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Am at the stage now of telling myself he'll run a mile from Ashley ASAP regardless of what division we're in. Still very likely to be the championship. I also wear a horse hair shirt and sit on thistles for pleasure

We were 6 points off safety after the Southampton game on April 9th....if we stay up it'll be as unlikely as Leicester winning the fuckin league....

good effort squire

Better off going all in on Palace & the draw....anything else as good as relegates us so you'll at least get a drink out of a it...

I have a terrible confession to make re this game....I was there, but didn't see a blade of grass...was in the Fullers pub at London Bridge at 11am, got train to Norwood or wherever the fuck the ground is, went into the "home only" pub outside the station (cherries?) about 1330, an hour later the barmaid said there were 40 minute queues at the turnstiles so we hang around in the pub long enough to miss at least two goals, eventually got to the ground and there's now apparently a bar next to to the turnstiles am sure you can guess the rest, apart from me "double clicking" at least two unsuspecting TFL customers on a tube line somewhere on the way to Waterloo as I'd lost my ticket. Just to point out I'm 46 years of age I'd take more pleasure beating these than any other club in the division bar the mackems. If we turn up motivated I think we will.

A lot of that sounds fair to a layman such as myself. But this is from 2009, a year before the coalition came to power and with the Lib Dems putting the anchors on for 5 years there wasn't much room for manoeuvre. It's as plain as day that the first priority after last years election was the final nail in the NHS coffin: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/aug/16/tory-mps-back-nhs-dismantling?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I take it there's been something disgusting on Twitter?

70 years old according to wiki....Peter Wright, the chief constable of SYP at the time is broon breed, he died in 2011. David Conn's piece today... http://gu.com/p/4ht3n?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

It is mostly about money, you're right. But why should the people we should value most in society be penalised in order to provoke a punch up so the government can deem the NHS "ungovernable" or "disfunctional" before they hand it to PPP, Nuffield and Bupa? Not to mention the ones in power who will profit from the whole thing...

Can anyone see the mackems and Norwich getting more than 6 points?....it's as unlikely as us getting 9 so I agree, we're fucked...

Ewerk, You say you didn't have a position, you've (and this is being very fuckin charitable) played devils advocate, you've been told that it's fuckin ridiculous for several different reasons. And you still claim not to have a position on it. For a manager you seem a bit indecisive tbh. If I was your old man I'd fuckin sack you.

Changing corporation tax rates for major PLC's would be a good change. And, being "middle income" myself, I've no objection to a penny in the pound increase on my income tax for the NHS. Pissing doctors off is the only change being offered at the moment though.

Who says I was talking about you? You did, ironically enough, say something about "9-5 being eradicated from most businesses"or some other such apologetic Tory lite bullshit blandism for people in the workplace being shat upon. The tories are running the NHS into the ground so they have an excuse to privitse it. I know what you said about Hunt being a twat but you then basically excused him by saying it sounds like a good cost cutting measure. Your kids will have to pay for what we get for nothing. The NHS is the only thing that distinguishes the UK from any other westernised country. Of course we can afford it and it's rising costs by taxing the right people and corporations correctly. But there is abosoutley no will in government for this to happen, the tories sitting on the boards of private health companies tells its own story (not to mention their Labour counterparts in the last government) so it will probably happen, because the propaganda which you appear to have fallen for but "hilariously" claim not to have seems to have an appreciative, if easily lead, audience.

Taxi driver agrees with family firm director that we should value highly skilled doctors the same as teenagers hungover on Sunday morning stacking shelves in sainsburys and dolly birds on production lines keeping an eye on press machines....."quel fuckin surprise" The ins and outs of it are irrelevant in a way, for me it's about who we value in society. And before you get smart, doctors pay income tax and national insurance the same as any other fucker. No one asks an accountant to save their child's life though...

All down to the CPS now. I do get the impression they're out to make a name for themselves in PR terms so the families can have a bit hope that they'll charge anyone they can get. Duckenfield is the obvious one but if I was ex premier league chief exec Sir David Richards I'd be " speaking to my advisors" pretty sharpish.. EDIT: is that horrendous arsehole Graham Kelly still alive?...secretary of the FA who didn't care that Hillsborough didn't have a safety cert..

All 96 victims found to be unlawfully killed by new inquest

I thought we'd seen the future that day....as you say Shearer went off injured and Lua Lua had come on for Carl Cort, from that point we ripped them a new one. Robert,Solano,Dyer and Lua just ran over the top of them, promoted by Jenas who at that point looked brilliant. We were all stood right along the back seats but ended up lying sprawled in the gang way 20 feet down when the winner went in. Don't know if any one has mentioned Leeds at Elland Road the same season just before Christmas, similar stuff we were 1-3 down and wom 3-4, I came out if that game hugging a lad I'd never met before, he had tears in his eyes, which was about a week before we won at Highbury to go top, Henry tried to kill the ref? The pace we had in the team was unreal at that time, even under KK we didn't have so many players that would just run past the opposition which just sent the support in the stands insane at times. If you were stood near the back at Derby the Scottish voice you heard may have been a poster from this very message board

Completely agree re the media, but its not the Arsenal fans to blame for any agenda the slugs from the press have. I think the similarity is in two systems set up with no real ambition to achieve above the level the clubs are at. Wenger keeps buying dainty no. 10s who are lovely footballers but won't buy a Gattuso type or a centre half to replace that German cart horse. As you say our system is completely different but amounts to the same thing; treading water, and ultimately in our case, falling below the surface completely.

Didn't they parade through the streets in support of him when they were going through a bad spell?...got roundly condemned for carrying not just supportive banners but an actual framed portrait of the man?

You could also say ( pre this season obviously) that we shouldn't complain as we're in the premier league and the likes of Leeds and Sheffield Wedsnesday aren't. It's about expectation more than anything. 1200 quid for a season ticket at the Emirates doesn't entitle you to a thing tbh but it does concentrate the mind I imagine. I'd say it's difficult for anyone to properly judge how it feels as a gooner unless you're stumping up the cash and watching their board being happy with 3rd/4th and the odd cup. In a season where Leicester or, in a way even worse, Spurs are going to win the league, it must be driving them around the bend.

Nowt has changed at Arsenal in a decade, the same things are failing season after season with the same people in charge happy just to be treading water with no real end in sight. They're similar to us, just their expectations are a bit higher.

Everton at home next month is the mackems game in hand, at the moment that's as easy as PL fixtures get... Could do with the scousers beating Manu at the weekend to keep their season alive, if they're knocked out then the 13th May looks like a home banker for the tramps..

He's taken about the same time to do it as Keegan did when he came back in 2008. Thing is KK was appointed mid January, not March ...

George Monbiot attempts to answer the old " wtf is going on? " chestnut.... http://gu.com/p/4tbfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other I imagine @@Park Life would enjoy getting stuck into it, is it time to send out a search party yet?

The thing that gets me is when he first came back to the club and Pardew told him to find a new club. Am pretty sure that to all intents and purposes that means "pick your cards up on the way out, you're sacked". Anyone on here reckon they'd do that to a fellow employee if their boss told them to? We'll never know how Pardew said it, whether there was an explanation, or an expression of profound regret. Maybe that question is pretty unfair to ask on here, but ffs, Pardew is a millionaire, he'll never have to work again. I think that was the lowest point of the Ashley regime by a million miles, and let's face it, the bar isn't high.