Sergei Gotsmanov

Brilliant. I would add the physio's spongue and the chewing gum sold in tabs

In fact my memories of the match day experience in the early eighties was; 1 Snacks on sale with people with trays 2 The wagon wheel and cherry flavoured sweets 3 Wanting to be one of the people who collected the ball from the roof by the clock 4 The alphabet coded half time scores 5 The supporters shop was always closed 6 Jack (RIP)in his white coat doing the car park 7 The band at half time 8 The St Johns ambulancemen always wore football boots 9 People in the lower west stand with flasks and cushions 10 Every other person seemed to have a small portable radio 11 The stadium announcer always announcing car registration numbers for illegally parked cars 12 Pipe smoke in the West Stand

I would reprocate many of your observations but would add that since I have been going to Saints in the late seventies a common theme has been that people have alwasy moaned about the price of the programme. I seem to recall that in the early eighties we did win awards for having the best programme but I may be wrong.

I find it very odd. I am sure Adkins knows better than me but I would have thought that with Gaston's and adam's vision and Lamberts knock downs his pace would have been quite a threat. I would have expected him to be a bit like Yakubo.

It provided a lot of insight in the mechanics of the press and I think will undoubtedly have changed the culture of fleet street. Will Cameron lose out at the Ballott Box - no because essentially he is on the right side of the argument. The proposals are an alarming threat to free speech and the more this is debated the more this wil be flushed out.

In fairness you benefit from subsidy. Unfortunately we are now borrowing to subidise ourselves from China and at some point they will want to take their people out of poverty and ask for the money back.

Not really aintforever, capitalism does not believe in subsidy.

That was more down to EU policy. We used to be forced and paid by the EU to put our arable land out of production (is that 'planned').

No it was about rearing turkey as cheaply as possible making it more accessible to the millions

Before you award yourselves a Blue Peter Badge just remember that capitalism (with some EU subsidy) has delivered as cheap a food as we could ever have imagined. We effectively have 6 buyers and 250000 suppliers. Look up how many dairy farmers there were 10 years ago and how many there are now. All Bernard Matthews did was to make turkey cheap enough to make it an every day meal choice; people who could never afford turkey could now eat it.

I prefer the Nigerians, at least they aim big and just email me

The whole world plays the game.

My experience of dealing with BT is that they are not always computer literate and English speakers. I am polite though and normally just make small talk about cricket before putting saying my goodbyes

The trouble is he probably barely makes a living. I have made a point of being polite to these callers because they are after all just trying to earn a wage. It is their bosses I have my quarrel with.

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In a properly free society you have to listen to Abu Hamza and Nick Griffin.

With their injury list it must be an opportunity

This is quite chilling. It undermines all the values that we as a free nation represent. Repulsive intolerance at the expense of the children.

I mremember the buzz of excitement when he came on - we all knew he was 'George Weah's cousin' and actually he had a half chance quite early on. He was subbed after 10 or 20mins if I recall.

Not in the spirit of things I know but in the circumstances this is good news!

Interesting, where as I generally fall on the other side of the argument I often find you quite eloquent. I am guilty of stereotyping.

Very sad

and the relevance to the Sunderland player who declined to wear a poppy is.........

Yes Dinger take the context out won't you. If you don't like what I said re-read until you understand the point I was making.

They must be squirming at being cross examined by Margaret Hodge. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businesslatestnews/9668396/Margaret-Hodges-family-company-pays-just-0.01pc-tax-on-2.1bn-of-business-generated-in-the-UK.html When will our politicians stop being hypocritical