/reinforcement route, since perhaps the US cannot be relied upon to allow access (bizarre considering its ours, but apparently it took direct intervention from Caspar Weinberger to get the USAF to let our Victors and Vulcans use the base in 1982).

Cameron has to do something about this. Argentina is going to keep upping the ante. If he loses the Falklands, his party will be out for a generation. We need to send some additional RAF presence down for the duration (suggest a flight of 4 x Tornado GR4s with anti-shipping missiles), and up the sporadic RN presence, maybe another patrol boat. It seems to refer only to the 4 core Mercosur countries, which at least means Chile is not involved.

That's an excellent summary of where we are.

I like the Nick-name (pun intended). May I use it ?

Thought you were a bit generous to Halsey.

Hmmm. If I were NA, and seeing as he's a RM and we are continually playing three CMs and ending up with an unbalanced midfield, I would be thinking about calling him into my office when he returns, and if his mind appears right, giving him another chance.......... Unlikely I know. And having been one of the more outspoken on the issue of Puncheon, I can believe I saying it either. I must be really worried about our season being de-railled...

Setting aside the racial stereotyping, it does seem that in the cold light of day and away from the cloying presence of the French midget, that the Germans have had a change of heart and realised what side their bread is buttered on....

Do you really reckon we are even close to top of the table for conversion rate ??

Yes there are. Sharp, Maynard, the bloke at Coventry who I cannot spell, just to name 3. Time to dig deep, NC, if you are serious about the Premiership.

BBC coverage was appaling. I was especially annoyed with Shearer, who talked about the game with the detachment and enthusiasm as if he had just watched Guatemala vs Nicaragua at U-21 level. Didnt he once play for us, and supposedly was there to balance Clarridge and whoever that dork on the co-commentary was ?

Yep. Unfortunate this thread needs to be re-started every month...

What, so the home crowd should start chucking abuse at him ? Think a few people should cast their minds back to the Boro game...

I've had a second look. I thought Kelvin's reaction was p*s-poor too.

I reckon if you went throught the stats you would discover that although we score lots of goals, our chance conversion is f**king diabolical.

You whining bunch of pansies. Blaming the substitution too. Mental.

Leave it out with the Goolie scapegoating, FFS. The whole team didnt do enough. Our midfield was mis-firing and rarely dominated.