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Used to take my nipper out to Staplewood in the Dave Jones / Glenn Hoddle era. You could ambush the players as they left training to go the the car park. Can't remember any refusing. Paul Jones and Carlton Palmer were good, being quite happy to pose for photos. I think that he managed to get most of the squad to sign his shirt.

As long as it's not Naked Attraction.

The Daily Mail would do that for her. If the Iman of the local mosque had come out with those statements, the Mail would have been all over it. But Mogg is just a lovable British eccentric (with equally intolerant views).

With my railcard it's £24.70 from Southampton or £27.20 if you want to go earlier so £14.50 is quite a difference

South Western Railways (new name for South West Trains) are doing a half-price offer during September. Southampton to Waterloo is £7.25 each way. You have to book online in advance (which means up to 23.59 the day before travel). There's 100000 available so get in early.

A vivid reminder of what an outstanding player he was. When you see the ridiculous prices being fetched by pretty average players today, how much would George be worth?

Highlights on BT Sport1 at 14.00 today.

When he first came to Man U, he was very right-footed but Matt Busby told him that, to be a great player, you had to be comfortable with both feet. He then spent hours kicking a ball against a wall using only his left foot and eventually considered it to be his stronger side.

Very sad. Great entertainer especially on the Generation Game where he use to subtlety take the **** out of the contestants.

A bit later than the 60s, I've still got a ticket for the Cup Winners Cup against Olympic Marseilles at The Dell in September 76. West Stand Centre was £2.00. I think that I was earning about £50 to £60 a week then.

I remember coming out of Thornton Heath station and thinking that we were still in Southampton. The High Street was an absolute sea of red and white.

Taylor on for Forster

The ticket or the packaging?

And they accused Corbyn of trying to bribe people with more public spending.

it obvious what's happened here. When the DUP went in to meet the robot May, their first demand was an award for our Steven.

Exactly. If you look at what happened at Shirley Towers, the fire was contained in the flat where the fire started and a few neighbouring ones. They are designed to contain the fire until the fire service can deal with it. Even so, it was fierce enough for 2 firemen to lose their lives. The sheer speed of the spread of the fire on Wednesday night and the fact that it seemed to go up the outside of the building makes it likely that the cladding was one the main factors in this case.

There was a guy on Radio 4 this morning from a company that fits sprinkler systems worldwide. He said that the numbers being bandied about in the press are for the hardware only. When you look at retro fitting them, the cost is very much higher.

Nicely ironic article from the Daily Mash: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/nation-breathes-sigh-of-relief-as-it-is-spared-religious-dictatorship-under-tim-farron-20170615129650

If you join a club because of the benefits that it provides then you can't expect those benefits to continue if you leave, so you will probably be worse off. It's like leaving the Freemasons and still expecting to get your planning permission nodded through or being let off your speeding fines.

At least we haven't ended up with a government propped by with terrorist sympathizers. Oh, hang on a minute.......

Thatcher authorised back-door talks with the IRA in 1990 despite her supposedly hard-line stance. So was she undermining her own government?

If so it would be interesting to see what stance the Unionists would take over the border with the Republic. They'd have May over a barrel (if she was still PM). The Tories are never squeamish about ditching their leaders and, as their campaign was so focused on May, there could be trouble if she delivers a worse result than 2015.

Might not need troops on the streets if the Tories hadn't got rid of 20000 police officers.

So 4 days after publishing their manifesto where they rejected Andrew Dilnot's idea of a cap on social care costs, May has decided that there will be one. Bit embarrassing after her ministers spent the weekend saying that a cap wasn't feasible. is this strong and stable leadership?

I think that he's saying that when Gordon Brown proposed something similar, the Tories (and the Daily Mail) were screaming about a "Death Tax". Also, when Ed Milliband proposed a cap on energy prices the Tories said that he was "living in a Marxist universe". But when May suggests the same, she's "standing up for hard-working families".