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Compared to Kelvin, who was part of one of the worst teams in the history of the Premier League at Sunderland he is a world beater. QPR will give him away for free in summer, I doubt there are many better out there free who wont mind FF being first choice.

I despair when sending Long and Gallagher on is 'going for it' but in this instance I fear you are right. As many Saints goals between them as Steve De Ridder.

Neither has Harry Kane TBH.

Off to clean the grouting in my bathroom. Toodles!

Need divine intervention already

If this is accurate I will eat my hat!

Is it just me or do the left hate the right more than the other way around. When Farage failed to win his seat in South Thanet the loudest noise came from a couple of gobby women in the room who were cheering loudly and shouting, "Bye bye Nigel!" To me it came across as very bitter. I'm not one to agree with Farage but he isn't exactly Nick Griffin and is standing up for his own political beliefs. I can't really imagine the same level of spite had the Greens lost their seat in Brighton. I thought the same after Thatcher died and people were dancing in the streets shouting, "rejoice!"

Another 2 years I think. I can only assume the club have a coaching role lined up for him.

Someone like Shalke or Werder would be decent. Not too far to travel and big clubs with decent fans. Want to avoid teams like Dnipro or whoever qualifies from Kazakhstan.

Oh sh*t.

I'm sure it's buried somewhere in this thread already but Rob Green has got to be a better bet than Davis or Gazza next season and QPR will be desperate to get him off the wage bill now they're going down. I don't think we will get a better 'keeper willing to compete with FF in the long term.

That sounds a lot like sour grapes to me. So the guy you want didn't win, boo-hoo. It's hardly as if we've elected a BNP majority. I've seen a few comments this morning along the lines of 'bye-bye' NHS etc. Like that's going to happen.

Only 30 for Nation of Ooog.

Give it a year or 2 and we will have players in Saints first team born in the year 2000. That REALLY makes me feel old.

@IDS_MP on twitter, gets so many bites from non-Tory voters who don't realise it's a spoof.

What a gimp taking selfies in a pink T-shirt.

Paul Merson always said 2-0 is a dangerous scoreline. Watch this space.

Hardly a surprise but 791 for LD. Oh dear.

I know they didn't in 2007

So you think the ball spends 1/3 of the time out of play, (your words not mine, apparently 30 minutes would have to be added to the 90 if we stopped the clock) but this doesn't constitute regular, prolonged or consistent breaks in play? Right oh... However, at no point in these 30 minutes should we spend 2 minutes (most decisions would take a lot less but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt) reviewing a potentially game changing incident on video. But then you also said... So if there are 2 minutes before the ball goes out of play in some instances, the video ref would already have come to a decision whilst the ball was in play. So no time at all would be lost. The video ref wouldn't have to wait until the ball was out of play to START reviewing the footage.

I think Bolton tried to sign Rivaldo once.

Hang on, in this same thread you said Which is it?

Yeah...

GLT was never used up until very recently. Then incidents like Lampard's goal against Germany and that goal Ukraine scored against England highlighted the ridiculous farce in not using this equipment. It's coming eventually whether you like it or not. It will probably take a couple more incidents like the hand of God, or Henry against Ireland which decided major tournaments/qualifying but it will come. I've explained enough times how your example can be quite simply dealt with. You insist on speaking as if having a goal disallowed and penalty rightly awarded will somehow destroy the whole game. It wont and the small, occasional delays involved will be no more significant than players time wasting by faking injury or kicking the ball into the crowd.

No it leaves the game, in very rare circumstances, with a disallowed goal and a penalty awarded. It's not a difficult situation to understand, though it would be disappointing for the team who had the goal disallowed. However, you would walk away from the game feeling as if justice had been done. If the video ref proved that you should have conceded a penalty, then you should never have had the chance to score the goal. As has been said several times; it's a very rare event. How often is a clear penalty not given and the opposing team then scores immediately without the ball going out of play. Yes there are the occasional, "we should have had a penalty 2 minutes before they scored!" moments but there is usually a goal kick or a thrown in in there somewhere, when a video ref could be consulted without stopping the game.