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Sport England announces that Manchester, Nottingham and Portsmouth have been shortlisted to become England’s first ‘City of Football’ errr what????

Any of the old Indian or Pakistani airports - in fact I am off to Islamabad next week - it is the pits!

or did he go already?

Matt Crocker off maybe? That would be a very bad thing!

Not sure of pubs down that way as I usually end up in the northern part of the Forest but went to Calshot a few times as a kid. Many a school kid has lost a chunk of skin to that velodrome!

Veho make some very good stuff - ambitious, innovative and well thought of in the industry. Can't see a problem - seems like a good fit for us

Chasing Jamie O'Hara again. Nice line here:

"However, Pompey have identified the 27-year-old as a player to get them out of relegation trouble and are prepared to create the finances to capture him."

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/pompey-chasing-o-hara-swoop-1-5963883

Yep - adds a Chromecast type icon to Google Music for you to cast straight to Sonos. There is a way you can set it up in the Sonos app itself but that relies on you having a pc always on and is more complex.

I have the Play:One brilliant little device. Using Spotify, my home media server, my ipad library, and Google Music (unofficial - using a bit of a hack to make it work!)

Had no issues except some of the lower bit rate streams end up a bit tinny. I am going to add another Play:one and a Connect (plugged into my AV Receiver) in the coming months

Its on super sport 5 in south africa and my hotel only goes to super sport 3

Same here - although I have up to SS4! I can't watch a stream as the hotel wifi is limited to 250MB a day.

First new music from Embrace in 7 years!

http://vevo.ly/YcklSM

We were in Turkey this summer - Hisaronu. The day boat trip was a highlight - there were 7 of us so we organised a boat to ourselves. Some of them really pack people on so it was nice to have space.

3pm Kick off on 4th Jan.

Season Ticket Holders will be able to claim their usual seats for #SaintsFC’s #FACup game against Burnley from 9am on Tuesday 17th December.

Tickets for our #FACup game against Burnley will then go on general sale at 9am on Monday 23rd December. #saintsfc

Depends how much you are looking to pay - The Zetter in Clerkenwell is nice, as is The Roseberry which is a serviced apartment setup. The Zetter can get pricey but they do have great rates sometimes. The Roseberry will give you a studio - with full kitchen for around £130. I use The Roseberry for business trips and it is excellent and usually cheaper than any hotel in the same area. They state minimum 7 nights on their site but a quick email will get you a shorter duration.

Club Quarters are also good - several around the city.

http://www.supercityuk.com/the-rosebery.html

http://www.thezetter.com/

http://www.clubquarters.com/

I laughed when I saw Stuart Gray has taken over. Just needed a Hoddle in there somewhere and we were back in the early 2000s

First goal = 40 points

I would be happy with a top half finish

privateinternetaccess.com for me

2 fence panels and some detritus from the oak trees - was blooming windy at 5am, but nothing much to show for it. They clocked 75mph at Hurn just round the corner - not as bad as expected.

Scores a free kick - doing well

Shame it sounds like the daleks are commentating

We get a free season ticket for Wimborne Town as my son plays for one of the youth teams - normally £10 a game which is ridiculous as the quality is pretty dire - I think I could still give a few of them a run for their money!