Sergei Gotsmanov

I thought we were absolutely awesome. How can Stoke fans not have seen that

That sounded very painful BTF I hope it repairs quickly

Without sitting down with the McCanns, their friends probably at the same pizza place where they ate you cannot really know for sure. Yes their are indicators that they were reckless but I feel sympathy. I would also suggest their campaign to find their daughter is unrivalled and I admire them for that.

Again you are speculating without really knowing the true circumstances. I would suspect that the apartment was only unlocked because they were going to and forth on such a regular basis or somebody else was - that too is just a guess. I just feel very sorry for them because I would not wish what happened on anyone.

No but without knowing the circumstances I am not ruling out that I would have done. I certainly would not have left it unlocked but if I could see the apartment from my table and others were going back regularly as was I then I might have done. Obviously now I would not.

Well in fairness if you ask my children they will tell you that I am a very good parent. What I am saying is that you cannot judge the McCanns as easily as that without understanding the context. I will not let my children have a motorbike when they are 16 I won't let them take passengers until they are 21 - does that make parents who do bad parents?

Well in fairness if you ask my children they will tell you that I am a very good parent. What I am saying is that you cannot judge the McCanns as easily as that.

I can honestly say that I might have, with a group of friends when the children were asleep have gone out for a pizza only fifty or sixty yards away if I had become complacent and the others were doing it - although it would have been very border line. Like the McCann's I would have checked regularly but the one thing I would have not done is left the apartment unlocked.

They were on holiday within a few hundred yards of their apartment, others in their group were going back regularly to check, it felt quite contained they just got complacent and they have certainly been punished for that.

They were on holiday within a few hundred yards of their apartment, others in their group were going back regularly to check, it felt quite contained they just got complacent and they have certainly been punished for that.

Why is there such a witch hunt against them? Could anybody have worked harder to find their daughter than them? It is a tragedy that all parents dread.

I'm Spartacus

I might need to correct my assessment after today - but some bushes have not delivered. Nature is a funny thing.

There have been better years but there are still some about. I think you can drink after three months but you are better to wait for longer. Other suggestions are always welcome - I put raspberries in and that seemed to deliver

That is what the Daily Mail did but in a tactless way. Miliband talked of his Father's influence and inevitably that would lead to debate on his politics.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/apr/20/cameron-family-tax-havens

Where did I say that and how do you know what newspapers I read? I just find it ironic that on a thread that questions the taste in speaking ill of the dead you chose to join the condemnation with your choice of Avatar.

Where did I say that and how do you know what newspapers I read? I just find it ironic that on a thread that questions the taste of speaking ill of the dead you chose to join the condemnation with your choice of Avatar.

With your avatar I cannot help but chuckle at the hypocrisy. Left or right it offends the British sense of fair play

My sympathy for Ed is diluted by his associations with McBride and the fact that he put power before his relationship with his brother. That said I think it was a pretty tasteless means of attack from the Daily Mail - but then I am not a politician

A victory for common sense and defeat for the jobsworth.

I lost a good friend of mine recently. Drowned falling of his boat. I got him this amazing wreath in the shape of a large lifebuoy for the funeral. Its what he would have wanted.

I would put the blackberries in with the sloe gin

Extraordinary decision to look for the penalty when you have rounded the keeper!

In the old days people blindly followed what their religious leaders told them. Today people seem to be blindly following what scientists are telling us. As with religion I generally ere in the sceptical camp but still respect the motives of both religious leaders and scientists but recognise there is always some self interest present.