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Being one the the more mature (ie. older) members of the forum, I can remember when KP actually played a game for Hampshire.

I think you should be banned for libelling God's Chosen City, the jewel of the South Coast. I lived in Ryde for 9 years and, while it was OK in the summer, the winter was a bit deadly. Also, if you wanted to go anywhere, the ferries were expensive and added an hour each way on to the journey. To be fair, I left in 1985 and since then it's gained a lot of the big chain stores so shopping's a lot better. The people are OK but they can be a bit inward looking, probably the same for all small islands.

Andl also with Tescos

He's 48 tomorrow. Happy Birthday, Alan.

Depends what he wants. At his age, this will be his last big contract. He'll be on Premiership wages and, although he probably knows he'll not be first choice, financial security is probably his priority.

Basically, the west of the Avenue has Virgin fibre. They intend to do the rest of Southampton but won't give any timescales. I've been with them for years (telephone, TV and broadband) and have had very few problems.

This is true. Being married to an infant teacher, my wife has seen many cases of irate parents coming in to complain that their little treasures have come home with a scratch on their leg.

I bought 3 high-value items from different retailers over the internet on one afternoon and paid by Abbey debit card. The payments were blocked. When I phoned Abbey, the said that they blocked them because they were different from my normal spending pattern and it could have been someone using my card fraudulently. I confirmed that they were genuine and all was OK. At least they're looking out for dodgy payments.

23/10/2042 is actually a Thursday

No one elected John Major when Thatcher got the boot.

It was a different world back then. You had clubs like Derby and Ipswich winning the league, and Forest winning the European Cup. The gap between the big city clubs and the more modest ones like us was much narrower. I can't see those days ever returning unless football finances are given a major overhaul.

Depends where in Baddesley you live. If you go down Rownhams Lane, Southampton begins just before you get to Lordshill, whereas if you go via The Clump (or whatever it's called now), Southampton begins at the Clock roundabout. Romsey starts by the Luzborough pub. By the way, I'm a true Romsonian. On my mum's side back to the mid 1800's. When I was a nipper, we always thought that Baddesley was full of pikeys.

Water cannon as well as horses??

The more mature amongst us (ie sad old gits) will remember seeing the odd fracas on the Milton Road end in the 70's. The coppers would wade in and give a good hiding to anyone within reach. No camera phones in those days and no complaints either. If you didn't want to be involved, you just moved out of the way.

We stayed at the Comfort Inn on West 35th St right opposite The Hotel Metro. Great location, a few minutes walk from the Empire State, Macys, the Manhattan Mall and 5th avenue.

There's also one of the test aircraft at the Museum at Yeovilton.

Started taking my lad to reserve games (when they were at The Dell) when he was about 6. He enjoyed it, so took him to 1st team games when he was about 7 and he's been going ever since. Catch 'em while they're young..

He does have a point. The Echo had an article analysing our financial performance over the last few seasons. Bank borrowing when Lowe left = 0 Bank borrowing when Lowe returned = 5.0m It was this 5.0m that put us into administration. This is not a pro-Lowe posting, just pointing out some cold facts. No one person is to blame for this mess.

Ask him why, when he was complaining about being "frozen out" of the club during Rupey's time as chairman, he didn't just go and buy a ticket like the rest of us?

He's getting a bit of a reputation for his comments. I was given a cricketing DVD at Xmas which was sort of a review of last year. Pieterson was shown dropping a number of catches in one match, to which Derek Pringle commented "He should have tried catching them in his mouth, it's certainly big enough"

Excellent bowling figures from Dimi. 3 wickets (and a run-out) for 22 runs. Better than Friday when he conceded 24 off his one & only over.

A word in their defence. Constitutionally, the armed forces and, I think the police, swear allegience to the monarchy not the government. If some power-mad prime minister decided to abolish parliamentary democracy and establish a dictatorship, the monarch could order the armed forces to kick him out and restore normal government. Having said that, I do believe that they could scale things down a bit. Do they really need Buck House, Windsor Castle, Sandringham, Balmoral, Kensington Palace etc?

Quite agree. 27 is far too young for anyone to die. I'm the wrong side of 50 and lost my mum last year. She was in her 90's and it was not unexpected but it still hits you hard. She only made money because people buy the sort of magazines that publish stuff about so-called celebrities. Can't blame her for that.

I'd agree with Sept. All the trees are still in leaf, petrol is 1.09 a litre at Tescos and a couple of building developments in our road are at about the right stage.