Guided Missile

Expat Saints "Fans"... ...seem to come in two flavours on this site. 1.Last of the Summer Wine Usually post in glowing terms about days gone by, trying hard to recapture the glory days, back in the mother country. About as entertaining to read as the TV show of the same name, and also about as relevant, to the fans streaming into St. Marys nowadays. Keep it up guys, I think you know who you are, but don't blame me if I think of Compo, when I read your posts. Let's face it, nostalgia is not what it used to be. 2.Last of the Scummer Whine Usually post in negative terms about anything related to the club, city or the country. In the early stages of going native, so not reached that grumpy charm that Compo has. More the expression that the club, city or country they left behind didn't quite fit their ideals, those that served them so badly when they lived here. Zero entertainment value in their posts at the moment and the only relevance to the fan of today is the possiblity that more impressionable section of our fanbase may detect a slight lowering of their moral, when reading them. I think of Lord Haw Haw when reading the uninformed dirge they post. He was hanged for treason, but I think the penalty for them, when Saints are back in the premiership will be the sight of their gradual decline into a sad exile, never quite belonging to their new country and unable to return to God's country to see their team play... HTH... Winchester based fans will get a mention from me, when I've finished my new "Dirty Northern B@ stards" thread...

Ron, Deense, niet Nederlands. Alstublieft bijbenen.

Det vil sige Michael Jackson er den bedste levende akt i verden

Deja Vu: From: Keith To: Guided Missile Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:15 pm Subject: I think.. ..your posts about Wilde's personal finances could be construed as possibly libellous. He has given you a response and won't talk further on the subject. I think you've tried to made a point and like many of yours, they are based on half arsed information and your own agenda. From: Guided Missile To: Keith Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:28 pm Subject: Re: I think So Mike Wilde has threatened to sue me and you for libel, has he Keith? Listen, you well know my post was pure conjecture regarding his personal finances. With regard to Merlion plc, my information was based on the returns he files with Companies' House, so that post was hardly libellous. By the way, I have no agenda but finding out as much as I can about someone who is about to control the football club I support. I expect the same transparency from Rupert Lowe. Look in the mirror and ask yourself what your agenda is. By the way, if Mr Wilde is threatening to sue me for libel, my lawyers details are : Contact: ******** ******** ******** ******** ****** does all my corporate legal work and is a really nice guy. PS I don't really want my tenner back, just this site's impartiality.

Basically, you appear to reflect the attitude pervasive amongst the moderators on this site. Misinformed about libel laws on the internet and far too precious about your own role and the overblown importance of this site in general. Now, if it was free, I would dismiss your patronising comments as the well meaning effort of an amateur helping to run a website, but as we pay for access, it p! sses me off that our unpaid contributions to the site are subject to censorship. You sound like a traffic warden giving legal opinion at a high court case, FFS. Just a tip. No one cares about the opinions of a bunch of anonymous posters, with regard to anything that is posted about a third tier football club and NO ONE is going to be sued for the content of the posts that appear here. Until you and the rest realise that you will disappear up your own arses with this site, in the same way as Keith Legg did with S4E. Towards the end of that site, I posted this, in response to one from Mike Wilde: Shortly after this exchange, Legg PM'd me with a threat from Wilde that he was going take legal action for libel. I provided Legg with my lawyers name and address and told him to go ahead. A further period after this exchange, Southampton Leasure PLC went into administration, owing millions. More recently, Wildes' company Merlion Group went into liquidation. Grow some balls, guys. There is something not right about the club's higher management, in my opinion and definitely something not right about this site. Has Cortese got to you lot, like Wilde got to Legg. If so, this site is screwed...

Just to help... Update 2009: High Court ruling on bulletin board cases The High Court has ruled that defamation on internet bulletin boards is akin to slander rather than libel. Mr Justice Eady hearing a case regarding posts on an investors bulletin board (or forum) has said that such comments are not to be taken in the same context as a formal newspaper (etc) article and are more like slander due to the casual or conversational nature of them. Mr Justice Eady stated that posts on bulletin boards "are rather like contributions to a casual conversation (the analogy sometimes being drawn with people chatting in a bar) which people simply note before moving on; they are often uninhibited, casual and ill thought out...Those who participate know this and expect a certain amount of repartee or 'give and take'." As such "When considered in the context of defamation law, therefore, communications of this kind are much more akin to slanders (this cause of action being nowadays relatively rare) than to the usual, more permanent kind of communications found in libel actions...People do not often take a 'thread' and go through it as a whole like a newspaper article. They tend to read the remarks, make their own contributions if they feel inclined, and think no more about it." Full article [Reading Room].

I guess the fact that Franny Benali informed a good friend of mine that he was suing our chairman for £50K is one of the things I can't post about because of you strange and incorrect views on libel, then? I found the fact quite interesting and worth sharing, but then again...

Didn't realise we had that section as I never stray too far from this one and Saints... Anyway, I was really talking about good comedy movies, so "Okay you c**** let's see what you can do now."

Having a chat with a couple of barmen in the US last week and we ran through the best movies we have seen in the last year. Starting with comedies, we all agreed that there has been nothing to touch last years winner, The Hangover, one of the best movies of the last ten years. Heard good things about The Other Guys, Will Ferrell's latest movie with Mark Wahlberg but after seeing it, I was very disappointed. Given up seeing anything that made me laugh as much as the Hangover, until I happened to watch Kick Ass on the plane home. Not a movie I would have gone to see, but Jeez, how brilliant was that? As sad as I am, I pre-ordered the DVD which is out on the 6th September and all I can say is, buy it. By far the best dialogue and action sequence by a ten year old girl in any movie I have seen...funny as f*** Any movies that touched you guys this year?

Doing well at school, the influence of teachers over your future success and the importance of the school you went to, are all extremely overrated. Your character, your parents, your friends and lastly, your health, fitness and happiness as a child, define your future, together with a shedload of luck. Teachers? Lecturers? If they are so smart, why aren't they rich?

Forget the photographs of the action on the pitch. Prior to kick off and during the game, there are always a number of shots of the manager and the directors box. I am taking a wild guess that there will not be any photos of our leader and his guests in future. I wonder who our official photographer is. Leni Riefenstahl?

After the Johnson's Paint Trophy Final at Wembley, I really don't think anyone has the right to criticise our fans. Certainly not any mega-money, professional footballer/manager. Booing? Jeez, in Italy they would have been lobbing flares at 'em... "Mummy, the fans booed at me yesterday" "Never mind, son, ignore those nasty fans. You've got your Sunday roast to look forward to"

For those that care, the point is, that this forum is being overrun by posters that have nothing to do with the club. I got an infraction for "insulting" an anonymous poster on a Pompey website, who happens to share an anonymous identity with someone on here. FFS, guys, this site should be for Saints fans that share our values, not internet geeks that seek to destroy our morale. We proudly sponsor Danny Butterfield this season and for the attention of "The Rover", we sponsored Antonio last season. "Judging by Agform's past record I wouldn't trust you to pick a horse for me." W@ nker... That's me signing off. F*** the lot of you...

Turned up at the Sponsors dinner, suited and booted, at, may I add, £75 a head, with three guests....and.... .....never, in the history of Saints football club have I been prouder of the team I support, nor the manager that leads them. Assembled were some of the most modest young men you have ever met and, on our table, in addition to my guests, was the player I sponsor. Polite and personable, he has married his childhood sweetheart, his first priority is looking for a good local school for his two young children and when asked, "What was it about the deal, that made you come to Southampton?", he replied, "I didn't know what the deal was and it didn't matter. Every player knows what a great club Southampton is and what an honour it is to play for them. It didn't really matter what they were offering"....and believe me, he was telling the truth. Forget that the club phoned me up yesterday and reminded me that I have to pay the sponsorship invoice, before my company is featured on the screen tomorrow. At last we have a business man running the club. No money, no showey.. I love this club, the family values it demonstrates, the great young players that just want to play football and the city it represents. 2 points for calling a nameless ex-pat a "douche bag" when I should have said "sleaze bag". Worth, it every time...

I challenge anyone to read this post, from one of our favourite, over 50, over there, ex-pats and not feel that our loss is also their loss. "What do I do?" As little as possible mate...live by the ocean, drive a big, new fu¢k of Merc and have a hot young b!tch (as numerous posters can confirm). Raise Guide Dogs for The Blind and coach 'soccer'... Does "douche bag" get through the swear filter?

The section that the judge will have to concentrate his mind on, whichever way he goes, is, I believe: 55(2) Except as otherwise provided by the following provisions of this section, the tax charged- (a) by the amendment or assessment, or (b) where the appeal is against a conclusion stated by a closure notice, as a result of that conclusion,shall be due and payable as if there had been no appeal. I think this pretty much distils it down to the main point. Comments welcomed!

A little history lesson for the clueless bunch down the road in this article. I quote: In 1988, Hammam applied for, and was granted, outline planning permission by the London Borough of Merton to move Wimbledon from their Plough Lane ground to a new stadium in the Wandle Valley. But Hammam did not proceed with a planning agreement which required him to make improvements to the area, and the plan died. Plough Lane was subject to a restriction imposed by the council that it should always be used for sport or recreation. In 1990, Hammam bought out this covenant, leaving Plough Lane free for development, reportedly for between £300,000 and £800,000. The following year the club moved to share Selhurst Park with Crystal Palace and have been stuck there, homeless, ever since. Hammam himself, rather than the club, owned Plough Lane, via his holding company, Rudgwick Limited, which charged Wimbledon rent. Rudgwick, which is registered at the London offices of Kennedys solicitors, is wholly owned by Sam Hammam; he and his brother Nijad are the sole directors. In 1998, he sold Plough Lane to Safeway for a price reported to be £8m – the Rudgwick accounts for that year show a £5m profit on the sale of a property. I think we can see what blueprint Gaydamak used in his difficult task of making money out of a football club like Pompey.

Ticket Office has not made any friends yet

If anyone runs an undemocratic organisation, it's NI via the Saints Trust or whatever platform he and his chums hook on to. Lest we forget, the last time these loud mouths got involved in the running of the club, this happened: Crouch and Trant don’t beat about the bush in meeting with the fans 10:42am Friday 16th June 2006 By Echo Reporter » IT was supposed to be the night when key members of Michael Wilde's proposed new board delivered their mission statement to fans. Potential chief executive Jim Hone, operations manager Lee Hoos and chairman Ken Dulieu were aiming to tell supporters just why they should be trusted with the running of their club if Rupert Lowe loses the EGM. But in the absence of their manifesto the publication of which has been delayed due to legal technicalities the evening turned into a showcase for Patrick Trant and Leon Crouch's passion for Saints to come through. Trant was a last-minute addition to the top table for the first half of the meeting at the Northam Social Club. But, after Portugal-based former policeman and financial investigator Delieu and ex-Fulham pair Hone and Hoos had all introduced themselves, it was local businessman Trant head of Trant Construction who got the assembled fans cheering and applauding. CENTRE OF ATTENTION: From left Lee Hoos, Jim Hone, Ken Dulieu and Patrick Trant speak to Saints fans at the Northam Social Club last night. Picture: Nick Day. When NI demonstrates he's capable of running a pi ss up in a brewery, I'll listen to him about how the club should sell ST's. In the meantime, forgive me if I ignore him when he whines like a b! tch...

A newsflash for the budding Marxist shop stewards out there. Companies are not democracies and they are only accountable to the lawmakers and their shareholders. You want a vote, buy some shares. Buy a season ticket and you have to abide by the T & C's...

So.....I roll up outside St. Marys and start selling crap merchandise, to Saints fans who are drawn to the stadium, owned by Liebherr, to watch a team owned by Liebherr, from a stall with a Saints crest on it. The fans complain to the club about the crap merchandise I sold them and after I pack the stall away and try to take my seat in the stadium, a representative of the owner politely tells me that I am no longer allowed in. I can't say that it would be an unreasonable turn of events...

AA reporting someone over excessive fees....:lol::lol:

What I think not many people know is that Andrew Andronikou is a hero in Sweden for what he has done for Pompey, as this movie shows.

The IRA conducted an armed campaign, primarily in Northern Ireland but also in England, over the course of which is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of approximately 1,800 people. The dead included around 1,100 members of the British security forces, and about 630 civilians. Martin McGuinness, on trial in Ireland, 1973 “I am a member of Oglaigh na Eireann (IRA) and very, very proud of it” Martin McGuinness on May 8, 2007 in Stormont, as he took the oath of office as Deputy First Minister, swearing to uphold the rule of law and order. “As for Ian Paisley, I want to wish you all the best as we step forward towards the greatest yet most exciting challenge of our lives”. If you are looking for true justice, you will have to look hard, in a democracy...

We have working experiences of distressed situations with football and already have relationships with mainline administators. Our value add is that these activities can be carried out in complete confidence until engagement commences, and at the same time we can offer the services of a team of consultants which includes ex premiership managers and directors who can act as a transition team during any operation to ensure stability while new management structures and processes are implemented ensuring that your purchase hits the ground running. Can anyone help with a translation of the above passage from Jackson's website? What a crock....