Sergei Gotsmanov

Loved Champoluc and Courmayeur. Iain Dowie was in a bar in Courmayeur we spent an evening in. Apart from the Polenta I preferred Champoluc; the slopes were empty. Italians are good people.

The moral of the story is that nobody would have minded if the Police had been polite and explained why they were doing what they were doing and apologised when they finished. How many courses do they get sent on? Perhaps one that taught them manners like the coppers had when we were younger!

We all laughed and laughed. Well done for being such good sports. Ignore the self conscious ones!

If the average is 20% then that is one win in 5. The actual average I have is 26% - I would say that is 4-5 points

I think it is easier to assess the chances of a win in percentage terms Sunderland (h) - 55% Have to win this Fulham (a) - 20% Stoke (a) 15% Arsenal (h) 20% Villa (a) 20% I reckon that equates to 4 points

I would reply writing a letter that the vehicle was not in use at the time stated. Keep all details that they have sent you. Fight this and you must surely win.

They have gone up by 150% in my estimation

Why should people have to compromise their faith to pander to what you believe. A tolerant society respects all opinions. You have also not explored why the Church as a rule fundementally opposes the homosexual lifestyle and are undermining people's right to think differently. Do you think that is right?

I am saying that it takes all sorts to make up our society and the State should respect all segments and their lifestyles not start judging them.

Do you really believe that BTF? Of course any Church can and should marry who they want but the agenda is very much designed to undermine the religious institutions that preach their disapproval of gay lifestyles. The first opportunity that comes along this will go to court and the longer term results will be people being criminalised for practicing their faith. That is what I find unpalatable.

No, gays can do what they do and religious people can do what they do without the State making judgement on one or the other. Your position is intolerant because you are demanding that people compromise their faith.

It is quite straightforward you are denying one part of our society the right to practice their faith how they feel fit. I believe that gays should be entitled to live how they like and so should people with a faith; ask your self who is the intolerant one?

But you are denying people the right to follow their own lifestyles. You are advocating that people are forced to compromise their faith in their own place of worship.

So you have the right to disapprove of how people live their lives but they are not afforded that right.

I was there for what I think was Alan Ball's first game as manager at Newcastle when we won 2 -1. Matty scored a the winner with a free kick. Due to work on the stadium there were no away fans allowed. Did anyone else get in?

Did anyone ever watch the games from the block of flats overlooking the Archers?

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